Sulphuricum Acidum sul-ac.

DIGESTIVE TRACT. blood. Blood-vessels. Left side.

Open air. Cold. Spirits. Injuries. ODOR OF COFFEE. Climacteric. Toward evening. Excessive heat or cold.

Hot drinks. Hands near head.

Moderate temperature.

Suited to topers, old age, etc. Disproportionate weakness. TREMOR; INTERNAL; wants to be held. Sourness. Erosion. Profuse, acrid or stringy discharges. Hæmorrhage; violent; black, thin. Parts feel stiff and tight. Pain increases slowly, then suddenly ceases. Gnawing. Great painfulness. As of a blunt plug being driven in.

Hurried, irascible, vacillating and morose. Brain feels loose. Deathly pale or wrinkled face; white of egg seems dried on it. Congestion to head. Aphthæ. Throat sore; looks white-washed. Pyrosis. Hiccough; of drunkards. Sour belching; sets teeth on edge. Nausea. Vomiting; < lying on l. side. Weak, sinking at stomach, < after stool. Drinks chill the stomach. Very foul, green, black or hacked diarrhœa. Oozing piles. Coughs, then belches; bloody expectoration. Fingers jerk when writing. Weak knees. Black and blue spots. Petechiæ. HOT flushes, then trembling or cold sweat; < after warm ingesta; < upper parts; > motion. Drenching sweats.

Complementary: Pul. Related: Ars. Lach. Sep.

Adapted to the light-haired; old people, especially women; flushes of heat in climacteric years. Unwilling to answer questions not from obstinacy, but inaptness. Feels in a great hurry; everything must be done quickly (Arg. n.). Pain of gradual and slowly-increasing intensity which ceases suddenly when at its height, often repeated (Puls.). The pain is pressure as of a blunt instrument. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries, especially of old people. Child has a sour odor despite careful washing (Hep., Mag. c., Rheum). Sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side (Bell., Bry., Rhus, Spig.). Aphthae; of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity; gums bleed readily; ulcers painful; offensive breath (Bor.). Chronic heartburn, sour eructations, sets teeth on edge (Rob.). Water drunk causes coldness of the stomach unless mixed with alcoholic liquor. Sensation as if trembling all over, without real trembling; internal trembling of drunkards. Bad effects of mechanical injuries, with bruises, chafing and livid skin; prostration (Acet. ac.). Ecchymosis; cicatrices turn blood-red or blue, are painful (turn green, Led.). Petechia: purpura haemorrhagia; blue spots; livid, red itching blotches. Haemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body (Crot., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Ter.). Concussion of brain from fall or blow where skin is cold and body bathed in cold sweat. Weak and exhausted from deep-seated dyscrasia; no other symptoms (Psor., Sulph.).

Complementary Puls. Compare: Ars., Bor., Calend., Led., Ruta, Rheum, Symp. In contusion and laceration of soft parts it vies with calendula. Follows well: after, Arn. with bruised pain, livid skin and profuse sweat; after, Led. in ecchymosis. Ailments from brandy-drinking. Sulphuric acid, one part, with three parts of alcohol, 10 to 15 drops, three times daily for three or four weeks, has been successfully used to subdue the craving for liquor - Hering.

For any affections arising from general debility, as prolapsus uteri, retroversion, any uterine trouble whatever, the patient having a sense of tremulousness all over.

One feels in a very great hurry, feels that everything must be done in a hurry (also Arg. nitr.). Sour and acrid belching; cough with expectoration in the morning, without expectoration in the evening. Burning darting pains in the muscles; shocks as from pain; black and blue spots on the body; in a bruise, (especially if an old person) when the injured part gets black and blue, and seems as if it would mortify.

Affections in general occurring in the right abdominal ring, sexual organs right side; right upper side; left lower side; inguinal hernia.

In the afternoon and evening; from surgical injuries in general.

Sepia, best; next, Arnica., Calc. carb. Conium, Lycop., Platin., Sulphur.

Pulsat.

Every drink chills the stomach unless some spirit is mixed with it.

Sulphuric Acid

The "debility" common to acids shows itself here, especially in the digestive tract, giving a very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with craving for stimulants. Tremor and weakness; everything must be done in a hurry. Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries. Writer's cramp. Lead poisoning. Gastralgia and hypochlorrhydria. Purpura hæmorrhagia.

Fretful, impatient. Unwilling to answer questions; hurried.

Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched. Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side (Bell; Rhus). Concussion of brain where skin is cold, body bathed in cold sweat. Compressive pain in side of occiput; relieved by holding the hands near the head. Pain of outer parts, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; painful to touch. Thrust in right temple as if plug were pressed in.

Intra-ocular hæmorrhage following traumatism. Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.

Aphthæ; gums bleed readily. Offensive breath. Pyorrhea.

Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge (Robin). Craving for alcohol. Water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors. Relaxed feeling in stomach. Averse to smell of coffee. Sour vomiting. Desire for fresh food. Hiccough. Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea with chilliness.

Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back. Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side.

Piles; oozing dampness. Rectum feels as if it had a big ball. Diarrhœa, fetid, black, with sour odor of body, and empty faint feeling in abdomen.

Menstruation early and profuse. Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding. Acrid, burning leucorrhœa, often of bloody mucus.

Respiration rapid with shooting in cervical muscles and movement of wings of nose; larynx moves up and down violently. Bronchitis in children with short, teasing cough.

Cramp-like paralytic contraction in arms, hands; jerking of fingers while writing.

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and livid skin. Ecchymosis. Petechiæ. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Livid, red, itching blotches. Hæmorrhage of black blood from all outlets. Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful. Chilblains with gangrenous tendency. Carbuncles, boils and other staphylococcic and streptococcic infections.

Worse, from excess of heat or cold in forenoon and evening. Better, from warmth, and lying on affected side.

Complementary: Puls.

Compare: Arn; Calend; Led; Sep; Calc.

Sulphuric acid mixed with three parts of alcohol, ten to fifteen drops three times daily for several weeks, has been successfully used to subdue the craving for liquor. For homeopathic purposes second to thirtieth potency.

Extreme weakness, with sense of internal trembling, which is not observable to others.

Hæmorrhages from every outlet of the body, with ecchymosed spots under the skin.

Child smells sour all over, despite. the actual cleanliness. Sour, acid vomiting.

Adapted to the light haired, old people, especially women; flushes of heat in climacteric years.

Aphthæ, of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity, gums bleed readily; ulcers painful; offensive breath. Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises, chafing and livid skin; prostration.

Sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side (Bell., Bry., Rhus, Spig.). Often very useful in the stomach troubles of old whiskey topers.

