Phosphoricum Acidum

• ▸Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is less poisonous than Phos.
• ▸Our chief knowledge of it is derived

• ▸from Hahnemann's provings in V.
• ▸M.
• ▸P.
• ▸These show a marked action on the emotional and

sensorial faculties, a drowsy, depressed, apathetic state being produced, such as is not

• ▸unfrequently met with in typhoid fevers.
• ▸The keynote of the Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸stupor is that the patient is

easily aroused and then is fully conscious. Indifference; prostrated and stupefied with grief;

effects of disappointed love. Home-sick. The mind is confused; thoughts cannot be connected;

thinking makes him dizzy. The legs tremble in walking and the limbs are as difficult to control as

• ▸the thoughts.
• ▸Many symptoms of vertigo are produced, and one is peculiar.
• ▸Phos.
• ▸has a sensation

as if the chair he was sitting on was rising; Phos. ac. has this: Sensation as if the feet were rising

until he stood on his head. This very symptom occurred in a patient of Skinner's suffering from

small-pox. The disease had been cut short by Variol., when the patient, a lady, complained that

• ▸her feet were rising to the ceiling, and begged her nurses to keep them down.
• ▸Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸speedily

• ▸put her straight.
• ▸Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸causes illusions of the senses as well as of the sensorium, bells are

heard, ciphers, sparks, &c., are seen. At the same time there is exalted sensitiveness to light,

sound, and odours; "odours take away his breath." A remarkable effect was noted by Becher, one

of Hahnemann's provers (the same who experienced the topsy-turvy symptom just mentioned),

namely, that the right pupil became widely dilate while the left remained normal: the more he

strained the eye the wider the pupil became until the iris almost disappeared. Franz had this

symptom "Sees things lying near him (outside the sphere of vision) moving." Meyer had a

somewhat analogous mental symptom: "When reading a thousand other thoughts came into his

head, and he could not rightly comprehend anything; what he read became as if dark in his head,

and he immediately forgot all; what he had long known he could only recall with difficulty."

Such states of mind and the senses are frequently observed in those under the influence of grief

and other depressing emotions; from over-study; and in the subjects of venereal excesses and

seminal loss. But whilst these losses produce extreme weakness of mind and body, and an

abashed, sad state of mind with despair of cure, there is one drain which does not debilitate—a

diarrhoea. "Persistent, painless, watery diarrhoea, often containing undigested particles of food,

and which does not debilitate," is a keynote of Phos. ac. Another characteristic in connection

with the debility of Phos. ac. is that though the weakness is very great the patient is rested by a

• ▸short sleep.
• ▸(Phos.
• ▸also has > by sleep, but not so markedly by a short sleep.
• ▸) The copious

• ▸discharges of Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸appear in the sweat and urine.
• ▸The keynote of the enuresis of Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is

that the child passes a great quantity of urine. The polyuria and dry mouth and throat give

leading correspondences for Phos. ac. in diabetes; and when there is in addition a history of

sexual excess, or of severe mental or emotional over-strain, the indications will be very clear.

White, milky urine; and also white stools, are very characteristic of Phos. ac. The urine may be

passed clear but turns milky at once, and is very offensive. If flatulence is to be regarded as an

excretion that is another instance of the excess of Phos. ac. There is meteoristic distension and

passing of flatus in large quantities; sometimes with odour of garlic. "Meteoristic distension;

rumbling or gurgling and noise as if there were water in abdomen, < when touched and when the

• ▸body is bent backward and forward.
• ▸" A case quoted from H.
• ▸Maandblad.
• ▸illustrates the action of

• ▸Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸in gastric affections.
• ▸A married woman, 36, mother of eight children, had for some

time been so melancholy and depressed as to be unable to fulfil her household duties. There was

no discoverable mental cause, though her condition had been made < by a sudden death in the

family. The beginning of the illness was apparently a weakness of the stomach: small appetite;

always pain and distension after eating; the food seemed to lie long in the stomach undigested.

• ▸Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸6x, ten drops three times a day, soon restored the patient.
• ▸In connection with the

• ▸flatulence of Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸there is even bloating of the uterus with gas.
• ▸The menses are excessive

and premature; and there are many symptoms connected with the pregnant and puerperal state,

including debility from lactation, Phos. ac. has many respiratory symptoms, and this is a

keynote: "Weak feeling in chest from talking, coughing, or sitting too long; > by walking."

Hoarseness and nasal voice; dyspnoea; capillary bronchitis. The cough seems to be caused by

tickling of a feather from middle of chest to larynx, low down in chest, about ensiform cartilage,

pit of stomach; is < evening after lying down; expectoration muco-purulent; salty; bloody;

offensive. Every draught of air = fresh cold. Cough = headache; nausea and vomiting of food;

spurting of urine. A very prominent sensation running through the proving is that of pressure;

pressure as from a crushing weight in vertex, forehead, sternum. Pressure in eyes; in navel; in

• ▸left breast.
• ▸Squeezing above the knee; in the sole.
• ▸The hemorrhages of Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸are dark,

• ▸profuse, with passive hemorrhages.
• ▸A case of land scurvy (quoted Amer.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸, xxii.
• ▸421)

Contracted in mining camps presented the usual condition of the gums, and also purpureal spots

covering the whole body. Patient was able to be about, and had little pain, but was despondent.

• ▸Pulse weak, very slow.
• ▸Had been months ill under old-school treatment.
• ▸Merc.
• ▸sol.
• ▸was given but

• ▸did not relieve.
• ▸Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸given strong enough to taste acid speedily cured.
• ▸A peculiar symptom

• ▸of Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is involuntary biting of tongue in sleep.
• ▸The sphincters are weakened, and there is

involuntary escape of feeces and urine, the latter especially on coughing or movement. Peculiar

• ▸sensations are: As if intoxicated.
• ▸As if head would burst.
• ▸As if feet going up.
• ▸As if weight in

• ▸head.
• ▸As if brain crushed.
• ▸Bones as if scraped with a knife.
• ▸As if eyeballs too large.
• ▸As if white

of egg had dried on face. As if lower jaw were going to break. Nausea as if in soft palate; in

• ▸throat.
• ▸As if stomach being balanced up and down.
• ▸Heavy load in stomach.
• ▸Ants crawling over

body. Uterus as if filled with wind. Tickling in chest as with a feather; as with down in larynx.

