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Materia Medica by AllenBENZOIC ACID(benz-ac)A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrhoeal or syphilitic patient.Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion; nodosities (Berb., Lith. c, Lys.). Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified. Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostate; strong characteristic odor; excess of uric acid. Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhoea. Diarrhoea of children; white, VERY OFFENSIVE, exhausting liquid stools running "right through the diaper" (Pod.); urine offensive and of a deep red color. Cough; with expectoration of green mucus (Natr. s.); extreme weariness, lassitude. Pains tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night.
Relation Useful after Colch. fails in gout; after abuse of Cop. in suppression of gonorrhoea. Incompatible: wine, which aggravates urinary, gouty and rheumatic affections.
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