CARBOLIC. ACID.
Acidum carbolicum, Phenol, Monoxybenze, Phenyl-alcohol. C6H5OH. Preparation, Solution in alcohol.
Authorities.
1, T.
Bacmeister, M.D., proving with the 1st dilution, from Dr. Hoyne ‘s
Monograph, Chicago, 1869; 2, ibid., proving
with the 12th dilution; 3, T. S. Hoyne, M.D., provings
with the 6th and 3d dilutions, ibid.; 4, Miss G. H.,
proving with the 6th dilution, ibid.; 5, Mrs. T. S. H.,
proving with the 6th dilution, ibid.; 6, J. T. H.,
proving with the 6th dilution, ibid.; 7, T. C. Duncan,
M.D., proving with the 12th dilution, ibid.; 8, ibid.,
effects of inhaling the fumes; 9, Mrs. T. C. D., effects
of the fumes, ibid.; 10, Mrs. E. J. Duncan, effects of
the fumes inhaled while menstruating, ibid.; 11, S. P.
Hedges, M.D., provings with the 6th dilution, ibid.; 12,
C. W. Boyce, M.D., effect of local application to the hand, ibid.; 13,
Chas. H. Hæseler, M.D., proving with 1 to 20 drops of the crude acid (36 drops taken in
three days), Hahn. M., 5, 171; 14, Mr. X. Y. Z., effects
of crude drug, ibid.; 15, girl of 11, effects of 4 drops
of pure acid, ibid.; 16, Chas. H. Hæseler, effects of
the 3d dec. dilution, ibid.; 17, S. Lilienthal, M.D.,
proving with the 1st dec. dilution, and two doses of tincture, Trans. of Hom. Med. Soc.,
State of N. Y., 1870, p. 232; 18, Mrs. S. A. F., M.D.,
proving with the 1st dec. dilution, ibid.; 19, Mrs. C.
L., M.D., provings with 1st cent. dilution, and one dose of the 30th dilution, ibid.; 20, Mrs. A. W., proving, ibid.; 21,
E. C. Price, M.D., Am. Hom. Obs., 1871, p. 148, proving with 3d dilution, 3d dec. dilution,
and 2d dec. dilution; 22, T. D. Pritchard, M.D., Trans.
Hom. Med. Soc. State of N. Y., 1874, 136, effects of inhaling the vapor; 23, J. N. Mitchell, Am. J. of H. M. M., N. S., 1, 354, effects of
Carbolic acid put into a tooth; 24, W. M. Williamson,
M.D., Trans. Penn. Hom. Med. Soc., 1871, effects of the vapor; 25,
Taylor, Guy’s Hosp. Rep., 1868 (Hahn. Month., 5, 169), poisoning of a child of 1 3/4 years
by two teaspoonfuls; 26, H. W. Fuller, M.D., Brit. Med.
Journ. (H. M., 5, 170), effects of doses of from three minims upward; 27, Machin, El. Crit. Med. (N. Am. J. of Hom., 18, 155), effects
on three women who had washed in Carbolic-acid water; 28,
Dr. Oyston, B. Med. J., 1871, effects of swallowing 1 to 2 ounces of raw Carbolic acid from
a flask (thinking it brandy); 29, Dr. Pinkham, Med. and
S. Rep., 19 (H. M., 5, 168), general effects; 30,
Pinkham, l. c., effects of an enema containing 145 grains on a young lady; 31, Sutton, Med. Times and Gaz., April, 1868 (H. M., 5, 169),
poisoning by one ounce; 32, Kline, Phil. M. and S. Rep.,
1870; 33, Michelas, Wen. Med. Presse, 8, 1867 (Schmidt’s
Jahrb., 146, 273), effects of clyster containing 145 grains for ascarides, administered to a
woman aged 22; 34, Ibid., effects on a boy of 10 years,
of a clyster containing 9/10ths gramme; 35, Wallace, Br.
J., 1870, effects after being applied to an abscess; 36,
Ph. M. and S. Rep., 1867, a nurse, 32 years old, drank half an ounce (S. J., 151); 37, Dr. White N. Y. Med. Gaz., 1872, effects when applied to a
necrosed tibia; 38, Kohler, effects of an application to
scabies (S. J., 155, 275); 39, ibid., general statement
of effects; 40, Welander, Hygea, 36 (1874), Am. Hom.
