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HOMOEOPATHY V. ALLOPATHY. 
Post-mortem appearances, as observed in Man, &c. — 
“The vessels of the brain and arachnoid injected with serous 
effusion under the meninges at the base of the brain. The 
cerebral vessels distended with blood/’ “ Stomach distended; 
its mucous membrane had irregular patches of red upon it.” 
In another case, “the stomach was beset with gangrenous 
spots.” In another, “ traces of considerable congestion.” 
In a dog, “the whole of the inner surface of the stomach 
inflamed.” * 
Abdomen, Man. “(Esophagus, stomach, and intestines, 
very red and inflamed. The blood-vessels, especially the 
veins of the intestines, very much distended: the inflam- 
mation stopped at the caecum, the mesentery was very 
much inflamed, there was much serum in the peritoneal 
cavity. 
Intestinal Canal , in a dog, “ inflamed ; abdominal veins 
distended with blood.” Other animals much the same. 
Kidneys, in Man, “congested;” “bladder empty.” 
Chest, in Man. “The lungs, especially their lower lobes, 
congested with black blood.” In another individual, “the 
pulmonary parenchyma congested with blood, and scarcely 
crepitating.” “The lungs heavy, blueish, violet posteriorly, 
little crepitating, and filled with blood,” in a third. 
Horse. “These organs, more especially the right one, 
w T ere extensively studded with patches of extravasated blood 
about the size of walnuts, which in those parts connected with 
the pulmonary tissue were more or less softened , and emitted 
an odour characteristic of heated decomposed blood. The 
rusty fluid produced from the softening had in various places passed 
into the bronchi , imparting to their frothy mucus a brown 
colour .” — Veterinary Medicines , their Actions and Uses , by Finlay 
Dun , p. 83- 
Heart-Blood, &c. In man: “heart collapsed, with 
very little black fluid blood; larger vessels almost empty.” 
In a second, “unusual fluidity of the blood.” In a dog: 
“ heart collapsed, containing thick clotted blood.” 
Such are a few T of the symptoms and post-mortem appear- 
ances induced by Aconite. That these symptoms resemble, 
in the generality of instances, symptoms such as we find to 
accompany acute fever, either idiopathic or inflammatory, no 
one I think at all conversant with disease can for a single 
moment dispute; neither, I think, will any candid man dis- 
pute that it is an agent capable of producing an inflammatory 
action within the mucous and serous structures of the body. 
The post-mortem appearances I have detailed are clearly 
confirmatory of this, and I may add, that the facts unwit- 
