Benzoic Acid. benz-ac.

URINE: Kidneys. Bladder. JOINTS. Heart. Bowels. Left side.

Open air. Cold. Changing weather.

Heat. Profuse urine.

Strong urinous odor of patient. Changing or gouty rheumatic pains, < at heart or alternating with urinary symptoms. Pains alternate with heart symptoms. Painful, gouty nodes. Hygromæ (Am-c.). Bunion. Meniere's disease (Sal-ac.).

Salty vomitus. Copious, grayish stools; like soap-suds; of a pungent urinous odor; very foul; white. STRONG, HOT, DARK-BROWN URINE; foul, ammoniacal or odor of horse urine. Gravel. Hard, dry cough. Cracking joints; in knees. Profuse sweat, without relief; night sweats.

Related: Calc-c.

A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrhoeal or sypilitic patient. Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion; nodosities (Berb., Lith., Lys.). Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified. Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostrate; strong characteristic odor; excesses of uric acid. Catarrah of bladder after suppressed gonorrhea. Diarrhoea of children; white, very offensive, exhausting liquid stools, running "right through the diaper" (Pod.); urine offensive and of a deep red color. Cough: with expectoration of green mucus (Natr. s.); extreme weariness, lassitude. Pains tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night.

Similar: to, Cop., Nitr., Fer., Thuja, especially in enuresis after Nitr. has failed; Berb., Lith. c., in arthiritic complaints. Useful after Colch. fails in gout; after abuse of Cop. in suppression of gonorrhoea. Incompatible: wine, which aggravates urinary gouty and rheumatic affections.

These are generally found in the urine, which is scanty, of a dark brown color, and the urinous odor being highly intensified. Care must be taken not to fall into error by a strong smell emanating from urine which has been kept covered for some time (or over night), or which has remained on sheets which have not been changed recently; it must have this characteristic smell when freshly voided, the color not of so much importance as the smell.

Nocturnal enuresis, with the above characteristic odor; sheets usually stained brown.

Rheumatism, quinsy, dropsy, diarrhœa, headache, menstrual difficulties, all when accompanied by this highly intensified odor of the urine.

Inclined to dwell on unpleasant subjects.

Headache from taking cold in it; or early in morning.

Feeling as of a lump in pit of; as if food had lodged there.

Watery, white, or light colored; copious. Very offensive odor, strongly offensive urinous. In children; dentition.

Awakens at 2 A.M., and can't sleep afterwards from internal heat and beating of temporal arteries.

Most of the symptoms appear on the left side, but may subsequently come on the right side. Pains about heart mostly, but suddenly change locality.

Cracking of the joints when moving.

Headache worse when at rest; toothache worse when lying down; eye and ear symptoms worse in the open air; on uncovering the head.

From heat.

Urine highly coloured, and of an exceedingly strong. offensive, pungent odour.

Benzoic Acid

The most marked characteristic pertains to the odor and color of the urine. It has a marked action on metabolism. It produces and cures symptoms of a uric acid diathesis, with urine highly colored and very offensive, and gouty symptoms. Renal insufficiency. Child wants to be nursed in the arms, will not be laid down. Pains suddenly change their locality. Anti-sycotic. Gouty and asthmatic.

Prone to dwell on unpleasant things in the past. Omits words in writing. Depression.

Vertigo inclination to fall sideways. Throbbing in temporal arteries, causes puffing around ears. Noises when swallowing. Ulceration of tongue. Swelling behind ears (Caps). Cold sweat on forehead. Pricking, puckered constriction of mouth, bluish and bleeding gums. Wens.

Itching of septum. Pain in nasal bones.

Copper-colored spots. Red, with little blisters. Circumscribed redness of cheeks.

Sweat while eating; pressure in stomach, sensation of a lump.

Cutting about navel. Stitching in liver region.

Stitches and constricted feeling. Puckering constriction of rectum. Itching and watery elevations around anus.

Frothy, offensive, liquid, light-colored, like soapsuds, bowel movements, mostly windy.

Repulsive odor; changeable color; brown, acid. Enuresis; dribbling, offensive urine of old men. Excess of uric acid. Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhœa. Cystitis.

Hoarse in morning. Asthmatic cough; worse at night; lying on right side. Chest very tender. Pain in region of heart. Expectoration, green mucus.

Pressure on spinal column. Coldness in sacrum. Dull pain in region of kidneys; worse, wine.

Joints crack on motion. Tearing with stitches. Pain in tendo Achillis. Rheumatic gout; nodes very painful. Gouty deposits. Ganglion; swelling of the wrist. Pain and swelling in knees. Bunion of great toe. Tearing pain in great toe.

Cold hands, feet, back, knees. Chilliness; cold sweat. Internal heat on awakening.

Red spots. Itching in spots.

Worse, in open air; by uncovering.

Useful after Colchic fails in gout; after Copavia in gonorrhœa.

Compare: Nitric acid; Ammon benz; Sabina; Tropoeolum.

Garden Nasturtium--(fetid urine).

Antidote: Copaiva.

Incompatible: Wine.

Third to sixth potency.

The grand central characteristic of this remedy is found in the urine, which is scanty, of a dark brown color (like French brandy), the urinous odor being highly intensified. This odor comes at the time of passing and remains afterward. One need not wait on a long-standing specimen to find it. It is found in connection with rheumatism, quinsy, dropsy, diarrhœa, headache and other diseases. Of course many other remedies have offensive urine, like Nitric acid urine offensive like horse urine, Berberis, but the deposit is turbid, Calcarea ostrearum, but the deposit is white. Benzoic acid often smells horribly, with no deposit at all. Both Benzoic acid and Berberis are great remedies for arthritic troubles with the urinary symptoms. Lycopodium and Lithium carb. also claim attention in this affection, the concomitants deciding the choice. I have seen wonderful relief from Benzoic acid in nephritic colic with the characteristic offensive urine. In dribbling of urine of old men with enlarged prostrate it has also done good service. The urine in the clothing scents the whole room. Menstrual difficulties and prolapsus uteri with the characteristic urinary symptoms are. also relieved by it. Heart troubles of rheumatic origin also. So we have a widely diversified list of diseases in which this remedy is the one, and all seem to be connected with this one strong characteristic symptom.

Inclination to dwell on unpleasant subjects. While writing, he often omits words.

