Phosphoricum acidum

WEAK OR DEBILITATED, with free secretions. Slowness. Pains go to part lain on. Bruised soreness; like growing pains. Sense of pressure. Formication; at roots of hair; along spine, limbs, etc. Loose joints. Grows too fast. .................... Quiet. Indifferent, APATHETIC, obtuse or torpid; with tendency to diarrhœa or sweatiness. Slow grasp. Can't collect his ideas; hunts for words. Poor memory. Dull despair. Averse to talking. Brain-fag. Mild delirium; easily aroused. Crushing weight on vertex. Early grayness. Falling hair. Dull, sunken eyes with blue circles; they feel pressed out. Eye-balls feel large. Pale, sickly face; white of egg seems dried on it. Bleeding gums. Slimy tongue. Craves juices. Sour stomach. PROFUSE, PAINLESS, DIRTY WHITE, WATERY or LIENTERIC STOOL; BUT LITTLE DEBILITY. THICK, MILKY URINE. Polyuria. Diabetes. Weak, relaxed genitals; suddenly during coitus. Pollutions. Takes colds; < draft on chest. Shaking cough. Twisting under xiphoid. Paralytic weakness along spine. Heavy fore-arms. Scraping bone-pains, at night. Clammy wrinkled skin. SLEEPY BY DAY; but wakeful at night. Cold parts; one side of face, abdomen, etc. Burning along spine; below waist; kidney region. Heat with sweat. Profuse sweats; < night; as a sequel. Sluggish, painless fevers.

DEBILITY from: LOSS OF FLUIDS. Sexual excesses. Fatigue. Fevers. Convalescence. EMOTIONS (chronic): Grief. Chagrin. Mental shock. Unhappy love. Homesickness. Drafts. Cold. Music. Talking.

Warmth. Short sleep. Stooling.

MIND. Nerves. Metabolism. Sexual system. Spine: sensory nerves. Muscles. Bones.

Complementary: Chin. Related: Gel.

Phosphoric acid

Glacial Phosphoric acid. HPO3.

Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses (Cinch.) ; violent acute diseases; chagrin, or a long succession of moral emotions, as grief, care, disappointed affection.

Ailments : from care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, homesickness (Ign.) ; sleepy, disposed to weep; night-sweats towards morning.

Pale sickly complexion, eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins.

Mild, yielding disposition (Puls.).

Is listless, apathetic; indifferent to the affairs of life; prostrated and stupefied with grief: to those

PHOSPHORIC ACm—iConfzm^ed).

things that used to be of most interest, especially if there be debility and emaciation.

Delirium : muttering, unintelligible ; lies in a stupor or a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him; when aroused is fully conscious, answers slowly and correctly and relapses into stupor.

In children and young people who grow too rapidly (Cal., Cal. p.) ; pains in back and limbs as if beaten.

Headache : crushing weight on vertex, from long lasting grief or exhausted nerves ; in occiput and nane : usually from behind forward, < by least motion, noise, especially music, > lying (Bry., Gels., Sib).

Headache of school girls from eye-strain or overuse of eyes (CaL.p., Nat. m.) ; of students who are growing too fast.

Patient trembles, legs weak, stumbles easily or makes missteps; weak and indifferent to the affairs of life.

Interstitial inflammation of bones, scrofulous, sycotic, syphilitic, mercurial ; periosteum inflamed, pains burning, tearing, as if scraped with a knife (Rhus); caries, rachitis, but not necrosis; growing pains.

Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of extremities; neurosis in stump after amputations (Cepa).

Diarrhoea : painless; not debilitating; white or yellow, watery; from acids; involuntary, with the flatus (Aloe, Nat. m.) ; choleraic, from fear.

Urine: looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces ; decomposes rapidly ; profuse urination at night of clear, zmtery urine, which forms a white cloud at (phosphates in excess, nerve waste).

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Onanism; when patient is greatly distressed by the culpability of the act (compare Dios., Staph.).

Emissions : frequent, profuse, debilitating ; after coitus ; most desire, after ; several in one night ; abashed, sad, despair of cure (with irresistible tendency to masturbate, Ust.).

