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ACONITUM. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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ACONITUM.

FEVER.

►
*Chilliness
, [t]. ►
Cold over the whole body, [1]. ►
She is cold, and shivers, [6]. ►
Cold and rigors, [21], [t].
► *Anxious chilliness (after 3h.), [1]. [1540.] ► *Chilliness on the slightest movement (after 10h.), [1]. ► *Chilliness from being
uncovered
, [°]. ►
Body and extremities cold, [t]. ►
General coldness rapidly increasing, especially on the extremities, with blueness of the
nails of the fingers and toes, [t]. ► Coldness in a warm room, [27].
► Chilliness evenings, especially in hands and feet, [34]. ► Extreme
chilliness nearly all day, [38]. ►
Had rigors, and felt icy cold, [t]. ► Felt icy cold, and nearly fainted; during the day frequent
recurrence of the rigor, with violent pain in right temple, [24].
► Violent shaking chill, [27].
[1550.] ► He lay
quiet, but freezing and shivering, and wished to be covered up with
many clothes
, [9]. ►
Slight degree of chilliness, [38]. ► Continual diminution of temperature, [33]. ► Constant shivering. ► Constant shuddering, [24].
► Shivering for several hours, as if between the
skin and flesh, especially over the back and abdomen; felt even when perspiring from rapid
walking, [35]. ►
Shivering and frequent yawning on rising in the morning, [6].
► Shuddering from the middle of the spine to the lumbar
muscles of both sides, as if from taking cold, [30]. ► Chilliness over the back, as before the outbreak of catarrhal fever,
[26]. ► Constant
coldness through the arms and legs, and shivering even in the face, [6]. [1560.] ► Chilliness and formication between the shoulders and down the back,
with cold tips of fingers and toes, blue nails, even in a warm room
(several). ► *Shivers run through
her, from below upward to the chest
, [6]. ► Shivering in the evening, especially in the hands and feet, [34]. ► Attack of
faintness, with shivering, [1]. ► *Shuddering on lying down at night, [1]. ► Shuddering, with paleness
and sunken features, [35], [21]. ► Coldness in the hands and
feet, shuddering over the back, while the head and body are warm, [35]. ► Rigor over back and arms, [6]. ► Arms and hands
cold and pulseless, legs and trunk much the same, [t].
► First coldness, rigor, and paleness of the finger-ends,
then of the fingers; thereafter cramped sensation in the soles of the feet and calves, and
finally coldness in the forehead (after 1/4h.), [1]. [1570.] ► Coldness under the
skin; slight, frequently repeated rigor, not followed by heat, [28]. ► Rigor commencing in limbs,
then going to whole body
, with goose-flesh; it seems to be between skin and
muscle; disappears on motion; worst when at rest, [28].
► The rigor continued to increase in the afternoon, and
he became icy cold, no coverings suffice to warm him, [28].
► In the afternoon rigor all over the body, in a hot
room, [22]. ► Rigor
down the back, especially in the evening, [3]. ► Rigor along the spine, with goose-skin creeping along the
galea aponeurotica; hands and face blue; he seeks the heat of the stove, [35]. ► Felt better after
breakfast, but soon afterward, when in open air, had severe attack of rigor over the back
and chest, followed by great heat (with frontal headache), which the least movement brought
back, [21]. ► On
the 9th day an attack of rigor after midnight, which seemed to arise from the præcordia and
extend to the limbs; attacks of this awoke him frequently during the night, and were
followed by burning dry heat with febrile pulse; in morning moderate perspiration, [27]. ► Violent continued
rigor; short-lasting heat, and copious sweat, with heaviness of head, with waving and
swaying of the head, [25]. ►
Violent rigors; icy coldness, with very gratifying yawning and stretching the limbs; after
some hours moderate warmth and sweat; during chill and heat many concomitant symptoms, [28]. [1580.] ► Chilly sensation after eating; weakness; sleepiness; at night
increased heat, tossing about, and sleep interrupted by lively memorable dreams, [31]. ► Fever; chilly
feeling, even coldness over whole body, especially on legs and knees, with confused head,
glowing heat in face, especially in the red, hot cheeks; pulse gradually rises from 71 to
102, is full and hard, with pleasant warmth and anxiety, and sensation of heat around the
head; lastly, general sweat, [22]. ► Dry heat and exhaustion; violent rigor in the evening with
headache, lasting till midnight, [24]. ► Flushing of the face, and cold hands and feet, especially in the evening (19a.). ►
At night thirst, restlessness, rigors, and heat till morning, [24].
► *Fever; coldness of whole body, with hot forehead, hot
ears, and inward dry heat, [1]. ►
Fever; coldness and stiffness of the whole body, redness and heat
of one, coldness and paleness of the other cheek
, with open, fixed eyes, and
contracted pupils, which only dilate slightly and slowly in the dark, [1]. ► Toward evening rigor and
coldness of the hands and feet; then nausea felt about the middle of the sternum, which
continues even when partaking of food which tastes good, though there is neither appetite
nor aversion; after eating the nausea goes off, and is followed by heat of the face,
accompanied by sad and despairing thoughts, [1]. ► Cold shuddering, from the crown of the head down the back to
the sacrum, followed by an agreeable sensation of warmth in the skin, [30]. ► Heat of skin, then
coldness, [t]. [1590.]
