Mercurius.
(1) MERCURIUS OXYDULATUS NIGER.
Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni. Dimercuros ammonium nitrate. 2(NH2Hg2) NO3H2O. [A mercurial preparation devised by Hahnemann as a substitute for the
corrosive mercurial salts in use at the time, and at once adopted in all countries on
account of its much milder and more efficacious anti-syphilitic qualities. It was prepared
by precipitating Mercury from its solution in nitric acid by means of caustic ammonia. This
is the preparation Hahnemann used in his proving.] Trituration.(2) MERCURIUS VIVUS.
Hydrargyrum. Argentum vivum. Chamćleon minerale, &c. Metallic
Mercury. Quicksilver. Hg (A. W. 199.8). [Although Hahnemann proved Mercurius solubilis, he
recommended the use of triturations of the pure metal in practice as being the simplest
mercurial preparation, and more easily obtained and equally available with Merc. sol. for
prescribing on the symptoms of the latter.] Trituration. [Decoction: water in which
quicksilver has been boiled for half an hour.]Clinical.─
[The letters s
and v indicate the preparation─Solubilis
or Vivus─mentioned in the Prescriber
in connection with the malady the name of which they follow; they are not intended to
indicate a preference of one over the other.] Abscess (s).
Anćmia. Aphthć. Appendicitis. Balanitis (s). Bone, disease of (s).
Brain, inflammation of. Breath, offensive (s). Bronchitis (s). Bubo
(s). Cancrum oris. Catarrh (s). Chancre. Chicken-pox (s). Cold (s). Condylomata. Cough
(s). Dentition, abnormal (s). Diarrhśa (s). Dysentery. Dyspepsia
(s). Ecthyma (s). Eczema. Emaciation. Excoriation (s).
Eyes, affections of (s); gouty inflammation of. Fainting. Fevers. Fissures. Glandular swellings (s). Gout (s). Gum-boil (s). Gums, unhealthy (s). Heart,
affections of (s). Herpes (s). Hydrophobia. Jaundice
(s). Joints, affections of (s). Leucorrhśa; in little girls. Liver, affections of (s). Lumbago (s). Mania. Measles (s). Melancholia (s). Meningitis. Mollities ossium.
Mucous patches. Mumps. Noises in the head (s). Odour, of body,
offensive (s). Ovaries, affections of. Pancreatitis (s).
Parametritis (s). Parotitis. Peritonitis. Perspiration,
abnormal (s). Phimosis (s). Pregnancy, affections of (s.). Prostate, disease of (s). Purpura
(s) (v). Pyćmia (s). Ranula (s). Rheumatism (s) (v). Rickets. Rigg’s disease. Salivation (s). Scurvy (s). Small-pox (s). Stomatitis. Suppuration (s). Surgical fever. Syphilis
(s). Taste, disordered (s). Teeth, affections of (v). Throat-deafness (s). Throat, soreness
of (v). Tongue, affections of (s) (v); mapped (v). Toothache
(s). Tremors (s). Typhus fever (v). Ulcers (s). Vaccination (s). Vomiting (s).
Characteristics.─
No pains have been taken to keep
distinct Merc. sol. and Merc.
viv., and I do not find it practicable to attempt to separate them. Though Merc. sol. was the preparation Hahnemann proved, he recommended Merc. viv. as a superior preparation for homśopathic prescribing
in his preface to the proving. Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni
was invented by him in his pre-homśopathic days in response to a general desire for a
mercurial preparation which should be at once soluble and non-corrosive, and it at once took
its place in pharmacy, a place it has never lost. The method of developing the medicinal
power of metallic mercury by graduated trituration was a later discovery, though there was a
suggestion of it in the well-known Hydrargyrum cum cretâ.
To the symptoms of Hahnemann’s pathogenesis of Merc. sol.
are added observed effects of Mercury in those engaged
in working with the metal, in patients taking Mercury,
and effects in those applying mercurial inunctions to patients─many
having been severely affected by absorbing it through their hands. There is no difference
between these effects and the symptoms of the proving so far as the general characteristics
are concerned. In the finer characteristics there must be differences. The symptoms of the
proving are in general more particularly characterised than the effects of Merc. viv. For instance, “At night severe toothache, and
when that went off great chilliness through the whole body,” belongs to the Merc. sol. proving; and so do these: “Vertigo: when sitting
at his desk there was whirling in the head, as if he were drunk, he rises up and walks about
the room staggering, then anxious heat breaks out over him, with nausea but not to the
length of vomiting; at the same time some headache.” “From occiput a strong,
tearing, continued pain, which went into the forehead and there pressed.” The symptoms
of nose-bleed and the more finely characterised throat symptoms (“stitches on
tonsils”; “stitches into ear on swallowing”; “something hot rises into
throat.,”), were produced by Merc. sol., so were
the majority of the symptoms in the male and female sexual organs. But this is not to say
that Merc. viv. will not answer equally well, or even
better, for curing them. The only bit of comparative experience I have in the action of the
two is this: in a case of cold in which Merc. seemed
indicated, Merc. sol. 30 was given and failed, and Merc. viv. 30 promptly cured.─We of the
present generation can hardly form a conception of the havoc wrought by Mercury in the days when it was considered necessary to
“touch the gums” in all cases for which Mercury
was prescribed before any good could be hoped for. The motto, “Salivation is
Salvation,” tells its own tale. “It was quite an event,” says Teste,
“when in the sixteenth century the discovery was made that Mercury
will cure syphilis without the patient being salivated. One error, however, being
substituted in place of another, it was supposed that the sweat, the diuresis, or the diarrhśa
which followed the exhibition of Mercury, replaced the
absent salivation; the gross humoralism which prevailed at that period did not allow of
another explanation. For a graphic picture of a practice which was part of the ordinary
routine until recent times, I quote the following from Bransby Cooper’s First Lines of Surgery, 6th ed., p. 348: “Mercury acts upon some individuals like a poison [!] they are
seized with palpitations of the heart, tremblings of the limbs, oppression of the breathing,
and irregular pulse. When such indisposition takes place in a person employing Mercury we conclude that this mineral is actually producing a
deleterious impression on the system [!]. It was noticed by the late Mr. Pearson that every
year, when it was the custom to salivate freely, a certain number of individuals thus
treated died suddenly in the Lock Hospital. They were first affected as I have described,
and, on attempting to make the slightest effort they dropped down dead. Mr. Pearson learned
from experience [!] that these deaths arose from the deleterious action of Mercury on the constitution, and the derangement of the system
thus excited he proposed to call the Mercurial erethismus.”
