Carbolic Acid. carb-ac.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Throat. STOMACH. Bowels. Lungs. HEART. Blood. Respiration.

Jar. Reading. Pregnancy. Combing hair (Bry. Chin. Ign. Sele.).

Painless, languid and PROSTRATE. FOULNESS. Burning secretions; expectoration, etc. Malignancy. Sepsis. Low fever. Prickling-burning or sudden pain.

Tender scalp. As of a burning ball in forehead. Acute smell. PALE ABOUT NOSE AND MOUTH. Dusky face. Fetor oris. Glazed throat. Vomiting. Heartburn. Stomach sore. Flatulence. Shreddy stools. Passes mucus from anus when urinating. Urine, scant, green or dark. Leucorrhœa; thick, causing itching. Aching between scapulæ. Sopor. Thready pulse. Collapse. Bloody exudations. Vesicles or pustules. Erysipelas. Profuse, cold sweats.

Related: Kre.

The potencies are made with alcohol (an exception to the rule of preparing acids). Pains are terrible; come suddenly, last a short time, disappear suddenly (Bell., Mag. p.). Profound prostration, collapse; surface pale and bathed in cold sweat (Camph., Carbo v., Ver.). Physical exertion, even much walking, brings on abscess in some part, but generally in the right ear. - R. T. Cooper. Dull, heavy, frontal headache, as if a rubber band were stretched tightly over the forehead, from temple to temple (Gels., Plat., Sulph.). When burns tend to ulceration and ichorous discharge. Putrid discharges from mouth, nose, throat, nostrils, rectum and vagina (Anthr., Psor., Pyr.). Malignant scarlatina and variola (Am. c.). Lacerated wounds with blunt instruments; bones bare, crushed; much sloughing of soft parts (Calend.). Longing for whiskey and tobacco (Asar., Carbo. v.). Vomiting: of drunkards, in pregnancy, sea-sickness, cancer; of dark, olive-green fluid (Pyr.). Dysentery: fluid mucus, like scarpings of mucus membranes, and great tenesmus (Canth.); diarrhoea, stool thin, involuntary, black, of an intolerable odor. Constipation, with horrible offensive breath (Op., Psor.). Leucorrhoea: acid, copious, fetid, green.

Compare: Ars., Kreos, in burns; ulcers with unhealthy, offensive discharges, Gels., Mer., Sulph. Carbolic acid is antidoted by dilute cider vinegar, either externally or internally, when acid has been swallowed accidentally, or taken for suicidal purposes.

Phenol-Carbolic Acid

Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anæsthetic. A languid, foul, painless, destructive remedy. Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to paralysis of respiratory centers. Acts primarily on the central nervous system. Increased olfactory sensibility.

Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache like a band. Very marked acuteness of smell is a strong guiding symptom. Stomach symptoms are also important. Pains are terrible; come and go suddenly. Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere. Putrid discharges (Bapt). Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally, and fetid odor. Spasmodic coughs. Arthritis (See Dose).

Disinclined to mental work. Tight feeling, as if compressed by a rubber band (Gels; Mahonia). Orbital neuralgia over right eye. Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.

Smell very acute. Putrid discharge. Ozæna, with fetor and ulceration. Influenza and resulting debility.

Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks. Burning in mouth to stomach. Fauces red, and covered with exudation. Uvula whitened and shriveled. Putrid discharge. Almost impossible to swallow. Diphtheria, fetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but little pain (Bapt). Face dusky red; white about mouth and nose. Rapid sinking of vital forces.

Appetite lost. Desire for stimulants and tobacco. Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green. Heat rises up œsophagus. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Painful flatulence often marked in one part of the bowel (Sulpho-Carbolate of Soda). Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath.

Constipation, with very offensive breath. Bloody, like scrapings of intestines. Great tenesmus. Diarrhœa; stools thin, black, putrid.

Almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of probable prostatic nature. Use 1x.

Discharges always offensive (Nitr ac; Nux; Sep). Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus. Agonizing backache across loins, with dragging-down thighs. Pain in left ovary; worse walking in open air. Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge. Leucorrhœa in children (Cann s; Merc; Puls; Sep). Puerperal fever, with offensive discharge. Irritating leucorrhœa, causing itching and burning (Kreos).

Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during walking. Gnawing pains in shin bones. Arthritis.

Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.

Compare: Chrysarobin (local in ringworm of the scalp 5-10 per cent in glycerine and alcohol. Equal parts). Ars; Kreosot; Carbo; Guano (Violent headache as from a band around head. Itching of nostrils, back, thighs, genitals. Symptoms like hay-fever).

Antidote: Alcohol; Vinegar; Chalk; Iod. Glauber's Salt in watery solution.

Incompatible: Glycerine and vegetable oils.

Third to thirtieth potency. Phenol in Arthritis, according to Goodno. Must be absolutely pure. Crystals Solution (25 %) in equal parts of water and glycerine, dose 20 minims well diluted 3 times daily (Bartlett).

Vesicular eruption all over the body, which itches excessively; better after rubbing, but leaving a burning pain.

Carbolic Acid. Phenol. Monoxy Benzine. Phenic Acid. Phenyl Alcohol. C 6 H 5 OH. Solution in rectified spirit.

Acne. Burns. Carbuncle. Cholera. Constipation. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Dyspepsia . Eczema. Eructations . Erysipelas. Flatulence . Gangrene. Hydrocephalus. Influenza. Intermittent fever. Irritation . Leprosy. Meningitis. Neuralgia. Pneumonia. Psoriasis. Pityriasis versicolor. Scarlatina. Small-pox. Smell, disordered. Stomach, affections of . Toothache. Ulcers. Uræmia . Uterus, displacements of. Vomiting .

Carbolic acid, like the Carbons, is a powerful antiseptic, and its use as such in surgery has led incidentally to the poisoning of both patients and surgeons. These experiences have provided a number of the symptoms indicating its medicinal use. The pains of carbolic acid come suddenly. They are burning and pricking, sticking. The urine is very dark, black or blackish olive-green; grass or olive-green. There is numbness and twitching. Putrid discharges are a marked indication. The skin is inflamed, and other symptoms appear, with burning, tingling, itching, and numbness. Gangrene has been caused by the application of 2 to 5 per cent. solutions. There is profound prostration and fatigue; convulsions; collapse; cold, clammy sweat. Constant yawning. R. K. Ghosh finds it admirable in cases (if cholera where Verat. alb . seems indicated and fails. There is intolerance of warm room; but also sensitiveness to cold air which < many symptoms. Many poisoning cases show pneumonia, single or double, affecting the bases principally. Dr. Proctor has recorded a brilliant cure of a double basal pneumonia with drop doses of the B. P. solution, after failure of more commonly used remedies. Nervous dyspepsia of intensely painful character has frequently been cured by it; and R. K. Ghosh has reported great improvement in a case of diabetes when the remedy was given for something else. Proell has recorded his own case of idiopathic erysipelas affecting the back of the right hand, first three fingers and arm, with violet-coloured swelling and roughness. Rhus removed the fever, but did nothing to stop the erysipelas. This Carbol. ac . 30 did promptly. It was prescribed by Dr. Streintz. Fahnestock reports a case of poisoning observed by himself from inhaling the fumes. The patient, a woman, feeling ill, ran across the street to a neighbour's. Before reaching the house she fell prostrate, pale, gasping for breath. When taken in, she had to be propped up in order to breathe; trembled all over; wanted her hands held; "pricking like needles," all over body; unable to raise right arm. Cold hands and feet. Wanted a drink of water every few minutes; nausea but no vomiting; pain in lumbar region. Symptoms lasted four hours. It has been used with success in the vomiting of drunkards; of pregnant women with violent frontal headache. Great flatulent distension of the abdomen, with belching of wind and desire for stimulants, indicates the drug. Palpitation of the heart at night has been cured by it. It has relieved cases of cancer of the stomach, and has apparently cured epithelioma of the cheek and nose, with hæmorrhages (Allen). Deschere has found Carbol. ac . 30 of great service in uterine displacements, with or without discharges, but these, if present, are always offensive . The symptoms first relieved are the agonising backache across the loins with a dragging sensation down the buttocks into the thighs. Cooper regards it as specific in influenza, in the 3x for the attack, and 30th for resulting debility.