► Alternation of coldness and heat, [24]. ► Alternation of heat and
chill all night, with restless sleep, [38]. ► *Alternating attacks (after 3; 4; 6 h). ► Either along with redness of the
cheeks
, childish merriment, with sensation of heat all
over the body, and headache on moving the eyes upwards and sideways
, [1]. ► *Or along with redness of the cheeks and heat of the head; shuddering all over the body,
with proper taste in the mouth, [1]. ► *Or along with redness of the
cheeks, rigors, with weeping and pressive headache
, [1]. ► Or along with redness of the cheeks, an obstinate disposition, burning in the region of
the navel, and pressive headache
, [1]. ► After the siesta, which usually makes him warm, feeling of
rigor throughout the body, and cold of the upper arm; the cold feeling persisted even while
walking, and in the evening gave way to a short, disagreeable feeling of warmth, like a
catarrhal fever, [26]. ►►
*Toward evening burning heat in the head and face, with redness of the cheeks and
outpressing headache
; at the same time rigor over the
whole body and thirst
(after 14h.), [6]. ► *Heat in the head; forehead hot to the touch, with rigor over the
body on the slightest movement
, [1]. ► The 14th day, at night, a rigor, followed by excessively
copious perspiration, sleeplessness, [27]. [1600.] ►
Internal rigor from back over the legs, with cold sweat; the face feels icy cold in a sunny
day and warm room; this lasted four hours, till evening, when heat and rapid pulse and
symptoms of coryza came on, with general laziness and heaviness of the limbs, [26]. ► 15th day; another rigor at
night; followed by dry, hot skin, and perspiration, [27].
► *Face hot; hands and feet cold, [19c]. ► Flushed face, [36]. ► *Extreme redness of
the cheeks, with a discontented, complaining, lachrymose disposition
(after 3h.),
[1]. ► Head and
face suddenly very warm, [t]. ►►
*Toward evening dry heat in the face with anxiety
, [1].
► In the evening heat of the palms and cheeks, [21]. ► Sensation of
heat, first in the hands, then all over the body, even in the chest, without perceptible
external heat (after 4h.), [1]. ►
Sometimes heat creeps over the back, [6]. [1610.] ► (*(Heat and throwing off
the clothes
, [1].) ►
Flying heat, [21]. ►
Flushes of heat evenings, [22], [35]. ► *Dry heat all over the
body, [24], [27].
► *Skin burning hot, [t].
► *General heat and thirst, [1]. ► Great internal heat with
thirst, [17]. ► *During
the heat moderate desire for beer
, [1]. ► (*She drinks little during the heat, yet has dry lips, [1].) ► (During the heat
the cough is troublesome, [1].) [1620.] ► (Great heat, from
ten in the evening till after midnight, with dyspnœa; she would like to cough but cannot,
and speaking is difficult; at the same time there is the greatest restlessness, and
complaints about pain in the hands, feet, abdomen, and back; she stamped with her feet, and
would not allow herself to be touched, [1].) ► Increased warmth all day, with exhausted feeling and loss of
appetite; the heat increased toward evening, with
internal heat and swollen veins, [26]. ► Evenings prostration; increased warmth of skin; flying
stitches along the sternum and between the ribs, [21].
► On going to bed the heat of the body increased,
especially of the extremities; perspiration appeared on the inside of the thighs and of the
scrotum, accompanied by great itching; he scratches till the blood comes, [26]. ► *After getting to bed all
the feverish symptoms become much aggravated, and almost intolerable, [38]. ► *Increase of febrile symptoms
toward evening
, [20]. ►
Fever, [t]. ►
Attack of fever at 3 P.M., [21]. ►
Throughout the whole afternoon a sense of feverishness hung about him, attended by great
powerlessness and prostration of entire body, the extremities particularly, [38]. ► The feverishness continues
without interruption all through the night, but abated a good deal this morning, [38]. [1630.] ► Sense of inward fever attended by chilliness; desire to sit
over the fire, and a disposition to nausea; feverishness abated on going out into the open
air, and walking about, [38]. ►
Sense of inward fever, with the feeling of prostration, [38].
► Dry heat and tightness of the skin over the whole body,
[t]. ► Warmth
extends over the whole body, especially stomach and abdomen, accompanied by sweat, [t]. ► Whole body warm
and sweating, [t]. ►
Slight warmth and moderate sweat, [9]. [Reaction from
1550.] ► Pleasant warmth of the whole body, especially in
back, with moderate sweat
, [22]. ► Perspiration, with febrile rigors (after 3h.), [1]. ► Febrile perspiration, [1]. ► *Sour-smelling sweat
all over the body
, [1]. [1640.] ► Profuse sweat, [27]. ► *Cold sweats
(several). ► Surface
cold, and covered with clammy sweat, [t]. ► Moderate perspiration all over the body, [1]. ► Skin inclined to transpiration
(several). ► General
warm, steaming sweat
(several). ► Exhalation and sweat all over the body, [18]. ► General sweat, especially
on the forehead and præcordia, [22]. ► Sweat toward noon, [12].
► Sweat after midnight, [°]. [1650.] ► Nocturnal transpiration (several).
► Violent sweat without exhaustion, [12]. ► Though his speech was bold
and his look animated cold sweat stood on his brow, and his pulse could scarcely be felt, [14]. ► In the morning
excessive sweat (after nightly delirium), [10]. ► Profuse sweat, with copious flow of urine, [12]. ► Profuse sweat, with diarrhœa
and increased flow of urine, [12]. ► Copious sweat followed the convulsions, [t].
   

