-RANUNOULACEZ. a: 
cutaneous injection of 0-075 gram. of nitrate into a cat produced 
distinct toxic symptoms, and the injection of 0-1 gram. was 
always. followed by death in twenty to thirty minutes, 
- Mice were killed by one milligram in three minutes. Lycoc-_ 
_ tonine and lycaconine, the decomposition-products of lycaconi- 
tine and myoctonine respectively, were found to resemble the 
original alkaloids in their physiological action, but to be less 
~ powerful, (Year-Book of Pharm., 1885.) 
ACONITUM HETEROPHYLLUM, mail’ 
Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., t. 7. “ 
Hab.— West temperate Himalaya from Kumaon to 
Hansora. The tubers. 
Vernacular.—Atis (Hind), eAtteisk (Mar. ‘ aia or 
q (Tam.), Ati-vasa (el.), Atavakha-ni-Kali (@uz.). 
History, Uses, &C.—The earliest notices of Ativisha * 
are to be found in Hindu works on Materia Medica, Sfranga- 
dhara and Chakradatta, where it is recommended as a remedy 
in fevers, diarrhcea, dyspepsia and cough, also as an alexiphar- - 
mic; those in Arabic and Persian works are short, and 
apparently copied from them ; they direct it to be prescribed 
“In combination with aromatics, astringents and sometimes 
with other bitters, such as Bonduc-nuts, Tinospora, Holarrhena, 
&c. It is an ingredient in Bdl-goli, a pill given to infants to 
keep them quiet, which contains thirty-one drugs, of which 
three are narcotics, viz., Bhang, Opium and Datura, and the 
remainder bitters and nroieintie. This pill is sold by all the 
native druggists, and, it need hardly be said, is most fatal to 
children. The author of the Makhzan-el-Adwiya calls Atis an 
Indian root, resembling a smallspecimen of Aristolochia longa, 
and says that some authorities describe three kinds, viz., Atis, _ 
 Part-bikhta, and Shémkand; but others only two kinds—~ 
vine ee black. He saysit is spe — toe ‘ 
oe hy * Ati-visha, counteracting poison, 