Red-hot coal on arm and shoulder, Phos. ac. is suited to: (1) Persons of originally strong

constitution weakened by loss of fluids; excesses; violent, acute diseases; chagrin or a long

succession of moral emotions. (2) Persons of mild disposition. (3) Children and young people

who have grown too rapidly, tall, slender, and slim; with pains in back and limbs as if beaten;

• ▸growing pains.
• ▸Lutze (Hahn.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, 1900, 664) cured with Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸a German woman, 66, of

chronic, early morning, painless diarrhoea after the failure of Pod. and partial success of Gels.

The patient had been ill two years, dating from the time she came to Brooklyn from Germany to

be near her daughters. One of the latter gave Lutze the keynote of the case by telling him that her

mother was home-sick, and wanted to return to Germany, though she had not a single relative

there.—The symptoms are: < By music (every note = stitch in ears; violent pains in head). Slight

shock or noise = pressure in head to be extremely violent. Odours = vomiting. Bad news;

depressing emotions = cough, diarrhoea, &c. Touch <. Movement of child = escape of stool.

Many symptoms are < evening and night. > After short sleep. Many symptoms are > walking.

• ▸Sitting <.
• ▸Standing <.
• ▸< Lying on left side.
• ▸< Side on which he lies.
• ▸< Talking.
• ▸< From mental

affections; suppressed eruptions; loss of fluids, especially seminal; masturbation; perspiration;

urination. There is desire for warm food; which > pressive pain in stomach. Warm room <.

Warmth of bed > pains in bowels. Aversion to uncover in heat. < By draught; wind; snowy air.

Cannot bear draught on chest. Every draught fresh cold. Catching cold in summer = diarrhcea.

Least cold arthritic pains. Coldness of part < pains. Fresh air = invigoration.

• ▸Bad news.
• ▸Grief.
• ▸Chagrin.
• ▸Disappointed love.
• ▸Separation from home.
• ▸Loss of

• ▸fluids.
• ▸Sexual excesses.
• ▸Injuries.
• ▸Operations.
• ▸Over-lifting.
• ▸Over-study.
• ▸Shock.

Listless. Impaired memory (Anac).

• ▸Apathetic, indifferent.
• ▸Cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word.
• ▸Difficult comprehension.
• ▸Effects of grief and mental shock.
• ▸Delirium, with great stupefaction.
• ▸Settled despair.

Disposition to weep, as from nostalgia.—Bad effects from grief, sorrow, unfortunate

love, with great emaciation, sleepiness, and morning sweat.—Sadness and uneasiness respecting

the future.—Anxious inquiries respecting the disease under treatment.—Restlessness and

precipitation.—Silent (sadness) peevishness and aversion to conversation.—Great

indifference——A complete indifference to everything; not a soporous, delirious, or irritable

condition, but simply an indifferent state of mind to all things; patient does not want anything,

nor to speak, shows no interest in the outside world (may occur in any disease in fevers of very

low type).—Difficulty of comprehension, patient will think a little while about a question,

perhaps answers it, then forgets all about it; dizziness of the mind.—When reading, a thousand

other thoughts came into his head, could not rightly comprehend anything; what he read became

as if dark in his head and he immediately forgot all; what he had long known he could only recall

with difficulty.—Inability to endure noise or conversation.—Dulness and indolence of mind, with

• ▸want of imagination.
• ▸—Weakness of memory.
• ▸—Imbecility.
• ▸—Cannot connect his

thoughts.—Paucity of ideas and unfitness for intellectual labour.—Illusions of the senses; hears a

bell pealing; sees only ciphers before his eyes.

Affections of any kind in inner navel; lower part of chest, buttocks, thighs,

external side.—Squeezing or contracting pain; lassitude of the body; feeling very

• ▸weak.
• ▸—Drawings and jerking tearings in limbs.
• ▸—Cramp-like, pressive pains.
• ▸—Painfulness in

general in bones or periosteum.—Sensation as if the periosteum were scraped with a knife; after

contusions.—Aching, burning, tearing pains at night—Swelling (and sponginess) of the bones or

periosteum; burning sphacelus.—Caries with smarting pains—Neurosis of stump after

amputation.—Ulcers with stinking pus; painless.—Burning through lower half of body from small

of back and pit of stomach downwards, while extremities are cold to touch—Weakness from loss

of fluids without any other pain than burning.—Swellings of glands.—Contusive pain in limbs and

joints, as from paralysis, or like growing pains, esp. morning and evening.—Numbness and

weakness of limbs.—Heaviness in limbs and joints, with great indolence.—Great fatigue after

walking.—Great general weakness, physical or nervous, with strong tendency to perspire, during

day (esp. in morning), or with burning sensation in body.—Very pale face; nausea in

throat —Emaciation, with sickly complexion, and eyes surrounded by a livid circle.—Sensation as

if body and limbs were bruised, as from growing, esp. in morning.—Formication in different

parts —Agreeable feeling of buoyancy and lightness.—Violent ebullition of blood, with great

agitation.—The pains are < during repose, and > by movement, and those which manifest

themselves at night are > by pressure-—Symptoms < from mental affections; after suppression of

cutaneous eruptions, i.e., any bad result that ensues from such suppression; from loss of fluids,

particularly seminal; sunlight; masturbation; after perspiration; sexual excesses, talking, esp.

when it causes a weakness in the chest; while urinating.

• ▸Heavy; confused.
• ▸Pain as if temples were crushed together.
• ▸Worse, shaking or noise.
• ▸Crushing headache. Pressure on top.
• ▸Hair gray early in life; falls out.
• ▸Dull headache after coition; from eye-strain (Nat m).
• ▸Vertigo toward evening, when standing or walking.
• ▸Hair thins out, turns gray early.

