In the fever for which nitric acid is indicated the heat comes in flushes, and is only on the hands and feet, and there is thirstlessness during all stages. Sweat is apt to be strongly smelling, especially in the axillae and on the feet.
In kidney diseases the indications are haematuria, with frequent strangury, and the odour of the urine is strong -like horses’ urine- or very offensive.
In the skin, nitric acid is useful for foul ulcers, with exuberant granulations and splinter pain on being touched; for warts, especially on the upper eyelids and the backs of the hands, and for a sensation as of a splinter under the yellow curved nails. Offensive sweat occurs on the hands and feet.
It antidotes both mercurius and kali iodatum.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
1) Complaints arising from mercurio-syphilis. Syphilitic bone pains. Exostoses.
2) Pains, like splinters, occurring on touch or motion.
3) Complaints brought on by bodily rather than by mental sufferings.
4) Affections of the muco-cutaneous outlets; warts at orifices, pains after stool. Condylomata. Fissures.
5) Sensitiveness, both mental and bodily: especially sensitive to touch (hepar, sil.)
6) Haemorrhages from mucous membranes depending or superficial ulceration.
7) Offensive urine, smelling like horses’ urine (benz. ac.)_
8) Strongly smelling sweat.
9) Restlessness after midnight (ars., sil., sulph.)
10) Depression of spirits worse before menstruation and at night.
11) Discharges are offensive, thin, excoriating, often bloody. Dysentery.
12) Patient hears better in a noise, but is very sensitive to noises, & c.
13) Aggravation from both heat and cold (antim. crud., merc., ipec.)
14) Persons or swarthy complexion with black hair and eyes; lean persons of rigid fibre; brunettes.
AGGRAVATION:
From touch, pressure of the hat, eating, milk or fat food, exertion of mind or body, both extremes of warmth and cold, noise, jerking and at night, winter, lying (cough).
AMELIORATION:
From lying down, riding in a carriage (deafness), and from sympathy.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,