Chest: weak from talking or coughing (Stan.) ; in phthisis; nervous from loss of vital fluids, too rapid growth, depressing mental emotions.

Cerebral typhoid or typhus ; complete apathy and stupor; takes no notice, “lies like a log,” utterly regardless of surrounding; intestinal haemorrhage, blood dark.

Mur. ac. in typhoid; Nit. sp. d. in apathetic stupor and delirium.

Phos. ac. acts well before or after Cinch, in colliquative sweats, diarrhoea, debility; after Nux in fainting after a meal.

Aggravation. — From mental affections; loss of vital fluids, especially seminal; self abuse; sexual excesses; talking causes weakness in chest (Stan.).

Lecture L — Phosphoric and Sulphuric acids

{Debility— Aphthae— Typhoid.

Haemorrhages.

Diarrhoea.

Phosphoric Acid.

Rhus tox.

China, Arsenicum, Veratrum.

Phosphoric acid. { Nux vomica.

Ferrum >Camphor.

Baptisia.

To-day we have to study Phosphoric acid. This is a combination of oxygen with phosphorus. Phosphoric acid produces weakness or debility. Sometimes it causes a transient excitement, but the main characteristic of the drug is this debility, which is characterized by indifference or apathy, by torpidity of both mind and body, by complete sensorial depression. The patient is disinclined to answer your questions. His answers are short, consisting generally of "Yes" or " No," and are made in a way that show that it is annoying to him to speak. The delirium is quiet, not violent, but accompanied with this characteristic depression of the sensorium and muttering, unintelligible speech. He lies in a stupor, or in a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on about him ; but when aroused he is fully conscious. That is characteristic of Phosphoric acid. You see it is depressing to the sensorium and to the body in general, and yet these changes are in a certain sense superficial. It does not seem to dip deep down into the tissues, so to speak, and affect those serious changes in them that call for some such drug as Lachesis. You will find the quality above-mentioned pervading every Phosphoric acid symptom I shall mention.

So, you would not expect to give the drug in advanced stages when the stupor is complete.

Now the symptoms which indicate Phosphoric acid in typhoid fever are these : pointed nose ; dark blue rings around the eyes. The patient may suffer from nose-bleed, but which, however, gives no relief to the symptoms in the early stages of typhoid fever. This is the very opposite of Rhus tox., which is otherwise similar to Phosphoric acid. Rhus has epistaxis in the beginning of typhoid fever, but the symptoms are relieved, by the haemorrhage. The Phosphoric acid patient bores his finger into the nose. Now do not suppose because the patient is picking at the nose that he has worms and that you must give Cina. He may have itching of the nose. The symptom may also come from abdominal irritation not due to worms. With Cina, it occurs from worms ; with Phosphoric acid, from the irritation of Peyer's patches, consequently you will find the abdominal symptoms plentiful. For instance, the abdomen is apt to be distended and bloated. There is a great deal of gurgling and rumbling in the abdomen. There is often diarrhoea with stools that are watery, sometimes involuntary, and contain undigested food. For instance, the milk which you have given your patient passes more or less undigested, and there is copious escape of flatus with the stool. The tongue is dry, and may have a dark-red streak down its centre ; but it is apt to be pale and clammy, and sometimes covered over with slimy mucus. Sometimes the patient bites the tongue involuntarily while asleep; this is a spasmodic motion; while the jaws come together the tongue protrudes. The urine you will find to be highly albuminous ; it has a milky appearance, decomposes very rapidly and you will find it also loaded with earthy phosphates. These are the main symptoms which would suggest the selection of Phosphoric acid in typhoid fever.

The nearest remedies here are Rhus and Phosphorus. Phosphoric acid often follows Rhus after the latter has relieved the restlessness but not the diarrhoea, and the patient goes into this quiet sort of stupor. Phosphorus has more dryness of the tongue, more sensorial excitement ; all the senses are irritated ; the patient cannot bear an3 T noises or odors. If diarrhoea is present, the stools are blood-streaked and look like '

' fresh-water.

In this sensorial apathy you should also remember the Sweet spirits of nitre. The patient lies in bed, perfectly indifferent to every one. He answers questions readily enough, but is apathetic. That is the condition in which Hahnemann gave Sweet spirits of nitre. I have found it to succeed when Phosphoric acid failed.