Vertigo: head sinks forward or backward; on closing eyes; at climaxis with flushes

and sweat; in typhus; when lying in bed, as if fee; were going up and he was standing on his

head; after reflection.—Stupefaction in forehead, with somnolency without snoring, eyes

closed.—Head bewildered, as after intoxication or immoderate pollutions.—Sensation as if

intoxicated, evening, in warm room, with humming in head, which feels as if it would burst

• ▸when coughing.
• ▸—Stunning vertigo when standing and walking, esp.
• ▸in evening.
• ▸—Pressure as

from a weight in head, or as if vertex had been beaten.—Headache in morning.—Aching with

tingling in head.—Headache usually from behind forward.—Constant headache, which compels to

lie down, < to an insupportable degree by the slightest commotion or by noise.—Heaviness of

head, as if full of water.—Violent pressure in forehead in morning on waking.—As if temples and

sides of head were squeezed together by forceps.—Cramp-like and hard pressure in head, < by

pressing on head and by turning it I also by meditation and by going up stairs, but esp. after

midnight, in the part which presses pillow.—Compression in brain.—Tearing

• ▸headache.
• ▸—Lancinations in temples or above eyes.
• ▸—Stitches over one (the r.
• ▸) eye.
• ▸—Jerks or

shocks, blows and hammering in head.—Drawing pains in bones of occiput.—Grey, lank hair, like

tow.—The hair becomes grey early or flaxen, and very greasy, falls off; also hair of beard, esp.

after grief and sorrow.—Pain in bones of skull; it feels as if somebody scraped the swollen and

tender periosteum with a knife, < at rest, > from motion; caries of skull with burning

pain.—Itching of scalp.

• ▸Blue rings around.
• ▸Lids inflamed and cold.
• ▸Pupils dilated.
• ▸Glassy appearance.
• ▸Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow.
• ▸Feel too large.
• ▸Amblyopia in masturbators.
• ▸Optic nerves seem torpid.
• ▸Pain as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head.

Eyes dull, glassy (but without lustre), downcast.—Pressure in eyes, with sensation as if

eyeballs too large; as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head.—Coldness in

internal surface of lids—Eyes dazzled on looking at bright objects.—Burning pain in lids and

their angles, esp. by candle-light in evening.—Inflammation in eyes, with congestion of veins in

• ▸internal angles.
• ▸—Agglutination, mornings.
• ▸—Inflammation of lids—Hordeolum.
• ▸—Y ellow spot in

• ▸sclerotica——Lachrymation.
• ▸—Pupils dilated —R.
• ▸pupil much dilated, |.
• ▸pupil constantly

• ▸normal.
• ▸—Fixed look.
• ▸—Sight confused as if directed through a mist——Myopia.
• ▸—Black band before

eyes; ciphers; sees objects lying near him (outside sphere of vision) moving.—A dull, shooting,

burning pain forced r. eyeball to its outer canthus; could then see nothing with this eye but a

limitless white expanse with fiery points falling on it; later, expanse became fiery and the falling

points dazzling white.

Roaring, with difficult hearing. Intolerant of noise.

Shootings in ears, sometimes with drawing in cheeks, jaws, and teeth, < only by sound

of music.—At every stroke of a bell or musical note stitches in ears like earache, also on singing

himself; non-musical sounds had no effect.—Cramp-like drawings in ears.—Inability to endure

music, noise, and conversation.—Every sound re-echoes loudly in the ears.—Nervous deafness,

• ▸shrill sounds most painful and most distressing (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Deafness for distant

sounds.—Squeaking in ear on blowing nose.—Roaring in ears with difficult hearing.

Bleeding. Bores fingers into nose. Itching.

Swelling on bridge of nose with red spots.—(Redness of tip of nose with dyspepsia.—R.

• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Each dose (3x) goes to his nose as effervescing waters do, and < the redness (agg.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Scabs on nose.
• ▸—Disposition to put fingers into nose.
• ▸—Itching on point of nose; must scratch

• ▸there.
• ▸—Fetid exhalation from nose.
• ▸—Discharge of (bloody) pus from nose.
• ▸—Epistaxis (dark

blood).—Violent coryza, with redness of margins of nostrils.—Fluent coryza, with cough and

burning pain in chest and throat.

Pale, earthy; feeling of tension as from dried albumen. Sensation of coldness of one side of face.

Face pale, wan, with (lustreless) hollow eyes surrounded by a blue circle, and pointed

• ▸nose.
• ▸—Drawings in cheeks and jaws.
• ▸—Irregular features.
• ▸—Heat of side of face on which he is not

lying.—Heat in face, with tension of skin of face, as if the white of an egg had dried upon

it.—Large pimples on face —Burning pain in cheeks.—Humid and scabious tetters on cheeks, lips,

and commissures.—Lips dry, scurfy, covered with suppurating cracks, with pains as from

excoriation.—Y ellow-brown, crust-like eruptions, with pus on lower lip towards corner of

mouth.—Pimples and scabs on red part of lips—Violent burning pain in r. lower lip, persisting

• ▸when moving it.
• ▸—Pimples on chin.
• ▸—Swelling of sub-maxillary glands.
• ▸—Pain in lower jaw as if

dislocated.

• ▸Lips dry, cracked.
• ▸Bleeding gums; retract from teeth.
• ▸Tongue swollen, dry, with viscid, frothy mucus.
• ▸Teeth feel cold.
• ▸At night, bites tongue in voluntarily.

Dryness of mouth and palate without thirst —Viscid, tenacious phlegm in mouth and

on tongue.—Shootings and burning sensation on tongue.—Involuntary biting of tongue at

night.—Swelling of tongue, with pain when speaking.—Red streak in middle of tongue, widens in

• ▸front.
• ▸—Nasal tone of voice.
• ▸—Smarting in mouth during mastication of solid food.
• ▸—Excoriation

and ulceration of velum palati, with burning pain.

Toothache with tearing pain (burning in the front teeth), < by heat of bed and by cold

or hot things.—Violent pains in incisors at night—Violent aching in a hollow tooth when

particles of food get into it, going off when they have been removed.—The teeth are

yellow.—Gums bleeding easily, swollen, stand off from teeth.—Painful nodosities in the gums.

Pain as from excoriation in throat, with smarting, scraping, and shooting, esp. during

passage of food.—Contractive pain in pit of throat——Hawking up of tough mucous phlegm.