Giddiness, especially in the afternoon, as if he would fall on his side. Pressure on the vertex, extending to the spine, -without pain, but with anxiety. Rheumatic pains in the head. Headache from a draft of air ; from uncovering the head ; in the morning, when awaking ; worse when at rest, returning periodically, and accompanied by pain the stomach, nausea, and cold hands. Cold perspiration on the head.

Burning heat of one side of the face. Circumscribed redness on the cheeks. Copper-colored spots on the face. Cold perspiration of the face.

The tongue is spongy on the surface, with deep cracks, and with spreading ulcers.

Sensation, as of a lump in the pit of the throat, as if some food had lodged there. Sensation of swelling or constriction in the throat. The throat symptoms are relieved by eating.

Watery, light-colored, very offensive stools, (in children) with unusually strong-smelling urine.

Soreness, or hot, burning pain in the (left) kidney. Frequent desire to urinate. Urine contains mucus and pus, (with enlargement of prostate gland). Urine of dark color, with unusually strong smell ; heavy, hot.

Long-continued, dry cough, after suppressed gonorrhœa. Pains in the region of the heart. Awakens every morning at 2 o'clock, with violent internal heat, and hard, beating pulse, compelling him to lie on the back, because the beating of the temporal arteries causes a humming in the ears, and prevents him from going to sleep. Awakens after midnight with violent palpitation of the heart, and hard beating of the temporal arteries.

Tearing and stitches, especially in the right big toe, (gout).

Great weakness, perspiration, and comatose condition. Trembling, with palpitation of the heart.

Awakens with oppression of breathing, with palpitation of the heart, (after midnight), with heat and hard pulse.

Chilliness before the stool. Great internal heat when awaking. Perspiration while eating.

The pains suddenly change their locality, but are mostly felt in the region of the heart. When moving, cracking of the joints. Aggravation of the headache, when at rest ; of the toothache, when lying ; of the eye and ear symptoms in the open air ; of the head symptoms, when uncovering one's self, and when in a draft of air. Amelioration of the face symptoms by heat. The most of the symptoms appear first on the left, and then on the right side.

Benzoic Acid. C 6 H 5 CO. OH. Obtained, by sublimation, from Gum benzoin; or artificially from several aromatic hydrocarbons. Tincture or trituration.

Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Bunion . Cracks. Diarrhœa . Enuresis. Eye, tumours of. Ganglion . Gonorrhœa. Gout. Joints, affections of. Knee, pain in. Rheumatism . Sycosis. Throat, sore. Tongue, sore. Tonsils, enlarged. Ulcers. Urine, disorders of . Wens.

The leading note of Benzoic acid is the occurrence, as a concomitant of any morbid condition, of strong-smelling urine, generally also dark. Benzoic acid is a chilly medicine, the symptoms being < in open air; by uncovering; > by heat. Pains suddenly change their locality, but are mostly felt in region of heart. Joints crack when moving. Symptoms appear left side first, then right. Asthma has been cured by it, especially in rheumatic persons. Inflammation of bronchi and lungs, with great tenderness of chest, cough < night, lying on right side. Some of the chief symptoms are: Inclined to dwell on unpleasant subjects; if he saw any one deformed it made him shudder. Tongue spongy on surface with deep cracks and spreading ulcers. Sensation of lump (as of food) in pit of throat; of swelling and constriction. Throat symptoms are > by eating. Watery, light, very, offensive stools (in children), stools like soapsuds, with usually strong-smelling urine. Enuresis nocturna; urine dark, strong-smelling; heavy, hot; smelling like horse's urine. Shivering before stool. Long-continued, dry cough after suppressed gonorrhœa. Ganglion of wrist and bunion of great toe I have frequently cured with Benz. ac . In these cases an ointment (one ounce of the 3x to cetacean ointment one ounce) is a useful external adjunct. Tearing and stitches in great toe, especially right (gout). Swelling and pain of right knee. Gouty concretions. "Most of the symptoms appear on the left side, but may subsequently come on the right" (Guernsey). Motion < most symptoms, but headache is < at rest, and toothache is < lying down.

Compare: Copaiv., Fer., Zn., Nit. ac. (urine smelling like horse's); Tropæolum. Useful in gout after Colch.; after abuse of Copaiv. in suppression of gonorrhœa; in enuresis after failure of Nitrum. Incompatible: Wine, which < pains in kidneys, drawing in knees, &c.

Inclination to dwell on unpleasant subjects; if he saw any one deformed it made him shudder. — While writing he often omits words.

Giddiness, esp. in the afternoon, is if he would fall sideways. — Pressure on the vertex, extending to the spine; without pain, but with anxiety. — Rheumatic pains in the head. — Headache from a draught of air; from taking cold in it; from uncovering the head; in the morning, when awaking; < when at rest; returning periodically, and accompanied by pain in the stomach, nausea, and cold hands. — Fearful pain in occiput or cerebellum. — Cold perspiration on the head.

Distress in eyes as from want of sleep. — Throbbing in eyeballs. — Burning heat in lids.

Swelling behind ears, which seems to reach periosteum. — Sound as of confused voices in ears, < when swallowing, or walking in open air.

Seems to smell cabbage, dust, or something stinking. — Sense of smell diminished. — Epistaxis. — Sneezing with hoarseness. — Cold easily caught. — Pressure at root of nose. — Pain in bones of nose. — Itching of septum.

Burning heat of one side of the face. — Circumscribed redness on the cheeks. — Copper-coloured spots on the face. — Cold perspiration of the face. — Trembling of lips. — Involuntary biting of lower lip at dinner. — Itching on chin.

The tongue is spongy on the surface, with deep cracks, and with spreading ulcers. — Toothache (the oil or gum is a popular local application). — After-taste of food. — Acid mucus in mouth. — Taste of blood; bitter; flat; soapy (water); smoky (bread). — Ulcerated tumour l. side of mouth, on soft commissure of jaws, behind last molar. — Heat around mouth.

Sensation as of a lump in the pit of the throat, as if some food had lodged there. — Sensation of swelling or constriction in the throat. — The throat symptoms are relieved by eating. — Swallowing difficult, incomplete; with noise in ear; with soreness on back of tongue. — Heat in œsophagus. — Thyroid gland feels swollen. — Angina faucium and tonsillaris, with characteristic urine.

Sweat while eating. — Hiccough. — Pressure in stomach and eructations. — Burning or warmth; pressure on stomach. — Weak digestion. — Sensation of lump in pit of throat, as if food had lodged there.

