Acetic Acid. acet-ac.

We are always to think of this remedy when we find a patient passing large quantities of pale urine, particularly if accompanied by intense thirst, and dry, hot skin.

Pale, waxen, emaciated. Staring, wild look of the eyes and countenance.

False membranes in the throat.

Vomits after every kind of food. Much burning and uncomfortable feeling in the stomach; complains of the stomach a great deal.

Burning, dry skin is always characteristic of this remedy. Also, profuse sweating.

With intense thirst, debility, pale waxen skin, and often passing large quantities of urine. Œdema of the lower extremities.

Diarrhœa, with great thirst, drinking large quantities with apparent impunity. Bloated abdomen, great debility, stools often undigested, pale waxen skin. Chronic diarrhœa of children with great emaciation. Constipation, with great thirst and excess of pale urine.

Male: Very weakening nightly seminal emissions; semen passes with stool. Prepuce thickened, fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully. Sexual passion, but feeble erection. Female: Metrorrhagia after parturition, with great thirst.

Myelitis with profuse urine; the pain in the back relieved only by lying on the abdomen.

With intense burning, unending and unquenchable thirst, and great debility.

Vinegar must be remembered as an antidote to all anæsthetic vapours--chloroform, ether, etc., also fumes of charcoal. Dip the finger in vinegar and rub on the tongue.