A CON ITS A URE

(Ger.), n, A2k-o-net’zoi”’re?, Aconitic acid. B.J—A.-A ethyl ester. Ethyl aconitate. [B.J—Brenzliche A. Pyro aconitic acid. [A, 324.] ‘ACONITUM (Lat.), n. n. 'tu%m(tu‘m), For deriv.,see ACoNITE. 1. A genus of herbaceous plants of the natural order Ranumculaceæ and the tribe Helleboreæ, distinguished by the resence of five sepals, the upper one of which is hooded and covers in the upper petals, {B, 84.) ‘There is a great liability to variation in the species, and the nomenclature is consequently confusing. [J. U. and C. G. Lloyd, “ Drugs and Med. of N. Am.,” Sept., 1885.]? ‘The drug aconite (in the U, S. Ph., the tuberous root of A. napellus), {B.J—Abstractum aconiti [U. S. Ph.]. Abstract of aconite; made by extracting 200 parts of powdered aconite root with alcohol containing 2 parts of tartaric acid, and evaporating the extract with ar of milk, which is added in sufficient quantity to make the whole weigh 100 parts [B 5.J-Aconiti folia (Br. Ph.]. The leaves of: A. napellus. [BI Aconiti heterophylli radix {Ind. Ph.]. The root of A. heterophyllum, or at is, [B.]—Aconiti radix (U.S. Ph., 1870: Br. Ph.]. The root of A. napellus. (B.|—Aconiti tuber. The tuber of A, napellus.—A. alt i galea tum. See A, cammarum.—A. anthora {iinneeus)- Fr., aconit anthore (ou saluéaire). Ger., feindblätteriger Sturmhut, Giftheil, Heilgift, Herzwurz. Sp., acénito sal le, A European species, the rhizome of which is long and fusiform, with a thin jee having both short and long radiating prolongations. [B, 33.] Îts specific name, anthora (= antithora), came from its paving: formerly been regarded as an antidote to “thora,” the À, napellus (or from its pein against disorders of the thorax”). [Wallace, ‘ Lancet,” eh 18, 1882.] The root (radix anthore), which has been used in medicine, is made up of rounded or angular fleshy ma es, brown externally and white internally, having an agreeable odor, and a taste at first very acrid, afterward sweetish. [B, 97.|—A. anthoroideum. See A. anthora.—A. barbatum. A Siberian species. The root is used in China as a stimulant, diuretic, and alterative, also for fever and hemorrhoids. [A, 248, 261.]—A. bernhardianum. A, cammarum [Jacquin]. Fr.,aconit à grands fleurs. Ger., lang helm i ger Sturmhut. A European species, having the rhizome globular-ovate and the rays of the pith about five in number. The leaves have rhomboid segments. Ik, 33.]—A. Candollei. See A. anthora.— ‘A. easlostomum. ‘variety mentioned by Power and Sedgwick as ‘believed to be poisonous.” [A, 316.]—A. chinense [Sieber]. Chinese aconite, indigenous to Japan. The rhizome is elongated, and a cro -section of the pith is circular, elliptical, or stellate. tb, 33.) It is used in China as a vulnerary and to poison arrows, and the powder of that brought from Szechwan is employed to produce local anesthesia. [A, 261.]—A. columblanum, A. eulophum. See A. anthora.—A. ferox [Wallich]. Fr., aconit ‘éroce [Fr. Cod.]. Indian aconite; a genus found in the Him a lay as, ing the source of the terrible bish, or biskh. poison of India, used as an arrow-poison. It was also used by the natives to poison the wells in places captured by the British. It has been thought to be the source of the so-called aconitine (pseud aconitine) made in England. By some it has been regarded as only a variety of A. na- Faull e rhizome, which is used in medicine, is conical in shape, rom 2 to 4 in. long, about 1 in. thick, and intensely acrid. [A, 42; B, 19, 33.]—A. Fischerl |Reich]. A species growing abundantly in the mountainous regions of the western section of the United States. In its physiological action it differs from A. napellus in not affecting tactile sensibility, or the irritability of the sensory nerves. I does not affect the contractility of muscles or the irritability of the