Sense of weakness in precordia. — Obstruction of the liver. — In liver region constant, fine, but violent stitching, midway in upper portion thereof. — Cutting about navel; > by stool.

Watery, light-coloured; copious; very offensive stools (in children), with unusually strong-smelling urine. — Frothy stool. — Stitching in rectum. — Sense of constriction at lower end of rectum. — Wart-like elevations round anus; with smarting soreness; strong-scented, high-coloured urine (after previous use of Copaiva for chancre.). — Formication at anus. — Diarrhœa of children during dentition.

Urine highly coloured; urinous odour exceedingly strong; offensive, pungent smell. — Soreness or hot, burning pain in the (l.) kidney. — A granular kind of mucus mixed with phosphates in the sediment; urine dark-reddish brown; sheets usually stained brown; acid reaction, or very offensive heavy hot; fleeting pains in bladder, not when urinating, but at other times vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhœa, calculi, or gout. — Urinous odour highly intensified; like horse's urine. — Nocturnal enuresis; with strong, dark urine.

Suppressed gonorrhœa; gleet; with offensive urine. — Painfulness of genitals; pressure; raw pain. — Smarting of frenum. — Thrilling l. side of glans, extending into urethra, causing starting. — Itching on glans; on sulcus behind corona.

Menses too early; or retarded. — Amenorrhœa. — Prolapsus uteri with fetid urine. — Weakness after menses. — Gastric derangements when ascending a height (in a pregnant woman). — Too long-lasting lochia.

Long-continued dry cough, after suppressed gonorrhœa. — Cough followed by expectoration of green mucus. — Cough: after slight cold; excited by inspiration; produced by something acrid or dry in chest. — Asthma with inflammatory rheumatism.

Burning in nipples. — Sensation of swelling in breasts and thyroid gland. — Stitches in chest; < breathing deeply; in evening. — Asthenic pneumonia. — Mucous oppression of lungs.

Pains in the region of the heart. — Most of the symptoms appear on the l. side, but may subsequently come on the r. side. — Awakens every morning at two o'clock, with violent internal heat, and hard, beating pulse, compelling him to lie on the back, because the beating of the temporal arteries causes a humming in the ears, and prevents him from going to sleep. — Pains about heart mostly, but suddenly change locality. — Awakens after midnight with violent palpitation of the heart, and hard beating of the temporal arteries.

Stiffness of neck, only on one side. — Nape: pressure; itching. — Dull pain in back, in region of kidneys; stiffness in loins. — Coldness in sacrum.

Nodes on joints of upper and lower extremities, cracking on motion. — Gouty concretions. — Syphilitic rheumatism.

Gouty deposits in both wrists between metacarpal bones; swelling of elbow-joints. — Paralytic pains of fingers. — Eruption of red spots on fingers. — Fingers swollen, tearing and fine stitching pains in various parts of the limbs. — Ganglion. — Panaritium.

Swelling in r. knee; ulcerative pain in whole leg, with pains in kidneys. — Cracking or sense of dryness in knee-joint. — Pain in both knees; after drinking wine. — Pain in gastrocnemii. — Sharp pain in l. ankle, when weight is on l. foot on walking. — Severe pain in l. tendo Achillis close to os calcis when weight on that foot. — Pain in r. tendo Achillis and in heart region at same time. — Tearing and stitches, esp. in the metatarsal joints of the r. great toe. — Gouty concretions and nodosities.

Great weakness, perspiration, and comatose condition. — Trembling, with palpitation of the heart. — Weariness and lassitude. — Pains suddenly change their locality. — Symptoms in sick go from l. to r. and from below upward, esp. in rheumatism and gout.

Itching on various parts; agreeable sensation on being scratched, but leaving a burning. — Red spots on fingers. — Syphilitic spots and marks.

Awakens with oppression of breathing, with palpitation of the heart (after midnight), with heat and hard pulse.

Cold hands; feet; back; knees, as from cold wind. — Chilliness before the stool. — Great internal heat when awaking. — Perspiration: while eating; when walking; morning in bed, esp. on face; with anxiety. — Cold sweat: on head; on face; on feet. — Sweat with aromatic odour.

Confused head.
Omits words while writing.
Cannot get rid of an idea.
Activity of mind while at work, followed by anxiety.
Inclined to dwell on unpleasant things ; if he saw any one deformed it made him shudder.
Sadness.
Anxiety ; while sweating.
Child cross, wants to be nursed in arms.
After mental emotions headache.

Vertigo, fearful of falling sideways, usually in the afternoon.
Confusion of head.
Sensation as if there was air in head.
Tired feeling in head, as from night watching.

While sitting, pressure on whole lower part of head and whole spine, as if they were pressed like an elastic body, so that he stretched himself involuntarily and bent forward ; anxiety.
Pain and heat in region of organs of reverence and firmness.
Hammering pain in temples, has to lie down.
Pressure on vertex extending to spine, with anxiety.
Tearing pain in vertex.
Fearful pain in occiput or cerebellum, which had confined the young man to bed for three weeks.
Cold feeling in head.
Shaking in head.
Rheumatic pains in head.
Head worse : from mental emotions ; exposure to a draught of air ; uncovering of head ; in morning on awaking ; in rest ; periodically.
With head symptoms depression, lassitude and loss of appetite.

Formication in forehead.
Rheumatic pain on outside of head.
Inner pain and bruised feeling inside of head.
Cold sweat on head.

Burning heat in eyes and lids.
Throbbing in eyeballs.
Worse reading by artificial light ; walking in open air.
Distress in eyes, as from want of sleep.
Irritates conjunctiva, causes pressive feeling in bulbus.

Sensation in ears like a sound of confused voices, most when swallowing or walking in open air.
Throbbing and hissing in ears synchronous with beats of heart.
Swelling behind ears, which seems to reach to periosteum.

Seems to smell dust, cabbage, or something stinking.
Sense of smell diminished.
Pain in nasal bones.
Pressure on root of nose.
Epistaxis.
Sneezing : with lightness of head, excitement ; with hoarseness ; morning.
A cold in head readily occurs from exposure to cold, and is renewed every day.
Sensitiveness of nose.
Redness in corners of nose.

Sense of pressure, as if face had gone to sleep.
Tension in one side of face.
Numb feeling in face.
Burning heat of face ; or of one side.
Symptoms > by external heat, by pressure, or friction.
Cold sweat on face.
Circumscribed redness on cheeks.
Copper-colored spots on face.
Face red, with little blisters.

