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.

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    physiological and medicinal properties, should have been so little employed; but this may be, in part, accounted for by the variable strength and frequent entire inertness of the preparations commonly in use, and partly also by the fact of inert species having been substituted for it, as, for instance, the A. paniculatum, which has been directed by the London and Dublin Colleges as the officinal species, and which is shewn in this Inquiry to be destitute of medicinal properties. One important object of the Author’s experi- ments was to distinguish the inert from the ac- tive species of the plant. In 1842 he performed the series of experiments on animals ; and, in the autumn of 1843, commenced his observations, which he has continued to the present time, of the Physiological and Therapeutic action of the remedy on man. His residence, during this period, in the Poyal Infirmary, afforded him every facility for hourly and continual observa- tion of its effects, which were noted with scru- pulous care and accuracy; and such were the ad- vantages resulting from its employment, that the Author trusts he may, without impropriety, express his conviction of its great utility, and