Homśopathy has filled out this picture in full detail, and turned this deadly blundering to
curative account. There was a fitness in naming this metal after the volatile deity. It
provides us with weather-glasses and thermometers, and it turns those who are under its
influence into weather-glasses and thermometers likewise. [An electrician, who at one time
was required to work with his hands frequently in a trough filled with quicksilver,
thereafter could not bear the slightest shock of electricity, though before he could stand
very strong ones.] And herein lies one of the grand characteristics of the remedy: as the
thermometer is sensitive to changes either to hot or cold, so is the Merc.
patient. Other remedies are predominantly one or the other: Merc. is both─
< by heat and <
by cold. This is keynote No. 1. No. 2 is “< at
night.” This is a strong point of correspondence with syphilis. Especially is this
noticeable in the bone pains. No. 3 is: Profuse sweat accompanying nearly all complaints and
which does not relieve; it may even aggravate. Guided
chiefly by these two indications: “Profuse sweat with no relief” and “< at night,” I have cured many cases of rheumatic fever
with Merc. viv. 12, without any other remedy. Keynote
No. 4 is: The mercurial odour. The mercurial patient is offensive; breath excessively fetid;
sweat offensive, mawkish, sweetish. Keynote No. 5 is tremor.
This symptom is so pronounced and universal that it renders Merc.
the best general remedy in paralysis agitans. There is tremor of head, of hands, of tongue.
Tremors commencing in the fingers. It is the tremor of weakness and paralysis; and as
described by B. Cooper it may attack the heart and cause sudden death on the smallest
effort. Short of this there is great tendency to fainting; extreme exhaustion after a stool.
The tremors may become jerkings and even convulsions. Extreme restlessness. The mind is as
weak and tremulous as the body; everything is done hastily. Hurried and rapid talking. On
the other hand: slow in answering questions; loss of memory; of will power. Embarrassment.
Absent-minded. Imbecility. Time seems to pass slowly. Desire to flee. Homesick. Suicidal.
Murderous. Merc. is Hahnemann’s typical antisyphilitic
remedy, as Sul. is the typical antipsoric, and Thuja the typical antisycotic. In selecting Merc. as the remedy for syphilis the old practitioners were so
far right, but they did not know how to give it. Merc.
so far corresponds to syphilis that many undoubted cases of mercurial poisoning have been
diagnosed by experts as syphilis. Bones, glands, and skin are affected. Inflammation leads
to induration, induration to ulceration. Merc,
corresponds accurately to the true Hunterian chancre. Merc.
ulcers have a grey, lardy, ashy, or cheesy base. There are burning or stinging pains in
them. Another great feature of Merc., almost
constituting a keynote, is the tendency to the formation of pus. In the suppurative stage of
small-pox it is specific. Flow of pus, and particularly bloody pus, from any orifice calls
for Merc. Pus forms in cavities in abscesses, which burn
and sting. Discharges are yellow-green in colour. Gonorrhśa. Fetid ear discharge. Merc. is a great solvent: it dissolves metals out of their ores
and it dissolves living tissues, inducing excessive emaciation. Lowly organised tissues as
indurations, exostoses, and some tumours are melted first. Śdema and dropsies are absorbed;
rheumatic swellings. If the doses of Merc. are large and
dropsies disappear rapidly under them, the tissues themselves may disappear also in
offensive rapidly decomposing ulcers. The bones soften so that they will bend. Whilst Merc. intensifies the action of the absorbents, it may also
paralyse them, hence enlargement of glands, with pricking pains, inflammation, suppuration.
Next to syphilis, the liver has been the chief excuse for mercurialism, in the past, and Merc. certainly has a powerful liver action. The liver is
congested, enlarged, inflamed, stitches in the liver, sensitiveness in the liver and inability to lie on right side. This “< lying on r. side” is a very characteristic condition of
Merc., and when present Merc.
should always be considered. Along with the liver the stomach is disordered. Sweets
disagree; aversion to meat, wine, brandy, beer, coffee, greasy food, butter. There is the
characteristic flabby, coated, teeth-indented tongue, foul breath, and intense thirst.
Throat dry and forepart of tongue moist. Merc. is rarely
indicated when the tongue is dry. Sliminess is a general characteristic. Slimy stools;
stools acrid, knotty, containing pus, viscid. Just before stool a sick, painful, faint
feeling comes on. During stool there is tenesmus, or tenesmus and no stool. Dysentery with
much straining; never-get-done feeling when there is no more to come. Diarrhśa with slime.