Obs., 1874, effects of a teaspoonful of a solution containing 25 or 30 centigrammes; 41, omitted; 42, Danion,
Recherches sur l’acide phénique, Rapport an der Med. Fakult, zu Strassburg, 1869 (extracted
from Dr. C. G. Rothe, Die Carbolsäure in der medicin, monograph, Berlin, 1875), proving of
1 gramme, afterward 2 grammes, afterward 4 grammes, in three portions; 43, Rothe, l. c., proving of 1 gramme in 20 parts of water; 44, Husemann, S. J., 155, p. 275, general effects of poisoning by
small quantities; 45, Mosler, Br. Med. J., 1872, effects
of 2 or 3 drachms; 46, Unthank, Br. Med. J., 1872,
effects of the fumes; 47, Warren (New Remedies, 4, 178),
effects of drinking some from a flask, mistaking it for whisky.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► Delirium, [30], [44]. ► Delirium like
intoxication, often lasting half an hour, [38]. ► Deliria, irritability, and rage, with copious perspiration, [40]. ► During the
evening felt unusually cheerful, [3]. ► Feeling of sadness, with disposition to sigh and yawn (soon
after 20 drops), [13]. ►
Not in humor to think or speak, [17]. ► *Very irritable, [17].
► Cross; loses control of temper readily (second day), [7]. ► Appeared morose,
and much less brilliant in conversation than usual, [14].
[10.] ► Affection
bestowed seemed distasteful (third day), [7]. ► A fear of impending sickness came over him as soon as he
retired to bed, [17]. ►
Intellectual. ► Mind clear and active (second
day), [7]. ►
Strange to say, although so affected by reading, my mind seemed unusually on the alert, and,
although using it very much, nearly set me crazy with the confusion and pains in my head,
yet I saw through any proposition with unusual quickness, and was desirous of intellectual
work, [23]. ►
*Disinclination to mental efforts, even to read, [17].
► *Disinclination to mental exertion (as studying
cases, preparing copy, etc), (third day), [7]. ► *Entire disinclination to study; what he had accomplished seemed
very trifling (evening), [2]. ► Mental and bodily laziness; do not wish to exert myself in
any way, [17]. ►
Could not concentrate the mind upon anything (soon after 20 drops), [13]. ► I would get into an
absent-minded abstracted condition, from which I would start when any one spoke to me, and
would find myself at times in a nervous tremor when spoken to suddenly, [23]. [20.] ►
When reading, cannot fix my attention on the subject so as to retain it in memory (fifth
day), [17]. ► Want
of acuteness in thinking (soon after 20 drops), [13]. ► Feels dull and stupid (after one hour and five-sixths), [3]. ► Loss of memory
(soon after 20 drops), [13]. ►
Unconscious, [32]. ►
Unconscious for four hours; then first opened eyes, moved arm and leg, [28]. ► Unconsciousness, with
stertorous breathing, [28]. ►
Complete unconsciousness (after five minutes), [36]. ► Lost all knowledge of what passed around them, [27]. ► Insensibility, [29]. [30.] ► Nearly or quite insensible, [30].
► Reclining in a chair, insensible (after five minutes), [31]. ► Lay insensible to
all external objects, but in a short time recovered itself, [25].
► Became insensible, falling down suddenly as if in a
fit; on his recovery, said he remembered nothing whatever after tasting the liquid
(immediately), [47]. ►
Stupor, [44], [46].
► Slight stupefaction, [42].
► Quite comatose, [46].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Transient confusion of the head, [43]. ► Confusion and heaviness of
the head, [44]. [40.]
► Confusion and pain in head, pain located over right
eye, [14]. ►
Confused feeling in head (third day), [7]. ► Brain felt confused and painful (soon after 20 drops), [13]. ► Head feels
muddled, although no severe pain, [17]. ► Muddled and confused, and could collect thoughts only with an
effort, [13]. ►
Vertigo, [38], [44].
► Vertigo, with trembling, [17].
► Easier in the afternoon, being much exposed to wind,
which cools the heated brain, but vertigo returns as soon as he enters a room, [17]. ► Very dizzy from
the slightest motion (after five minutes), [6]. ► Very dizzy; things look as if they were moving backwards and
forwards (after five minutes), [4]. [50.] ► Giddiness, [29], [46]. ► A giddiness and fulness, or peculiar feeling in the head
(after two to eight minutes), [26]. ► My giddiness was better when walking fast in the open air,
but as soon as I would sit down, would become so bad that I would have to hold on to
something to prevent falling, [23]. ► Head swimming, and he felt as if staggering like a drunken
man (soon after 20 drops), [13]. ►
Staggering as if drunk, [38]. ►
General Head. ► Rush of blood to head (second
day), [7]. ► Felt
like rubbing head and eyes constantly (soon after 20 drops), [13].
► Feeling as though I had suffered from headache, for
three days before (third day), [11]. ► Dulness in head (third day), [7].
► Dull feeling in head (after a few moments), [3]. [60.] ► Head felt heavy (after half an hour), [18]. ► Head very heavy, [17]. ► Heaviness of
head, when leaning forward (after two hours and one-third), [3].
