MERCURIUS SULFURICUS.
Mercuric sulphate (in part) SO4Hg2HgO.
Hydrargyrum oxydatum sub-sulfuricum.
Præcipitatum flavum.
Turpeth mineral.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
1,
Neidhard, Dr. Hamilton Ring, took two powders, each containing 2 grains
of the 3d trit., at a week’s interval, same symptoms after each; 1a, took
2d trit., in same way, Appendix, N. A. Journ. of Hom., p. 281; 2, Dr. J. C. Raymond, took 3d trit. first and
fifth days, 2d trit. twelfth and seventeenth days, ibid.; 3, Dr. J. P. Dake, proving, took 5 grains of
3d trit., N. A. J. of Hom., 3, 180; 4,
same, took 2 grains of 2d trit.; 5,
same, repeated; 6, Berridge,
proving, Dr. Croker took repeated doses of 1/2 to 1 grain, crude, two or
three times a day, for a week, then the 1st (1 to 30) trit., M. Hom.
Rev., 14, 108; 7, Letheby, poisoning
of boy, aged sixteen, by 1 drachm, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1847; 8, Lowndes, effect of about 1 drachm, taken
for scabies, Med. Times and Gaz., 1863; 9,
Taylor, fatal case, Guy’s Hosp. Rep., 1864.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Delirium at
times (after two nights), [3]. ► Depression of spirits (first day), [4]. ►
Intellectual. ► Increased
clearness and vivacity of mind, in evening (first day), [1]. ► Dulness
and sleepiness (first day), [5]. ► Dulness and chilliness (second day), [2].
HEAD.
►
Much confusion in head, lasting several hours (after one hour), [1a]. ►
Unusually comfortable feeling in head, in evening (first day), [1]. ►
Fulness in head, and occasional shooting pains (first day), [3]. ►
Headache (after seven days), [9]. [10.] ►
Soreness all through the head after breakfast, and on moving about
(second day), [4]. ► Sensation of heaviness and soreness
through the head (second day), [5].
► Dull pain in forehead (second day),
[2]. ►
Pain in head under coronal suture, on waking in morning; during
forenoon, it was confined to right frontal region; pains dull, extending
deep into brain, and very unpleasant when exercising; passed off in
afternoon (third day), [2]. ► Sharp pain in right parietal
protuberance; darting pains in other parts of the head (first day), [4]. ►
Violent itching of hairy scalp, throughout the proving, [2].
EYE.
►
Oppression over eyes, continuing for several hours (after one hour), [1a].
NOSE.
►
Sneezing (second day), [5]. ► Fluent coryza (second day), [5].
FACE.
►
Pale anxious countenance (after ten minutes), [9]; (after one hour), [7].
MOUTH.
[20.]
► Gums and palate dark-bluish colored
(third day), [9]. ► Gums. ►
Gums of a deep bluish tint, with ulcerated margins, [7]. ► Gums
beginning to be sore (third day), [8].
► Tongue. ► Tongue tinged down the middle with a
greenish-yellow color, [8]. ► Tongue thickly coated white, inclining to
yellow at base; papillæ enlarged, and their red points project through
the coating on tongue (eighth day), [2].
► Tongue moist, swollen (third day);
furred, swollen, but moist (sixth day); covered with dry, black fur
(ninth day), [9]. ► Dryness of tongue and fauces (first day),
[3]. ►
Soreness, as from scalding, on tip of tongue (fifth day), [3]. ►
Soreness on tip of tongue cured in
eight or ten hours (second day), [5].
► General Mouth. ► Lips, gums, palate, and fauces, look dry
and black (eighth day), [9]. [30.] ►
Tongue and inside of mouth red and inflamed, feeling raw (second day), [9]. ►
Lips, gums, fauces, mouth, and tongue swollen (second day), [9]. ►
Dryness in mouth and fauces (first day), [5].
► Burning sensation of mouth and
throat (immediately), [7]. ► Soreness in the mouth and throat; and the
saliva ran continually from his mouth, [9].
► Saliva. ► Slight salivation (third day), [8]. ►
Spat more than usual (third day); profuse salivation, [7]. ► Taste.
► Pasty insipid taste in mouth
(eighth day), [2]. ► Bad taste in mouth after rising (second
day), [4]. ►
Brassy metallic taste, [6].
THROAT.
