Benzoic Acid

Benzoic acid. -• CqH^, CO, OS.

Proved since 1838, and used in many cases by Dr. Jeanes ; arranged and published by him with the additional proving of Dr. Linen (1844), in Transactions of American Institute, 1846, Val. I, page 13 to 25, Chapman published some cures in 1849 in the British Quarterly, Val. VII, page 390, without giving credit to Jeanes. C. Hering received a proving of Dr. Nusser in 1845, and published a translation of Jeanes' report in his A merikanische Arzneiprufungen, adding all the cures known at the time and the proving of Petroz from 1847. This received the honor of republication in the famous Lehrbuch of Grauvogl, who was in our medical school what Schopenhauer was in the philosophical school of Kant, *

Mind

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 the arms.

After mental emotions headache.

Sensorium

Vertigo, fearful of falling sideways, usually in the afternoon.

Confusion of head.

Sensation as if there was air in the head.

Tired feeling in head, as from night watching.

Inner Head

While sitting, pressure on the 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 the so-called 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 symptoms worse : from mental emotions ; exposure to a draft of air ; uncovering of head ; in the morning on awaking ; in rest ; return periodically.

With head symptoms depression, lassitude and loss of appetite.

Outer Head p. 411

Formication in forehead.

Rheumatic pain on outside of head.

Inner pain and bruised feeling inside of head.

Cold sweat on the head.

Sight and Eyes p. 411

Burning heat in eyes and lids.

Throbbing in eyeballs.

Worse reading by artificial light ; walking in the open air.

Distress in eyes, as from want of sleep.

Irritates the conjunctiva, causes pressive feeling in bulbus.

Hearing and Ears p. 411

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.

Smell and Nose p. 411

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 the head, excitement ; with hoarseness ; morning.

A cold in head readly occurs from exposure to cold, and is renewed every day.

Sensitiveness of nose.

Redness in the corners of nose.

^ Face. Sense of pressure, as if the face had gone to sleep.

Tension in one side of face.

Numb feeling in face.

Burning heat of face ; or of one side.

Symptoms relieved 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.

Lower Face p. 411

Trembling of lips.

Involuntarily biting the lower lip at dinner.

Itching on chin.

Teeth and Gums p. 411

Toothache.

Taste and Tongue p. 411

Taste : of blood ; bitter ; with eructations and pressure at the stomach ; on drinking coffee or milk ; food salty ; flat, soapy after drinking water ; bread smoky ; after-taste of the 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.

Inner Mouth p. 412

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

Slightly acid mucus.

Heat around the mouth.

Palate and Throat p. 412

Swallowing difficult, incomplete ; with noise in ears ; with soreness on back of tongue.

Sensation of swelling, or of constriction of throat.

Mouth and throat symptoms relieved by eating.

Heat in oesophagus, as from acid eructations.

▌▌ Angina faucium and tonsillaris with characteristic high colored, strong urine.

Collection of mucus in throat.

Thyroid gland feels swollen.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 412

Appetite in evening ; lost in morning ; nausea.

Thirst with sleepiness ; evening.

Eating and Drinking p. 412

The throat symptoms are relieved by eating.

Sweat while eating.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 412

Loathing sickness at stomach, pain and discomfort ; with gagging.

Vomiting of a salty or bitter substance.

Nausea : with gagging ; with disturbance about head ; with loathing ; with constant malaise.

Vomiting: of a salty substance; bitter.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 412

▌ Weak digestion.

Burning or warmth ; pressure on stomach.

Gastric symptoms increased when walking, especially ascending.

Sensation, as of a lump in pit of throat, as if some food had lodged there.

Sensation of heat in stomach.

Hypochondria p. 412

Sense of weakness in prsecordia.

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

▌ Obstruction of the liver.

Pain below the left short ribs.

Abdomen, Loins and Groins p. 413

Heat through the abdomen.

Cutting about the navel ; relieved by stool.

Pressure of clothing makes him feel wearied.

Tearing bellyache.

Tensive pains in loins and groins.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 413

Stitching in the rectum.

Urging to stool, with ineffectual straining.

Sensation of constriction at lower end of rectum.

Horripilations, or chilliness before the stool.

