Materia Medica
Acetic Acid
Glacial Acetic Acid
This dirug produces a condition of profound anemia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspncea, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urina- tion and svcat. Heinorrhage from any part. Espe- cially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles. Wasting and debility. Acetic acid has the power to liquify albuminous and fbrinous deposits. Epithelial cancer. Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints. (C. M. Boger.)
Mind
Irritable, worried about business affairs.
Head
Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics. Blood rushes to head with delirium. Temporal vessels distended. Pain across root of tongue.
Face
Pale, waxcn, cuciatcd. Eyes sunken, sur- rounded by dark rings. Bright red. Sweaty. Epi- thelioma of lip. Cheeks hot and flushed.
Stomach
Salivation. Fermentation in stoinach. Intense burning thirst. Cold drinks distress. Vomits after every kind of food. Epigastric tenderness. Burn- ing pain as of an ulcer. Cancer of stomach. Sour belching and voimiting. Burning waterbrash and pro- fuse salivation. Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, follorwcd by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forchicad.
Abdomen
Feels as if abdomen was sinking in. Frequent watery stools, worse in morning. Tympanitic. Ascites. Hremorrhage from bowels. Urine.-- Large quantities of ral urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility. [Phos. ac.]
Female
Excessive catamenia. Hemorrhages after labor. Nausea of pregnancy. Breasts painfully en- larged, distended with milk. Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour. Anaemia of nursing mothers.
Respiratory
Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough whicn inhaling. Membraneous croup. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes. False mem- brane in throat. Profuse bronchorrhca.
Back
Pain in back, relieved only by lying on
Extremities
Emaciation. Edema of feet and legs.
Skin
Pale, waxen, cedematous. Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse sweat. Diminished sensi- bility of the surface of body. Useful after stings, bites, etc. Varicose swellings. Scurvy; anasarca. Bruises; sprains.
Fever
Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left cheek. No thirst in fever. Ebullitions. Sweat profuse, cold.
Relationships
Acetic acid is antidotal to all anes- thetic vapors.( Counteracts sausage poisoning. Compare: Ammon. acet. (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat.) )Ars.; China; Digitalis; Liatris. (General anasarca in heart and kidney disease, dropsy. and chronic diarrhoea.) q d - oa peated too often, except in croup.