Nitricum Acidum nit-ac.

MARGINS OF OUTLETS: Throat. Anus. Mouth. GLANDS: Liver. Prostate. Salivary. Tubular organs. Blood. Skin. Bones. Joints. Right side.

Slight CAUSES: TOUCH. JARRING. Noise. Rattling. Motion. Mercury. Milk. After eating. COLD; air; dampness. Night. Evening. Changing weather. Heat of bed. Mental exertion, or shock.

Gliding motions. Riding. Mild weather. Steady pressure.

Exhausted, shivery, sensitive and sore. STICKINGS LIKE A SPLINTER, or ulcerative gnawing. DISCHARGES ACRID; thin, dirty or brown; cause redness or destroy hair. FOUL; ozœna, foot, or night sweats, etc. Malignancy. Phagedena. HÆMORRHAGE; easy; bright; of bloody water. Red, swelled or cracked orifices. Hard, gristly exudates. Dark, smooth mucous membranes. As of a band about or a weight hanging to part. Sore or stiff, during pains. Cracking; joints. Yellow brunettes, of spare habit.

Hateful. Profane. So angry, he trembles. Quarrelsome delirium; talks to spirits, in other tongues. Confusion. Thoughts vanish. Crushing head pains, < pressure of hat. Sore in skull. Puffs on scalp. Warm flowing over eyes. Conjunctiva pouts in spots. Spots on cornea. Deafness, > noise. Nose; red, scurfy tip; dark lumpy epistaxis; dripping, diphtheria of; cutting pains; caries of bones. Coryza, with shortness of breath. Yellow, sickly face. Peeling lips; raw, cracked or scabby in angles. Loose teeth. Gums flabby; sore; bleeding inner. Moist, fissured or mapped tongue (Flu-ac. Psor.). Salivation. Sore palate. As of a stick in throat. Craves fats. Stools tear anus, even if soft; then prolonged pain. Painful piles. Itching, eczematous anus, or oozes moisture. URINE, strong as horse's; cold; alternately profuse and scanty. Cramp from kidney to bladder. As of a hot wire in urethra. Infective nephritis. Itching, burning fore-skin. Phagedenic chancre. Œdematous prepuce. Bloody water from vagina. Weak, irregular menses. Shattering cough; from a spot in larynx; with lumbar stitch, > cold. Expectoration smeary, pussy, etc. Cavernous phthisis. Cutting in larynx. Orgasms to chest; with palpitation and fear. Swelled finger joints. Warts; on back of hands. Weak ankles. Skin, dry; eroded; cracks in every angle; coppery spots, on shin bones; itches on undressing. Crusts form and fall. Ulcers; rapid; raw; ragged; with proud flesh or plugs of pus. Stubborn suppuration. Burrowing pus. Fistulæ. Cancer. Syphilis. Painful, broken chilblains. Painfully sore bones, < tibiæ; caries. Pulse drops each 4th. beat. Jagged or soft warts (Stap. Thu.). Condylomata. Icy coldness; soles. SWEAT; easy, then takes cold; exhausting (urinous), mornings; in axillæ; on feet.

Complementary: Calc-c. Thu. Follows: Kali-c. Related: Ars. Kali-c. Kre. Merc.

Especially suited to thin persons of rigid fibre, dark complexions, black hair and eyes - the brunette rather than the blonde - nervous temperament. Persons suffering with chronic diseases who take cold easily; are easily disposed to diarrhoea; rarely to those who suffer with constipation. Old people with great weakness and diarrhoea. Excessive physical irritability. Pains: sticking, pricking as from splinters; suddenly appearing and disappearing; on change of temperature or weather; during sleep; gnawing here and there as from ulcers forming. Sensation: of a band around head, around the bones (Carb. ac., Sulph.); of a splinter in affected parts, ulcers, piles, throat, ingrowning toe nail, < on slightest contact. Ailments: which depend on some virulent poison; from mercury, syphilis, scrofula; in broken-down cachetic constitutions. After continual loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety, over-exertion of mind and body from nursing the sick (Coc.); anguish from the loss of his dearest friend; indifference; tired of life; sadness before menses. Great anxiety about his disease; constantly thinking about his past troubles; morbid fear of cholera (Ars.); depressed and anxious in the evening. Irritable, headstrong; hateful and vindictive; inveterate, ill-willed, unmoved by apologies. Hardness of hearing > by riding in carriage or train (Graph.). Very sensitive to rattle of wagon over paved streets; headache from pressure of hat (Cal. p., Carbo., Nat.). Ozaena: green casts from the nose every morning. Diarrhoea: great straining but little passes, as if faeces remained and cannot be expelled (Alum.); pain as if rectum or anus were torn or fissured (Nat. m.). violent cutting pains after stool, lasting for hours (Rat., Sulph. - during and after, Mer.). Fissures in rectum; tearing, spasmodic pains during stools; lancinating, even after soft stools (Alumen., Nat., Rat.). Urine: scanty, dark-brown, strong-smelling, "like horse's urine;" cold when it passes; turbid, looks like remains of a cider barrel. Ulcers: easily bleeding; in corners of mouth (Nat.); splinter-like pains, especially on contact (Hep.); zig-zag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh; exuberant granulations; after mercury or syphillis or both, engrafted on a scrofulous base. Discharges; thin, offensive, acrid; of a brown or dirty yellowish green color; rarely laudable pus. Haemorrhage: from bowels in typhoid or typhus (Crot., Mur. ac.); after miscarriage or post-partum; from over-exertion of body; bright, profuse, or dark. Cracking: in ears, on masticating; of the joints, on motion (Coc., Graph.). Warts, condylomata: sycotic or syphilitic; large, jagged, pedunculated; bleeding readily on washing; moist, oozing, sticking pain (Staph., Thuja). Affects especially the mucous membrane join; mouth, nose, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina (Mur. ac.).

Complementary: Ars., and Calad. Inimical: to, Lachesis. Resembles: Ars. in morbid fear of cholera. Often difficult to distinguish from Mer.; but is adapted to black-haired people, while Mer. is more useful in light-haired persons. Relieve ailments resulting from abuse of mercury, especially, if there be erethism; bad effects of repeated doses of Digitalis. Follows well: Calc., Hep., Mer., Nat. c., Puls. or Thuja; but is most effective after Kali c.

Evening and at night; after midnight; contact; change of temperature or weather; during sweat; on waking; while walking.

While riding in carriage (reverse of Coc.).

This remedy so closely resembles Mercur. in many points, that it is often very difficult to distinguish between the two; Nitr. ac. usually is applicable in dark haired people, and Mercur. in light-haired people.

Hardness of hearing, especially when relieved by riding in a carriage or in the cars--i.e., hear better (like Graphit.).

Pimples, or exanthema, in general; sitting exanthema; brown sphacelus; red, brownish spots scattered over the body, especially if in dark-haired people; tightness of the skin; warts. Ulcers; with ichorous pus; having a pricking or sticking sensation, as if a sharp stick or fish bone were present; sensation as if a sharp splinter were being run into the ulcer at the slightest touch,--even of the sheet.

As though a sharp splinter were being stuck into the affected part on the slightest contact with anything; same in the throat on swallowing (Hepar. Sulph.); as if a band were around the affected part or parts; as though a band were around the bones; jerking pain in inner parts.

Affections in general, of any kind, appearing in the right eye (e.g., as if a grain of sand was there); right side of the neck; nape of the neck; left hypochondriac region; left chest; inguinal glands; left lower extremity; bones of the head. Bleeding of the nose; bleeding from inner parts. Obstructed flatus. Urine reddish; usually offensive. Male genital organs in general; glans penis; erections. Much discharge of blood after stool. Chlorosis. Disposition to catch cold. Contraction of the joints; cracking of the joints; frozen limbs; swelling of the glands. In-growing of the toe nails; where toe nail seems to have grown into the flesh, but in reality has not--very sore, with more or less ulceration, and a feeling as if a sharp splinter were being stuck into the affected part on any contact. Complaints concomitant to waking; too much perspiration, which smells badly.

In the evening; in the night; particularly afterpart of the night; on wakening; while eating; from punctured wounds; from milk; abuse of Mercury.

While riding in a carriage.

Cal. carb., Carb. veg., Phosphor., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur, Mercur.

Hepar.

Blisters and ulcers on the tongue and mucous membranes of the mouth and throat, with pricking, burning pain on being touched, especially after the abuse of mercury. Superficial ulcers like chancres, on glans and prepuce, looking clean, but exuding an offensive moisture. Sycotic excresences on the glans, bleeding when touched. Stitches and sticking pains as from splinters,. especially on touch, in all parts of the body. Ulcers with stinging and pricking pains, edges. irregular; exuberant granulations, after mercury or in secondary syphilis. Cracking in maxilliary articulation when chewing. Sticking pains in rectum, and spasmodic constriction. in anus during stool; fissures. Pain as if the rectum would be torn asunder during stool.

Nitric Acid

Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Sticking pains. Marked improvement of all symptoms while riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life. Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury. Pains appear and disappear quickly (Bell). Hydrogenoid constitution. Sycotic remedy.

Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhœa. Excessive physical irritability. Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver involvement and anæmia, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary bleeding after curettage.

Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless despair. Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. Fear of death.

Sensation of a band around head. Headache from pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises. Hair falls out. Scalp sensitive.

Difficult hearing; better by riding in carriage or train. Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements (Coff; Nux). Cracking in ears when chewing.

Double vision; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of cornea. Gonorrhœal ophthalmia, photophobia, constant lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis.

Ozæna. Green casts from nose every morning. Coryza, with sore and bleeding nostrils. Tip red. Stitches, as of a splinter in nose. Caries of mastoid. Nosebleed, with chest affections. Chronic nasal catarrh, with yellow, offensive, corrosive discharge. Nasal diphtheria, with watery and exceedingly excoriating discharge.

Putrid breath. Salivation. Bleeding of gums. Painful pimples on the sides of the tongue. Tongue clean, red and wet with center furrow. Teeth become loose; gums soft and spongy. Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinter-like pains. Salivation and fetor oris. Bloody saliva.

Dry. Pain into ears. Hawks mucus constantly. White patches and sharp points, as from splinters, on swallowing.

Great hunger, with sweetish taste. Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc. Pain in cardiac orifice. Dyspepsia with excess of oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates in urine and great mental depression. Loves fat and salt (Sulph).

Great straining, but little passes, Rectum feels torn. Bowels constipated, with fissures in rectum. Tearing pains during stools. Violent cutting pains after stools, lasting for hours (Ratanh). Hæmorrhages from bowels, profuse, bright. Prolapsus ani. Hæmorrhoids bleed easily. Diarrhœa, slimy and offensive. After stools, irritable and exhausted. Colic relieved from tightening clothes. Jaundice, aching in liver.

Scanty, dark, offensive. Smells like horse's urine. Cold on passing. Burning and stinging. Urine bloody and albuminous. Alternation of cloudy, phosphatic urine with profuse urinary secretion in old prostatic cases.

Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce. Ulcers; burn and sting; exude, offensive matter.

External parts sore, with ulcers (Hep.: Merc; Thuja). Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive. Hair on genitals falls out (Natr m, Zinc). Uterine hæmorrhages. Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs. Stitches through vagina. Metrorrhagia after parturition.

Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and pit of stomach. Soreness at lower end of sternum. Short breath on going upstairs (Ars; Calc). Cough during sleep (Cham).

Fetid foot-sweat, causing soreness of toes, with sticking pain; chilblains on toes. Sweating of palms, hands; cold, blue nails. Offensive sweat in axillæ at night.

Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing. Ulcers bleed easily, sensitive; splinter-like pains; zigzag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh. Exuberant granulations. Black pores on face, papules worse on forehead.

Worse, evening and night, cold climate, and also hot weather. Better, while riding in carriage (Reverse: Cocculus).

Complementary: Ars; Calad; Lac can; Sepia.

Inimical: Lach.

Compare: Merc; Kali; Thuja; Hepar; Calc.

Sixth potency. As the nitric acid patient begins to improve skin symptoms may appear for a time, a favorable indication.

Has a particular affinity for mucous outlets, where skin and membranes join; cracks; rhagades fissures.

Pricking pains as of a splinter in the parts.

Urine strong smelling; like horse urine.

Hæmorrhages from all outlets of the body; blood bright red.

Pricking ulcers; excrescences; condylomata; figwarts (sycosis).

Nervous, irritable, dark complexioned persons.

Nitric acid is one of our most effective antidotes to the effects of allopathic dosing with mercury in syphilis. For the other bad effects of the abuse of mercury other remedies are better, notably, Hepar sulphur. calc., Nitric acid have a particular affinity for the outlets of mucous surfaces, where the skin and membrane join, such as the mouth (corners), nose and anus. In the mouth we find the corners cracked, ulcerated and scabby, also aphthæ, stomatitis with ptyalism, swelling of the gums, fœtor oris, etc.

If Mercurius has already been used without avail Nitric acid follows well and will often cure.

This ulcerated, swollen and spongy condition of the gums will extend into the throat, and if it is the result of combined syphilis and mercurialization of the old school Nitric acid is the first remedy. The action of this remedy is just as positive upon the other outlet of the alimentary canal.

The anus is cracked and fissured similarly (Ratanhia), and hæmorrhoids protrude, crack, bleed and are very sore. No remedy has more decided action upon the anus, and one very characteristic symptom is, "great pain after passage of stool, even soft stool." He walks the floor in agony of pain for an hour or two after a stool (Ratanhia). In dysentery this symptom distinguishes this remedy from Nux vomica, which is relieved after stool and Mercurius, which has tenesmus all the time, or before, during and after stool.

Another very strong characteristic of this remedy in all these affection is, "Pricking pain as of a splinter in the part." Nitric acid has hæmorrhages from all outlets of the body, and the blood is generally bright red. It is especially so in typhoid and hæmorrhoids. Nitric acid is one of our best remedies in chronic diarrhœa. It is one of the celebrated trio viz.,: Thuja, Staphisagria. and Nitric acid for condylomata. It is one of three remedies having very offensive odor to the urine, viz.:

Benzoic acid, Nitric acid and Sepia.

Benzoic acid, urine is very dark with very intense urinous odor.

Nitric acid, dark, smelling like horse urine.

Sepia, offensive and sourish.

Modalities: > riding in carriage.

Sadness despondency. Anxiety about his disease, with fear of death. Excessive nervousness, great excitability, especially after the abuse of mercury. Taciturn, disinclined to communicate any thing. Irritable disposition. Vexed at trifles. Attacks of rage, despair, with cursing and maledictions.

Vertigo, especially in the morning, obliging one to lie down. Great weakness of memory, with aversion to mental exertion. Headache in the morning on awaking. Headache, with nausea and vomiting. Stitches in the head, compelling one to lie down big disturbing the sleep. Congestion of blood to the head, with much heat in it. Pressing headache from wit out to within, with tension extending to the eyes, with nausea ; aggravated by noise, relieved on lying down or when riding in a carriage. Great sensitiveness of the head to the rattling of wagons, especially over the paved streets, and against stepping hard. Humid, stinging-itching eruption on the vertex and on the temples, extending down to the whiskers, bleeding very easily on scratching it, and feeling very sore when lying on it. Inflammatory swellings on the scalp, suppurating or becoming carious ; most painful from external pressure or when lying on them. Great sensitiveness of the head to touch and pressure, even to the pressure of the bat ; worse in the, evening and on the places on which one lies. The hair falls off, with humid eruptions, paining as if splinters were thrust in it, or when touched ; also on the genitals, after the abuse of mercury ; with nervous headaches, great debility and emaciation. Pain in the bones of the skull, with the sensation as if they were constricted by a tape ; worse in the evening and at night ; better from cold air and while riding in a carriage.

Eyes dull and sunken. Pressure and stinging in the eyes. Inflammation of the eyes, especially after suppressed syphilis or after the abuse of mercury. Spots on the cornea. Paralysis of the upper eyelids. Black spots flying before the eyes. Double vision ; short-sightedness. Fistula lachrymalis.

Stitches in the (right) ear. Suppuration of the ears ; discharge of pus from the ears. Hardness of hearing, especially from induration and swelling of the tonsils (after the abuse of mercury). Cracking in the ears when masticating. Beating and humming in the ears. Echo in the ears of one's own speech. Caries of the mastoid process. Steatoma at the lobe.

Stitch in the nose, as from splinters, when touching it. The tip of the nose is red and covered with scurfy vesicles. Itching herpes on the wings of the nose. Bleeding of the face ; when weeping ; in the morning the blood is black, clotted. Disagreeable smell in the nose on inhaling air. Fetid, yellow discharge from the nose ; fetid smell from the nose. Condylomatous excrescences on the nose. Soreness, burning and scurf in the nose. Unsuccessful attempt to sneeze. The nose is dry and stuffed up ; complete obstruction of the nose ; water is dropping out. Dry coryza, with dryness of the throat and nose ; the wings of the nose are inflamed and swollen. Fluent coryza, with obstruction of the nose ; the mucus is only discharged through the posterior nares. Coryza, with dry cough, headache, hoarseness and stitches in the throat.

Pale face with sunken eyes. Yellow complexion or yellowness around the eyes, with red cheeks. Dark yellow, almost brown, complexion. Bloatedness around the eyes on waking early. Swelling of the cheeks. Pimples on the face, forehead and temples. Black pores in the face. Scurfy pustules on the face with large red areola. Swelling of the lips. Lips cracked. Ulceration of the corners of the mouth and of the lips. Ulcers in the red part of the lips. Blood-boils on the chin. Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.

Pulsating or stinging pain in the teeth, mostly in the evening, in bed, or during the night. The teeth become yellow or loose. Pain in hollow teeth. The teeth feel elongated. Gums white, swollen, bleeding. Stomacace. Ulcers in the mouth and fauces, with pricking pains. Putrid, cadaverous smell from the mouth. Great dryness in the mouth, with thirst. Ptyalism ; also with ulcers on the fauces, or in attacks of fever. Mercurial and syphilitic ulcers in the mouth and fauces, with pricking pain. Inflammation of the throat ; with pricking pains also after the abuse of mercury, or with burning and soreness. Painful soreness of the soft palate, the tongue and inside gums, with stinging pain and ulceration of the corners of the mouth. Great dryness and heat in the throat. The tongue is very sensitive ; even mild food causes a smarting sensation. White, dry tongue, in the morning. The tongue is coated green (with ptyalism).

Violent thirst : in suppuration of the lungs, in the morning violent thirst. Bitter taste after eating. Sour taste, with burning in the throat. Longing for fat, herring, chalk, lime, earth. Aversion to meat, to bread, and when eating it, sour taste and vomiting. During and after eating, perspiration. Milk is not digested. After eating, fulness in the stomach, debility, and, from the least exertion, heat, perspiration and palpitation of the heart. Bitter and sour vomiting, with much eructation. Pain in the cardiac orifice on swallowing food. Stitches in the pit of the stomach. Colic from cold. Cutting and pinching in the abdomen, especially in the morning in bed. On touching the abdomen, stinging pain, soreness. Incarcerated flatulency in the upper part of the abdomen, and especially morning and evening. Inguinal hernia also of children. Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands.

Constipation ; stool dry, difficult, irregular. Diarrhœa ; discharges putrid or of mucus, fetid and undigested. Dysenteric, bloody stools, with tenesmus. Before the stool colic ; after the stool nervousness and debility. Itching and burning or stinging at the anus and rectum. Humid moisture at the anus. Varices of the anus, swollen, burning and bleeding after every evacuation.

Incontinence of urine. Frequent desire to urinate, with a scanty discharge of dark-brown, bad-smelling urine. The urine is cold when it passes. The urine has an intolerably offensive, strong smell, or smells like horse urine. While urinating, smarting and burning in the urethra. Discharges from the urethra of mucus, or of bloody mucus, or of pus. Ulcers in the urethra.

Men. Itching at the genitals. Swelling, inflammation and phymosis of the prepuce. Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce and on the corona glandis, with pricking stinging pains. Sycotic condylomata. Red, scurfy spots on the corona glandis. Deep ulcer on the glans, with elevated, lead-colored, extremely sensitive edges. Inflammatory swelling of the testicles, with painful drawing in the spermatic cords, extending into the abdomen. Small, itching vesicles on the prepuce, bursting soon and forming a scurf. Painful spasmodic erections at night, or entire want of sexual desire and erections. Great falling off of the hair of the genital organs. Women. Soreness in the genitals. Ulcers in the vagina, burning and itching. Menses too early, or suppressed menstruation. During the menses colic and pressing and bearing down on the genitals. Leucorrhœa ; acrid, offensive, like brown water.

Scratching and stinging in the larynx, with hoarseness, especially when talking for a long time. Hoarseness, with coryza, cough, and stinging, pain in the throat. Bronchitis. Violent, shaking, barking cough, caused by tickling in the larynx and pit of the stomach, with expectoration during the day of blood mixed with clots, or of yellow, acrid pus, tasting bitter, sour or salt, and of offensive smell. Dry barking cough in the evening, after lying down. Phthisis pulmonalis (after Kali carb.). When coughing, stitches in the small of the back. Shortness of breath ; panting breathing during work. Dyspnœa, palpitation of the heart and anguish when going up stairs. Cramp-like contractive pain in the chest. Stitches in the chest ; right side and scapula. Soreness in the chest when breathing and coughing. Congestion to the chest, with anxiety, heat and palpitation of the heart. Nodosities in the mammæ, or atrophy of the mammæ.

Stitches in and between the shoulder-blades, with stiffness of the neck. Pain in the back and small of the back from cold. Swelling of the glands on the neck and of the axilla.

Upper. Rheumatic pains in the arms, especially in the forearms and fingers. Weakness and trembling of the forearms and fingers. Cold hands. Chilblains on the hands and fingers. Herpes between the fingers. Swelling of the fingers, especially the joints, with stinging pain. White spots on the finger-nails. Lower. Sensation as if the hip were sprained with limping. Rheumatic pains in the legs and feet. Restlessness in the limbs in the evening. Pain in the patella, impeding walking ; stillness and stitches in the knee. Violent cramp in the calf at night and when walking after sitting. Foot-sweat very offensive, or suppressed. Chilblains on the toes.

