Sulphurosum Acidum

Quite furious.—Disposed to fight—Extreme terror and efforts to escape; imagine every

• ▸one wants to lay hands on them.
• ▸—Listless.
• ▸—Singing and praying.
• ▸—As if intoxicated —Great

anxiety.

Anxious, furious, disposed to fight. Headache better by vomiting. Ringing in ears.

Giddy, lost recollection, as after spirits —Violent pain and beating in head, with

ringing in ears.—Insufferable headache, somewhat > after vomiting.

Ulcerative inflammation of mouth. Tongue red or bluish-red. Coated.

Loss of appetite. Obstinate constipation.

Severe constipation, scybalous motions, lasting nine months; complete

dryness of intestinal tract; (Hydst. cured at last)—Some evacuated contents of rectum; others had

the desire but could not.

Fluor albus. Debility.

Persistent choking cough with copious expectoration. Hoarseness, constriction of chest. Difficult breathing.

Persistent choking cough, with copious expectoration of thin

mucus.—A difficulty of breathing and frequent involuntary deep inspirations.

Heart palpitated violently.—Pulse: quiet, feeble; or slow, feeble and irregular.

[Stiffness (painful) of spine between scapule, during and after movement, with pain

as though it were broken.—Painful stiffness in the junction of sacrum with base of pelvis; in

morning there occurred very painful jerks. (From the fumes of burning Su/phur).]

• ▸Acne rosacea.
• ▸Colds.
• ▸Constipation, scybalous.
• ▸Croup.
• ▸Diphtheria.
• ▸Eczema marginalis.

• ▸Favus.
• ▸Hands, chapped.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Nipples, sore.
• ▸Pityriasis versicolor.
• ▸Pyrosis.
• ▸Stomatitis,

ulcerative.

Characteristics—Some forty years ago, when the germ theory of disease in its present form was

in its infancy, Dewar, of Fife, conceived the idea that Su/phurous acid was an innocent and at the

same time universal germ destroyer, and consequently universal remedy. His views met with

cordial acceptance, and inhalations of Su/phurous acid given off from burning Su/phur became

the fashion. Dewar's method was simple. A few red cinders were put in a kitchen shovel; this

was placed in the centre of a room and flowers of sulphur sprinkled thereon. In a very short time

every person in the room was sneezing violently, coughing and wheezing, and running at the

eyes and nose. Dewar also used the ordinary solution and a spray. Among the special diseases

arrested by Su/s. ac. Dewar named: Chilblains; chapped hands; diphtheria; scarlatina maligna;

erysipelas (a local application of equal parts of the B. P. acid and glycerine); cold in the head,

influenza, asthma, bronchitis, croup, clergyman's sore throat, chronic phthisis; typhoid fever.

Wounds, sore nipples, bruises were also amenable to its local use. As one who has undergone the

"fumigation" process (it was supposed to prevent all sorts of maladies, as well as cure, and I

suppose it was with that object that I was made to "prove" Su/s. ac. in my boyhood), I can testify

to its homceopathicity in the "cold, coughs, asthma, and influenza" part of Dewar's

• ▸recommendations.
• ▸Su/s.
• ▸ac.
• ▸doubtless shares the antiseptic properties of Su/ph.
• ▸The symptoms of

the Schema are from observations of the effects on workmen in mines, from air contaminated

• ▸with Suls.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, with a few additions of my own.
• ▸Milne sums up its virtues thus: "Antiseptic,

disinfectant; a powerful deoxidiser and destroyer of vegetable life." As a gargle it is used in the

• ▸strength of one to six.
• ▸In parasitic skin affections the B.
• ▸P.
• ▸solution is used and is effective.

• ▸Internally, says Milne, it "does good in sarcina" in doses of min.
• ▸xxx.
• ▸to Ix.
• ▸, well diluted with

water. Ringer (who endorses most of Dewar's recommendations) says that ten to fifteen minims

taken ten minutes before each meal will remedy pyrosis in most instances, and prevents

flatulence and fermentations; and that "the solution, either strong or diluted, in varying

proportions, speedily removes thrush." This case touches a homceopathic characteristic of Su/s.

• ▸ac.
• ▸—ulcerative inflammation of the mouth.
• ▸It has cured this in the attenuations.
• ▸The headache of

• ▸Suls.
• ▸ac.
• ▸is > by vomiting.
• ▸C.
• ▸Wootton tasted the acid (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxvi.
• ▸204) with this result—it at

once stopped the mucous secretion of the bowels, producing scybalous motions. The constipation

was so severe that he was in misery for nine months, till he took Hydrast., which cured. The use

of Suls. ac. as a hair-wash at a later time produced the same result.

• ▸Antidoted by: Hydrast.
• ▸(constipation).
• ▸Compare: Sul.
• ▸In ulcerated sore mouth, Nat.

m., Caps. The effects on the back recorded by Hahnemann as from the fumes of burning Sulphur

were antidoted by Electric shock.

• ▸As a spray in tonsillitis.
• ▸According to Ringer, ten to fifteen minims taken ten minutes before each meal will remedy pyrosis and prevent fermentation and flatulence.
• ▸It also removes thrush.
• ▸Homeopathically, third attenuation.