Trembling of lips.
Involuntarily biting lower lip at dinner.
Itching on chin.

Toothache.

Taste : of blood ; bitter ; with eructations and pressure at stomach ; on drinking coffee or milk ; food salty ; flat, soapy after drinking water ; bread smoky ; aftertaste of food.
Tongue of a slight bluish color.
Velvety coating on tongue, with high-colored, strong-smelling urine.
Tongue coated with white mucus ; morning.
Soreness of back part of tongue, felt most while swallowing.
Glossitis.
Tongue is spongy on surface, with deep cracks, and with spreading ulcers.
Extensive ulcerations of tongue, with deeply chapped or fungoid surfaces.

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Whenever we see in the nature of a remedy a well-defined state and condition of the human system pointed out by certain distinctive groups of symptoms we may know that there is such a diseased state in the human family.

They have not the power to create by themselves any diseased state except there is first such a state in the economy of the human race to be aroused.

They simply call up in a single individual something that the individual has, and that something belongs to the human race, and so whenever we see a diseased state in the remedy we know that it exists in correspondence to something in the human race.

Things are so adjusted that everything is for use. There may be conditions in the human race that we, as yet, know no remedy for.

We see certain groups of peculiar symptoms frequently repeat themselves and we know they are representatives of a state of the economy, but up to this day we may not have seen in the Materia

Medica their counterpart.

In medicines we have the exact counterpart the diseases of the human race.

Now this remedy has a state and condition that is sometimes called the gouty constitution, the uraemic or the lithaemic constitution, and, these cases are very difficult to manage, as the state is so persistent. It is one of the manifestations of Psora.

These patients suffer more or less from irregularity in the action of the kidneys; sometimes the urine is scanty and then they suffer from bodily complaints; again the urine is copious and then they are relieved of their complaints.

They are subject to rheumatic attacks and pains in the joints, showing the gouty constitution, and then they have relief when the urine is copious and heavily laden with deposits; but on comes an attack when they have more or less urine, but it is light in specific gravity, and then they are full of pains; in that way they fluctuate.

Now, the young prescriber will sometimes see the patient when he is passing large quantities of uric acid forming the red pepper deposits and he thinks he must stop that; his main idea is to check that one particular thing.

But the patient is a great deal better off while he has it. To cheek it is like suppressing a skin eruption, or restraining any other manifestation of disease.

It will be noticed, as one of the foremost things in this remedy's manifestations, that it has strong smelling urine; the urine is pungent, and it sometimes becomes so strong that it smells like, Hippuricum acid, and so it is said urine smells strong like that of a horse.

The odor in this remedy approximates that of Hippuricum acid.

The complaints then, of Benzoïc acid are such as are changeable, and we know why they are changeable; when the urine is copious and plenty of uric acid is being passed, and the urine is full of deposits, then the patient is at his best; when the urine is scanty or of light specific gravity he suffers from backache and pains in the joints, he suffers from atmospheric changes, is sensitive to cold drafts and to the air; but let the urine start up again, which it does in a sort of alternating way, light urine alternating with heavy urine, and the patient is comfortable again.

Then, there are complaints in which the urine smells strong and pungent; this often occurs in children. It is astonishing that these little ones manifest the uric acid diathesis in early life.

Mothers often describe it as intensely urinous. It smells like intensified urine; it is not the smell, so much, of decomposed urine nor of foetid urine, but urine intensified.

It has cured many times wetting the bed involuntary urination in sleep, when the bed that has been wetted several times becomes uncleanable.

You can smell it almost as quick as you go into the room; the children all, smell like urine, strong urine; the house smells like urine. If two or three of these little fellows wet the bed at night, the urine is so strong it tells the story at once.

This medicine needs reproving; details have not been brought ou yet in nature is known. We have a good many medicines having this nature, but this is perhaps as intense as any.

This remedy does not. of course, fit all these patients, because it does not fit their special symptoms; but it has the nature or general state which, of course, precedes everything, and when it relates to all the particulars as well it does make wonderful changes.

There are a few mental symptoms.

"Inclined to dwell on unpleasant things; if he saw anyone deformed, it made him shudder."

Alternation of profound sleep with prolonged periods of wakefulness. In the period of wakefulness, he dwells, during the night, upon all the unpleasant subjects that he can think of.

This state alternates with nights of stupid sleep for weeks, and this fluctuates, in accordance with the fluctuation of the state of urine.

"Sadness."

"Anxiety while sweating."

"Child cross."

There are many headaches; they are uraemic in character and come in many regions with many details.

"Fearful pain in occiput or cerebellum."

"Rheumatic pains in head."

That is well described, because these headaches of uraemic character take on a similarity to rheumatic pains.

"Pain and heat in region of organs of reverence and firmness."

"Tearing pain in vertex."

The headaches are very numerous; the remedy is full of dull, aching occipital headaches, coming on in the night from change of weather.

Pains located in the base of the brain after pains have existed for some time in the joints, and they are passing but little urine.

Every time he takes a little cold the urine becomes scanty and he is full of dull aches and pains in the head and especially in the occiput.

Perversion of smell.

"Sense of smell diminished."

"Pain in nasal bones."

Another form of transformation scene takes place in this remedy, when all the gouty symptoms of the body cease and inflammation of the tongue comes on.

The pains in the joints cease suddenly from taking cold, from stormy weather and on comes a sudden swelling of the tongue.

Mercury also has this state.

"Extensive ulcerations of tongue, with deeply chapped or fungoid surfaces."

Then, again peculiar kinds of sore throat take place from this same cause.

Sudden stoppage or slacking up of the quantity of urine; it becomes scanty, high colored, and pungent, smelling like that of a horse ( Nitric acid) along with acute inflammation and swelling of the tonsils and throat inflammation of the tonsils with scanty, strong, pungent urine smelling like that of a horse.

Another feature that seems almost like metastasis.

Take an individual who is going around with more or less rheumatic aches in the joints; he takes cold and all this ceases, but the next day he comes down with inflammation of the tongue or sore throat, or inflammation of the stomach; so that he vomits every thing he eats.

The gout goes to different parts and in this instance it goes to the stomach; and then Benzoic acid, Antimonium, crud. or Sanguinaria is likely to be useful.

When it goes to the throat or is followed by swelling of the tongue Mercury and Benzoic acid should be thought of.