CONDITIONS. ►
Aggravation.
► (Morning),
Confusion etc; muddled and empty sensation in head heavy and dizzy, etc.; blowing of much bright red blood from nose; fluent coryza;
hiccup; hurried call to stool; acute stitches in cardiac region, etc.; weakness in lower
legs; sensation in ankles as if tightly tied, etc.; great exhaustion, etc.; shivering and
frequent yawning; excessive sweat; frequent yawning; lies asleep on back, etc.; hard red
swelling of right upper lid, etc. ► (Forenoon), Sweat; sleepiness; vertigo, etc. ►
(Afternoon), Great vertigo; violent, sticking pain in
upper orbital border, etc; cough; pain in chest, etc.; shoots in centre of sternum, etc.
pulse full and quick, etc.; rigor, etc.; heat, etc.; fever; attack of fever, 3 P.M.; great
sleepiness; shooting pain in right supra-orbital ridge, etc. ►
(Evening), Confusion of head, etc.; headache; pain in
forehead; pressive headache in vertex; pressing-out pain in temples, etc.; burning itching
in both ears; face hot; *flying stitches, here and there,
etc.; stiff feeling in nape; warmth of palms; transient stitches, etc.; chilliness; shivering, etc.; rigor down back; prostration, etc.;
heat, etc.; lachrymation. ► (Night),
*Delirium; pressive pain on vertex; hot prickings in
tips of fingers; hot prickings in toes; transpiration; *much thirst,
etc.; state of walking dreaminess, etc.; lachrymation; *pains become intolerable. ► (Before Midnight),
Shuddering; all the feverish symptoms. ► (After Midnight), *Short cough,
etc.; short breath; attack of rigor, etc; very vivid
dream, etc. ► (Open Air),
Dizzy confusion of head; squeezing in forehead over root of nose, etc.; cold feeling of the
eyes; burning itching and darting in both ears; the throat symptoms; nausea; irritation of
larynx and dry cough; general anxious sensation, etc.; severe attack of rigor, etc. ► (Bending body forward),
Vertigo; vertigo, etc.; vertigo and headache; giddy heaviness of head, etc.; *headache; *fulness of the forehead, etc.; dull pain in vertex,
etc.; drawing bellyache, etc. ► (Bending
body sidewards
), Sensitive stitches in thorax. ►
(On going to bed), Heat of body. ►
(After getting to bed), *All
the feverish symptoms
. ► (Drinking), Cough. ► (On falling asleep), *Jerkings;
itching of limbs. ► (Flexing
fingers to wrist-joint
), Violent shootings in elbow joints, etc. ► (Driving), Vertigo. ► (Eating), Uncommon
sleepiness. ► (Going in evening
from half dark room into street
), Flickering before eyes, etc. ► (Going indoors from open air),
Pulse quickened, etc. ► (Grasping
anything
), Sensation of weight in arms, etc. ►
(During heat of body), Cough. ►
(Inspiration), Dull stitches under ribs of left side;
oppression of chest, etc.; stitches from lowest rib on right side to apex of shoulder-blade,
etc.; pain in left side of spine, etc. ► (Deep inspiration), Oppression of chest; oppression and anxiety of
chest; pains in chest; pressive pain in region of second left rib, etc.; stitches between
scapulæ, etc.; painful shocks in left chest, superiorly; pain from right scapula to front
of chest. ► (Laughing aloud),
Sharp stitch under ribs on right side. ► (Light), Headache. ► (Lying), Stiff and bruised feeling in left side of neck, etc. ► (Lying on side), *Violent cough. ► (After lying down), Powerlessness in head of femur, etc. ► (Lying on back), *heart symptoms [°]. ► (Mental exertion), Pain
in head and face. ► (Motion),
Confusion in head, etc.; headache, first in vertex, etc; weariness in neck etc.; painful
stiffness in small of back, etc.; tearing pain down arm, etc.; pains in bones of forearm;
acute pain in right forearm, etc.; drawing pain in thighs, etc.; general anxious sensation,