► Heavy pain in head, running from forehead to occiput
(after half an hour), [5]. ►
Headache, [29], [44].
► Complained of headache, [28].
► Headache, worse on left side, [17]. ► Headache, worse when
bending head forward (after one hour and five-sixths), [3].
► Headache disappeared soon after breakfast (second day),
[3]. ► Drinking a
cup of green tea relieved somewhat the headache, but not the sense of smell, [10]. [70.] ►
Slight headache, [17]. ►
Severe headache, with nausea (after half an hour), [10].
► In morning, awoke with a hard headache confined to the
upper half of the head (second day), [3]. ► Had a hard headache most of night, and has it this morning;
feels as if a band was around the forehead (second day), [6].
► Pain and fulness in head, which seemed to locate itself
especially over right eye, [16]. ►
Head hot (after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► Fulness of the brain, [17].
► Fulness of head all over the brain, with dull pain, [17]. ► Expansive pains
in head, with swimming before eyes; hardly able to write, [17].
► My head felt as if enclosed in a band, which at times
would seem to be compressed and crushing in my head. This pressing feeling was especially
noticeable in both temples, [23]. [80.] ► Dull constricting
headache at 7.30 A.M., about half an hour after rising, continuing and increasing until
noon, when I gave up to it. It did not locate anywhere particular, but was as bad in the
forehead as anywhere else. Pressure relieved for about one minute, but if continued longer
increased the pain. However, if the pressure was removed, if only for an instant, and then
reapplied, it would bring relief for a moment. My head seemed to swell and feel hot, even as
though it radiated heat as a hot stove. These sensations seemed confined to the cranium, not
coming below the base of the skull proper; continued until I went to sleep at night (second
day), [11]. ► Dull,
hot, constricted feeling in the head, especially in the forehead, on waking at 6.30 A.M.,
severe enough to become an ache at times (relieved by pressing the head with the hands),
lasted all day and until late in the night (second day), [11].
► Dull headache (second day), [38]. ► Dull headache, running
from forehead to occiput (after five minutes), [6]. ► Headache, as if somebody was jagging a sword in and out all
around the head; she could hardly keep the eyes open; aggravation from the least noise, and
from light; desires to have head tightly bandaged (after one hour), [15]. ► Sore feeling, as though I
had suffered from headache (third day), [11]. ► Head feels sore when moving it (after one hour and a
quarter), [3]. ►
The head-pains are the most severe, and are worse on right side
(after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► While smoking after tea, the head-pains are very much better
(after two hours and a half), [3]. ► Forehead. ► Frontal
headache, worse in a hot room, [17]. [90.] ► Headache in forehead
and temples, [20]. ►
Frontal headache and oppression of chest, beginning on left side and going over to right
(after fifteen minutes), [17]. ►
Headache in the forehead of a neuralgic character (second day), [3]. ► Forehead feels hot, and the
pressure of a cold hand on it gives some transient relief, [17].
► Burning headache in forehead (after twenty minutes), [5]. ► Severe burning
pain in brain over the eyebrows, [17]. ► Full feeling in frontal lobe of cerebrum, which increased to
a severe headache, [8]. ►
A pressing fulness in the forehead, [17]. ► Feeling of tightness across forehead directly above frontal sinuses,
[18]. ► Aching pain
in forehead (transient), [3]. [100.]
► Slight aching in forehead, left side (after one hour), [1]. ► Dull aching pain
in left temple and back of head, when leaning forward (after one hour and a quarter), [3]. ► Dull pains through
the forehead (after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► Dull frontal headache in centre of forehead, [19]. ►► Dull frontal
headache, as if an india-rubber band was stretched tightly over the forehead, [17]. ► Woke in morning
with a dull frontal headache and burning in throat (second day), [17]. ► Does not know whether he
has taken cold or not; the same dull frontal headache, with general lassitude (fifth day), [17]. ► Dull frontal
headache, with chilliness (very soon), [17]. ► Dull frontal headache, somewhat relieved in the fresh air
(after three hours), [17]. ►
Temples. ► Pain extends to temple (from over
right eye), with sense of soreness of the eyeball, [24].
[110.] ► Burning
pains in right temple and top of head (after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► *Feeling of tightness, as if an
india-rubber band was stretched from temple to temple, [17]. ► Bandlike constrictions
from one temple to the other, followed by a dull, heavy headache, greatly aggravated by a
walk in the open air (after half an hour), [18]. ► Slight aching in left temple (soon after), [17]. ► Dull, heavy pain in left
temple during the day (fourth day), [17]. ►►* Dull, heavy pain through the temples, with tight band across
forehead, and tightness in the nose between the eyes, [20]. ► When I read for any length
of time the pressing in my temples became fearful, and my whole head would feel somewhat in
the condition known as “asleep” in a limb, [23].