Whenever this gouty condition goes to the stomach, of course it must conform to those symptoms that are in the nature of this remedy.

In this remedy we have:

"loathing, sickness at Stomach,"

"nausea with gagging,"

"vomiting of a salty substance; bitter,"

When we think of Benzoic acid for the stomach symptoms, it is important that we have in mind its whole nature, how it brings about its complaints and what characterizes a Benzoic acid patient.

We would not be able to distinguish from the stomach symptoms alone we must carry with them the character of the remedy.

It has much disturbance of the liver, and many liver symptoms. As to the bowels, the stool, the rectum, anus and urinary organs, it is very rich in symptoms.

Its striking ones I will call your attention to, but remember its migrating, metastatic nature, its complaints going from one part to another, which will accompany these symptoms.

"Stools, copious, watery."

This is true in summer diarrhoea that has come on suddenly, "excessively offensive,"

The white stool, like soap-suds, is so strong a symptom that the remedy does not fail to cure even when the gouty constitution is not present.

"Excessively offensive, scenting the whole house."

"Putrid, bloody."

"Watery, light-colored, very offensive stools (in children)."

So we get the idea that the stools are white and that the first passages are like soap-suds, but later the soap appearance subsides and leaves a white stool.

It is well, often, when a stool is passed that is of a light liquid, to bear in mind a few remedies that produce this state and ascertain whether it is like soapsuds or filled with bubbles of air.

"Diarrhea of children."

The urinous odor of the body, and especially that peculiarly pungent, intense smell of the urine.

"Slightly elevated, wart-like, round surfaces around anus."

The urinary symptoms are too numerous to read.

"Foetid urine."'

"Urine of a very repulsive odor."

"Effervescing with hydrochloric acids."

The odor is sometimes like hartshorn; it is pungent; these are only efforts to describe the strong smell.

"Urine dark brown."

It is true that normal urine after standing a while will get a foetid odor, but in this remedy, that just passed is properly described as being intensely urinous.

"Urine contains mucus and pus."

"Morbid condition of urine renders urine acid."

it says in the text "Hippuricum acid," but this is a rare condition.

"Brown urine smells sour."

"Too frequent desire to evacuate bladder."

"Nephritic colic."

"Urine dark, urinous odor highly intensified."

Gouty troubles of the liver; rheumatism; nephritic colic; it has cured such states after gonorrhoea, but it is not much of a gonorrhoeal remedy.

When the rheumatic states and these symptoms are present there are more or less pains in the kidney.

" Sore pain in the back; burning in the kidney."

"Prolapsus uteri with foetid urine."

"Retention of urine in infants."

"Asthma with inflammatory rheumatic complaints."

"Cough followed by expectoration of green mucus."

The organ that is most commonly affected in these rheumatic complaints is the heart. No organ is so likely to be affected when rheumatism leaves the outermost parts as the heart.

Pains in the heart. So in this diathesis, with the strong smelling urine and the gout, we may expect affections of the heart.

"Pains change place incessantly."

"Palpitation of the heart."

The rheumatism, of course, is affecting the heart.

"Awakens after midnight with violent pulsations of the heart."

Think a moment and you will see in what kind of a case you will need Benzoic acid.

The constitution of the remedy comes to mind at once with the heart symptoms, the dyspnea, pain in the heart with rheumatic symptoms;

"cannot go to sleep."

Think of the alternation of sleeplessness with sleep; think of the strong urine, of the fluctuating complaints, of the erratic constitution.

"Palpitation worse at night."

"Rheumatic pains in extremities relieving heart."

There we get relief; complaints going back to the extremities with relief to the heart. The heart will relieve when the urine becomes copious or when the rheumatism goes back to the extremities, into the fingers and knees, especially the knees in Benzoic acid.

Rheumatism alternating between the extremities and heart. This medicine has cured affections of the heart when the rheumatism has a long time ago disappeared from the extremities and has ever since been affecting the heart; after Benzoic acid has been administered a very good sign of its action is that the extremities become painful and the urine becomes copious; free urine and solids increased; the urine becomes heavy, whereas it was light.

"Hard, frequent pulse."

The extremities are full of rheumatic affections.

"Lassitude in lower limbs."

"Swelling of knee."

All gouty affections belong to this remedy.

"Gouty concretions."

"Nodes on joints."

Benzoic acid is often an excellent palliating remedy in old gouty constitutions; they want to be relieved of the pains in their fingers and in the nodes and joints. The fingers crack and are clumsy and painful.

But often the pain has been relieved and gone to other parts. This is one among the remedies that will drive the complaints away from the internal organs and generally increase the pain in the extremities, which they will scold about.

"Trembling with palpitation of heart."

"Extreme weakness; sweat and comatose condition."

Note that comatose condition with sweat; the Benzoic acid patient sweats without relief.

Copious, exhaustive sweat and profound sleep, but there is no relief.

"Awaken with difficulty of breathing."

Pulsation all over.

"All sorts of catarrhal states; gouty diathesis, gout with arthritic nodosites, syphilitic rheumatism, etc."

These patients are getting low down in the scale of life, the tissues become feeble. Ulcers form upon the skin and mucous membranes.

Omits words while writing.
Confused head.
Inclined to dwell on unpleasant things.
Child cross, wants to be nursed in the arms.
Anxiety; while sweating.

Vertigo, as if he must fall sideways, mostly in the afternoon.

Pain and heat in the region of the so-called organs of reverence and firmness.
Head symptoms worse from mental emotions, exposure to a draft of air, uncovering one self; in the morning on awaking.

Cold sweat on the head.

Burning in the eyes and lids.
Throbbing in the eyeball.
Worse reading by artificial light; walking, in the open air.

Sneezing and hoarseness.
Takes cold in the head readily.

Coppery spots on the face.
Face red, with little blisters.
Burning heat of the face; or of one side.
Circumscribed redness.
Tension in one side of the face.
Numb feeling in the face.
Symptoms relieved by external heat, pressure, or friction.
Cold sweat on the face.

Taste: bitter; of blood.
Extensive ulceration of the tongue, with deeply chapped fungoid surfaces.
Tongue coated with white mucus; morning.

An ulcerated tumor on left side of mouth, upon the soft commissure of the jaws, behind last molar.

Angina faucium and tonsillaris with the characteristic high-colored, strong urine.
Mouth and throat symptoms relieved by eating.
Heat in the œsophagus, as from acid eructations.

