Anæmia. Anæsthetics, antidote to. Ascarides. Burns. Corns. Croup. Debility. Diabetes. Diphtheria. Dropsies. Fevers. Hydrophobia. Nævi. Narcotics, antidote to. Phthisis. Sausage-poisoning, antidote to. Scalds. Stings. Stomach, cancer of. Varicosis. Warts.

The leading features of acetic acid are excessive wasting and debility; anæmia with waxy pallor of face; intense thirst; burning in throat; nausea, retching, and sour rising as met with in cases of cancer and debility. There are gnawing, ulcerative pains in stomach; pain and burning in abdomen. Profuse, exhausting diarrhœa. It has been used in diabetes. It corresponds to putrid and hectic fevers with night sweats; hæmorrhages, varicose swellings, and dropsies. As a type of vinegar effects may be mentioned the following: A plump and blooming young woman took a small glass daily to reduce size. Soon lost flesh and colour. In a month cough set in with white concocted phlegm, fever, dyspnœa, night sweats, anorexia, dropsy, diarrhœa, death. Lungs after death were found stuffed with non-suppurating tubercles. A young German, after working twelve months in a vinegar factory, was obliged to leave from indigestion, dyspnœa, and ready fatigue. It is suited to children and old people; to lax, pale, lean persons. (Equal parts of vinegar and hot water make a refreshing sponge-down for many conditions of fever, with or without perspiration.)

Compare: Apis, Ars. (but Acet. ac. has more preponderant gastric symptoms than either); Carbol. ac., Lac. defl., Lact. ac., Uran. nit. Large doses of Acet. ac. are best antidoted by Magnesia or Calcarea either as fluid magnesia or as lime-water. Antidotes to potencies are: For depressing, agonising feeling, Tabac., Acon.; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms, Nat. m., and afterwards Sep. It antidotes: Anæsthetics, Acon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Ignat., Opium, Plumb. (colic), Sep., Stram., Tabac. It counteracts sausage-poisoning. It aggravates the effects of Bell., Merc., Arn., Lach. Disagrees when given after Borax, Caust., Nux v., Ran. b., Sars.: Scilla, Colch., and Sang. have more effect in curing some diseases when prepared with Acet. ac. than with Alcohol.

Very dull and low-spirited; irritable.─Alternate stupor and delirium.─Confusion of ideas.─Grieves much; sighs often.─Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing.─Vertigo with feebleness and fainting.

Heaviness and dull pains in forehead and vertex.─Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee, or alcohol.

Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.─Nose-bleed, esp. from a fall or a blow.

Expression wild, pupils dilated.─Face pale, waxen, emaciated.─Left cheek (esp.) very red during fever.─Bright red flush on both cheeks.─Sweat on forehead in spots.

Teeth feel dull, breath foul.─Scorbutic ulcers; toothache.─Taste sour.─Epithelium of mouth quite white.─Tongue pale and flabby.

Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty even a teaspoonful of water.─White false membranes in throat.

Insatiable burning thirst.─Shrieks for water at night.─Intense thirst; nausea, and frequent vomiting.─Disgust for salted things and cold victuals.─Cold drinks lie heavy.─Vegetables, except potatoes, disagree, also bread and butter still more.─Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment; violent burning pain in stomach and in chest, followed by coldness of the skin and cold sweat on forehead.─Indurations in stomach.─Scirrhus of pylorus.

Distension of the abdomen; colicky pains.─Ascites.─Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on his back.

Diarrhœa, with great thirst, drinking large quantities with apparent impunity.─Diarrhœa, with swelling of legs and feet (phthisical subjects).─Diarrhœa, with colic pains and tenderness of the abdomen.─Hæmorrhage from bowels.─Chronic constipation.─Ascarides.─Chronic diarrhœa of children with great emaciation.─Constipation, with great thirst and excess of pale urine.

Urine increased in quantity; pale; phosphatic; diabetes, with intense, burning, unending and unquenchable thirst and great debility.

Weakening emissions; semen passes at stool.─Prepuce thickened, fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully.─Sexual passion, but feeble erection.

Metrorrhagia; after parturition, with great thirst.

Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation.─Lining membrane of larynx and trachea covered with a fibrinous exudation as in true croup.─Hissing respiration, with rattling in the throat.─Croup-like cough; a hollow sound with each inhalation.─Hæmoptysis.

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

Œdematous swelling of the feet and legs.

Convulsions.─Jumps out of bed like a madman, and crawls on the ground, howling with pain.─Great emaciation.─Skin pale and waxen.─General anasarca and dropsical affections.─Burning in inner and outer parts.

Sugillations.─Tetter-like eruptions.─Nævi; warts; corns.

Sleepless.

Skin cold.─Slow fever with night sweats.─Profuse perspiration.─Hectic.─Putrid and typhous fevers.

Aceticum acidum

• The leading symptoms of this drugs are, profound anaemia, with waxy pallor of the face; excessive emaciation; great debility; frequent fainting; difficult breathing; weak heart; profuse urination, vomiting; and sweat.

• It antidotes the effects of all anaesthetic vapours.

• In convulsions, patient jumps out of bed, like a madman and crawls on the floor.

• It is a remedy, for general anasarca and dropsical affections.

• Haemorrhage; from nose, stomach, rectum, lungs, ulcers, etc.

• Child wants to be carried.

• Naevi; warts, corns.

• Grieves, about his sickness and his children.

• Worried about business affairs.

• Borrows trouble.

• Does not know her own children.

• Forgets what he recently happened.

• Aches, from abuse of narcotics, tobacco.

• Child does not let its head touched.

• Left cheek red, during fever.

• Pale, waxen, emaciated.

• Bleed esp. from fall or blow.

• Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty, even a teaspoonful. (Diphtheria).

• No thirst with fever.

• Great thirst with dropsy.

• Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin, and cold sweat on forehead.

• Vomiting, after every kind of food.

• Ulcer, cancer, of the stomach.

• Cold drinks disagree; vegetables, except potatoes, disagree.

• Bread and butter disagree.

• Tympanitic.

• Ascites.

• Haemorrhages from bowels.

• Chronic diarrhoea, of emaciated children.

• Scirrhus of pylorus.

• Large quantities of pale urine.

• Diabetes, with great thirst and debility.

• Metrorrhagia, with great thirst; after parturition.

• Threatening abscess of the breast.

• Milk impoverished, bluish, sour; sucking droop, lose flesh, get marasmus.

• Cough when inhaling.

• Hurried and laborious breathing.

• Rattling in chest.

• Pain (Myelitis) only relieved by lying on abdomen; with profuse urination.

• Oedematous swelling of feet and legs, with diarrhoea.

• Diminished sensibility of the whole body.

• Burning, dry, skin.

• Hectic; with drenching night sweats; sweat profuse and cold.

• Follows China after haemorrhages.

Passes large quantities of pale urine, particularly if accompanied by intense thirst and dry hot skin.