Arnica is also to be placed by the side of Phosphoric acid. Like the acid, it has apathy or indifference. The patient does not seem to realize that he is as sick as he is. But the Arnica condition is more advanced state. The depression and stupor are more profound. He goes to sleep when answering your questions, showing you how overpowering is the stupor. Then, too, you have the petechise or ecchymoses common to this remedy, and, still later, involuntary stool and urine.

Opium is, more than Phosphoric acid, a remedy for stupor when that stupor is progressive. It is only in the beginning of the Opium state that the patient can be aroused from sleep. The stupor goes on until no amount of shaking can bring the patient to consciousness. Breathing grows more and more labored and stertorous; the face, instead of being pale, sunken and hippocratic, as in the acid, is deeper red, almost a brownish-red. The browner the red, the more is Opium indicated.

Another important series constitutes the emotional symptoms of Phosphoric acid. It is one of the best remedieswe have for the bad effects of grief and depressing emotions, particularly for the chronic effects of disappointed love. It is here particularly indicated after Ignatia. Ignatia suits the acute symptoms and Phosphoric acid the chronic. Phosphoric acid is also indicated for homesickness. The patient is sad; he often has hectic fever and flushing of the face, especially in the afternoon, evening or toward night. He has sweat towards evening, and complains of crushing weight on the vertex. That last symptom is verjr characteristic of Phosphoric acid. Now, we may carry these indications further than this. We all know how the emotions affect the body, how bad news affects the digestion, how mother's milk is made poisonous by some powerful emotion. We may find in Phosphoric acid a remedy for uterine and ovarian diseases which arise remotely from emotional causes. Thus you may use it in prolapsus uteri which seems to have been precipitated by depressing emotions. If you have other symptoms to aid you in its selection, then all the more promptly will you find both local and constitutional symptoms removed by its administration.

In homesickness you should also think of Capsicum.

Natrum mur. may be placed alongside of Phosphoric acid for the chronic effects of grief with the " vertex headache," sadness, weeping, emaciation, etc.

Next, I would like to say a few words about the diarrhoea caused by Phosphoric acid. It is particularly indicated in diarrhoea which is preceded by rumbling in the bowels. The stools are frequent and persistent. Particularly is it indicated in young persons who grow rapidly. But the diarrhoea, despite its frequency, does not proportionately weaken the patient. The mother will tell you that her child has had diarrhoea for six weeks, with a great deal of rumbling of flatus, and yet it does not seem to be much weakened thereby. The stool may contain undigested food, and it may follow a meal.

The distinction between Phosphoric acid and Cinchona lies in the fact that the Cinchona diarrhoea exhausts the patient excessively. Then another symptom of Phosphoric acid is, that the patient, though quite weak, is rested by a very short sleep. I presume that this action of the acid is owing to the stimulating effect of the Phosphorus it contains.

Phosphoric acid is suited more to the remote effects of the loss of animal fluids rather than to the acute symptoms. Thus we find it indicated for the long-lasting effects of seminal emissions, whether occurring during sleep or when awake, with every effort at stool or urination or from excessive venery, especially onanism. The whole system seems to be weakened. The patient is dizzy, feels as if he would fall. There is another peculiar form of dizziness. On lying down he feels as if the feet were going higher up than the head. The scrotum and testicles hang down flabby and relaxed. The penis has no power of erection, or erections are deficient. Semen escapes too soon during coitus. The patient complains of formication over the scrotum. The back and legs are weak, so that he totters when he walks. He has little or no absolute pain, except perhaps a burning in the spine, which is worse at night.

Phosphoric acid is very similar to Cinchona, in fact it is superior to it in the chronic effects of loss of seminal fluid. Cinchona is useful for the acute effects. For instance, a man has emissions for three or four consecutive nights, and is thus much weakened; then Cinchona will relieve him promptly.

When you give Phosphoric acid for this relaxed condition of the genitals, give it low.

In headache, Phosphoric acid occasionally comes into play, especially when the trouble occurs in school-girls; the headache comes on when they study and continues as long as the mental effort is maintained. .34 Phosphoric acid, furthermore, is to be thought of as a remedy for the debility arising from excessive study.

