MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.
FACE.
►
Objective. ► Expression of
mental exaltation and bodily pain, [25].
► Face expressive of anxiety, [21]. ►
*Countenance denoted exhaustion (ninth day), [27]. ►
Countenance exhausted and sunken (eight day), [20]. ► Lying
with his eyes half shut, and with quite a choleraic aspect (after one
hour and a half), [61]. ► His aspect is precisely that of a patient
attacked by cholera, but who has not yet reached the stage of perfect
collapse (after one hour and a half), [59].
► Face red (sixth day), [25]. [110.]
► *Face red, puffy, soon, [37]. ►
*Countenance flushed (after one hour and a half), [41]; (third day), [42]; (seventh day), [20]. ►
*Countenance flushed (after one day); and fuller than usual (second day), [28]. ►
*Face rather flushed (after eight hours and a half), [74]. ►
Lividity of countenance, [43]. ► Face pale (after four hours), [50]. ►
Face pale (tenth day); extreme pallor (fifteenth day), [51]. ►
Paleness of the face in the night, [35].
► Face pale, colorless (after five
hours), [36]. ► *Countenance pale and anxious (after
one hour and a half), [45];
(second day), [79]. [120.] ►
*Countenance pale and anxious and features pinched (after one
hour and a half), [73]. ► Face pale and sunken, [53]. ► Face
pale, sunken, with an expression of anxiety, [44]. ► Pale
face, with sunken eyes, as in cholera (after two hours and half);
yellow, hippocratic countenance (fourth day); face greenish (fifth day),
[49]. ►
Blanched (sixth day), [79]. ► Face blanched, drawn, and singularly
fixed in expression (sixth day), [79].
► Face swelled, much flushed, and
covered with cold sweat (after one hour), [77].
► Face somewhat swollen (fifth
day), [79]. ► *Face much swollen (after one hour
and a half), [65]. ► Face much swelled, especially the
lower part (after four hours), [57].
[130.] ►
The face was so much swollen that the patient looked like a monkey,
[26]. ►
Face puffy and bright-red, [15].
► Features shrunken (second day), [80]. ►
Face rather collapsed and covered with cold perspiration (after half an
hour); rather less collapsed, free from perspiration (after three
hours), [59]. ► Distortion of the face, [2], [29]. ► Convulsive motions of the face, [81]. ►
Cheeks. ► Cheeks swelled,
shining, and tense (after hour and a half), [41]. ►
Tearing-burning pain extending from the teeth of the upper jaw up to the
eye (eleventh day); tearing pain extending from the left eye down into a
molar tooth; burning pain in the mouth (twelfth day), [7]. ► Tearing
in the left zygoma (first day), [8].
► Tearing in the upper jaw, antrum
highmorianum towards the eye, followed by swelling, [1]. ► Lips.
[140.] ►►
*Lips black, [17]. ► Lips of a deep color (after four hours), [57]. ►
Lips dark red, much swollen, [25].
► Blue lips (after four hours), [50]. ►
Blue lips and countenance, [75]. ► Lips and tongue whitish and sunken (after
five hours), [36]. ► Lips white, swollen, [81]. ► *Lips
swollen and incrusted with a dry secretion (sixth day), [79]. ►
Lips greatly swollen, [40]. ►► *Lips excessively swollen and tender
(after four hours), [72]. [150.] ►
*Upper lip swollen (second day), [79]. ► Lower
lip considerably swelled (after one hour and a half, [41]. ► *Lower lip
considerably swollen and a small blister on the inside of it
(second day), [72]. ► The lower lip was very much swollen and
so much everted that its margin rested upon the chin, [2]. ►
Convulsive motions of the corners of the mouth, [56]. ► *Lips dry,
cracked, [37]. ► Chin. ►
*Stiffness of the jaws, immediately; also soreness (ninth
day), [27]. ►
Pains in the jaws, [21]. ► Sensitiveness of the angle of the left
lower jaw to touch (first day), [3].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► *Much sordes about
teeth (eleventh day), [61].
[160.] ►►
*Teeth loose, [17];
(third day), [22]. ► Teeth very loose, [21]. ► Teeth
begin to feel loose (fifth day), [61].
