SPHERE OF ACTION
This acid is the most caustic and highly corrosive substance known.
It readily dissolves silica and silica acid. As a solvent of silex in the animal economy, it is especially useful. Glass is energetically acted upon by this acid; its transparency is instantly destroyed, and heat is evolved.
Its vapor is more pungent than chlorine, or any of the irritating gases.
Through the organic nervous system, it especially acts upon the teeth, bones, cuticle, hair, faucial and pharyngeal mucous membrane, thyroid gland, genito-urinary organs, and venous system.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS
Its main sphere of action is in diseases of the vegetative tissues, of a chronic suppurative character. In action it closely resembles Silicea.
Head.-Falling off of the hair, with congestion of blood to the head. Baldness.
Great loss of memory.
Caries in consequence of syphilis, or abuse of Mercury, especially of the temporal bone.-RAUE.
Digestive Organs.-Rapid caries of the teeth.
Dental and lachrymal fistulae.
Chronic inflammation of the pharynx and fauces.
Ptyalism.
Enlarged and indurated liver, from abuse of whisky.
Haemorrhoids, with much congestion of blood in the rectum.
Sexual Organs of Women.-Much congestion of the sexual organs, with menses too early and too profuse; thick and coagulated; an uncommon buoyancy of mind; she fears nothing, and is well satisfied with herself.
General Symptoms.-Syphilitic erosions, mucous tubercles, exostoses, and nightly bone-pains.
Tubercles on the forehead and face, with ulcerations.-RAUE.
Pains in the bones, with numbness and powerlessness of the hands, and itching of the skin.
Excessive moisture of the hands and feet.
Squamous eruption on the body.
Caries of the bones.
Varicose veins; typhus with decubitus.
Pains form below upwards.-F.
Better able to endure fatigue, heat and cold.-F.
Bronchocele is said to be rapidly cured with it.
Whitlow externally, solution of one eighth of a grain to an ounce of water; the compress kept constantly moist, give the 30th or 200th internally.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881