Phosphoric acid also affects the mucous surfaces. We have to remember it particularly in chest affections. The cough arises from tickling in the chest, in the region of the ensiform cartilage. It is worse in the evening after the patient lies down. In the morning we find expectoration, which is yellowish or muco-purulent, and usually tasting salty. We may think of it, although less frequently than of Phosphorus, in cases of tuberculosis, when there is great weakness of the chest, so that the patient can hardly talk. This weakness seems to be a cause of dyspnoea. Every draught of air gives him fresh cold. He wraps his chest up warmly; he cannot bear a draught of air to touch his chest. When these symptoms are present, the acid is superior to Phosphorus.

Next, the action of Phosphoric acid on the bones. You may give it in scrofulous affections of children; for example, in hip diseases and in curvature of the spine from caries of the vertebra, when this symptom is present: if the child is old enough he will complain of a feeling as if the bones were being scraped with a knife. This is from inflammation of the periosteum. This symptom is worse at night and may occur after the abuse of mecury.

Phosphoric acid, like all the mineral acids, affects the kidneys. It produces first what we may call polyuria or copious urination. The symptom, as it was produced in the prover, was this: the urine flowed so rapidly and so frequently that it came out as though the urethra were twice its natural size. You may see in Phosphoric acid a possible remedy for diabetes mellitus. The symptoms which led you to it are, first of all, this frequent and profuse urination, requiring the patient to rise often at night. The urine is often milky in appearance. Sometimes it deposits jelly-like masses, particularly in catarrh of the bladder.

I would also like to call your attention to Lactic acid. As a remedy in diabetes I have used it with great benefit. There are pronounced anaemia, nausea after eating, canker sores in the mouth, salivation and polysuria.

Phosphoric acid has been recommended for growing pains. Guaiacum is also said to be useful for these.

Listless. Impaired memory (Anac). Apathetic, indifferent. Cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word. Difficult comprehension. Effects of grief and mental shock. Delirium, with great stupefaction. Settled despair.

Phosphoric Acid The common acid "debility" is very marked in this remedy, producing a nervous exhaustion. Mental debility first; later physical. A congenial soil for the action of Phos acid is found in young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically. Whenever the system has been exposed to the ravages of acute disease, excesses, grief, loss of vital fluids, we obtain conditions calling for it. Pyrosis, flatulence, diarrhœa, diabetes, rhachitis and periosteal inflammation. Neurosis in stump, after amputation. Hæmorrhages in typhoid. Useful in relieving pain of cancer.

Better, from keeping warm. Worse, exertion, from being talked to; loss of vital fluids; sexual excesses. Everything impeding circulation causes aggravation of symptoms.

Heavy; confused. Pain as if temples were crushed together. Worse, shaking or noise. Crushing headache. Pressure on top. Hair gray early in life; falls out. Dull headache after coition; from eye-strain (Nat m). Vertigo toward

evening, when standing or walking. Hair thins out, turns gray early.

Pale, earthy; feeling of tension as from dried albumen. Sensation of coldness of one side of face.

Blue rings around. Lids inflamed and cold. Pupils dilated. Glassy appearance. Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow. Feel too large. Amblyopia in masturbators. Optic nerves seem torpid. Pain as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head.

Roaring, with difficult hearing. Intolerant of noise.

Bleeding. Bores fingers into nose. Itching.

Lips dry, cracked. Bleeding gums; retract from teeth. Tongue swollen, dry, with viscid, frothy mucus. Teeth feel cold. At night, bites tongue in voluntarily.

Craves juicy things. Sour risings. Nausea. Symptoms following sour food and drink. Pressure as from a weight, with sleepiness after eating (Fel tauri). Thirst for cold milk.

Distention and fermentation in bowels. Enlarged spleen (Ceanoth). Aching in umbilical region. Loud rumbling.

Diarrhœa, white, watery, involuntary, painless, with much flatus; not specially exhausting. Diarrhœa in weakly, delicate rachitic children.

Frequent, profuse, watery, milky. Diabetes. Micturition, preceded by anxiety and followed by burning. Frequent urination at night. Phosphaturia.