• ▸Craves juicy things.
• ▸Sour risings.
• ▸Nausea.
• ▸Symptoms following sour food and drink.
• ▸Pressure as from a weight, with sleepiness after eating (Fel tauri).
• ▸Thirst for cold milk.

Loss of appetite.—Putrid, acid, herbaceous taste.—Prolonged after-taste of food,

• ▸and esp.
• ▸of bread.
• ▸—Repugnance to bread, which seems bitter.
• ▸—Aversion to coffee.
• ▸—Violent thirst

for cold milk or for beer, as well as in general for cool and juicy things; bread appears too

dry.—Insatiable thirst, excited by a sensation of dryness in whole body.—Acids excite bitter

risings and other inconveniences.—Ate heartily, much oppressed after with flatulence.—After a

meal pressure, or a sensation of wavering in stomach, with confusion of head, uneasiness,

fulness, and disposition to sleep, or dejection, as if about to faint.

Sour, incomplete, or burning risings.—Constant nausea in throat.—Nausea which

• ▸compels lying down.
• ▸—Nausea at sight of food.
• ▸—Vomiting of food.
• ▸—Sour vomiting.
• ▸—Pressive

pain in stomach, as from a weight, when fasting, and after any food whatever (with sleepiness),

as also on touching pit of stomach.—Sensation of coldness or of burning in stomach.—Feeling in

stomach as if everything had stuck fast and was dry.

• ▸Distention and fermentation in bowels.
• ▸Enlarged spleen (Ceanoth).
• ▸Aching in umbilical region.
• ▸Loud rumbling.

Spasmodic aching, with (pressure and) anguish in hypochondria, and esp. in

• ▸liver.
• ▸—Sensation as if liver were too heavy.
• ▸—Shootings in regions of liver and spleen.
• ▸—General

tympanites with enlarged spleen.—In navel periodical aching, squeezing.—Contractions in

abdomen on both sides of umbilical region —Spasmodic pains in abdomen, esp. in umbilical

• ▸region.
• ▸—Shootings and cuttings in abdomen.
• ▸—Sensitiveness in lower czecal region.
• ▸—Burning

sensation in hypogastrium.—Meteoristic distension of and frequent grumbling and borborygmi in

abdomen, as if from water in it; esp. when it is touched, and when the body is bent backwards

• ▸and forwards.
• ▸—Production and expulsion of much flatus, esp.
• ▸after eating acid things.
• ▸—Swelling

of inguinal glands.

Diarrhoea, white, watery, involuntary, painless, with much flatus; not specially exhausting. Diarrhoea in weakly, delicate rachitic children.

Hard feces in small portions, difficult to evacuate —Frequent

evacuations.—Diarrheea, particularly painless, which may be very fetid.—Diarrhcea lasting a long

time, apparently without any weakening effect.—Stools: loose, slimy, whitish-grey; undigested,

greenish-white.—Y ellowish and very offensive.—Escape of stool when child is moved or

turned.—Involuntary stools of the consistence of pap (bright yellow), with sensation as if flatus

were expelled. —Choleraic diarrhoea as if rectum remained open.—(Chronic diarrhoea, thin and

• ▸greenish, almost involuntary with gastric irritability—A.
• ▸E.
• ▸Small.
• ▸).
• ▸—In evening great discharge

of garlic-smelling flatus; great yawning.—Protrusion of hemorrhoidal tumours from rectum

during stool.—Intolerable pain in hemorrhoids when sitting —After stool tenesmus; sickening

pain about navel.—Tearing, smarting, and itching in anus and rectum.—Itching prick on outer

circumference of anus.

Urgent want to urinate, with scanty emission of urine, paleness of face,

heat, and thirst.—Frequent and profuse emission of aqueous urine, which immediately deposits a

thick and white cloud.—Urine like milk, with sanguineous and gelatinous coagulum.—Fetid

urine.—Flow of urine with spasmodic pains in loins.—Urgent and irresistible desire to

urinate —Urine like that which passes in diabetes mellitus —Anguish and uneasiness before

urinating. —Nocturnal enuresis.—Children pass a great deal of water in bed at night; persons get

up in the night to urinate and pass a great deal——Burning pain in urethra during and after

emission of urine; cutting before.—Creeping in urethra when not urinating.—Spasmodic (painful)

constriction of bladder (without urging).—Incisive pains in urethra when making water.

• ▸Frequent, profuse, watery, milky. Diabetes.
• ▸Micturition, preceded by anxiety and followed by burning.
• ▸Frequent urination at night.
• ▸Phosphaturia.

Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver. Itching; yellow leucorrhoea after menses. Milk scanty; health deteriorated from nursing.

Oophoritis, metritis, or prolapsus from debilitating or emotional

influences; amenorrhoea.—Very irritable uterus.—Uterine ulcer, with copious, putrid, bloody

discharge, itching or corroding pain, or no pain—Hepatic pains during menses.—Menses too

early and too long; too copious; too late; dark clotted; preceded by leucorrhcea, and for one or

two days by griping and rumbling in abdomen.—Yellowish, itching leucorrhcea after

menses.—Distension of uterus as by gas.—Itching pricking like flea-bites between mamme,

obliging her to rise at night —Dysuria during pregnancy; cutting pains —Vomiting at sight of

food during pregnancy.—Puerperal convulsions; albuminuria; heemorrhage.—Scanty milk with

debility and great apathy.—Deterioration of health during nursing.—Constant vomiting of milk in

a suckling; waxy face; blue rings round eyes; child does not cry; mother has little milk —Sharp

pressure on I. breast; and nipple.

• ▸Emissions at night and at stool.
• ▸Seminal vesiculitis (Oxal acid).
• ▸Sexual power deficient; testicles tender and swollen.
• ▸Parts relax during embrace (Nux).
• ▸Prostatorrhoea, even when passing a soft stool.
• ▸Eczema of scrotum.
• ▸OEdema of prepuce, and swollen glans-penis.
• ▸Herpes preputialis.
• ▸Sycotic excrescences (Thuja).