Pricking pains as from splinters especially from contact. Rheumatic pains in the limbs (from taking cold). Cracking in the joints. Hysteria. Epileptic attacks. Great debility, with heaviness and trembling of the limbs, especially in the morning. Syphilis (secondary). Sycotic condylomata ; and sycosis.

Sleepiness during the day from debility, with vertigo. During the sleep, pain and starts. Difficulty of going to sleep in the evening ; and in the morning one wakens too early or too late, and with great difficulty.

Pulse very irregular : one normal beat is often followed by two small rapid beats, -the fourth entirely intermits ; alternate hard, rapid and small beats. Chilliness mostly in the afternoon and evening, and after lying down. Chilliness, with internal heat at the same time. Chilliness in the morning in bed, after previous heat. Continuous chilliness. Heat, especially on the hands and face. Flushes of heat with perspiration on the hands. At night, internal, dry heat, with inclination to uncover oneself. Heat, with perspiration and debility after eating. Perspiration every night, or on alternate nights ; the most profuse on the side on which one lies. Perspiration smelling offensive or sour, or like horse urine. Intermittent fever. Chilliness in the afternoon (an hour and a half, while in the open air), followed by dry heat when in bed, accompanied by all sorts of fancies while in a state of half waking, without sleep ; sleep and perspiration only come on towards morning. Chilliness in the afternoon, for an hour ; then heat over the whole body, for a quarter of an hour ; afterwards profuse perspiration for two hours over the whole body ; there is no thirst either in the cold or the hot stage.

Dryness of the skin. Itching nettle-rash, in the open air, even in the face. Black pores. Brown-red spots and dark freckles on the skin. Painful chilblains and corns. Frost-bitten, inflamed, itching limbs, from a slight degree of cold, with cracked skin. Large blood-boils. Violently bleeding ulcers or wounds, with stinging pain, as from splinters, or with burning, especially when they are touched. Ulcers, with bloody, ichorous matter. Mercurial ulcers. Carious ulcers. Cicatrices pain on the change of weather. Inflammation swelling and suppuration of the glands. Painfulness and inflammation of the bones. -Caries.

Especially suitable, after alkalies, for lean persons with dark complexion, black hair and eyes. Pains on change of temperature and of the weather. Great inclination to take cold. The pains are felt during sleep. Aggravation in the evening and at night, on waking, on rising from a seat ; from touching the parts. Amelioration from eructations ; while riding in a carriage.

Nitric acid. Aqua fortis. HNO 3 . Solution.

Actinomycosis. Anus, fissure of. Axilla, offensive perspiration of. Bladder, chronic catarrh of. Breath, offensive . Bright's disease. Bronchitis. Bubo. Chancre. Cheloid . Chilblains. Choking, easy. Climacteric. Cold, easily taken. Condylomata. Constipation. Corns. Cough. Dysentery. Dyspepsia. Ear, affections of . Epilepsy. Eyes, affections of. Feet, perspiring . Fistula; lachrymal. Freckles . Frost-bites. Glandular swellings . Gleet. Gums, sore . Hæmaturia. Hæmorrhages. Herpes . Herpes preputialis. Ingrowing toe-nail. Iritis, syphilitic. Irritation . Jaw-joint, cracking in. Menstruation , excessive. Metrorrhagia. Mouth, sore. Mucous patches. Muscæ volitantes . Myopia. Nails, affections of. Ozæna . Paralysis (l. side). Perspiration, abnormal . Phimosis. Polypus. Proctitis. Prostate, suppuration of . Ranula. Rectum, affections of . Rickets. Salivation . Spine, injury to. Syphilis. Taste, disordered. Tongue, ulceration of. Ulcers. Warts . Wens. Whooping-cough .

When strong Nitric acid comes in contact with the skin it destroys the upper layers and turns them yellow, but as it coagulates their albumen it to a certain extent forms a barrier against its own further action, its action therein differing from that of Sulphuric acid . When swallowed it acts as an irritant poison; when its fumes are inhaled it may destroy life by suffocative spasm of the glottis or by intense bronchitis. It is used in old-school practice as an escharotic for warts and warty tumours; for phagedænic ulcers, chancres, poisoned bites. The dilute acid is used internally in fevers to quench thirst; in bronchitis and phthisis to diminish the excessive secretions; in some cases of syphilis; in phosphaturia. It has even been injected into the bladder in a dilute form to dissolve calculi (Brunton). In the light of provings and poisonings all these uses are seen to have more or less specific relationship. "Phthisis," "syphilis," and "warty growths" represent Hahnemann's three miasms, Psora, Syphilis, and Sycosis; and Nit. ac . belongs almost equally to all three. But in addition to its miasm relationship, Nit. ac . has drug relationships of great importance. It is one of the chief antidotes of Merc ., and it is in cases of syphilis that have been overdosed with Merc . that its action is most brilliant. I have known it do equally well when used after over-dosing with Kali iod ., whether in syphilitic or non-syphilitic cases. In phthisical cases it follows the action of Kali c . in homœopathic practice. In sycotic cases Thuj . follows it well. The localities in which the action of Nit. ac . is very strongly marked are — ( 1 ) the muco-cutaneous orifices and adjoining parts. Burnett made a brilliant cure of actinomycosis with Nit. ac . 3x in a patient who had been the round of the London consultants, and had doubtless taken much Kali iod . The localities in which the disease manifested itself, the region of the mouth and anus, gave Burnett his indication. The mouth (especially its angles) and anus are prominent seats of syphilitic action, and also of the action of the other miasms, the condylomata and fissures of sycosis; the fissures, fistulæ, hæmorrhoids, and sore mouth of psora. The right eye, the male genitals, and the bones are other localities for which Nit. ac . has a very strong affinity. In his directions about this remedy Hahnemann makes the remark that it is rarely required by patients who suffer from constipation. In my experience this is absolutely wrong. Constipation, as the symptoms of the Schema would indicate, is a prominent indication for Nit. ac ., and I have cured almost as many cases with this as with any other single remedy. I have generally found, when I have had an opportunity of testing them, that Hahnemann's positive directions are thoroughly trustworthy; but his negative directions are quite as likely to be wrong as right. The characteristic discharges of Nit. ac . are offensive, thin, excoriating; if purulent they are a dirty yellowish green, not laudable pus. Ulcers have profuse exuberant granulations, and bleed easily. The dressing causes bleeding, and every touch causes "sticking pain as if from splinters." This is a grand keynote of Nit. ac ., and will serve to indicate it wherever it is found. It requires a touch or movement to elicit it. When it occurs in the throat it requires the act of swallowing to set it up; in the anus, the passage of the stool; in ulcers, the touch of a dressing. It may occur from touch in any part of the body; in abdomen; in Ingrowing toe-nails. In the phthisical cases calling for Nit. ac . the chest walls are extremely sore to touch; there is sudden rush of blood to chest; hectic; frequent hæmorrhages, bright red, profuse; sharp stitches through right chest to scapula. Great dyspnœa, cannot talk for getting out of breath; morning hoarseness; cough tickling, seems to annoy all night; at times loose and rattling; loud râles through chest; sputa offensive, bloody, purulent, dirty green; exhausting diarrhœa; exhausting sweats towards morning, chilly; heat in flashes or only on hands and feet. The suffocating effect of Nit. ac . fumes is an indication of its affinity for the respiratory organs. Here is an example ( H. W ., xxiv. 537): A two-gallon bottle of Nitric acid in the store of Mr. Harold Woolley, of Manchester, had become fractured. Water was thrown upon the bottle, and whiting placed about it to neutralise the fumes which issued from the fracture. Mr. Woolley superintended the process, and was in contact with the fumes for two hours. This happened in the afternoon. Next day Mr. Woolley complained of being unwell, and although medical aid was promptly summoned he died at five o'clock in the afternoon, death being attributed to "rapid congestion and inflammation of the lungs, in consequence of inhaling the fumes." — Nit. ac . is indicated in typhus when pneumonia supervenes; and when hæmorrhage from the bowels occurs. The stools are green, slimy, offensive, may be purulent; the hæmorrhages are profuse and bright red. With diarrhœa there is rawness and soreness of anus; the stool is putrid; in children may contain lumps of casein. Slimy stools, from excess of mucus passed with much straining. Or they may be (especially in scrofulous children) pale, pasty, sour, offensive. A keynote of Nit. ac . stools, whether loose or constipated, is pain after stool . There is pain during stool as if anus and rectum were torn and pierced, and violent pains after stool, lasting for hours. All the other orifices of the body are affected by Nit. ac .: Chancres and herpes about penis and prepuce; growths about vagina and cervix; leucorrhœa, immediately after menses; flesh-coloured, stringy, offensive. The nose, ears, and eyes are also influenced, and Nit. ac . is one of the first remedies in syphilitic eye affections, as iritis. Among the hæmorrhages of Nit. ac . is hæmaturia. Goullon published a case in Archiv ., ii. 36. (New Series), translated by Mossa, Rev. H. Française , ix. 136. A painter's apprentice, 15, after gilding an object, was seized with vertigo, with coldness, and soon with violent pain in bladder region. Next day he passed pure blood, bright red, with frequent strangury; the urine separated itself distinctly from the blood. During short intervals the blood did not flow. Tongue white, swollen. Nit. ac . 3 one drop was given, and in twenty-four hours the boy was cured. The urine of Nit. ac . affords one of the most important of all its keynotes: Urine of a strong odour, like horses' ; or extremely offensive. Whenever this occurs as a concomitant in any case it is likely that other symptoms will point to Nit. ac . Fetid sweats on feet, hands, or in axilla no less point to Nit. ac . Among the hæmorrhages of Nit. ac . are those occurring in cachectic women after confinement or abortion. H. N. Coons ( Amer. Hom .) records the case of an anæmic woman, four weeks after miscarriage, had constant pelvic hæmorrhage, at times coming with a gush; constant heavy feeling, much < standing or walking. Nit. ac . 2x, 20 drops in three ounces of water, a teaspoonful every two hours, quickly arrested bleeding and cured. As showing the value of peculiar symptoms, D. C. Perkins relates ( Amer. Hom ., xxii. 12) the case of a woman who said she was very ill, but could only describe her illness by saying that she" felt like a pulp-mill." Nit. ac . has "borborygmus as if a boiler was working in the bowels," and Nit. ac . proved to be the remedy. The sensitiveness to touch runs through the entire symptomatology, including the symptoms of the mind. The mind is weak, no ideas; if she exerts her mind thoughts vanish. Mind easily affected, inclined to weep. Hopeless despair. On the other hand, there is nervous excitability (especially after Merc . — -it is the excitable form of mercurialism that Nit. ac . best meets); peevishness; irritable, quarrelsome; fits of rage and cursing; inveterate ill-will unmoved by apologies. The head is sensitive to the slightest jar; to the rattle of waggons in the street, or even to the step of one walking across the floor. The head is very sensitive, even to pressure of hat; sensitive to combing, and on part lain on. Eruptions and ulcers bleed easily when touched. Eyes are sensitive to light. The ears present an exception, for deafness is > riding in a train or carriage. Sensitiveness of the head while out driving and stopping suddenly. The tongue is sensitive even to soft food. Nit. ac . is suited to: Persons of dark, swarthy complexion, with black hair and eyes; lean persons of rigid fibre; brunette rather than blonde nervous temperament. Persons suffering from chronic diseases who take cold easily and are disposed to diarrhœa. Old people with great weakness. Hydrogenoid constitutions. Peculiar sensations are: As if head in a vice from ear to ear over vertex. As if some one were forcibly pressing head; head tightly bound; constricted by tape; contused. As of a gathering in left temple. Pain as from splinters in eruption. As if warm water were flowing from and over eyes (first right, then left). As if teeth soft and spongy. As if abdomen would burst. As if a boiler working in bowels. As if a band round bones. As if dogs were gnawing flesh and bones, and as if sinews were being pulled up. As if ball of great toe had been frozen. As if splinters in great toe; in carbuncles, &c. Cramp-like pains, stinging, shooting, burning, pressure, and soreness. Excessive physical irritability, hysteria. Pains, even slight ones, affect him violently. Prostration, sick feeling, faints from least motion. Epilepsy > riding in carriage. Left-sided paralysis. Twitchings in various parts; frequent starts in upper part of body. Easily takes cold. Emaciated. Tedious suppuration. A characteristic accompaniment of Nit. ac . is "Profuse sweat breaks out on hands and feet." When this occurs in spinal injuries Nit. ac . is the remedy (B. Simmons, H. P ., ix. 327). W. M. James ( Med. Cent ., vi. 325) cured this remarkable case: A girl had frequent attacks of petit mal , sometimes as many as fifty a day between the periods. At the beginning of the menses she had spasms so violent that they dislocated both humeri. Nit. ac . 200 given persistently put an end to the attacks, gradually. The first few times after commencing Nit. ac . there were spasms but no dislocation. Mohr ( H. R ., xiii. 210) gave Nit. ac . 3x to a man who suffered from cancer of the liver with bloody diarrhœa, followed by constipation; violent pains in stomach and liver; unable to sleep; or unable to take any food without much pain, mostly vomiting. Nit. ac . removed the pain and relieved the constipation entirely, and the patient died without an hour's suffering from the time he received Nit. ac . J. H. Fulton cured with one dose of Nit. ac . 200 R. M., 28, who had had bleeding piles for eighteen months. He had frequent bloody and slimy stools; but always bright red blood after stools , from a dessertspoonful to half a teacupful. When the stools were hard there was much pain in passing them. Burning in anus after stools ( Med. Adv ., xxxiii. 268). The symptoms are < by touch; pressure (of hat); > riding in carriage. < Eating (during and after eating, sweat). < Milk and fat food. < Exercise, exertion, effort, raising. arm, walking, standing. < Exerting mind. Lying down > headache. Night-sweat on parts lain on. Many symptoms come on towards morning. Cannot sleep after 2 a.m. Cough < on rising, during day, and at bedtime. Many symptoms, including bone-pains, come on in night. Warmth and cold both < . Warm weather < hæmorrhoids; covering up = night-sweats. Least exposure = chills. Cold or warm things = tearing and shooting in teeth. Washing = warts to bleed. Cold weather < chilblains. Cold water > warm water feeling in eyes. Winter < chronic cough; hiccough; chilblains.