Emissions at night and at stool. Seminal vesiculitis (Oxal acid). Sexual power deficient; testicles tender and swollen. Parts relax during embrace (Nux). Prostatorrhœa, even when passing a soft stool. Eczema of scrotum. Œdema of prepuce, and swollen glans-penis. Herpes preputialis. Sycotic excrescences (Thuja).

Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver. Itching; yellow leucorrhœa after menses. Milk scanty; health deteriorated from nursing.

Chest troubles develop after brain-fag. Hoarseness. Dry cough from tickling in chest. Salty expectoration. Difficult respiration. Weak feeling in chest from talking (Stann). Pressure behind the sternum, rendering breathing difficult.

Palpitation in children who grow too fast; after grief, self-abuse. Pulse irregular, intermittent.

Boring pain between scapulæ. Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten.

Weak. Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum. Cramps in upper arms and wrists. Great debility. Pains at night, as if bones were scraped. Stumbles easily and makes missteps. Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints.

Pimples, acne, blood-boils. Ulcers, with very offensive pus. Burning red rash. Formication in various parts. Falling out of the hair (Nat mur; Selen).

Tendency to abscess after fevers.

Somnolency. Lascivious dreams with emissions.

Chilliness. Profuse sweat during night and morning. Low types of fever, with dull comprehension ans stupor.

Compare: Œnothera biennis-Evening primrose––(Effortless diarrhœa with nervous exhaustion. Incipient hydrocephaloid. Whooping-cough and spasmodic asthma). Nectranda amare (Watery diarrhœa, dry tongue, colic, bluish ring around sunken eyes, restless sleep). China; Nux. Pic ac; Lactic ac; Phos. Antidotes: Coffea.

First potency.

Phosphoricum Acidum

Mind: "Mental enfeeblement" is the thought that will come into the mind when considering what the Phosphoric acid patient says, does and looks. The mind seems tired. When questioned he answers slowly or does not speak, but only looks at the questioner. He is too tired to talk or even think. He says:

"Don't talk to me; let me alone."

This state is found in both acute and chronic diseases. He is so tired in mind, perfectly exhausted.

In chronic diseases when brought on from long study; prolonged worry in business men; in feeble school girls, when become relaxed from very little effort. In acute diseases he, especially in typhoid fever, is averse to speaking or answering questions. He merely looks. Finally he rouses up and says:

"Don't talk to me, I am so tired."

He cannot think what he wishes to say, cannot frame his answers to questions. Another cause is sexual excesses in young men, or in those guilty of secret vice. Weakness; lack of reaction; state of stupor, with impotency; mental prostration, and as if the spine had given out.

In every case we find the mental symptoms are the first to develop. The remedy runs from the mental to the physical, from the brain to the muscles.

This is so striking that it is contrasted with Muriaticum acid. in the latter remedy the muscular prostration comes first, and the mind seems clear until long after the muscles are prostrated. In Phosphoric acid the muscles seem strong after the mind has given out. The patient seems vigorous physically.

He says he is all right physically, can work, can exercise even violently; but the mind is tired, there is mental apathy, he can not add up a column of figures, can not read the newspaper and carry the trend of thought, can not connect circumstances. He forgets the names of those in his family; a business man forgets the names of his clerks; he is in confusion. Yet he can exercise, can go out and walk; the weakness in the muscles will come later.

Phosphoric acid has also great physical weakness; so tired in the back; so tired in the muscles; so tired all over; a paralytic weakness. Later there is sexual impotence; aversion to coition; loss of sexual desire; no erections; penis becomes relaxed in the midst of an embrace and he cannot finish the act, (Nux v.)

Ailments from business cares; prolonged grief; young women suffering from unrequited affection, or from the loss of a loved one. Some suffer more intensely than others; some seem more philosophical.

"Ailments from care, grief, sorrow, chagrin, homesickness or disappointed love; particularly with drowsiness; night sweats towards morning; emaciation."

The patient pines and emaciates, grows weaker and weaker, withered in the face; night sweats; cold sweat down the back; cold sweats on the arms and hands more than on the feet; cold extremities; feeble circulation, feeble heart; catches cold on the slightest provocation and it settles in the chest; dry, hacking cough; catarrhal conditions of the chest; tuberculosis; pallor with gradually increasing weakness and emaciation.

