Anthrokokali

A very absurd combination ; anthracite coal of a certain kind, dissolved in boiling caustic potash, invented by Joseph Polya, in Pesth, in 1835; proved on many people, but in a very superficial way. Applied according to Old School notions, but seldom alone.

Polya was followed by several others, and in 1839 a thesis by one C. F. Klinger; in 1840, an extract by our "Dr. G. Piper, in the A. H. Z., Vol. XVIII., p. 235 and 253. It was mentioned as a " renal " remedy, by Reil, the forerunner of Sharp, of organopathic notoriety, and in 1849 Chapman mentions it as having been " useful," but says nothing but " herpes."

It has never been much regarded and was of very little use. The Old School made one of their experiments in 1841, and gave it to eight hundred patients with '"tetter," in the Vienna hospital, without success.

^ Nose. I Chronic cracks and ulcerations of nostrils. ^' Tongue. Taste : unpleasant, nauseous, disgusting.

Dirty tongue, no appetite, nausea.

Dirty tongue, with retching and colic. '^ Mouth. Dry mouth and pharynx.

13 Throat. Warmth and hot feeling in the pharynx, going down into the stomach.

Burning in pharynx followed by anorexia.

Burning in pharynx with some dysphagia.

Pain in pharynx with a dirty tongue.

Dysphagia with dry throat.

Sensation of gnawing and scraping in oesophagus, soon disap- pearing and going down to stomach. 1* Desires, Aversions. Anorexia, nausea, vomituritio.

Increased appetite.

Burning thirst ; before sweat.

Insatiable thirst.

At first no appetite, but soon after it grew sharper. 1^ Eating and Drinking. After eating nausea.

After an error in diet a gastro-bilious fever, with erysipelas. 1^ Belching. Anorexia, nausea, vomiting, colic and flatulence.

JNausea and vomituritio.

Vomiting and bilious stools.

Bilious vomiting, with black phlegm, followed by too fluid stools. ^^ Stomach. Cramplike pain in stomach.

Y\^arm sensation in stomach. '^ Abdomen. Colic with flatulence.

Violent colic at night relieved by a warm poultice.

Violent burning deep in abdomen, in evening.

Griping bellyache without diarrhoea.

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Tympanitic distension. ^" Stool. After colic and rumbling several mushy stools. Copious diarrhoea with colic and rumbling. Diarrhoea for several days with increased secretion of urine. Three times during the day a brown stool with increased quan- tity of pale urine. • Cholera. ^' Urinary Organs. Tickling and burning in urethra and at ori- fice, while the water passes. Ischuria, urine pale. Some diuresis.

I Copious evacuations of pale, clear urine, without a sediment. Urine pale, acrid, increased.

Urine pale, honey-colored, of unpleasant odor, strongly alka- line reaction, rarely saturated and sharp, very seldom with a nubecula, never a sediment. When urinating orifice of urethra itches. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Very often long lasting painful erec- tions. Frequent erections. " Sycosis. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. Catamenia appeared before the

Evening : increased heat with frequent full pulse ; night sweats

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but less pain in bowels. With the sweat restlessness, headache, debility and frequent

A reaction takes place always before the eighteenth day. ^* Tissues. : Chronic rheumatism, \ gout, • caries, • scrofulosis. ■'^ Skin. Itching at night.

Eruptions increase with the general sweat, get more red and

■ Scabies.

■ Prurigo.

Eczema impetigonoides. *

Impetigo scabida.- l Lichenes.

■ Useful in cases of chronic herpes. Herpes circumscriptus.

*^ Relationship. Compare with the carbons.

Similar to : Aeon, (diarrhoea with copious flow of urine) ; An-

tim. crud. and Arsen. (thirst, burning and nausea, skin) ;

Br7/on., Carbo an., Oarho veg., and Kali earh. (in flatulency,

vomiting, colic and diarrhoea). Given in connection with Dulcam. in sycosis, scabies, prurigo,

and impetigo; with Ferrum jod. in eczema impetigonoides. Tapeworm has been removed by pulverized anthracite coal.

ANTIMONIUM ARSENITUffl.

Arsenite of Antimony. {Sh^O^ As O^ + Sj^.c.

Prepared first by Papilland and Mousnier and introduced in the Old School practice under the name of antimonial granulations. Proved by Isnard and used by Payr in emphysema.

^ Inner Head. Rush of blood to the head.

Pain in forehead.

Pressure in temples. ^ Eyes. Pain in the orbits.