Acetic Acid. acet-ac.
Mnemonic names
Acet. a. / Achsa.
Verse
Acetic acid leads the way
When Phthisis hold oppressive sway:
With hot dry skin and hectic flush,
Nocturnal sweats and faecal gush,
And loss of blood. And when o'erflow
Of urine hold the vitals low,
And when Anaemia shows its blight
By countenance of deathly white.
And when the operator's knife,
With anaesthetics threaten life.
And veritable croup we find,
With breathing of a hissing kind.
And drooling, while the stomach turns
With acid, that within it burns.
And ease from pain is only known
By lying on the belly prone.
Mnemonic sentences
Ascha has Consumption.
Achsa, Phos., the Creole Baptist Maid, and her brother Jo, the drover, sang for the Caliph and the Arabs.
This Achsa, who is subject to death-like pallor, is in China with Bishop Plum, dying of fever.
Indications
Consumption - Phthisis: Acet. a., Phos., Kreo., Bap., Ustil., Brom., Iod., Dro., Sang., Cal. p., Ars. bro., Ars. iod.
Death-like Pallor: Acet. a., Chin., Bism., PB., Dig., Apis, Fer., Verat. a. (Waxy-white, Apis, Fer., Phos.)