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Unconsciousness.
Great weakness of memory, with aversion to mental exertion.
Has no ideas ; comprehends nothing, does not understand what people tell her.
If she exerts herself to reflect upon important things, her thoughts vanish.
Fancies she will die soon, yet is not physically ill.
Raving, as if delirious, with coldness of body and inclination to fall.
Feels as though he had partly lost his will-power.
Taciturn, disinclined to communicate anything ; moody in morning.
Very easily affected ; inclined to weep.
Sadness, great fear of death, sensation of extreme weakness, even to trembling.
Indifference ; tired of life ; joyless ; sadness before menses.
Depressed and very anxious in evening.
Hopeless despair.
Often anxious about his illness ; constantly thinks about his past troubles ; mind weak and wandering.
Anxiety as if he was engaged in a lawsuit or dispute, causing uneasiness.
Anxiety about his disease, with fear of death ; morbid fear of cholera.
After continued loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety, overexertions of mind and body from nursing the sick, great anguish of mind from loss of his dearest friend.
Satiety of life with fear of death.
Irritable disposition ; headstrong ; trembling while quarreling ; fits of rage with curses and maledictions ; inveterate ill-will, unmoved by apologies.
Nervous, excitable, especially after abuse of mercury.
Peevish, irritable, sad and obstinate ; vexed at trifles.
Discontent with himself induces violent weeping.
Easily startled and frightened ; starts up from fright on falling asleep.

Dizzy, dull, stupid and heavy.
Vertigo : in morning, must lie or sit down ; with obscuration of sight ; with nausea followed by eructations ; with pulsation in head and pressure in middle of brain, in evening ; when raising head after stooping ; when walking or sitting, obliging him to
lie down ; in evening, after lying down, during climaxis (syphilitic).
When collecting his thoughts to reply to questions, drops what he is holding.

Head sensitive to rattling of wagons over paved streets or stepping hard.
Congestion to head with heat ; painful sensation of fulness.
Pressure in forepart of head and upon eyes.
As if head was in a vise from ear to ear over vertex ; as if someone was forcibly pressing head ; as if head was tightly bound up.
Painful tension within head extending to eyes, with nausea.
Stitches in head : compel one to lie down ; disturb sleep.
In temples : drawing pain in right ; stitches in left or both ; piercing.
Violent throbbing, hammering on left side of head, coming on gradually towards morning and going off about breakfast time.
Throbbing headache.
Headache : in morning on waking, > after rising ; < by motion and succussion ; < from noise ; > on lying down or from riding in a carriage ; with nausea and vomiting ; arthritic, mercurial or syphilitic.
Headache began near vertex, descended to region of left ear, then went gradually over vertex to right side of head, but still < on left, not > by warmth of flannel.
Violent sticking pain in occiput.

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Great general weakness; feeble reaction; extreme sensitivity, and nervous trembling, are marked features in this remedy.

Patients greatly broken by long suffering, pain and sickness, physical more than mental suffering, finally anemia and emaciation are marked.

Sensitive to cold; always chilly. Symptoms are aggravated from becoming cold, and in cold air. Always taking cold.

The walls of blood vessels are relaxed and bleed easily; profuse dark blood. Pains as if flesh were torn from the bones and a sensation as though a splinter felt in inflamed parts, in ulcers and in nerves. Inflammation of the periosteum, in bone, and in the nerves. Syphilitic bone pains. Caries of bone, and exostoses.

The margins of orifices bleed and grow warts. Old scars become painful in cold weather and when weather changes to cold; pains like splinters. Inflammation of glands after the abuse of mercury in syphilitic subjects. Prolonged suppuration in glands, with no tendency to repair, when there are sticking pains.

The discharges are thin, bloody, offensive and excoriating; sometimes a dirty yellowish green. Suppuration where there is no tendency to repair. This is often the case when the patient is syphilitic and has been surcharged with mercury. For suppuration and ulceration in cancerous affections with bloody, watery, offensive discharges and sticking pains. It has often been observed that the patient requiring Nitric acid is more subject to diarrhea than constipation.

It has cured many complaints in patients who are never so comfortable as when riding in a carriage. Twitching of muscles in all parts of the body. Many complaints are aggravated from a jar, and from noise. Even his pains are aggravated from noise.

Nitric acid patients are often extremely sensitive to medicines, especially high potencies indeed, they prove every remedy given too high. Fissures form in many places; canthi, corners of the mouth, above the anus; the skin cracks - and all these have the splinter sensation.

He finally becomes dropsical, especially in the extremities. Offensiveness is a marked condition of this patient, often putrid odors. The urine smells like that of a horse. Offensive leucorrhoea, offensive catarrh, and breath; foetid foot sweat. Strong odors from the body. Too much weight must not be given to the dark, swarthy complexion so often mentioned as the one most likely to need this remedy. Nitric acid will cure blondes as often as brunettes, if the symptoms agree.

Prostration of mind.

Any effort to reflect on certain things causes the thoughts to vanish. A general indifference to all matters; tired of life; has no enjoyment in anything; aggravated before menses.

Mental depression in the evening. Anxiety about his failing health, with fear of death. Anxiety after loss of sleep; vexation and sorrow. He is angered over his own mistakes. Anger with trembling. Obstinate and refuses to be comforted about his misfortune. He is weary of life but fears death.

Excitable and weeps. Despair of recovery. Hopelessness. Easily startled, frightened. Starts from fright on falling asleep. Cannot comprehend what is said to him. The whole mental state is better when riding in a carriage.

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Suitable especially to lean persons of rigid fibre, dark complexion, black hair and eyes—the brunette rather than blonde—nervous temperament.

Persons suffering with chronic disease who take cold easily; are disposed to diarrhœa; rarely to those who suffer with constipation.

Old people, diarrhœa and great weakness.

Excessive physical irritability.

Pains: sticking, pricking, as from splinters; suddenly appearing and disappearing; on change of temperature or weather; during sleep; gnawing here and there, as from ulcers forming.

Diseases: which depend on some virulent poison—mercury, syphilis, scrofula—in broken-down, cachectic constitutions; hateful and vindictive.

Irritable, headstrong; hateful and vindictive; inveterate, ill-willed, unmoved by apologies.

After continued loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety; over-exertion of mind and body from nursing the sick (Coc.); anguish from the loss of his dearest friend (Ign.).

Sensation: of a band around head, around the bones (Carb. ac., Sul.); of a splinter in affected parts, ulcer, piles, throat, ingrowing toe nail, < on slightest contact.

Often anxious about his own illness; constantly thinking about his past troubles; mind weakened and wanders; morbid fear of cholera.

Ozena: green casts from the nose every morning.

Diarrhœa: great straining but little passes; as if stayed in rectum and could not be expelled (Alum.); pain as if rectum and anus were torn or fissured (Nat.); violent cutting pain after stool, lasting for hours (Rat., Sul.).

Very sensitive to rattle of wagons over paved streets.

Urine: scanty, dark brown, strong-smelling, like horse's urine; cold when it passes; turbid, looks like remains of a cider barrel.

Warts, condylomata: sycotic or syphilitic; large, jagged, pedunculated; bleeding readily on washing; moist, oozing; sticking pain (Staph., Thuja).

Ulcers: easily bleeding, pricking pains especially on contact (Hep.); zigzag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh; exuberant granulations; after mercury or syphilis or both, engrafted on a scrofulous base.

Hemorrhage: from bowels in typhoid or typhus (Crot., Mur. ac.); after miscarriage or post-partum; from over-exertion of body; profuse, bright or dark.

Affects especially the mucous outlets of the body where skin and mucous membrane join—mouth, nose, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina (Mur. ac.).

Complementary: Arsenicum, Caladium.

Follows well: after Calcarea, Hepar, or Thuja, but is most effective after Kali carbonicum.

Should not be used before or after Lachesis.

Often difficult to distinguish from Mercury; but is adapted to black-haired people, while Mercury is more useful in light-haired persons.

Evening and at night; contact; change of temperature or weather; on waking; while walking; rising from a seat.

While riding in a carriage (the reverse of Coc.); from eructations.

Quotidian; tertian; typhoid; typhus; yellow fever.

Afternoon and evening.

