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strychnine

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  • n  an alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant

  • The germs usually enter a dirty wound (sometimes only a pinprick) and incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine.
  • Modern societies have tried potent poisons like strychnine and zinc phosphide.
  • Good strychnine, he concluded, is invariable.

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