The Mnemonic Similiad

Picricum Acidum pic-ac.

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Mnemonic names

Pic. / (Pick-Picking.) / Picket.

Verse

Picric acid,-Thine a mind
To erotic flame inclined.
And a mental status nil
To the exercise of will.
Thine an itis most severe
In the eye and in the year.
Whilst anaemic thy condition
Companied with vomiturition.
With a weight of legs like lead,
And a coldness as if dead.

Mnemonic sentences

The Picket,-Has Erotomania.

The Picket, Tare Plat, is eloping to India, with the devilish Spanish twins Crocus and Staphy.

This Picket,-Who is subject to a sense of heaviness in the legs,-Is away in China, a mourner in black.

Indications

Erotomania-Nymphomania: Pic. a., Taren., Plat., Lach., Pho., Can. I., Dul., Ver. a., Canth., Hyo., Stram., Cro., Stap. (Shameless exposure, Am. c., Hyo., Stram., Ver. a.)

Sense of heaviness in the legs: Pic. a., Alu., Apis., Chin., Mer., Rhus., Nux v., Sep. (Heavy as lead and cold, Pic. a.)