“Merc. is rarely indicated in these troubles where
there is no slime” (Guernsey). Merc. affects
profoundly the generative organs of both sexes. It has stinging, cutting pains in ovaries;
cutting pains from l. to r. in lower abdomen. “Stinging” is very frequent in
mercurial pains, and “stinging pain in ovaries is just as likely to need Merc. as Apis” (Kent).
Almost all kinds of eruptions are produced by Merc.
Scurfy, syphilitic, pustular, moist, oozing, offensive eczema. Shingles. Small-pox. They are
all < by warmth and at night and < by cold. In olden times it was recognised that a patient
under a “course” of Mercury must be very
careful not to catch cold. This gives one indication for Merc.
in abnormal tendency to catch cold. But for this condition it must not be too frequently
repeated, as it will aggravate it. The patient needing Merc.
is sensitive to every draught and yet < by warmth the
nasal secretion is acrid, and the nose red and excoriated; dirty-nosed children”
(Guernsey). Old catarrhal smell in the nose inside nostrils smarting and burning. Aching,
tearing, and out-pressing in the bones. “Kali iod.
is better for the same bursting in the face, running coryza, and <
from heat and warmth of the bed” (Kent). [I find that a much larger percentage of cases
of acute cold come under the indications of Cepa and Chlorum than under those of Merc.
or any other related remedy. In chronic colds I think first of Psor.]
The eyes are very markedly influenced by Merc.; also the
bones round the eye: “Whenever cold settles in the eye in gouty and rheumatic
patients” (Kent). Every degree and kind of inflammation and ulceration is produced by Merc. and its salts. J. J. Hirsch, of Prague (H. R., vii. 220), relates some striking experiences with a
preparation of Merc. viv. which he learned from an old
allopath. Quicksilver is boiled in water for half an hour, two teaspoonfuls being given
every two hours. Hirsch’s cases were those of acute inflammation of the brain, in which Bell. was indicated, and in one of which Merc.
(in the ordinary homśopathic preparation) had already been administered in vain. This is
the case: A black-haired girl, 9, had malignant scarlatina, which commenced six days before
Hirsch (who came as consultant) saw the case, signs of brain inflammation having set in on
the third day. Hirsch found her unconscious, sharply defined redness of cheeks, pulse 120,
hot skin. Piercing screams were emitted from time to time; boring head in pillows; chewing
motion of jaws; gnashing teeth. Lips brown and dry; not much thirst; water not accepted
readily; but milk seemed to be relished. Reddened patches here and there, especially along
neck. Under the “decoction,” which was given to the girl on Hirsch’s suggestion,
she slowly but steadily improved, and in a week was convalescent.─Among
the Sensations of Merc.
are: Vibration in forehead. Head as if in a vice; as if growing larger. As of sparks being
emitted from eyes; as of a body underneath lids; as if feathers came from corners of eyes.
As if a wedge driven in ear; as if ice in it; as if cold water running out of it. Cracklings
in head as from metal plates. As if weight on forehead; as if weight hanging on to nose. As
if teeth were loose; were fixed in a mass of pap. As if hot vapours rising into throat; of
worm rising into throat, must swallow it down; of apple core sticking in throat. As if mammć
would ulcerate. As if everything in chest was dry.─Stabbing pains and
stitches, burning, boring, digging, stinging, and dragging pains. Soreness and
sensitiveness. Itching; voluptuous itching. Merc. is
more particularly suited to: Light-haired persons with
lax skin and muscle; women and children. Scrofulous children. (Merc.
has relation to psora and sycosis as well as syphilis.) The symptoms are < by touch or pressure. <
At night; before falling asleep. < Blowing nose. < During a catarrh. <
From cold air. < From taking cold. < From lamplight; firelight. <
During perspiration; on getting warm in bed. < Before
stool. < During urination and after. < Lying on right side. <
Motion; walking; slightest exertion. < Evening. Rest >. Coitus >. Weeping >. < Touching anything
cold (= pain in abdomen). <
Bending forward (digestion immediately disordered). <
After eating (if he eats ever so little it causes a dragging down in stomach).
Relations.─
It antidotes:
Bad effects of sugar; stings of insects; ailments from Arsenic or Copper vapours, Aur., Ant.
t, Lach., Bell., Op., Phyt., Val., Chi., Dulc., Mez., Thuj. It is
antidoted by: Aur. (suicidal mania; caries of bones, especially of patella and
nose); Hep. (mental symptoms-anxiety, distress, suicidal and even homicidal mood-bone pains,
sore mouth, ulcers, and gastric symptoms); Nit. ac. (periostitis, bones and fibrous tissues;
bone pains < at night; aching in shins in damp
weather; ulcers in throat, especially of secondary syphilis); Chi. (chronic ptyalism); Dulc.
(ptyalism < by every damp change); K. iod. (syphilis
and mercurialism, combined, bones, periosteum, glands; ozćna; thin, watery discharge, upper
lip sore and raw; repeated catarrhs after Mercury, every little exposure to damp or wet air = coryza; eyes hot, watery, swollen; neuralgic pains in one or
both cheeks; nose stuffed and swollen and at same time profuse watery, scalding coryza; sore
throat < every fresh exposure); Kali mur. (scorbutus,
fetor); Asaf. (bone affections.─Asaf. is distinguished by extreme
sensitiveness of diseased parts; extreme soreness of bones round eye); Staph. (depressed
system; wasted, sallow, dark rings round eyes, spongy gums, ulcers on tongue); Iod.