Sulphuric acid is another remedy of value in aphthous affections of the mouth. It is particularly efficacious in greatly debilitated subjects, and in children with marasmus with this kind of mouth. There is often present sour stomach (Iris versicol. and Robinia, sour eructations and vomiting) with sour, vomiting, and the child smells sour all over despite the greatest care in regard to cleanliness (Rheum, Hepar and Magnesia). One of the strongest characteristics, perhaps the strongest, in weakened subjects in which this is the appropriate remedy, is a sense of internal trembling. This is a subjective symptom, for, notwithstanding this positive sensation, to a degree that is very distressing, there is no visible trembling. This symptom is frequently found in old topers (see Ranunculus bulb.), who are broken down or almost wrecked in health by strong drink. The symptom, however, is not confined to such subjects, but is often found in other cases when the debility is traceable to other causes; when markedly present from whatever cause. Sulphuric acid should never be forgotten. We have already spoken of the value of this remedy in purpura hæmorrhagica. Like Crotalus, it has hæmorrhages from every outlet of the body (Acetic acid, Thlaspi), and the blood also settles in ecchymosed spots under the skin. This last symptom would indicate that Sulphuric acid might be useful in black and blue spots in the skin, as the result of bruising, and practice corroborates it, and it follows well after Arnica. Ledum palustre is also one of our best remedies for ecchymosis from bruises, "black eye," for instance; this is, of course, for bruises under the skin; While Ruta is just as efficacious for bruises of the periosteum. There is enough of the Sulphur element so that it may succeed in "flushes" of heat, after Sulphur has failed at the climacteric.

Restlessness and irritability. Changeable disposition ; from seriousness he changes to great hilarity. Inclination to weep.

Sensation as if the brain were loose in the forehead, and was falling from one side to the other ; worse when walking in the open air ; better when sitting quiet in the room. Painful shocks in the forehead and temples, worse in the forenoon and evening. Headache as if a plug was thrust quickly by increasingly severe blows in the head. Gradually increasing and suddenly ceasing headache.

Lachrymation when reading. Tension in the eyelids in the morning ; it is difficult to open them.

Hardness of bearing ; it feels as if a leaf were lying before the ear.

Bleeding of the nose in the evening.

Paleness of the face. The face feels swollen, as if the white of an egg had dried on the face. The lips peel off.

Dulness of the teeth. Toothache worse in the evening in bed, aggravated by cold, relieved by heat. Aphthæ (in children). Sensation of dryness in the mouth. Ptyalism. Roughness in the throat. Tongue dry. Spitting of blood.

Desire for fresh fruit. Sour eructations, violent heartburn. Nausea in the stomach with chilliness. Vomiting, first of water and then of food. The water causes cold of the stomach, if not mixed with some alcoholic liquor. Stitches in the liver and spleen. Pain in the abdomen like labor, extending to the hips and back. Flatulence in the abdomen, with the sensation as if a hernia should protrude. Violent protrusion of an inguinal hernia.

Ineffectual urging to go to stool. Stool retarded, compact, hard, knotty, and black. Stools chopped (in children). Watery diarrhœa, very offensive.

Diminished secretion of brown urine, which becomes turbid on standing, like loam water. Sediment like blood and a cuticle on the urine. Pain in the bladder if the call to urinate is postponed.

Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse. Impotence, with too early and too profuse menstruation. Leucorrhœa acrid or burning, or like milk.

Hoarseness, with dryness and roughness in the throat and larynx. The larynx is painful ; the parts feel deprived of elasticity, which causes a difficulty in talking. Long-continued hæmoptysis. Cough in the open air, from walking, riding, cold water, and when smelling coffee. Cough from irritation in the chest, with expectoration in the morning of dark blood, or of a thin, yellow, blood-streaked mucus, generally of a sourish taste. After the cough, eructations. Stitches ; in the chest ; about the heart. Sensation of great weakness in the chest. Palpitation of the heart, with or without anxiety.

Stiffness in the back on rising in the morning. Blood-boils on the back.

Upper. Stitches in the shoulder-joints on lifting up the arms. Tension in the elbow-joint. Stitches in the joints of the fingers. Chilblains on the hands. Lower. Painful weakness of the knees. Red itching spots on the tibia. Cold feet. Stitches in the corns.

Goes to sleep late and wakens early. During sleep twitches, especially of the fingers.

Stitches in the joints. Tearing in the whole body, also in the face. Slowly increasing but suddenly ceasing pain, as if a blunt instrument were pressed against the part. Sensation of soreness, as if bruised over the whole body. The left side is principally affected. Weakness of the whole body, with the sensation of trembling.

Pulse small, feeble, and accelerated. Chilliness during the day, mostly in the room, better when exercising in the open air. Frequent chills running down the body. Heat in the evening and after lying down in bed. In the evening frequent flushes of heat, especially when exercising. Flushes of heat with perspiration (in climacteric years). Much perspiration, principally on the upper part of the body. Profuse morning sweat. Perspiration from the least exercise, which continues for a long time after sitting down. Cold perspiration as soon as one eats warm food.

Bad effects from mechanical, injuries, as from bruises, falling, knocking, pressure of blunt instruments, and contusions (especially in old women). Blue spots as from suggillation. Red, itching blotches on the skin. Soreness of the skin ; also with gangrenous ulceration ; becomes easily chafed when walking or riding. Painful sensitiveness of the glands. Eating pain in the ulcers. Most of the complaints are worse in the forenoon and evening. Aggravation; in the open air ; from smelling coffee.

Sulphuric acid. H 2 SO 4 . Dilution.

Acidity . Alcoholism, chronic. Aphthæ. Back, stiffness of. Bowels, looseness of. Brain, concussion of. Breath, offensive. Cancer. Cancrum oris. Chafing. Chilblains. Climaxis, sufferings of. Constipation. Corns. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Dyspepsia. Erythema nodosum. Flushing. Gangrene. Gastralgia. Glossitis. Hair, grey; falling out. Heartburn. Hernia, inguinal. Hiccough . Impotence. Intermittents. Irritation . Liver, affections of. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Myopia. Nightmare. Œsophagitis. Paralysis, lead . Perspiration, excessive. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, sickness of. Purpura. Rheumatism. Scurvy. Spleen, affections of. Sterility. Ulcers. Uterus, prolapse of. Vagina, prolapse of. Varicosis. Warts.