Continuous chilliness in the evening; before going to bed and after lying down; in bed, worse from uncovering or moving (Nux). Chill in the afternoon while in the open air, for an hour and a half; afterwards dry heat in bed, with delirium and a sort of half-waking, dreamy state; sweat and sleep towards evening. Chilliness in the afternoon, for an hour; then heat over the whole body, for a quarter of an hour; afterwards profuse perspiration over the whole body for two hours; there is no thirst in either cold or hot stages. Cold hands, with extreme ill-humor. Con- stant coldness of the feet as far up as the calves. Icy coldness of soles of feet, preventing sleep at night.

Dry, internal at night; desire to uncover (Acon.); pricking all over, as from needles. Dry heat of hands and face in flushes, with sweat of hands. Constant paroxysms of flushes of heat, of single parts, or over entire body (Fer., Sep.). The blood seemed hot at night, especially in the hands, preventing sleep. Great heat in the face and hands; or heat in face, with icy cold hands. Dryness of the throat.

All over the entire body after eating (Carbo a.). Sweat, with cold hands and blue nails. Sweat sour, offensive, like horse's urine. Night-sweat, on covering up in bed (on being covered sweats profusely all over, Cinch.). Night-sweat, only on the parts on which he is lying (Acon., Bry.—on the part not lain upon, Benz.). Profuse night-sweat, every other night. Offensive auxilliary sweat (Bov.). Profuse sweat on the soles, causing soreness of the toes and balls of the feet, with sticking pain as if he were walking on pins. Perspiration in the morning.

Coated white or lemon-color; dry in the morning; saliva profuse, fetid, acrid; corners of mouth sore and ulcerated; cadaverous odor. Taste, bitter after eating (Puls.); aversion to meat and bread; long for fat (reverse of Puls.). Corners of mouth ulcerated. Cracking in the maxillary articulation when chewing or eating.

During fever full, hard and tense. In old cases irregular; fourth beat intermits; one normal beat is often followed by two rapid beats.

Heat; in flushes, in paroxysms, of single parts or over entire body.

Sweat; with cold hands, blue nails; sour, offensive, like horse's urine; profuse night sweat; profuse on soles causes soreness of toes and balls of feet; sticking pain as if walking on pins.

Chronic cases; a general anæmic, cachectic condition.

Weak memory, aversion to mental exertion.
Taciturn.
Sadness, despondency.
Anxious about his diseases, with fear of death; fear of cholera.
Vindicative; attacks of rage, with curses and maledictions.
Nervous, excitable, especially after abuse of mercury.

Felt dizzy, dull, stupid.
Vertigo, morning, must lie down.
Congestion to head, with much heat in it.

Head sensitive to rattling of wagons over paved streets, or to stepping hard.
Pressing from without; tension extending to eyes, with nausea; worse from noise; better on lying down or from carriage riding.
Stitches in head, compelling one to lie down; disturbing sleep.
Piercing in temples.
Violent throbbing, hammering on left side of head, coming gradually, towards morning, and going off about breakfast time.

Pain in skull, with sensation as if constricted by a tape; worse evening and night better from cold air and while riding in a carriage.
Head very sensitive, even to pressure of the hat; worse in the evening and on part lain on.
Head feels hot.
Inflammatory swelling on scalp, suppurating or becoming carious worse from external pressure, or when lying thereon.
Red pimples, some brownish, on anterior border of hair and on temples.
Humid, stinging eruption on vertex and temples, down also to whiskers; bleeding easily when scratched, and feeling very sore when lain on.
Single, burning, moist sores on scalp. θ Syphilis.
Hair falls off, with humid eruptions, paining as from splinters; or, when touched; nervous headaches, debility and emaciation.

Black spots before the eyes.
Very sensitive to light.
Double vision; shortsightedness.
Pupils dilated and dim.
Eyes inflamed; after syphilis or abuse of mercury.
Iritis, which continually relapses; also old cases spoiled by mercury.
Pressure and stinging in the eyes.
Spots on the cornea.
Staphyloma, as a preventive.
Eyes dim, sunken.
Region of eyes painful, sore to the touch.
Herpetic pannus.
Eyelids swollen, hard, livid.
Paralysis of upper lids.
Fistula lachrymalis.
Flow of irritating tears, after injury of the eye.
Dermoid swellings of the eyes.

One's speech echoes in the ears.
Beating, humming in the ears.
Cracking in the ears when masticating.
Hardness of hearing, from induration and swelling of tonsils; after abuse of mercury.
Eustachian tubes obstructed.
Terribly offensive, purulent otorrhœa.
Throbbing in the ear.
Auditory canal nearly closed.
Caries of mastoid process.

Disagreeable smell on inhaling air.
Nosebleed, mornings; black, clotted; also when weeping; blood acrid.
Sneezing during sleep.
Nose obstructed with dry coryza, or with dropping of water; wings of nose swollen, burning.
Fetid, yellow, nasal discharge.
Ozæna, with ulcers.
Corroding nasal discharge.
Stitch in the nose as from a splinter.
Tip of nose red, scurfy.
Condylomata on nose.
Large, soft protuberances on alæ, covered with crusts. θ Syphilis.
Dirty, bloody mucus from posterior nares.
Green casts from the nose every morning.

Pale, eyes sunken.
Dark yellow about eyes, with red cheeks.
Swelling of the cheeks.
Bloated around the eyes on waking early.
Rush over the face and forehead, small pimples.
Suppurating pustules, with broad, red circumferences, forming crusts. θ Syphilis.
Comedones.
Freckles.

Swollen lips.
Under-lip dry, cracked.
Margin of mouth covered with sores and blisters.
Corners of mouth ulcerated.
Painful swelling of submaxillary gland.

Pulsating, stinging in teeth, evening in bed and all night, after abuse of mercury.
Teeth feel elongated.
Teeth become yellow or loose.
Pain in hollow teeth.
Gums white, swollen, bleeding.

Taste: bitter after eating; sour, with burning in the throat.
Tongue: sensitive, even and mild food causes smarting; white, dry, mornings; coated green, with ptyalism, dry, fissured.
Deep, irregular-shaped ulcers on the edge of the tongue. θ Syphilis.
Ulceration of tongue, with tough, ropy mucus.
Tongue white, with sore spots.

Cadaverous smell from the mouth.
Saliva fetid, acrid, makes lips sore.
Saliva bloody.
Mucous membrane of mouth swollen, ulcerated; with pricking pains, especially after abuse of mercury.
Tumor in the mouth, with a streak down the neck.

Palate, tongue, inside of gums sore, with stinging pain and ulceration of corners of mouth.
Stitches in the throat, dry coryza, hoarseness.
Tonsils red swollen, uneven, with small ulcers thereon.
Dry throat, heat; gums sore.
Diphtheritic membrane on tonsils and fauces; extending to the nose; terrible fetor, intermittent pulse; swollen parotids.
Pricking as from a splinter in the throat; worse when swallowing.

Longing for: fat; herring; chalk; line; earth.
Averse to meat and bread.
Loss of appetite.
Thirst violent in morning. θ Tuberculosis, suppuration of lungs.

During and after eating, sweat.
Chokes while eating.
After eating; fulness in stomach, debility from least exertion, heat, palpitation; heavy weight in stomach.
Fat food causes nausea and acidity.
Milk disagrees.

Much nausea, cannot take food; vomits occasionally.
Nausea, with heat in the stomach, extending to the throat.
Nausea better from moving about or carriage riding.
Bitter and sour vomiting, with much eructation; vomiting yellow mucus.

Stitches in the pit of the stomach.
Pain in cardiac orifice on swallowing food.
Burning distress.

Chronic derangement of the liver; icterus.
Liver enormously enlarged; clay-colored stools.
Spleen large after yellow fever.

Awakened at midnight, with crampy pains in small intestines; chilly; pain more if he moved.
Incarcerated flatulency in upper part of abdomen worse morning and evening.
Abdomen distended with flatulence, very tender.
Cutting-pinching, worse in the morning in bed.
Gurgling in left side of abdomen; cold feet; fetor oris.
Pain in abdomen when walking; must bend over; pain settles in ileo-cæcal region; dull, sore, tender.
Inguinal hernia; also of children.
Burning over whole abdomen, 2 to 3 P.M.
Stinging soreness when touched.
Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.
Inflamed buboes.

Desire for stool, but little passes; feels as if it stayed in the rectum and could not be expelled.
Ineffectual urging to stool; colic.
Stools hard, preceded by great pressure, followed by mucus discharges.
Burning in rectum towards the perineum, with ineffectual urging; straining without stool; diphtheritic dysentery.
Sero-croupous discharge, with much straining.
Stools: bloody, with tenesmus; or mucus; putrid, mucous; undigested; loose, much flatulence, rumbling; of yellow-white fluid; loose mornings; green, slimy acrid diarrhœa.
Hemorrhage bright red, not clotted; faint from least motion; ulcers in ileo-cæcal region.
Piles: old, pendulous, ceased bleeding, but pain when touched, worse in warm weather; slimy, fissured; bleed after every stool.
Fissures in rectum; tearing, spasmodic symptoms during stool; lancinating after, even after soft stools.
Moisture about the anus.

Cold when it passes; scanty, dark brown, smelling strong like horse's urine; turbid, looks like remains in a cider barrel.
While urinating, smarting-burning in urethra.
Hæmaturia; urging after, and shuddering along the spine, during urination; blood flows actively.
Incontinence of urine.
Spasms of the urethra; rectal fissure.
Ulcers in urethra; bloody, mucous or purulent discharge.

Sexual desire too strong.
No desire; want of erections.
Painful spasmodic erections at night.
Hard, brown nodules on scrotum, suppurating.
Brown-red spots, peeling off on discharging.
Gonorrhœa, with chancres, or warts.
Small blisters on orifice of urethra and inner surface of prepuce, forming chancre-like ulcers. θ Gonorrhœa.
Ulcers deep, fistulous, irregular, ragged; edges often raised, lead-colored; bleed easily when touched. θ Syphilis.
Secondary syphilis; 4, 5, 7, 13, 33, 46.
Phimosis.
Chancres after mercury, especially with exuberant granulations.
Condylomata.
Falling off the hair from genitals.

After coitus, mucous lining of genitals itches voluptuously; excrescences on uterus.
Pressing down in hypogastrium and small of back, as though everything would protrude; pain down thighs; abdomen feels swollen.
Uterine hemorrhage from overexertion of body.
Menses: early, irregular, scanty, and like muddy water; early and profuse; aching from the thighs; urine offensive.
During menses eructations, cramp-like pain in the abdomen, as if it would burst.
Profuse, brown, offensive discharge between the irregular menstruations. θ Cancer uteri.
Leucorrhœa: of ropy mucus; of green mucus; of flesh-colored; acrid, brown, offensive.
Stitches up the vagina, or from without inward, when walking in the open air.
Itching, swelling and burning of vulva and vagina.
Excrescences on cervix uteri.

Metrorrhagia after abortion or confinement.
Hard nodes on mammæ.
Atrophy of the mammæ.

Hoarseness: with coryza, from long talking; scratching and stinging in throat.
Large, broad condylomata in the larynx.