(glands); Mez. (nervous system; neuralgia in face, eyes, anywhere); Bell., Caps., Carb. v.,
Fer., Guaiac., Stilling., Sul., Thuj “all symptoms agreeing, Merc., high” (Guernsey). Incompatible:
Sil. (Merc. and Sil. should never be given immediately before or after each other). Compatible after: Aco., Bell., Hep., Lach., Sul. Before: Ars., Asaf., Bell., Calc., Chi., Lyc., Nit. ac., Pho.,
Pul., Rhus, Sep., Sul. Compare: Bell. (very close
analogue, often complementary; commencing abscess; difficult swallowing fluids; sharp pain
through tonsils; pains come suddenly); Hep. (chilliness; something sticking in fauces);
Meny. (coldness in ears); Puls. (thick yellow nasal discharge─but that
of Puls. is always bland; otitis); Nux (coryza and sore throat─Nux has scraped feeling; Merc. is always smarting, raw, or sore.─Dysentery:
with Nux tenesmus ceases after stool; with Merc. not, there is the never-get-done feeling);
Aco. (dysentery of hot days and cold nights; often precedes Merc., and Sul. follows in like
conditions); Lept. (bilious troubles, horribly offensive stools─the griping of Lept. continues after stool but not tenesmus); Dig.
(gonorrhśa); Euphr. (eyes); Ars. (Merc. < by heat
of, but > by rest in bed─Ars. > by heat of, but < by
rest in bed); Sul. (itch, pustulous, eczematous eruptions); Spo. (orchitis); Pho. (profuse
sweat without >); Ant. c. (dirty tongue; inflammation
of eyes < glare of fire or sunshine); Arg. n. (eyes);
Kali i. (stitching pains through lungs; Merc. right or left and shooting in different
directions; Kal i., from sternum to back < from any
motion); Borax (sore mouth); Coloc. (dysentery─Col. > after stool, Merc. <);
Chel. (bilious pneumonia); Cham. (diarrhśa; dentition); Caust. (gonorrhśa); Mag. m. (liver
pains < touch, <
lying right side); Plumb. and Chi. s. (testes); Syph. (syphilis; <
heat of stove or bed; < night): Lyc. (hepatitis;
tenderness; right to left, wash-leather tongue; sinking immediately after meals); Sul.,
Puls., and Cham. (< in bed at night); Nit. ac. (dark
persons; Merc. fair); Crocus (nose-bleed in tough strings); Sang. (tongue as if burnt); Bry.
(wash-leather tongue; < motion; stone in stomach);
Apis (stinging pain; fetid breath; ovarian affections); Sabal. (stinging pains in ovaries);
Dolichos (itching of gums; jaundice); Magnt. aust. (ulceration of nails); Psor. and Medorrh.
(foul body smell); Arn. (foul breath); Mez. (decay of teeth─Merc. of
crowns; Mez. of roots); Led. and Sars. (bloody seminal emissions); Sul. (pruritus vulvć < night, < from contact
with urine, which must be washed off); Lac c. and Con. (breasts painful, as if would
ulcerate at every menstrual period); Chel. and Kal. c. (affect lower lobe right lung;
stitches through to back); Kal. c. (suppuration of lungs after pneumonic hćmorrhages); Pic.
ac. (boils in auditory meatus); Teucr. and Thuj. (polypi); Can. i. (time passes slowly);
Dulc. (sensitive to cold and damp; cold settles in the eyes; furfuraceous eruptions); Graph.
(coryza during menses; Mag. c. coryza and sore throat before and at menses; Merc., dull pain
on forehead, with coldness, especially in women, with coryza <
before or at menses).
Causation.─
Fright. Suppressed gonorrhśa.
Suppressed foot-sweat.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Great anguish, restlessness (is
constantly changing from place to place), and agitation, with fear of losing the reason, or
with excessive internal torment, principally in evening, or in bed at night, as if conscious
of having committed some crime.─(Post-partum mania; wants to throw child
on fire.).─Inclined to sopor, coma.─Moral dejection,
with great listlessness, discouragement, dread of labour, and disgust to life.─Great
indifference to everything.─Does not even care to eat.─Apprehensions.─Desire
to flee with nightly anxiety and apprehensions.─Ill-humour, disposition
to be angry, and to fly into a passion, great susceptibility, humour quarrelsome,
mistrustful, and suspicious.─Moroseness and repugnance to conversation.─Groans.─Continuous
moaning and groaning.─Excitement, and great moral irritability, with a
tendency to be easily frightened.─Bad effects from fright, leaving one
in a state of great anxiety and < at night.─Home-sickness
with nightly anxiety and perspiration.─Distraction, inadvertence,
difficulty of conception.─Entire-unfitness for meditation, and tendency
to make mistakes while speaking.─Answers questions slowly.─Weakness
of memory; and will-power lost.─Instability of ideas, which constantly
drive away each other.─Raving.─Delirium; mental
derangement of drunkards.─Intellect weak; imbecile.─Low
muttering delirium.─Fits of mania or dementia, with disposition to shed
tears.─Hurried and rapid speech.─Loss of
consciousness and of speech.─Fury, with dread of liquids.
