12 FLORA HOMG@OPATHICA, 
** Banishing from our system all idea of resemblance to that in 
ordinary usage, which is too often influenced by the names of 
imaginary diseases, it is necessary that the primary morbid -_ 
ditions, under which Aconite is proposed, should present, in 
their principal symptoms, a strong analogy to those which are 
caused by this medicine. Its success is then most satisfactory. 
“Tn acute inflammatory fevers, where it has been imagined 
that the patient can alone be relieved by copious and repeated 
bleedings, Homeopathy asserts its great superiority, in being, 
by the use of this medicine, able to overcome fevers and restore 
health in a shorter period of time than under the allopathic 
treatment, without being obliged to shed a single drop of blood, 
—that vital fluid which has been so often dangerously lavished 
under the old system. 
“It is sometimes requisite, in acute disorders, to use another 
homeopathic medicine, to remove those morbid symptoms that 
still remain after those which the Aconite has subdued; but it 
is seldom needful to repeat the dose of Aconite. 
“ By giving Aconite with these precautions, in the diseases to 
which I refer, the circulation by degrees returns to its usual state. 
“Although from the short duration of its action, which in 
small doses does not exceed thirty-six or forty-eight hours, 
Aconite would appear to be useful only in acute cases, yet it is 
not less so in the most obstinate chronic disorders, in which the 
condition of the body requires the modification of what is called’ 
rigidity of fibre; a subject upon which I cannot now enlarge. 
Its efficacy in such cases results from the development of the 
symptoms produced by it in the healthy subject. 
_“Aconite is also the chief and most powerful means of cure in 
the croup ; in several species of angina, as well as in local acute 
inflammation in other parts of the body, especially when thirst 
and a quick pulse are connected with restless impatience, agita- 
tion that nothing can suppress, and a jactitation like that caused 
by Aconite. It produces, when given in health, all the 
morbid symptoms manifested by persons under the influence of 