► The first time she attempted to
take animal food the teeth appeared to refuse their office; they seemed
loose and blunt (after a week or more); about this time also bits of
dead skin came away from the throat and mouth, resembling the peelings
of roasted potatoes; a tooth had been drawn some little time before, and
from the vacuity it had left a large piece of the gum came away; from
the side of the tongue a portion also separated, of the size of a large
pea, leaving a cavity corresponding to its extent; the tongue, gum, and
throat continued tender while these substances were coming away, [23]. ►
Toothache gradually becoming worse, connected with a tearing extending
from the infraorbital region down towards the upper jaw (third day), [7]. [This pain had a decided similarity
to the painful sensation caused by Urtica urens touching the mucous
membrane.] ► *Sleep at night disturbed by
toothache and by an anxious sensation (third day), [7]. ►
Toothache; it prevented sleep and was associated with disagreeable
swelling of the gum, and prostration (seventh day), [7]. ► *Toothache,
with swelling of the gum (thirteenth day), [7]. ► Drawing
pains in the teeth, [3c]. ► Tearing sticking in a back tooth, from
which the sticking extends to the ear (first day), [8]. ► Gums.
[170.] ►
*Gums purple (fifth day); spongy,
ulcerated in several places (sixth day), [61]. ► *Gums red
and detached from teeth (third day), [22]. ► *Gums red
and tender, with some swelling of the glans beneath the jaw
(third day), [56]. ► Marked redness of the gums, walls of the
mouth, and pharynx, showing intense inflammation. These parts exhaled a
nauseating odor (third day), [51].
► Swelling of the gum about the right
molar teeth (twelfth night), [7]. ► *Gums swollen and pale (sixth day), [74]. ►►
*Gums swollen and spongy (ninth day), [27]. ► Gums
swelled, became painful, and were covered with white pellicles (after
forty-eight hours), [48]. ► Gums swollen and several of his teeth
loose (ninth day), [20]. ► Gums seem slightly swollen (third day), [46]. [180.]
► Gums slightly swollen, red and
discharging a yellowish pultaceous substance from around the neck of the
teeth (third day), [51]. ► Gums excessively swollen and tender
(after four hours), [72]. ► *Gums ulcerated and spongy (third
day), [34]. ►► *The gums bleed easily, [3c]. ►
Gums begin to feel sore (third day); gums quite spongy and the teeth
loose (fourth day), [45]. ► Gums and teeth became tender (third day),
[71]. ►
Tongue. ► *Tongue red, with
blackish coat (fifth day), [61].
► Tongue red and parched (second
day), [83]. ► *Tongue very coated, moist; edges very red
(sixth day), [61]. ► Tongue yellow, moist, [37]. [190.] ► *Tongue posteriorly pale, dirty yellow, rather
thick, this coating extending forward along the sides of the tongue,
[9]. ►
*Tongue became covered with a grayish-white crust, [43]. ►
Mucous membrane of the tongue white (second day), [79]. ► *Tongue
white and so much swollen that he could not protrude it
(after four hours), [72]. ► Tongue coated white, [25]. ► *Tongue
coated white in the forepart, posteriorly yellow, [9]. ►
Tongue coated with white fur (second day), [24]. ►
Thickly coated tongue, [62]. ► Tongue began to swell (second day), [32]. ►
*Tongue and lips swollen (soon), [72]. [200.]
► *Tongue swollen, pale yellow,
protruding from the lips, which were slightly swollen, [52]. ►
Tongue a good deal swollen (after one hour and a half), [45]. ►
Tongue considerably swelled (soon), [14]. ► Tongue
very much swelled (after four hours), [57]. ► Tongue
very much swollen and extremely inflamed, [29]. ► Base
of the tongue swollen, covered with a thick white coating, [25]. ►
*Could not protrude tongue (after one hour and a half), [41]. ►
Tongue moist and white (after two hours), [28].
► Tongue slimy (after four hours), [50]. ►
Tongue nearly natural in aspect, but cool (after half an hour), [59]. [210.]
► Tongue dry (eleventh day), [61]. ►
Tongue felt numb, thick, and large, [75].
► Dry, hot tongue, with red edges, [56]. ►
Tongue sore (sixth day), [79]. ► General Mouth. ►
Pointed to his mouth, which was evidently very sore (sixth day), [79]. ►
All the mucous membrane of the mouth very red (after two days), [61]. ►
Tongue and mucous membrane of the mouth and throat highly injected and
the tonsils covered with a little bloody mucus (after eleven hours), [71]. ►
Mucous membrane of the mouth and fauces white and raw, [40]. ► Mouth
and fauces white, swollen, and sore, [43a].
► Tongue and interior of mouth
perfectly white from contact of poison (soon), [68]. [220.] ► *Swelling of the lips, tongue, and throat,
[2]. ►
Lips and gum swollen, dark red, [25].
► Mouth much swollen; lips purple and
protruded from the swelling (soon), [46].
