Antidote; Bryonia.

This acid has an elective affinity for the blood, producing a septic condition similar to that found in low fevers with high temperature and great prostration. Patient becomes so weak she slides down the bed. Decomposition of fluids. Involuntary stools while passing urine. Hemorrhages. Mouth and anus chiefly effected.

Dose.--First to third potency.

Extremities.--Heavy, painful, and weak. Tottering gait. Pain in tendo-Achilles.

Face.--Lower jaw fallen; pimples and freckles; lips raw, dry, cracked.

Female.--Menses appear too soon. Leucorrhea. During menses, soreness of anus. Ulcer in genitals.

Fever.--Cold extremities. Heat without thirst. Typhoid types, stupid. Hemorrhages. Restlessness. Involuntary discharges. Bed-sores. Pulse rapid and feeble. Excessive prostration.

Head.--Vertigo; worse lying on right side; occiput heavy as if filled with lead. Sound of voice is intolerable. Pain as if brain were crushed.

Heart.--Pulse rapid, feeble, and small. Intermits every third beat.

Mind.--Irritable and peevish; fretful Loud moaning. Great restlessness. Sad, taciturn; suffers in silence.

Modalities.--Worse, in damp weather, before midnight. Better, lying on left side.

Mouth.--Tongue, pale, swollen, dry, leathery, paralyzed. Deep ulcers on tongue. Hard lumps in tongue. Epithelioma; edges bluish-red (Carbol ac). Aphthous mouth. Gums and glands swollen. Fetid Breath. Sordes on teeth.

Nose.--Hemorrhage; much sneezing.

Rectum.--Tendency to involuntary evacuations while urinating. Hemorrhoids most sensitive to all touch; even sheet of toilet paper is painful. Anal itching and prolapsus ani while urinating. Hemorrhoids during pregnancy; bluish, hot with violent stitches.

Relationship.--Compare: Phos ac; Ars; Bapt. Follows well after Bry and Rhus.

Skin.--Papular and vesicular eruptions, with great itching (Rhus). Carbuncles; foul-smelling ulcers on lower extremities. Scarlet fever, livid, with petechie; scanty eruption. Eczema on back of hands.

Stomach.--Cannot bear sight or thought of meat. At times, ravenous appetite and constant desire to drink. Achlorhydria and fermentation of food.

Throat.--Uvula swollen. Ulcers and false membrane. edematous, dark, raw. Attempted swallowing produces spasm and choking.

Urine.--Cannot urinate without having bowels move at same time.