Phosphoricum Acidum ph-ac.

MIND. Nerves. Metabolism. Sexual system. Spine: sensory nerves. Muscles. Bones.

DEBILITY from: LOSS OF FLUIDS. Sexual excesses. Fatigue. Fevers. Convalescence. EMOTIONS (chronic): Grief. Chagrin. Mental shock. Unhappy love. Homesickness. Drafts. Cold. Music. Talking.

Warmth. Short sleep. Stooling.

WEAK OR DEBILITATED, with free secretions. Slowness. Pains go to part lain on. Bruised soreness; like growing pains. Sense of pressure. Formication; at roots of hair; along spine, limbs, etc. Loose joints. Grows too fast.

Quiet. Indifferent, APATHETIC, obtuse or torpid; with tendency to diarrhœa or sweatiness. Slow grasp. Can't collect his ideas; hunts for words. Poor memory. Dull despair. Averse to talking. Brain-fag. Mild delirium; easily aroused. Crushing weight on vertex. Early grayness. Falling hair. Dull, sunken eyes with blue circles; they feel pressed out. Eye-balls feel large. Pale, sickly face; white of egg seems dried on it. Bleeding gums. Slimy tongue. Craves juices. Sour stomach. PROFUSE, PAINLESS, DIRTY WHITE, WATERY or LIENTERIC STOOL; BUT LITTLE DEBILITY. THICK, MILKY URINE. Polyuria. Diabetes. Weak, relaxed genitals; suddenly during coitus. Pollutions. Takes colds; < draft on chest. Shaking cough. Twisting under xiphoid. Paralytic weakness along spine. Heavy fore-arms. Scraping bone-pains, at night. Clammy wrinkled skin. SLEEPY BY DAY; but wakeful at night. Cold parts; one side of face, abdomen, etc. Burning along spine; below waist; kidney region. Heat with sweat. Profuse sweats; < night; as a sequel. Sluggish, painless fevers.

Complementary: Chin. Related: Gel.

Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses (Cinch.); violent acute diseases; chagrin, or a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection. Ailments: from care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, homesickness (Ign.); sleepy, disposed to weep; night-sweats towards morning. Pale sickly complexion, eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins. Mild yielding disposition (Puls.). Is listless, apathetic; indifferent to the affairs of life; prostrated and stupefied with grief; to those things that used to be of most interest, especially if there be debility and emaciation. Delirium: muttering, unintelligible; lies in a stupor, or a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him; when aroused is fully conscious, answers slowly and correctly and relapses into stupor. In children and young people who grow too rapidly (Cal., Cal. p.); pains in back and limbs as if beaten. Headache: crushing weight on vertex, from long lasting grief or exhausted nerves; in occiput and nape; usually from behind forward, < by least motion, noise, especially music, > lying (Bry., Gels., Sil.). Headache of school girls from eye-strain or overuse of eyes (Cal. p., Nat. m.); of students who are growing too fast. Patient trembles, legs weak, stumbles easily or makes missteps; weak and indifferent to the affairs of life. Interstitial inflammation of bones, scrofulous, sycotic, syphilitic, mercurial; periossteum inflamed, pains burning, tearing, as if scraped with a knife (Rhus); caries, rachitis, but not necrosis; growing pains. Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of extremities; neurosis is stump after amputations (Cepa.). Diarrhoea: painless; not debilitating; white or yellow; watery; from acids; involuntary, with the flatus (Aloe, Nat. m.); choleric, from fear. Urine: looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes rapidly; profuse urination at night of clear, watery urine, which forms a white cloud at once (phosphates in excess, nerve waste). Onanism; when patient is greatly distressed by the culpability of the act (compare Dios., Staph.). Emissions: frequent, profuse, debilitating; after coitus; most desire, after; several in one night; abashed, sad, despair of cure (with irresistible tendency to masturbate, Ust.). Chest; weak from talking or coughing (Stan.); in phthisis; nervous from loss of vital fluids, too rapid growth, depressing mental emotions. Cerebral typhoid or typhus; complete apathy and stupor; takes no notice, "lies like a log," utterly regardless of surrounding; intestinal haemorrhage, blood dark.

Compare: Phos., Puls., Pic. ac., Sil.; Mur. ac. in typhoid; Nit. sp. d. in apathetic stupor and delirium. Phos. ac. acts well before or after Cinch. in colliquative sweats, diarrhoea, debility; after Nux in fainting after a meal.

From mental affections; loss of vital fluids, especially seminal; self abuse; sexual excesses; talking causes weakness in chest (Stan.).

Mental A most marked characteristic is found in the mental condition, which is a complete indifference to everything: it is not a soporous, delirious, or irritable condition, but simply an indifferent state of the mind to all things; patient does not want anything, nor to speak, shows no interest in the outside world, etc. This indifference may occur in any disease, in fevers of very low type, etc. Difficulty of comprehension--patient will think a little while about a question, perhaps answer it, then forget all about it; dizziness of the mind.

Diarrhœa, particularly painless diarrhœa, which may be very fetid; diarrhœa lasting a long time, apparently without any weakening effect; involuntary stools.

Milk-colored or very pale urine; with sediment; bloody; complaints while passing water; becoming turbid. When children pass a great deal of water in the bed at night; persons getting up in the night to urinate and passing a great deal.

Affections of any kind in the inner navel region; lower part of the chest, buttocks, thighs, external side. On left hip-joint and left thigh, a neuralgic or rheumatic pain, from gluteal muscles or hip-joint running down the leg to the knee, and often to the calf of the leg or ankle which gets a little easier after walking, but is still very bad. Very pale face; nausea in the throat. Spermatorrhœa, especially where the patient is much affected by the flow, feels so weak and exhausted after it. Squeezing or contracting pain; lassitude of the body; feeling very weak; painfulness in general in the bones or periosteum; swelling of the bones or periosteum; burning sphacelus. Ulcers with stinking pus; painless. Pulse irregular, with irregular beating of the heart; pulse intermitting.

From mental affections; after suppression of cutaneous eruptions, i.e., any bad result that ensues from such suppression; from loss of fluids, particularly seminal; sunlight; masturbation; after perspiration; sexual excesses; talking, especially when it causes a weakness in the chest; while urinating.

Arsen., Bellad., Caustic., China, Lycop., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Coffea.

Perfect indifference, difficult comprehension; imbecility. Bones of the skull feel as if someone had scraped the swollen and tender periosteum with, a knife. Hair turns gray early, or flaxen, falls off especially after grief or sorrow. Yellow spots on the whites of the eyes. Red streak in middle of tongue, widens in front. Diarrhoea, not debilitating, though of long continuance. Pain in the liver during menstruation. Ailments from growing too fast. Bad effects from onanism, sexual excess, grief, sorrow, homesickness or unfortunate love.

Phosphoric Acid

The common acid "debility" is very marked in this remedy, producing a nervous exhaustion. Mental debility first; later physical. A congenial soil for the action of Phos acid is found in young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically. Whenever the system has been exposed to the ravages of acute disease, excesses, grief, loss of vital fluids, we obtain conditions calling for it. Pyrosis, flatulence, diarrhœa, diabetes, rhachitis and periosteal inflammation. Neurosis in stump, after amputation. Hæmorrhages in typhoid. Useful in relieving pain of cancer.

Listless. Impaired memory (Anac). Apathetic, indifferent. Cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word. Difficult comprehension. Effects of grief and mental shock. Delirium, with great stupefaction. Settled despair.

Heavy; confused. Pain as if temples were crushed together. Worse, shaking or noise. Crushing headache. Pressure on top. Hair gray early in life; falls out. Dull headache after coition; from eye-strain (Nat m). Vertigo toward evening, when standing or walking. Hair thins out, turns gray early.

Blue rings around. Lids inflamed and cold. Pupils dilated. Glassy appearance. Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow. Feel too large. Amblyopia in masturbators. Optic nerves seem torpid. Pain as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head.

Roaring, with difficult hearing. Intolerant of noise.

Bleeding. Bores fingers into nose. Itching.

Lips dry, cracked. Bleeding gums; retract from teeth. Tongue swollen, dry, with viscid, frothy mucus. Teeth feel cold. At night, bites tongue in voluntarily.

Pale, earthy; feeling of tension as from dried albumen. Sensation of coldness of one side of face.

Craves juicy things. Sour risings. Nausea. Symptoms following sour food and drink. Pressure as from a weight, with sleepiness after eating (Fel tauri). Thirst for cold milk.

Distention and fermentation in bowels. Enlarged spleen (Ceanoth). Aching in umbilical region. Loud rumbling.

Diarrhœa, white, watery, involuntary, painless, with much flatus; not specially exhausting. Diarrhœa in weakly, delicate rachitic children.

Frequent, profuse, watery, milky. Diabetes. Micturition, preceded by anxiety and followed by burning. Frequent urination at night. Phosphaturia.

Emissions at night and at stool. Seminal vesiculitis (Oxal acid). Sexual power deficient; testicles tender and swollen. Parts relax during embrace (Nux). Prostatorrhœa, even when passing a soft stool. Eczema of scrotum. Œdema of prepuce, and swollen glans-penis. Herpes preputialis. Sycotic excrescences (Thuja).

Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver. Itching; yellow leucorrhœa after menses. Milk scanty; health deteriorated from nursing.

Chest troubles develop after brain-fag. Hoarseness. Dry cough from tickling in chest. Salty expectoration. Difficult respiration. Weak feeling in chest from talking (Stann). Pressure behind the sternum, rendering breathing difficult.

Palpitation in children who grow too fast; after grief, self-abuse. Pulse irregular, intermittent.

Boring pain between scapulæ. Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten.

Weak. Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum. Cramps in upper arms and wrists. Great debility. Pains at night, as if bones were scraped. Stumbles easily and makes missteps. Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints.

Pimples, acne, blood-boils. Ulcers, with very offensive pus. Burning red rash. Formication in various parts. Falling out of the hair (Nat mur; Selen). Tendency to abscess after fevers.

Somnolency. Lascivious dreams with emissions.

Chilliness. Profuse sweat during night and morning. Low types of fever, with dull comprehension ans stupor.