etc., chilliness; severe attack of rigor, etc. ► (Appearance of Menses), Rage; sharp pain in loins. ► (Moving affected part), Rheumatic pain in nape; drawing pain to left of nape, etc.;
trembling in wrist; pain; etc., in right thumb joint; drawing pain in hip-joint. ► (Moving the head),
Vertigo; shooting in nape; stretching in cervical muscles. ►
(Rising up), *Vertigo.
► (Noise), Headache. ► (Laying on cool hand),
Headache, etc. ► (Pressure),
Pain on right supraorbital ridge, etc.; violent drawing pain in both sides of spine, etc.;
violent tearing pain in small of back; violent sticking pin in upper orbital border, etc. ► (Rest), Single shootings
in middle of right upper arm, etc.; paralytic feeling in right forearm; tired feeling in lower limbs; rigor, etc. ►
(Standing), Vertigo; pressive pain in pit of stomach;
drawing pain in head of left femur. ► (Sitting), Nausea, etc.; pressive pain in pit of stomach; anxiety
in cardiac region, etc.; drawing pain in head of left femur; powerlessness of legs and
thighs. ► (Speaking),
Headache. ► (Stepping),
Tensive pressure in lumbar and sacral regions. ► (In sleep), Inspiration
through nose impeded. ► (After
sleeping
), Pain in shoulder and hip joint; powerlessness in head of femur, etc. ► (On attempting to sit up),
Faintness. ► (While sitting
during day
), State of waking dreaminess, etc. ►
(Treading), Pain in right heel. ►
(Change of temperature), Dry cough, etc. ► (Tobacco-smoke), Easy
stupefaction; dryness of throat; tickling in larynx; severe cough. ►
(Touch), Pain in lowest rib, etc. ►
(Urinating), Sensation of splashing in bladder; stinging
in fossa navicularis; fainting kind of feel; burning in urethra; pains in glans penis;
shootings in glans penis. ► (Walking),
Vertigo; dizzy confusion of head, etc.; the throat symptoms; nausea; pressive pain in pit of
stomach; shooting in spleen; pain in bladder; single momentary shock in urethra;
palpitation, etc.; pain in loins, etc.; pressure in elbows, knees, hips; painful pressure in
hip-joint; drawing pain in head of left femur, etc.; stiffness and heaviness of limbs; great
fatigue, etc.; pain in patella; acute, pressing pain in left patella, etc.; sleeping of toes
of right foot. ► (When nothing
urinating
), Burning in neck of bladder. ► (Warmth of room), *Vertigo and stupefaction; *forepart of head feels as if nailed up; *headache, etc.; *dry
cough; *anxiety in pit of stomach; legs very cold. ► (Writing), Paralytic
feeling in right forearm. ► Amelioration. ► (Morning), Feverishness. ► (Open Air), *Much
relieved; *headache, feverishness, etc. ► (Bending body backwards), Pressive pain in chest. ► (Cold Water), Headache,
etc. ► (Compression),
Pain in ankle. ► (Drinking cold
water
), anxiety. ► (Eating),
Burning, itching, and darting in both ears; nauseous taste; the throat symptoms; nausea. ► (Heat), Creeping in
scalp. ► (Deep inspiration),
Lancinating stitches in region of heart, etc.; oppression of chest.
► (Lying quiet in dark room),
Headache. ► (Lying on back),
Violent cough. ► (Lying down),
Shooting in lower half of left side of chest. ► (Motion), Stiff and bruised feeling in left side of neck, etc.;
paralytic feeling in right forearm. ► (Moving affected part), Pain in right hand. ►
(Quiet), Palpitation, etc. ►
(Rubbing), Itching in prepuce; lancinating stitches in
region of heart, etc. ► (Sitting),
Frontal headache. ► (Stooping),
Sensitiveness of eyeball; pressure in small of back. ► (Warm soup), Abdominal symptoms. ►
(After vomiting), Hope aroused. ►
(Walking). Vertigo; nausea and sinking in pit of
stomach; feverishness, etc. ► (Washing
in cold water
), Pain in top of head. ► (Wine), Heaviness and oppression of chest. ►
(Wine and coffee), removed symptoms for a short time
only, [31].
   