Sul. ac ., according to Teste, was a favourite remedy of the Middle Ages, being used extensively in dilution in the treatment of scrofulous, phagedenic, cancerous, and venereal ulcers; as a gargle and mouth-wash for aphthæ, ulceration of the gums, and diphtheria. It was given as "Mineral Lemonade" in cases of lead poisoning. [This use I have verified, giving water acidulated with the 3x. — J. H. C.] The "Acid Soap" of Achard was prescribed as a dissolvent in scirrhus of the breast and calculous nephritis, obstinate intermittent fevers, visceral obstructions, dropsy, jaundice, cachexia, and "certain tumours of the feet." Elixir of vitriol (a mixture of the acid, alcohol and water) is a popular remedy for nervous weakness in women at the present day. Dippel, Haller, and others each had an "Elixir," differing only in the proportions of the chief ingredients. The elixirs were used in: Intermittent, putrid, malignant, contagious fevers; comatose and petechial fevers, scarlatina, confluent and malignant variola; dysentery; plague, lepra, itch, and other cutaneous diseases; nocturnal emissions; suppression of menses and piles, calculous nephritis, and gout; pituitous phthisis; chorea. Hahnemann proved Sul. ac ., and says that it has cured affections characterised by: "tension in the eyelids in the morning, shortsightedness; hardness of hearing; inguinal hernia; chronic looseness of the bowels profuse menses; metrorrhagia; roughness in the throat; asthma ; swelling of the feet; coldness of the feet" ( Chron. Dis .). Teste gives this experience of his own:" Two or three times I have used this drug with success against round syphilitic spots, of a bright red colour, of the size of a penny, rather itching, running into each other, secreting a humour sometimes, and generally seated at the upper and inner surface of the thighs, between the shoulders, on the face, and at the posterior surface of the forearms and hands. The subjects on whom this acid seemed to act best were lymphatic, ate a good deal, and were disposed to a constant looseness of the bowels, so that their evacuations were rarely in shape." Hahnemann's proving with homeopathic experience has confirmed many of the old uses of Sul. ac . and brought out characteristic indications. Weakness is a keynote to Sul. ac . The patient is weak and exhausted. Sul. ac . is suited to cases where the weakness is out of proportion to the disease. Weakness which seems to come from deep-seated dyscrasia. There is as well a sense of general internal trembling; as if trembling from head to foot, but without visible trembling. It is useful for inebriates who are "on their last legs," long after Nux had ceased to help. Hering says the craving for liquor has been subdued by taking for two or four weeks, thrice daily, ten to fifteen drops of a mixture of one part of Sul. ac . with three parts of alcohol. The indications are: "Vomiting in morning; acidity in stomach; burning in œsophagus and stomach; sour, acrid, or foul eructations." Sul. ac . has this characteristic: in spite of great thirst, water is not tolerated; unless qualified with alcohol it chills the stomach. This is a common symptom with hydrogenoid patients. Sul. ac . has a keynote symptom in the mental sphere. Hurry — hasty, quick, sullen, impatient; angry because things move so slowly. Like Sul., Sul. ac . is periodic and has an important place in agues and periodic neuralgias. Cooper with reason contends that many ague cases, supposed to have been cured with Chi. sul . (Sulphate of Quinine), were really cured by the Sulphuric acid used in dissolving it. "More-over," says Cooper, "in all epidemic diseases — influenza, cholera, small-pox, &c. — Sul. ac . is often called for by the concomitant symptoms. In the neuralgia of influenza it has cured very severe pain over the whole left side of the head, face, and neck, coming on from exposure to draught; in the diarrhœas of cholera times it certainly arrests mischief; in the diarrhœas of emaciated children it is often called for. A chemist in Covent Garden used to use a lotion of Sulphuric acid , well diluted, for all the cases of itch that came before him, and they were many." There is a keynote of Sul. ac . in respect to neuralgias which is of great service; the pains increase gradually and end abruptly; the most characteristic kind of pain is dull pressure — as of a plug thrust in. There is external soreness and sensitiveness. The piles of Sul. ac . are external, sensitive to touch and accompanied by itching. Sul. ac . is a great hæmorrhagic; there is bleeding from every orifice; bleeding under skin (purpura); the menses are too early, too profuse, and sterility may be a consequence of this; oozing of dark thin blood. Many sufferings of Sul. ac . seem to arise from the generative organs, especially of the female. With Sul. ac . 30, a dose every night, I gave great help to a delicate woman who had nightmare, waking in a fright, before each menstrual period . The local "weakness" of Sul. ac . may amount to prolapse of vagina and uterus. Trauma is another indication for Sul. ac .; it follows Arn . in bruises of soft parts, Con . in bruises of glands, Ruta . in bruises of bones. It also removes long-lasting black and blue spots with soreness and stiffness of the parts. Flushing is another feature (as at climacteric), and with the flushing there is sweating. Easy sweating is a note of Sul. ac ., and the sweat affects mostly the upper part of the body. The body odour of Sul. ac . is sour and cannot be washed off. This is especially observed in children. Heartburn with sour eructations that set the teeth on edge. Sul. ac . is suited to: ( 1 ) Old people; especially women. ( 2 ) Light-haired people. ( 3 ) Pains at climacteric. ( 4 ) When some deep-seated dyscrasia prevails, the child is weak with no other symptoms. ( 5 ) Sour babies. Sensations are: As if brain were loose and falling from side to side. As if one side of head filled with smoke. As if a plug were thrust quickly into head. As from subcutaneous ulceration in scalp. As of a foreign body on right outer canthus. As of a leaf lying before ears. As if white of egg had dried on face. As if skin of cheek and chin were pinched. As of want of elasticity of vocal organs. As if there were a lump in throat. As if menses would come on. As if hernia would protrude. As if rectum were torn to pieces during stool. Many symptoms appear on right side, but the left cheek and left parotid are most affected. Pain travels from left to right round hypochondria. Other Peculiar Symptoms are: Pains felt during sleep and disappearing on waking. Jerkings on falling asleep. Seriousness alternating with buffoonery. Pain in bladder unless call to pass water is immediately attended to. The symptoms are: < By touch; pressure; chafing; mechanical injuries. Open air < . Warmth > . Cold < . Rest > . Lying on affected side > gnawing in face. Motion; lifting arms; rising; walking; riding < . < Morning; (also evening and night). < Drinking cold water. Wine < . Warm food = sweat. The cauterising property of Sul. ac. is of the phagedenic order, which makes it suitable to many gangrenous conditions.

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Mental excitability.
Must do everything in a great hurry ; nothing can be finished quickly enough.
Unwilling to answer ; says yes or no with difficulty ; pulse small and frequent.
Disheartened ; inclined to weep.
Irritable, restless ; fretful and peevish if his work is not done to suit.
Extreme mental dejection ; unfit for work, would sit and weep whole day long ; constant pain at vertex ; after a fall upon head.

Vertigo, in room, going off in open air ; must lie down, as soon as he raises himself dizziness returns.

Sensation in forehead as if brain were loose and falling from side to side ; < walking in open air ; > sitting quiet in room.
Rush of blood to head, headache.
Painful shocks in forehead and temples, < in forenoon and evening.
Headache as if a plug were thrust quickly, by increasingly severe blows, into head.
Gradually increasing and suddenly ceasing headache.
Chronic headache in leuco-phlegmatic people, with relaxed muscles and general debility.

Hair turns grey, falls out ; eruption on scalp very sore ; < in open air.
Cold sweat on forehead when eating, even warm food.
Pain of outer parts of head, as from subcutaneous ulceration, parts painful to touch.

Eyes fill with tears when reading.
Tension in lids in morning ; difficult to open.
Sensation of a foreign body in right outer canthus, in morning, when walking.
Feeling as of a lump in right outer canthus ; on closing eye seems to move to inner canthus, and to return on opening it.
Deep blue circle under right eye.
Chronic inflammation of eyes ; frequently useful in beginning (later Sulph.).

Hardness of hearing ; feeling as of a leaf lying before ear.
Buzzing in right ear ; neuralgia.

Nosebleed ; oozing of dark, thin blood ; evenings ; < from smelling coffee ; of old people ; in cachectic persons.
Coryza : alternately dry and fluent ; with loss of smell and taste, hunger, sore eyes and tension in forehead.

Face : deadly pale ; feels swollen and as if white of egg had dried on it.
Dry, shrivelled spots in face. θ Hemorrhoids.
Crusta lactea, with stringy, yellow stools.
Gnawing pain commences at 9 P. M. ; affects ramus of lower jaw, and temple of right side, > by warmth and lying on affected side ; comes on gradually and leaves suddenly.
Right-sided neuralgia, affecting face from temple to lower canine teeth, aching and jerking pain, with twitches and contortion of face, and deep blue circle under right eye ; chattering of teeth ; dimness of sight ; black appearance of objects ; wavering of objects.
Buzzing in right ear ; frequent sensation as if skin of cheek and chin were pinched ; pain came gradually and left suddenly ; < in bed, and from excess of heat or cold.

