As soon as they arrive at the slopes, where aconite is growing plentifully, they at once set to work to build bamboo huts about five feet high, roofing them with leaves.
The poison cup of the ancients was probably a compound, of which hemlock and aconite were the chief ingredients.
The natives, especially the hill tribes, take aconite in the crude state as a remedy for various ailments, and every Bhotiah has a few dried roots put away in some secure corner of his hut.
Early in October, when the aconite root has matured, one of the leading men of the village organises a party composed of both sexes.
The Bhotiahs, like the Nepalese, have a belief that the presiding demon of the hills imprisons evil spirits in the aconite plant, which fly out as soon as it is dug up and inflict dire calamity on the digger.
The chief symptoms of poisoning by aconite are heat, numbness and tingling in the mouth and throat, giddiness, and loss of muscular power.
Aconite contains several active principles, all of which are powerful poisons.
Aconite was largely used as an arrow poison by the ancients, and also employed for that purpose by the Chinese and the wild hill tribes of India.
In some instances the court not only sanctioned the suicide, but supplied the means of self-destruction in the shape of a decoction of aconiteand hemlock.
The nameaconite was derived from Akon, a city of Heraclea, and the plant, owing to its deadly nature, was supposed by the early Greeks to have originated from the foam of the dog Cerberus.
The tap root of the aconite has been frequently eaten in mistake for horse-radish with fatal results.
Several species of aconite grow plentifully in India, where it has been used for centuries.
The aconite now used in medicine is derived from the Aconitum napellus, chiefly grown in Britain; it is also found in the mountainous districts of the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere.
When a sufficient quantity has been collected and dried thus, bamboo frames are fixed up with a fire below, on which the aconite is placed when the flame has died out.
In such cases the tumultuous action of Apis is mitigated, and the continued use of this drug, rendered possible by giving Apis in alternation with Aconite in water, every hour or two hours.
Inasmuch as it is impossible to determine beforehand the degree of sensitiveness, I obviate all danger by exhibiting Apis in alternation with Aconite in the manner indicated for hydrocephalus.
Aconite in the same manner as the Apis, and give these two medicines in alternate tablespoonful doses every hour.
I don't doubt you have heard all you say, and it may be even to the word grains; but I am under the impression that the arsenic and aconite given were in the homoeopathic preparations, and therefore no longer poisonous.
But you will understand it when I tell you, that a lodger, in a room adjoining yours, who knew nothing of homoeopathy, heard you speak of giving your child several grains of aconite and arsenic.
Five grains of aconitegiven to the tender child, already on the verge of death!
To the last proposition, the man replied--"I would rather see the aconite tried in a larger dose.
After sundry expressions of horror and indignation, a gentleman said to me--"Are you sure it was grains or granules of aconite and arsenic that were given to the child?
Now we take leave of Medelpad and its sandy roads, as well as its Yellow Aconite (Aconitum lycoctonum), both which it affords in common with Helsingland.
A fatal mistake is not very uncommonly made in eating the root of aconite for that of horseradish.
A case occurred in Ireland where a woman poisoned one man and nearly killed another by sprinkling powderedaconite root over a dish of greens.
The chief symptoms of poisoning by aconite are numbness and tingling in the mouth and throat, giddiness, abolition of muscular power, pain in the abdomen, with vomiting and purging.
Not a few fatal cases have occurred of persons being poisoned by taking Aconite root in mistake for a stick of Horse radish, and eating it when scraped.
As endocarditis is generally secondary to some acute disease, the patient has become weakened already, and the circulation is not sturdy; therefore such a drug as aconite is probably never indicated.
Aconite and veratrum viride are now rarely indicated, although possibly aconite should be used when there is high tension and the heart is acting irritably and stormily.
I will take a little aconite for my heart, and then I will lie down for an hour or two.
Matilde also thought of the aconite which Gregorio had recommended her to keep, and of where she could put it, out of the way of the servants.
If there is nothing to contraindicate its use, aconiteor dilute hydrocyanic acid may be given with the bismuth.
In the presence of marked pyrexia tincture of aconite may be given in drop doses every hour until an impression has been made upon the heart, when its continuance at intervals of four or more hours will be a matter for consideration.
As soon as any marked effect has been produced the aconite may be discontinued or the intervals between administrations lengthened.
Guaiacum and aconite may be given with equal benefit in any form preferred by the prescriber.
Drop-doses of aconite at more frequent intervals sometimes serve a better purpose.
All of the drug aconite is derived from Aconitum Napellus, a monkshood, belonging to the buttercup family.
Numerous accidents have resulted in Europe from careless collectors of the roots of horseradish, who sometimes get aconite roots mixed with that condiment, usually with fatal results.
With regard to aconite I have no such feeling, and a mixture of tincture of aconite and spiritus etheris nitrosi may be given for several weeks with no fear of doing any harm.
Drugs that are of great value, but of which little is noted in textbooks, are aconite and veratrum viride.
