Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homœopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Mercurius Cyanatus.
Pure cyanide of Mercury is dissolved is distilled water
(1 to 99) for use.
Ally :- ►
Kali
chloricum.
Generalities :- ►
Appearance as
in first stage of cholera. ► Lying on right side, supported on arm. ►
Weakness ; so that he cannot stand up ; from frequent
nosebleed ; during diarrhœa, and at last he fell to the floor in a
swoon. ► Frequent fainting.
Mind :- ►
Excitement at
night ; with incessant talking, anger at the attendant and raving.
Head :- ►
Tearing, agg. forepart
of night. ► Aching ; at night. ► Vertigo ; on
sitting up in bed, with loud ringing in ears.
Eyes :- ►
Fixed. ► Sunken.
► Conjunctiva injected. ► Pupils dilated.
Ears and Nose :- ►
Ringing in
ears. ► Frequent and profuse epistaxis.
Face :- ►
Pale and wan. ►
Cyanotic. ► Flushed. ► Serious expression. ► Lips,
tongue and inside of cheeks covered with grayish-white pulp.
Mouth :- ►
Toothache. ►
Gums swollen and covered with adhesive, whitish coat, above which is a
border of blush-red. ► Tongue coated grayish. ► Tongue pale,
afterwards with yellow coat at base, next morning edges redder, and a
gray, metallic-looking coat at base, third day swollen, red on edges and
covered with adhesive gray coat. ► Blisters on left margin of tongue
and on soft palate, developing into irregular ulcers, these ulcers
afterwards appeared on right margin of tongue. ► On inside of right
cheek a round ulcer, with grayish base and upright edges, encircles by
bright red, the ulcer afterwards covered by a gray leathery coat. ►
Inflammation. ► Redness. ► Salivation smelling as from Mercury.
► Taste metallic. ► Taste bitter. ► Taste styptic.
Throat :- ►
►
Swelling of salivary glands. ► White opalescent coat resembling
superficial mucous patches of syphilis, on pillars of velum palati and on
tonsils. ► Redness of fauces and difficult swallowing ; R. of
pharynx ; R. at base of pharynx. ► Roughness. ►
Swallowing difficult. ► Necrotic
destruction of soft parts of palate and fauces.
Clinical :- ►
A
valuable remedy for the form of diphtheria characterized by the Mercurial
symptoms and aggravations, with extreme prostration ; the disease
invades the nostrils and there is threatening collapse, with very small,
rapid or intermittent pulse. ► It follows Apis
well.
Stomach :- ►
Aversion to food.
► Thirst ; burning ; but drinks are speedily
vomited ; but he cannot bear soups or not drinks, which seem too
salt. ► Hiccough. ► Nausea. ► Violent retching from
merely thinking of sugared water. ► Vomiting ; frequent, after
drinking ; repeated, of bloody matter ; bilious, scanty, twice,
with much retching ; greenish-yellow, scanty, after soup. ►
Epigastrium sensitive to pressure. ► Burning. ► Irritation.
Abdomen :- ►
Pain ; on
pressure ; agg. every evacuation.
Rectum and Anus :- ►
Small
hæmorrhoidal tumors around anus, with knobby swellings of mucous
membrane. ► Pain in rectum and around anus when sitting, then
sensitive, light red swelling around anus, afterwards no stool, but on
straining discharge of clear black blood, next day grayish
diphtheritic-looking deposit around anus similar to that on inside of
cheeks, and the part is eroded, third day fetid, liquid discharge, of
gangrenous odor, leaving black stains, fourth day discharge more purulent
looking, afterwards serous and almost odorless. ► Frequent tenesmus
urging, with diarrhœa and vomiting.
Stool :- ►
Diarrhœa ;
frequent, offensive ; frequent, preceded by colic. ► Liquid,
copious, black, offensive, frequent. ► Slimy at night, and frequent,
offensive, green. ► Thin, bloody. ► Mixed with blood for five
days, then mostly pasty, dark and flocculent, then normal, then
constipation. ► Bloody. ► Scanty and mixed with blood. ►
Constipation. ► Hard, then soft the same day, and that night two
liquid stools preceded by griping. ► Yellow, frequent. ►
Frequent and copious.
Urinary and Sexual Organs :- ►
Painful micturition. ► Urine amber-colored. ► Urine
albuminous. ► U. suppressed U. retained. ► Scrotum and penis
dark blue. ► Semi-erection of penis.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
Cough.
Clinical :- ►
Chronic
ulceration of the larynx, with swelling of tonsils, offensive breath,
etc.
Heart and Pulse :- ►
Violent and
abrupt beating of heart. ► Palpitation lifting up hand applied to
it. ► Heart’s impulse and sound weak. ► Pulse rapid ; and
weak. ► Pulse slow, afterwards rapid ; S., full and hard ;
S., small and contracted. ► P. small, compressible. ► P.
irregular and intermittent.
Extremities :- ►
Spasms. ►
Pain in left calf, the veins form two hard cords, which meet above
popliteal space, with pain on touch, afterwards with swelling when
standing.
Sleep :- ►
Drowsiness, with easy
waking. ► Sleeplessness, with restlessness.
Fever :- ►
Coldness ; of
limbs ; of limbs in evening ; of skin ; cold
and moist skin. ► Fever at night, with sleeplessness and
headache.
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