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PIPERAZIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIPERAZIN , a substance formed by the See also:

action of See also:sodium glycol on See also:ethylene-diamine hydrochloride, consisting of small alkaline deliquescent crystals with a saline See also:taste and soluble in See also:water. It was originally introduced into See also:medicine as a solvent for uric See also:acid. When taken into the See also:body the See also:drug is partly oxidized and partly eliminated unchanged. Outside the body piperazin has a remarkable See also:power of dissolving uric acid and producing a soluble urate, but in clinical experience it has not proved equally successful. Lycetol, lysidine and sidonal are bodies having similar action.

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