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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sto·va·in n. Also Sto·vine .  Pharm. A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anaesthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anaesthesia below the point of introduction.  Called also amylocaine hydrochloride.  Chemically it is the hydrochloride of the benzoyl ester of 1-(dimethylaminomethyl)-1-methyl propanol.