Petroleum petr.
Mnemonic names
Pet. / (Pet.) / Pete.
Verse
Petroleum,-Thy claim we see
Catarrh in chronic form to be,
Where'er catarrh may have a place,
There in thy slimy track we trace.
When to the chest thy choice to come,
Consumption may result therefrom.
When in the bowels thou bareth rule,
Then loose and slimy is thy stool.
Or if a dysenteric kind,
With pain and vomiting combined.
Thy stomach shows derangements that
Produce intolerance to fat.
Thy mouth o'erflows with watery slime,
Producing nausea all the time.
There's nausea, too, from taking trip
In car or carriage, boat or ship.
Thou hast a dry and fissured skin,
And itching fetid moisture in
The arm-pits and upon the feet,
And at the privates in retreat.
A tender coccyx marks thy plagues,
And moist eruptions on thy legs.
Thy finger ends are dry and cracked,
And hands with salt-rheum are attacked.
In Typhoid-double, seems some part,
Or like a cold stone seems the heart.
All ailments of whatever form,
Are worse before a thunder storm.
Mnemonic sentences
Pete,-Has cracks and fissures in the skin.
Pete Cundu, owes for the logs, he hooked from Sarsa.
This Pete,-Who is subject to nausea when riding,-Is at the Club and Staff Inn, with Arny, the cook from Apomo.
Indications
Skin Cracks-Fissures: Pet., Cundu., Alu., Sul., Lyc., Graph., Sil., Hep., Kal. c., Sars. (Cracks in the corners of the mouth, Ant. c., Cundu., Graph.)
Nausea from Riding in Carriage, Car, or Boat-Seasickness: Pet., Lyc., Nux m., Arn., Stap., Coc., Apoma.