Chem. a. An alkaloid obtained from bone-oil and coal-tar products. b. A related alkaloid (‘c-lutidine’) obtained by distilling cinchonine with potassium hydrate.
1851. T. Anderson, in Trans. Royal Soc. Edin., XX. 254. A base … which possesses precisely the constitution of toluidine, and to which I give the name of lutidine.
1864. Proc. Royal Soc., XIII. 305. The cinchonine base, which the author [Greville Williams] distinguishes by the name of β lutidine.
1881. Athenæum, 21 May, 691/3. ‘On the Physiological Action of β Lutidine.’