[40.]
► Pain in the throat, [6]. ► Sense
of heat and constriction in the throat (after one hour), [7]. ► Burning
sensation in the throat (immediately), [3].
► Scalding pain in throat, chest, and
stomach (after ten minutes), [7]. ► Fauces. ►
Fauces rather inflamed, [8]. ► Dryness and slight excoriation of fauces
(second day), [5].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Some
diminution of appetite, for several days, [1].
► No appetite for dinner (first day);
and for several days appetite considerably less than usual, [1a]. ►
Eructations. ► Acidity of
stomach, but being rather inclined to this I do not rely upon it as a
drug-symptom; took medicine for it, and closed the proving (second day),
[5]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. ►
Sick feeling not passing on soon, nor easily removed by food, [6]. [50.]
► Constant sickness (after one hour),
[7]. ►
Very sick; vomiting of ingesta (after ten minutes), [7]. ►
Vomiting (soon), [8]. ► Violent yellow vomiting, every ten
minutes (after ten minutes), [9]. ► Stomach so irritable that nothing would
remain on it an instant (second day), [7].
► Stomach. ► The digestion was impeded, till at last,
after supper, a most distressing feeling all night, that unless the
stomach were relieved a fit would ensue; eructated at intervals small
portions of food; at one time vomiting with relief; took an emetic of
Ipecac., in morning, which relieved the pain, but a total inability for
food remained, a kind of consciousness that food would not be digested;
next day, after excessive sweat at night, the above symptoms of pain,
indigestion, and of the fæces gradually subsided from day to day, [6]. ►
Pain in the epigastrium, [8]. ► Complains of pain in the epigastrium and
abdomen, [9]. ► Weight in the epigastric region (second
day), [4]. ►
Stomach somewhat tender on pressure (second day), [7].
ABDOMEN.
►
Umbilical. [60.] ► Pains in umbilical region, after retiring
(first day), [5]. ► Awoke at 1 A.M., with severe pains along
duodenum and down into umbilical region; they became so intolerable that
I took Nux vom., became easier, and fell asleep; waking again at 5,
found the pains not so severe, accompanied by soreness across the
abdomen; took Nux vom., and closed the proving (third day), [4]. ►
General Abdomen. ► Much
griped, [8]. ►
Soreness in inguinal glands (second day), [3].
ANUS.
►
Anus sore (third day), [9].
STOOL.
►
Looseness of bowels (second day), [3];
with some pain (second day), [5]. ► Bowels much relaxed (second day), [7]. ►
Constant purging (after one hour), [7].
► *Much purged, [8]. ► *Violent
purging (after ten minutes); rice-water
motion, some yellow, [9].
[70.] ►
Brown loose motions (after three days), [9].
► Stools softer, and voided earlier
in morning than usual (3d trit.), [2].
► Fæces paler than usual, at last
becoming gray, [6]. ► Hard, scanty, and delayed stool (2d
trit), [2].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Desire to urinate not as frequent as usual; great urging, with inability
to void the usual quantity, late in the afternoon (second day), [4]. ►
Not able to urinate freely as usual (second day), [5]. ► Urine
increased in quantity (3d trit.), [2].
►► *Urine scanty and scalding, but
clear (after six hours), [9].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Involuntary emission and lascivious dreams (first night), [5].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Raised considerable mucus from larynx and trachea (second day), [4]. [80.]
► Larynx and trachea free from mucus;
generally collected there in the morning (second day), [3]. ►
Sensation of heat in the larynx (first day), [3]. ►
Sensation of roughness in the larynx, after breakfast (second day), [5]. ►
Occasional hoarseness (second day), [5].
► Unusual expectoration of mucus
(second day), [5]. ► Mercurial fetor of the breath (second
day), [7]; (third day), [7].
PULSE.
►
Pulse 90 (usually 75), (second day); 94 (seventh day); 70 (eighth day), [2]. ►
Pulse 90, tremulous (after twelve and twenty-four hours); 85, regular
(after forty-eight hours); 90, softer (after sixty hours); 90 (fourth
and fifth days); 86 (sixth day); 90 at 10 P.M., 86 at 6 P.M., 80 at 12
P.M. (seventh day); 84 at 10 P.M.; 80, soft, at 12 P.M. (eighth day); 84
at 10 A.M., 90 at 2 P.M., 98 at 8 P.M., 100 at 12 P.M. (ninth day); 110
at 10 A.M., 120 at 3 P.M., 125 at 12 P.M. (tenth day); 130, tremulous,
and irregular (eleventh day), [9].
