An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the aconitum napellus. To which are added observations on several other species of aconitum / by Alexander Fleming.

Date:
1845
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Credit: An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the aconitum napellus. To which are added observations on several other species of aconitum / by Alexander Fleming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. The following Inaugural Dissertation obtained from the Senatus Academicus of Edinburgh a Gold Medal at the Graduation of 1844, and printed in accordance with the recommendation of the Medical Faculty, is now submitted to the Profession. In preparing it for publica- tion, condensation has been studied, as far as was consistent with clearness and accuracy; the section treating of the History and Botanical Characters of the plant has, with this view, been much curtailed, and its Chemistry entirely omit- ted, as every thing satisfactorily ascertained re- specting it is to be found concisely and well de- tailed in the admirable and complete Materia Medica of Dr Pereira. The desire of the Author has simply been to retain nothing that did not immediately relate to his own investigations. It may appear remarkable that the Aconitum Napellus, a plant possessed of such energetic