Appetite in the evening; lost in the morning; nausea.
Thirst with sleepiness; evening.

Loathing sickness at the stomach, pain and discomfort; with gagging.
Vomiting of a salty or bitter substance.

Weak digestion.
Burning or warmth; pressure in the stomach.
Gastric symptoms increased when walking, especially ascending.

In region of liver constant fine stitching midway in upper portion thereof, not increased by pressure.
Obstruction of the liver.

Heat through the abdomen.
Cutting about the navel; tearing bellyache.
Pressure of clothing makes him feel wearied.

Stools copious, watery, greyish-white, like dirty soap-suds; excessively offensive, scenting whole house.
Stools of a strong, pungent smell, like that of the urine.
Putrid, bloody stools.

Sore pain in back; burning in left kidney, with drawing when stooping; dull pain in the kidneys, loins stiff; right knee swollen.
Nephritic colic; urine deep red, of a strong odor.
Irritability of bladder: with muco-purulent discharges, enlarged prostate; with concretions of urate of ammonia; calculus.
Old persons: dribbling of strong smelling urine.
Dysuria senilis gravel trifling, irritable bladder.
Urine high-colored; increased specific gravity; hot, scalding; ammoniacal; very offensive in many diseases.
A granular kind of mucus mixed with phosphates in the sediment; urine dark, reddish-brown; acid reaction, or very offensive; fleeting pains in bladder, not when urinating, but at other times; vesical catarrh, from suppressed gonorrhœa, calculi or gout.
White flocculent sediment immediately after voiding urine, composed of phosphate and carbonate of lime, without uric acid; pale, languid; weak loins.
Enuresis nocturna of children; urine strong.

Gleet; urine offensive.
Gonorrhœa suppressed by Copaiva, with offensive urine.

Prolapsus uteri with fetid urine.

Gastric derangements when ascending a height.
Retention of urine; infants.

Slight hoarseness in the morning, sneezing.

Difficult of breathing on awaking.
Asthma with inflammatory rheumatic complaints.
Mucous oppression of the lungs.

Dry constant, hacking cough after suppressed gonorrhœa; cough followed by expectoration of green mucus.

Pneumonia, asthenic forms, great weakness, difficult breathing increasing every hour.
Stitches in chest, especially on breathing deeply; evening.
Pain about the third rib, right side, midway between sternum and side, increased by breathing.
Pain in left side, about sixth rib, increased by deep inspiration and bending to either side.

Pains change place incessantly, but are most constant about the heart.
Awakens after midnight with violent pulsations of the heart and temporal arteries, 110 per minute; internal but no external heat; cannot go to sleep.
Sense of weakness in the præcordia.
Palpitation while sitting; worse after drinking.
Palpitation worse at night, lying; at times tearing, rheumatic pains in the extremities, relieving the heart.
Pulse: accelerated; full; slower and weaker; intermittent.
Gout affecting the heart.

Pressure of clothing on chest is annoying.

Deep, penetrating pain in posterior part of left side, at about the sixth rib.
Pain right side of back between tenth dorsal vertebra and side.
Dull pain in region of kidneys; stiffness in the loins.
Trembling in the lumbar region.

Tearing pains apparently in the bones.
Ganglion of the wrist.
Fingers swollen; tearing and the fine stitching pains in various parts of the limbs.
Red spots on the fingers.
Cold hands, with head symptoms.

Pain in left hip, knee and toes; thence in muscles of calf, and then in the knee; after it has left these parts, appears in the right thigh and ankle.
Swelling of the right knee, ulcerative pain in the whole leg; with pains in the kidneys.
Pain in the right knee; then in the left.
Cracking or sense of dryness in the knee-joints.
Tearing and stitches especially in the metatarsal-joints or the right great toe.
Pain in right, later in left tendo-achillis.
During the night gout commences in the right great toe.
Gout going from left to right.
Cold feet; cold sweat.

Gouty concretions.
Nodes on the joints of upper and lower limbs, cracking and kinking on motion.
Tearing, fine stitches in various parts of the limbs.
Syphilitic rheumatism.

Rest: 4. Motion: 34. Walking: 5, 17, 40. Ascending: 17, 24. Bending to either side: 28. Stooping: 21. Sitting: 29. Lying: 29.

Trembling: with palpitation of heart; in loins.
Weariness, lassitude: 4, 21.

Sleepiness, with dulness of the head.
Awakens: with difficulty of breathing; with palpitation.
Starting up from sleep.

Morning: 3, 11, 14, 25, 40. Afternoon: 2. Evening: 14, 28. Night: 29, 33, 40. Midnight: 29.

Heat: 8. Draught of air: 3. Uncovering: 3. Open air: 5.

Cold hands; feet; back; knees, as from cold wind.
Violent internal heat on awaking.
Sense of heat in œsophagus; stomach; belly.
Heat: with sweat; with cold in the head; with nightly palpitation.
Sweat while eating; while walking; morning in bed, especially in face.
Cold sweat.
Sweat with itching.

Periodically: 4.

Symptoms, in the sick, go from left to right, and from below upwards; especially in rheumatism and gout.
Right: 21, 28, 31, 33. Left: 12, 21, 28, 31, 33.

Emaciation.

Pressure: 8, 18, 19, 30. Friction: 8. Scratching: 46.

Itching on various parts, yielding a rather agreeable sensation on being scratched, but leaving a burning.
Slightly elevated, wart-like, round surfaces about the anus, varying from a half to one and a half inches in diameter; with smarting soreness; urine strong-scented and high-colored; after using Copaiva for chancre.
Syphilitic spots and marks.

Gouty diathesis.
Rheumatic diathesis in syphilitic or gonorrhœal patients.

Useful in gout after Colchic. fails.
Bad effects from Copaiva: 22, 46.

Dissolve the pure crystals in Alcohol (1 to 9) for use.

Produces symptoms of a uric-acid diathesis; pains in joints and tendons; great change in the quality of the urine.

Carbol. ac., Berb., Arn., Led., Viola t., rhod., Sulph.

Emaciation. ▶ Trembling, with palpitation. ▶ Tearing and stitching, especially in metatarsal joints of right great toe (Sulph., Berb.). ▶ Pains change their place incessantly and suddenly, but are most constant in region of heart. ▶ Pain passes from the right hand and appears in left arm, extends downward into elbow, then appears in region of heart, later in right thigh and ankle. ▶ Weariness; after menses.

