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WHEN Dr. Henry published the first edition of his “Plant Alkaloids “ten years ago, general satisfaction was felt and expressed at the appearance in English of a really comprehensive work on so important a subject, and at the masterly way in which the author had dealt with it. Since then, notwithstanding the general interruption of such work due to the War, many investigations have been made and many researches published on the isolation, constitution, and properties of the alkaloids. One need only mention such examples as the investigation of the alkaloids of ergot, opium, areca nut, pomegranate bark, belladonna, cinchona, Calabar bean, ipecacuanha, yohimbe bark; of the oxidation products of brucine by Leuchs and his collaborators, of the constitution of chelerythrine by Karrer, of chelidonine by Gadamer, and so on, to realise the immense amount of material that Dr. Henry had to examine critically and sift in the preparation of the second edition of his work. He has succeeded admirably. Researches published in the spring of this year have received attention, although it may not have been possible for him to deal with them so fully as he may have desired.
The Plant Alkaloids.
By Dr. T. A. Henry. Second edition. Pp. viii + 456 + 8 plates. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1924.) 28s. net.
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The Plant Alkaloids. Nature 114, 379 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114379a0
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