ADDITIONS. ►
Note omissions, owing to imperfect index; very kindly pointed out by Dr. Berridge, of
London.

(Fragmentary proving by Robinson.)

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On getting into a warm bath the feeling of formication and
tingling came on again in the fingers, [38]. ► Lame sprained feeling in the right metacarpus, [38]. ► Several strange dreams;
woke, and found himself laughing heartily, [38]. ► Momentary drawing pain in the right forefinger, and at the
same time pain in the left ankle as before, [38]. ► Itching, nettle rash like eruption on the back of both hands,
the spots being very well marked, [38]. ► Flying, growing like pains all forenoon in metacarpi and
finger joints of both hands, [38]. ► Considerable rumbling of flatulence in bowels, [38]. ► On going into open air
felt much relieved, but on getting within doors again all the symptoms of feverishness
became greatly aggravated, [38]. ►
Violent coryza and lachrymation, [38]. ► Harsh, dry cough, [38].
► Trifling cough, but without expectoration, [38]. ► Several sharp,
flying stitches in the third and fourth right toes shortly after getting to bed, [38]. ► Paralyzed,
inactive feeling in the intestines, [38].

►

The pain over the right eye and behind the mastoid process
quite persistent, [39]. ►
Food distresses me after eating, [40]. ► Lascivious dreams, [40].

►

Aphonia lasted more than two weeks, [t].

Additions.

► Pupils very
much dilated, [7]. ►
Cough from irritation in larynx, with expectoration of gelatinous mucus, [35]. Oppression of chest, relieved by deep inspiration, [22]. Chest symptoms worse in evening, [31]. Tension and drawing in the lumbar region compelling to bend
backward, [35]. Trembling of arms and hands
(immediately), [4]. Burning warmth along dorsum of
index finger, [22]. Thighs sore to touch, [34]. Lascivious dreams, [40].

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