HYDROCYANICUM ACIDUM mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Mathur mtarx Stage of hepatization: We should not forget the importance of this drug in this stage when the condition becomes toxic with convulsions, palpitation, pulse very weak, irregular and toxemic; hiccough. The heart is greatly disturbed, blueness and coolness of the surface and the patient clutches at the heart as in distress. Symptoms of, sounds like water rolling into an empty barrel when swallowing a teaspoonful of liquid is very prominent. Cyanosis and collapse due to the pulmonary condition reminds us for administration. Greenish diarrhea may be present. Change of colour of fingers is very prominent. Unconsicous, prostration and spasms when coughing are true guiding symptoms. The condition of this drug resembles more or less Carb-v. and Laur. In Carb-v. generally the spasms are absent with desire for faning. Laur. is a reactionary medicine and should be used when the well selected medicine acts for a while and fails. Hydr-ac. and Laur. both work well when the heart is mostly affected along with the chest trouble. Choudhuri cda1 It is also to be thought of in threatening paralysis of the lungs. I have used it often and with success in the fatal stage of many critical ailments on the indication of the respiration being labored, co-existing with a feeling of suffocation and torturing pain in the chest.