MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Strong
propensity to eat Cayenne pepper since her illness, [31]. ► A
little less appetite than usual (second day), [35]. ►
Appetite wanting (twelfth day), [7].
► No appetite for some hours after a
dose, [9]. ►
Loss of appetite, in the evening (tenth day), [7]. ► Thirst.
[380.] ►
Thirsty (second day), [74]. ► Some thirst, in the evening (tenth day), [7]. ►
Thirst and desire for ice (after two days), [63]. ►
Considerable thirst, [11], [65]. ►
Considerable thirst, so that she stopped to drink water almost at every
ditch (soon), [14]. ► Much thirst (second day), [45]. ► Great
thirst (first night), [70];
(second day), [31]. ► Great thirst, with bad appetite
(thirteenth day), [7]. ► *Thirst very great (twelfth day), [7]. ►
Urgent thirst (second day), [80].
[390.] ►
Thirst so incessant that he asks for milk every two or three minutes,
notwithstanding the distress he experiences in getting it down (second
day), [28]. ► Excessive thirst, [23], [40],
[82]. ►
Extreme thirst, [84];
(after twelve hours), [33]. ► *Thirst intense (soon), [46], [57];
(after one hour and a half), [59];
(after four hours), [50]; (after
five hours), [36]; (for four
days), [75]. ► Violent thirst, [52]. ►
Violent thirst; but every attempt to take liquids was followed by
retching and vomiting (fifth day), [25].
► Unquenchable thirst, [2]. ►
Insatiable thirst (after one hour), [24]. ► Burning
thirst (sixth day), [79].
► Great desire for cold water,
[62]. [400.] ►
*Called for cold water in large quantities, [66]. ► Eructation
and Hiccough. ► Frequent
eructations, with nausea and fruitless efforts to vomit; after some
time, every violent vomiting, repeated at short intervals; the
substances vomited were mucous, thick, and had an extremely sharp
metallic taste, and were accompanied by disagreeable constriction of the
throat, [11]. ► Hiccough, at the least movement
(fifteenth day), [51]. ► Hiccough with the vomiting (third day), [34]. ►
Occasional hiccough (after two days), [61].
► Troublesome hiccough (fourth day), [46]. ►
Hiccough very troublesome (after two hours); occurs with great
regularity twenty-six times a minute, [28].
► Hiccough frequently, which the
least particle of water increases (fourth day); distressing (fifth day),
[63]. ►
Severe hiccough (seventh day), [24].
► Several violent fits of hiccough
(first night), [72]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. [410.] ►
Nausea, [40]. ► Attacks of nausea, in the night, [35]. ►
Nausea and qualmishness during and after a dose (third day), [10]. ►
Nausea and inclination to vomit all day (fifth day), [6]. ► Nausea
and retching (after two hours and a half), [63]. ►
Nausea, sick stomach, and vomiting (after half an hour), [33]. ► So
great a sensation of nausea, that she was obliged to go to the door,
where she vomited (after twenty-three minutes), [45]. ►
Distressing nausea (second day), [24].
► Violent retching of stomach, [30]. ►
*Spasmodic and very painful retching, [62]. [420.] ► The great distress it caused produced
ejection of much of it from the stomach, [60].
► Could not retain what drank, for
any length of time (second day), [31].
► Nothing would remain on the stomach
(second day), [23]. ► *Vomiting, [2], [12], [16], etc.; (immediately), [27]; (soon), [41], [57];
(after twenty minutes), [77];
(after one hour), [44]. ► Nausea and vomiting, with violent
spasmodic action of the muscles (after two hours), [34]. ►
Retching and vomiting (second day), [17].
► During the night vomiting came on,
with great thirst (first night); in one case (sixth day), [70]. ►
Occasional vomitings and retchings, which nearly approached convulsions
(after one hour), [77]. ► Frequent attacks of retching and vomiting
(after one a half and hour), [77].
► Vomiting continually (soon), [36]. [430.]
► Constant vomiting and retching, [56]. ►
Excessive sickness and retching, followed by incessant vomiting, [22]. ►
Violent vomiting, [43], [52], [83].