Awakens often all stopped up with mucus, must expectorate before he can breathe easily.
Losses her breath and speech, she is so weak. θ Uterine displacement.
Intermittent breathing.
Short breath, panting during work.

Dry, barking, from tickling in larynx and pit of stomach: worse at night, also in day when lying down.
Sputa of blood mixed with clots during the day.
Cough: dry, sputum is raised with difficulty in the morning, followed by greenish-white casts, as if from air-cells. θ Secondary syphilis.
Sputa are yellow, acrid, bitter; sour offensive.
Empyema, with considerable muco-purulent sputum.

Uneasiness in chest.
Congestion to chest, with anxiety, heat and palpitation.
Cramp-like pains in chest.
Stitches in chest, right side.
Chest sore when coughing or breathing.
Soreness at lower end of sternum.
Pain suddenly abates, yet pulse becomes smaller and quicker. θ Pneumonia. θ Pleurisy of cold air cachectic people.
Lungs attacked, rattling breathing, loose cough; sputum brown, bloody; pulse irregular. θ Typhus.
Threatened paralysis of the lungs. θ Typhus.

Palpitation and anguish, on going up stairs.
Pulse: irregular; one normal, followed by two small rapid beats; fourth beat intermits; alternate hard, rapid and small beats.

Swelling of cervical and axillary glands.
Stitches in and between scapulæ; neck stiff.
Pain in back and small of back; from cold.
Neuralgic pains up the back, particularly left side.

Aching in right shoulder and arm; arm feels bruised; at times she cannot raise it.
Rheumatic pains mostly in forearms and fingers.
Numbness, trembling, tingling, of right forearm.
Swelling of finger-joints, stinging pains.
Hands go to sleep in the morning.
Numerous large warts on back of hand.
Herpes between fingers.
White spots on nails.

Hip as if sprained, with limping.
Pain across both buttocks.
Rheumatic pains in legs and feet.
Soreness along the periosteum on the tibia.
Pain in patella, impeding walking; stiffness and stitches in knees.
Violent cramp in calf; at night and when walking after sitting.
Itching of shins, bleeding when scratched; small scabs form.
Foul-smelling foot-sweat.
Chilblains on the toes.

Limbs restless in evening.

Motion: 19, 20, 32, 40. Stepping hard: 3. Walking: 16, 19, 23, 33. Sitting: 33. Must bend over: 19. Overexertion: 23. Lying: 3, 27, 40. Must lie down: 2, 3. Part lain on: 4.

Excessive physical irritability.
Hysteria.
Twitching in various parts.
Great weakness; trembling; shocks on going to sleep; depressed in spirits.
Great debility, heaviness and trembling of limbs, especially in the morning.

Drowsy all day from debility, with vertigo.
Difficulty of going to sleep.
Shocks on dropping to sleep.
Pains felt during sleep.
Sleeps badly latter part of night.
On awaking feels as if he had not slept enough.

Morning: 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 14, 19, 20, 32, 36, 40. Afternoon: 19, 40. Evening: 4, 10, 19, 34. Night: 4, 10, 22, 27, 33, 40. Midnight: 19. After midnight: 37. Toward morning: 3, 40. Day: 27, 37.

Pain on change of temperature or weather.
Warm weather: 20. In bed: 40. Open air: 46. Cold air: 4. Cold: 31. Uncovering: 40.

Chill afternoon and evening, and after lying down.
Continuous chilliness.
Chilly, with internal heat.
Chilly morning in bed after previous heat.
Awakens at midnight chilly; worse from uncovering or moving; later hot, prickling all over as from needles.
No thirst during cold or hot stage.
Heat on hands and face.
Heat dry, internal at night, wants to uncover.
Heat in flushes, with sweaty hands.
Heat, with sweat and debility after eating.
Sweat sour, offensive, like urine.
Sweat on soles of feet makes them sore.
Copious night-sweats.
Chill afternoon; then short heat over whole body; afterwards profuse sweat over whole body.
Intermittent fever; chill afternoon while in open air, followed by dry heat when in bed, accompanied by all sorts of fancies while in a state of half waking, without sleep; sleep and sweat only come on towards morning.
Chronic cases, liver diseased, patient anæmic; general cachectic condition.

Right: 18, 28, 32. Left: 3, 18, 19, 31. Without inward: 3, 23.

Pricking as from splinters.
Gnawing here and there as from ulcers forming.

Hemorrhages bright, profuse; or dark.
Putrid decomposition.
Emaciation.
Cracking in the joints.
Glands inflamed, swollen, suppurating.
Caries.

Touch: 4, 5, 19, 20, 22, 46. Pressure: 4. Scratching: 4, 33. Carriage riding: 3, 4, 16.

Skin dry.
Skin dark, dirty; brown-red spots.
Burning hot skin; fine miliary rash. θ Scarlatina.
Itching nettle-rash in open air.
Blood-boils.
Carbuncles.
Rhagades, deep, bleeding.
Frost-bites, itching; inflamed from slight degree of cold; skin cracked.
Ulcers bleed when touched; stinging pains; feeling as of a splinter; edges hard, everted and irregular; exuberant granulations; after mercury or in secondary syphilis.
Condylomata moist, like cauliflower, hard, rhagadic, or in thin pedicles.

Dark complexioned, and old people.

Nitr. ac. follows well after: Calc. carb., Hepar, Kali carb., Natr. carb., Pulsat., Sulphur, Thuja.
After Nitr. ac; Calc. carb., Pulsat., Sulphur are frequently indicated.
Nitr. ac.: complementary to Calad.
Antidotes to Nitr. ac., Calc. carb., Hepar, Mercur., Mezer., Sulphur.
Nitr. ac. relieves ailments from: Calcar., Digit., abuse of mercury.
Inimical: Laches.

For use, pure Nitric acid, sp. gr. 1.42, is mixed with distilled water (1 to 9), making the 1st decimal dilution.

A tissue remedy of wide application, but with a particular affinity for the skin and mucous membranes; general tendency to destructive ulcerations, with sharp pains. ▶ In many particulars it resembles Mercury, others the potashes and Iodine. ▶ It presents many points of resemblance to the lesions of syphilis.

Merc., Kali, Iod., Lyc., Graph., Hep., Sil ., Aur., etc.

▶ Emaciation. (Iod.); agg. upper arms and thighs. ▶ Anæmia of mucous membranes. ▶ Collapse, with sinking of pulse and delirium. ▶ Trembling in morning on waking; T. from weakness. ▶ Tossing about. ▶ Twitching. ▶ Epileptic attack after midnight, it began like a mouse moving up and down his left side, then loss of consciousness, arm jerked, head and mouth drawn back and forth so that he bit his tongue, then stiffness and snoring; E. attack when sitting, first drawing in left side of chest, then convulsive drawing back and forth in arms, with tolerable consciousness.

▶ Stitches; here and here in all parts (Kali); under skin of whole body; head, face and body; through forehead, temples and malar-bones and in gums and teeth; head, face, lips, gums, and sharp aching in jaws, these pains partially amel. binding head tightly with cold compress. ▶ Painful hammering, agg. head. ▶ Pains in bones; P. when half awake that he could not distinctly remember when awake; burning. ▶ Drawing pains in almost all parts, suddenly appearing and disappearing; D. pain in periosteum of all bones as before intermittent fever. ▶ Drawing in whole body, with tearing.

Tension in head and whole body; T. of nerves with thirst. ▶ Inclination to take cold (Kali c.); and has pain in back on consequence; in weak parts in evening in cold wind, and then drawing pain in the parts. ▶ Sensitiveness of whole body to open air. ▶ Pulsation in upper part of body. ▶ Confusion of body, not of head, as after severe illness. ▶ Malaise; after dinner becomes warm, limbs feel prostrated and tremble, she is obliged to lie down; of whole body, with weakness of joints and heat of head. ▶ Restlessness; internal, in morning on waking, agg. arms. ▶ Sensation in all muscles as on resting after great fatigue. ▶ Disinclination to walk.

▶ Weakness (Kali c., Phos. ac., Merc., Mur. ac., Sul. ac., etc.); of mind and body; all day, with sleepiness; in morning after rising till 10 A.M.; towards noon; in afternoon; in evening, agg. lower limbs; in evening, with trembling; on slight movement; after stool; when sitting and walking, with indolence and bruised sensation; after dinner, limbs relaxed, agg. knees and elbows; from too frequent coition (though with sufficient sexual desire), with renewal of old complaints; with atony; with trembling and sensitiveness; so that he was almost constantly obliged to lie down; sudden; so that she could not speak during menses, it took away her breath, and she was obliged to lie down; faintlike every other morning, with anxiety.

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Rapid emaciation.
Sharp pains in different parts of the body, seeming to be in the bones; suddenly appearing and disappearing; pains are felt even during sleep.
Tearing pains in the limbs and body, especially after becoming cold.
Weakness so great that he is constantly obliged to lie down.
General aggravation from washing with water.
Symptoms < evening and night.
General amelioration from riding in a carriage.
Generally indicated in people with dark hair, of "tense fibre".
(The weakness is even associated with a general undefined feeling of tension.)

Easily excited, much affected by peevishness.
Easily vexed at trifles.
Discontented with himself and inclined to weep violently.
Despondent and sad.
Is anxious all day, and especially in the evening and during night, as if engaged in disputes.
Anxious about his disease; he thinks he is going to die.
Difficult to exert the mind, or to collect the thoughts.
Memory weak.

Feeling of rush of blood to the head, with much heat in head.
Pulsating headache, as if the head were tightly bound, > binding the head tightly.
A feeling as though the head were in a vise, extending over the vertex, from ear to ear.
Sharp, shooting pains in the head > lying down.
Sharp pains in the head, with great sensitiveness to noises.
Pains as if in the bones of the skull.
Pressing and drawing pains in the left side of the head, extending to the ears and teeth.
The hair falls out freely.
Moist eruption on the scalp.
The scalp is sensitive, even to the pressure of the hat.

Sharp, sticking pains in the eyes.
Burning and heat.
Lachrymation as if the eye were full of tears.
Lids are heavy, difficult to raise in the morning.
Vision double, especially of distant, horizontal objects.
Obscured vision when reading; requires strong light to read; has to stop earlier than usual, at twilight.

Clinical:
Ulceration of the cornea.
Intra-ocular inflammations, iritis, pains aggravated by lying down and at night; particularly indicated in the abuse of Mercury.
Lachrymal fistula.

Shooting pains in the ears.
Hearing blunted.
Cracking noises when chewing.
Swelling of the glands behind and beneath the ears.
The shooting and tearing pains are > warmth of the bed.

Nostrils sore, ulcerated, scabby.
Tip of the nose red and scabby.
Stinging in the nose on touch.
A feeling of distress at the root of the nose, with sticking pains, < sneezing and coughing.
A feeling of soreness in the nostrils, with itching.
Nose is stopped at night.
Discharge passes only into the throat.
Fluent coryza, and at the same time the nose feels stopped, with difficult breathing.
Shooting pains in the throat.
Nasal discharges offensive, yellow, bloody.

Clinical:
Discharges from the nose.
Caries of the mastoid bone, syphilitic or mercurial.

Pain in the bones of the face, tearing < night.
Cracking in the joints of the jaw when chewing and eating.
Ulceration of the corners of the lips, becoming scabby, with stinging pain.