Shooting, stinging pain in a red scar on lower jaw.
Lips peel off.
Swelling and inflammation of submaxillary glands.
Pain in submaxillary gland, extends to tongue ; tongue feels burnt.

Toothache : < in evening in bed, and from cold ; > from heat ; dull, concentrating in right eyetooth, hurts when eating and on pressure ; pain increases slowly, ceases suddenly when reaching highest point.
Dulness of teeth ; teeth on edge.
Destruction of teeth. θ Diabetes mellitus.

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The sensation of quivering all over the body and in the limbs without visible trembling is a very strong symptom of Sulphuric acid, and especially if it is associated with weakness that has been of long standing.

The exhaustion, excitability and hurried feeling are constant factors. The hemorrhagic disposition with many complaints. Black fluid blood from all the orifices of the body. Small red spots enlarging rapidly to resemble Purpura hoemorrhagica. Blue-black spots on the skin from slight injury.

Blood-red spots on the skin like those on a brook trout sometimes after injuries. Chafing easily, followed by ulceration. Boils and bedsores. It has many of the complaints found in old people. The -morning aggravation of symptoms is also a strong feature. Sensitive to cold and emaciation. The pains are bruised, burning, tearing, stitching, shooting and jerking. The pain comes oil slowly and departs suddenly. The discharges are dark, thin blood or blood-streaked; or thin, yellow and bloody.

The discharges are excoriating. General sweat after eating. The symptoms predominate on the right side. It is often indicated in sour-smelling babies like Hepar, and it is as sensitive to touch and nearly as sensitive to cold. When it has cured the sensitiveness to cold the patient often becomes worse 'and requires Pulsatilla, which is the complement and antidote.

Prostration of mind and body, with extreme sadness, weeps continuously.

Nothing can be done to please him. Fretful and irritable over the slightest cause. He cannot eat and work fast enough. No one does anything to please him; in such a hurry if doing anything or going anywhere. All things must be done at once. Unwilling to answer. Irresolution.

Vertigo in close room. Better walking in the open air. Better lying. Sometimes compelling him to keep his bed.

Tension in the forehead with coryza.

The brain seems loose and seems to fall to side lain on, better sitting perfectly still, worse walking. The blood flows strongly to the head and the feet become cold.

Electric shocks in forehead and temples in forenoon and again in evening.

Sensation as though a plug were being driven into the skull by strong blows. The pains in the head come on slowly and cease suddenly. Violent headaches in debilitated people. Extreme soreness in the periosteum such as is found in syphilis. The hair falls out or turns gray. Ulceration of the scalp. Extremely sensitive eruptions.

Lachrymation when reading.

Chronic inflammation of the eye, with enlarged veins and ulceration.

Sensation of foreign body in right outer canthus.

Soreness in the eyes with coryza.

Severe ear pains that increase gradually and cease suddenly.

Gradual loss of hearing.

Bloody discharge from ear.

Buzzing in the ear.

Slowly oozing, dark, thin blood from the nose in the evening.

It cures acrid, bloody discharge from nose in feeble patients when the generals are covered by it.

The coryza is dry or fluid with loss of smell and taste.

The face of the Sulphuric acid patient is a most sickly one.

Pale, sickly and sometimes jaundiced. The expression of long suffering is marked. The deep lines of pain, depletion and emaciation. Tension of the face or a sensation as though white of egg had dried on it.

Violent neuralgic pains of the face coming on gradually and ceasing suddenly, ameliorated by warmth and lying on the painful side. Small red spots or specks on the face gradually increasing in size. Inflammation of the submaxillary gland.

The teeth decay early.

Violent neuralgia of the teeth, coming on slowly and ceasing suddenly.

Worse from cold and better from beat, worse in the evening in bed.

The teeth are on edge.

Loss of taste during coryza.

The sore mouth is one of its most important features.

It is our most frequently indicated remedy for nursing sore mouth.

The aphthous mouth of infant or mother with yellowish or whitish ulcers.

Bloody saliva from mouth; vesicles in the mouth.

Breath very offensive.

Bleeding from the mucous surfaces of mouth and gums with or without Purpura hoemorrhagica. Rapidly spreading ulcers in the mouth.

Inflammation of the throat that is aphthous or follicular.

Denuded mucous membrane.

Diphtheritic exudate yellowish or white with aphthous surroundings and bleeding from nose, gums or other parts.

Diphtheria with more than ordinary exhaustion and foetor.

The uvula is oedematous.

The throat is full of spreading ulcers.

Painful sore throat with painful, difficult swallowing.

During the throat troubles fluids drunk run out of nose.

Salivation, glands of throat swollen and there is great swelling of the tonsils, soft palate and throat in general.

Dark fluid blood from throat and mouth.

He craves brandy and fruit.

Loss of appetite and progressive weakness are strong features. Aversion to the smell of coffee. He cannot drink cold water, as it feels so cold in the stomach and makes him chilly. Violent, spasmodic hiccough, such as occurs in drunkards.

Chronic heart burn. Sour belching. Sour vomiting. The teeth are always on edge from sour eructations. Sour vomiting during pregnancy. Vomiting of drunkards in the morning. (Compare Arseni cum.) Sour and very foul. Nausea and shivering. Coughing and belching sour fluids. The stomach seems to hang down as if relaxed. Vomiting after drinking cold water. Violent, spasmodic pains in the stomach. The pains come gradually and cease suddenly. The sour vomiting is most like Robinia.

She does not vomit food, but cannot eat, as it causes pain in stomach and she vomits mucus. After intermittent fever had existed some time the spleen enlarges, and is painful on coughing and sore to touch. Stitching pains in spleen and liver. It has many times overcome the poison of lead and lead colic. Sinking, weak feeling in abdomen after stool. Weak feeling in abdomen, as though menses would come on. Labor-like pains in abdomen, extending to hips and back.

Diarrhoea with great general weakness and sensation of trembling. With weak, sinking sensation in the abdomen after stool. Chronic diarrhoea with much suffering. Excoriating stools, burning in rectum during stool. Diarrhoea brought on from the least indiscretion in eating, after fruit, especially if unripe, after oysters. Stool watery orange yellow, stringy, MUCOUS, Mixed with blood, greenish, black, undigested smelling like spoiled eggs. Hemorrhoids very sore, itching, painful during stool, in drunkards. In constipation the stool is in small balls.

Pain in the bladder if the desire to pass urine is postponed. It had cured diabetes. Scanty urine. Bloody urine. Cuticle in the urine.

The menses are too frequent and copious and the flow is dark and thin.

Many symptoms come before the menses. Nightmare before, menses. Has nightmare at the close of the menses. The vagina is prolapsed and gangrenous. Leucorrhoea bloody, acrid, milky or albuminous, yellow.

The woman at the climacteric period has many symptoms peculiar to Sulphuric acid. The flashes of heat, weakness, sensation of trembling, a nervous hurry in all her actions and feelings, bleeding from uterus and other parts of blood that does not coagulate, and constipation with small, hard balls like sheep's dung are symptoms common to the critical period. It often causes the vomiting of pregnancy. Vomiting preceded by cough.