Lancinating pains in glans.—Fine pricking at point of penis.—Burning

cutting in glans with an out-pressing pain in both groins.—A feeling of heaviness in glans, esp.

when urinating.—Tingling and oozing vesicles round frenum.—Sycotic excrescences with heat

and burning.—Crop of warts on prepuce.—A crop of pedunculated warts come round corolla

• ▸glandis after taking Pho.
• ▸ac.
• ▸in summer drinks (agg.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Condylomata.
• ▸—Eruption on

• ▸penis and scrotum.
• ▸—Inflammatory swelling of scrotum.
• ▸—Pain in testes when touched.
• ▸—Gnawing

pain in testes —Swelling of testes (1.). while spermatic cord is enlarged, hard, and

tightened.—Absence of sexual desire.—Frequent erections (in morning in bed; in morning when

standing), without desire for coition—Weakness of sexual organs, with onanism, and little sexual

• ▸desire.
• ▸—Exhaustion after coition.
• ▸—Frequent and very debilitating pollutions, esp.
• ▸where the

patient is much affected by the flow.—Onanism; esp. when patient is much distressed by the

culpability of the act.—Discharge of semen when straining during an evacuation.

• ▸Chest troubles develop after brain-fag.
• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Dry cough from tickling in chest.
• ▸Salty expectoration.
• ▸Difficult respiration.
• ▸Weak feeling in chest from talking (Stann).

Pressure behind the sternum, rendering breathing difficult.

Voice nasal.—Great hoarseness and roughness in throat.—Pain in pit

of throat, which contracts throat—Cough excited by a tickling and a scraping in larynx; or above

epigastrium, which is dry in evening, and with a yellowish-white expectoration in morning.—The

cough is < morning and evening; during rest if one sits or lies long in the same position; after

sleeping; from cold air; from loss of fluids —(Cough after food of any kind.).—Cough with

(nausea) vomiting of food and headache; involuntary emission of urine —During cough

expectoration (of dark blood, or of tough white mucus, lasting acid), having an herbaceous smell

and taste—Cough with purulent (very offensive) expectoration and pains in chest.—Salty

expectoration in morning.

Palpitation in children who grow too fast; after grief, self-abuse. Pulse irregular, intermittent.

Shortness of breath and inability to speak long, from weakness of chest —Capillary

bronchitis, < evenings, with fever, pain under sternum, then violent sneezing, thirst and coryza,

profuse, purulent secretion.—Spasmodic and contractive oppression of chest, as if

tightened.—Weakness in chest after speaking.—Pressure at chest often spasmodic or

incisive.—Pressive pain in middle of chest, < when expiring; felt as if sternum would be pressed

out; < by pressure with hand, stooping, coughing, &c.—Pressure behind sternum rendering

inspiration difficult.—Lancinations in sides of chest.—Burning and pressure in chest.

Stitches through heart.—Palpitation: in young persons growing too fast;

after onanism.—Pulse irregular, with irregular beating of heart; pulse intermitting —Swollen

veins.

Boring pain between scapulae. Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten.

Tension and cramp-like drawing in muscles of neck, esp. on moving

• ▸head.
• ▸—Miliaria on neck.
• ▸—Boils under axillze; on nates.
• ▸—Boring pain between

scapulze.—Spondylitis of cervical vertebree.—Eruption, painful to touch, on back, shoulder-blades,

neck, and chest.—Burning pain in a spot above small of back.—Itching stitch in coccyx; fine

stitches in coccyx and sternum.—Crawling (formication) tingling in back and loins.

Boring, digging, drawing pain in |. shoulder-joint, intermittent, < lying on 1.

side, > moving arms.—Cramp-like pressure in arms, hands, and fingers ——Drawings and jerking

tearings in arms and fingers.—Eruption of pimples on arms.—Drawing, incisive pains in joints of

elbows, hands, and fingers.—Sharp, shooting, boring pains under |. forearm near elbow, < at

• ▸rest.
• ▸—Numbness in course of r.
• ▸radial nerve.
• ▸-—Weakness and trembling of arms.
• ▸—Trembling of

hands (when writing).—Ganglion on back of hand.—Skin of hands and fingers dry, shrivelled,

parched.—Fingers dead, sometimes on one side only, and within well-defined

limits.—Lancinations (stitches) in fingers and joints of fingers.

Swelling and furunculi on buttocks.—Contusive pains in hips and thighs,

• ▸esp.
• ▸when walking or rising from a seat.
• ▸—On 1.
• ▸hip-joint and 1.
• ▸thigh, a neuralgic or rheumatic

pain, from gluteal muscles or hip-joint, running down leg to knee, and often to calf or ankle; gets

a little > after walking, but is still very bad—Cramp in coxo-femoral joint, with tearing

throughout the limb, insupportable when seated, and during repose.—Aching, cramp-like pains in

thighs, legs, feet, and toes.—Tearing throughout leg, with heaviness in joints —Weakness of legs,

so that a false step (or tripping) occasions falling —Burning tearing in tibia at night.—Pimples on

knees and legs, which become confluent, and are transformed into easily bleeding

ulcers.—Itching ulcers on legs.—Burning sensation in feet and soles, with excoriation between

toes—Swelling of feet—Feet swollen and sore on putting on walking shoes.—In evening

spasmodic drawing in feet, <r. sole and ball of great toe, preventing sleep till

midnight.—Sweating of feet—Corns on feet.—Blisters on balls of toes —Chilblains on

toes Swelling of joint of great toe, with burning, throbbing, and incisive, dull pains on being

touched.

• ▸Weak.
• ▸Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum.
• ▸Cramps in upper arms and wrists.
• ▸Great debility.
• ▸Pains at night, as if bones were scraped.
• ▸Stumbles easily and makes missteps.
• ▸Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints.

• ▸Pimples, acne, blood-boils.
• ▸Ulcers, with very offensive pus.
• ▸Burning red rash.
• ▸Formication in various parts.
• ▸Falling out of the hair (Nat mur; Selen).
• ▸Tendency to abscess after fevers.