Better, from keeping warm. Worse, exertion, from being talked to; loss of vital fluids; sexual excesses. Everything impeding circulation causes aggravation of symptoms.

Compare: Œnothera biennis-Evening primrose--(Effortless diarrhœa with nervous exhaustion. Incipient hydrocephaloid. Whooping-cough and spasmodic asthma). Nectranda amare (Watery diarrhœa, dry tongue, colic, bluish ring around sunken eyes, restless sleep). China; Nux. Pic ac; Lactic ac; Phos.

Antidotes: Coffea.

First potency.

Drowsy, apathetic; unconscious of all surroundings but can be aroused to full consciousness.

Chronic effects of grief; hair turns gray; hopeless, haggard look.

Grows too fast and too tall; young persons with growing pains in bones.

Great physical and mental weakness from ovarian or sexual excesses.

Diarrhœa WHITE, watery, painless, with rumbling; meteorism; but not so much weakness as would be expected.

Very profuse, watery, or milky urine.

Headache of school girls from eye strain, or overuse of eyes, occipital. Chest, weak from talking or coughing; cough, purulent, offensive expectoration, and pains in chest. Salty expectoration in proving.

The leading characteristic of this remedy lies in its effects upon the sensorium. "He lies in a stupor or in a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him, but when aroused is fully conscious." This is Phosphoric acid in its intensest degree, as found in typhoid fever, in which it is one of our best remedies. But it is not alone here that the sensorial depression appears. It may he found in a lesser degree, in the results of depressing emotions, like grief at the loss of a friend, lover, property or position, and the effect seems to be even deeper rooted than in those cases which call for Ignatia. (See also Lachesis.) The subject seems stupefied with grief. There is not, the nervous twitching of Ignatia, but a settled despair, general weakness or prostration. The hair turns gray, and a weary, worn and haggard, hopeless look obtains. I have succeeded in curing such a case when Ignatia failed. In such a case the patient sometimes complains of a pain like a crushing weight on the vertex, or, again, of pain in the occiput or nape of the neck, and with both they appear physically weak, or exhausted, want to lie down, don't want company, or to be noticed or spoken to. We often find this sensorial depression in connection with the effects of onanism or excessive coition. The patient is disturbed by the culpability of his indulgence, grieves over it, is inclined to sink into despair. This is true of both sexes, and the depression is much worse if the patient is growing too fast, or is overtaxed mentally or physically. With Calcarea carb. they grow too fat, with Phosphoric acid too fast and tall. We have in Phosphoric acid a remedy for the headache of students, especially of those who are growing, too fast. It is a sin to keep such young people bowing down to hard study, and while it is true that youth is the time to get an education it is also true that it is the time when too great a strain in that direction may utterly wreck and forever incapacitate a mind which might, with more time and care, have been a blessing to the world.

Now Phosphoric acid, properly exhibited, may be of incalculable benefit in such cases. It will sometimes be a choice between Phosphoric acid and Natrum muriaticum or Calcarea phos., the other symptoms must decide.

In regard to the use of Phosphoric acid in typhoids, there are no other remedies exactly like it in its depressing effect on the sensorium. Arnica has its apathy or indifference; but the Arnica depression is more profound, as is also that of Baptisia, for they both go to sleep while answering a question, showing how overpowering is the stupor. Then with the former we have petechiæ or ecchymosis, which is not found under Phosphoric acid, and under the, latter the tendency to, decomposition of the fluids as found in the terribly offensive stools and urine.

Opium surpasses them all in its stupefying powers, and the face, breathing and general appearance, is not at all, like Phosphoric acid.

Rhus tox, and Hyoscyamus are very stupid also, but in other respects are very different. The description of these remedies is found under each, as we have written of their use in typhoids. Nux moschata ought also to be mentioned in this connection.

We must not forget the action of Phosphoric acid upon the bowels. It does not exhibit any peculiar characteristic action upon the stomach, but does in the abdominal region, as the following well-verified symptoms show: "Meteoristic distention of the abdomen; rumbling and gurgling and noise as from watery, painless stools." "Diarrhœa white , or yellow, watery, chronic or acute, without pain or any marked debility or exhaustion." Now, it seems very singular that, after so much talk about the general depression or weakness of this remedy, we should be obliged to record that the profuse and sometimes long-continued diarrhœa should not debilitate, as a characteristic symptom. Well, there are a good many unaccountable things, in both disease and therapeutics, and this is one of them, but the fact remains and we act upon it. Let us remember that the profound weakness and depression of Phosphoric acid is upon the sensorium and nervous system, and will be there whether diarrhœa is present or not. It is markedly so in typhoids, as I can fully attest from abundant observation. China debilitates by its diarrhœa or loss of fluids generally. Phosphoric acid attacks the nervous system primarily, even in onanism, and its results or effects are not so much the loss of semen as a vital fluid, as under China, the nervous system suffering very much, even though the emissions be neither very frequent nor profuse.

Young boys even suffer from the effects of the orgasm of onanism before there is much or any semen secreted. This is well to remember in a choice between these two remedies. There is a condition in which I have found this remedy very valuable, especially in men. The leading symptom is a "weak feeling in the chest from talking." You remember Stannum has this symptom very strongly (also Sulphur) and may lead us into a wrong prescription if only the one symptom were considered. If the patient is a young man, married or single; if, again, he seems weak in mind, listless, apathetic, reticent; if he is growing fast; all these things would indicate Phosphoric acid, and the proper use of it might save him from consumption, for many go into it in this way. If he has cough with expectoration, under Phosphoric acid, it will be copious, purulent, offensive; under Stannum, thick, heavy and of sweetish taste. All this condition of things may, when Phosphoric acid is the remedy, find its cause in one or both of two things: Onanism or sexual excess, and too rapid growth. Phosphoric acid has two very marked peculiarities in the urine, viz.,: very profuse and clear, watery, or milky urine.

The first is found with general nervous depression, and if there is headache it is like Gelsemium relieved by the flow of urine. The other is from excess of phosphates in the urine, indicating nerve waste. We must distinguish between the profuse urine of Ignatia and Phosphoric acid, for the first is hysterical, the latter not at all so.

Modalities: < bad news, depressing emotions; masturbation or sexual excess, draft; wind; snowy air; > after short sleep.

Perfect indifference. Silent sadness. Indifference, thoughtlessness, stupidity. Disinclination to talk, even to answer a question. Home-sickness with inclination to weep. Low-spirited and anxiety about the future or about one's health. Bad effects from grief, sorrow, unfortunate love, with great emaciation, sleepiness and morning sweat. Quiet delirium with great stupefaction and dulness of the head (in typhus fever).

Stupefaction in the forehead, with somnolency without snoring, the eyes being closed. Sensation as if intoxicated, in the evening in the warm room, with humming in the head, which feels as if it would burst when coughing. Pressing tensive headache, especially on the side on which one lies. Great heaviness of the head. Stitches over one (the right) eye. Morning headache. The headache compels one to lie down, and is insupportably aggravated from the least shaking or noise. The hair becomes gray early or flaxen and very greasy, falls off ; also the hair of the beard, especially after grief and sorrow. Pain in the bones of the skull ; it feels as if somebody scraped the swollen and tender periosteum with a knife ; worse at rest, better from motion. Caries of the skull with burning pain.

The eyes look glassy, but without lustre. Pressing in the eyes as if the eyeball were too large. Coldness of the internal surface of the eyelids. Burning of the eyelids and the corners of the eyes, especially in the evening by candle-light. Inflammation of the eyelids. The eyes are dazzled on looking at bright objects. Yellow spot in the white of the eye.

Stitches in the ears, with drawing pains in the cheeks and teeth ; aggravated only from musical sounds. Every sound re-echoes loudly in the ears. Intolerance of all sounds, especially music. Shrill sound in the ears on blowing the nose. Hardness of hearing at a distance.

Discharge of bloody pus from the nose. Swelling of the dorsum of the nose with red spots ; scurfs on the dorsum of the nose. Inclination to bore with the fingers in the nose. Fetid smell from the nose.

Heat of that side of the lace on which he is not lying. Pale, sickly complexion, with lustreless, sunken eyes surrounded by blue margins, and pointed nose. Hot tension on the skin of the face, as if the white of an egg had dried on it. Lips dry, scurfy, suppurating. Yellow-brown, crust-like eruptions with pus on the lower lip towards the corner of the mouth. Pimples and scurfs on the vermilion borders of the lips.

Burning in the front teeth, especially at night, aggravated by the heat of the bed as well as from hot and cold things. Violent aching in a hollow tooth when particles of food get into it, going off after they have been removed. The teeth become yellow. The gums are swollen, stand off from the teeth, and bleed easily. Painful tubercle on the gum. Ulceration of the soft velum, with burning pain. Tough, clammy mucus in the mouth and on the tongue. Swelling of the tongue, with pain on talking. Nasal voice. Dryness of the throat (palate) without thirst. Bites himself involuntarily in the tongue at night. Sore throat, with soreness, scraping and stinging, worse on swallowing food. Hawking up of tough mucus.

Violent thirst from a sensation of dryness of the whole body. Longing for something refreshing and juicy ; bread is too dry. Bad effects from sour food and drink. Bitter eructations after eating sour things. Continuous nausea in the throat ; vomiting of food. Pressing in the stomach as from a heavy load, with sleepiness, after every meal and when touching the pit of the stomach. Rumbling in the intestines and noise as from water. The flatulency is much augmented by sour food. The uterus is bloated as if filled with wind.

Diarrhœa not debilitating. Diarrhœic stools of mucus ; undigested, greenish-white. Difficult discharge of even the soft stool.

Sudden, irresistible urging to urinate. Frequent profuse emission of watery urine, which forms a white cloud at once. Urine like milk, with bloody, jelly-like lumps. Diabetes melitus. Urging to urinate, with pale face, heat and thirst. Burning in the urethra while urinating. Painful constriction in the bladder (without urging). Involuntary secretion of urine.

Men. Pricking pain in the glans penis. Tingling and humid secretions at the frenulum. Sycotic excrescences with heat and burning. Swelling of the testicles, with swelling and tension in the spermatic cords. The testicles are very tender to the touch ; gnawing pain in the testicles. Inflammatory swelling of the scrotum. Sexual desire suppressed. Bad effects from onanism. Frequent involuntary, very debilitating emissions. Women. Meteoristic distention of the uterus.