► The internal portion of the mouth
was so much swollen that he could scarcely speak (after twenty minutes),
[26]. ►
Inside of lower lip and cheek stretching towards right tonsil, and the
tonsil itself are coated with a tough lymphatic exudation, which is a
little loose at the edge next the mouth; beneath this the cuticle is
slightly abraded at one or two points (third day), [46]. ►
Interior of mouth had a gray sloughing appearance, interspersed with
patches of a deep violet color, and the mucous membrane was very much
swelled (after four hours), [57]. ► Inflammation of the mouth, [15]. ► *Severe
inflammation of the mouth and gums, with constant discharge of clear
water from the same, [75].
► The inflammation and swelling of
the mouth and salivary glands increased to a frightful degree; the
tongue filled the whole mouth, [26].
► Gradually the inflammation extended
over the whole mucous membrane of mouth, scars showed themselves on the
gums, and on the internal surface of the cheeks; beneath them the flesh
was fungoid and bloody. Afterwards the jaw-bone was denuded and
considerable hæmorrhage ensued (after forty-eight hours), [48]. [230.]
► Marked swelling of the inside of
the cheeks, especially behind the last molars; on the left side is a
hardened ganglion, very sensitive to touch, caused by the development at
this point of an inflammation involving the cellular tissue (third day),
[51]. ►
At intervals where the inflammation is highest on the inside of the
cheeks are deposits of a pultaceous substance like false membrane (third
day), [51]. ►
Inflammation of mouth lessening in extent and intensity; the gray
coating which still occupies the intervals between the pillars of the
velum palati is becoming thinner and loosening (tenth day), [51]. ►
*Ulceration of the mouth, [40].
► Ulceration of the mucous membrane
of the cheeks opposite the ulcerated gums (sixth day), [61]. ►
Cancrum oris (youngest), [67]. ► Blood oozing from mouth and dose (fourth
day), [24]. ►
Strong mercurial fetor (ninth day), [27].
► A fetid smell of the mouth, which
had been noticed for two days, was now more marked, and ulcers existed
on the gums and on the inner surface of the lips (sixth day), [70]. ►
Constant feeling of mucus in the mouth, [26].
[240.] ►
*Dryness in the mouth, [11];
(second day), [10]. ► Mouth dry, with perspiration on the skin,
in the evening, [11]. ► *Mouth and tongue burning and parched
(third day), [42]. ► Burning heat in mouth, quickly spreading
to the stomach (after a quarter of an hour), [80]. ► A
burning pain on the gum and in the mouth, [1].
► Burning in the mouth, œsophagus, and
stomach, [15], [40]. ►
Intense burning in the mouth (immediately), [75]. ► *Soreness
of the mouth and fauces, [43].
► There is no salivation, but he
complains of soreness of the mouth, and cannot open it wide (second
day); in the afternoon he can scarcely open his mouth to answer
questions (sixth day), [79]. ► Saliva. ►
The salivary secretion is naturally increased owing to the local
inflammation and irritation rather than to absorption of the poison
(third day), [51]. [250.] ►
Accumulation of saliva (fourth day), [5a].
► *Accumulation of tenacious saliva,
which was expectorated with difficulty (second day), [3]. ►
Accumulation of water in the mouth (soon), [6]. ► Flow of
saliva, [2]. ►
Constant flow of saliva (soon), [46].
► There constantly flowed from the
mouth a considerable quantity of yellowish-colored saliva (after four
hours), [57]. ► Saliva flowed copiously (after one hour
and a half), [41]; (after one
hour), [77]. ►
Salivation, [16], [29], [81].
► Incipient salivation (after four
hours), [72]. ► Complete salivation (tenth day), [20]. [260.]
► Salivation well characterized
(after forty-eight hours), [48]. ► Well-marked salivation, with mercurial
fetor (third day), [56]. ► Slight salivation (fifth day), [74]. ►
Copious salivation, [21].
► Profuse salivation, [13], [30],
[52]. ►►
*Ptyalism (first evening), [27];
(seventh day), [51]. ► Ptyalism commencing (third day); complete
start of salivation (fourth day), [24].
► Copious ptyalism came on, which
continued for many days (fifth day), [32].
► Profuse ptyalism (second day), [77]. ►
Absence of salivation, [43]. ► Taste. [270.]
► Very peculiar and most disagreeable
taste in mouth (immediately), [45].
► Fatty taste in the mouth (second
day), [10]. ►
Constant astringent taste in the mouth and accumulation of saliva (sixth
day), [6]. ► *Bitter taste in mouth (eighth day), [20]. ►►
*Taste very bitter in the morning
and also slimy; during the day the food has a bitter taste; water has
not, but soup has, [9].
