- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Hydrofluoric Acid. (HF.) Complaints of old age, or of premature old age; in syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia; young people look old . Increased ability to exercise without danger (Coca.); is less affected by excessive heat of summer or cold of winter. Old cicatrices become red around edges, and threaten to become open…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Hydrofluoric acid, HF. Preparation , Dilute with water and potentize in silver vials to the fifth centesimal (Hering), (gutta-percha vials are now generally used). Authorities. ( 1 to 17 , from Hering's résumé, Neues Archiv. f. Hom., 2, 1, 100, and Trans. of Am. Inst. of Hom., 1846), 1 , C. Hg, from a man aged 40…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Hydrofluoric Acid Especially adapted to chronic diseases with syphilitic and mercurial history. Glabella region bloated . Acts especially upon lower tissues, and indicated in deep, destructive processes, bedsores, ulcerations, varicose veins, and ulcers. Patient is compelled to move about energetically. Complaints of…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“FIBROUS TISSUES: VEINS. Skin. Bones. Mastoid. HEAT; of room. Night. Alcohol. Sour foods. COOL BATHING. Rapid motion. Short sleep. Bending head back. Eating. Always too hot; wants to bathe in cold water. Pale, miserable, cachectic, flabby and broken down. Slow deeply destructive effects. Puffy, indurated or fistulous…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Hydrofluoric acid. H F. Made by distilling pure fluorspar (Calcium fluoride) in a state of fine powder with sulphuric acid. Solution. Abscess / Alcoholism / Alopecia / Apoplexy / Bone, affections of / Brain, atrophy of / Cicatrix / Coccygodynia / Decubitus / Dropsies / Eyes, affections of / Fistula / Gleet / Goître /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“THE ACIDS. Acids: Fluoric acid; Muriatic acid; Nitric acid; Sulphuric acid; Oxalic acid; Citric acid; Phosphoric acid; Hydrocyanic acid; Picric acid; Lactic acid; Malic acid; Silicic acid; Arsenious acid. Then we have derived from organic chemistry Hydrocyanic acid, sometimes called Prussic acid. That, we shall find…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“This remedy affects the right ear; teeth of the left side; left hypochondrium: left side of the abdomen; right side, and nape of the neck; right side of the back. Fistula lachrymalis. Remedies following:--Graphit., Nitr. ac.”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Hydrofluoric acid. HF. "This acid is prepared by distilling pure fluor spar (Calcium fluoride) in a state of fine powder with sulphuric acid. As the acid dissolves glass, the distillation must be performed in platinum vessels, and the acid can only be preserved in bottles of the same, or in bottles made of gutta…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“Hydrofluoric arid^ HFl. Product of action of Milphuric actd on fyor (fluoride of calcium). I. Prtvings, — 1. a. Dr. Hering smelt at acid, 5 p.m. It appeared to him to proceed from throat to head. He felt as if he was to be struck with apoplexy, a kind of determination of blood to head and km of consciousness, he could…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“It takes a long time for this remedy, in the proving, to develop its symptoms. It is a very deep-acting medicine, and an antipsoric, antisyphilitic and anti-sycotic. It is insidious in its action and its symptoms are slow in approach; it is like the deepest and slowest and most tedious diseases, the miasms, and hence…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Disposition to be exceedingly anxious, causing perspiration. Sensation as if danger menaced him. Forgetfulness of dates and of his common employment. Vertigo with sickness of the stomach. Congestion of blood to the head -(forehead). Dulness (towards night) in the occiput. Sensation of numbness in the forehead…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: hydro-fluoric acid. Complaints of old age, or of premature old age; in syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia (A.). YOUNG PEOPLE LOOK OLD (Agn., Ambr., Bar-C., Bufo, Kali-C., Lyc., Sel.) (A.). Pale, miserable, cachectic, flabby and broken down (B.). DISEASES OF THE BONES, ESPECIALLY OF LONG BONES (Calc-F…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Diseases of the bones, especially the long bones, > from cold. Silicea, > by warmth.”