Hilarity, preventing sleep. ▶ Sadness. ▶ Anxiety while sweating. ▶ Activity of mind while at work, afterwards anxiety. ▶ Omits words every moment while writing.

Aching after mental emotions. ▶ Confusion; with sleepiness. ▶ Sensation as if there were air in it. ▶ Excitement in morning when sneezing, with lightness. ▶ Sensation of shaking in it. ▶ Vertigo, making him fearful of falling sideways, agg. afternoon. ▶ Tired feeling as from night-watching. ▶ Symptoms easily produced on uncovering or on exposure to a draught, and in morning on waking and agg. during rest. ▶ Symptoms return periodically and are often accompanied by pains in stomach, nausea, gagging and coldness of hands. ▶ Symptoms are generally accompanied by depression, lassitude and loss of appetite.

Hard throbbing in temporal arteries. ▶ Pain in left temple; hammering P. in temples, obliging him to lie down. ▶ Tearing in vertex. ▶ Pressure in vertex and spinal column forenoons while sitting, as if pressed by an elastic body, causing stretching, bending forward and anxiety. ▶ Pain in sides internally, with bruised sensation. ▶ Rheumatic pain on outside. ▶ Itching of hairy scalp.

Burning. ▶ Distress as from want of sleep. ▶ Symptoms easily appeared in open air when walking, and when reading by candle-light. ▶ Throbbing in balls. ▶ Burning in lids. ▶ Itching in canthi; right outer, then in right inner.

Swelling behind, which seemed to reach periosteum. ▶ Intermittent shooting in right. ▶ Itching in left. ▶ Starting. ▶ Puffing from pulsation of temporal arteries. ▶ Noises when swallowing. ▶ Sound as of confused voices, agg. swallowing or walking in open air.

Redness at angles. ▶ Pain in bones. ▶ Pressure at root. ▶ Sensitiveness. ▶ Itching of septum. ▶ Irritation in left nostril as before sneezing with inability to sneeze. ▶ Sneezing, with hoarseness. ▶ Coryza from exposure to cold, renewed every day. ▶ Epistaxis. ▶ Smell dull. ▶ Smell as of dust, cabbage or something stinking. ▶ Symptoms appear especially in evening.

Circumscribed redness. ▶ Pressive sensation. ▶ Tension in one side. ▶ Numb feeling. ▶ Symptoms amel. heat, pressure or rubbing. ▶ Trembling of lips. ▶ Lower lip bitten involuntarily two successive days at dinner.

Stitches in a right lower hollow molar. ▶ Cutting pain in teeth. ▶ Darting pain in carious molars. ▶ Slow jerking in a right upper molar. ▶ Tongue bluish. ▶ Velvety coat on tongue; white mucous coat on T. in morning. ▶ Soreness at back part of tongue, agg. swallowing; at root of T. and on palate, with rawness. ▶ Acid mucus in M. ▶ Taste of blood; bitter taste on drinking coffee or milk; B., with pressure at stomach and eructations; flat, soapy, after drinking water; salt food; smoky to bread; after-taste of food. ▶ Symptoms of M. and throat amel. after eating.

Thyroid gland feels swollen. ▶ Sensation of swelling or contraction. ▶ Sensation of lumps in pit, as if food stuck there. ▶ Scratching. ▶ Heat, with sensation of stretching. ▶ Mucus. ▶ Swallowing difficult; S. incomplete. ▶ Heat in œsophagus, as from acid eructations.

Appetite increased in evening; lost morning. ▶ Thirst in evening, with sleepiness. ▶ Singultus. ▶ Nausea mornings; N., with malaise; with gagging and disturbances about head. ▶ Vomiting of a salt substance; bitter V. ▶ Gastric disturbances when ascending a height (in pregnant women). ▶ Pressure, with eructations. ▶ Burning. ▶ Fatigued by pressure of clothes on epigastrium. ▶ Symptoms agg. walking.

Discharge of flatus in afternoon and evening. ▶ Tearing. ▶ Heat; spreading over body, with rapid pulse, increased sweat and excretion of phlegm; indigestion and confusion of head. ▶ Pain below left short ribs. ▶ Superficial stitching midway in upper part of liver. ▶ Cutting about umbilicus, amel. stool. ▶ Tensive pain in groins.

Stitches in rectum; contraction of extremity of R. ▶ Urging to stool, with ineffectual straining. ▶ Stitches in anus in evening; formication in A. ▶ Bowels opened freely; with extraordinary pressure to stool. ▶ Stool frothy; S. putrid, bloody; insufficient.

Diarrhœa, offensive, light-colored, of a pungent, urinous odor; stools like soap-suds, very copious, odor is similar to that of the urine, which is dark and of very strong odor.

Valuable especially for catarrh of the bladder, with offensive brown urine. ▶ Cystitis, with extremely offensive odor. ▶ Nocturnal enuresis, dark offensive urine. ▶ Kidney colic. ▶ Offensive, acid urine in rheumatism.

Asthma, especially in rheumatic persons. ▶ Inflammation of bronchi and lungs, with great tenderness of the chest, cough agg. night, lying on right side.

Has been prescribed in valvular diseases of the heart.

Gout and rheumatism with swelling of joints, with the peculiar urinary symptoms. ▶ Valuable in rheumatic gout of the fingers, nodes very painful, with the urinary symptoms (Arnica). ▶ Gouty deposits in wrists. ▶ Swelling of the wrist (ganglion). ▶ Gout of great toe.

▶ Of repulsive odor (Rhod., Viola t., Sul., Sep.), changeable color, brownish (Carbol. ac., Nit. ac., Arn.), cloudy, alkaline (Carb. ac.), effervescing with hydrochloric acid, immediately after micturition white flocculent sediment of phosphate and carbonate of lime, without uric acid, with palor, weakness in loins and languor. ▶ Fetid, with prolapsus uteri. ▶ Aromatic. ▶ Bloody. ▶ Thick. ▶ Copious, turbid, with traces of urea, mere traces of hippuric acid. ▶ At first increased in quantity, not in frequency, afterwards frequent micturition, with strong pressing, urine aromatic odor (Carb. ac.), long retained, saline, the urinary symptoms agg. in forenoon. ▶ Decreased. ▶ Acid; and irritant; with copious hippuric acid, with a base. ▶ Abundant hippuric acid after adding hydrochloric acid, but no uric acid. ▶ Disappearance of urea, but not uric acid.

