Carbolic Acid

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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 scrapings 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.

Relations. – 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.

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