2. Head.─
Cloudiness, intoxication, and dizziness,
principally in morning, on waking, and on getting up.─Vertigo,
principally on getting up, or on raising up head, or when seated, or when lying on back
(vertigo with headache); as well as during or after a walk in open air, or in evening, and
often with nausea, cloudiness of the eyes (everything becomes black before eyes),
distressing heat, and want to lie down.─Vertigo as if one were on a
swing.─Dull and stupid feeling with dizziness.─Heaviness,
fulness, and aching in head, as if forehead were squeezed by a bandage, or as though cranium
were on the point of bursting (with fulness of brain).─(In the evening)
painful sensibility of brain, with fatigue of head by noise, >
by resting head upon the arm.─Compressive headache, the head feels as if
it were in a vice, with nausea; < in open air, from
sleeping, eating and drinking; > in room.─Violent
headache, which forces compression of head between the hands.─From
occiput a strong, tearing, continued pain which went into forehead and there pressed.─Heat
and burning, or tearing and drawing pains, or shootings in head, often only semi-lateral,
and extending to ears, teeth, and neck.─Burning in head, esp. in l.
temple, < at night when lying in bed, > on sitting-up.─Inflammation of the brain
with burning and pulsation in forehead, with sensation as if head were in a hoop; < at night, > after
rising.─Weakness in head like a dulness, as if there was a vibration in
forehead and turning about in a circle.─Constant rotary motion of head,
even when lying.─Ebullition, boring, and digging shocks, and throbbings
in head.─Pain, as from a bruise, in brain, while in bed, in morning.─Nocturnal
cephalalgia.─Pains in bones of head, and exostosis in the cranium.─Sutures
open; large head; precocious mental development.─Swelling of head;
soreness of the scalp; sharp and burning pains in integuments of cranium.─Sensation
of subcutaneous ulceration in whole head, < at night
when becoming warm in bed; > after rising.─Tearing
in one (l.) side of head and temple, extending from neck, with insupportable heat and
perspiration, < at night and in heat of bed, > towards morning and while lying quiet.─Tension
over forehead as from a tape or hoop, < at night in
bed; > after rising and from laying hand on it.─Congestion
of blood to head with heat in it.─Hydrocephalus.─Sensation
of tension of scalp.─Scalp is painful to touch; <
when scratching, which is followed by bleeding.─Tearing and stinging in
bones of skull.─Itching on hairy scalp, and forehead and temples; < from scratching, when it bleeds and becomes erysipelatous.─Dry,
stinging, burning, fetid eruption like yellow crusts, on forepart of head and temples, when
scratching inflammation and erysipelas.─Exostoses, with sensation of
subcutaneous ulceration on touching them, < at night
in bed.─Open fontanelles with dirty colour of face, restless sleep, and
sour-smelling night-sweat.─Falling off of hair; mostly on sides of head
and temple; with humid eruptions on head or after clammy perspirations of head; with itching
at night in bed; < from scratching; with burning,
with great tendency to perspiration.─Great chilliness with contractive
tearing pain of the scalp, extending from forehead to neck.─Fetid,
sour-smelling, oily perspiration on head, and on icy-cold forehead, with burning in skin: < at night in bed, >
after rising.─Dry eruption on head; small scabs in hair, sometimes with
burning itching; moist scabs, with excoriation of scalp, and destruction of hair.─Sweat
on head and forehead, sometimes cold and viscid.
3. Eyes.─
Eyes confused, dull, and surrounded by a
livid circle.─Pressure in eyes, as from sand, principally when fixing
the attention on any object.─Shootings, itching, tickling and burning in
eyes, principally in open air.─Eyes red, inflamed, with redness of
conjunctiva or sclerotica, and injection of vessels of sclerotica, or of external canthi.─Profuse
lachrymation, principally in evening.─Blear-eyedness.─Amaurotic
dimness before l. eye.─Twitching of lids.─Excessive
sensitiveness of eyes to light, and to brightness of the fire.─Firelight
dazzles eyes greatly.─Eyes inflamed, with swollen inverted tarsi.─Pupils
dilated.─Inability to open eyes well, as if agglutinated to balls.─Pustules
in conjunctiva, and ulcers in cornea.─Eyelids red, inflamed, swollen,
ulcerated on margins, and covered with scabs.─Sensation as if a cutting
instrument were under eyelid.─Tumour in eyelid, like a stye.─Nocturnal
agglutination of eyelids.─Spasmodic closing of eyelids, with difficulty
in opening them.─Scabs round the eyes.─Amblyopia and
confused sight, as in looking through a mist (periodical loss of sight); momentary loss of
sight; black points, hovering flies, flames and sparks before eyes.─Apparent
motion of letters, when reading.
4. Ears.─
Tearing, shooting and drawing pains in
ears, sometimes with a sensation of coldness, as if there were ice in ear, increased by heat
of bed.─As if ice-cold water running out of ears; comes suddenly, lasts
a few minutes and recurs; violent itching in ears in intervals.─Ear and
auditory tube inflamed, with cramp-like and shooting pains.─Soreness of
internal ear.─Meatus swollen with much earache when chewing.─Small
ulcers in front of l. membrana tympanis.─Discharge of pus from ear, with
ulceration of external ear.─Excoriation and ulceration of the concha
auris.─Purulent otorrhśa and fungous excrescences in ear, with tearing
in side of head affected, and in face.─Flow of blood from ears.─Discharge
of cerumen.─Subcutaneous tumour, and furfuraceous and moist pimples on
the lobe.─Hardness of hearing, sometimes with obstruction of ears, which
ceases when swallowing or blowing nose (or the obstruction is caused by enlargement of
tonsils), or with an extraordinary reverberation of all sorts of sounds in ears.─Tinkling,
roaring, ringing, and buzzing in ears, principally in evening.─Obstinate
tinnitus.─Painful sensitiveness, and inflammatory swelling of parotids.─Inflammatory
swelling of the r. parotid gland with stinging.
5. Nose.─
Swelling of the bones of the nose
(external nose, as bridge of the nose, may swell up very large on both sides), with painful
sensitiveness to touch.─Itching in nose.─Tension,
pressure, and sensation of heaviness in nose.─Blackish colour of nose.─Inflammatory
swelling and shining redness of nose, with itching.─Scabs in nostrils
(bleeding when cleansed).─Discharge of a greenish fetid and corrosive
pus from the nostrils.─“Dirty-nosed children.”.─Frequent
and profuse bleeding from nose, even during sleep, and sometimes when coughing.─Obstruction
and dryness of nose.─Frequent sneezing.─Dry coryza,
with obstruction in nose, or fluent coryza, with copious discharge of corrosive serum.─Putrid
smell from nose.─Painful pustule in nose.