During this weakness there is vertigo. Vertigo while lying in bed seems like floating while lying in bed. Limbs seem to be lifted up while the head does not seem to move, as if the limbs were floating. Congestive headaches; in school girls from slight exertion of the mind and use of the eyes. Periosteal pains; bones ache as if scraped ameliorated by motion; when lying the pain shifts to side lain on.

Modalities: Most of the complaints are ameliorated from keeping warm, from absolute quiet, from being alone at peace. There is aggravation of the complaints from exertion, mental or physical, from being talked to. Morning headaches. He must lie down with the headaches. Headache aggravated from being talked to. He is sensitive to cold weather. He is sensitive to a warm room.

In the headache the pain often begins in the back of the head and spreads to the top of the load; feels as if a crushing weight were on the top of the head; worse from motion, talking and light.

"Pressure as from a weight in head from above downward."

These headaches are associated with mental weakness, brain-fag; so tired and exhausted. Vertigo with ringing in the ears and glassy eyes. Its use in low fevers must be studied. The complaints come on slowly, slow decline, slowly increasing prostration. Such appearances as are found in advanced typhoid. It has the prostration, tympanitic abdomen, dry, brown tongue, sordes on the teeth, gradually approaching unconsciousness; little thirst increasing to intense thirst with craving for much water during perspiration; wants to be let alone; looks at the questioner with glassy eyes as if slowly comprehending the question; pupils contracted or dilated; eyes sunken; hippocratic countenance; continued fever; bleeding from the nose, lungs, bowels; hemorrhage from any mucous membrane; sunken about the eyes; discolored lips, covered with sordes, becoming very black; prostration gradually increasing. From the beginning the mental state been most marked and finally comes the muscular weakness, which increases until the jaw drops and it seems that the patient must die of exhaustion.

Such states of weakness may come on from hemorrhages (China was the routine remedy among the older homoeopaths).

It checks the hemorrhage and causes a rally, prevents the dropsy. There is a state like anemia; pale lips and tongue; face, hands and feet waxy.

Pains and aches all over the body, ameliorated from motion and 'worse from cold. The pains seem deep-seated, often along the nerves, but especially along the long bones, as if the bones were scraped; as if a rough instrument were dragged over the bones. The pains are commonly worse at night. Severe bone pains.

The stomach refuses to do its work. The food remains in the stomach and sours. Sour vomiting. Old dyspeptics with brain-fag. Complaints from acid drinks, cold drinks and rich foods. Singing sensation in the abdomen after a normal stool.

In most of the complaints of Phosphoric acid a marked feature is milky urine. Sometimes it is milky when passed; milky flakes in the urine. At times the male urethra seems to clog up and examination will show these little milk-likeflakes. The urine becomes milky on standing, like flour, chalk or phosphate deposits stirred up in it.

Diarrhea: In Phosphoric acid there is often an amelioration of complaints by their ending in a diarrhea. Copious, thin, watery stool. From the quantity it would seem that the patient would be exhausted. Child with copious, watery, stool in summer; so copious that the napkin seems of no use; the stool runs all over the mother's dress and on the floor forming great puddles; the stool is almost odorless, thin and watery, and the little one smiles as if nothing were the matter. The mother wonders where it all comes from, and yet the child seems well.

The Phosphoric acid diarrhea often ameliorates many of the symptoms and the patient feels better. Chronic diarrhea, copious, thin and watery, whitish gray, and the patient feels comfortable, free and, happy. If the diarrhea slacks up the patient is worse and on come symptoms of tuberculosis, weakness, prostration, brain-fag.

Some patients say they ate never comfortable unless they have diarrhea. Podophyllum is the very opposite. Take the same child; the stool is very copious and runs all over the floor, the mother wonders where it all comes from, but the stool is offensive, a horrible stench, and the patient looks as if dying; mouth and nose drawn, countenance hippocratic; almost unconscious. There is painless stool in both, but Phosphoric acid has not the great prostration. In Phosphoric acid the stool is whitish gray, like dirty white paint; in Podophyllum it is yellow. Gratiola has a similar state of prostration, but the fluid is green water; when seen it looks like light shining through a green glass, sometimes thicker, like green-bile.