▌ Stools: copious, watery, grayish-white, like dirty soap-suds; excessively offensive, scenting the whole house ; of a strong, pungent smell, like that of the urine ; putrid, bloody ; frothy ; insufficient.

▌▌ White, stinking, liquid stools, θ Diarrhoea of children.

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

▌ Fetid, watery, white stools, very copious and exhausting, in infants, the urine being of a deep red color.

▌▌ Diarrhoea of children, the discharge is copious, watery, clearcolored, very fetid; the urine at the same time is uncommonly deep red, and urinous odor very strong.

Diarrhoea profuse, watery, running through the diaper ; stools frequent and very offensive ; urine somewhat strong.

Formication at anus.

▌ Slightly elevated, wart-like, round surfaces around 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.

Urinary Organs p. 413

Sore pain in back; burning in left kidney, with drawing when stooping; dull pain in kidneys, loins stiff; right knee swollen.

▌ Kidney pains, which penetrate the chest on taking a deep breath. θ Nephritis.

▌ Nephritic colic; urine deep red, of a strong odor.

▌ Irritability of the bladder: with muco-purulent discharges^ enlarged prostate; with concretions of urate of ammonia; calculus.

Pains in the bladder.

▌ Dysuria senilis, when the gravel is trifling and the irritable state of bladder and pains are induced by other causes.

▌ Too frequent desire to evacuate the bladder, urine appearing normal.

Profuse urine, very debilitating.

Urine diminished ; thick ; bloody.

▌▌ Urine dark, the urinous odor highly intensified. θ Sore throats ; diarrhoea ; menstrual derangements ; hypochondriasis ; rheumatism ; nephritic colic ; after gonorrhoea, gleet, or syphilis ; prolapsus uteri.

▌ Brown urine, smells sour, scalding in passing.

▌▌ Renders the urine acid ; hippuric acid.

Urine of aromatic odor and saline taste, highly colored, sometimes color of brandy ; the urinous odor exceedingly strong ; urine of specific gravity, of a very deep red color, and depositing no sediment.

White flocculent sediment immediately after voiding urine, composed of phosphate and carbonate of lime, without uric acid ; pale, languid ; weak loins.

▌▌ 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, θ Vesical catarrh, from suppressed gonorrhoea, calculi, or gout.

▌ Morbid condition of urine, as in persons with calculous or gouty diathesis.

▌ Urine contains mucus and pus. θ Enlargement of prostate.

▌▌ Enuresis nocturnal of children.

▌ Urine with concretions of urate of ammonia.

▌ Enuresis from infancy, girl, set. 15.

▌ Sensibility of bladder with muco-purulent discharge. θ Enlargement of prostate.

▌▌ Urine highly colored, sometimes of the color of French brandy, the urinous odor exceedingly strong.

▌ Urine of a greater specific gravity ; if passed in the same ves-

. sel it retains its place below the healthy urine, without admixture, and though of a very deep red color, deposits no sediment.

▌ Hot, scalding urine, deep red, of strong odor, causing so much suffering in its passage that this was performed but once a day.

▌▌ Dark, or highly colored, offensive urine, after suppressed syphilis or gonorrhoea.

▌ Fetid urine, with prolapsus uteri.

▌ Urine clearer after one dose and soon free from mucous deposits.

▌ Excess of uric acid.

▌ Enuresis nocturnal of children where Natrum failed.

▌ Urine of a very repulsive odor ; changeable color ; brownish, cloudy ; of an alkaline reaction ; effervescing with hydrochloric acid ; white, flocculent sediment soon after its passage, phosphate and carbonate of lime, without uric acid. d A pale, languid patient, with weakness in loins.

The urinary odor is very strongly ammoniacal.

▌ Urine dark-brown, of a putrid, cadaverous smell.

Male Sexual Organs p. 414

Pain in genitals ; pressure ; raw pain ; splitting pains.

▌ Gleet ; urine offensive.

▌ Gonorrhoea suppressed (by copaiva) ; with offensive urine.

Smarting of the frgenum praeputii.

Itching in the sulcus, behind corona glands.

A thrilling, almost painful sensation of 1. side of glans, ending in a sensation of tickling and itching.

Female Sexual Organs p. 415

Menstruation too early or retarded.

Weakness after the menses.

▌ Amenorrhoea.