► Violent sickness and vomiting
(soon), [32]. ► Vomiting and retching violently, [66]. ►
Violent vomiting and purging, [43b].
► Vomited all the food and liquid in
her stomach (after one or two minutes), [75].
► Repeated vomiting, first of food,
then of serum (soon), [51]. ► Twice a spasmodic vomiting of a serous
substance, without any previous nausea, [35a].
► Retching and vomiting of tenacious
mucus, [36]. [440.] ►
Copious vomiting of a dark frothy substance, and purging came on in
about an hour, and continued at intervals during the night and part of
the succeeding day, [42]. ► Vomiting a thick, stringy,
albuminous-looking substance (soon), [68].
► Vomiting and purging of a dark
grumous matter, [42]. ► Vomits freely a large quantity of dark
muddy-looking material mixed with half-digested food (after half an
hour), [73]. ► *Vomiting of green matter (after
forty-five minutes), [67]. ► Vomiting of bitter green substances, with
diarrhœa (soon), [37]. ►► *Incessant, green bilious vomiting,
soon amounting to four basinfuls (immediately). Continued vomiting, but
the contractions of the stomach are less forcible (after seven hours);
vomiting every quarter of an hour (second day); retching continues;
vomiting renewed by coughing (third day), [49].
► Frequent vomiting of a bluish
mucus, similar to the blue pill in solution (third day), [85]. ► Large
quantities of bilious matters were thrown off the stomach, as well as by
stool (after three hours), [82]. ► Vomiting of bile continues and
occasionally large pieces of curd are brought up with it (after three
days), [28]. [450.] ►
Vomits largely and incessantly of viscid frothy mucus, [85]. ► Nausea
and vomiting of white, frothy, tenacious masses with frightful retching,
[25]. ►
Vomiting of small pieces of membrane (fourth day), [25]. ►
Copious vomiting of matter which resembles pus, and has a saltish taste
(twelfth day), [31]. ► Vomiting of pus (after three days),
followed by death, [12]. ► Vomited, with much retching, bringing up
a bloody-looking fluid, [66]. ► Vomiting a clear fluid like water, mixed
with fresh blood, [60]. ► Too much liquid makes him sick; in the
evening vomits blood and water, which has the same appearance as that
from the bowels (second day), [63].
► Frequently sick, vomiting a thin,
bloody fluid (after eight hours and a half), [74]. ►
Vomited freely (soon); during the day he brought up a thick yellow
frothy matter, tinged with blood, in small quantities (first day); a
slate-colored, semifluid substance (second day); some greenish biliary
liquid (fourth day), [79]. [460.] ►
Vomiting of bloody mucus, [53]. ► Vomited (soon), only bloody mucus (after
two hours and a half), [63]. ► Retching and vomiting of bloody mucus
(eighth day), [25]. ► Vomiting and purging of bloody mucus and
membranous flakes, [53]. ► Vomited (after ten minutes); (an emetic
was administered, also two eggs); he had vomited several times, in all
about 6 ounces; the matters appeared to consist of mucus and the egg
swallowed, with some dark masses resembling sputa, except in having a
dull leaden tinge (after half an hour); vomiting continued, the matters
ejected consisting principally of the substance swallowed (eggs, flour,
and water), (after one hour and a half); vomited twice, portions of
blood were mixed with the matter thrown off; the flaxseed tea (after
three hours and a half), [59]. ► Vomiting of a little mucus mixed with
blood (after three hours and a half), [73].
► Vomited and continued retching
violently (after three minutes); threw up scanty mucus streaked with
blood (after eleven hours); water was rejected immediately, [71]. ►
Vomiting of mucus, and afterwards of blood, [18]. ► Began
to retch (immediately); still retching and bringing up mouthfuls of
thick mucus mixed with blood (after half an hour), [28]. ► *Streaks
of blood in the matter vomited (after half an hour), [61]. [470.]
► Vomited several times, and brought
up a quantity of yellow-colored matter, interspersed with blood, [72]. ►
Vomiting at last greenish and bloody, with excessive retching and pain, [25]. ►
Vomiting of ingesta and tenacious mucus, afterwards of bile and mixed
with blood, [21]. ► Vomiting blood (after half an hour), [65]. ►
Incessant vomiting, first of milk (taken to allay thirst, half an hour
after the poisoning), then of almost pure blood (after four hours), [50]. ►
Vomiting violent and incessant, parting with blood, and
coffee-grounds-colored matter, [84].
