Excerpt from Aconite But, without entering into any detailed account of the varying symptomatology of the drug, as developed in different parts and organs of the body, we may enter into a discussion of the febrile condition which aconite pro duces. It seems certain that, though this febrile condi tion, with rapid pulse, rise of temperature, is preceded, early in the acom'fe disease, by chilliness, these chilly feel ings are apt to be transient, and not to persist for any great length of time. They also, like the fever, are at tended by the same mental characteristics, of a restless anxiety, which is so profoundly characteristic of our drug. The chills are generally transient, and rapidly alternate with conditions of fever. Even within a few hours, or even within a few minutes, a rapid alternation of chill and fever may be observed, followed by outbreaks of per spiration, following which there may be a renewal of the chilly creeps and febrile condition. But, through all these varying phases of chill, fever and sweat, the patient is unaccountably and intolerably restless and anxious, fear ing every moment will be his last. It is noticed also, even at the beginning, with the earliest symptoms of aco nite, that these rapid alternations of febrile conditions are coincident with rapid alternations of other symptoms, for example, the state of the pupil, which will alternately dilate and contract within a few minutes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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