They furnish no distinctive characteristic symptoms. When pushed to extremes, the cases of Aconite poisoning prove fatal with the usual symptoms of narcotico-sedative poisoning. The pulse and respiration, which were at first markedly accelerated, become, after a time, retarded and enfeebled. Fleming describes, in addition, nausea and oppression at the stomach, and a peculiar tingling sensation at the roots of the teeth. This soon becomes increased to a disagreeable sense of internal heat with distention of the brain, lips and face, along with a very profuse perspiration over the whole body, itching and a miliary eruption. (In this respect it is in direct opposition to Cocculus.) Preceding the anaesthesia, are observed all the sensations which characterize incomplete anaesthesia, such as tingling and pricking of the fingers and toes, numbness, etc.ДЄ gentle feeling of warmth is diffused throughout the body.

It does not affect the consciousness and intelligence until its action is carried to a very considerable extent.

When applied locally to the external skin, it produces anaesthesia, without, at first, impairing the motive power. This it does when taken internally producing first, a sensation of warmth in the fauces, then, a rough prickling or smarting, and then, a want of sensibility and an absence of the sense of taste.

Pereira and Stille, of the allopathic school, conclude that Aconite is a 'cerebro-spinant,' a 'nervous sedative.' Its first action is to benumb the nerves of sensation. Great mischief often results from this practice negatively, inasmuch as it causes the loss of valuable time, during which the true specific remedy, which should have been given at the very first, might have been acting and, positively, inasmuch as the Aconite often, when inappropriately administered, does real mischief, exhausting the nervous power of the patient and adding to a prostration which is already, probably, the great source of danger.ДЇrom experiments upon animals and men, Drs. From these facts has arisen a fashion of giving Aconite almost as a routine prescription in the beginning of all acute cases indiscriminately particularly if the cases are supposed to be characterized by that Protean phantom of the pathologist, inflammation. It happens that Aconite is frequently indicated at the very beginning of some acute diseases and that, if properly used in such cases, it will often cut short the career of the disease. Fleming derived many of his ideas on the subject from the homeopathicians of his vicinity, although he does not allude to their use of Aconite. Fleming, of Edinburgh, in 1844, which did much to cause the drug to be used by allopaths. A proving of it was published by Hahnemann in the 'Materia Medica Pura,' vol. Regarding each drug of the materia medica as possessed of individual specific properties peculiar to itself, and which preclude its being a substitute for, or being superseded by, any other drug, it is not material with which drug we begin our special course.ДЄCONITUM NAPELLUS, known as monkshood, from the shape of its flowers, and as wolfsbane, from the use made of its poisonous juice to exterminate obnoxious animals, was known to the ancients as an active poison, but was first proved by Stoerck in 1761.

Wolfsbane paralytic