The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
ACETANILIDUM
Antifebrinum
General.–Depresses heart, respiration and blood pressure, lowers temperature. Cyanosis and collapse. Increased susceptibility to cold. Destroys red blood corpuscles; pallor.
Head.–Enlarged sensation. Fainting. Moral depravity.
Eyes.–Pallor of optic discs, contracted visual field and shrinking retinal vessel; mydriasis.
Heart.–Weak, irregular, with blue mucous membranes, albuminuria, oedema of feet and ankles.
Relationship.–Compare: Antipyrin.
Dose.–Used as a sedative and antipyretic for various forms of headache and neuralgia in doses of one to three grains. For the homeopathic indications use the third potency.