Shortness of breath and inability to speak long on account of great weakness of the chest. Constriction in the throat-pit. Hoarseness and roughness in the throat. Cough from tickling in the pit of the stomach and throat, with expectoration only in the morning. Cough with headache, nausea and vomiting of food, or with involuntary emission of urine. Cough with purulent, very offensive expectoration. Spasmodic tickling cough, caused by a sensation as from dust in the larynx and chest down to the pit of the stomach in the morning ; expectoration of dark blood or of tough white mucus, tasting acid, herbaceous. The cough is worse morning and evening ; during rest if one sits or lies long in the same position ; after sleeping ; from cold air ; from loss of fluids. Burning and pressure in the chest.

Formication in the back and small of the back.

Upper. Shrivelled dry skin of the hands and lingers. Wen on the hand (between the metacarpal bones). Stitches in the finger joints. Trembling of the hands (when writing). Sharply marked deadness of one half of the fingers. Lower. Blood-boil on the nates. Painful spasm in the hip-joint. Weakness of the legs ; he falls easily from a misstep, or on tripping. Burning in the tibia and soles of the feet at night. Ulcers on the lower extremities, with itching. Swelling and burning, beating pains in the joint of the big toe. Blisters on the balls of the toes. Feet swollen ; sweaty.

Sensation as if the body and the limbs were bruised, as from growing, especially in the morning. Formication in different parts of the body. Burning through the lower half of the body from the small of the back and pit of the stomach downwards while the extremities are cold to the touch. Weakness from loss of fluids without any other pain than burning. Great drowsiness.

Deep and heavy sleep ; can scarcely be roused in the morning. Anxious dreams.

Pulse irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats, generally small, weak or frequent, at times full and strong. Violent ebullitions with great restlessness. Swollen veins. Chills with shuddering and shaking, always in the evening. Chill and heat frequently alternating. Sensation of coldness on one side of the face. During the chill, a peculiarly strong sensation of coldness in the tips of the fingers and in the abdomen. Internal dry heat without heat and without any complaint, at any time of the day. General heat with loss of consciousness and somnolence. Heat in the head, with cold feet. Perspiration mostly on the back part of the head and in the neck, with sleepiness during the day. Profuse perspirations during the night and in the morning, with anxiety. Great inclination to perspire during clay and night. Clammy perspirations. Intermittent fevers. -Shaking chills over the whole body ; the fingers being as cold as ice, without any thirst, followed by heat without thirst, or by excessive heat, depriving one almost of consciousness.

Swelling of the glands. Pain as if the periosteum of all the long bones were so with a knife. Inflammation of the bones with burning at night. Swelling of the bones. Caries with smarting pains. Formication on the skin. Scarlet-like exanthems. Erysipelatous inflammations. Blood-boils. Chilblains, wens, sycotic excrescences. Corns with stinging and burning. Ulcers, flat, itching. Smarting in the wounds, even in those of the bones.

Bad effects from sexual excesses (loss of fluids). Bad consequences from grief, sorrow or unfortunate love. Most of the pains are only felt during rest and are much ameliorated by motion. Aggravation from suppression of cutaneous eruptions ; from loss of animal fluids ; from warm food ; from talking. Amelioration from motion and the nightly pains from pressure.

Phosphoric acid. H 3 PO 4 . Dilution. (The dilute acid of B. P. forms the homœopathic 1x. In U.S. the first solution is made of glacial Phosphoric Acid.)

Amblyopia . Asthma. Boils. Brain-fag . Bronchitis; capillary. Chancre. Chilblains. Cholera. Climacteric flushes and vertigo. Coccygodynia. Condylomata. Corns. Cough. Coxalgia. Debility. Diabetes. Diarrhœa . Dyspepsia. Emissions. Enteric fever . Enuresis. Feet, sore . Flatulence. Ganglion. Gout. Gravel. Hair, falling off. Headache ; of school children. Hectic. Herpes. Hip-joint disease. Home-sickness. Impotence. Joints, scrofulous . Lactation defective. Levitation. Lienteria. Locomotor ataxy. Love, disappointed. Masturbation. Mental weakness . Mercurial syphilis. Navel, pains in. Neurasthenia. Nymphomania. Osteo-myelitis. Perspiration, profuse . Phosphaturia. Physometra . Pimples. Pregnancy, diarrhœa of ; nausea of. Prepuce, warts on. Psoas abscess. Puerperal eclampsia. Purpura . Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scurvy. Self-abuse. Spermatorrhœa . Spinal caries. Sycosis Hahnemanni. Syphilis. Tetters. Typhus fever. Ulcers. Urine, phosphatic . Uterus, prolapse of. Varices. Vertigo. Warts. Wens. Worms.

Phos. ac . is less poisonous than Phos . Our chief knowledge of it is derived from Hahnemann's provings in M. M. P . These show a marked action on the emotional and sensorial faculties, a drowsy, depressed, apathetic state being produced, such as is not unfrequently met with in typhoid fevers. The keynote of the Phos. ac . stupor is that the patient is easily aroused and then is fully conscious. Indifference; prostrated and stupefied with grief; effects of disappointed love. Home-sick. The mind is confused; thoughts cannot be connected; thinking makes him dizzy. The legs tremble in walking and the limbs are as difficult to control as the thoughts. Many symptoms of vertigo are produced, and one is peculiar. Phos . has a sensation as if the chair he was sitting on was rising; Phos. ac . has this: Sensation as if the feet were rising until he stood on his head. This very symptom occurred in a patient of Skinner's suffering from small-pox. The disease had been cut short by Variol ., when the patient, a lady, complained that her feet were rising to the ceiling, and begged her nurses to keep them down. Phos. ac . speedily put her straight. Phos. ac . causes illusions of the senses as well as of the sensorium, bells are heard, ciphers, sparks, &c., are seen. At the same time there is exalted sensitiveness to light, sound, and odours; "odours take away his breath." A remarkable effect was noted by Becher, one of Hahnemann's provers (the same who experienced the topsy-turvy symptom just mentioned), namely, that the right pupil became widely dilate while the left remained normal: the more he strained the eye the wider the pupil became until the iris almost disappeared. Franz had this symptom "Sees things lying near him (outside the sphere of vision) moving." Meyer had a somewhat analogous mental symptom: "When reading a thousand other thoughts came into his head, and he could not rightly comprehend anything; what he read became as if dark in his head, and he immediately forgot all; what he had long known he could only recall with difficulty." Such states of mind and the senses are frequently observed in those under the influence of grief and other depressing emotions; from over-study; and in the subjects of venereal excesses and seminal loss. But whilst these losses produce extreme weakness of mind and body, and an abashed, sad state of mind with despair of cure, there is one drain which does not debilitate — a diarrhœa. "Persistent, painless, watery diarrhœa, often containing undigested particles of food, and which does not debilitate," is a keynote of Phos. ac . Another characteristic in connection with the debility of Phos. ac . is that though the weakness is very great the patient is rested by a short sleep . ( Phos . also has > by sleep, but not so markedly by a short sleep.) The copious discharges of Phos. ac . appear in the sweat and urine. The keynote of the enuresis of Phos. ac . is that the child passes a great quantity of urine. The polyuria and dry mouth and throat give leading correspondences for Phos. ac . in diabetes; and when there is in addition a history of sexual excess, or of severe mental or emotional over-strain, the indications will be very clear. White, milky urine; and also white stools, are very characteristic of Phos. ac . The urine may be passed clear but turns milky at once, and is very offensive. If flatulence is to be regarded as an excretion that is another instance of the excess of Phos. ac . There is meteoristic distension and passing of flatus in large quantities; sometimes with odour of garlic. "Meteoristic distension; rumbling or gurgling and noise as if there were water in abdomen, < when touched and when the body is bent backward and forward." A case quoted from H. Maandblad . illustrates the action of Phos. ac . in gastric affections. A married woman, 36, mother of eight children, had for some time been so melancholy and depressed as to be unable to fulfil her household duties. There was no discoverable mental cause, though her condition had been made < by a sudden death in the family. The beginning of the illness was apparently a weakness of the stomach: small appetite; always pain and distension after eating; the food seemed to lie long in the stomach undigested. Phos. ac . 6x, ten drops three times a day, soon restored the patient. In connection with the flatulence of Phos. ac . there is even bloating of the uterus with gas. The menses are excessive and premature; and there are many symptoms connected with the pregnant and puerperal state, including debility from lactation, Phos. ac . has many respiratory symptoms, and this is a keynote: "Weak feeling in chest from talking, coughing, or sitting too long; > by walking." Hoarseness and nasal voice; dyspnœa; capillary bronchitis. The cough seems to be caused by tickling of a feather from middle of chest to larynx, low down in chest, about ensiform cartilage, pit of stomach; is < evening after lying down; expectoration muco-purulent; salty; bloody; offensive. Every draught of air = fresh cold. Cough = headache; nausea and vomiting of food; spurting of urine. A very prominent sensation running through the proving is that of pressure; pressure as from a crushing weight in vertex, forehead, sternum. Pressure in eyes; in navel; in left breast. Squeezing above the knee; in the sole. The hæmorrhages of Phos. ac . are dark, profuse, with passive hæmorrhages. A case of land scurvy (quoted Amer. Hom ., xxii. 421) Contracted in mining camps presented the usual condition of the gums, and also purpureal spots covering the whole body. Patient was able to be about, and had little pain, but was despondent. Pulse weak, very slow. Had been months ill under old-school treatment. Merc. sol . was given but did not relieve. Phos. ac . given strong enough to taste acid speedily cured. A peculiar symptom of Phos. ac . is involuntary biting of tongue in sleep. The sphincters are weakened, and there is involuntary escape of fæces and urine, the latter especially on coughing or movement. Peculiar sensations are: As if intoxicated. As if head would burst. As if feet going up. As if weight in head. As if brain crushed. Bones as if scraped with a knife. As if eyeballs too large. As if white of egg had dried on face. As if lower jaw were going to break. Nausea as if in soft palate; in throat. As if stomach being balanced up and down. Heavy load in stomach. Ants crawling over body. Uterus as if filled with wind. Tickling in chest as with a feather; as with down in larynx. Red-hot coal on arm and shoulder, Phos. ac . is suited to: ( 1 ) Persons of originally strong constitution weakened by loss of fluids; excesses; violent, acute diseases; chagrin or a long succession of moral emotions. ( 2 ) Persons of mild disposition. ( 3 ) Children and young people who have grown too rapidly, tall, slender, and slim; with pains in back and limbs as if beaten; growing pains. Lutze ( Hahn. Adv ., 1900, 664) cured with Phos. ac . a German woman, 66, of chronic, early morning, painless diarrhœa after the failure of Pod . and partial success of Gels . The patient had been ill two years, dating from the time she came to Brooklyn from Germany to be near her daughters. One of the latter gave Lutze the keynote of the case by telling him that her mother was home-sick, and wanted to return to Germany, though she had not a single relative there . — The symptoms are: < By music (every note = stitch in ears; violent pains in head). Slight shock or noise = pressure in head to be extremely violent. Odours = vomiting. Bad news; depressing emotions = cough, diarrhœa, &c. Touch < . Movement of child = escape of stool. Many symptoms are < evening and night. > After short sleep. Many symptoms are > walking. Sitting < . Standing < . < Lying on left side. < Side on which he lies. < Talking. < From mental affections; suppressed eruptions; loss of fluids, especially seminal; masturbation; perspiration; urination. There is desire for warm food; which > pressive pain in stomach. Warm room < . Warmth of bed > pains in bowels. Aversion to uncover in heat. < By draught; wind; snowy air. Cannot bear draught on chest. Every draught fresh cold. Catching cold in summer = diarrhœa. Least cold arthritic pains. Coldness of part < pains. Fresh air = invigoration.