► Vertex. ► I
felt, on top of my head, as if my brain was swashing about, [23].
► Burning pain in top of head, [3]. ► Constant aching pain in
right side of head (after twenty minutes), [3]. ► Parietals. [120.] ► Neuralgic pain in left side of head (after one hour and a
quarter), [3]. ►
Beating pain in right side of head (after thirty-five minutes), [3]. ► Pains in head of a sharp,
darting, neuralgic character, changing their situation from one side to the other, affecting
the eye of the painful side so much that it was difficult to keep it open (soon after 10
drops), [13]. ►
Occiput. ► Occipital pressure, [17]. ► Dull, pressing, occipital
headache, [17]. ►
Dull aching pain in back of head and right side and temple. The pains in head are constant,
and similar to those felt when making the first proving (after one hour and a half), [3]. ► Back of head feels
sore (after one hour and five-sixths), [3]. ► External Head. ► *Small
pustulous vesicle a little to left of vertex (third day), [21]. ► Itching of scalp
(after one hour and a quarter), [3]. ► Itching of scalp (after fifteen minutes), [6]. [130.] ►
Itching of scalp, first on right side, then on left, [3].
EYE.
► Eyes rigid,
insensible to light, pupils much dilated, [34]. ► Eyes heavy (second day), [7].
► Burning pain in eyes, worse in left (after two hours), [3]. ► Burning pain in
left eye (transient), [3]. ►
Orbit. ► Pain over the right eye, which
continued for an hour after being out in the air, then passed off, but returned upon
returning to the room and smelling the acid again, but passed off again in the open air, [24]. ► A very slight
pain for a few minutes, at two different times, over right eye, [21]. ► *Very severe orbital neuralgia
over the right eye, [23]. ► *Slight pain over right eyebrow; the same kind of pain, but in a
milder degree, under right patella, both of short duration (after half an hour), [21]. ► Acute piercing
pain in the left supraorbital ridge, in a spot as large as a silver ten-cent piece, lasting
only five or ten minutes and ceasing on rising, but leaving the spot where it had been sore
to the touch for more than one day (second day), [11].
► Lids. [140.]
► Eyes open, turned upward, [32], [36]. ► Lids closed, [28]. ► Ball. ► Neuralgic
twitching in eyeballs and through temples (soon after 20 drops), [13]. ► Pupil. ► Contraction of the pupils, [28],
[30], etc. ► Pupils
contracted (after five minutes), [31]. ► Pupils contracted and insensible to light, [25]. ► Pupils dilated, but showed
reaction to light (after two hours), [40]. ► Vision. ► Eyes
sensitive to light, [8]. ►
Cannot see across room (after five minutes), [4]. [150.] ► Reading is
impossible, as the letters look blurred and fade one in the other, [17]. ► While writing, the letters
seem to run together, so that it is with difficulty I can read what is written (after
thirty-five minutes), [3]. ►
Swimming before the eyes, [17]. ►
Things seem to be moving before the eyes (after three-quarters of an hour), [5]. ► A constant dark spot in
front of the left eye, [23].
EAR.
► Pressing pain in
left ear (transient), (after fifteen minutes), returning from time to time (after twenty
minutes), [3]. ►
Beating pain, with a humming sound, in both ears (after six hours), [3]. ► Roaring in the ears, [42]. ► Troubled all the
time with a constant humming-buzzing sound in my ears, although my hearing did not seem
affected, [23].
NOSE.
► Both nostrils
plugged up (fourth day), [7]. [160.]
► When blowing nose the mucus was bloody, bright-red
blood (after four and one-sixth hours), [3]. ► Feel as if I had a cold in the head; right nostril plugged
up, right eye watery (third day), [7]. ► Nose tight and stopped up, with full tight feeling across
forehead, [20]. ►
Left nostril stinging, with constant watering of the left eye, and watery discharge from
nose, [20]. ►
Sensation at left wing of nose as of fine electric sparks; wants to rub the part repeatedly
(after fifteen minutes); during first hour same sensation on sternal end of right clavicle;
later on middle finger of left hand; later on vertex. This sensation, during the time it was
felt, changed slowly to a pricking-itching, with desire to rub the part, and relief from it,
[2]. ► Tickling in
right nostril, with sneezing (after one hour and one-third), [3].
► Smell. ►
Sense of smell very acute, [8]. ►
Sense of smell exceedingly acute, for five days (after half an hour), [10]. ► Smell more acute, very
decidedly; soon after watery discharge from both nostrils while in the open air; when
indoors it ceases; comes again after entering a cold room (after twenty minutes), [1].® 2000
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