Materia Medica
Carbolicum Acidum
Phenol — Carbolic Acid
Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anasthetic. Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to paralysis of respi- ratory centres. Acts primarily on the central nervous system. Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache like a band. Very marked acutcness of smell is a strong guiding S symptom. Stomach symptoms are also important. Pains are ter- rible; come and go suddenly. Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere. Putrid discharges. [Bapt.] Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue inte
Head
Disinclined to mental work. Tight feeling, as if compressed by a rubber band. [Gels.; Mahonia.] Orbital neuralgia over right eye. Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.
Nose
Smell very acute. Putrid discharge. Ozena, with fetor and ulceration. Infuetiza and resulting de- bility. [Bapt.; Nat. sulph.]
Throat
Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks. Burning in mouth to stomach. Fauces red, and covered with exudation. Uvula whitened and shriveled. Putrid discharge. Almost impossible to swailuw. Diph- theria, fetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but Httle pain. [Bapt.] Face dusky red; white about mouth and nose. Rapid sinking of vital forces. 201
Stomach
Appetite lost. Desire for stimulants and tobacco. Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green.1 Heat rises up cesophagus. Flatulent dis- tention of stomach and abdomen. Painful flatulence often marked in one part of the bowel. [Sulph-Car- bolate of Soda.]
Stool
Constipation, with very offensive breath. Bloody, like scrapings of intestines. Great tenesmus. Diarrhcea; stools thin, black, putrid. Urine. —- Almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of pro- able prostatic nature.
Female
Discharges always offensive. [Nitr. ac.; Nux. 7.; Scp.] Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus. Agonizing backache across loins, with dragging- down thighs. Pain in left ovary; worse walking in open air. Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge. Leucorrhcea in children. [C'ann. s.; Merc.; Puls.; Sep.] I'uerperal fever, with offensive discharge. Ir- ritating leucorrhcea, causing itching and burning. [Kreos.]
Extremities
Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during walking. Gnawing pains in shin bones.
Skin
Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.
Relationships
Compare: Chrysarobin (locally in ringzvorin of the scalp 0 5-10 per cent. in glycerine and alcohol. Equal parts). Ars.; Krcosot.; Carbo; Guano. (Violent headache as from a band around head. Itch- ing of nostrils, back, thighs, genitals. Symptoms like hay-fever.) Antidote: Vinegar; Chalk; Iod. Incompatible: Glycerine and vegetable oils.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.