8 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
stomach, and violent vomiting.. She experienced a curious 
sensation of numbness in the hands, arms, and legs, and she 
lost the power of articulating, her attempts to speak were 
attended with unintelligible sounds only; great muscular de- 
bility, unable to stand; some of the external senses were 
disordered ; to use her own expression, though her eyes were 
wide open, her sight was very dim, and surrounding objects 
were seen indistinctly ; the sensibility of the body was greatly 
impaired; her face and throat were almost insensible to the 
touch ; she was very giddy, but neither delirious nor sleepy ; 
her body and extremities were cold ; she was frequently pulling 
her throat about, but she knew not why. Five or six hours 
afterwards she began to recover. 
The child was similarly but slightly affected ; like the others, 
she was constantly putting her hands to her throat, (Pereira’s 
Mat. Med., art. Aconite.) 
Mr. Sherwen mentions a case of a female poisoned by the 
alcoholic tincture of the root. The following were the chief symp- 
toms. Five minutes after swallowing it, she was seized with prick- 
ling and tingling down the arms and fingers ; painful numbness 
across the wrists; the tongue and mouth next felt the same; 
then the legs and feet ; in less than ten minutes her face seemed 
to her to be swelling, and her throat getting tight; she felt sick, 
and made many efforts to vomit; her legs failed; she was 
almost blind, but was conscious of her state ; the eyes were fixed 
and protruded, with contracted pupils; countenance livid ; 
jaws and fauces rigid; arms and hands quite cold and pulse- 
less; legs and trunk much in the same state; breathing short, 
imperfect, and laborious, with feeble fluttering of the heart. 
A strong convulsion occurred on attempting to give an emetic. 
Copious vomiting afterwards took place. Five hours after 
taking the poison, the pulse was becoming full, 58 per 
minute, and intermitting; there was less oppression at the 
precordia, and the pupils were larger. She eventually re- 
covered. (Lancet, March 25, 1837.) : 