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Unconsciousness, no complaints ; even pinching is not noticed.
Weak memory ; loss of ideas and weakness of mind ; on thinking he becomes dizzy ; cannot collect his thoughts in proper order. θ Brain fag.
Incapacity for thought in morning.
Hypochondriasis from sexual abuse.
Quiet, indifferent, unwilling to speak, or hasty speech.
Listless, apathetic ; remarkable indifference to everything in life ; especially if there be emaciation and debility.
Cannot find the right word when talking ; answers either reluctantly and slowly or short and incorrectly.
Homesickness, with inclination to weep.
Hysteria, in women of dark complexion ; change of life.
Sadness, grief and disposition to weep.
Ailments from care, grief, sorrow, chagrin, homesickness or disappointed love ; particularly with drowsiness ; night sweats towards morning ; emaciation.
Anxiety and doubt concerning his recovery ; insomnia and prostration.
Hectic fever, sweat and flushing of face, especially in afternoon, evening or towards night ; of crushing weight on vertex. θ Effects of grief.
Chronic effects of fright.
Delirium, quiet, not violent, with stupefaction and dulness of head.
Depression of sensorium, and muttering, unintelligible speech ; lies in a stupor, or in a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him ; when aroused is fully conscious.
Disinclined to work.
Dread of the future ; brooding over one's condition.

Vertigo : head sinks forward or backward ; in morning ; towards evening, while standing or walking ; on closing eyes ; in hypochondriacs after excess in venery ; at climaxis with flushes of heat and sweat ; in typhus, so
that they fall when sitting up ; lying in bed, as if feet were going up, with head remaining still ; after reflection.
Sensation as if intoxicated, in evening, in warm room, with humming in head, which feels as if it would burst when coughing.
Confusion and painful cloudiness of head, especially on awaking.
Stupefying pain in forehead, with somnolency without snoring, eyes being closed.
Dulness of head ; inability to think ; as after excessive coition.
Great heaviness of head.

Severe pressing pain in forehead and temples, every morning ; aversion to food ; nausea before eating, and vomiting after eating ; watery, at times clay-colored diarrhœa ; pale, thin, debilitated and weak ; has grow too rapidly.
Stupefying pain in forehead, with somnolency without snoring, eyes being closed.
Stitches over one (right) eye.
Dull headache, with tingling in head.
Pressure as from a weight in head, from above downward.
Pressing tensive headache, especially on side on which one lies.
Dreadful pain on top of head, as if brain were crushed, after long-continued grief.
Headache forces one to lie down and is insupportable, < from least shaking or noise, especially music.
Headache usually go from behind forward and are > by lying down.
Morning headache.
Schoolgirl's headache ; from overuse of eyes.
Occipital headache and pain in nape of neck from exhausted nerve-power or excessive grief.
Great heaviness of head.
Chronic congestions to head, caused by fright or grief.
Cerebral weakness from brain fag.

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"Mental enfeeblement" is the thought that will come into the mind when considering what the Phosphoric acid patient says, does and looks.

The mind seems tired. When questioned he answers slowly or does not speak, but only looks at the questioner. He is too tired to talk or even think. He says:

"Don't talk to me; let me alone."

This state is found in both acute and chronic diseases. He is so tired in mind, perfectly exhausted.

In chronic diseases when brought on from long study; prolonged worry in business men; in feeble school girls, when become relaxed from very little effort. In acute diseases he, especially in typhoid fever, is averse to speaking or answering questions. He merely looks. Finally he rouses up and says:

"Don't talk to me, I am so tired."

He cannot think what he wishes to say, cannot frame his answers to questions. Another cause is sexual excesses in young men, or in those guilty of secret vice. Weakness; lack of reaction; state of stupor, with impotency; mental prostration, and as if the spine had given out.

In every case we find the mental symptoms are the first to develop. The remedy runs from the mental to the physical, from the brain to the muscles.

This is so striking that it is contrasted with Muriaticum acid. in the latter remedy the muscular prostration comes first, and the mind seems clear until long after the muscles are prostrated. In Phosphoric acid the muscles seem strong after the mind has given out. The patient seems vigorous physically.

He says he is all right physically, can work, can exercise even violently; but the mind is tired, there is mental apathy, he can not add up a column of figures, can not read the newspaper and carry the trend of thought, can not connect circumstances. He forgets the names of those in his family; a business man forgets the names of his clerks; he is in confusion. Yet he can exercise, can go out and walk; the weakness in the muscles will come later.

Phosphoric acid has also great physical weakness; so tired in the back; so tired in the muscles; so tired all over; a paralytic weakness. Later there is sexual impotence; aversion to coition; loss of sexual desire; no erections; penis becomes relaxed in the midst of an embrace and he cannot finish the act, (Nux v.)

Ailments from business cares; prolonged grief; young women suffering from unrequited affection, or from the loss of a loved one. Some suffer more intensely than others; some seem more philosophical.

"Ailments from care, grief, sorrow, chagrin, homesickness or disappointed love; particularly with drowsiness; night sweats towards morning; emaciation."

The patient pines and emaciates, grows weaker and weaker, withered in the face; night sweats; cold sweat down the back; cold sweats on the arms and hands more than on the feet; cold extremities; feeble circulation, feeble heart; catches cold on the slightest provocation and it settles in the chest; dry, hacking cough; catarrhal conditions of the chest; tuberculosis; pallor with gradually increasing weakness and emaciation.

During this weakness there is vertigo. Vertigo while lying in bed seems like floating while lying in bed. Limbs seem to be lifted up while the head does not seem to move, as if the limbs were floating. Congestive headaches; in school girls from slight exertion of the mind and use of the eyes. Periosteal pains; bones ache as if scraped ameliorated by motion; when lying the pain shifts to side lain on.

Most of the complaints are ameliorated from keeping warm, from absolute quiet, from being alone at peace. There is aggravation of the complaints from exertion, mental or physical, from being talked to. Morning headaches. He must lie down with the headaches. Headache aggravated from being talked to. He is sensitive to cold weather. He is sensitive to a warm room.

In the headache the pain often begins in the back of the head and spreads to the top of the load; feels as if a crushing weight were on the top of the head; worse from motion, talking and light.

"Pressure as from a weight in head from above downward."

These headaches are associated with mental weakness, brain-fag; so tired and exhausted. Vertigo with ringing in the ears and glassy eyes.

Its use in low fevers must be studied. The complaints come on slowly, slow decline, slowly increasing prostration. Such appearances as are found in advanced typhoid. It has the prostration, tympanitic abdomen, dry, brown tongue, sordes on the teeth, gradually approaching unconsciousness; little thirst increasing to intense thirst with craving for much water during perspiration; wants to be let alone; looks at the questioner with glassy eyes as if slowly comprehending the question; pupils contracted or dilated; eyes sunken; hippocratic countenance; continued fever; bleeding from the nose, lungs, bowels; hemorrhage from any mucous membrane; sunken about the eyes; discolored lips, covered with sordes, becoming very black; prostration gradually increasing.

From the beginning the mental state been most marked and finally comes the muscular weakness, which increases until the jaw drops and it seems that the patient must die of exhaustion.

Such states of weakness may come on from hemorrhages ( China was the routine remedy among the older homoeopaths).

It checks the hemorrhage and causes a rally, prevents the dropsy. There is a state like anemia; pale lips and tongue; face, hands and feet waxy.

Pains and aches all over the body, ameliorated from motion and 'worse from cold. The pains seem deep-seated, often along the nerves, but especially along the long bones, as if the bones were scraped; as if a rough instrument were dragged over the bones. The pains are commonly worse at night. Severe bone pains.

The stomach refuses to do its work. The food remains in the stomach and sours. Sour vomiting. Old dyspeptics with brain-fag. Complaints from acid drinks, cold drinks and rich foods. Singing sensation in the abdomen after a normal stool.

In most of the complaints of Phosphoric acid a marked feature is milky urine. Sometimes it is milky when passed; milky flakes in the urine. At times the male urethra seems to clog up and examination will show these little milk-like-flakes. The urine becomes milky on standing, like flour, chalk or phosphate deposits stirred up in it.

In Phosphoric acid there is often an amelioration of complaints by their ending in a diarrhea. Copious, thin, watery stool. From the quantity it would seem that the patient would be exhausted. Child with copious, watery, stool in summer; so copious that the napkin seems of no use; the stool runs all over the mother's dress and on the floor forming great puddles; the stool is almost odorless, thin and watery, and the little one smiles as if nothing were the matter. The mother wonders where it all comes from, and yet the child seems well.

