- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Hydrochloric Acid. (HCl) Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion. Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin (Nux); restlessness and vertigo. Diseases of an asthenic type, with moaning, unconsciouness, fretfulness. Ulceration with fungus-like growths and pseudo-like membranous deposits of…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Acidum hydrochloratum (Hcl). Preparation , Dilutions with pure water. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 20 , from Hahnemann, Chron. Krank-n.).”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Muriatic Acid This acid has an elective affinity for the blood, producing a septic condition similar to that found in low fevers with high temperature and great prostration. Patient becomes so weak she slides down the bed. Decomposition of fluids. Involuntary stools while passing urine. Hæmorrhages. Mouth and anus…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. FALLING ILEO-COECAL REGION INCONTINENCE, stool, urine, sexual, etc. MUSCLES ORIFICES PULSE, slow RELAXATION (COMP. INACTIVE.) SHATTERED or flying into pieces, explosions, etc., as if (Comp. Bursting.) TENDO ACHILLES TIME, 8 P.M. to 12 Night. TYPHOID STATES 12 Night”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“BLOOD. MUSCLES: HEART. ANUS. MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Digestive tract. MOUTH. TONGUE. Brain. Touch. Wet weather. Walking. Cold drinks; bathing. Sitting. Human voice. Motion. Warmth. Lying on L. side. Sore , RESTLESS AND ERETHISTIC, but soon grows weak and very debilitated; wants to lie down; slides down in bed, eyes fall…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Hydrochloric acid. HCl. First dilutions with distilled water. Anus, prolapse of / Chilblains / Chorea / Deafness (cerebral) / Diphtheria / Enteric fever / Ephelis / Feet, soles, pains in / Gastric disorders / Hæmorrhoids / Hemiopia / Impotence / Measles / Mercurial ulceration / Mouth, aphthæ; psoriasis of tongue…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Muriatic acid: Debility, typhoid fever; Diphtheria; Scarlatina; Muscular weakness from Opium. Muriatic acid: Rhus tox., Bry., Phos., Phos. ac.; Apis, Rhus tox., Arsenicum; Opium; Nitr. ac. Muriatic acid > Camphor; Bryonia; Alkalies. Now that we have obtained an idea of the acids in general, we will find Muriatic acid…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“This remedy is often called for in cases where the patient cannot urinate without having the bowels moved at the same time; in typhus or low grades of fever where we find this symptom with great prostration. Patient may think he is going to pass a little wind, when urine will come away also. Hæmorrhoids very tender to…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“ACIDUM HYDROCHLORICUM, MURIATIC ACID.[]. [] All the fellow-observers mentioned by Hahnemann, save Rummel and Nenning, cooperated with him in producing the pathogenesis of Muriatic acid contained in Vol. V. of the Materia Medica Pura. The additions here are mainly Nenning's symptoms. -Hughes. The colorless muriatic…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Muriatic acid.) (It should be carefully freed from the sulphuric acid often mixed with it, by means of re- distillation over chloride of sodium, or (better) it may be precipitated by muriate of baryta, and, after being thus freed from the sulphuric acid, re-distilled.) From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1826. For medicinal use…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Hydrochloric Acid. HCl. Introduced by Hahnemann, proved by himself, Gutmann, Haynel, Hartmann, Langhammer, Nenning, Rummel, Stapf and Wislicenus (Chronische Krankheiten). Our arrangement contains a MSS. proving by Hackett, not contained in Allen's Encyclopædia . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Cancer of tongue , Cooper…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ACIDUM MURIATICUM. Muriatic acid, hydrochloric acid. — An aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid gai (HCl) obtained by submitting a mixture of chloride of sodium and sulphuric acid to distillation, and condensing the gas which passes over in water, op. gr. iNwiH be 1.7. (Ertt. Pharm.) 1. Provlngs, — I. Hahnemann…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“When treating a low form of continued fever with extreme prostration Arsenicum, Muriatic acid and Phos. acid force themselves upon the mind. With Arsenicum there has been the anxious restlessness; with Phos. acid there has been the mental prostration, and then the muscular weakness; with Muriatic acid the muscular…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sad, taciturn, with anxious apprehension. Sadness, peevishness. Irritable, disposed to anger and chagrin. Vertigo, with tottering gait. Headache, as if the brain were torn or demolished. Feeling as if the brain were loose. Tearing and stitches in the head, coming on in periodical shocks. Heaviness in the back part of…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: hydrochloric acid. Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue and sphincter ani are paralysed (A.). Often called for asthenic type of diseases (Ars., Bapt., Hyos., Lyc., Phos-Ac., Sec., Verat.) (A.). Great sensivity to moist air (Nux-M.). All the joints feel as if bruised (Arn.). Drawing and tearing…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Moaning or sliding down in bed from excessive weakness. (Typhoid.) Tongue dry, leathery and shrunken; one-third its natural size. (Typhoid.) Hemorrhoids: Swollen and blue, and so sensitive to touch that they cannot bear the contact of the sheet. Great debility; as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs…”