6. Face.─
Face, pale or yellowish, or
lead-coloured, or earthy (with dull eyes without lustre).─Features
discomposed and drawn.─Circle of bluish red round the eyes.─Feverish
heat and redness of cheeks.─Bloatedness and swelling of face,
principally round eyes.─Swelling of one (r.) side of face with heat and
toothache.─Swelling of cheek.─Tearing in bones and
muscles (of one side) of face.─Aching and pricking in zygomatic process.─Sensation
of tension of skin on face and head.─Sweat on face.─Red
and tettery spots on face.─Yellowish scab on face, with discharge of a
fetid humour, constant itching day and night, and bleeding of the part after having been
scratched.─Crusta lactea.─Lips rough, dry and
blackish, with burning when they are touched.─Salt taste on lips.─Swelling
and ulceration of lips.─Yellowish scabs, purulent pustules, and small
ulcers on the lips and round the chin.─Burning pimples with yellow
crusts on lips.─Fissures, rhagades, and ulceration in (lips and) corners
of mouth.─Distortion of mouth and convulsive movements of lips.─Masseter
muscles contracted so that speech was difficult.─Atrophy and exfoliation
of alveolar processes.─Clenching and immobility of jaws, with
inflammatory swelling of lower jaw, and tension in muscles of neck.─Lockjaw
with stinging pains and engorgement, and inflammatory swelling of submaxillary glands, with
shooting or pulsative pains, or without pain.─Caries of jaw.─Facial
paralysis from cold, r. or l. side: almost specific (R. T. C.).
7. Teeth.─
Tearing, shooting, or pulsative pains
in carious teeth, or in roots of teeth, often extending to ears, and over whole cheek of
side affected, sometimes also with painful swelling of cheek or of submaxillary glands,
salivation, and shivering.─The nightly pulsating toothache extends to
ear.─Appearance or aggravation of toothache, principally in evening, or
at night, in heat of the bed, where it is insupportable; renewed by fresh air, as well as by
eating, and taking anything hot or cold into mouth.─The teeth are set on
edge, grow black, loosen (they are painful when touched by tongue), denuded of gum, and fall
out.─Itching, burning, and redness of gums.─Gums are
fungous, and bleed easily.─Bleeding of gums when touching them ever so
little.─Retraction and swelling of gums, principally at night, with
burning pain and sensation of excoriation, on touching them, and when eating.─Gums
livid, discoloured, and very sensitive.─Upper border of gums looks
indented, the indentation being white and ulcerated.─The swollen gums
have white, elevated, ulcerated, pointed edges.─Ulceration of gums.
8. Mouth.─
[This remedy covers in general,
affections of mouth and fauces; r. side of fauces; r. side of neck; nape of neck (i.e., affections appearing in any of the mentioned places);
rarely give Merc. if the tongue is dry.─Guernsey].─Putrid
smell from the mouth.─Bluish colour, excoriation, and inflammatory
swelling of inside of mouth.─Burning pain, vesicles, blisters, aphthć
and ulcers in the mouth.─Stomacace.─Sensation of
dryness in mouth and palate, or accumulation of tenacious mucus.─Ulceration
of orifice of salivary duct, and profuse discharge of excessively fetid saliva, which is
sometimes bloody (or tenacious).─Tongue moist, coated with white and
thick, or dry, brown, or blackish mucus.─(Excoriated patches like
islands on tongue in children, with craving for fat, v.).─Hardness,
inflammatory swelling (suppuration), and ulceration of tongue, with shooting pains.─Longitudinal
furrow on tongue with pricking pains.─Needle pricks in tip of tongue.─Tongue
swollen, soft flabby, the edges become indented by the impression of teeth.─Tongue
red and swollen; ulcerated; black, with red edges; moist with intense thirst; grey patches
on edges, dirty-yellow coat on upper surface.─Aphthć in the mouth;
bluish and spongy; ulcers spread without penetrating the flesh.─Inflammation
and superficial ulceration of the mucous membranes of mouth.─Salivary
glands swollen and painful; saliva fśtid or tastes coppery.─Rigidity,
insensibility, and immobility of tongue.─Sensation in tongue as if
burnt.─Quivering of tongue.─Rapid and stammering
speech; entire loss of speech.─Loss of speech and voice; she hears
everything well, but can only reply by signs and grimaces; sunken features, weeping about
her condition; cannot sleep, feels very exhausted; good appetite, thirst for beer; fćces
and urine passed easily; lasted three days; (almost complete relief by Hyo.).─Ranula.─Ulceration
and caries of palate.