The Phosphoric acid diarrhea often ameliorates many of the symptoms and the patient feels better. Chronic diarrhea, copious, thin and watery, whitish gray, and the patient feels comfortable, free and, happy. If the diarrhea slacks up the patient is worse and on come symptoms of tuberculosis, weakness, prostration, brain-fag.

Some patients say they ate never comfortable unless they have diarrhea. Podophyllum is the very opposite. Take the same child; the stool is very copious and runs all over the floor, the mother wonders where it all comes from, but the stool is offensive, a horrible stench, and the patient looks as if dying; mouth and nose drawn, countenance hippocratic; almost unconscious.

There is painless stool in both, but Phosphoric acid has not the great prostration. In Phosphoric acid the stool is whitish gray, like dirty white paint; in Podophyllum it is yellow. Gratiola has a similar state of prostration, but the fluid is green water; when seen it looks like light shining through a green glass, sometimes thicker, like green-bile.

much bloated, tympanitic; great soreness of the bowels as if in a typhoid state.

"White or yellow, watery diarrhea, chronic or acute, without pain or any marked debility or exhaustion".

It is uncommon for the stool to be yellow when watery. It is yellow when it is mushy; when watery it is light colored, sometimes milky. When yellow it is like corn meal mush, pappy; as in the typhoid state, thin like thin mush.

"Diarrhea; not prostrating; after catching cold during heat of summer; water; chronic; violent, bilious or mucous of twenty months standing; has the appearance of an old man; from acids in young persons who grow too rapidly; after eating, undigested; greenish white; painless."

When we have a diarrhea from adds we sometimes find symptoms running to Phosphoric acid. In the diarrhea from sour wine, such as claret, from acids, vinegar, lemons, be sure to study Antimonium crudum. This is a very striking feature of that remedy. Useful in cholera.

Male sexual organs. Sexual weakness, prolonged exhaustion, impotency; masturbators; nightly pollutions with great exhaustion,

"Prostatorrhoea; immediately after every erection discharge of prostatic fluid."

Even when passing a soft stool the prostatic fluid is discharged.

Falling-out of the hair is a striking feature; falling of the hair from the genitals, whiskers, eyebrows, head. It is closely related to Natrum, mur. and Selenium in falling out of the hair. Selenium has falling out of the hair from the head, eyebrows and lashes, beard and genitals, from all over the body. Natrum mur. causes the hair to become very thin; during confinement the hair falls from the genitals.

Phosphoric acid produces a troublesome leucorrhoea; yellow, mostly after menses, with itching; profuse, yellow; thin, acid mucus; with chlorosis."

It suits the woman who has been nursing her child a long, time, or nursing twins, and who gives much milk. She becomes tired and weakly. Loss of fluids, blood; prolonged nursing, and weakness from such causes.

The tendency of the Phosphoric acid patient at the end of the brain fag and weakness is to run into chest troubles. If a diarrhea comes on then the chest trouble is averted. Most awful results will ensue from the use of astringents, or any remedy that does not correspond to the patient, that will stop that diarrhea. He goes into tuberculosis, difficult respiration; coughs and suffers in the chest, and the trouble culminates in structural changes in the lungs.

The indications for Phosphoric acid are seldom found in the tissue changes, but they will be found in the early states of the patient, the nervous conditions, the milky urine and the diarrhea, which have existed a long time. Chest complaints are acute; typhoid pneumonia; low forms of fever ending in chest troubles; not unlike Phosphorus.

Prolonged pneumonia with the mental symptoms, lack of reaction, infiltration at the end of pneumonia. Haemoptysis.

Prolonged fever ending in feeble heart, with palpitation and the. mental symptoms. Palpitating during sexual excitement. Tendency to abscesses after a prolonged fever.

Limbs and joints become affected. Pain in the hip joint. Pains in the long bones between the joints, better by motion. Old gouty constitution. Tissues become weak. Red spots appear wherever the flesh is thin over the bones, and these spots become inflamed and form open ulcers.

After fever, abscesses in the muscles, and state of molecular weakness about the ankles; over the tibia where the flesh is thin. Phosphoric acid has a special relation to the periosteum. Periostitis.

Pains in the tibia at night. Bone feels as if scraped. Cold hands and hot feet. Ulcers on the legs with watery, offensive discharge.

Boils, abscesses, pustules and other moist eruptions. Suppurating eruptions; tissues become weak.

Nervous state; marked indifference; weak and trembling; fainting; great nervous exhaustion; hysterical affections. Creeping, tingling and crawling all over the body, especially where there is hair, as if in the roots of the hair; formication; especially in those debilitated from sexual excesses.

"Formication over whole body."

Sore spots in the spine; lame back. Backache.

"Itching between the fingers or in the bend of joints or on hands."

Herpes; eczema, erysipelas. Large purple spots form on the skin, an extravasation of blood front the capillary veins; ecchymoses.

Ulcers on the skin; carbuncles; warts; chilblains; wens; corns with stinging and burning, and parts become black; feeble circulation in the skin. Skin withered, old and gray, and the patient emaciates.

Adapted to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids; sexual excesses (Chinch.); violent, acute diseases; chagrin or a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection.

Mild, yielding disposition (Puls.).

Pale, sickly complexion, eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins.

Is listless, pathetic; indifferent to the affairs of life; to those things that used to be of most interest; prostrated with grief.

In children and young people who grow too rapidly (Cal., Cal. p.); pains in back and limbs as if beaten.

Delirium: muttering, unintelligible; lies in a stupor or a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him; when aroused is fully conscious, answers slowly and correctly and relapses into stupor.

Patient trembles, legs weak, stumbles easily, or makes mis-steps.

Interstitial inflammation of bones; scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial; periosteum inflamed, pains burning, tearing, as if scraped with a knife (Rhus); caries, rachitis, but not necrosis; growing pains.

Vertigo: head sinks forward and backward; on closing the eyes; in typhus, they fall when sitting up; when lying in bed, as if feet were going up with head remaining still.

Headache: crushing weight on vertex, from long lasting grief or exhausted nerves; in occiput and nape; usually from behind forward, < by motion, noise, especially music, > lying (Bry., Gels., Sil.).

Headache of school girls from eye strain or over use of eyes (Cal. p., Nat.); of students, who are growing too fast.

Diarrhœa: painless; not debilitating; white or yellow; involuntary with flatus (Aloe, Nat.); from acids, choleraic, from fear.

Urine; looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes rapidly; profuse urination at night, of clear watery urine which forms a white cloud at once (excess of phosphates, nerve waste).

Onanism; when patient is greatly distressed by the culpability of the act (Dios., Staph.).

Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of extremities ; neurosis in stump after amputations (Cepa).

Emissions : frequent, profuse, debilitating; after coitus ; most desire, after ; several in one night ; abashed, sad, despairs of cure (with irresistible tendency to masturbate, Ust.).

Chest : weak from talking or coughing (Stan.) ; in phthisis ; nervous, from loss of vital fluids, too rapid growth, depressing mental emotions.

From mental affections; loss of vital fluids, especially seminal; self abuse; sexual excesses; talking causes weakness in chest (Stan.).

Motion; warmth; wet weather (Caust., Nux).

Periodicity not marked. Apt to become remittent or typhoid, with cerebral symptoms predominant; typhus.

9 to 10 A. M.; 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; afternoon till 10 P. M.

Without thirst. Shaking chill, with blue nails, coldness in tips of fingers, in abdomen, tearing in wrists, and paralytic weakness of the arms. Chilliness and palpitation (palpitation during sweat, Mer.—see Bar.). Violent shaking chill from afternoon till 10 P. M., followed by such great heat that he almost lost consciousness. Chilliness for an hour towards evening, without subsequent heat (Sul.). Chill 9 P. M. with great prostration which continues all through the paroxysms. Chill and heat, alternate frequently. Shaking chill over whole body, with ice cold fingers (Ced., Sep.). The evening chill predominates.

Shaking over whole body; fingers icy cold.

Heat; excessive, depriving of consciousness.

Sweat; profuse, exhausting. Thirst only in sweat.

Without thirst; excessive, depriving one almost of consciousness; internal, without being hot to the touch. Fever all night with frequent passing of large quantities of clear watery urine; not much thirst; side on which she lies painful. Hot face, on the side on which he is not lying. Heat, yet cannot be uncovered (Bell.—must be uncovered, Ign., Puls.). Hot head; cold feet.

Thirst only during sweat (Cinch.—drinks often and in large quantities, Ars.—thirst after sweating stage, Lyc.). Perspiration, with heavy dreams of dead people and of being pursued. Profuse morning sweat; clammy; exhausting; most on occiput and neck.

Red streak in the middle of the tongue. Craves refreshing, juicy food.

Weak, small, frequent; irregular; intermitting one or two beats.

Cerebral typhoid or typhus; complete apathy and stupor; takes no notice, "lies like a log," utterly regardless of surroundings; intestinal hemorrhage, blood dark; night sweats.

Unconsciousness, no complaints, even pinching is not noticed.
Weak memory.
Incapacity for thought in the morning.
Delirium: quiet with great stupefaction and dulness of the head; unintelligible muttering delirium.
Indifference and unwillingness to speak.
Answers either reluctantly and slowly, or short and incorrectly.
Homesickness, with inclination to weep.
Hysteria, in women of dark complexion, during change of life.
Sadness, grief and disposition to weep.
Ailments from grief, sorrow, homesickness or disappointed love; particularly with drowsiness, night-sweats toward morning, emaciation.

Vertigo: in typhus, so that they fall; when they sit up; lying in bed, as if the feet were going up, with head remaining still; after reflection.
Stupefying pain in the forehead, with somnolency without snoring, the eyes being closed.
Confusion and painful cloudiness of the head, especially on awaking.
Sensation as if intoxicated, in evening, in warm room, with humming in head, which feels as if it would burst, when coughing.

