Orthocaine

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| ImageFile = Orthocaine.svg

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| PIN = Methyl 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoate

| OtherNames = aminobenz

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| CASNo = 536-25-4

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| UNII = JK16YI13QK

| PubChem = 10815

| ChemSpiderID = 10358

| EINECS = 208-627-3

| KEGG = C14171

| SMILES = COC(=O)C1=CC(N)=C(O)C=C1

| InChI = 1S/C8H9NO3/c1-12-8(11)5-2-3-7(10)6(9)4-5/h2-4,10H,9H2,1H3

| InChIKey = VNQABZCSYCTZMS-UHFFFAOYSA-N

| Beilstein = 3-14-00-01477}}

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| Formula=C₈H₉NO₃

| MolarMass=167.16196

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Orthocaine is a local anesthetic. Developed in the 1890s, it was found to be of limited use due to its low solubility in water, but it has been used in powdered form to dust onto painful wounds.{{cite book|author=Walter Sneader|title=Drug Discovery: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cb6BOkj9fK4C&pg=PA127|date=23 June 2005|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-89979-2|pages=127–9}}{{cite book|author=Rajbir Singh|title=Synthetic Drugs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkmF7rcBaRIC&pg=PA167|year=2002|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-831-0|pages=167–8}}{{cite book|author=Stanley Alstead|title=Poulsson's Text-Book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRIlBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA104|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-1-4832-2584-5|pages=104–5}}