Inner surface of the lips bleeds and smarts, with shooting pains.
The teeth become yellow, loose and painful.
The gums are soft and spongy and bleed easily.
Toothache on taking anything cold or hot into the mouth.
The teeth become so loose that they almost fall out.
Blisters on the tongue, with burning pain.
Painful pimples on the sides of the tongue; ulceration on the inside of the cheeks, with sticking pains.
Inflammation and ulceration over the whole interior of the mouth, with offensive saliva.
He bites the mucous membrane of the cheeks easily when chewing.
Profuse saliva, which is sometimes bloody, and of a foul order.

Inflammation and ulceration of the throat, with white patches and sharp pains, as from splinters, on swallowing.
Constant desire to hawk mucus from the throat, with sharp, stinging pains; with soreness as if raw and ulcerated.
Swallowing difficult on account of inflammation and sharp, stinging pain.
Violent, shooting pain on swallowing; extends to ears and causes a wry face.

Great hunger, with sweetish taste; weakness; appetite very variable.
Thirst great.
Longing for indigestible things, such as chalk, lime, earth and fat.
Distress from eating milk.
Pain in the cardiac orifices of the stomach on swallowing food.
Shooting and sticking pain in the pit of the stomach.
Eructations sour, empty.
Nausea after eating; with heavy, dull head.
Vomiting of tenacious or bloody mucus.

Flatulent symptoms; rumblings.
Cutting pains.
Shooting pains in the region of the liver; < motion.
Pressure and shooting in the region of the spleen.
Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands, with splinter-like pains.

Stitches; splinter-like pains during and after stool, with spasmodic constriction in anus.
Pain during stool as if it would be torn asunder.
Itching and burning in anus, at night, on walking, in the morning, extending to perineum.
Ineffectual desire and inability to evacuate feces on account of inactivity.
Hæmorrhoids, with bleeding after every stool.
Soreness and moisture of hæmorrhoids, with shooting pains.

Clinical:
Ulceration of the rectum, with splinter-like pains after stools.
Fissure of the anus, with constant oozing of fetid moisture, with sensation of rawness and smarting as if cut.
Old painful, pendulous hæmorrhoids.

Diarrhœa, frequently slimy, offensive.
Stools bloody, with tenesmus, fever and headache.
Stools consist only of mucus, with cutting pains and straining, also with burning in rectum.
Constipation, with evacuation of hard, scanty masses, with burning and cutting in the rectum and anus.
Following the stools, great irritability of mind and general exhaustion.

Frequent urging at night, with scanty micturition.
Micturition in a thin stream as from stricture.
Ineffectual micturition.
Stinging in the orifice of the urethra.
Burning and smarting during and after micturition.
Urine offensive, scanty, dark-colored.
Urine cold when passed.
Urine deposits a red sediment.

Clinical:
Chronic inflammation and ulceration of the urethra, with burning and stinging pains.
Inflammation of the bladder.
Urine has a strong odor like horses' urine.
Urine albuminous, with pain in the region of the kidneys.
Urine bloody.

Ulceration of the penis; the ulcers are elevated, with sensitive edges, sharp, splinter-like pains.
Soreness and burning in the glans penis and beneath the prepuce when urinating.
Ulcers on the corona glandis, exuding an offensive matter.
Excrescences offensive and bleeding on touch.
Vesicles appear on the prepuce that ulcerate and burn and sting, becoming covered with a thick matter.
Swelling of the prepuce, with burning pain and the development of small ulcers, exuding a bloody, offensive matter, with sticking and tearing pains, < evening and night.
Menstruation earlier; soreness and itching of the external genitals, with the development of ulcers, exuding yellow or bloody matter, which is offensive.
Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, stringy, greenish, offensive, < after menstruation.
The hair on the genitals of both sexes falls off.

Voice hoarse, especially after long talking, with scratching and stinging in the trachea.
Cough usually short and dry, caused by a feeling of constriction in the throat, < fore part of the night, preventing sleep until towards morning, with a feeling as if the chest were tightly bound, often with stitches in the small of the back.
Dry, barking cough in the evening after lying down.
Cough causes anxiety and vomiting of mucus and food.
Stitches in the sides of the chest.
Whistling rales on inspiration.
A feeling of soreness in the chest when coughing and breathing.
Chest seems filled by a rush of blood, with heat and anxious palpitation.

Anxious constriction about the heart, sometimes with palpitation in the evening in bed, or on ascending steps, with anxiety.
Pulse small and weak; intermittent, irregular and fluttering.

Stiffness in the nape of the neck, with stitches between the scapulæ.

General uneasiness, with drawing pains.
Tearing and drawing in the arms, especially below the elbows.
Tearing and drawing in the lower extremities as if in the bones.
A feeling of gnawing in the bones and pulling in the sinews of the lower extremities, < night.
Legs restless in the evening.
Weakness of the knees.
Cramp in the calves when walking.

General yellowness, with constipation.
Dark spots like freckles.
Redness and heat in the hands and feet as though they had been frozen, or like chilblains.
Stinging or burning pains in old ulcers or in warts.

Starts in fright on falling asleep.
Frequent waking and inability to fall asleep again after a long time.
Sobbing during sleep, with anxious dreams.

General external coldness.
Constant chilliness.
Heat and sweat, with great weakness after eating.
Dry heat at night, with much thirst.
Sweat usually in the morning, especially on the soles of the feet, causing soreness, with sticking pains as if walking on pins.
Sweat offensive at night, especially in the feet and in the axillæ.

NITRI ACIDUM. NITRIC ACID. [*].

[] About 130 of the following symptoms belong to the two fellow-observers mentioned. The remainder, save thirty from authors, are Hahnemann's own, obtained as we have already seen. Besides these are a few from Hartmann, Foissac, Hering, Stapf and "Th. Mo.", etc., probably observed on patients. -Hughes*.

Half an ounce of perfectly pure nitre (dry nitre in large crystals is dissolved in 6 parts of hot water, and crystallized again from the solution during the application of intense cold) is pulverized and put into a retort lined with clay, by means of a crooked beaked glass funnel, then through the same funnel a half an ounce of phosphoric acid of an oily consistence is added (prepared according to the direction in the fifth part of Materia Medica Pura, melted and allowed to deliquesce in the open air) ; after these have been shaken up a little, the pure nitric acid is distilled over a lamp into a receiver loosely attached to it ; this acid will not smoke and has a specific weight of about 1, 200. One drop of this acid is shaken up five times with 100 drops of distilled water, and one drop of this is shaken up by five succussions, with 100 drops of diluted alcohol whereby the nitric acid is potentized to the ten thousandth dilution (/10000). One drop of this attenuation is then attenuated with 100 drops of good alcohol and then potentized by five succussions successively to the VI, VIII and X potencies, for there is no danger of any intimate combination (as in sweet spirits of nitre) of the alcohol with an acid so much diluted. The homœopathic physician will only use the potencies VI, VIII and X for antipsoric purposes, giving two or three of the smallest pellets, moistened with these potencies, for a dose -for the more debilitated patients we only use the decillionth attenuation. It will be found that this medicine acts more beneficially with patients of a tense fibre (brunettes) than with those of a lax fibre (blondes). It is also more appropriate to chronic patients who are inclined to soft stools, while it is seldom applicable to patients inclined to constipation. Nitric acid is most beneficial where the following symptoms predominate or are present among others : Sadness ; lack of cheerfulness ; anxiety about his disease, with fear of death, excessive irritability ; peevishness and obstinacy ; aversion to work ; vertigo, when walking and sitting ; vertigo, compelling the person to lie down ; headache from nausea ; tearing in the forehead, the crown and the occiput ; beating headache ; rush of blood to the head ; itching on the hairy scalp ; falling out of the hair ; paralysis of the upper eyelid ; pressure in the eyes ; shooting in the eyes ; suppuration of the eyes ; difficulty in contracting the pupils ; flying black points before the eyes ; stitches in the ear ; encysted tumor on the left lobule ; discharge from the ear ; obstruction of the ear ; stoppage of the ear ; hardness of hearing ; roaring in the ears ; throbbing in the ear ; crepitation in the ear ; scurfs in the right nostril ; epistaxis ; offensive smell on drawing in air through the nose ; fetor from the nose ; pimples in the face ; paleness of the face ; cracked lips ; swelling in the re of the lips ; looseness of the teeth ; bleeding of the gums ; burning in the throat ; sore pain in the throat ; bitter taste, also after eating ; sweetish taste in the mouth ; thirst, during suppuration of the lungs ; loathing of meat ; milk is not digested ; sick at stomach from eating fat ; during and after meals, perspiration ; after eating, sensation of fullness in the stomach ; after dinner, lassitude ; sour eructation ; inclination to vomit ; waterbrash after drinking quickly ; stitches in the scrobiculus cordis ; tensive pressure under the left ribs ; frequent pinching in the abdomen ; colic ; shooting in the abdomen, when touching it ; ulcerative pain in the hypogastrium ; swelling of the inguinal glands ; inguinal hernia in children ; accumulation of flatus in the abdomen ; incarceration of flatus, in the morning and evening ; rumbling in the abdomen ; growling in the abdomen ; liability to take cold in the abdomen ; costiveness ; urging to stool ; irregular and difficult evacuation of the fæces ; stool too frequent ; dry stool ; itching of the anus ; old varices of the anus ; painful urination ; inability to retain the urine ; fetor of the urine ; soreness of the glans ; figwarts ; the testicle hangs down ; lack of the sexual instinct and of its functions ; lack of erections ; too many pollutions ; leucorrhœa. Abortive sneezing ; stoppage of the nostrils ; dryness of the nose ; coryza ; stuffed coryza ; hoarseness ; roughness on the chest ; laryngeal phthisis ; cough by day ; cough in the evening, when lying down ; vomiting cough ; shortness of breath ; asthma ; panting while at work ; knotty induration of the mammæ ; dwindling of the mammæ ; pain in the sacrum ; pain in the back ; stiffness of the nape ; swelling of the glands of the neck ; shooting in the shoulder ; pressive pain on the shoulder-joint ; roughness of the skin on the hands ; herpes between the fingers ; the fingers go to sleep ; white spots on the finger-nails ; itching on the thighs ; every evening, restlessness in the lower limbs ; coldness of the lower limbs ; pain of the thighs, when rising from a seat ; weakness of the knees ; cramp and straining in the calves, when walking, after sitting ; twisting in the calves ; shooting in the heel, when treading ; fetid sweat of the feet ; tearing pains in the upper and lower limbs ; liability to take cold, and consequent pinching and cutting in the abdomen ; pains in old cicatrices and wounds, with the changes of weather (weather prophets in the limbs) ; black pores ; the limbs freeze, inflame and itch even in moderate cold ; itching nettle-rash in the open air, even in the face ; itching herpes ; brownish red spots on the skin ; warts ; painful corns and chilblains ; debility ; lassitude in the morning ; tremulous lassitude ; chronic lassitude and heaviness of the feet ; difficult awaking in the morning ; frequent awaking ; restlessness at night ; starting up from sleep ; sleep full of dreams ; anxious dreams ; lascivious dreams ; pains during sleep ; constant chilliness ; afternoon fever, chill and heat ; dryness of the skin ; night-sweat ; fetid night-sweat. The symptoms marked (Bth.) were observed by Dr. Bethmann ; those marked (Rl.) are by Dr. Rummel.