It has cured sterility when. it was supposed to depend upon the copious and frequent menstrual flow. Violent itching of the vulva.

Pain and soreness in the larynx. Pain in the larynx on swallowing.

Hoarseness with a dry feeling and sensation of roughness in the larynx. Weak chest and great dyspnoea. Rapid movement of the wings of nose like Lycopodium. Rapid moving up and down of the larynx during the dyspnœa. Short of breath.

Except in the morning the cough is dry and hacking. Sometimes in two coughs. He coughs in the open air, either walking or riding, worse from cold drinks and from. the odor of coffee. Cough followed by itching and vomiting. The irritation is felt in the chest. The expectoration is in the morning of dark, thin blood, or of thin, yellowish, blood-streaked mucus tasting sour.

Weakness in the chest with burning and stitching pain. Pressure on left side of chest. Profuse haemorrhage from the lungs of dark fluid blood, after pneumonia, and during the climacteric period.

Ulceration of lungs (compare Kali carb.). Oppression of the chest and suffocation unless he lets the legs hang down. It has been a very useful remedy in the first steps of phthisis with profuse sweat and great weakness, but where given in the last stage it has appeared to bring on haemorrhage and increase of the inflammatory condition in the lungs. Stitching pains in the heart, palpitation. It has been useful in pleuritic exudation.

Great weakness in the spine, felt mostly when standing and sitting.

Pain in the lumbar region. Soreness between shoulder blades when coughing. Stiffening of the back in the morning on rising. Large abscess on the right side of the neck.

Black and blue spots on the limbs. Stitching pain in the shoulder joint on lifting the arm. Stitches in finger joints. Chafing of thighs after rising. Marked weakness in knees and ankles. Swollen veins of feet. Chilblains of frost-bitten parts. Twitching if fingers during sleep.

Late falling asleep and wakens too early. Nightmare before menses.

It has chilliness, flashes of heat with sweat. Copious sweat, mostly on upper part of body, from motion, sour, cold, after eating warm. food. Morning sweats. Night sweats. Typhoid fever with great prostration. Bleeding from capillaries. Dark, thin blood.

Haemorrhage of dark, thin blood from the bowels. Putrid forms of continued fever. Cadaveric countenance.

Ecchymoses, purpura haemorrhagica. Old cicatrices turn red and become painful. Itching and prickling with eruptions. Pimples. Red itching blotches on the skin. Livid spots. Contusions, bedsores. Boils and abscesses. Nodular urticarias.

It cures old indolent ulcers that bleed easily dark blood. Sensitive painful spreading ulcers. Stinging burning pain in ulcers. It has cured putrid ulcers on legs. It is useful in ulcers of drunkards, in ulcers following a low form of fever. Thin yellow or bloody discharge.

Adapted to the light-haired; old people, especially women; flushes of heat in climacteric years.

Unwilling to answer questions not from obstinacy, but inaptness.

Feels in a great hurry; everything must be done quickly (Arg. n.).

Pain of gradual and slowly-increasing intensity which ceases suddenly when at its height, often repeated (Puls.).

The pain is pressure as of a blunt instrument. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries, especially of old people.

Child has a sour odor despite careful washing (Hep., Mag. c., Rheum).

Sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side (Bell., Bry., Rhus, Spig.).

* "Just as the milk of Sulphur applied to the skin (worn in the stockings) is the best preventive of cholera, so Carbo v. is the best preventive of yellow fever."—HERING.

In Memphis, in 1873, charcoal came much into favor as a prophylactic; out of more than fifty persons who took it and were constantly exposed to the fever not one was attacked; the usual dose was half a teaspoonful of the crude powder, two or three times a day."—DR. MORSE.

Aphthæ; of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity; gums bleed readily; ulcers painful; offensive breath (Bor.).

Chronic heartburn, sour eructations, sets teeth on edge (Rob.).

Water drunk causes coldness of the stomach unless mixed with alcoholic liquor.

Sensation as if trembling all over, without real trembling; internal trembling of drunkards.

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises, chafing and livid skin; prostration (Acet. ac.).

Ecchymosis; cicatrices turn blood-red or blue, are painful (turn green, Led.).

Petechia: purpura hemorrhagica; blue spots; livid, red itching blotches.

Hemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body (Crot., Mur. ac., Nit. ac.).

Concussion of brain from fall or blow where skin is cold and body bathed in cold sweat.

Weak and exhausted from some deep-seated dyscrasia; no other symptoms (Psor., Sulph.).

Complementary: Puls.

In contusion and laceration of soft parts it vies with Calendula.

Follows well: after, Arn. with bruised pain, livid skin and profuse sweat; after, Led. in ecchymosis.

Ailments, from brandy drinking.

Pernicious, malarial, putrid, typhoid, typhus, septic, yellow, zymotic; regular periods.

Not characteristic; evening most marked.

With thirst; frequent during the day; running down- ward; < in the room, > in open air when exercising. Shiver- ing, in paroxysms; shaking chill over whole body; pains in back and loins. Attacks begin with coldness and trembling, then general rigor.

With thirst; in evening and in bed; after cold shivers gets warm and perspires.

Fever with great disposition to hemorrhage from capillaries and rapid sinking of the vital forces; oozing of dark, liquid blood; face deathly pale; tendency to collapse and gangrene. Black vomit of yellow fever. Flushes of heat (Lach., Sulph.). Urine involuntary.

With thirst; profuse mostly on upper part of the body; sour; cold, soon after eating warm food; mornings; at night, > by drinking wine; with great debility. Nose-bleed.

Must do everything in a great hurry.
Unwilling to answer; says yes or no with difficulty, pulse very small and frequent.
Disheartened.
Inclined to weep.
Irritable, restless.
Mental excitability.

Sensation in forehead as if brain was loose and falling from side to side; worse when walking in the open air; better when sitting quiet in room.
Rush of blood to head in headache.

Painful shocks in forehead and temples, worse in forenoon and evening.
Headache as if a plug were thirst quickly, by increasingly severe blows, in head.
Gradually increasing and suddenly ceasing headache.

Hair turns grey, falls out; eruption on scalp, very sore; worse in open air.

Full with tears, when reading.
Tension in eyelids in morning; difficult to open them.
Deep blue circle under right eye.
Feeling as of a lump in right outer canthus; on closing eye seems to move to inner canthus, and to return on opening.
In chronic inflammation of eyes; more frequently useful in beginning, later Sulphur.

Hardness of hearing; feeling as of leaf lying before ear.
Buzzing in right ear. θ Neuralgia.

Nosebleed: oozing of dark, thin blood; evenings; worse from smelling coffee; of old people.
Coryza, alternately dry and fluent; with loss of smell and taste, hunger, sore eyes and tension in forehead.

Crusta lactea, with stringy, yellow stools.
Face: deadly pale; feels as if white of an egg had dried on it.
Dry, shriveled spots in face (with hemorrhoids).
Pain commencing at 9 P.M. in ramus of lower jaw and temple of right side, better from warmth, and from lying on affected side.
Comes gradually, leaves suddenly.

Shooting, stinging pain in red scar on lower jaw.
Lips peel off.

