“…observing whether this w-as accompanied by hypotension and respiratory impairment, the acute LD50 in mice and albino rats,7 and the local anesthetic8 and analgesic activity.9•10 The occurence of central sedation was measured through variations in the spontaneous motility and in the performance of the grip test, and through the influence exerted by the compounds on the duration of the barbiturate narcosis. 11 The spasmolytic activity was tested on the isolated rat and guinea pig ileum against histamine, acetylcholine, BaCk, and nicotine contractions.12 Compound 15 was studied as antitussive also on unanesthetized rats and guinea pigs13•14 and further as an inhibitor of pentylenetetrazole seizures,11 for its effect on peristalsis,15 and on the bronchial and tracheal muscles in vivo and in vitro16•17; finally its influence upon the bronchial and tracheal secretion was examined. 18 In Table III only the compounds appreciably active as antitussives are recorded with the results concerning their antitussive, local anesthetic, analgetic, narcosis-enhancing, hypotensive, and respiratory-depressing activities and the data about their acute toxicity.…”