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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 523 of 653course, not expect to accomplish anything ; large doses of the cocentrated tincture are required to produce a curative effect.The following case of poisoning is reported by Doctor JacobReed, Jr., of this place: A man, forty-five years of age, undertreatment of rheumatism, swallowed a teaspoonful of liniment composed of equal parts of the tincture of Aconite-root and water.This was followed by pain in the epigastrium, numbness of thehands and feet, and a sense of formication over the whole body.One hour after, the dose was repeated. At the time of my visit,an hour and a half after the first dose, the man had swallowed ova drachm of the strongest tincture of the root. I found him in acomplete state of collapse ; after the second dose he had vomitedrepeatedly, first bilious matter changing into copious watery discharges ; he had also had several very large rice-water dischargefrom the bowels ; he complained of terrible pain and anxiety abouthe heart, was pulseless, skin cold and clammy, face indicative ogreat suffering and fear, breath cold to the hand ; occasional paoxysms of general opisthotonic spasms would leave him in a prostrated condition in which it would seem that bis constantly exprefear that he should die, was about to be realized.Before I questioned the family, from my first examination of thecase, I judged it to be cholera ; indeed, if there had been casescholera in town, I would have thought it unnecessary to investigaCholera Asiatica. 623the case further. I discovered the mistake that had been made,and under the free use of stimulants, Coffee and Opium, he recovered, but not until after three or four hours continuance of theabove severe symptoms."The following case of poisoning from the tincture of Aconiteis reported in the October number, 1868, of the Medical and Surgical Reporter, published in Philadelphia. By mistake a child wasgiven a teaspoouful of the strong tincture of Aconite-root. Thepatient was a boy, six years of age. Doctor Hays of Covington,Ky., where the poisoning occurred, reports as follows : I found tpatient so much prostrated that, had there been an epidemic ofcholera, and had I no examination to aid me, or any previous history, but had to depend upon the appearance of the patient, Iwould undoubtedly have pronounced it a collapsed state of choleraThe skin was cold, clammy and livid, with a profuse perspiration,there was no pulse to be felt at the wrist, the action of the heawas quite feeble and irregular, the capillaries were scarcely ablbe refilled when their contents were poured out. The head wascold, the eyes were natural in appearance,- except the dilatationthe pupils which was extreme and not at all sensitive to the effeof light. The facial expression was haggard, the nose pinched, thbreathing extremely labored, the lungs were filled with mucus, thrattle of which could be distinctly heard in any part of the roomThe patient's bowels moved several times involuntarily. Underproper treatment the boy recovered."The eleventh case of poisoning by Aconite in my Materia MedicawaB regarded by Dr. Pereyra of Bordeaux as such an exact representation of the symptoms of cholera that the doctor concluded to anhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt