Antifebrinum

Acetanilid (formed from aniline). CH3 CO NH Q H5. Exalgine is a derivative from this, Methylacetanilid, and has almost identical action. Solution and trituration.

Clinical

Asthma. Cyanosis. Fainting. Head, enlarged sensation. Palpitation. Thrombosis.

Characteristics

Given as remedies for migraine and in order to reduce fever, Anti/eb. and Exalg. have produced symptoms of collapse and cyanosis, in some instances fatal, with great rapidity. One patient ezpNcrienced from Exalgine a sensation that his head was so large that it seemed to occupy the whole room. Respiration was most difficult as in a bad attack of asthma, he seized and clenched the hands of those around him. He was not an asthmatic subject. He fdt as if the diaphragm had ceased working and he must go on breathing on his own account at any cost. Several cases of thrombosis of the lower extremities from heart weakness have followed its use.

Relations p. 121

Compare : Antipyr., Anilinum, Glon., &c.