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Benzoic Acid

C6H5COOH.

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., Lys. ).

Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified.

Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostrate; strong characteristic odor; excesses of uric acid.

Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhea.

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. - Similar: to, Cop. , Nitr. , Fer. , Thuja , especially in enuresis after Nitr. has failed; Berb. , [Lith. c.], in arthritic complaints.

Useful after Colch. fails in gout; after abuse of Cop. in suppression of gonorrhoea.

Incompatible: wine, which aggravates urinary gouty and rheumatic affections.