►► *Salty taste in the mouth
(after two hours), [1]. ► Metallic taste in mouth (after two
hours), [34]; (eight day), [5a]. ►
An intense metallic taste and a strong odor, which almost at once caused
nausea (immediately), [51]. ► A constrictive metallic taste
(immediately), (first day), [5a]. ► Sharp, astringent, metallic taste, [25]. [280.]
► Persistent astringent, styptic,
metallic taste in the mouth (second and third days), [5]. ► Coppery
taste (after one hour and a half), [41].
► For several days she had a taste or
copper, as she had been holding a copper in her mouth, [75]. ►
Nauseous coppery taste (third day), [22].
► Speech. ► Speech difficult, although the tongue was
moist and soft, and nothing was to be seen in the throat (fifth day), [49]. ►
Loss of speech, [75]. ► Speech failed entirely, [26]. ► Could
not speak (soon), [77].
THROAT.
►►
*Great swelling of the throat that threatened suffocation; the swelling extended to the neck head, and tongue; the
throat was so much inflamed that the patient could speak with difficulty
and could scarcely swallow; on the third day there was still great heat
in the mouth and throat, as from a glowing coal; on the fourth day the
patient raised some clots of blood and some thin blood, so that the
physician thought she might die of hæmorrhage; the patient was unable
to talk on account of the ulceration of the throat and soft palate, with
copious salivation, with frequent headache, especially in the temples;
on the succeeding days the patient became delirious, was unable to
swallow medicine or food; she expectorated daily clots of blood and
pieces of membrane from the ulceration of the throat, with excessive
prostration and constant salivation; the sloughing extended to the
cheeks, gum, palate, and even the maxillary bone were laid bare; the
lips became black, the patient sank and died, [17]. ► Great
uneasiness in throat, [30]. [290.] ►
Pain in the throat, at times in the uvula, not aggravated by swallowing
(third to fifth day), [8]. ► Pain in the throat, especially after dry
bread, [9]. ►
A little pain in the throat (after half an hour), [59]. ► Severe
pain in throat (after two hours), [77].
► *Throat very painful and inflamed,
[21]. ►
*Burning in the throat and stomach (third day), [42]. ►
*Burning sensation in throat (after four hours), [50]. ►
*Burning sensation in the throat (immediately), [79]. ►
Burning heat in throat and stomach, particularly the former (soon), [45]. ►►
*Burning pain in throat (after one hour and a half), [41]. [300.] ►
Burning pain with a feeling of constriction from the throat to the
stomach, [81]. ► Burning pain extending from the mouth to
the stomach, relieved by a drink of cold water (thirteenth day), [7]. ►
Acute burning sensation in the throat while swallowing it, [27]. ►
*Painful burning, extending from the mouth to the epigastric region,
[2]. ►
Severe burning pain in throat (after one hour and a half), [45]. ►
*Intense burning in the throat (immediately), [75]. ► *Intense
burning in the throat and fauces, [42]. ► *Violent
burning in the throat (after one hour), [44]. ►
Violent burning in the throat and stomach, soon followed by violent
vomiting of mucus and water, with great retching, [62]. ►►
*Violent burning pain in the throat and œsophagus, aggravated by the
slightest external pressure, [25].
[310.] ►
Excruciating-burning pain in throat and stomach; when she attempted to
take anything more than milk warm it was insufferable (after two hours),
[77]. ►
Intolerable burning in the throat and upper part of the stomach, which
she described as gradually sinking down lower (after three-quarters of
an hour), [22]. ► Suffice it to say, that my throat was but
slightly inflamed before I took the dose, but the living fire that was
kindled therein after it, the suffocation I experienced, the pain, and
long after, the fiery-red appearance of the whole buccal cavity, and
that I had to resort to an antidote before I got any comfort, will not
tempt me to repeat the dose, and may be a warning to other practitioner,
[69]. ►
Called out that “he was burned,” and threw himself on a sofa
in great pain (immediately), [78].
► Sensation of constriction of the
throat (immediately), [37]. ► Constricted feeling in the throat (soon).
The constriction of the pharynx changed to a severe pain, accompanied by
an unpleasant tickling, and coming on in paroxysms only a few seconds in
duration (second day), [51]. ► *Constriction in the throat, with a burning
sensation and difficulty in swallowing (immediately), [28]. ►
Considerable, tightness and burning sensation in throat and gullet
(after half an hour), [73]. ► Throat felt “grown up;” on
examination it appeared very red and swollen, shreds of mucous membrane
peeling off; could swallow only a very little fluid (after five hours), [61]. ►
Pressure on the throat was painful (after five hours), [36]. [320.] ► Sticking pain in the upper part of the
throat, near the larynx, on empty swallowing, not painful on talking. It
was always increased after every dose, and was accompanied by very great
hoarseness, [9]. ► Soreness of throat (second day), [71]. ►
Soreness of throat and fauces (fourth day), [31]. ►
Soreness of throat and inability to swallow (fifth day), [79]. ►
Sensation of rawness in the throat, immediately (seventh and eleventh
days); with catarrh (thirteenth day), [7].
