Chem. Also lobeli(i)n and (mod.L.) lobelina. [f. LOBEL-IA + -INE5.] An oily alkaloid with a pungent tobacco-like taste obtained from Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco).

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1844.  Pharmaceut. Jrnl., III. 128. Analysis of Lobelia inflata. By Reinsch…. Analysis gave following results:—Water [etc.] … Peculiar substance (Lobeliin).

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1850.  W. Bastwick, in Pharmaceut. Jrnl., X. 270. Lobelina.

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1852.  Brande, Dict. Sci., etc. Suppl., Lobeline.

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1856.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., Lobelina,… lobelin.

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1875.  H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 355. Lobelina.

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1887.  T. L. Brunton, Text-bk. Pharmacol. (ed. 3), 317. Lobeline.

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