▌▌ Prolapsus uteri with fetid urine.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 415

Gastric derangements when ascending a height, θ Pregnant women.

Retention of urine with infants.

▌ Lochia last too long.

Voice and Larynx p. 415

Slight hoarseness in the morning ; sneezing.

Respiration p. 415

Difficulty of breathing on awaking.

▌ Asthma with inflammatory rheumatic complaints.

▌ Mucous oppression of the lungs.

Cough p. 415

Cough : after a slight cold ; excited by inspiration ; produced by something acrid or dry in chest.

▌ Dry, constant, hacking cough. θ After suppressed gonorrhoea.

Dry, tormenting cough; great weakness; sweat; comatose state.

▌▌ Cough followed by expectoration of green mucus.

Copious secretion of mucus in the bronchi.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 415

Painful trembling in the chest.

Morbid agitation in the chest.

Morbid restlessness in the chest.

Pressure on the ribs.

Sensation in chest of swelling ; of roughness ; painful starting ; cutting.

Pains often change their place suddenly, causing a dry cough, and asthma.

Stitching in r. side of chest.

Stitches in the chest, especially on breathing deeply ; evening.

Pain about 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.

▌ Asthenic pneumonia of a young man ; after strength had sunk daily ; difficulty of breathing increased every hour to a fearful degree.

▌ Pneumonia, asthenic form.

▌▌ Great weakness ; difficult breathing, increasing every hour.

▌ Promotes expectoration.

▌ Mucous oppression of lungs.

▌ Catarrhal diseases of lungs, coughs and asthmatic attacks. ft

▌ In the ast period of simple pneumonia, when great weakness prevails.

▌ Typhoid pneumonia.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 416

Pains change place incessantly, but are most constant about the heart.

Pains in region of heart.

Undulating, or intermittent beats of heart.

Palpitation of heart, with trembling.

Palpitation while sitting ; worse after drinking ; at night.

Awakens after midnight with violent palpitation and hard beating of temporal arteries.

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

▌ Awakens after midnight with violent pulsations of the heart and temporal arteries, 110 per minute ; internal but no external heat; cannot go to sleep.

▌ Palpitation worse at night, lying; at times tearing rheumatic pains in the extremities, relieving the heart.

▌ Gout, or rheumatism, affecting the heart.

Pulse accelerated ; full ; slower and weaker ; intermittent.

▌ Hard, frequent pulse ; fever heat ; sweat.

Outer Chest p. 416

Sternum sensitive to touch.

Pressure of clothing on the chest is annoying.

Burning in nipples.

Sensation of swelling in mammary glands ; also in thyroid gland.

Neck and Back p. 416

Stiffness of neck only on one side.

Pressure in nape of neck.

Violent itching in nape of neck.

Deep penetrating pain in posterior part of the 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.

▌ Myelitis.

Sense of coldness at sacrum.

Upper Limbs p. 416

Sensation of swelling under axillae.

││ Tearing pains, apparently in the bones of upper limbs.

Cold hands, with head symptoms.

Paralytic pain of fingers.

││ Fingers swollen ; tearing and fine stitching pains in various parts of the limbs.

Eruption of red spots on fingers.

▌ Gouty deposits in both wrists, between the metacarpal bones ; swelling of elbow-joints.

Itching in palm of right hand ; slight, but deep tearing in upper part of metacarpal joints of little and ring fingers. θ Gout.

▌ Panaritium.

Lower Limbs p. 417

Lassitude in lower limbs.

Sensation as if lower limbs were tightly bandaged.

Tearing pain in anterior surface of thigh.

Pain in left hip, knee and toes ; thence into muscles of calf, and then in knee ; after it has left these parts, it appears in right thigh and ankle.

▌ Swelling of right knee; ulcerative pain in whole leg; with pains in kidneys.

Pain in right knee ; then in the left.

Cracking, or sense of dryness in knee-joints.

Drawing pain in knees after drinking wine.

Cold feet and cold foot-sweat.

Pain in right, later in left tendo achillis.

Severe pain in left tendo achillis, close to the os calcis, when supporting a slight part of weight of body while walking.

▌ Tearing and stitches, especially in metatarsal-joints of right great toe. θ Gout.