Chronic congestions to the head, caused by fright or grief.
School-girl's headache: from overuse of eyes.
Great heaviness of the head.
Headache forces one to lie down and is insupportably aggravated from least shaking or noise, especially music.
Headaches usually go from behind forward and are relieved by lying down.

Periosteal pains compel motion.
Bones ache, feel as if scraped; better in motion; when lying, the pain shifts to side on which he lies.
Hair: turns grey, early; or flaxen and very greasy; falls off, especially after grief and sorrow.
Itching of the scalp.

Aversion to sunlight.
Sees colors, as of the rainbow.
Blindness, with frequent desire to wink.
Torpid amaurosis, caused by debilitating losses.
Eyes look glassy, lustreless; also with staring.
Pressing in eyes, as if eyeballs were too large.
Burning of eyelids and corners of eyes, especially in evening by candle-light.
Yellow spots in white of eye.
Margins of lids swollen, red, rounded; lashes fall out; pus particles on the lashes or on the canthi.
Coldness of inner surface or eyelids.

Intolerance of noise, especially of music.
Nervous deafness, after typhoid diseases.
Dull hearing: stupefaction; especially to distant sounds.
Every sound re-echoes loudly in the ears.
Shrill sound in ears on blowing nose.
Otalgia, stitches in ears and drawing pains in cheeks and teeth; aggravated only from music.

Fetid smell from the nose.
Sense of smell too acute.
Discharge of bloody pus from the nose.
Nosebleed in typhus, giving no relief.
Swelling on dorsum of nose, with red spots; scurfs.

Skin of face feels tense, as if white of an egg had dried on it.
Hippocratic face, lips and tongue very pale.
Sensation as if lower jaw was going to break.
Eruption on the face, yellow-brown crusts.
Burning in skin of cheeks.
Pimples on forehead and body of onanists.
Hairs of the beard fall out, especially after grief and sorrow.
Sensation of coldness on one side of the face.

Bleeding, swollen gums; tearing pains in teeth worse when warm in bed, and from heat or cold; burning in front teeth during the night.
Teeth become yellow and feel dull.
Hollow teeth ache only when food gets into them.

Red streak in middle of tongue.
Tongue and lips pale in typhus.
Tough, clammy mucus in mouth and on tongue.
Burning in tongue; tongue swollen.
Smarting in mouth when masticating.
Tongue smarts only at night.
Bites the side of tongue involuntarily; also at night.

Dryness of mouth and throat; grey-whitish coating of tongue.
Tenacious mucus in mouth and fauces.
Cancrum oris following measles in syphilitic children.

Dryness of palate and whole mouth, without thirst.
Velum palati feels excoriated, with burning.
Sore throat, soreness, scraping, stinging, worse swallowing food.
Hawks up tough mucus.
Nasal voice.

Loss of appetite; the little food taken comes up with acid eructations; half an hour after eating, crampy pains in stomach, with distress from acid eructations.
Unquenchable thirst.
Inclination for warm food.
Longs for something refreshing and juicy; bread is too dry.
Desires for beer and milk.
Aversion to coffee, wine, beer, or spirituous liquors.
Sour food causes bitter eructations or flatulency.
Canine hunger: 37.

After eating: 36.

Nausea, as if at the palate.

Sensation as if the stomach were being balanced up and down.
Pressing in stomach, as from a heavy load.

Heaviness, stitches, burning of one spot in region of liver in passage of gall-stones; jaundice in scrofulous children, or from grief.

Rumbling in abdomen, and noise as from water.
Meteoristic distention of the abdomen; rumbling and gurgling; painless stool.

Diarrhœa: does not debilitate; from acids; in young persons who grow too rapidly.
Stools: involuntary, liquid, grey; yellow, mixed with mucus, undigested, greenish-white, painless; escape with the flatus; yellow, watery, with meal-like sediment.
Hemorrhoids: bleeding, with intolerable pain in sitting; with cramps of the upper arm, forearms and wrist.
Intestinal hemorrhage in typhoid.

Looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes rapidly; passed in large quantities at night, clear like water.
Constant urging to urinate.
Involuntary urination.
Few drops of white, gleety discharge, mornings, and discharge of prostatic fluid in the evening.

Erections, without sexual desire; morning when standing.
During coition, sudden relaxation of penis preventing emission.
Weakness after coition; also after pollutions.
Emission: frequent and debilitating, causing hypochondriasis; from weakness of the parts, with onanism and very little sexual excitement; during stool.
Onanism, when patient is distressed by the culpability of his indulgence.
Feeling of heaviness in glans, especially during urination; also, with tingling, oozing vesicles around the frænum; in balanorrhœa.
Swelling of the testes, with swelling and tension in the spermatic cords; testes tender to touch; gnawing pain or excoriated feeling in testes.
Inflammatory swelling of scrotum.
Formication of scrotum.
Hair of sexual parts falls off.
Herpes preputialis, with tingling.
Sycotic excrescences, chronic, with heat, burning and soreness when sitting or walking.
Fig warts, complicated with chancre.

Ovaritis and metritis, from debilitating influences; amenorrhœa.
Uterus bloated, as if filled with wind.
Dysmenorrhœa, with pain in region of liver.
Menses too early and too long.
Leucorrhœa yellow, mostly after menses, with itching.
Uterine ulcer with copious, putrid, bloody discharge; itching or corroding pain, or no pain.

Itching, pricking like flea-bites between mammæ, obliging her to rise at night.
Sharp pressure in left mamma.
Scanty milk, debility, great apathy.
Deterioration of health from nursing.

Tenacious mucus in mouth and fauces, causes hawking.
Contraction is suprasternal fossa, worse when bending neck.
Hoarseness and roughness in throat, hindering speech.
Burning in throat and chest.

Dyspnœa, as from weakness of chest; caused by odors, by talking, or by any effort.
Oppression of chest; with contraction; with anxiety; when beginning to walk; at night.

Spasmodic tickling cough; as from "down" in the larynx, suprasternal fossa, and whole chest as far as the epigastrium; evening without, morning with expectoration of dark blood, or tenacious, whitish mucus of sourish, hereby taste.
Restless but weak with hæmoptysis.

Burning in whole chest, with pressure.
Weak feeling in chest, from talking, coughing, or sitting too long; relieved by walking.
Spasm in chest and diaphragm, sudden and unexpected, must sit bent.
Loud rattling and whistling in chest, with but little cough.

Stitches through the heart.
Palpitation: in children and young persons who grow too fast; after grief; after self-abuse.
Pulse irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats, generally small, weak or frequent, at times full and strong.

Formication in the back.
Gnawing on the scapulæ.
Heaviness in lumbar region, increases to pain in the legs. θ Tabes dorsalis.
Burning pain in a spot about small of back.
Burning in lower half of body, from small of back to pit of stomach downward; extremities are cold to touch.

Tearing in shoulder and left hand.
Burning as from a red-hot coal, in different parts of arm and on shoulder.
Hydroadenitis in the axillæ.
Stiffness and cramp in joints.
Shriveled, dry skin of hands and fingers.
Wens on the hand, between metacarpal bones.
Sharply marked deadness of one-half of the fingers.
Hands tremble when writing.
Burning of hands and heaviness; blood rushes into them when they hang down.
Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves, awaken him from sleep.

Heaviness and paralytic sensation in hip-joint, worse commencing to walk after sitting; better after walking a little.
Burning: in posterior muscles of thigh when standing better when walking; in soles at night.
Ulcers on lower leg.
Pains in tibia and night.
Blisters on balls of toes; feet swollen and sweaty.
Beating, swelling and burning in joint of big toe.

Drawing and twitching-tearing in limbs.
Smarting at night in bones of limbs.
Limbs feel weak, from loss of fluids, with no other pain than burning.
Formication in limbs.
Feeling as if periosteum were being scraped with a knife, after injuries.
Interstitial distention of the bones; mercurial, syphilitic or scrofulous.
Arthritic pains brought on by least cold, with irritable cough; swallowing excites the pains; fear of touching the parts.
Cold hand and warm feet.
Boils in the axillæ, on the shoulders and nates.

Walking: 22, 26, 28, 33. Motion: 4, 28. Going backward: 4. Sitting: 2, 20, 26, 28, 33. Must rise: 24. Bending neck: 25. Lying down: 2, 3, 4, 36. Standing: 22, 33. Lifting: 4. Rest: 4.

Child weak, pale, cold; painless stools.
Weak from loss of fluids, grief, sorrow or unfortunate love; from suppression of eruptions; from talking.
Trembling, legs weak, stumble easily, or make missteps.
Fainting: after a meal; from loss of fluids; from emotions; with desire to lie down.
Cramps: spasmodic, in chest and diaphragm, in onanists.
Spasm, painful, in hip-joint.
Spasmodic jerking of head.
Twitching or quivering in muscles of thigh.
Tosses the hands about, restless in the evening.

Great drowsiness and apathy.
Lies in a deep sleep, but when aroused, fully conscious. θ Typhoid.
Awakened by: canine hunger; dry heat; sensation of falling; sad thoughts.

Morning: 1, 21, 22, 27, 40. Evening: 2, 5, 27, 36, 40. Night: 10, 11, 21, 23, 24, 26, 33, 34, 40, 44, 45. Day: 40.

Generally worse from uncovering, better from wrapping up.
Worse in snowy air.
Warm room: 2. Heat: 10; of bed: 10. Cold: 10.
Averse to uncover: 40.

Chills, with shuddering and shaking, always in the evening.
Chill and heat alternate frequently.
During the chill peculiar cold sensation in tips of fingers and in abdomen, with weakness of arms and tearing in wrist-joints.
Heat, but averse to uncovering.
Internal heat, without being hot to the touch.
Sweat: mostly on occiput and neck, with sleepiness during daytime; profuse during night and in morning, with anxiety; clammy.
Intermittent fevers: shaking chills over whole body fingers being as cold as ice, without thirst followed by heat, without thirst, excessive heat, depriving one almost of consciousness.
Thirst only during sweat.
Typhoid fever: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 19, 20, 28, 29, 36, etc.

Right: 18, 23. Left: 18, 24, 32. Above downward: 31.

