MERCURIUS PRECIPITATUS ALBUS.
Hydrargyrum amido-bichloratum.
H. ammonio-muriaticum.
Ammonium cloride of mercury.
Formula (variable) HgCl + HgNH2
or 2NH4ClHgCl2.
Preparation for use
, Triturations.
Authorities.
1,
Giles, poisoning of a young woman by about 1/2 a drachm, Lancet, July,
1857; 2, Greenhow, a woman, aged
thirty, took a “penny-worth,” Med. Times and Gaz., 1863; 3, Graham, a man, aged thirty-five, took more
than 2 drachms, Brit. Med. J., April, 1869.
FACE.
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Face much flushed, [2]. ► Great swelling of face (second day), [1].
MOUTH.
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Great swelling of gums (second day), [1].
► Tongue much coated, [2]. ► Tongue
covered with thick greenish fur (after ten hours), [3]. ►
Salivation (second day), [1].
STOMACH.
►
Thirst urgent, [2]. ► Considerable nausea, [2]. ► Became
very sick, and continued so (immediately), [1]. [10.] ► Vomited violently (after half an hour), [2]. ►
Vomited much; the last matter vomited consisted of clear deeply
blood-stained fluid (first day); frequent slight vomiting (second day), [3]. ►
Much pain at stomach, [1].
ABDOMEN.
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After half an hour began to feel pain in the epigastrium, which
gradually spread over the whole abdomen, [2].
► Great pain in abdomen (soon);
continuing after taking any even liquid food, for more than a week, [3]. ►
Constant griping (first and second days), [3].
► Whole abdomen painful on pressure, [2].
STOOL.
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One copious evacuation from bowels, containing mucous shreds in some
quantities, and a good deal of dark blood (first day), Numerous scanty
evacuations with a very large intermixture of blood. This continued
until sixty hours after taking the poison. One very copious motion,
consisting apparently of almost pure bile, the passage of which caused a
great scalding of the anus (second day). This occurred again after the
lapse of another forty-eight hours, the evacuations in the interim
containing bile, and apparently scarcely any blood, [3].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
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Breath very offensive (after ten hours), [3].
► Respiration 24, [2].
PULSE.
[20.]
► Pulse 88, moderately full, [2].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
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Slight subsultus, [2]. ► Almost in a state of collapse (after ten
hours), [3].
SLEEP.
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Lies in a drowsy, semi-comatose state, [2].
FEVER.
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Cold, clammy skin, and much congestion of the cutaneous vessels (after
ten hours), [3]. ► General surface of the body perspiring, [2].
SUPPLEMENT: MERCURIUS PRECIPITATUS ALBUS.
Authority.
4,
Pharm. Journ., 2d Ser., vol. i, 1859-60, p. 532, Harriet Moore murdered
her child with 20 grains.►
Immediately after some arrowroot the
child was violently sick, and during the night shrieked as though in
great pain. On the following morning he was found to have undergone a
remarkable change, and in the language of one of the witnesses, had
become quite an “old man,” [4].® 2000
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