In measles and miliary fever also in children’s disease, with a hot dry fever, and great restlessness Useful in catarrhal conjunctivitis when resulting from exposure to dry cold winds, from surgical operations or from a foreign body in. the eye. Neuralgia resulting from exposure to dry cold winds, with numbness and tingling. Supra orbital neuralgia with burning pains.. also useful in paralysis where numbness and tingling are present. Convulsions caused by intense excitement, fright or anger.
Aconite is very useful; in suppressed or painful menstruation resulting from fright or sudden exposure to cold. In pregnancy it calms the emotions, overcomes unnatural fears, and prevents abortion from fright excitement. Milk fever and suppressed lochia with characteristic symptoms. Orchitis. Aconite may also be used in many other diseased states as indicated in. the foregoing pathogenesis, a high temperature, full pulse and repeat anxiety and restlessness being h chief indications for its use in most instances.
ALLEN CORSON COWPERTHWAITE was born at Cape May, New Jersey, May 3, 1848, son of Joseph C. and Deborah (Godfrey) Cowperthwaite. He attended medical lectures at the University of Iowa in 1867-1868, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. He practiced his profession first in Illinois, and then in Nebraska. In 1877 he became Dean and Professor of Materia Medica in the recently organized Homeopathic Department of the State University of Iowa, holding the position till 1892. In 1884 he accepted the chair of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Clinical Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan. He removed to Chicago in 1892, and became Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. From 1901 he also served as president of that College. He is the author of various works, notably "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations" (1876), "A Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1880), of "Gynecology" (1888), and of "The Practice of Medicine " (1901).