It is antidoted by: Chalk; Saccharated Lime. In burns from carbolic acid, Elias C. Price found milk give immediate relief. He suggests copious draughts of milk in poisoning cases. Compare: Gels. Merc. and Sul. in band-like headache; Ars., Carb. v., Chi. and Kre. in burns, ulcers, unhealthy, offensive discharges; Pic. ac. (tightly drawn iron band at base of brain; Carbl. ac . has this round head); Ant. t. and Variol. in Small-pox.

Irritability. — Disinclination for mental exertion. — Muddled, confused, bewildered.

Headache: heavy, dull. — Periodical sick-headache, as if enclosed in tight hand. — Dull frontal headache, as if an indiarubber band were stretched tightly over forehead from temple to temple, > by pressure. — Itching of scalp. — Headache > by green tea; while smoking; by tight band; by cold hand; by bending head forward.

Very severe orbital neuralgia over r. eye. — Pupils dilated.

Tight and stopped up. — Tickling, prickling, itching in nostrils. — Sense of smell very acute. — Ozæna, with great fetor and ulceration.

Pale; or flushed and burning. — Jaws clenched.

Aching of teeth in r. upper jaw.

Lips dry, cracked, painful or black. — Tongue burning and tingling, as if a thousand pins were sticking in it. — Tongue dry and chippy, parched and fissured. — Throat and tongue black, tender and ulcerated patches in inside of lips and cheeks. — Intensely bad smell from mouth.

Prickling and burning in throat and œsophagus. — Heat rising up from the stomach. — Spasmodic contraction of œsophagus. — Inability to swallow. — Sore-throat worse on r. side. — Hawking of clear white mucus. — Fauces red and covered with a mucous exudation. — Uvula whitened and shrivelled.

Wants a drink of water every few minutes. — Constant belching up of wind. — Vomiting of drunkards. — Excessive nausea, and inclination to vomit; while eating a little, after breakfast. — Vomiting of: Bright's disease; sea-sickness; cancer; pregnancy. — Weight in epigastrium as if burdened with flatulence. — Burning in stomach. — Total loss of appetite. — Desire for whiskey.

Pain in r. hypochondrium; also in that region of both sides. — Rumbling and rolling in abdomen. — Burning in lower part of abdomen and top of head.

Diarrhœa and dysentery; mucous stools like scrapings; stools like rice-water; thin, black; very offensive. — Cholera infantum, with putrid discharge like foul eggs. — Constipation with offensive breath.

Urine: dark greenish brown; greenish; very dark; black or blackish. — Quantity increased and passed frequently. — Diabetes. — Albuminuria. — Urine of high specific gravity; urea abundant. — While urinating always an involuntary mucous discharge from anus.

Itching, or burning-itching of scrotum, > scratching but it soon returns.

Pain in region of l. ovary walking in open air. — Painful swelling of l. ovary. — Menses irregular; too profuse, dark colour, followed by headache and nervous irritability. — Puerperal fever, with putrid symptoms. — Ulceration of the cervix uteri. — Offensive discharges.

Unable to lie down, gasping for breath continually, wants hands held. — (Removed in a prover: short breath going up-hill, or upstairs.) — Short, hacking cough with tickling in throat; can hardly retain anything in stomach. — Stertorous respiration.

Feeling of narrowness in chest as if diaphragm depressed the lungs. — Tight feeling, esp. in centre of chest. — Pneumonia of (r.) base. — Gangrene of lung.

Stitches in region of heart. — Fearful palpitation < night, with great dyspnœa. — Jerking in l. common carotid artery while walking rapidly after dinner.

Neck stiff, lame and sore. — Severe pain in lumbo-sacral region, < latter part of night. — Pain in loins on straightening one's self and by jolting while riding.

Soreness of muscles of back and limbs. — Twitching in muscles.

Aching, rheumatic pains in shoulders. — Unable to raise r. arm. — Aching, rheumatic pains in arms strongly flexed in tonic spasm. — Cold hands and feet. — Vesicular itching eruption on hand. — Erysipelas of back of r. hand, first three fingers and arm, violet-coloured swelling, rough skin.