Toothache; worse in evening in bed, aggravated by cold; better from heat.
Dull toothache concentrating in right eye-tooth; hurts when eating and on pressure.
Pain increases slowly, ceases suddenly.
Destruction of teeth. θ Diabetes mellitus.

Loss of taste.
Talking difficult, as from want of elasticity of the parts.
Tongue dry.

Sensation of dryness.
Much saliva.
Aphthous mouth and gums; yellowish and painful.

Thick yellow membrane on fauces, tonsils, teeth, lips; stick-like glue; impeded deglutition; voice thick; parotids swollen, sopor; stench from mouth.
Stringy, lemon-yellow mucus hangs from posterior nares in diphtheria.
Roughness in throat.
Lancinating in throat and chest at same time.
Constricted feeling in throat.

Desire: for fresh fruit; for brandy.
Loss of appetite and great debility.

Water causes a cold of the stomach if not mixed with alcoholic liquor.
Ailments: from drinking brandy (symptoms are palliated by drinking wine); from eating oysters.
After eating, pain in stomach, and rising of food by the mouthful.
After warm food: 40. Coffee (odor of): 7, 27. Cold water: 27. Alcoholic drinks: 29. Wine: 40.

Belching after cough.
Chronic heart-burn, sour eructations.
Nausea with chilliness.
Sour vomit, first water, then food.
Vomiting, of drunkards.
Raising of mucus so sour that it sets teeth on edge.

Coldness and relaxed feeling in the stomach.
Dyspepsia.

Spleen enlarged, hard and painful; hurts when coughing.

Labor-like pains in abdomen, extending to hips and back.
Colic, with sensation as if a hernia would protrude.
Violent protrusion of an inguinal hernia.

Diarrhœa with great debility.
Stools: diarrhœic, with passage of much flatus; watery and very offensive, like rotten eggs; bright yellow, mucous looking stringy or chopped, cholera infantum; of hard, small, black lumps, mixed with blood, with violent pinching in anus.
Hemorrhoids feel damp, painful to touch, itch violently; stools cause violent burning, stinging, tearing pains, or the tumors prevent passage.

Diminished secretion of brown urine, becoming turbid, like loam-water, on standing.
Sediment like blood and a cuticle on the urine.
Pain in bladder if the call to urinate is postponed.

Erections.
Orchitis, right side.

Menses too early and too profuse.
Distressing nightmare before the menses.
In climaxis, spitting of blood; costive.
Leucorrhœa; acrid or burning; milky or transparent; of sanguineous mucus, with a sensation as if the menses would appear.
Prolapsus of vagina; parts look greenish and smell badly.

Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
Sterility, with menses too early and too profuse.

Hoarseness with dryness and roughness in throat and larynx.
Larynx painful; feels inelastic, causing difficulty in talking.

Shortness of breathe.

Dry, too short hacks; soreness between scapulæ; tiredness; from irritation in chest, with expectoration, in the morning, of dark blood, or of a thin, yellow, blood-streaked mucus, tasting sour; after cough, belching; in the open air; worse from walking, riding, cold water, and odor of coffee.
Cough and hæmoptysis after typhus.

Stitches in chest; about heart.
Sensation of great weakness in chest.
Burning in left side of chest up to throat.
Shooting, stinging, now in scapula, again in arm-pit, or in chest.
Profuse hemorrhage from the lungs: tuberculosis.
Ulcerations in different parts of lungs.

Palpitation of heart, with or without fear or anxiety.
Shooting through the heart.
Pulse: small, feeble, accelerated; affected by alcoholic drinks.

Sternum sore, as if beaten.

Stiffness in back on rising in morning.
Blood-boils on the back.
Large suppurating swelling on right side of neck.

Stitches: in shoulder-joints on lifting the arms; in finger-joints.
Tension in elbow-joint.
Chilblains on hands.
Red swelling on back of hand, not painful.
Blue spots on the arms.
After erysipelas, inflamed swelling of little finger.

Knees painfully weak.
Ankles weak, can't walk.
Feet cold, swollen.
Distention of veins of feet.
Stitching in corns.
Red itching spots on tibia.
Blood-red, very painful scar on tibia.

Lying: 8. Sitting: 2. Rising: 31. Motion: 40. Exercise: 40. Walking: 2, 27, 33. Lifting arms: 32.

Sensation of tremor all over, without trembling.
Debility, great exhaustion.

Goes to sleep too late, wakens too early.
During sleep twitches, especially of fingers.

Morning: 5, 27, 31, 40. Forenoon: 3. Evening: 3, 7, 10, 40. 9 P.M.: 8. Day: 40.

Warmth: 8, 10. In bed: 10, 40. In-doors: 2, 40. Open air: 2, 4, 27, 40.

Frequently chilly during day; worse in-doors, better out-doors when exercising.
Frequent chills, running down the body.
Heat in evening and in bed.
Flushes of heat, with sweat. θ Climaxis.
Sweat: excessive, mostly on upper body; from motion, continued after sitting down; sour; cold, immediately after eating warm food; mornings; at night profuse; lessened by drinking wine.

Itching of skin every Spring; formation of single pustules.
Gradually coming, suddenly ceasing: 3, 8, 10.

Pressing, stinging pains inward.
Right: 5, 6, 8, 10, 22, 28, 29. Left: 18, 28, 29. Above downward: 40.

Scars become blood-red or blue, and painful.
Painful sensitiveness of glands.
Veins (of feet) distended.
Weak and exhausted from some deep-seated dyscrasia.
Hemorrhages of black blood from all the outlets of body.

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, when there are bruises, chafing, lividity of skin.
Scratching seldom relieves itching, but changes its locality.
Pressure: 10. Touch: 20. Riding: 27.

Scars turn blood-red and hurt.
Blue spots like ecchymoses.
Red itching blotches on skin.
Yellow skin, livid spots.
Gangrenous tendency after a bruise.

Frequently indicated for old people, particularly women.
Child sour despite careful washing.
Light-haired people.
In climacteric years, flushes of heat.

Follows well after Arnica.
Pulsat. is complimentary and antidotal.
Sulph. ac. antidotes bad effects of lead water.

It is diluted with distilled water (1 to 9) for use.

Compare Sulphur.

Lying on back, body and lower limbs immovable; on right side, with knees drawn up and body bent forward; doubled up almost in the shape of a ball. ▶ Emaciation. ▶ Appearance as in collapsed stage of cholera, extremities livid, cold clammy feel, pulse gone. ▶ Tremor. ▶ Twisting about on all sides. ▶ Convulsions; with falling to the ground; with unconsciousness; with cramps in pharynx preventing swallowing; every half hour, with dyspnœa, distorted eyes, gnashing of teeth, frothing from mouth and cold sweat on face; epileptiform, with rush of blood to head, unconsciousness; clonic, of upper limbs and dorsal muscles, convulsions of facial muscles, eyes sunken.