▌▌ During the night gout commences in right great toe; his gout going from left to right.

Stitch passing upwards through the right great toe, followed by burning, which increases to a stitch ; afterwards it appears in the left great toe, from which it vanishes with a thrill.

Numbness in toes.

▌ Pain in large joints of big toe, with tumefaction and redness.

Upper Limbs p. 417

in General, si Gouty concretions.

Nodes on joints of upper and lower limbs, cracking and knicking on motion.

Tearing, fine stitches in various parts of limbs.

▌ Syphilitic rheumatism.

Pain from right hand to left arm down into elbow, and thence to region of heart ; later in right thigh and ankle.

▌ In both wrists, between metacarpal bones, abundant gouty deposits with swelling of elbow-joints ; ankles also not free.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 417

Rest : head symptoms worse.

Sitting : palpitation worse.

Bending to either side : pain 1. side about sixth rib worse.

Lying: palpitation ▌< ; toothache worse.

Turning in bed : symptoms worse.

Stooping: drawing 1. kidney.

Walking : throbbing in eyeballs < ; confused sound of voices in ear < ; gastric symptoms < ; pain in 1. tendo achillis; sweat.

Moving: cracking of joints.

Motion after long sitting: symptoms worse. •

Ascending : gastric symptoms worse.

Nerves p. 417

Trembling: with palpitation of heart ; in loins.

▌▌ Weariness, lassitude.

▌ Extreme weakness; sweat and comatose condition.

▌ Hysteria.

Sleep p. 418

Sleepiness, with dullness of the head.

▌ Awakens: with difficulty of breathing; with palpitation.

Starting up from sleep.

Pulsation of temporal arteries from falling asleep again.

He wakes every morning about two oclock, from strong internal heat and a hard, bounding, but not quickened pulse.

Time p. 418

2 a.m.: awakened by strong internal heat.

Morning: head symptoms < ; sneezing and hoarseness; white tongue ; appetite lost ; sweat in bed.

Afternoon : vertigo.

Evening: appetite > ; thirst with sleepiness ; stitches in chest.

Night : enuresis ; palpitation ; gout in r. great toe.

After midnight : awakens with palpitation ; oppression of breathing.

Temperature and Weather p. 418

Open air : throbbing in eyeballs <C ; sound of confused voices in ears worse.

Draft of air : head symptoms <, especially when uncovering head.

Exposure to cold : "cold" in head.

External heat : symptoms better.

Chill. Fever. Sweat p. 418

Cold hands ; feet ; back ; knees, as from cold wind.

Coldness with feeling of heat.

Coldness, then heat and sweat.

Sense of heat in oesophagus ; stomach ; belly.

Heat : with sweat ; with cold in head ; with nightly palpitation.

Awakens every morning at 2 o clock, with violent internal heat, and hard, beating pulse, compelling him to lie on back, because the beating of the temporal arteries causes a humming in ears, and prevents him from going to sleep.

Sweat: while eating; while walking; morning in bed, especially in face ; with anxiety.

Cold sweat : on head ; on face ; on feet.

Sweat with itching.

Sweat with aromatic odor.

Skin pale, cool, with sweat, weakness, coma.

▌*' Attacks. Head symptoms return periodically.

Locality and Direction p. 418

Right : knee swollen ; stitches side of chest ; pain about third rib of side ; pain side of back, between tenth dorsal vertebra and side ; itching in palm of hand ; pain in knee; tearing and stitches in great toe; gout in toe.

R. to L.: pain in r., later in 1. tendo achillis ; pain from r. hand to 1. arm, later in r. thigh and ankles ; pain in r. knee, thence 1. knee.

BL. to R.: pain in 1. hip, knee and toes, appears in r. thigh and ankle ; gout.

Left : ulcerated tumor side of mouth ; pain below short ribs ; burning in kidney ; thrilling pain side of glans ; pain in side, about sixth rib ; pain in hip, knee and toes ; pain in tendo achillis.

││ Symptoms in the sick go from r. to 1. mostly, and from below upwards, especially in rheumatism and gout.

Sensations p. 419

As if there was air in the head.

As from want of sleep in eyes.

As of confused voices in ears.

As of a lump in throat-pit.

As if lower limbs were tightly bandaged.