There is a class of medicines used in Gastrodynia which seem to act locally on the sentient nerves of the stomach, in the same way that Aconite acts on the superficial nerves of the skin.
For irritative pain on the surface Aconite is most efficacious.
Though in these examples Ammonia acts on the centre, and Aconite on the peripheral nerves, yet they are both capable of exalting or of depressing nervous force in general.
Aconite is a powerful anaesthetic to the superficial sensory nerves.
Thus Ammonia is given to prevent Syncope, caused by a weakness or failure in power of the nerves of the heart; and Aconite is prescribed to relieve pain caused by an over-excitement of the sensory nerves.
Brandy and all foods were stopped; bowel flushings were given, 1-12 of a drop of tincture of aconite was administered every half hour and salicylate of caffeine every two hours.
If it is cold, rainy weather, put a drop of aconite in the water every day while the wet weather lasts.
That is the time you must keep your coops good and dry and give plenty of green stuff, with aconite in the drinking water about twice a week to keep down any fever.
The fever I kept down with aconite by giving a drop in a little water every hour.
These measures will usually be sufficient, but the following will be valuable as aids: For cold or catarrh merely, and no distinction between them is here made, put three drops of strong tincture of aconite in a pint of the drink.
Three drops in a pint of water is all I give them as aconite is very poisonous.
A drop of aconite in the drinking water on damp days will help to prevent fever of any kind.
For treatment keep the bird in a very warm atmosphere, chop up onions very fine and mix in the feed, also give a teaspoonful of olive oil three times a day with one to two drops of aconite to a cup of water.
I gave a laxative in combination with a diffusible stimulant, and ordered doses of aconite and potassium iodide; I also applied strong sinapisms to each side, immediately behind the shoulders.
In this connection aconite will be found most useful.
Aconite must be avoided if our treatment is to be effective.
Often in cases where our treatment fails to cure, the failure is due to the patient taking aconiteas an allopathic remedy.
Tincture or fluid extract of aconite root may also be employed, to assist in equalizing the circulation, and also to secure its anodyne action.
During the height of the fever, tincture of aconite maybe given and an alkaline sponge-bath administered with advantage.
If the fever runs high, a few drops of aconite in water will control it.
Fluid extract of aconite in small and frequent doses will best control the fever.
Our favorite mode of administering both veratrum and aconite is to add ten drops of the tincture to ten or fifteen teaspoonfuls of water, of which one teaspoonful may be administered every hour.
To lessen the frequency of the pulse, fluid extract or tincture of aconite or veratrum may be given in water, every hour.
Acute suppression of the menses from a cold, may be relieved by the tincture of aconite in drop doses every hour.
Aconite slows the pulse, diminishes arterial tension, and lowers the temperature of the body in fevers.
The use of tincture of aconite internally, will be found excellent to prevent the rise of inflammation.
If the fever runs high, 20-drop doses of tincture of aconite root every two hours may be administered.
Hot-water applications to the spine, 1-dram doses fluid extract of belladonna repeated every four hours, and tincture of aconite root 20 drops every hour until the symptoms become ameliorated.
Aconite may be given in conjunction with the niter when the heart is greatly excited and beats strongly.
Sedatives, such as tincture of aconite root, 15 drops, three times a day, or ounce doses of saltpeter every four hours, may also be administered.
Aconite ointment=, 8 grains of aconitine to the oz.
The author has made experiments with the active principles of aconiteupon blow-flies.
The officinal aconite is the Aconitum napellus--monkshood or wolfsbane--a very common garden plant in this country, and one cultivated for medicinal purposes.
I have collected from European medical literature, 87 cases of poisoning by aconite in some form or other.
Aconite extract=, the juice of the leaves evaporated; officinal in most of the pharmacop[oe]ias.
Many varieties of aconite exist in other regions, which either are, or could be, imported.
Vachell, of Cardiff, in which 2 grains of extract of aconitetaken in pills proved fatal.
I keep it to myself when I can, for if they find my breath feverish and my paws hot, they are very anxious and dose me with aconite and sometimes oil.
So busy was the former administering a dose of aconite to Queen that he did not at first notice me, but when he did an angry ejaculation escaped his lips as he pointed to my side.
They gave me aconite to keep down my fever, and used arnica on my foot after paring away the horn and poulticing until suppuration ceased.
Toward night I became feverish, but a couple of doses of aconite corrected that.
He gave aconite to keep down his fever, and afterward cinchona as a tonic, and in time Tim was about as jolly as ever, though much more cautious.
He turned the pages and read: "Pure aconite is probably the most actively poisonous substance with which we are acquainted.
This is plainly a case of aconite poisoning--probably suggested to the Oriental mind by the poison arrows of the Ainus of Northern Japan.
Some one had already sent for a doctor, but the aconite was working quickly on its victim, and he was slowly stiffening out.
There are several treatments for aconite poisoning," ruminated Kennedy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aconite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
