2nd. Arises from intemperance. In this case a gradual change of habits is essential. The use of soap should be avoided, and recourse had to warm fomentations of slippery elm, or thin oat gruel. The following should be applied to the pimples:——Cold cream, 1 oz., Goulard’s extract 20 drops, mixed together; or lemon juice diluted, or solution of borax in water. The internal administration of the mineral acids combined with bitter tonics, or small doses of iodide of potassium, will be found effectual. _Treatment._ Fomentations, poultices, chloride of zinc solution externally; sulphur and alteratives internally. =ACOLOGY=. _Syn._ In _medicine_, the doctrine of, or a discourse on, remedies or the materia medica. =ACONITE.= (-nite). _Syn._ ACON′ITUM, L.; ACONIT, Fr.: AKONITUM, EISENHUT, STURMHUT, Ger. Monkshood; wolfsbane. In _botany_, a genus of exogenous plants. _Nat. ord._, Ranunculaceæ; _Sex. syst._, Polyandria Trigynia. They are characterised by showy purple or yellow helmet-shaped flowers growing in panicles, deeply cut leaves, and perennial (usually) tap-shaped or tapering roots. The whole plant is highly poisonous, the roots being more poisonous than the leaves. In _medicine_ and _materia medica_, the plant Aconitum Napellus (which _see_). _Symptoms._ Numbness and tingling in the mouth and throat, which are parched; followed by giddiness, dimness of sight, and (sometimes) delirium, but seldom complete coma; there is numbness and tingling of the limbs, a loss of power in the legs, (in some cases) frothing at the mouth, severe abdominal pains, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhœa; tremors or twitchings of the voluntary muscles, (sometimes) convulsions (in animals, but not in man); sharp cries; pupil (generally) dilated, very rarely contracted; pulse fitful and sinking; skin cold and livid; difficulty of breathing; general prostration; loss of sensation or feeling, insensibility, general trembling, fainting, and sudden death. The eyes are often glaring; and, in some cases, the patient is completely paralysed, yet retains consciousness to the last. The case generally proves fatal in from 1 to 8 hours. If it last beyond this period there is hope of recovery. (Fleming.) _Antidotes._ Ammonia, or brandy, with artificial respiration if necessary: cold affusion and friction, with warm towels to the back and limbs. See ALKALOIDS. =ACONITE LEAVES= (B. Ph.). _Syn._ ACONITI FOLIA, L. The fresh leaves and flowering tops of _aconitum napellus_, Linn., gathered when about one third of the flowers are expanded, from plants cultivated in Britain. _Char._ Leaves smooth, palmate, divided into five deeply cut wedge-shaped segments; excizing slowly, when chewed, a sensation of tingling. Flowers numerous, irregular, deep blue, in dense racemes. _Prep._ Extractum aconiti.