Hering's Materia Medica: Acet. ac.

 Acetic Acid. C4H3O3.

     Should be procured from trustworthy chemists ; vinegar from the shops is generally adulterated.

     Introduced by C. Hg. See Jahr's Manual, p. 19, published in Allentown, 1838. Toxicological symptoms have been collected from several authors ; really proved only by Berridge.

     Inflammation of bowels in dentition, Guernsey, MSS.

MIND. [1] [Acet. ac.] Intellect clouded, can hardly express herself.
Confusion of ideas. θ Headache. Fancies he has an ulcer in his stomach.
Does not recollect what has happened ; knows no one, not even her own children.
Horrible attacks of anxiety with difficult breathing. θ Liver complaint. Anxiety ; grieves about his sickness and his children.
Apparently alarmed at everybody and everything about her (poisoning).
Irritable, with abdominal complaints.
Greatest irritability. θ Headache. θ Liver complaint. Worse from any nervous excitement. θ Headache. Dull and low-spirited.
Delirium : with distended belly and obstinate constipation, or with rumbling in bowels, bellyache and diarrhœa ; alternately with stupor. θ Typhus.    

SENSORIUM. [2] [Acet. ac.] Vertigo, with feebleness and fainting. Giddy, dull aching in forehead and top of head.
Giddiness, symptoms of cerebral congestion. θ Headache. Blood rushes to head, with delirium.
Appears as if drunk, with heavy head.
Stupor only interrupted by delirious talking. θ Typhus. Falls to ground insensible ; foaming at mouth.
Faints.    

INNER HEAD. [3] [Acet. ac.] Dull pains in forehead and vertex ; giddiness.
Heaviness of head, with sense of drunkenness.
Confused dull aching over frontal region. θ Nervous cephalalgia. Shooting through temples.
Nervous headache, caused by abuse of narcotic stimulants or by chronic gastric irritation.
Headache from abuse of tobacco, opium, coffee or alcohol.
   

OUTER HEAD. [4] [Acet. ac.] Dull aching on frontal protuberance ; later on left.
Distension of temporal blood-vessels, increased heat of head.
Blood-vessels on temples distended.
Red patches on scalp, crusts between hair.
Hair bristles.
Child does not want its head touched. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition.    

SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Acet. ac.] Weak sight. θ Liver complaint. Dilated pupils.
Protruding eyeballs.
Conjunctiva inflamed, accompanied by sour stomach.
Flow of tears.
   

SMELL AND NOSE. [7] [Acet. ac.] Nosebleed, especially from a fall or blow.
Liable to frequent catarrhal attacks.
   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Acet. ac.] Expression wild, pupils dilated.
Face pale, waxen, emaciated. θ Dropsy.
One cheek red, the other pale. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition. Eyes sunken and surrounded by dark rings.
Left cheek bright red with fever. θ Croup. Sweat on forehead in spots.
   

LOWER FACE. [9] [Acet. ac.] Lips : become of a deep purple tint ; peel off in flakes.
Aching in upper part of joint of jaw ; < from pressure and motion.
   

TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Acet. ac.] Scorbutic ulcers ; toothache.    

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Acet. ac.] Taste sour.
Pain across root of tongue impedes speech and motion of jaw.
Tongue : pale and flabby, with diminished appetite and no thirst ; dry and cold ; red, sore and burning ; livid, swollen, protruding.
Glands under tongue and lower jaw swollen, sore to touch.
   

INNER MOUTH. [12] [Acet. ac.] Foul breath.
Buccal membrane whitish, like aptha.
Salivation.
White gums.    

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Acet. ac.] Children thirsty, but swallow with some difficulty, even a teaspoonful of water. θ Croup. Has to eat very slowly, difficult swallowing.
Throat inflamed, ulcerated.
A white film low down in fauces. θ Croup. False membranes in throat.    

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Acet. ac.] Loss of appetite.
Greatest burning thirst, insatiable even by taking large quantities. Intense thirst. θ Diabetes. θ Dropsy. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Thirsty with dry lips, which peel off in flakes. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition. No thirst with fever. θ Croup. Disgust for salted things and cold victuals.
   

EATING AND DRINKING. [15] [Acet. ac.] After a meal : vomiting.
Bread and butter disagree.
Vomits after every kind of food. θ Liver complaint. Cannot drink anything cold, it lies like a load in stomach.
   

HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Acet. ac.] Hiccough and fetid belching.
Belching > pain in abdomen. θ Inflammation of bowels in dentition. Hot eructations, heat in stomach.
Nausea and sweat ; retching with anxiety ; sour risings.
Towards 12 P. M. very sick ; vomits a thick gruelly substance with great relief.
Vomiting : after every meal ; of blood ; like yeast.