► Coffee-grounds-colored vomiting,
with coagulated blood (after twelve hours), [83]. ►
Vomiting some pure blood, [66]. ► Profuse vomiting of blood (soon), [31]. ►
Has thrown up a large quantity of blood from stomach (seventh day), [24]. [480.]
► Extremely sick, and discharged the
contents of her stomach (in less than half an hour); the retching,
however, continued, and she threw up a considerable quantity of blood;
on the following day, the sickness had not abated, though the hæmorrhage
had ceased; sickness continued till death, on the sixth day, [19]. ►
Occasional vomiting or belching of blood; as she lay on her back, she
would raise considerable quantities of blood, mixed with water, by a
peculiar action of stomach, without any exertion (fourth day), [31]. ►
Considerable quantities of fluid blood occasionally escaped from his
mouth without any effort like vomiting (after nine days), [27]. ► *Drink
frequently regurgitates through the nose, [9]. ► Stomach.
► Stomach swelled, and was violently
painful, so that she could scarcely speak to be heard (after nine days),
[14]. ►
Swelling in epigastric region of left side, and a sense of weight and
hardness (eleventh day), [31]. ► *Epigastric region somewhat distended, very
sensitive to pressure, [62].
► Pain in the stomach, increasing for
some time; on pressing my hand firmly to the part affected, I felt wind
rolling under it (third day), [23].
► Some pain in the stomach (after
three doses), [35]. ► When asked where the pain was, pointed to
the epigastric region (soon), (after one hour), [77]. [490.] ► Pain and heat in the stomach (after three
minutes), [63]. ► Immediate pain at the scrobiculus cordis,
[86]. ►
Suffering much pain in the region of the stomach, [60]. ► *Great
pain about the scrobiculus cordis (after four days), [19]. ►
Great pain, referred to the pit of the stomach, and tenesmus (after two
hours), [79]. ► Severe and constant pain in epigastrium,
increased on pressure (soon), [57].
► Violent pain of stomach, [22]; (soon), [31]. ►
Violent pain at scrobiculus cordis, [85].
► Violent pain of stomach, attended
with vomiting and painful retching, which continued with little interval
the whole night (seventh day), [20].
► Violent pain in the epigastric and
hepatic regions, [25]. [500.] ► Agonizing pain in stomach and bowels
(second day), [24]. ► Frightful pains in the epigastric region
(immediately), [37]. ► Violent heat and pain in her stomach,
with continued vomiting of everything she took for a week; at some times
more violent than at others; always most relieved when after several
efforts she had vomited up a small quantity of something which, as she
expressed it, tasted like milk which had stood in a brass pan, [14]. ►
Burning in the stomach, [12], [65]; (soon), [6]; lasting half an hour (fourth day), [5a]. ►
Burning and pressure in the stomach, followed by frequent eructations
(fifth day), [5]. ► Burning in the pit of the stomach,
throat, and mouth, [21]. ► A feeling of burning heat at the stomach,
[56]. ►
Burning and heat in the stomach, with constrictive pains that extended
down into the intestinal canal, with congestion of the heart and
anxiety, followed by soft stool, [3a].
► Burning pain in the stomach (after
one hour), [44]. ► Burning pain in stomach and bowels
(second day), [78]. [510.] ►
Burning pain at pit of stomach, soon followed by copious and frequent
bilious vomiting (after five minutes), [50].
► Burning pain in epigastric region
(after eight hours and a half), [74].
► Burning pain in epigastrium (after
half an hour), [73]. ► Slight burning in the stomach (first
day), [5a]. ►
Great heat or burning of stomach (fourth day), [31]. ► Great
burning heat in the epigastric region, [15].
► Great pain in the stomach and up
the œsophagus to the fauces; a burning sensation was complained of, as
if the parts were on fire (soon), [61].
► Intense burning in the stomach
(immediately), [75]. ► Violent burning sensation in the stomach
(immediately), [23]. ► Violent burning and horrid distress in
the stomach (after five hours), [36].
