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Aceticum Acidum. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6] Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30] Outer chest.

[31] Neck and back.


[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34] Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39] Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

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MIND. [1] [Acet. ac.]

Intellect clouded, can hardly express herself.

Confusion of ideas. θ Headache.

Fancies he has an ulcer in his stomach.

Does not recollect what has happened ; knows no one, not even her own children.

Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing. θ Liver complaint.

Anxiety ; grieves about his sickness and his children.

Apparently alarmed at everybody and everything about her (poisoning).

Irritable, with abdominal complaints.

Greatest irritability. θ Headache. θ Liver complaint.

Worse from any nervous excitement. θ Headache.

Dull and low-spirited.

Delirium : with distended belly and obstinate constipation, or with rumbling in bowels, bellyache and diarrhœa ; alternately with stupor. θ Typhus.

   

SENSORIUM. [2] [Acet. ac.]

Vertigo, with feebleness and fainting.

Giddy, dull aching in forehead and top of head.

Giddiness, symptoms of cerebral congestion. θ Headache.

Blood rushes to head, with delirium.

Appears as if drunk, with heavy head.

Stupor only interrupted by delirious talking. θ Typhus.

Falls to ground insensible ; foaming at mouth.

Faints.

   

INNER HEAD. [3] [Acet. ac.]

Dull pains in forehead and vertex ; giddiness.

Heaviness of head, with sense of drunkenness.

Confused dull aching over frontal region. θ Nervous cephalalgia.

Shooting through temples.

Nervous headache, caused by abuse of narcotic stimulants or by chronic gastric irritation.

Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee or alcohol.

   

OUTER HEAD. [4] [Acet. ac.]

Dull aching on frontal protuberance ; later on left.

Distension of temporal blood-vessels, increased heat of head.

Blood-vessels on temples distended.

Red patches on scalp, crusts between hair.

Hair bristles.

Child does not want its head touched. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

   

SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Acet. ac.]

Weak sight. θ Liver complaint.

Dilated pupils.

Protruding eyeballs.

Conjunctiva inflamed, accompanied by sour stomach.

Flow of tears.

   

SMELL AND NOSE. [7] [Acet. ac.]

Nosebleed, especially from a fall or blow.

Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.

   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Acet. ac.]

Expression wild, pupils dilated.

Face pale, waxen, emaciated. θ Dropsy.

One cheek red, the other pale. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Eyes sunken and surrounded by dark rings.

Left cheek bright red with fever. θ Croup.

Sweat on forehead in spots.

   

LOWER FACE. [9] [Acet. ac.]

Lips : become of a deep purple tint ; peel off in flakes.

Aching in upper part of joint of jaw ; < from pressure and motion.

   

TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Acet. ac.]

Scorbutic ulcers ; toothache.

   

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Acet. ac.]

Taste sour.

Pain across root of tongue impedes speech and motion of jaw.

Tongue : pale and flabby, with diminished appetite and no thirst ; dry and cold ; red, sore and burning ; livid, swollen, protruding.

Glands under tongue and lower jaw swollen, sore to touch.

   

INNER MOUTH. [12] [Acet. ac.]

Foul breath.

Buccal membrane whitish, like aptha.

Salivation.

White gums.

   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Acet. ac.]

Children thirsty, but swallow with some difficulty, even a teaspoonful of water. θ Croup.

Has to eat very slowly, difficult swallowing.

Throat inflamed, ulcerated.

A white film low down in fauces. θ Croup.

False membranes in throat.

   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Acet. ac.]

Loss of appetite.

Greatest burning thirst, insatiable even by taking large quantities.

Intense thirst. θ Diabetes. θ Dropsy. θ Chronic
diarrhœa.

Thirsty with dry lips, which peel off in flakes. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

No thirst with fever. θ Croup.

Disgust for salted things and cold victuals.

   

EATING AND DRINKING. [15] [Acet. ac.]

After a meal : vomiting.

Bread and butter disagree.

Vomits after every kind of food. θ Liver complaint.

Cannot drink anything cold, it lies like a load in stomach.

   

HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Acet. ac.]

Hiccough and fetid belching.

Belching > pain in abdomen. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.

Hot eructations, heat in stomach.

Nausea and sweat ; retching with anxiety ; sour risings.

Towards 12 P. M. very sick ; vomits a thick gruelly substance with great relief.

Vomiting : after every meal ; of blood ; like yeast.

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