Acetic Acid. acet-ac.

For use, prepare dilutions with distilled water.

This acid produces directly gastro-enteritis, and also (in one case, at least) membranous laryngo-tracheitis. ▶ Its remote effects are a profound anæmia, with diarrhœa, night-sweats, feeble pulse, emaciation and cough.

Emaciation. ▶ Attacks of faintness. ▶ General oppression and heaviness. ▶ Weakness. ▶ General trembling. ▶ (Convulsions, with insensibility.).

Irritability. ▶ Nervousness. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Alarm. ▶ Excitement. ▶ Delirium. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Inertia. ▶ Unconsciousness.

Vertigo. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Dull pain in forehead and vertex. ▶ Dull aching in right frontal eminence, then in left. ▶ In the temples distention of bloodvessels. ▶ Shooting P. through temples.

Sunken, surrounded by dark circles. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ Lachrymation.

Red, hot and perspiring, with flushed cheeks. ▶ Pale, waxy. ▶ Expression wild.

Salivation. ▶ Tongue pale and flabby; dry and cold. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations, hot. ▶ Loss of appetite; aversion to cold food; to salt food. ▶ Nausea; vomiting; vomiting after eating. ▶ In the stomach, pain, burning, gnawing, ulcerative. ▶ Heat. ▶ Soreness. ▶ Fermentation, with distress. ▶ Cold drinks cause distress. ▶ Soreness in one spot as from an ulcer, with gnawing; with agony and vomiting of thick, yellow matter, like yeast. ▶ Epigastrium painful to pressure.

Burning pain. ▶ Distention. ▶ Griping. ▶ Rumbling. ▶ Feeling as if it would sink in, which caused dyspnœa. ▶ Relief by lying on abdomen.

Watery, with colic. ▶ Bloody.

▶ Urine increased and light-colored.

▶ Mother's Milk impoverished, bluish, deficient in caseine and butter; the child drooped, had diarrhœa, and died of marasmus; the mother was pale, emaciated, and had chronic hæmorrhages.

Voice lost. ▶ Croup, with hissing respiration, rattling, formation of false membrane in windpipe. ▶ Cough dry, then moist, with fever; dyspnœa, emaciation, œdema and diarrhœa. ▶ Respiration difficult, feeble, hurried.

Burning pain. ▶ (Chronic inflammation.).

Rapid, small, weak.

Weak. ▶ Wrist and hand feel paralyzed. ▶ Hands cold, prickling, dry. ▶ Œdema of lower extremities. ▶ Diminished sensibility of feet.

Pale and waxy. ▶ Red and burning. ▶ Desquamation.

Temperature diminished, with cold feet. ▶ Flushes of heat, with perspiration. ▶ Hectic, emaciation, diarrhœa, night-sweats, dyspnœa, and swelling of lower extremities. ▶ Low fever, with delirium, diarrhœa, tympanitis, constipation; also, with stupor. ▶ Sweats profuse, cold, nocturnal.

General anæmia, with a waxy skin, anasarca, emaciation and sweats. ▶ Delirium in low fever, with profuse sweats and diarrhœa. ▶ Membranous croup, with bright-red face and perspiration. ▶ It should be given in anæmia of nursing women. (See above.).