Acetic Acid. acet-ac.

Glacial Acetic Acid. HC 2 H 3 O 2 . (Distilled water is used for attenuations 1x and 1; very dilute spirit for 3x and up to 4; rectified spirit for 5 and higher.)

Anæmia. Anæsthetics, antidote to. Ascarides. Burns. Corns. Croup. Debility. Diabetes. Diphtheria. Dropsies. Fevers. Hydrophobia. Nævi. Narcotics, antidote to. Phthisis. Sausage-poisoning, antidote to. Scalds. Stings. Stomach, cancer of. Varicosis. Warts.

The leading features of acetic acid are excessive wasting and debility; anæmia with waxy pallor of face; intense thirst; burning in throat; nausea, retching, and sour rising as met with in cases of cancer and debility. There are gnawing, ulcerative pains in stomach; pain and burning in abdomen. Profuse, exhausting diarrhœa. It has been used in diabetes. It corresponds to putrid and hectic fevers with night sweats; hæmorrhages, varicose swellings, and dropsies. As a type of vinegar effects may be mentioned the following: A plump and blooming young woman took a small glass daily to reduce size. Soon lost flesh and colour. In a month cough set in with white concocted phlegm, fever, dyspnœa, night sweats, anorexia, dropsy, diarrhœa, death. Lungs after death were found stuffed with non-suppurating tubercles. A young German, after working twelve months in a vinegar factory, was obliged to leave from indigestion, dyspnœa, and ready fatigue. It is suited to children and old people; to lax, pale, lean persons. (Equal parts of vinegar and hot water make a refreshing sponge-down for many conditions of fever, with or without perspiration.)

Compare: Apis, Ars. (but Acet. ac. has more preponderant gastric symptoms than either); Carbol. ac., Lac. defl., Lact. ac., Uran. nit. Large doses of Acet. ac. are best antidoted by Magnesia or Calcarea either as fluid magnesia or as lime-water. Antidotes to potencies are: For depressing, agonising feeling, Tabac., Acon.; for gastric, pulmonary and febrile symptoms, Nat. m., and afterwards Sep. It antidotes: Anæsthetics, Acon., Asar., Coffea, Euphorb., Ignat., Opium, Plumb. (colic), Sep., Stram., Tabac. It counteracts sausage-poisoning. It aggravates the effects of Bell., Merc., Arn., Lach. Disagrees when given after Borax, Caust., Nux v., Ran. b., Sars.: Scilla, Colch., and Sang. have more effect in curing some diseases when prepared with Acet. ac. than with Alcohol.

Very dull and low-spirited; irritable. ─ Alternate stupor and delirium. ─ Confusion of ideas. ─ Grieves much; sighs often. ─ Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing. ─ Vertigo with feebleness and fainting.

Heaviness and dull pains in forehead and vertex. ─ Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee, or alcohol.

Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks. ─ Nose-bleed, esp. from a fall or a blow.

Expression wild, pupils dilated. ─ Face pale, waxen, emaciated. ─ Left cheek (esp.) very red during fever. ─ Bright red flush on both cheeks. ─ Sweat on forehead in spots.

Teeth feel dull, breath foul. ─ Scorbutic ulcers; toothache. ─ Taste sour. ─ Epithelium of mouth quite white. ─ Tongue pale and flabby.

Children thirsty, but swallow with difficulty even a teaspoonful of water. ─ White false membranes in throat.

Insatiable burning thirst. ─ Shrieks for water at night. ─ Intense thirst; nausea, and frequent vomiting. ─ Disgust for salted things and cold victuals. ─ Cold drinks lie heavy. ─ Vegetables, except potatoes, disagree, also bread and butter still more. ─ Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment; violent burning pain in stomach and in chest, followed by coldness of the skin and cold sweat on forehead. ─ Indurations in stomach. ─ Scirrhus of pylorus.

Distension of the abdomen; colicky pains. ─ Ascites. ─ Abdomen feels as if sunken in when lying on his back.

Diarrhœa, with great thirst, drinking large quantities with apparent impunity. ─ Diarrhœa, with swelling of legs and feet (phthisical subjects). ─ Diarrhœa, with colic pains and tenderness of the abdomen. ─ Hæmorrhage from bowels. ─ Chronic constipation. ─ Ascarides. ─ Chronic diarrhœa of children with great emaciation. ─ Constipation, with great thirst and excess of pale urine.

Urine increased in quantity; pale; phosphatic; diabetes, with intense, burning, unending and unquenchable thirst and great debility.

Weakening emissions; semen passes at stool. ─ Prepuce thickened, fissured, can't be retracted and itches fearfully. ─ Sexual passion, but feeble erection.

Metrorrhagia; after parturition, with great thirst.

Hoarse, with laryngeal irritation. ─ Lining membrane of larynx and trachea covered with a fibrinous exudation as in true croup. ─ Hissing respiration, with rattling in the throat. ─ Croup-like cough; a hollow sound with each inhalation. ─ Hæmoptysis.

Myelitis, with profuse urine; the pain in the back relieved only by lying on the abdomen.

Œdematous swelling of the feet and legs.

Convulsions. ─ Jumps out of bed like a madman, and crawls on the ground, howling with pain. ─ Great emaciation. ─ Skin pale and waxen. ─ General anasarca and dropsical affections. ─ Burning in inner and outer parts.

Sugillations. ─ Tetter-like eruptions. ─ Nævi; warts; corns.

Sleepless.

Skin cold. ─ Slow fever with night sweats. ─ Profuse perspiration. ─ Hectic. ─ Putrid and typhous fevers.