Agony, with occasional hysterical fits, with spastic rigidity of muscles of lower jaw, loss of speech sudden weakness, weak and fluttering pulse, pallor and dejection of countenance. ▶ Rheumatic, tearing and drawing in whole body. ▶ Pain; in every part; in spots, at first increasing, then suddenly disappearing; intermittent, with drawing up to legs and moanings. ▶ Consumption. ▶ Symptoms of last stage of croup. ▶ Rush of blood upward, with anxiety and tossing about. ▶ Tremulous sensation over whole body, without trembling, amel. morning. ▶ Hyperæsthesia over trunk. ▶ Sensation as if he would fall to one or other side when walking. ▶ Restlessness; and loud scream. ▶ The odor of coffee is disagreeable and causes weakness and trembling. ▶ Weakness; in morning after taking milk; after eating; amel. open air, with pain in forehead; and marasmus. ▶ Collapse; with restlessness; with irregular, finally suppressed pulse, cold sweat, etc. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Paralysis, with epileptiform spasms. ▶ Inability to move or talk. ▶ Symptoms appear immediately after dinner. ▶ Aggravation in open air; A. from cold, wet and windy weather, amelioration when warm and dry. ▶ Amelioration from pressure over epigastrium.

General tendency to hæmorrhage in various parts.

Delirium; at night. ▶ Excitement. ▶ Jocose. ▶ Exaltation of mind and disposition. ▶ Fretful; all day, she avoids speaking to every one; in morning on waking; if his work is not done to suit, and impatient; and quarrelsome, averse to answering; and sick, so that she started at everything; and sad. ▶ Mistrustful. ▶ Sedate, earnest. ▶ Lachrymose. ▶ Fright. ▶ Melancholy and weary of life; M. in morning. ▶ Despondent. ▶ Apprehensive; from morning till evening. ▶ Anxiety; with tossing about; with burning pain and heat in stomach; with nausea, then vomiting of mucus. ▶ Averse to talking. ▶ Hasty mood, she can finish nothing quickly enough though it fatigues her. ▶ Distraction, often gave inappropriate answers. ▶ (Stupor); in paroxysms. ▶ Roused with difficulty, and when aroused resisted, saying "Let me alone, let me die." ▶ Inclined to coma. ▶ Unconsciousness.

Stitches here and there when walking in open air. ▶ Tearing. ▶ Aching; as if shattered in morning after waking, with sleepiness; as if it would burst; as if full; drawing, in evening; drawing, agg. right side towards forehead. ▶ Drawing and tension. ▶ Dullness; in morning, with heaviness; with burning in stomach. ▶ Heaviness and pain as brain as if brain fell forward and came through; H. fulness and necessity to hold it forward. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Vertigo on rising; in afternoon when sewing; when sitting; amel. open air.

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Weakness, with tendency to hæmorrhages; with a sensation of trembling.
Pains gradually increase and suddenly disappear.
General aggravation on the left side, in the open air, in the forenoon and also in the evening.
(Results of bruises, especially with blunt instruments).
General rapid sinking of strength, with desire for stimulants.

Fretful or impatient mood.
Uneasiness and irritability.

Brain feels loose.
Pain as from the sudden thrusting of a plug or as of a dull instrument pressing deep into the brain, gradually increasing and suddenly disappearing.

Nose-bleed, particularly in the evening (in old people).

General paleness.
A feeling as if albumen had dried upon the face, like a film.
Lips are scaly.

Toothache, tearing, < evening and after lying down; < cold, > warmth.
General dryness of the mouth, aphthæ.
Saliva profuse.
Gums swollen, bleeding easily.
Hæmorrhage from the mucous membrane easy.
Tendency to unhealthy ulceration, even gangrenous.

Inflammation, aphthous ulceration.
Swallowing difficult on account of sense of constriction and swelling in the pharynx and œsophagus.

Desire for fresh fruit.
Sour eructations and heartburn.
The region of the stomach painful after eating.
Intense desire for alcoholic stimulants (frequently applicable to the effects caused from taking them).

All drink, except stimulants, seems to make the stomach cold.
Stitches in both hypochondria.
Weak, feeling, with sinking or dragging, into the hips and small of the back.
Flatulent colic, and a feeling as if hernia would protrude.

Dragging in the anus during and after stool.
Diarrhœa of yellow mucus, even frothy, fetid, with general sour odor of the body.
Stools are nodular and black, often streaked with blood.
With the evacuation an empty, faint feeling in the abdomen.

Pains in the bladder on retaining the urine.
Urine usually scanty, burning, becoming turbid like gruel.

Menstruation early and profuse.
Acrid burning leucorrhœa, often of bloody mucus or milky or transparent.

Dry cough in the morning after rising; < open air.
Cough always followed by eructations.
Bloody expectoration.
Stitches in the chest.
Weakness in the chest.

Pain in the lumbar region, and stiffness in the morning on rising.
Purpura on the arms and thighs.

Spots like extravasated blood, as from a bruise.
Flesh becomes sore from walking or riding.
(After the slightest bruise, blood settles, and there is tendency to ulceration and even gangrene.)

General lack of vital heat.
Dry heat, with much thirst.
Sour perspiration at night.
Perspires easily when at work or in the morning.

Clinical:
Low types of fever (typhoid), with drowsiness, stupor, sour discharges; tendency to hæmorrhages, soft pulse, tremulousness, deathly paleness of the face, rapid sinking.

SULPHURICUM ACIDUM. SULPHURIC ACID.

This well-known acid, very corrosive in its concentrated state, is now made directly from sulphur, but formerly it was gained by the distillation of green vitriol (or copperas) and was on that account called oil of vitriol or vitriolic acid. One drop of sulphuric acid in its concentrated state is dynamized for homœopathic use by being shaken up with 99 drops of distilled water by concussive strokes. To continue this potentizing, one drop of this potency is shaken up with 99 drops of alcohol, and so on for further potencies. Sulphuric acid, where homœopathically indicated, removed also the following ailments : Tension in the eyelids, in the morning ; short-sightedness ; hardness of hearing, inguinal hernia ; chronic looseness of the bowels ; profuse menstruation ; discharge of blood from the uterus ; roughness of the throat ; asthma ; swelling of the feet ; coldness of the feet. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-observers are as follows : Fr. H., Friedrich Hahnemann ; Frz., Franz ; Gr., Gross ; Lgh., Langhammer ; Ng., is the anonymous contributor in the annals of Hartlaub and Trinks. [*].

[] The pathogenesis of sulphuric acid is made up of one published in Vol. VIII of the Archiv (1828), containing 217 symptoms, and of another by Nenning, as above. From the date and the names of the provers it is possible that the symptoms of Hahnemann and his associates were obtained in his earlier manner. -Hughes*.

Dejection, surly mood. [Lgh.].

Melancholy and tired of life.

Great apprehensiveness, from morning till evening (13th d.). [Ng.].

Apprehensive and solicitous, with inclination to weep (2d d.). [Ng.].

[5] Very gloomy, irritable mood.

Inclined to weep, without cause (1st d.). [Ng.].

Fearing many things, exceedingly suspicious.

Very much afraid, dejected, vexed.

Grieving vexation.

[10] So irritable and affected that she gets frightened at everything.

Restlessness (aft. 12 h.).

Hastiness ; everything she does, she cannot accomplish fast enough ; but it fatigues her exceedingly.

Bad humor, all day ; she was averse to speaking with anybody.

Dull, gloomy mood, in the morning. [Frz.].

[15] It annoys her to have to talk. [Ng.].

Vexed, peevish, impatient, at once, when he does not succeed in his work. [Ng.].

