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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pale; or flushed and burning.─Jaws clenched.

Aching of teeth in r. upper jaw.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yawning and sleepy.─Waking often in night.

Carbolicum acidum

• Carbolic Acid, is a powerful antiseptic, irritant and anaesthetic.

• If affects the mucous membranes; heart; blood and respiration.

• It is a languid, painless; foul and destructive remedy.

• Prostration is very marked; even paralytic, with loss of sensation and motion.

• Discharges are foul, burning.

• Terrible pains coming and going suddenly.

• Acuteness of smell is a strong guiding symptom.

• Pricking.

• Burning sensation.

• Malignant and septic conditions.

• Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere.

• In cholera when Verat. is indicated but fails.

• Collapse.

• Bloody exudations.

• Unfit for study, as reading agg. all symptoms.

• Trembling; uncertain, staggering walk.

• Jar.

• Reading.

• Pregnancy.

• Combing hair.

• Mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study or to do any physical work.

• Tight feeling as if compressed by a rubber band amel. green tea and smoking.

• As of a hot ball in forehead.

• Scalp tender.

• Headache appearing at the time of menses.

• Severe orbital neuralgia over right eye.

• Smell very acute.

• Ozaena with great foetor and ulceration.

• PALE ABOUT NOSE AND MOUTH.

• Dusky face.

• Intensely foul breath, with constipation.

• Burning in mouth to stomach.

• Glazed.

• Uvula whitened and shrivelled.

• Diphtheria foetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but little pain.

• Nausea and vomiting; of pregnancy, sea sickness, cancer, dark, olive green.

• Heartburn.

• Sore stomach.

• Fermentative dyspepsia with bad breath and taste.

• Craving for stimulants or for smoking.

• Flatulence.

• Constipation with retraction of abdomen.

• Shreddy stools.

- Passes mucus from anus while urinating.

• Diarrhoea; rice water, foetid.

• Urine, scanty, green or dark, almost black.

• Frequent urination at night in old men.

• Diabetes.

• Albuminuria.

• Leucorrhoea; thick, causing itching.

• Severe backache across loins, with dragging down thighs; uterine displacement.

• Foetid acrid discharges; erosion of cervix.

• Thready pulse.

• Aching between scapulae.

• Burning, itching vesicles and pustules.

• Burns tend to ulcerate.

• Erysipelas.

• Bloody vesicles or pustules.

• Very sleepy.

• Profuse cold sweat.

• Kreos.

Dull frontal headache, with the feeling of tightness as if an India rubber band was stretched tightly over the forehead.

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

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

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