Hemorrhages, blood dark.
Painless swelling of glands.
Interstitial inflammation of bones; scrofulous, syphilitic or mercurial.
Bone diseases.
Periosteal inflammation, with burning, gnawing, tearing pains.
Caries, with smarting pains, not with necrosis.
Emaciation; also, of single parts.
External parts become black.

Touch: 31, 34, 40.
When after contusions periosteum feels as if scraped by a knife, worse at night.
Smarting in all wounds.

Herpes dry or humid, squamous.
Itching between fingers or in folds of joints, or on hands.
Exanthemata, suppressed by cold, cause brain symptoms; hardness of hearing or dropsy.
Variola.
In typhoid state, eruptions do not fill with pus, but degenerate into large blisters, which bursting, leave surface excoriated; watery diarrhœa; with subsultus tendinum; fear of death.
Warts, indented, pedunculated.
Condylomata; with bone pains; complicated with chancre.
Ulcers: like carbuncles on the skin, with a coppery circumference; with smarting pain; flat and itching.
Parts get black.

Bad effects from growing too rapidly; as if beaten in back and limbs.

Chinchon. before or after in colliquative sweat, diarrhœa and debility.
If in syncope after a meal, Nux vom. is insufficient, give Phosp. ac.
After Phosp ac. are frequently suitable: Cinchon., Ferrum, Rhus tox., Veratr.
Antidotes to Phosp. ac.: Camphor., Coffee.
Distinguished in typhoid from Mur. ac. by pallor, grey or colorless stools; Nitr. spir. dulc. causes a sensorial apathy, a sort of half paralysis of the mental organs; can be aroused, when he answers slowly but relevantly, and again goes into a stupor. (Relieved in typhoid after Phosp. ac. failed).

One part of pure glacial phosphoric acid is dissolved in 90 parts of distilled water and 10 parts of alcohol are added (making the 1st centesimal dilution).

It produces general weakness, with a quiet apathetic state (profound nervous prostration, without excitement). ▶ Its collateral symptoms of diabetes mellitus are pronounced, and its curative power in that disease is undoubted. ▶ The discharges are usually free and unaltered in character (sweat, urine, fæces and bronchial mucus).

Phos., Puls., Sep., Lyc., Sulph., Pic. ac., Fl. ac., Sil., Mur. ac.

Emaciation, with suffering expression and sunken eyes. ▶ Twitching here and there, agg. lower limbs. ▶ Epilepsy. ▶ Intermittent stitches in umbilical region and in many other parts. ▶ Pains at night, amel. pressure; P. amel. motion; sore, in every injured spot. ▶ Bruised sensation in all joints in morning, in arms and lower limbs and in nape; in hips, arms, thighs and nape, as from growing pains, agg. ascending steps and on beginning to walk, with tearing sticking in these parts. ▶ Scraping in periosteum of all bones. ▶ Smarting in wounds, even in wounds of bones.

Discomfort after eating, with anxiety. ▶ Dullness of head an limbs as after intoxication or loss of sleep. ▶ Invigorated by fresh air, strong in mind and body as from stimulants. ▶ Buoyancy and lightness of feeling. ▶ Raging in blood. ▶ Uneasiness in evening, with itching in canthi, nostrils, face and scalp; U., with forcing and surging of blood, he seems beside himself; and anxiety as if she would be sick. ▶ Weakness; in morning, with apathy; in morning after rising, amel. lying down, with pallor; after eating (breakfast); after ascending steps, with pain in pit of stomach; on walking, with dejection, and on entering house chilliness; with disinclination for business; but inability to sleep from itching and sexual excitement, erections weak, with salivation and palpitation; physical, with mental dejection. ▶ Physical heaviness, with mental inactivity (Pic. ac.). ▶ Aggravation from coffee (Nux v., Caust.).

Chorea. ▶ Hysteria, with extreme nervousness and debility. ▶ A very characteristic sensation, especially in scrofulous diseases, is a feeling as if a bone were scraped with a knife, agg. night. ▶ Growing pains (Guaiac.). ▶ General nervous debility, with or without burning in the spine, with general apathy. ▶ General relief of pains by motion, sometimes by pressure.

Dancing wildly, without consciousness. ▶ Lively. ▶ Quiet, indifferent (Phos., Puls., Sep.), and much boring in the nose. ▶ Speaks unwillingly. ▶ Hasty in speech, he cannot obtain anything rapidly enough. ▶ Lachrymose, as if homesick. ▶ Sad. ▶ Anxious and restless; A., and necessity to lie down in afternoon. ▶ Apprehensive as if chest were too tight, with internal heat. ▶ Discouraged when walking in open air, worse the farther he walks. ▶ Solicitous about the future; S. as if she would be sick. ▶ Brooding constantly over his illness. ▶ Reproachful of himself. ▶ Ill humor; in morning on rising, with weakness and sleepiness. ▶ Easily vexed. ▶ Beside himself and hot from slightest vexation. ▶ Obstinate. ▶ Disinclined to work. ▶ Uneasiness hindering him at work.

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Weakness, with apathy.
General free discharges.
Bruised pains throughout the body and limbs, < morning.
Scraping pains in periosteum of all the bones.
Formication over the body.
General coldness of the surface of the body.
General relief by motion; pains felt during rest.

Clinical:
Results of sexual excesses.
Consequences of grief and disappointment.

Indifference; unwilling to speak.
Difficult to collect his thoughts; unable to find the right word or to remember.

Clinical:
In low types of fever a dullness of comprehension from which the patient may be roused with difficulty to collect his thoughts and answers, after which he sinks back into a state of stupor.

Pressure as from a weight on the vertex; a general dull headache, especially after coition.
Hair turns gray and falls out early in life.
The headache is < shaking the head or by exerting the mind.

Eyes lustreless.
A feeling as if the eyeballs were too large.
Burning in the eyelids and corners of the eyes in the evening by the light.
Margins of the lids inflamed; the lashes fall out.

Difficult hearing, with roaring in the ears.

Color generally pale, earthy, with dark rims around the eyes.
A feeling of tension on the skin of the face as if white of egg had dried on it.
Lips dry, encrusted.

Gums bleed easily.
Mouth is generally dry.
Tongue pale, coated with thick, tough mucus; swollen, bites the tongues involuntarily.

Loss of appetite; desire for refreshing or juicy things.
Unquenchable thirst, caused by a feeling of dryness throughout the whole body (though absence of thirst does not contra-indicate the drug).
Pressure in the stomach as from a weight, with sleepiness, especially after eating.
Bitter eructations after eating sour food.

Clinical:
Symptoms following sour food and drink.

A constrictive pain about the naval.
Gurgling in abdomen as from water.
Numerous flatulent symptoms.

Diarrhœa, involuntary.
Evacuations thin, whitish-gray; pasty, bright yellow; undigested; painless.

Frequent, rapid, irresistible urging to urinate.
Frequent micturition, at times, with scanty discharge.
Urine as clear as water, often profuse, especially at night from 10 to 3.
At times as white as milk.
Micturition preceded by anxiety and restlessness, or followed by burning.

Clinical:
Diabetes, with aching in the small of the back; excessive thirst, mental apathy.

Persistent erections early in the morning in bed or during sleep, followed by involuntary emissions.
Emissions at night without erections; when pressing at stool.
Swelling of the testicles and spermatic cord.
Loss of sexual desire.

Cough dry from tickling, as with a feather in the middle of the chest above the pit of the stomach, < in evening after lying down.
Expectoration in the morning, salty.
Expectoration in small masses; at times purulent and offensive; rarely bloody.
Respiration difficult.
Sense of great weakness in the chest.

Pulse soft, at times irregular or intermittent.
Palpitation.

Boring pains between the scapulæ.
Burning in a spot above the small of the back.

General weakness.
Various pains in the lower limbs from the hip downward, usually < night, > towards morning.

General drowsiness and apathy.
Sleep filled with lascivious dreams, with emissions, at times with erections.

Predominating chilliness and coldness; heat towards evening, sweat in the morning.
Febrile paroxysms, usually without thirst, with debility, stupor, painless diarrhœa, deafness.

PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. PHOSPHORIC ACID.

It is best to take for the preparation of this medicine for homœopathic use, one grain of Phosphoric acid melted and preserved dry in a well stoppered vessel. This acid may be gained directly from the phosphorus by applying nitric acid, or, it may be gained from bones in the following manner, first practiced by myself : Take a pound of calcined white bone, broken in pieces ; pour over this in a porcelain bowl one pound of the strongest Sulphuric acid and stir the mixture around several times in 24 hours with a glass rod. The mash thus gained is then well-mixed and thinned with two pounds of strong whiskey or rum, the whole is then tied up in a linen bag and pressed out between two smooth boards weighed down with heavy weights. What remains in the bag may be again thinned with two pounds of strong whiskey, and what is pressed out may be mixed with the quantity first obtained ; it may then remain covered for a few days so that the turbid matter may settle down. The clear liquid is decanted and boiled down in a heated porcelain bowl and then melted at a red heat. The melted Phosphoric acid must be of crystalline clearness. While still warm, it is broken in pieces and preserved in a well-stoppered bottle, as it quickly and totally deliquesces in the open air into a thickish fluid of watery clearness. The dry acid may be used like other dry substances, being triturated with sugar of milk, in the manner described in the first part of this book up to the millionth powdered attenuation. One grain of this may then be dissolved and further potentized by succussion. A too violent action of Phosphoric acid is modified by Camphor. In cases where the properly potentized Phosphoric acid was indicated, it also cured at the same time the following ailments : Morning-headache : intolerance of noise and talking ; scabs on the dorsum of the nose ; fetid odor from the nose ; burning in the cheeks ; pimples on the chin ; pimples about the forehead and chin ; burning in the hypogastrium ; nocturnal micturition ; pain in the liver, during the menses ; roughness of the throat ; scraping on the larynx inciting to cough ; shortness of breath and inability to talk long at a time ; weakness of the chest from speaking ; eruption of pimples on the arms ; sweating of the feet ; herpes ; corns ; night-sweat. Dr. Hering cured with it : Incapacity for mental work with great discouragement, and indolence of mind and body ; heaviness of the head, as if it were full of water ; inflammation of the eyes with burning ; lachrymation ; aversion to sunlight ; the teeth become yellow ; constant nausea in the throat ; after meals the stomach seems to rock up and down ; hawking up of viscid mucus ; gnawing pain in the testes ; hacking cough with expectoration of mucus, in the morning ; repeated stools ; furuncle on the nates and in the axillæ ; swelling on the natis ; swelling of the feet ; the testes are sore to the touch ; itching of an ulcer ; flat, painless ulcers on the leg without redness, with jagged, uneven fundus and dirty looking pus ; great weariness after waking ; milky urine. The abbreviation of the names of my fellow-workers are : Br., Becher ; Frz., Franz ; Gr., Gross ; Gtm., Gutmann ; Fr. H., Friedrich Hahnemann ; Hrm., Herrmann ; Htm., Hartmann ; Mr., Meyer ; Stf., Stapf ; Tth., Teuthorn ; Wsl., Wislicenus ; Hg., Hering. [*].

