Nitric acid has paralysis of the bladder. Wetting the bed, in children. Children with strong smelling urine, of the peculiar odor, the sheets smell like horses urine. Where the odor is intensely urinous, Benzoic acid leads.
There is another feature in connection with both male and female genitals–figwarts of the sycotic character, raw, sore, smarting and sticking. Figwarts and polypoid growths, sometimes around the anus and glans-penis and the labia majora; also in the ears and nose, and jutting out around about the mouth, and under the wings of the nose. These warts are tender, sore and raw.
We see another correspondence, in that it has been the great medicine to burn off these little excrescences; but if given in a high potency, it will cure them. Nitric acid also has warty formations on the hands.
Leucorrhoea is ropy, sometimes of green mucous or flesh color, looking like washings of meat. Leucorrhoea clear, acrid, flowing down the legs.
After mercurialization. The polypoid of warty formations sometimes appear upon the larynx, making it impossible to speak a loud word, and causing a great deal of difficulty in breathing. All these are mere results of disease and, of course, the dynamic condition must agree to cure the troubles.
These condylomatous growths cause the throat to swell up. I have cured these states with Arsenic. Thuja is sometimes the remedy to cure this condition in the larynx, also Argentum nitricum.
All of the effects, when the outgrowths of syphilis or gonorrhoea, might call for Nitric acid. It is not frequently indicated in psora.
A psora condition calling for Sulphur, and then Calcarea, may all at once seem to yield to these two carefully selected remedies, and then you may see a peculiar manifestation coming up, a miasm cropping out, which makes you behold the secret life of an individual who always stood before you as a good man.
Lycopodium may be indicated after Calcarea, but Nitric acid, or Mercurius, will come in if he has [venereal] taint in him.
It may be a nasal catarrh, with copious discharge, cold damp feet, weak in the back, wants to lie down, head sweats and on slightest exertion he sweats all over; this is all Calcarea and you administer it. At the end of the next six weeks the nasal discharge has disappeared, but only to change the site of its operation, as a gonorrhoeal discharge has come on. Now you see that his nasal discharge was originally sycotic. When the discharge from the nose disappears and the urethral discharge returns, we know that this is the natural course of events. Under such a state of affairs, you will find in Nitric acid a suitable remedy. Nitric acid will come up after Calcarea instead of Lycopodium.
The rheumatism that affects the limbs and joints will have the general features. The sweat is copious and likely to be present in Nitric acid cases.
Now read and study the whole remedy, and you will be able to apply the picture to the drug.
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.