Acidum Boracicum

Boric acid; formula 7( B20,)54(H20).

Preparation, Solution of the crystals in alcohol.

Authority. A. H. Z. 33, 15, S. J., took repeated doses of the third dil. (from Inaug. Dis. on Borax and the Borates).

Head

Head -111111811311) confused on waking in the morning.

A gastric headache.

Mouth and Throat

Much cold saliva in the mouth.

Hawking.

Stomach and Abdomen

Great nausea and heaviness in the stomach, which disappears after walking in the open air.

Retching and vomiting of tough mucus, with watery fluid which is very strongly alkaline.

Vomiting of tough fluid substances strongly alkaline (after sixteen minutes).

Heaviness and restlessness in the stomach till dinner.

Rumbling in the abdomen in the afternoon, and two scanty pasty stools.

Urinary Organs

A pasty stool.

A moderately transient pain in the region of the ureters.

Frequent and urgent desire to urinate.

Urine nearly double the normal in amount.

Generalities and Shin

General discomfort, which disappears after a walk of two hours.

Some time after beginning the proving of the alkaline Borates, an eruption was noticed on the right thigh, consisting of vesicles, which continually extended and became covered with crusts; in the middle, a circumscribed spot as large as a ten-cent piece, surrounded by new vesicles, which were very moist when broken (Impetigo figurata, Willan).

After two months, this eruption extended to the right lower leg ; it then passed over to the left lower leg and disappeared, eight months after first breaking out, and two months from the time of taking any medicine.

Conditions

Aggravation.

(Morning), On waking, head confused.

(Afternoon), Rumbling in the abdomen, etc.

Amelioration

I After walking in open air), Nausea, etc., disappears.

(After a ivallc), General discomfort disappears.