Peevish, passionate, she answers only with reluctance. [Ng.].

Very much vexed, in the morning, on awaking.

Very much vexed, also by day.

[20] Diminution in the anxious, oppressed feeling, and in the pusillanimity, alternating with exaltation, and instead of it (as a curative effect), a tranquil coolness. [Frz.].

Sedate, serious mood.

Too great an inclination to joke.

Elevation of spirit and of mind.

Great distraction ; she frequently gives answers which are quite unsuitable. [Ng.].

[25] Stupor of mind. [] [JACOBSON, in Hufel. Journ. XIX, 2, 164.]*.

[] Observation on fever patients. -Hughes*.

Weakness in the head. [Fr. H.].

Pressive muddled feeling in the head.

Muddled feeling and heaviness of the head, in the morning. [Ng.].

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Sul. A. / The Sultana.

Sulphuric acid,-As we find,
With acids of the several kind,
A typhoid state presents to view,
Black bleeding-apthtae-spots of blue.
The mind, though prone to haste, is dull,
The brain seems loose within the skull,
Upon the face there is a sense
As if by white of egg drawn tense.
A belching after cough we note
While cold drink chills the stomach coat.
Soft yellow stools intensely foul,
Exhaust the empty feeling bowel.
All symptoms worse whene'er we get
A weather change, to cold and wet.

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The Sultana,-Has an empty feeling in the abdomen.

The Sultana, Staph, Is passing for a poetess.

This Sultana, Who is subject to haemorrhage of black blood,-Is in at Crocus Kipling's, for sour ale.

Empty feeling in the Abdomen: Sul. a., Stap., Pul., Sep., Pod.

Bleeding Black Blood: Sul. a., Cro., Kal. p., Mur. a., Nit. a., Lach. (Black strings, Cro.)

Indicated in adynamic conditions with haemorrhagic tendency, sense of general trembling, craving for, and intolerance of stimulants; specially in typhoid fever and in diphtheria with very copious exudation. Valuable in vomiting, particularly of old topers. "Sour" odor of the breath and of the body of the patient is characteristic.

Extreme exhaustion, with sensation of trembling weakness all over, without trembling.

Sensation as if brain were loose in the forehead and falling from side to side.

Is in great hurry; everything must be done quickly; cannot wait.

Gums bleed easily; aphthae in the mouth.

Petechiae; purpura haemorrhagica; haemorrhage of black blood from the outlets of the body.

Vomiting of food and drink, with craving for stimulants; breath smells sour.

Diarrhoea; stools very fetid; of yellow mucus, like chopped egg; sour odor of the body.

Peevishness. Seriousness alternating with too great hilarity. Great tearfulness. Restlessness and impatience. Great irritability.

Sensation as of smoke in one side. Concussion, as if brain were loose. Painful jerks and thrusts in forehead and temples. Headache, as if a plug were rapidly thrust by increasingly severe blows into head. Dull sticking, or pressive head pains, increasing gradually, then suddenly disappearing. Worse: Forenoon and evening, walking, in open air, standing, sitting. Better: sitting quietly in a warm room.

Hair turns gray early and falls out, with an eruption and erosive sore pain on scalp, which changes place when scratched.

Burning pressure in eyes. Tears in, when reading. Difficult opening of lids. Short sight.

Diminished hearing, as though a leaf lay before. Roaring, in evening

Dark nosebleed in evening. Stuffed coryza, with loss of taste and smell.

Pale. Swollen sensation in, accompanied by a feeling as though' white of egg had dried thereon. Peeling lips. Pain extending from lower jaw into tongue, as though' glands were swollen. Swelled submaxillary glands.

Dull. Tearing ache, worst in evening after lying down, intensified by cold and ameliorated by warmth.

Sense of dryness in. Aphthae in children. Roughness in throat. Profuse salivation. Burning in oesophagus.

Grasping in, every evening, as after taking cold. Sensitiveness of pit. Pressure in pit. Unless mixed with a little spirits every drink chills stomach.

Hypochondria: Stitches: in hepatic region, in spleen.

Appetite: Desire for fresh fruit, especially plums.

Eructations: Sour or bitter. Violent heartburn. Sweetish gulping up (after every cough) Waterbrash.

Nausea: IN stomach, with the chill. Vomiting, first of water then ingesta.

Sense of warmth in umbilical region. Nightly cutting in. Labor - like pains extending into hips and small of back. Flatulent colic with a feeling as though' a hernia would appear. Violent protrusion of an inguinal hernia.

Ineffectual urging to. Delayed, compact, hard, nodular and black. Hacked (in children). Green, curdled diarrhoea, smelling like rotten eggs. Very foul smelling.

Diminished discharge of brown urine, which, upon standing, m becomes turbid like loam water.

Menses: Too early and too profuse. Acrid, burning leucorrhoea.

Asthmatic, excited by an irritation in the chest, dry in evening, in morning, with expectoration of dark blood or a thin. Yellowish, sometimes blood streaked mucus, generally sour, but often salty or sweet. Dry, early in morning after rising. Chronic hemoptysis. Much worse in open air. Always followed by eructations.

Roughness in. Hoarseness.

Stitches. Tight. Extraordinary sense of weakness in. Stitches in heart. Palpitation with or without anxiety.

Stiff, early in morning when rising.

Drawing and tearing through' entire body, even in face. Stitches in joints. Pain, as of an instrument pressing against part, gradually increasing then suddenly ceasing. Effects of pressure, blows or contusions of dull instruments. Weakness of entire body with, a feeling as though' he were trembling. He is not so well in open air. The left side is principally affected. Most symptoms appear or are aggravated in the afternoon of toward evening. Also worse in AM Very suitable for females, especially in the climacteric. Aggravation or most symptoms from the odor (not use) of coffee, and pains which suddenly vanish, furnish indications which hardly ever deceive.

Glands painfully sensitive.

Bluish spots, like extravasation of blood after contusions. Easy excoriation from walking or riding. Red, itching spots upon skin bone. Frost bites Eating.

He falls to sleep late and awakens early. Sleeplessness, as from activity.

Pulse: Small and weak, but accelerated. Chill: During day, mostly when in a 100m, better motion in open air. Frequent shuddering run down over body. Heat: In evening, also after lying down in bed. Frequent flashes of heat, in evening, especially after motion. Attacks of over - running heat, with concomitant sweat (during climacteric period). Sweat: Most profuse on upper part of body. Profuse, in early morning. From every exertion, continuing long after sitting down. Sour, Cold, immediately after eating warm food.

Allied Remedies: Ars., (CAUST.), Chin, Dig., Fer., Flu. ac., Ip., Lach., Merc-c. Plb., PULS.

Complementary: Puls.

Drawing and tearing in the body, even in the face.

Stitches in the joints.

Aggravation, then sudden relaxation of the pains.

Weakness of the whole body, with sensation as if from trembling.

In the open air he feels worse.

The left side is more affected.

The pains are felt during sleep.

Small bluish spots as from suggilation, or red itching spots.

After eating, eructations.

The ingesta rise up again.

After eating warm food cold perspiration.

Perspiration from every motion.

Variableness.

Aphthae.

Small, weak pulse.

Catamenia too early and too profuse.

Tight, dry cough with slight hacking.

Very effective in curing bronchitis in children with short teasing cough.