► Rawness in the throat that makes
talking but not swallowing difficult, [1].
► Throat rough; swallowing difficult
(twelfth day), [7]. ► Beer caused scraping in the throat, and
heat and redness of the face, [9].
► Uvula and Tonsils. ► *Uvula swollen and elongated (third
day), [51]. ►► *Uvula much swollen, [66]. [330.]
► Uvula much swollen and ulcerated
(second day), [61]. ► The swelling of the uvula and of the
pillars of the velum almost stops up the entrance of the pharynx (third
day), [51]. ►► *Pillars of the velum palati swollen and
dark-red; in the tonsillary folds, on the edges of the
pillars, are seen some soft, grayish excrescences like sloughs or false
membranes (third day), [51]. ► Tonsils a good deal swollen (after one
hour and a half), [45]. ► Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus. ► Fauces considerably injected (after half
an hour), [59]. ► Fauces inflamed, [66]. ► Fauces
much inflamed (after one hour and a half), [45]. ► *A sense
of dryness in the fauces, [56].
► Fauces sore (sixth day), [79]. ►
Soreness about fauces and mouth (second day), [22]. [340.] ► *Pharynx dark red, pressure externally excites
pain (after three days), [28].
► *Violent burning pains in the pharynx,
[23]. ►
Constriction of muscles of pharynx (second day), [34]. ►
Extreme soreness of pharynx, with difficult deglutition; when swallowing
any liquid, the raw sensation extremely acute, [84]. ►
Extreme soreness of pharynx, with complete dysphagia, [85]. ►
Scraping roughness posteriorly in pharynx, compelling frequent hawking
(first day), [8]. ► Pain down œsophagus into stomach (after
four hours), [72]. ► Complained exceeding of pain and sense of
constriction along the course of the œsophagus (soon), [46]. ► *Burning
sensation in œsophagus (second day), [34]; (fourth day), [72]. ► *Burning
heat in œsophagus (after three days), [28]. [350.] ► Sensation of warmth and burning along the
whole of the œsophagus (after five hours), [36]. ►
Constriction of œsophagus (soon), [72].
► Acute pain, like a sticking, deep
within the chest, and lower down as if in the œsophagus, as though
morsels of food remained sticking in it, which distended the œsophagus
and could not descend; yet food and drink could be swallowed without
hindrance; the pain, however, seemed somewhat aggravated by swallowing,
as also by eructations of air (sixth day), [8]. ► Swallowing.
► *The act of swallowing was attended
with a violent spasm of the glottis, [19]. ► Difficult
swallowing, [52];
(after one hour and a half, [45]. ► Difficulty of swallowing, so that at
breakfast he could not eat bread, with increase of pain in the lower jaw
(second day), [3]. ► Constant difficulty in swallowing (tenth
day), [51]. ►
Considerable difficulty in swallowing (after two hours and a half), [73]. ►
Swallowing very difficult, [25], [53]; (soon), [67]; (second day), [61]. ► The
act of swallowing gave rise to much pain (after four hours); much
greater difficulty of swallowing (second day), [72]. [360.] ► *The act of swallowing, even of fluids, produces
great pain (third day). Great
difficult of swallowing (sixth day), [74]. ►
*Deglutition so difficult and painful that the least attempt to swallow
a drop of liquid caused spasms of the œsophagus and stomach, with
vomiting of whitish, slimy, tenacious masses which became mixed with
bile if the vomiting continued any length of time (after five
hours), [36]. ► Could not swallow, as her throat was
drawn together, and sometimes entirely stopped (after ten minutes), [77]. ►
Impossible to swallow; the attempt only caused retching and vomiting, [26]. ►
Dysphagia, [83]. ► Complete dysphagia, [85]. ► External
Throat. ► Much swelling of
the throat, [16]. ► Throat enormously swollen, [52]. ►
The external fauces, particularly on the right side, and also the right
side of neck, much tumefied (soon), [46].
► *All glands of jaw, etc., swelled
(third day), [33]. [370.] ►
Submaxillary region much swelled (after four hours), [57]. ►
*Submaxillary glands enlarged, [43a].
► *Submaxillary glands enlarged and
tender (fifth day), [34].
► Submaxillary glands swelled
considerably (after forty-eight hours), [48].
► *Salivary glands very much swollen,
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