Glacial Carbolic Acid
General
The potencies are made with alcohol [an exception to the rule of preparing acids.]. Pains are terrible; come suddenly, last a short time, disappear suddenly [Bell. , Mag. p.]. Profound prostration, collapse; surface pale and bathed in cold sweat [Camph. , Carbo v. , Ver.]. Physical exertion, even much walking, brings on abscess in some part, but generally in the r. ear. R. T. COOPER. Dull, heavy, frontal headache, as if a rubber band were stretched tightly over the forehead, from temple to temple [Gels. , Plat. , Sulph.]. When burns tend to ulceration and ichorous discharge. Putrid discharges from mouth, nose, throat, nostrils, rectum and vagina [Anthr. , Psor. , Pyr.]. Malignant scarlatina and variola [am. c.]. Lacerated wounds from blunt instruments; bones bare, crushed; much sloughing of soft parts [Calend.]. Longing for whiskey and tobacco [Asar. , Carbo v.]. Vomiting: of drunkards, in pregnancy, sea-sickness, cancer; of dark, olive-green fluid [Pyr.]. Dysentery: fluid mucus, like scrapings of mucous membranes, and great tenesmus [Canth.]; diarrhoea, stool thin, involuntary, black, of an intolerable odor. Constipation; with horribly offensive breath [Op. , Psor.]. Leucorrhoea: acrid, copious, foetid, green.
Relations
Compare: Ars. , Kreos. in burns; ulcers with unhealthy, offensive discharges Gels. , Mer. , Sulph. Carbolic acid is antidoted by dilute cider vinegar, either externally or internally, when acid has been swallowed accidentally or taken for suicidal purposes.