Insensibility of skin.—Crawling tingling under skin.—Formication of skin—Red and

• ▸burning spots on limbs.
• ▸—Eruption like scarlatina.
• ▸—Erysipelatous inflammations.
• ▸—Eruption of

small pimples, and of miliary pimples collected in clusters and red.—Eruption of pimples with

burning pain, or pain as from excoriation.—Scabious vesicles.—Humid and dry tetters, squamous;

• ▸variola.
• ▸—Corns with shootings and burning pain.
• ▸—Chilblains —Wens.
• ▸—Warts: large, jagged,

often pedunculated, exuding moisture and bleeding readily;

indented —Condylomata.—Furunculi.—F lat, indolent ulcers, with secretion of a dirty-looking pus,

and having a serrated bottom.—Itching ulcers.

Somnolency. Lascivious dreams with emissions.

Great tendency to go to sleep during day, early in evening, and in morning, with

difficulty in waking —Coma.—Retarded sleep and sleeplessness at night, caused by agitation and

dry heat.—Arithmetical figures appear before eyes on falling asleep.—Profound sleep; can

scarcely be roused in morning.—Jerking and involuntary movements of hands, moaning, talking,

and singing, or an aspect during sleep at one time of laughing, at another of weeping, with eyes

half-opened and convulsed.—Anxious dreams of death, with fear on waking.—Lascivious dreams,

with emissions —Awakened by: canine hunger; dry heat; sensation of falling; sad

thoughts.—Patient though quite weak is rested by a very short sleep.

Chilliness. Profuse sweat during night and morning. Low types of fever, with dull comprehension ans stupor.

Pulse irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats, generally small, weak, or

frequent, at times full and strong.—Violent ebullitions with great restlessness —Swollen

veins.—Shuddering and shivering, sometimes with shaking, or with coldness in hands and

fingers, generally in evening, and without thirst (followed by heat without thirst, or by excessive

heat, depriving one almost of consciousness).—Sensation of coldness on one side of the

face.—Sensation of coldness, with shiverings and coldness in abdomen.—Internal dry heat

without being hot to touch; and without any complaint at any time of the day.—General heat with

loss of consciousness and somnolence.—Heat in head with cold feet.—Febrile heat in evening,

without thirst, with anguish, and great activity of the circulation.—Shivering alternately with

heat.—Malignant (typhus) fever with great weakness (quiet delirium with dulness of head),

apathy, stupidity, aversion to conversation, diarrhoea, &c.—Tertian ague with profuse

perspiration, anxiety of look, thirst and vomiting —Night-sweat.—Sweat in

morning.—Perspiration mostly on back part of head and in neck, with sleepiness during the

day.—Profuse perspirations during night and in morning, with anxiety.—Great inclination to

perspire during day and night; clammy perspirations.

• ▸Amblyopia.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Boils.
• ▸Brain-fag.
• ▸Bronchitis; capillary.
• ▸Chancre.
• ▸Chilblains.

• ▸Cholera.
• ▸Climacteric flushes and vertigo.
• ▸Coccygodynia.
• ▸Condylomata.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Coxalgia.

• ▸Debility.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Diarrhea.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Emissions.
• ▸Enteric fever.
• ▸Enuresis.
• ▸Feet, sore.

• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Ganglion.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Gravel.
• ▸Hair, falling off: Headache; of school children.
• ▸Hectic.

• ▸Herpes.
• ▸Hip-joint disease.
• ▸Home-sickness.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Joints, scrofulous.
• ▸Lactation defective.

• ▸Levitation.
• ▸Lienteria.
• ▸Locomotor ataxy.
• ▸Love, disappointed.
• ▸Masturbation.
• ▸Mental weakness.

• ▸Mercurial syphilis.
• ▸Navel, pains in.
• ▸Neurasthenia.
• ▸Nymphomania.
• ▸Osteo-myelitis.
• ▸Perspiration,

• ▸profuse.
• ▸Phosphaturia.
• ▸Physometra.
• ▸Pimples.
• ▸Pregnancy, diarrhea of; nausea of.
• ▸Prepuce, warts

• ▸on.
• ▸Psoas abscess.
• ▸Puerperal eclampsia.
• ▸Purpura.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Scurvy.
• ▸Se/f-abuse.

• ▸Spermatorrhea.
• ▸Spinal caries.
• ▸Sycosis Hahnemanni.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Tetters.
• ▸Typhus fever.
• ▸Ulcers.

• ▸Urine, phosphatic.
• ▸Uterus, prolapse of.
• ▸Varices.
• ▸Vertigo.
• ▸Warts.
• ▸Wens.
• ▸Worms.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸Compatible: Chi.
• ▸, before or after, in

colliquative sweats, diarrhoea, and debility; after Nux in fainting after a meal; after Rhus in

• ▸typhoid.
• ▸Followed well by: Ars.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Nux, Puls.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸p.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸p.
• ▸, K.

• ▸ph.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸p.
• ▸Compare: Effects of grief, &c.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸(Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸deeper, more settled despair, hair

• ▸turns grey, crushing weight on vertex).
• ▸Growing too fast, Calc.
• ▸(Calc.
• ▸fast and fat; Phos ac.
• ▸fast

• ▸and tall).
• ▸School headaches, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸ph.
• ▸Typhoid and typhus, Rhus (both have nose-bleed

• ▸at beginning of typhus, with Rhus it >; with Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸not: Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸follows Rhus; both have >

• ▸by movement).
• ▸Cina (bores fingers in nose).
• ▸Pho.
• ▸(Pho.
• ▸has more dryness of tongue, more

sensorial excitement and intolerance of noises or odours; if diarrhoea is present it is blood-

• ▸streaked and looks like flesh water).
• ▸Nit.
• ▸s.
• ▸d.
• ▸(sensorial apathy); Arn.
• ▸(more developed stupor);

• ▸Op.
• ▸(stertor; countenance deeper red, almost brownish red; Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸sunken hippocratic).
• ▸Home-

• ▸sickness, Caps.
• ▸(Caps.
• ▸has red cheeks).
• ▸Lienteric diarrhoea, Chi.
• ▸(Chi.
• ▸exhausts rapidly; Phos.
• ▸ac.

• ▸not).
• ▸Loss of seminal fluids, Chi.
• ▸(Chi.
• ▸acute; Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸chronic effects).
• ▸Tuberculosis, Pho.