Rheumatic pain in r. hip-joint. — Dragging down buttocks and into thighs. — Paralysis of lower extremities; with dragging sensation. — Aching soreness beneath l. patella all day up to 4 p.m.; feels as if it would be stiff and sore to move it, but it is not felt during motion. — Sharp pain in l. shin. — Cramps. — Cold hands and feet.

Fainting and insensibility, lasting for hours. — Pricking like needles all over body. — Tonic spasm; arms flexed, difficulty in straightening them. — Prostration from a short walk. — Offensive discharges.

Offensive odour from skin. — Erysipelas; violet colour swelling, roughness. — Miliary vesicles. — Malignant scarlatina. — Confluent variola. — (Acne; eczema; impetigo; scabies; psoriasis; prurigo; leprosy; pityriasis versicolor; lupus; carbuncles; cancerous sores; sloughing wounds; chronic ulcers; burns).

Yawning and sleepy. — Waking often in night.

Insensibility.
Loss of memory.
(In sick :) Forgetfulness, she cannot remember anything, becomes easily confused.
(In sick :) She starts to do something and forgets it.
(In sick :) She has difficulty of remembering events that have passed.
(In sick :) She has periods of mental abstraction.
Absentminded, starts when spoken to, nervous tremor.
Inability to fix mind on anything or retain what is read.
Muddled and confused.
(In sick :) She had sense of bewilderment.
Mind unusually clear, desirous for intellectual work.
Entire disinclination to study ; what he had accomplished seemed very trifling.
Disinclination to mental efforts, event to read.
Disinclination for mental or bodily labor.
Constantly agitated, moaning continuously and occasionally uttering a piercing cry ; recognizes no one. θ Acute hydrocephalus.
Depressed ; morose ; irritable.
Fear of impending sickness, evening in bed.
Very irritable.
(In sick :) She became petulant and impatient although naturally good, quiet and gentle.
Mental and physical exhilaration.
Restless : cries out in sleep ; t. θ Meningitis.

Felt as if staggering, like a drunken man.
Giddiness, not > by shutting eyes.
Vertigo : on going up and down stairs ; > by walking fast in open air, < by sitting down, fear of falling ; with trembling.

Aching and burning pain in forehead, > by pressure of cold hand.
Dull frontal headache in centre of forehead.
Dull frontal headache : with chilliness ; with general lassitude ; > in open air.
Feeling of tightness across forehead, directly above frontal sinuses.
Dull frontal headache, as if an india-rubber band was stretched tightly over forehead, from temple to temple.
Frontal headache and oppression of chest, going left to right.
(In sick :) Intense pressing pains through temples and in top of head ; even down to nape of neck, stiffness and soreness were felt.
(In sick :) She had severe semilateral headache, extending over vertex, this entire surface was sensitive to touch.
Burning pain in right temple and vertex.
Dull, heavy pain through temples, with tight band across forehead, and tightness in nose between eyes.
Pressure in left temple, seemingly on surface of brain.
Twitching pain through temples, neuralgic pains in left.
Jagging pain in head, < from light and noise.
Sharp, darting neuralgic pain in head, changing situation from one side to the other.
Dull pain running from forehead to occiput.
Burning pain in top of head.
Sensation as of fine electric sparks in vertex, changing to a prickling, itching, > by rubbing.
Feeling in top of head as if brain was swashing about.
Headache in upper half of head, in morning.
Dull pressure and pain in occiput and muscles of back of neck, especially just behind ears.
Expansive pains in head, with swimming before eyes.
Head felt as if enclosed in a band, which at times seemed to compress and crush in head, < in temples.
Fulness of head all over brain, with dull pains.
Head feels very heavy.
Numbness in head after reading, with pressure in temples.
Headache, with nausea, > by a cup of green tea.
Pressure or a tight bandage, > headache temporarily, also > while smoking after tea ; < bending head forward.
Reading < pressure in occiput.
Severe burning in brain, over eyebrows in evening.
(In sick :) Her brain throbbed and entire head ached.
Rush of blood to head, face flushed.
Congestive headache.
Basilar meningitis ; acute hydrocephalus.
Periodical spells of sick headache, about time of catamenia.