[520.] ►
Painful pinching in the stomach (after fourth dose, [35]. ►
Griping pain in stomach and bowels (after two hours), [34]. ►
Violent griping pain in the stomach, extending through the whole course
of the intestinal canal (soon), [32].
► Pressive sensation in the
epigastric region and in the chest, [2],
[29]. ►
Distressing pressure in the stomach (eleventh day), [7]. ► Very
painful pressure in the stomach (twelfth day), [7]. ► Violent
burning-sticking pains in the epigastric region, which was distended,
excessively aggravated by the slightest pressure, [25]. ►
Pricking sensation in stomach, like sword-points sticking in it (fifth
day), [31]. ►
Acute stitches in the epigastric region (after taking soup), (first
day), [8]. ►
Fine stitches in the pit of the stomach, in the morning (third day), [8]. [530.]
► Awakened from the afternoon nap by
very severe pain in the pit of the stomach; these pains became worse
rapidly and were tearing, somewhat relieved by bending up the body,
especially involving the region of the stomach, and seeming to extend
thence over the whole diaphragm; the abdomen was somewhat sunken and
very painful to pressure in the epigastric region, [11]. ►
*Tenderness on pressure of the epigastrium (second day), [79]. ►
Slight tenderness on pressure in epigastrium (after one hour and a
half), [41]. ► *Great pain upon pressure over region of stomach
(second day), [72]. ► *Stomach very sensitive (twelfth
day), [7]. ►► *Great sensitiveness in the epigastric
region, [81]. ► *Epigastric region very sensitive to touch, and
the slightest pressure caused very acute pain, [11]. ► Gentle
pressure on pit of stomach gives pain (second day), [28]. ►
*Epigastrium painful even from the least pressure (after five
hours), [36]. ► Stomach so very irritable that she could
hardly bear to be touched with the hand, or even sustain the weight of
the bedclothes (fourth day), [31].
[540.] ►
Pain much increased by pressure on pit of stomach, also by coughing, [49]. ►
Sweet apples have a good effect, but sour ones distress, [9]. ► Pains
increased by drinking (second day), [80].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Sticking
as if in the middle of the liver (first day), [8]. ► *Stitches
in the hepatic region (second day), [8]. ► Umbilical
and Sides. ► Feeling of
discomfort in the umbilical region (second day), [10]. ► Passed
a very bad night, complaining of
great pain at the umbilicus (first night), [85]. ► After
the first eighteen hours, the pain removed, and became violently fixed
at the umbilicus, continuing there eight hours; thence to the back
(lumbar region) which continued to her death, [84]. ► Colic
to the right of the umbilicus, a kind of griping, after dinner (second
day), [8]. ►
Pressing-down in front below the umbilicus immediately after a stool,
lasting some time, [1]. [550.] ►
Colic, cutting below the umbilicus after a moderate use of sour apples,
while walking in the open air, and afterwards in the evening becoming
very acute, with some desire for stool (fifth day), [8]. ► Itching
sticking in the umbilical region (eleventh day), [10]. ► Colic
about and above the umbilicus, after eating bread and butter (first
day), [8]. ►
Colic pains in the umbilical region, followed by three very thin stools
with tenesmus, [11]. ► Tenesmus in the umbilical region on
pressure (fifth day), [79]. ► A constrictive jerking pain in some
muscle-fibres in the umbilical region, in the inner side of the right
rectus muscle, lasting several minutes, and afterwards frequently
returning (second day), [10]. ► Cutting in the right side of the upper
abdomen (sixth day), [8]. ► General Abdomen. ► *Swelling of the abdomen, [13]. ►
*Abdomen swollen, and generally painful to slightest touch, [53]. ►
Excessive swelling of the abdomen, [53].
[560.] ►
Abdomen swelled as large as a woman’s in seventh month of pregnancy,
very hard; with pains at regular intervals, like labor-pains, [31]. ►
*Abdomen distended, painful to pressure, [37]. ►
Unusual distension of the abdomen (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Abdomen
very much distended, painful, [29].