• ▸(Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸better than Pho.
• ▸when there is cough from tickling at ensiform cartilage, < evening and

lying down at night; weakness causing dyspnoea; < from draught on chest). Diabetes, Lact. ac.

• ▸Growing pains, Guaiac.
• ▸Bad news, effects of, Coloc.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸As if white of egg had dried on face,

• ▸Alm.
• ▸, Bar.
• ▸acet.
• ▸Affections of palate, Mang.
• ▸Aversion to bread; effects of masturbation, Nat.
• ▸m.

Effects of music, Ambra, Pho. Over-lifting, Calc. Nausea at sight of food, especially during

• ▸pregnancy, Eu.
• ▸perf.
• ▸; at sight of food, Colch.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Mosch.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Saba.
• ▸, Spi.
• ▸; at smell of

• ▸food, Colch.
• ▸, Eu.
• ▸perf.
• ▸Inquietude about health and life, Calc.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸Apathy, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸(Phos.
• ▸ac.

• ▸sensorial; K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸from exhaustion—puerperal mania, puerperal fever).
• ▸Cerebro-spinal exhaustion

• ▸from overwork, Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Apathy with indifference (Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸taciturnity with indifference; Sul.

• ▸listless; Hell.
• ▸n.
• ▸not easily roused).
• ▸Mild, yielding disposition, Puls.
• ▸Headache > by lying down,

• ▸Bry.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸Neurosis in stump-after amputation, Cepa.
• ▸Masturbation when patient distressed

• ▸by culpability of act, Dros.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸Sycosis, Thuj.
• ▸, Sabi.
• ▸Escape of urine during cough, Caust.
• ▸,

• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸Nausea in throat, Cupr.
• ▸, Cycl.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Stan.
• ▸Feet as if in air, Passif.

• ▸Compare: OEnothera biennis-Evening primrose--(Effortless diarrhoea with nervous exhaustion.
• ▸Incipient hydrocephaloid.
• ▸Whooping-cough and spasmodic asthma).
• ▸Nectranda amare (Watery diarrhoea, dry tongue, colic, bluish ring around sunken eyes, restless sleep).
• ▸China; Nux. Pic ac; Lactic ac; Phos.

Antidotes: Coffea.

First potency.

“Mental enfceblement” is the thought that will come into the mind

when considering what the Phosphoric acid patient says, does and

looks. The mind seems tired. When questioned he answers slowly or

does not speak, but only looks at the questioner. He is too tired to talk

or even think. He says : “Don’t talk to me ; let me alone.” This state

is found in both acute and chronic diseases. He is so tired in mind,

perfectly exhausted. In chronic diseases when brought on from long

study ; prolonged worry in business men ; in feeble school girls, who

become relaxed from very little effort. In acute diseases he, especially

in typhoid fever, is averse to speaking or answering questions. He

merely looks. Finally he rouses up and says: “Don’t talk to me, I am

so tired.” He cannot think what he wishes to say, cannot frame his

answers to questions. Another cause is sexual excesses in young men,

or in those guilty of secret vice. Weakness ; lack of reaction ; state of

stupor, with impotency ; mental prostration, and as if the spine had

given out.

In every case we find the mental symptoms are the first to develop.

The remedy runs from the mental to the physical, from the brain to the

muscles. This is so striking that it is contrasted with Muriatic acid.

In the latter remedy the muscular prostration comes first, and the mind

seems clear until long after the muscles arc prostrated. In Phosphoric

acid the muscles seem strong after the mind has given out. The patient seems vigorous physically. He says he is all right physically, can

work, can exercise even violently ; but the mind is tired, there is mental

apathy, he can not add up a column of figures, can not read the newspaper and carry the trend of thought, can not connect circumstances.

He forgets the names of those in his family ; a business man forgets

the names of his clerks ; he is in confusion. Yet he can exercise, can

go out and walk ; the weakness in the muscles will come later.

Phosphoric acid has also great physical weakness ; so tired in the

back so tired in the muscles ; so tired all over ; a paralytic weakness.

Later there is sexual impotence ; aversion to coition ; loss of sexual desire ; no erections ; penis becomes relaxed in the midst of an embrace

and he cannot finish the act. [Nux v.)

Ailments from business cares ; prolonged grief ; young women suffering from unrequited affection, or from the loss of a loved one.

Some suffer more intensely than others ; some seem more philosophical.

'Ailments from care, grief, sorrow, chagrin, homesickness or disappointed love ; particularly with drowsiness ; night sweats towards morning ; emaciation/' The patient pines and emaciates, grows weaker and

weaker, withered in the face ; night sweats ; cold sweat down the back ;

cold sweats on the arms and hands more than on the feet ; cold extremities ; feeble circulation, feeble heart ; catches cold on the slightest provocation and it settles in the chest ; dry, hacking cough ; catarrhal conditions of the chest ; tuberculosis ; pallor with gradually increasing weakness and emaciation.

During this weakness there is vertigo. Vertigo while lying in bed ;

seems like floating while lying in bed. Limbs seem to be lifted up

while the head does not seem to move, as if the limbs were floating.

Congestive headaches ; in school girls from slight exertion of the

mind and use of the eyes. Periosteal pains ; bones ache as if scraped ;

ameliorated by motion ; when lying the pain shifts to side lain on.

Most of the complaints are ameliorated from keeping warm, from

absolute quiet, from being alone at peace. There is aggravation of the

complaints from exertion, mental or physical, from being talked to.

• ▸Morning headaches.
• ▸He must liq down with the headaches.
• ▸Headache aggravated from being talked to.
• ▸He is sensitive to cold weather.

He is sensitive to a warm room.

In the headache the pain often begins in the back of the head and

spreads to the top of the head ; feels as if a crushing weight were on the

top of the head ; worse from motion, talking and light. "Pressure as

from a weight in head from above downward.'’ These headaches are

associated with mental weakness, brain-fag ; so tired and exhausted.

Vertigo with ringing in the ears and glassy eyes.

