ANTHRAKOKALI.

Prepared by the action of Caustic Potassa upon Fünfkirchen coal. (See Hom. Dispensatory.)

Authorities.

A. H. Z., 18, 235; (extracted from Polya, Klinger, Isensee, etc.) Several persons proved it (Nos.

12 and 13 , females).

MOUTH

• Tongue soon furred, with nauseous taste, 10.
• Furred tongue, appetite lost, nausea, 12.
• Tongue furred, with vomiting and colic, 13.
• Dryness of mouth and throat, 4, 8.
• Taste unpleasant, 5.
• Taste nauseous, 1.

THROAT

• Pain in throat, with coated tongue, 9.
• Burning in throat, with slight dysphagia, 3.
• Burning in throat, soon followed by anorexia, nauseous taste, and violent colic, without diarrhœa (after ten days repeated doses), 7. [10.]
• Dysphagia and dryness of the throat, 10.

STOMACH

• Anorexia, nausea , vomiting, colic, and flatulence, 2.
• Burning thirst, 4.
• Almost unquenchable thirst, 10.
• Nausea after eating, 3.
• Nausea, with intercurrent vomiting, 5.
• Vomiting bilious, mixed with blackish mucus, 13.
• Sensation of warmth in stomach, 2.
• Cramps in the stomach, and colic pains, 3.

ABDOMEN

• Violent burning, deep in the abdomen, 12. [20.]
• Violent colic, increased at night, so that he had to apply a cataplasm, which relieved (seventh day), 8.
• Colic, borborygmi, tympanitic distension of the abdomen, 3.
• Colic, borborygmi, 1.

STOOL AND ANUS

• Diarrhœa three times a day, 9.
• Diarrhœa instead of usual constipation, 8.
• Copious diarrhœa, with colic and borborygmi, 11.
• Diarrhœa for several days, with increased urine, 4.
• Two fluid stools, 13.
• Stool pasty, preceded by colic and borborygmi, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Burning in urethra on urinating, 2. [30.]
• Ischuria; urine pale, 12.
• Urine increased, 5, 8, 9.
• Urine profuse, 1.
• Profuse watery urine, 10.
• Copious evacuation of pale, clear urine, 1, 2.
• Urine less profuse, 13.
• Urine pale, acid, profuse, 2.
• Peculiar odor to the urine, 3.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Frequent erections, 1, 2, 5.

HEART AND PULSE

• Pulse and temperature feverish, 12.

GENERALITIES. [40.]

• Feels generally sick, 11.
• Weakness of whole body and restlessness, with heaviness of the head, 11.

FEVER

• Creeping chills alternating with heat followed by slight sweat, with accelerated pulse, 3.
• Increased warmth of body at evening, with accelerated full pulse, 3.
• Warmth and heat sensation, beginning in the throat, and extending down to the stomach; from hence it migrated to the skin where it did not remain long; was not followed by sweat, 1.
• Moist skin, 2.
• Copious sweat in the evening, lasting till morning, with restlessness, headache, prostration, and accelerated pulse, 4.
• Copious sweat, with slight vascular excitement (sixteenth day), 7.
• Moderate night-sweat, beginning at evening, with sleeplessness and excited pulse, 11.
• The burning of the skin was (on eighth day) followed by nightly sweat (continued several days), 1. [50.]
• Nightly sweat returning every twenty-four hours, as long as the proving lasts, without itching of the skin, 10.
• Profuse night-sweat, with headache, and accelerated pulse (thirteenth day after increasing doses), 6.
• Profuse night-sweats, and renewed diarrhœa, which again ceased without stopping the dosing (seventh day), 8.
• Copious night-sweat, with loss of sleep, and excessive restlessness, but relief of the pain in the abdomen, 12.
• Profuse warm night-sweat, with confusion of the head, 13.
• No sweat, 5.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Evening ), Warmth of body, etc.; copious sweat.
• ( Night ), Colic; profuse sweats, etc.
• ( After eating ), Nausea.
• ( Urinating ), Burning in urethra.
• Amelioration.
• ( Cataplasm ), Colic.