A. Exerts a special influence on the cutaneous functions, producing diaphoresis with pruritus, and sometimes redness, pustules, and blebs, 1, 385.

Increase of cutaneous exhalation, with excessive itching and formication, and an eruption of vesicles, 10, 2: 310.

Diaphoresis, formication and pruritus, 54, 1: 112.

Irritable vesicular eruption, 5, 397; Farquharson, 116, 1/79, 267.

B. Erysipelatous inflammation, 1, 385. Redness and vesicles, 54, 1: 111.

Tingling and numbness of the sensory nerves, 4, 410.

C. Of the highest value in eruptive fevers, especially in scarlet fever and erysipelas, 4, 413. Erysipelas, 2, 9; 13, 44; 83, 96; 94, 76. Arrests profuse sweating, Lombard, 94, 39. Obstinate scaly eruptions, 1, 386. Chronic affections of the skin, 54, 1: 117. Pruriginous papular eruptions, Cazenave, 107, 3: 28. Pruritus scroti, Jenner, 149, Oct. 25, '79.

D. Pruritus, 94, 77; 207 (aconitia). Acne, 205.

Remarks

In affections of the skin attended with febrile action, as some cases of acute eczema, erysipelas, etc., aconite is the first remedy to be thought of. In these cases a few doses given early, certainly exert a marked beneficial action on the course of the disease. In chronic affections in which its long-continued use was advised by the older writers, I have had too little experience to enable me to form any opinion as to its efficacy.

The officinal preparations are: Extractum Aconiti; Tinctura Aconiti Radicis; Emplastrum Aconiti; and Linamentum Aconiti.