Definition of Mescalin

1. the principal alkaloid in mescal [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mescalin

mesaraic
mesarch
mesareic
mesarteritis
mesas
mesaticephalic
mesaticephalous
mesatipellic
mesatipellic pelvis
mesaxon
mescal
mescal bean
mescal beans
mescalin (current term)
mescaline
mescalines
mescalins
mescals
mesclum
mesclums
mesclun
mescluns
mesdames
mesdemet
mesdemoiselles
mese
mesectic
mesectoderm

Literary usage of Mescalin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1896)
"While the animal under the influence of mescalin exhibits, at times, ... It would appear that the convulsions produced by mescalin more closely resemble ..."

2. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"NH-CH2 C^OCH^d : 3 : 4 : 6) mescalin crystallizes in small white needles, ... mescalin was reported by Heffter * to form small white needles softening at ..."

3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"... are flashes and lines of ever-changing colors. Since they are the same in both eyes, they must be central (Dixon, 1899). A psychologic study of mescalin ..."

4. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell (1996)
"... or by epileptics, according to Dostoevsky, or by devotees of mescalin according to Mr. Aldous Huxley); and which then turned deliberately to the most ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"It does not give any of the reactions for the alkaloids hereto-fore found in Delphinium. E. Kauder** finds in Anhalonium Leu'inii, besides mescalin, ..."

6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"The minimum lethal dose of mescalin in our experiments as found to be 0.12 per kilogram, whereas Lewin found the lethal dose of ..."

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