Pain; raw. ▶ Smarting of frænum preputii. ▶ Thrilling, almost painful sensation, on left side of glans penis, extending into urethra, ending in tickling and itching. ▶ Itching of glans; in sulcus behind corona glands. ▶ Menses too early; M. retarded. ▶ Lochia too long-lasting.

Irritation. ▶ Hoarseness in morning, with sneezing and pleasant excitement and freedom of head. ▶ Copious mucus in bronchi. ▶ Respiration whistling. ▶ Difficult breathing on waking. ▶ Cough; after a slight cold; excited by inspiration; from sensation of something rough or dry in chest; then expectoration of greenish mucus; hacking after rising.

Stitches in middle; in evening; in evening in bed, agg. deep breathing; in right side. ▶ Cutting. ▶ Pain in left ; about sixth rib, agg. deep inspiration and by bending to either side; on sides; about right third rib, midway between sternum and side; deep penetrating posteriorly in left side about sixth rib. ▶ Painful starting. ▶ Agitation. ▶ Rough sensation. ▶ Swollen sensation; in mammary gland. ▶ Burning in nipples. ▶ Can scarcely bear pressure of clothing.

▶ Pain in region of H. ▶ Constriction of H. ▶ Weak feeling in region. ▶ Palpitation, waking after midnight and every night at 2 A.M. with heat and hard pulse, sleep prevented by throbbing of temporal arteries; P. while sitting and after drinking; with trembling. ▶ Intermittent beats. ▶ Undulating beating. ▶ Pulse accelerated; slow; full.

Pressure in nape. ▶ Stiffness on one side of neck. ▶ Pressure on spinal column. ▶ Pain in right side between tenth dorsal vertebra and side; in region of kidneys; starting in loins. ▶ Trunk symptoms agg. on motion after long sitting, at night on going to bed and on blowing nose.

Knicking in joints and cracking on motion. ▶ Tearing in various parts, with stitches; T. in right toes, especially in their middle joints then in right knee last joint of metacarpal bone and of left thumb, in lower part of right radius, etc.

Sensation of swelling under axillæ. ▶ Stitches on outer surface of right arm in evening, then on inner surface of left. ▶ Tearing in bones of arm; at outer surface of wrists, as if in bones. ▶ Fingers swollen; with tearing and stitching in various parts of limbs, especially in front at metatarsal joint of right great toe. ▶ Tearing in metacarpal joint of left thumb; deep in upper joints of left index. ▶ Pain in joints of right fingers; paralytic pain in fingers.

Sensation as if bandaged. ▶ Lassitude; in right hip. ▶ Tearing in posterior surface of thigh. ▶ Pain in gastrocnemii; in right hip; in left hip, then in thigh, next in knees, then in toes; in left hip in knee and worse in toes, leaving the toes it seats itself in muscles of calf and then in knee, leaving these parts it appears in right thigh and ankle. ▶ Cracking of knee. ▶ Pain in both knees; in right; in left ; drawing P. in knees after drinking wine. ▶ Dry sensation in knee. ▶ Pain in right tendo-achillis, and at the same time in region of heart, then in left tendo-achillis; in left tendo-achillis, close to os calcis, while supporting a slight part of weight of body. ▶ Sharp pain in left ankle during the time it supports the body while walking.

Stitch perpendicularly upward through right great, in morning while lying, then burning, which increases gradually to a stitch, then in left great toe, from which it vanishes with a thrill. ▶ Deep sticking tearing in lowest joint of great (Led., Sulph.). ▶ Pain raw P. between. ▶ Numbness.

Red spots on fingers; on nose. ▶ Formication in forehead. ▶ Itching on various parts then an agreeable feeling of being scratched, leaving burning; left on chin; I. in nape; I. in right palm in evening, with deep tearing in metacarpal joints of little and ring fingers.

Sleepiness, with dullness of head. ▶ Deep sleep. ▶ Starting up from S. ▶ Disturbed by dreams.

Horripilation before stool. ▶ Coldness, with feeling of heat; C., then heat and sweat. ▶ Cold sensation in head. ▶ Coldness of back; at sacrum; of hands; feet; knees; of knees, as from a cold wind; of hands, with head symptoms. ▶ Heat during the coryza; H. with sweat. ▶ Internal H. on waking; internal H. wakes every night at 2 A.M. with a hard-bounding, but not quickened pulse, so that he must lie on his back because the pulsations of temporal arteries sound like puffing in ears and prevent sleep. ▶ Heat of face; on one half of R.; around mouth. ▶ Sweat; morning in bed, especially on face, with moderate heat; at night while eating; while walking; on disappearance of other symptoms; with anxiety; with itching; of feet; with aromatic odor. ▶ Cold sweat on head; on face; on feet. ▶ Exhalation from skin diminished.

Produces symptoms of a uric acid diathesis; pains in joints and tendons; great change in the quality of the urine.

Tearing, stitching pains, especially in the great toe joints.
Pains, shifting from place to place.
General weariness.

Diarrhœa, offensive, light colored, of a pungent, urinous odor; stools like soapsuds, very copious, odor is similar to that of the urine, which is dark and of very strong odor.

Urine brownish, extremely offensive.

Asthma, especially in rheumatic persons.
Inflammation of bronchi and lungs, with great tenderness of the chest, cough < night, lying on right side.

Constriction in the region of the heart.
Intermittent action of the heart.

Gout and rheumatism, with swelling of joints, with the peculiar urinary symptoms.
Valuable in rheumatic gout of the fingers; nodes very painful, with the urinary symptoms.
Gouty deposits in wrists.
Swellings of the wrist (ganglion).
Gout of great toe.

Ben. A. / Ben.

Benzoic acid rides
On stinking urine tides.
The urinary track
Sustains its chief attack.
The gouty ills it shows,
Are worse when in repose.

Ben,- Has Rank offensive urine.

Ben Nick, the plumber, is mad at the Spicy Colonel Black.

This Ben,- Who is subject to gout,- Is at Aunt Ruth Ledum's, with the Abbot, on the royal coach road to Lith Urti.

Rank offensive urine: Ben. a., Nit. a., PB., Mer., Dul., Sul., Pul., Cal. c., Colo., Sep.

Gout - Arthritis: Ben. a., Ant. c., Ruta, Led., Abrot., Rhus, Arn., Colch., Rhod., Lith. c., Urti. (Nodes, Colch., Lyc., Stap.)