9. Throat.─
Continuous painful dryness of throat;
the mouth being full of water.─Painful dryness of throat, which impedes
speech.─Pain, as from excoriation and smarting in throat, or sensation
of heat, which ascends into gullet.─Shooting pains in throat and in
tonsils, principally when swallowing.─Elongation and swelling of uvula.─Suppuration
of tonsils.─Pressure and pains as from excoriation and ulceration, in
śsophagus.─Syphilitic ulcers in mouth and throat.─Inflammatory
swelling and redness of back parts of mouth and throat.─Erysipelatous
inflammation of all soft parts of mouth and throat.─Inflammation and
redness of palate.─Angina esp. with stinging pains < by empty deglutition at night and in cold air.─Throat
and fauces of a coppery red colour and swollen.─Accumulation of thick
and tenacious mucus in throat.─Sensation as if there were a tumour, or
some foreign body in throat, which it is necessary to swallow.─Constant
want to swallow.─Sensation as if a worm rose up so that he must always
swallow, whereby it goes off somewhat though he does not feel anything go down.─When
swallowing shooting in tonsils, stitches into ears.─Painful, difficult,
and sometimes spasmodic deglutition, with danger of suffocation.─Burning
in throat as if from a hot vapour ascending from stomach, with dryness in throat when
swallowing, and continuous desire to swallow, with accumulation of water in mouth.─Inability
to swallow the least liquid, which escapes through nostrils.─The pains
in throat commonly extend to ears, parotids, submaxillary, and cervical glands; they are < for the most part by empty deglutition, as well as at night,
in fresh air, and when speaking, and they are often accompanied by salivation.
10. Appetite.─
Putrid, salt, sweetish, or metallic
taste.─Bitter taste, principally when fasting, in morning.─Rye-bread
has a bitter or sweetish taste.─Acid and mucous taste during a meal,
also at other times.─Saltish taste on lips.─Violent
burning thirst, day and night, with desire for cold drinks, and principally for milk and
beer.─Desire for wine and spirits.─Insatiable
appetite and craving (or complete loss of appetite), with apparent insipidity of food.─Appetite
only for bread and butter; aversion to butter.─Bulimy, with great
weakness.─Canine hunger, even after eating.─Want of
appetite.─No wish for food, which, however, is agreeable to the taste
when eaten.─Thirst more decided than appetite.─Speedy
satiety when eating.─Stomach feels replete and constricted.─Dislike
to all food, principally solid nutriment, meat, sweetmeats, cooked victuals and coffee.─Has
no appetite for dry food, likes liquid food.─Great weakness of
digestion, with continued hunger, and pressure in stomach, frequent risings, pyrosis and
many other inconveniences after a meal.─Bread is heavy on stomach.
11. Stomach.─
Excessive nausea and inclination to
vomit, often with incisive and pressive pains in stomach, chest, and abdomen, anxiety and
inquietude, headache, vertigo, cloudiness of eyes, and transient heat.─The
nausea often increases after a meal, and is accompanied by a sensation in throat, as if
things sweetened with sugar had been eaten.─Rising of air.─Risings,
principally after eating, and often of a putrid or bitter or sour and rancid taste.─Violent
empty risings.─Regurgitation (of ingesta) after eating and drinking.─Pyrosis,
regurgitation of a rancid liquid, and hiccough during and after a meal.─Retching
and vomiting of mucous or bitter matters, or of bile.─Violent vomiting
with convulsive movements.─Burning, violent pain, and excessive
sensibility (esp. to touch) in the stomach, and in the precordial region.─Tension,
fulness, and pressure as from a stone in pit of stomach, principally during or after a meal,
however little may have been eaten; stomach hangs down heavily.─Sharp
constrictive pain in precordial region.─Cramp-like pains in stomach,
even after a very light repast.
12. Abdomen.─
Painful sensitiveness of hepatic
region, with shooting, burning pains, < by every
movement of body, or of the parts affected.─Region of liver swollen,
painfully sensitive to contact; cannot lie on r. side.─Chronic atrophy
of liver, with emaciation and dessication of the body.─Swelling and
hardness of liver.─Complete icterus.─Abdomen hard
and inflated, with soreness when touched, principally in umbilical region.─Colic
which only passes off in a recumbent position.─Violent colic (with
diarrhśa), with cuttings, lancinations as if by knives, painful contractions and pinchings
in abdomen, principally at night or in cool of evening, esp. when he touches or takes hold
of anything cold.─Tension, distension, and pressure, as by a stone,
principally in umbilical region (and painfulness to contact).─Burning in
abdomen, round the navel.─Excessive and insupportable pains in abdomen,
which cease only on lying down.─Pain in abdomen, as if caused by a
chill.─Sensation as if intestines were loose, and moving about in
abdomen, when walking.─Intestines feel bruised if he lies on r. side.─The
pains in abdomen are often accompanied by shivering, or by heat and redness of cheeks, as
well as by great sensitiveness of abdomen, and of precordial region, to all contact, and to
least pressure.─Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen.─Sufferings
from flatulency, principally at night, with distension of abdomen, borborygmi, and rumbling.─Cutting
stitch in lower abdomen r. to l.; < walking.─Tension,
aching, and lancinations in groins as by knives.─Inflammation of
peritoneum and of intestines.─Boring pain in r. groin.─Obstruction
and inflammatory swelling of inguinal glands, with redness and painful sensitiveness, when
walking and standing.─Affections of inner region of liver; external
belly, which may be hard and sensitive to touch; inguinal ring, either one (H. N. G.).─Painful
hard, hot, sensitive swelling in ileo cćcal region.─Ulceration and
suppuration of inguinal glands.─Buboes.─Abdomen
externally cold to touch.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Stool: acrid; bloody; knotty;
containing pus; viscid.─Complaints before stool (a sick, painful, faint
feeling comes on just before).─Complaints during stool; tenesmus;
tenesmus without stool; diarrhśa with slime (Merc. is