Screwing pains:

Cutting : about the navel ; in chest.

Stitching: in rectum ; in r. side of chest; in r. great toe.

Fine stitching: in hepatic region ; in various parts of limbs.

Tearing : in vertex ; bellyache ; in bones of upper limbs ; in various parts of limbs ; in upper part of metacarpal joints of little and ring fingers ; in anterior surface of thigh ; in r. great toe.

Drawing ; in 1. kidney ; in knees.

Splitting : in male genitals.

Burning : in 1. kidney ; in nipples.

Scalding: of urine in passing.

Smarting: of fraenum prseputii.

Soreness : of back part of tongue ; in back.

Raw pain : in male genitals.

Pressure: on lower part of head; on spine; in eyeball; on root of nose; in stomach ; in male genitals ; on ribs ; in nape of neck.

Bruised feeling : inside of head.

Rheumatic pain : in head ; on outside of head ; in extremities.

Ulcerative pain : in whole leg.

Paralytic pain: of fingers.

Fearful pain : in occiput or cerebellum.

Fleeting pains : in bladder.

Painful trembling : in chest.

Thrilling: 1. side of jaws; in great toes.

Dull pain : in kidneys.

Undefined pain : in region of reverence and firmness ; in nasal bones ; below 1. short ribs ; in bladder ; in genitals ; about third rib, r. side ; about sixth rib, 1. side ; in cardiac region ; in back; in 1. hip, knee and toes; in r. thigh and ankle; in 1. and r. tendo achillis.

Coldness : in head ; at sacrum.

Throbbing : in eyeballs ; in ear?).

Hammering : in temples.

Swelling : in throat ; in chest ; in mammary glands ; in thyroid gland ; under axillae.

Painful starting : in chest.

Stiffness : one side of neck ; in loins.

Tension : in one side of face ; in loins and groins.

Constriction : or swelling of throat ; at lower end of rectum.

Trembling : in lumbar region ; in loins.

Tired feeling: in head.

Formication : in forehead.

Numbness : in face ; in toes.

Roughness : in chest.

Weakness : in prgecordia ; after menses.

Heat : in region of reverence and firmness ; around the mouth ; through abdomen ; internal, on awaking ; in oesophagus ; in stomach ; in belly.

Burning heat : in eyes and lids ; of face ; in stomach.

Itching : on chin ; in sulcus, behind corona glands ; in 1. side of glans penis ; in nape of neck ; in palm of r. hand ; with sweat.

Tickling : in 1. side of glans penis.

Dryness : in knee-joints.

Tissues p. 420

Mucous states.

H Gouty diathesis; arthritis; arthritis vaga.

Affects all the joints, particularly the knee, swelling it.

▌ Gout with arthritic nodosities.

▌ Syphilitic rheumatism.

Emaciation.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 420

Touch : sternum sensitive.

Pressure : symptoms > ; of clothing about chest and abdomen annoys.

Friction : symptoms better.

Skin p. 420

Itching on various parts, yielding a rather agreeable sensation on being scratched, but leaving a burning.

Sweat with itching.

▌ Syphilitic spots and marks.

▌ Ulcers.

▌ Slightly elevated round surfaces of a wart-like appearance, and of circular form, varying in diameter from half an inch to 1^ inches ; at places running into each other ; nearly covered both sides and the bottom of the sulcus ani, and caused much smarting and soreness of the part ; with strong-scented and highly colored urine; I after abuse of copaiva.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 420

Gouty diathesis.

▌ Rheumatic diathesis in syphilitic or gonorrhoeal patients.

▌ Woman, set. 38, considered herself in dissolution with uterine complaints.

Relations p. 420

Useful in gout after ColoJdc. fails.

Useful after abuse of Copaiv. in 1 1 suppression of gonorrhoea; or for warts around the anus, appearing after Copaiv. has been used for chancre.

▌ Useful in enuresis after failure oi Nitrum.

Has been used for dysuria senilis from enlarged prostate, in conjunction with Copaiv.

It has been reported of Natr. he7iz. as having cured many apparently hopeless cases of consumption in Vienna.

Similar to : Copaiv., Ferrum, Zincum.

Incompatible : wine, Avhich aggravates pains in kidneys, drawing in knees, etc. (compare Zincum).