Its use in low fevers must be studied. The complaints come on

slowly, slow decline, slowly increasing prostration. Such appearances

as are found in advanced typhoid. It has the prostration, tympanitic

abdomen, dry, brown tongue, sordes on the teeth, gradually approaching unconsciousness ; little thirst increasing to intense thirst with craving for much water during perspiration ; wants to be let alone ; looks at

the questioner with glassy eyes as if slowly comprehending the question ; pupils contracted or dilated ; eyes sunken ; hippocratic countenance ; continued fever ; bleeding from the nose, lungs, bowels ; hsemorrhage from any mucous membrane ; sunken about the eyes ; discolored

lips, covered with sordes, becoming very black ; prostration gradually

increasing. From the beginning the mental state has been most marked

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and finally comes the muscular weakness, which increases until thd

jaw drops and it seems that the patient must die of exhaustion. Such

states of weakness may come on from haemorrhages (China was the

routine remedy among the older homoeopaths). It checks the haemorrhage and causes a rally, prevents the dropsy. There is a state like

anaemia ; pale lips and tongue ; face, hands and feet waxy.

Pains and aches all over the body, ameliorated from motion and

worse from cold. The pains seem deep-seated, often alpng the nerves,

but especially along the long bones, as if tl\e bones were scraped ; as if

a rough instrument were dragged over the bones. The pains are commonly worse at night. Severe bone pains.

The stomach refuses to do its work. The food remains in the

stomach and sours. Sour vomiting. Old dyspeptics with brain-fag.

Complaints from acid drinks, cold drinks and rich foods. Singing

sensation in the abdomen after a normal stool.

In most of the complaints of Phosphoric acid a marked feature is

milky urine. Sometimes it is milky when passed ; milky flakes in the

urine. At times the male urethra seems to clog up and examination

will show these little milk-like flakes. The urine becomes milky on

standing, like flour, chalk or phosphate deposits stirred up in it.

In Phosphoric acid there is often an amelioralion of complaints by

their ending in a diarrhoea. Copious, thin, watery stool. From the

quantity it would seem that the patient would be exhausted. Child

with copious, watery, stool in summer ; so copious that the napkin

seems of no use ; the stool runs all over the mother’s dress and on the

floor forming great puddles ; the stool is almost odorless, thin and

watery, and the little one smiles as if nothing were the matter. The

mother wonders where it all comes from, and yet the child seems well.

The Phosphoric acid diarrhoea often ameliorates many of the symptoms and the patient feels better. Chronic diarrhoea, copious, thin and

watery, whitish gray, and the patient feels comfortable, free and

happy. If the diarrhoea slacks up the patient is worse and on come

symptoms of tuberculosis, weakness, prostration, brain-fag. Some

patients say they arc never comfortable unless they have diarrhoea.

Podophyllum is the very opposite. Take the same child ; the stool is

very copious and runs all over the floor, the mother wonders where it

all comes from, but the stool is offensive, a horrible stench, and

the patient looks as if dying ; mouth and nose drawn, countenance hippocratic ; almost unconscious. There is painless stool in both, but

Phosphoric acid has not the great prostration. In Phosphoric acid the

stool is whitish gray, like dirty white paint ; in Podophyllum it is

yellow. Gratiola has a similar state of prostration, but the fluid is

green water; when seen it looks like light shining through a green

glass; sometimes thicker, like green bil^ ^

Abdomen much bloated, tympanitic ; great soreness of the bowels

as if in a typhoid state. “White or yellow, watery diarrhoea, chronic

or acute, without pain or any marked debility or exhaustion”. It is

uncommon for the stool to be yellow when watery. It is yellow when

it is mushy ; when watery it is light colored, sometimes milky. When

yellow it is like corn meal mush, pappy ; as in the typhoid state, thin

like thin mush. “Diarrhoea ; not prostrating ; after catching cold during heat of summer ; water ; chronic ; violent, bilious or mucous of

twenty months’ standing ; has the appearance of an old man ; from

acids in young persons who grow too rapidly ; after eating, undigested ;

greenish white ; painless.” When we have a diarrhoea from acids we

sometimes find symptoms running to Phosphoric acid. In the diarrhoea from sour wine, such as claret, from acids, vinegar, lemons, be

sure to study Antimonium crudum. This is a very striking feature of

that remedy. Useful in cholera,

Male sexual organs. Sexual weakness, prolonged exhaustion, impotency ; masturbators ; nightly pollutions with great exhaustion*

“Prostatorrhoea ; immediately after every erection discharge of prostatic fluid.” Even when passing a soft stool the prostatic fluid is discharged.

Falling out of the hair is a striking feature ; falling of the hair from

the genitals, whiskers, eyebrows, head. It is closely related to Natrunt

mur, and Selenium in falling out ct the hair. Selenium has falling out

of the hair from the head, eyebr|)ws and lashes, beard and genitals,

from all over the body, Natruni pur. causes the hair to become very

thin ; during confinement the hair falls from the genitals.

Phosphoric acid produces a troublesome leucorrhcea ; “yellow, mostly

after menses, with itching ; profuse, yellow ; thin, acid mucus ; with

chlorosis.” It suits the woman who has been nursing her child a long

time, or nursing twins, and who gives much milk. She becomes tired

and weakly. Loss of fluids, blood ; prolonged nursing, and weakness

from such causes.

The tendency of the Phosphoric acid patient at the end of the brain

fag and weakness is to run into chest troubles. If a diarrhoea comes

on then the chest trouble is averted. Most awful results will ensue

from the use of astringents, or any remedy that does not correspond

to the patient, that will stop that diarrhoea. He goes into tuberculosis,

difficult respiration ; coughs and suffers in the chest, and the trouble

culminates in structural changes in the lungs. The indications for

Phosphoric acid are seldom found in the tissue changes, but they will

be found in the early states of the patient, the nervous conditions, the

milky urine and the diarrhoea, whid) have existed a long time. Chest

complaints are acute ; typhoid pneumonia ; low forms of fever ending

in chest troubles ; not unlike Phosphorus. Prolonged pneumonia with

Bruised feeling in hips, thighs, arms, nape, like growing pains; at same time

repeated single tearing stitches in all these parts at once; the stitches occur on commencing to

walk, esp. to go up stairs; bruised pain continues all the time.—Bruised pain in all joints in

morning, and in arms and legs.—Burning, gnawing, tearing pains in bones of

extremities.—Weakness of extremities after loss of fluids.