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Ph. a. / (A foe.) / Phebe.

Phosphoric acid,-Much the same,
As Phosphorus we find thy claim;
Presenting mental gloom intense,
Or unconcerned indifference,
As in prostration may be found
Inrooted in a typhoid ground.
Thy tongue is bitten unaware,
Thy stool entraps thee in a snare.
Thou hast a hunger in the night,
Thy stools and urine both are white,
Too oft thy calls to urinate,
That diabetes indicate.
Lewd dreams thou hast-and wind emission
From out the womb, in lax condition.
Thy ears are deafened by a roar,
Thy skull bones feeling tender-sore-
While low down tickling cough declares,
How much like phosphorus thy cares.

Phebe,-Has Diabetes.

Phebe Knight is taking plums and milk to Helen Ecua Uran.

This Phebe,-Who is subject to emissions of wind from the womb,-Is up at Sang Lee, with her brother.

Diabetes: Ph. a., Arg. n., Tereb., Kreo., PB., Lact. a., Helon., Euca., Uran. n.

Womb Bloat-Emissions of Wind from the Womb: Ph. a., Pho., Sang., Lyc., Brom.

Indicated in conditions of great debility following severe acute sickness, loss of fluids, grief, excesses, etc. Best adapted to those of mild, yielding disposition, inclined to be listless and indifferent; ill effects of masturbation; brain fag; spinal anaemia; palpitation of the heart; caries of spinal vertebrae; typhoid fever; seminal emissions.

Hair become gray early and falls out.

Teeth become yellow; gums are spongy and bleed easily.

Bone-pains at night, as though scraped.

Quiet delirium with stupor; stupor from which he can be aroused; be collects his thoughts with difficulty, answers, and then relapses into stupor.

Weakness and imperfect control of the legs, so he stumbles easily.

Painless, watery, gray or yellow, non-exhausting diarrhoea, preceded by rumbling; worse after eating.

Urine like milk or as though mixed with jelly; decomposes rapidly.

Copious flow of clear, watery urine, precipitating at once in a cloud of white sediment.

Lascivious dreams with emissions.

Insufficiency of erection; relaxation of penis during sexual intercourse.

Worse from exertion; from sexual intercourse.

Better from keeping quiet.

Inability to think. Absence of idea dull, without phantasies. quiet delirium, with great stupefaction and confused dullness and head (typhoid). Dizzy confusion in forehead. Introverted, peevish and taciturn. Greatest indifference. Low - spirited and solicitous of the future or his illness. Homesick and weeping. Grief and disposition to weep.

Reeling vertigo in evening, in a warm room, with bursting pain in head when coughing, and humming therein.

Squeezing, pressive ache, especially in side lain on. Unusual heaviness of. Tearing in. Stitches over either (often the right) eye. Headache intensified by concussion or noise, as well as by mental exertion. Worse: Early in morning.

Very oily, soft, flaxen hair, which turns gray early and falls from head and beard, especially after grief and care. Bone pains begin like scraping with a knife on the swelled and bruisedly painful periosteum, then follows a markedly painful burning, lastly caries with great weakness supervenes. coldness of, with feeling as if a cool wind blow on temples, forehead and face, with cold blue finger - tips, fore noon, evening and in open air. Worse: As night, at rest, touch. Better: Motion.

Glassy, Lusterless. Pressure, as though' eyeballs were too large. Coldness of inner edge of lids Burning in lids and canthi, especially from artificial light in evening. Inflammation of lids, not balls. Are dazzled by bright light. Short sightedness.

Stitches in, by music only. Intolerance of every noise, especially music. sounds re - echo too loudly in. Difficult hearing at a distance.

Discharges bloody pus. Scurfs on dorsum. Inclined to bore in. Catarrh.

Stickily complexion, with pointed nose and weak, sunken eyes surrounded by blue rings. Hot tension in skin, a though' egg albumen had dried thereon. Scurfy, suppurating lips. Dry lips.

Burning in front teeth, especially at night, by warmth of bed and by warm as well as cold things. Nightly tearing in. teeth turn yellow. Bleeding gums. Painful nodes on gums.

Offensive breath. Ulceration of velum palate, with burning pains. Tenacious, clammy mucus in, and on tongue. Swelling of tongue. He involuntarily bites his tongue at night. Difficult speech.

Appetite: Desire for juicy or refreshing things, bread is to dry. Unquenchable thirst from a sense of dryness throughout entire body. Bad effects of sour food and drink.

Taste: Long - continued after - taste of ingesta, especially of bread.

Eructations: Burning, sour, Bitter, after eating sour foods.

Qualmishness. etc. - continuous, in the throat. Frequent vomiting of ingesta.

Pressure as of a load in, with sleepiness, especially after every meal, and when touching the epigastrium.

Squeezing or contractive pain about navel. Gurgling like water in. Distension. Ascites.

Flatulence: Extraordinary grumbling and rumbling in abdomen. The uterus is distended, as if filled with air.

Undigested. Difficult discharge of even a soft s. Diarrhoea: With much flatulence, especially after sour things, without debility, mucus, greenish white.

Involuntary urination. Sudden irresistible urging. Frequent urging, with scanty discharge, a pale face, thirst and heat. Diminished discharge of brown u., passed drop by drop. Painful cutting or burning discharge of urine as clear as water, especially at night from ten PM to three AM. Milky, white, containing jelly - like lumps. Diabetes mellitus. anxiety and restlessness before urinating. Burning after urinating.

Sticking pain in glans. Fig - warts. Crawling and moisture about frenum. Swollen testes, with swelling and tension in spermatic cords. Many, very debilitating pollutions. Bad effects of onanism. Sexual desire wanting.

Constant short r., and inability to speak from weakness of chest.

Spasmodic tickling cough, as if from the tickling of feather down from throat pit to epigastrium, in morning with, but in evening without expectoration. With headache, nausea and vomiting. With purulent, very offensive expectoration. Expectoration in of dark blood, or tenacious whitish mucus of a sourish, herby taste. With involuntary spurting of urine. From cold air.

Great hoarseness. Contractive pain in throat pit.

Squeezing pressure or burning in.

Crawling, as of ants in, and in lumbar region.

Twitching tearing in arms. Bony exostoses on back of hand. the skin of hands and fingers is dry and wrinkled. Unilateral, sharply defined deadness of fingers.

Boils on nates, Painful cramp in hip - joints. Weakness of lower limbs, he falls easily when making a misstep or stubbing his foot. Humming throughout entire limb, with coldness running over body. Nightly burning in shin - bones and soles of feet. Old, itching leg ulcers. Swelling and burning throbbing in joint of great toe.

Bruised pains in body and limbs, like growing pains, especially in morning. Painless fevers. Crawling, like ants, here and there on body or limbs. Burning throughout entire half of body, below lumbar and epigastric region with coldness of extremities t touch. Great emaciation. Stupid prostration. Epilepsy. Debility from loss of vital fluids, with burning but without pain. Rapid sinking of strength. Bad effects of sexual excesses, grief, sorrow and unfortunate love. The pains are almost exclusively prominent during rest and are diminished during motion. Tearing in limbs every time he takes cold.

Glands swollen.

Pain as though" periosteum of all long bones were scraped with a knife. Inflammation and nightly burning of. Swelling of (periostitis). Caries with smarting pains.

Scarlatinous eruption. Fine miliary eruption in aggregated clusters. Eruptions, with burning or excoriating pains. Itching or smarting ulcers. Boils. frost bites, Bony exostoses. Corns with burning and sticking.

Great somnolency. sleepiness early in evening. deep, sound sleep, can scarcely be aroused. Anxious dreams.

Pulse: Irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats, mostly small, and weak, but accelerated, often, however, full and strong. Violent ebullition of blood with great restlessness. Distended blood vessels. Chill: With shuddering and shaking, generally in evening. Alternating with heat, in frequent attacks. An especially cold sensation in finger - tips and in abdomen during. Unilateral cold sensation in face. In evening, without thirst. Heat: Internal, dry, without thirst, and without complaints, at any time of day. general, with unconsciousness and somnolency. Anxious, in evening, with violent ebullition of blood. Of head, with cold feet. Sweat: Mostly on occiput and nape, while sleeping during day. Profuse, night and early morning sweats, with anxiety. extraordinary tendency to s., during day and night. Clammy.

Allied Remedies: Aco., Ars., Asaf., Bell., Calc-c., Calc-p., chin., cupr., Dig, dulc., GEL., Hyos., Ign., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Op., rheu, Rhus - t., Staph, Verat - a., Zinc.

Complementary: - chin.

Sorenss in the limbs, as from growing, especially in the morning.

Formications.

Burning of the lower half of the body, the limbs feeling cold.

Debility from loss of fluids, without pain, or only with burning.

Eyes like glass, without lustre.

He lies down stupid.

Bad effects from sorrow.

The pains are only severe during rest, relieved by motion and the nightly pains from pressure.

Pains, as from a knife, scraping the periosteum.

Inflammation of the bones with burning at night.

Swelling of the bones.

Offensive caries of the osseous structures.

Disinclination to talk, with moroseness and low-spiritedness.

Great debility with perspiration during the day (not so marked as aconite however).

Ulceration of the soft palate.

Useful in typhus fever.

At night he bites his tongue involuntarily.

Soft stools.