► Bloated bowels, in the night, [35]. ►
*Abdomen tumefied and very painful to touch (after one hour),
[77]. ►
Pain has extended all over abdomen, which is somewhat tympanitic on
percussion and exquisitely tender to touch (after two hours and a half),
[73]. ►
Abdomen contracted, very sensitive to touch, [52]. ►
Borborygmi, in the night, [35]. ► Unusually profuse emission of flatus
(first day), [5a]. [570.] ►
Pain in bowels (after forty-five minutes), [67]. ► Pain
and sensitiveness not only of the epigastrium, but of the whole abdomen
(after four hours), [50]. ► Abdomen painful, much distended, [2]. ►
Epigastrium and abdomen generally very painful, the uneasiness being
somewhat increased on pressure, but without particular tension or
enlargement (soon), [46]. ► When asked to point out the seat of pain,
he passed his hand over the whole of the upper portion of the abdomen
(after half an hour), [59]. ► Slight pain in abdomen (after four
hours), [72]. ► Great pain in the bowels, [27]. ► Great
pain in the left part of the bowels (third morning); less (fourth
morning), [63]. ► Severe pain all over the abdomen (after
two hours), [77]. ► Intense pain over the abdomen (soon), [68]. [580.]
► Very violent pain through the whole
intestinal canal, [15]. ► Frightful pains from the pharynx through
the whole intestinal tract, [37]. ► Burning sensation in abdomen (after one
hour and a half), [59]. ► Sense of distension of abdomen, her
clothes appearing to be all too tight for her (soon); abdominal
distension and much tenderness on pressure (after one hour and a half), [45]. ►
Griping pains in bowels, [30]. ► Griping in the abdomen, at times without
distension, relieved by emission of flatus; frequent sudden attacks of
weakness and confusion of the head, [9].
► Cutting in the abdomen, with
chilliness in the open though warm air (immediately), [1]. ►
Pinching sticking in the upper abdomen, as if in the muscles (first
day), [8]. ►
Severe tormina (third day), [24]. ► Colic (second day), [7]. [590.] ► Colic from the slightest cold, for
several weeks, [62]. ► Colic, with desire for stool in the
abdomen (after eating potatoes), in the afternoon (third day), [8]. ►
Colic, almost daily after eating various things, fruit, especially after
potatoes, cherries, etc. (after ten days), [8]. ► Colic
and tenesmus, and six discharges during the night, [35]. ►
Passing colic (after third dose), [35].
► Quite severe colic (second day), [51]. ►
Violent colic, [12], [13]. ►
Violent colic in the region of the cæcum, [40]. ►
Violent colic followed by several bilious stools with distressing
tenesmus (fourth day), [7]. ► Tenderness over abdomen (second day), [61]. [600.] ►
Tender and tympanitic condition of abdomen (fifth day), [34]. ► Some
but not much tenderness on pressure over the abdomen (after eleven
hours), [71]. ► Abdomen entirely sore on the slightest
pressure (second day), [85]. ►► *A peculiar bruised sensation in the
abdomen, especially in the cæcal region and following the course of the
transverse colon; the cæcal region and transverse colon were painful to
moderate pressure, as though they had been bruised; the walls
of the abdomen, however, were painless; this pain lasted all the
forenoon, was less acute in the evening, but did not entirely disappear
(seventh day); bruised sensation in the cæcal
and mesocolic regions; the painfulness was increased by moderate
pressure (eighth day), [4].
► Smarting pain all over the bowels
(second day), [80]. ► Jerking in the right rectus abdominis
muscle (fifth day), [10]. ► Pain, relieved by bending double, [49]. ►
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ►
Feeling of apprehension in lower abdomen, not relieved by emission of
flatus (third and fourth days), [10].
► Pain in the lower portion of the
abdomen (first day), [8]. ► Slight sticking drawing in the left
inguinal region (first day), [8]. [610.] ► A
peculiar pressive pain in the right inguinal gland, as if the gland
would become swollen; this sensation continued for an hour, and was
relieved after rising in the morning (third day), [4]. ►
Tensive-pressive pain in the left inguinal region, with a sensation as
if the gland were swollen, at 5 A.M., after waking (seventh day), [4].® 2000
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