Abdomen: much bloated, tympanitic; great soreness of the bowels as if in a typhoid state. "White or yellow, watery diarrhea, chronic or acute, without pain or any marked debility or exhaustion".

It is uncommon for the stool to be yellow when watery. It is yellow when it is mushy; when watery it is light colored, sometimes milky. When yellow it is like corn meal mush, pappy; as in the typhoid state, thin like thin mush.

"Diarrhea; not prostrating; after catching cold during heat of summer; water; chronic; violent, bilious or mucous of twenty months standing; has the appearance of an old man; from acids in young persons who grow too rapidly; after eating, undigested; greenish white; painless." When we have a diarrhea from adds we sometimes find symptoms running to Phosphoric acid. In the diarrhea from sour wine, such as claret, from acids, vinegar, lemons, be sure to study Antimonium crudum. This is a very striking feature of that remedy. Useful in cholera. Male sexual organs. Sexual weakness, prolonged exhaustion, impotency; masturbators; nightly pollutions with great exhaustion, "Prostatorrhoea; immediately after every erection discharge of prostatic fluid." Even when passing a soft stool the prostatic fluid is discharged.

Falling-out of the hair is a striking feature; falling of the hair from the genitals, whiskers, eyebrows, head. It is closely related to Natrum, mur. and Selenium in falling out of the hair. Selenium has falling out of the hair from the head, eyebrows and lashes, beard and genitals, from all over the body. Natrum mur. causes the hair to become very thin; during confinement the hair falls from the genitals.

Phosphoric acid produces a troublesome leucorrhoea; yellow, mostly after menses, with itching; profuse, yellow; thin, acid mucus; with chlorosis."

It suits the woman who has been nursing her child a long, time, or nursing twins, and who gives much milk. She becomes tired and weakly. Loss of fluids, blood; prolonged nursing, and weakness from such causes.

The tendency of the Phosphoric acid patient at the end of the brain fag and weakness is to run into chest troubles. If a diarrhea comes on then the chest trouble is averted. Most awful results will ensue from the use of astringents, or any remedy that does not correspond to the patient, that will stop that diarrhea. He goes into tuberculosis, difficult respiration; coughs and suffers in the chest, and the trouble culminates in structural changes in the lungs.

The indications for Phosphoric acid are seldom found in the tissue changes, but they will be found in the early states of the patient, the nervous conditions, the milky urine and the diarrhea, which have existed a long time. Chest complaints are acute; typhoid pneumonia; low forms of fever ending in chest troubles; not unlike Phosphorus.

Prolonged pneumonia with the mental symptoms, lack of reaction, infiltration at the end of pneumonia. Haemoptysis.

Prolonged fever ending in feeble heart, with palpitation and the. mental symptoms. Palpitating during sexual excitement. Tendency to abscesses after a prolonged fever. Limbs and joints become affected. Pain in the hip joint. Pains in the long bones between the joints, better by motion. Old gouty constitution. Tissues become weak. Red spots appear wherever the flesh is thin over the bones, and these spots become inflamed and form open ulcers. After fever, abscesses in the muscles, and state of molecular weakness about the ankles; over the tibia where the flesh is thin. Phosphoric acid has a special relation to the periosteum. Periostitis.

Pains in the tibia at night. Bone feels as if scraped. Cold hands and hot feet. Ulcers on the legs with watery, offensive discharge. Boils, abscesses, pustules and other moist eruptions. Suppurating eruptions; tissues become weak.

Nervous state; marked indifference; weak and trembling; fainting; great nervous exhaustion; hysterical affections. Creeping, tingling and crawling all over the body, especially where there is hair, as if in the roots of the hair; formication; especially in those debilitated from sexual excesses.

"Formication over whole body."

Sore spots in the spine; lame back. Backache. "Itching between the fingers or in the bend of joints or on hands."

Herpes; eczema, erysipelas. Large purple spots form on the skin, an extravasation of blood front the capillary veins; ecchymoses.

Ulcers on the skin; carbuncles; warts; chilblains; wens; corns with stinging and burning, and parts become black; feeble circulation in the skin. Skin withered, old and gray, and the patient emaciates.