► Pulse slow and small (after ten
minutes), [9]. ► Pulse regular, but small and weak, [8].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
[90.] ►
Tormented by pain and cramps in limbs, at night, [7]. ► After
four weeks, the pains that remain are in the limbs, especially the legs,
causing a weak wearied feeling, and pain and stiffness in right knee,
especially when stepping down a step; for a few days, a bloated hot
feeling in feet, like rheumatic gout; and for two days, a slight
swelling and painfulness on inner side of left ankle, as if a boil were
likely to form there; a tendency for the feet to become inflamed, as if
likely to be blistered by the boots when walking; the boots seem tighter
than usual; this tenderness caused by the boots, when walking, seems at
the soles, especially about toes, especially the outer two toes; it is
rather of a burning character; for two days the tarso-metatarsal joint
of right big toe seemed inclined to inflame, as if rheumatic gout would
set in, [6]. ►
Violent beating in left arm, commencing above the elbow in the course of
the brachial nerve, and extending along radial nerve to wrist, followed
by pain similar to that produced by a blow upon the arm below insertion
of deltoid muscle; the pain affected, principally, the radial side of
the forearm, the thumb, and index finger, at 8.30 A.M. (second day), [2]. ►
Numbness of forearm and hand, also of right hand (second day), [2].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Shooting pains in wrists and along
metacarpal bones (first day), [4].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Pain and lameness of knees, noticed
particularly when walking (thirteenth day), [2]. ► Aching
in calf of right leg (first day), [4].
► Numbness in hollow of right foot
(first day), [4].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Senses of considerable weakness, continuing for several hours (after one
hour), [1a]. ►
Uneasiness, late in the afternoon (second day), [4]. [100.] ► Restless, [9].
► Pains all over, especially in the
lower part of black and limbs, [6].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Frequent
yawning (second day), [4], [6]. ►
Sleepiness, in the afternoon (fourth day), [3]. ► Unusual
sleepiness, in the afternoon (third day), [3].
► Exceedingly sleepy, at the hour of
rising (second day), [4]. ► Sleeplessness. ►
Restless night, with dreams and delirium (after two nights), [9]. ►
Passed a wakeful and restless night (first day); wakefulness after
midnight (third day); wakefulness, and dreams after midnight (sixth
day); passed a restless night (eighth day), [2]. ► Dreams.
► Dreams of travelling amid many
perplexities (first night), [5]. ► Lascivious dreams, and involuntary
emission (first night), [5]. [110.] ►
Vivid dreams of fires, exerting himself to extinguish them; viewing a
person hung, and another cut up, seeing the blood and mangled remains
(first night); vivid dreams of fire (eighth day), [2].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► *Skin cold and
clammy (after ten minutes), [9].
► Felt cold (after one hour), [7]. ►
Chills, late in the afternoon (second day), [4]. ► Chills
from 12 M. to 1.30 P.M. (seventh; chills, with nausea, from 10 A.M. to 2
P.M. (ninth day); slight chill (eleventh day); chills slighter
(fifteenth day); chills every other day (eighteenth to twenty-fifth
day), [2]. ►
Creeping chills ascending the back; when they reached the neck a general
shudder ensued (second day), [2]. ► Icy coldness of hands; blueness of nails
(second day), [2]. ► Heat. ►
Slight febrile sensation (second day), [2].
► Slight fever (second day), [7]. ►
Burning in face and ears (second day), [2].
► Sweat. [120.] ►
*Excessive sweat, at night, [6].
IMPORTANT NOTE BY DR. LIPPE.
► Merc. sulf. is as important in
hydro-thorax as Arsenic. Has cured several cases; one was reported by
Ad. Lippe, and another case by Dr. C. Miller (Montreal). Perfect
recoveries after very profuse watery
diarrhœa. ► *Stools loose, watery,
causing severe burning and soreness
of the anus. ► *Very profuse watery
evacuations (relieving dyspnœa). ►
*Great dyspnœa; has to sit; cannot lie down; breathing quick and short.
► *Burning in chest. ► *Œdematous swelling of the legs.® 2000
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