Pix Liquida
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Liquid tar.
Introduced by Jeanes.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Expectoration of purulent matter, offensive in odor and taste and accompanied by pain, referred to third costal cartilage (really in left bronchus) ; pain may or may not go through to back. θ Bronchial catarrh. θ Phthisis.
Useful in third stage of phthisis.
Pain at third left costal cartilage, where it joins with rib ; rales through lungs and muco-purulent sputa. θ Phthisis.
Suppurative processes affecting left lung, with pain at third left costal cartilage.
SENSATIONS [43]
Pain : in left third costal cartilage.
Intolerable itching : of eruption on hands.
SKIN [46]
Eruption, especially on backs of hands, itching intolerably at night and bleeding when scratched.
Violent itching.
Skin cracked, bleeding when scratched, with sleeplessness.
RELATIONS [48]
Compare Anisum stellatum in chest pains.