[cf. morphia, morphine.] = next.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Colchicia.… Name given by Geiger and Hasse, to an alkaloid, discovered by them in Colchicum.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 420. Colchicia is eighty to one hundred times stronger than the fresh corm.