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Pains are terrible; come suddenly, last a short time, disappear suddenly (Bell., Mag. p.).

Profound prostration, collapse; surface pale and bathed in cold sweat (Camph., Carbo v., Ver.).

Physical exertion, even much walking brings on abscess in some part, but generally in the r. ear.—R. T. COOPER.

Dull, heavy frontal headache, as if a rubber band were stretched tightly over the forehead, from temple to temple (Gels., Plat., Sul.).

When burns tend to ulceration and ichorous discharge (Ars., Carbo, Kreos.); rapid decubitas.

Putrid discharges from mouth, nose, throat, nostrils, rectum and vagina (Anthr., Psor., Pyr.).

Malignant scarlatina and variola (Am. c.).

Lacerated wounds with blunt instruments; bones bare, crushed; much sloughing of soft parts (Calend.).

Longing for whiskey and tobacco (Asar., Carbo v.).

Vomiting: of drunkards, in pregnancy, sea-sickness, cancer; of dark, olive-green fluid (Pyr.).

Dysentery: fluid mucus, like scrapings of mucous membranes and great tenesmus (Canth.); diarrhœa; stools thin, involuntary, black, of an intolerable odor.

Constipation,

(Ant. t., Bell.); dark brown; thick yellow-white fur down centre; dry, shiny, glassy (Mur. ac., Pyr.). Sordes. Breath fetid.

The fever is high at onset; temp. high; pulse rapid, feeble; the attack sudden, rapidly prostrating and tends to malignancy. Fevers with splenic hypertrophy.

The pure crystals may be dissolved in Alcohol, and the solution diluted for use.

A powerful protoplasmic poison. ▶ It destroys life by producing paralysis of heart and respiration; preceded by vertigo, roaring in ears, profuse sweat, contracted pupil and collapse. ▶ It sometimes produces convulsions. ▶ The blood is disorganized, and hæmoglobinuria results (black urine). ▶ It produces an inflammation of mucous membranes, characterized by hard, shrivelled membranous patches of exudation. ▶ Applied to the skin, anæsthesia results. ▶ The stomach is sometimes paralyzed, so that one cannot vomit.

Pic. ac., Petrol., Phos., Ars. hyd., Kali chl.

Blood black, thick, without shimmer, of peculiar brown color by transmitted light, smelling of the acid, the clot soft, without air, diffluent, had not contracted by neck day. ▶ Swelling of the body. ▶ Fell to the ground; insensible. ▶ Uttered an exclamation, became unconscious, with tremor of limbs, pallor of skin, clammy sweat, intermittent laborious respiration, imperceptible pulse, etc. ▶ Convulsions; with falling to the ground, delirium and unconsciousness; C. with trismus and biting of tongue, so that it bled. ▶ Twitching of facial muscles and trembling of limbs. ▶ Trembling; inward. ▶ Relaxation of muscles; except of chewing muscles, which showed tonic trismus, then becoming clonic occasionally.

Pricking, like needles, all over her body. ▶ Sensation of electric sparks at left wing of nose, with desire to rub the part, afterwards at sternal end of right clavicle, then on left middle finger, then on vertex, the sensation changing slowly to pricking-itching, amel. rubbing the part. ▶ Pains affect first right side, then same parts of left ; only right side; most frequently on left side, coming and going suddenly, generally affecting muscles and joints, but not bones. ▶ Soreness and stiffness of all muscles prominently used; general soreness, as if he had taken cold, worse in back abdomen and chest. ▶ Feeling if he had taken a bad cold. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Physical; and mental exhilaration.