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Nit. A. / (Night-Dark.) / Nick.

Nitric acid,-Thou the genius
To corrode with ulcer sore,
Paining as from splinter sticking,
Skin and bone and mucous floor.
Thine the syphillitic lesion,
Condyloma-pimple-wart.
And a purulent ophthalmia,
Of a syphilitic sort.
With a cornea ulcerated,
And a mouth of odor foul;
Rising from an ulceration
That may reach to throat and bowel.
Thine a cracking of jaw when chewing,
Headache as from vise-like band;
And a cough with yellow sputum
And enlargement of the gland.
Stitching pains invade thy stomach,
Tender oft thy abdomen.
Hard thy stools sometimes, and painful,
Smarting burns thy anus then.
Stitches dart in thy urethra,
Strong thy urine in its scent,
Like that of a horse's urine,
Sometimes, feeling cold to vent.
Chancres, with offensive moisture,
On the genitals are seen;
Whilst thy wife has, in her ailing,
Leucorrhoea foul and green.
Night sweat is a frequent symptom,
Mostly every other night;
Also cramp in calf occurring
Often putting sleep to flight.
Thine a state of sheer exhaustion,
As if from dyspepsia ill;
Tended with a morbid craving,
For things indigestable.
Or perhaps, a hungry longing
For fat food, or herring smoked.
Whilst perhaps there be aversion,
To all bread and meat evoked.
Better thou when in carriage
Riding out thy friends to greet.
Worse at night, and worse on waking,
Worse on rising from a seat.

Nick,-Has a splinter-like pain.

Nick, the potter, is jawing Hebe.

This Nick,-Who is affected with pimples, -Is in Florence, as leader of the red Arabs and Thugs of Api, Yes, he and the Yellow Kid of Antim.

Splinter-Like Sticking Pain:Nit. a., Kal. c., Arg. n., Alu., Hep.

Pimples in the Face: Nit. a., Fl. a., Led., Sang., Ars. b., Ars. i., Thuj., Apis, Arn., Sul., Gel., Kali i., Ant. c., (Blue Pimples, Lach.)

Indicated in a large variety of affections, especially those of the skin and mucous membrane, skin, eyes, ears, nose, throat, etc. In ulcerations in different parts of the body, as eye, nose, throat, cheeks, rectum, urethra, genitalia. Anal fissure, coughs, etc.

Extreme weakness; in the morning, joints and limbs ache; in the afternoon, overwhelming lassitude of the entire body, with great and persistent trembling.

Discharges of the body (urine, faeces, perspiration) very offensive; foul odor of the breath and saliva; fetid sweating of the feet, with painful soreness of the toes.

Splinter-like pains, especially at the outlets of the body where mucous membrane and the skin meet.

Falling out of the hair.

Spongy condition of the gums, with easy bleeding of the gums and foul odor from the mouth.

Head feels as though it were in a vise, from ear to ear, over vertex; as of a band around the head; as if tightly bound.

Head very sensitive to pressure in spots on which he lies; and to pressure from hat or cap.

Hardness of hearing; better from riding in a carriage.

Cracking in the ears when chewing.

Ozaena, with formation of green crusts; discharge thick, yellow, offensive; great soreness in the nose; splinter-like pain.

Sore throat with splinter-like pain when swallowing.

Constant hawking of mucus.

Urine dark, reddish, offensive (like urine of horses), bloody, albuminous.

Sticking pain in the rectum when at stool; feels sore and chafed after stool; moisture and soreness at the anus and between the nates.

Leucorrhoea; purulent or the weak watery extracts of fresh meat, slightly tinged with blood; very offensive; with soreness of genitalia and much bearing down.

Body covered with red-brown spots.

Ulceration in various parts (cornea, cheeks, bodily surface, sexual organs, etc.), with pain as though a splinter were run into the ulcer, even when touched ever so lightly.

Ulcers bleed from slightest touch.

Large warts, jagged, bleeding easily; sensitive; splinter-like pain.

Worse in the evening and at night; in cold or hot weather.

Better when riding in a carriage (deafness, headache, general condition); in moderate weather.

Anxious about his illness, with fear of death worse ascending. Sadness and despondency. Excessive excitability (after abuse of Mercury). Angry wilfulness. Long continued animosity toward those who have offended him. Attacks of rage, with imprecation and swearing.

Headache pressing inwards, with tension extending into eyes nausea and vomiting. Congestion to, with much heat therein. Throbbing ache. Stitches in, compel lying down. Attacks of gouty headache, excessively sensitive to the rattle of vehicles. Bone pain in skull. Dark brown or black, stiff, fibrous hair. Worse: Evening, noise. Better: Riding is a carriage, lying.

Moist, sticking, itching eruption from vertex down over temples into bead, bleeding easily when scratched, from which as well as on the side wherein he lies a smarting pain results. Exostoses Cephalic bone pains as though' skull were constricted by a band, readily passing into inflammation and necrosis. Painfully sensitiveness to touch and pressure even of hat, with anxiety. Falling of hair, with a moist eruption which sticks like painfully penetrating splinters when touched, also from genitals, especially after a nervous headache or abuse of mercury. Worse: Evening, and night, external pressure, lying thereon. Better: Cool air, during a carriage ride.

Pressure and sticking in. Inflamed (after suppressed syphilis or abuse of Mercury). Spots on cornea. Lachrymal fistula. Myopia. Black spots before.

Sticking in. suppurating. Difficult hearing (after abuse of Mercury Pounding and roaring in.

Tip red and scurfy. Sticking, a of a splinter in. Scurfs in. Nosebleed of dark, clotted blood early in morning Offensive smell from. Stuffed coryza, with obstructed nostrils. Fluent coryza after taking cold. the nasal mucus flows only thro' the nasal mucus flows only thro' the choanae. Sneezing.

Yellow. Sunken eyes encircled by yellow. Dark yellow, almost brownish complexion. Eruption, on forehead and temples, pimply on. Swollen lips. Ulcers on red part of lips. Painfully swelled submaxillary glands.

Loose and turn yellow. White gums.

Foul, cadaverous smell from (Syphilitic and mercurial) ulcers in, and on fauces. Inflammation of throat with burning and painful soreness. Painful excoriation of palate, tongue and inner gums. Sticking in pharynx, Salivation. Salivary fistula. hoarseness.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth, Sour, with burning in throat.

Pain in cardiac orifice when swelling solid food. Stitches in pit.

Hypochondria: Pressure and sticking in splenic region.

Appetite: Desire for earth, chalk, lime, etc. Milk disagrees throat.

Pinching, cutting and sticking in. Ulcerative pain in. Colic from talking cold. Inguinal glands.

Flatulence: Obstructed f., early in morning and in evening. Accumulation of flatus in abdomen.

Diarrhoeic, often of mucus or foul smelling s Dysenteric, bloody, with tenesmus. Constipation and dry stool. Nervousness and relaxation after.

Itching and burning of. Swollen hemorrhoids, which bleed with every stool. Stitches in rectum.

Discharge of scanty, dark stinking u. Feels cold when passed. Incontinence.

Figwarts and sycotic gonorrhoea Chancre - like ulcers on foreskin and glans. Inflamed and swelled testes, from whence pain ascends through spermatic cord. Want of or intensified sexual desire, with painful erections at night.

Menses: Too early, Suppressed. Cramps in abdomen with urging toward sexual organs during.

Panting, Tightness of chest and want of breath when walking or ascending step. Wheezing.

Shattering, spasmodic c., excited by tickling in larynx and epigastrium. Short, with expectoration of black, coagulated blood. Dry, barking, after lying down in evening. Stitches in small of back when coughing. Purulent expectoration from lungs. In morning and daytime, with expectoration of dark blood mixed with coagula, or of a yellow acrid pus of a bitter, sourish or salt taste and offensive odor.

Trachea, etc. - Scratching and sticking in, with hoarseness, especially after long talking. Tracheal phthisis.

Congestion to, with heat and anxious palpitation Stitches thro', and in sides thereof. Excoriative pain in, when coughing and breathing. Dwindling of female mammae.

Stitches within and between scapulae with stiff nape. Pains in and in lumbar region after taking cold.

Drawing and tearing in, especially in forearms and hands. Frostbites on hands and fingers. Herpes between fingers. White spots on nails.

Drawing and tearing in legs. Coldness of entire limb. Restlessness in legs in evening. Weakness in knees. Shootings in knee. Cramp in calves when walking stitching foot sweat frostbites on toes.

Sticking pains like a splinter driven into part. Extraordinary emaciation. Tense fiber. Great weakness and trembling, especially early in morning. Easily takes cold. Complaints causes by change of weather. Tearing in limbs after taking cold. Cracking joints. Hysterical complaints. Chlorosis and jaundice. Sycosis, worse by mercury. The symptoms are intensified in evening and at night. Pain are felt during sleep. Driving better most complaints. (Seldom applicable to blondes.

Inflamed swelled and suppurating glands

Swelling: of cervical, axillary and inguinal glands.

Inflamed and painful. Caries Soft ending and curvature

Black pores. From slight cold limbs are frostbitten, inflamed and itch. Painful frostbites. Brownish - red spots and dark freckles on. Large boils. Wounds and ulcers which stick like splinters, when touched. Mercurial ulcers.

Vertiginous day sleepiness. Late falling to. Restlessness at night and frequent awaking.

Pulse: Uncommonly irregular, two small, quick beats often follow a normal one and the fourth is omitted. Alternation of hard, with quick and small beats. Chill: Mostly in afternoon and evening, as well as after lying down. With concomitant internal heat. Early in morning in bed, after previous heat Constant chilliness. General, external coldness. Heat: Especially on face and hands. Overrunning heat, with sweaty hands. Nightly, internal, dry heat, with inclination to uncover and much thirst. And sweat with great debility after eating. Sweat: Every or every other night, most profuse on side lain on. Sour, offensive or smelling like horse urine.

Allied Remedies. Agr., (ANT - T), Argen Arg-n., Asaf., Bell. Box Con., Fulu - r-ac. Graph., HEP., Kali - b KALI-C., Cann., Carb-v. (CAUST.), Con., Flur-ac., Graph. HEP, Kali - b,. KALI-C., Lyc., MERC., MERC - C Mez., Nat-m.) Mez. Nat-m. PETR., Puls, Rhus-t. SEP., Sul. Thuja.

Complementary. Calc-c., Thuj.

Great debility and trembling, especially in the morning.

Ailments from the change of weather.

Tearing in the limbs after catching cold.

Cracking in the joints.

Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of the glands.

Painfulness and inflammation of the bones.

Softening of the bones.

Caries.

Fistula lachrymalis.

Ulcers in the mouth and throat.

Desire for earth, chalk and lime.

Milk does not agree.

Syphillitic ulcers.

Bad effects from catching cold.

Tearing and cutting in the abdomen.

Cough, coryza, and pain in the back.

Chilblains.

Nightly pains, especially to the touch, as from splinters.

Aggravation in the evening and at night.

The pains are felt duing sleep.

The remedy is very often of curative value in angry, deep-seated ulcers of a perforating character.