Boracicum Acidum.
Boric Acid. H3 BO3. Solution
of crystals in alcohol.Clinical.─
Antiseptic. Climacteric flushings.
Erythema. Eyes, affections of. Headache. Impetigo. Śdema. Renal colic. Vomiting. Whitlow.
Wounds.
Characteristics.─
Poisonings and provings with Bor. ac. have caused: headache; vertigo; noises in the ears;
prostration; cold saliva; vomiting of tough, greenish stuff; uncontrollable vomiting; sweat
on scrobiculus cordis; hiccough; pasty stool; pain in region of ureters or increased urine
and increased call to urinate; albuminuria; erythematous eruption on face, body, and thighs
followed by pearly vesicles on face and neck. Three cases of poisoning have been reported
from packing the vagina with the dry acid, kept in by tampons till liquefaction took place.
Symptoms were: Formication of hands and feet, later of face. Sad spirits, great nervous
depression. Burning skin; it became swelled and charred, and all motion was painful. One
case went into collapse; temperature subnormal; sighing and weeping by turns. The patients
were cold; vagina felt “cold as if packed with ice.” Coldness is a prominent
feature, as cold saliva. In the 3x Cooper has found it give great relief in climacteric
flushings. In connection with the skin effects may be mentioned the case of a woman who took
gr. xxx per diem of the acid for a month, when there appeared a multiform erythema of trunk
extending to upper limbs; at the same time there appeared a painful swelling of upper lids
with conjunctivitis and photophobia. Finally the śdema was so intense as to close the eyes
and give the appearance of sclerosed tissue. The symptoms began to abate when the Bor. ac. was discontinued, and disappeared in a week. Bor. ac. has been largely used as an antiseptic dressing for
wounds, as a lotion for the eyes and for whitlow, and as a wash in catarrh of the bladder.
It is much less irritating than Carbolic acid. But it
also has produced skin eruptions. Symptoms > after
walking in open air.
Relations.─
Compare:
Borax, Carbolic acid, Kali bi. (tough mucus).
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Low spirits, nervous depression.─Sighing
and weeping by turns.─Apathetic.
2. Head.─
A gastric headache.─Headache,
vertigo, noise in ears.
3. Eyes.─
Intense śdema closing eyes,
conjunctivitis and photophobia.
8. Mouth.─
Much cold saliva.─Tongue
dry, furred, difficulty in moving it; dryness in throat.
11. Stomach.─
Nausea and heaviness in stomach > after walking in open air.─Vomiting of
tough mucus, strongly alkaline.─Vomits greenish stuff.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Pain in region of ureters.─Frequent
and urgent desire to urinate.─Quantity of urine doubled.─Albumen
in urine.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Vagina packed with it
felt cold as if ice had been used.─Climacteric flushings.
24. Generalities.─
Collapse.─Formication
of hands and feet; later of face.
25. Skin.─
Impetigo figurata first on r. thigh
then on left.─Burning skin.─Multiform erythema and
hard śdema.
27. Fever.─
Coldness; temperature subnormal.
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