▶ Prostration; at night, and not at all amiable; from a short walk; with sleepiness. ▶ Languor, with disinclination to work; and with drowsiness, fulness in head, and intermittent pain in forehead, or right or left temple. ▶ Loss of involuntary motion and speech. ▶ Collapse. ▶ Faintness; especially at stomach; causing sweat and nausea, the heart seeming to almost stop. ▶ Sensibility almost lost. ▶ Anæsthesia; of skin and eyeballs; with reflex action of muscles, closed eyelids, pupils dilated and inactive, skin cold and clammy, with sweat running down face, temperature lowered, respiration feeble and shallow, pulse at wrist imperceptible, heart's action feeble and intermittent. ▶ Reflex paralysis. ▶ All symptoms go from head downward. ▶ Aggravation by reading, especially of the pressing at occiput, unfitting him for study; agg. from jarring of carriage. ▶ Amelioration of all symptoms from a cup of tea; A. after a hearty lunch, except of frontal headache; in fresh air, riding lulls to sleep, and walking is an exertion.

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A powerful protoplasmic poison. It destroys life by producing paralysis of the heart and respiration; preceded by vertigo, roaring in the ears, profuse sweat, contracted pupils and collapse. It sometimes produces convulsions. The blood is disorganized, had hæmoglobinuria results (black urine). It produces an inflammation of mucous membrane, characterized by hard, shriveled membranous patches of exudation. Applied to the skin, anæsthesia results.
The stomach is sometimes paralyzed, so that one can not vomit.

Prostration.
Faintness, with sweat; the heart seems almost to stop.
Symptoms extend from above downward.
Aggravation by reading, especially of the occipital headache, so that he cannot study.
Pricking, like needles, all over the body.
Soreness and stiffness of all the muscles.

Unfitted for mental or physical labor.
Unconsciousness.

Tight headache, as from a rubber band across the forehead, or as if a rubber band were stretched from one temple to the other.
Pain in right side of the head.

Neuralgia over the right eye.
Anæsthesia of conjunctiva.
Loss of vision, with indistinct outline of optic papilla.

Face pale, pinched, with cold sweat.
Face cyanotic.
Lips covered with a white membrane.

Mouth covered with false membrane.
Mucous membrane livid, corroded, exuding a bloody mucus.
Burning pain in the mouth down to the stomach.

Red and covered with mucous exudation.
Soft palate white and shriveled.
Burning dryness on attempting to swallow, which is almost impossible.

Clinical:
In diphtheria, especially with tendency to involve the nose and inside of mouth; extremely fetid breath; regurgitation on swallowing liquids, urine highly albuminous, face dusky red, white about the mouth and nose; rapid sinking of vital forces.

Craves stimulants.
Nausea while eating; frequent spitting.

Clinical:
Vomiting of drunkards; vomiting of pregnant women, with violent frontal headache.
Has been found useful in cancer of the stomach.

Distention, rumbling and rolling of gas.
Pain in the right hypochondrium and in both iliac regions.

Clinical:
Dysentery, of bloody mucus, like scrapings of the intestines; often involuntary diarrhœa, putrid, dark, with vomiting of dark green substances.

Urine almost black, alkaline.
Contains glucose.

Pain in the region of the left ovary when walking in the open air.

Clinical:
Ulcers of the cervix uteri, with fetid, acrid discharge from the vagina.
It nearly cured epithelioma which involved the labia and extended to other organs.
It was prescribed from the indication of the eruption on the skin of vesicles and pustules which contained a bloody matter, with offensive discharge.
Leucorrhœa in children.

Hacking cough, with tickling in the throat.
Respiration stertorous.
(Expectoration purulent, offensive.)

Feels narrowed, as if the diaphragm oppressed the lungs.
Circumscribed pneumonia.

Palpitation, or violent action at night.
Pulse rapid, weak or intermittent, irregular.

Soreness in the muscles in the back and limbs.
Pain in the loins, < straightening up, or jolting when riding, > pressure.

Soreness of the muscles of the right arm.
Tired, heavy feeling in the left arm.
Pain in the left forearm.

Pain on the right patella.
Aching soreness beneath the left patella, feels as it would be stiff and sore if moved, but better during motion.

Livid.
Vesicles on the hands and all over the body, with itching, > rubbing, but leaving a burning pain.
Vesicles become bloody.

General chilliness and coldness of the surface.
Chills run from the head downward.
Heat of the head.
Clammy sweat of the head, face and hands.