Boricum Acidum

Poisonings and provings with Bor. ac. have caused: headache; vertigo; noises

in the ears; prostration; cold saliva; vomiting of tough, greenish stuff; uncontrollable vomiting;

sweat on scrobiculus cordis; hiccough; pasty stool; pain in region of ureters or increased urine

and increased call to urinate; albuminuria; erythematous eruption on face, body, and thighs

followed by pearly vesicles on face and neck. Three cases of poisoning have been reported from

packing the vagina with the dry acid, kept in by tampons till liquefaction took place. Symptoms

were: Formication of hands and feet, later of face. Sad spirits, great nervous depression. Burning

skin; it became swelled and charred, and all motion was painful. One case went into collapse;

temperature subnormal; sighing and weeping by turns. The patients were cold; vagina felt "cold

as if packed with ice." Coldness is a prominent feature, as cold saliva. In the 3x Cooper has

found it give great relief in climacteric flushings. In connection with the skin effects may be

mentioned the case of a woman who took gr. xxx per diem of the acid for a month, when there

appeared a multiform erythema of trunk extending to upper limbs; at the same time there

appeared a painful swelling of upper lids with conjunctivitis and photophobia. Finally the oedema

was so intense as to close the eyes and give the appearance of sclerosed tissue. The symptoms

• ▸began to abate when the Bor.
• ▸ac.
• ▸was discontinued, and disappeared in a week.
• ▸Bor.
• ▸ac.
• ▸has been

largely used as an antiseptic dressing for wounds, as a lotion for the eyes and for whitlow, and as

a wash in catarrh of the bladder. It is much less irritating than Carbolic acid. But it also has

produced skin eruptions. Symptoms > after walking in open air.

Much cold saliva.—Tongue dry, furred, difficulty in moving it; dryness in throat.

Nausea and heaviness in stomach > after walking in open air.—Vomiting of tough

mucus, strongly alkaline.—Vomits greenish stuff.

Pain in region of ureters —Frequent and urgent desire to

urinate —Quantity of urine doubled.—Albumen in urine.

Climacteric flushings (Lach; Amyl nit). Vagina cold, as if packed with ice. Frequent urination with burning and tenesmus.

Vagina packed with it felt cold as if ice had been

used.—Climacteric flushings.

24. Generalities—Collapse —Formication of hands and feet; later of face.

• ▸Multiform erythema of trunk and upper extremities.
• ▸OEdema around eyes.
• ▸Exfoliating dermatitis.
• ▸OEdema of tissues around eyes.

Impetigo figurata first on r. thigh then on left—Burning skin.—Multiform erythema

and hard cedema.

• ▸Antiseptic.
• ▸Climacteric flushings.
• ▸Erythema.
• ▸Eyes, affections of.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Impetigo.

• ▸(Edema.
• ▸Renal colic.
• ▸Vomiting.
• ▸Whitlow.
• ▸Wounds.

Third trituration.

• ▸When the diplococcus of Weichselbaum is present in the sputum of pharyngitis or bronchitis, pneumonia with tenacious sputum, hacking cough and pain, five-grain doses six times daily.
• ▸A solution of Boracic Acid, as an injection, in chronic, cystitis, or, a teaspoonful to a glass of hot milk, taken internally.
• ▸Boro-Glyceride in solution (1:40) is a powerful antiseptic.
• ▸Styes, 15 gr to 1 oz water externally.
• ▸As a dusting powder on ulcerated surfaces.
• ▸In cystitis as an irrigating fluid.