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Organic chemistry
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Author: Fieser and Fieser
Year: n.a.
Alkaloids of the tropane group dilate the pupil of the eye. They also have a paralysing effect on sensory nerve endings and hence are useful in local anaesthetics. Cocaine is the most valuable in this respect but it also produces an undesirable effect on the central nervous system (euphoria)...
Morphine is the most efficacious remedy known for the relief of pain... Unfortunately the beneficial analgesic effect is accompanied by the undesirable property of producing addiction.
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