The first glycoside ever identified was amygdalin, by the French chemists Pierre Robiquet and Antoine Boutron-Charlard, in which year?
  • 1830

Digitalis, commonly called foxgloves, is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and biennials. The term digitalis is also used for drug preparations that contain glycosides, particularly one called digoxin, extracted from various plants of this genus. What type of glycosides exist in Digitalis?

  • Cardiac glycosides

The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around in which BC?

  • 15,000 BC.

“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!” – A quote by whom?

  • Thomas Hardy