rarely indicated in these troubles where there is no slime.─H. N. G.).─Constipation,
with hard, tenacious and knotty fćces, which cannot be expelled without straining.─Fćces
of small shape; ribbon-like.─Ineffectual, but frequent want to evacuate,
esp. at night, and sometimes with tenesmus, protrusion of hćmorrhoids, and nausea.─Loose
and dysenteric evacuations, principally at night, with colic and violent cuttings, urgent
want to evacuate, tenesmus and burning in anus, pyrosis, nausea and risings, anguish, heat
or cold sweat on face, shivering and shuddering, exhaustion and trembling of all limbs.─Diarrhśa
(preceded by colic), caused by the fresh air of evening.─Chilliness
between the diarrhśic stools.─During a diarrhśic stool nausea and
eructations.─Scanty evacuations of sanguineous mucus.─Evacuations
which are mucous, or bilious, or putrid, or acid, or of a greenish or brownish colour, or
reddish, or yellow, like sulphur; or a greyish-white.─Fćces of
consistence of pap, or frothy, or like hash.─Evacuation of corrosive and
burning fćcal matter.─Discharges of bloody mucus accompanied by colic
and tenesmus; dysentery.─Discharge of blood, or of mucus, from rectum,
even with evacuations that are not loose, and when not at stool, sometimes with tenesmus in
anus.─Protrusion of hćmorrhoids.─Ejection of
ascarides and lumbrici.─Itching, shootings, and excoriation in anus.─After
stool prolapsus ani; or when pressing and straining to stool.─Prolapsus
recti, which, when it protrudes, appears black and bloody.─Evacuation of
substances undigested, or black, and like pitch; blood and mucus, undigested, smelling sour,
excoriating anus.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Urine acrid; turbid; too
frequent; complaints while passing, and after.─Affections of urethra.─Continued
want to urinate, day and night, sometimes with abortive efforts, or with scanty emission.─The
stream of urine is excessively small.─Irresistible, sudden desire to
urinate.─Frequent and copious emission of urine, as in diabetes, with
great emaciation.─Involuntary emission of urine.─Urgent
want to urinate, with incontinence of urine.─The quantity of urine
emitted is greater than the quantity of fluid drunk.─Wetting the bed at
night.─Emission of urine drop by drop.─Urine of a
deep colour, or red, or brown, or white, as if mixed with flour or chalk, or of the colour
of blood.─Offensive, turbid urine, which forms a sediment.─Sanguineous,
pungent, or sour-smelling urine.─Corrosive and burning urine.─Thick
sediment from urine.─White and flock-like clouds in urine (or as if
containing pus; scanty, fiery red).─Emission of hard mucus, or of
flocks, and white threads during or after the emission of urine.─Discharge
of blood from urethra.─Incisive and contractive pains in renal region,
at night.─Pulsation, incisive pains, burning and shooting in urethra,
even when not urinating.─Inflammation of orifice of urethra, and
discharge of thick, yellowish, or serous, whitish matter.─Thick greenish
(or yellow) discharge from urethra, more at night, (gonorrhśa) with phimosis; chancroids.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Increase of sexual
desire, and great lasciviousness, with frequent erections and pollutions.─[Erections:
little boys may have this, lasting all night, causing emaciation; boys often pull and tear
at the prepuce all the time, which may cause great emaciation, and result in death; adults
often have this pulling, a kind of itching being the cause, and a feeling as if he
“must do so”; collection of smegma behind glans.─H. N. G.].─Total
loss of sexual power.─Painful nocturnal erections, and sometimes
sanguineous pollutions.─The penis is small, cold, and flabby.─Glans
cold and shrivelled.─Voluptuous itching, tingling, tearing, and shooting
in glans and prepuce.─Puffing, or inflammatory swelling of prepuce,
sometimes with burning pain, fissures, rhagades, and eruptions.─Burning
in urethra during coitus.─Purulent secretion between prepuce and glans,
sometimes with swelling, heat, and redness of front part of penis.─Swelling
of the lymphatic vessels along the penis.─Vesicles and phagedćnic
ulcers (chancres) with lard-like, or cheesy, bases, and raised margin, on glans and prepuce.─Sensation
of coldness in testes.─Testes, hard and swollen, with shining redness of
scrotum, and dragging pain in testes and spermatic cords.─Itching,
tingling, and shooting in testes.─Profuse perspiration of parts when
walking.─Excoriation between the parts and thighs.─Sloughing
of scrotum.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Suppression of
catamenia.─Catamenia too copious, with uneasiness and colic.─Metrorrhagia.─Discharge
of blood in an old woman, eleven years after menses had ceased.─Before
catamenia: dry heat, with ebullition of blood, and congestion in head.─Congestion
of blood to uterus.─Inflammation of ovaries and uterus.─During
catamenia: redness of tongue, with deep-coloured and burning spots, salt taste in mouth,
teeth set on edge, and gums blanched.─Leucorrhśa in general; complaints
concomitant to leucorrhśa.─Leucorrhśa always <
at night; greenish discharge; smarting, corroding, itching, burning after scratching.─Purulent,
corrosive leucorrhśa, with itching in the parts, >
by washing in cold water.─Hard tubercles on labia majora.─Itching
pimples, and nodosities in labia.─Itching of genitals, < from contact of urine.─Inflammatory
swelling in vagina, with a sensation as if it were raw and excoriated.─Swelling
of labia, with heat, hardness, shining redness, great sensitiveness to touch, and burning,
pulsative, and shooting pains.─Prolapsus uteri et vaginć; feels > after coitus.─Sterility with too profuse
menstruation.─Easy coitus and certain conception.─Hard
swelling in breasts, with pain as from ulceration (at every menstrual period), or with
suppuration and actual ulceration; ulcerated nipples.─Milk in breasts
instead of menses; in breasts of boys or girls.─Excoriation of breasts.─The
infant rejects the milk.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Catarrh, with febrile
shivering, hypochondriacal humour, dislike to all food, and constipation.─Catarrh
with cough, hoarseness, fluent coryza and sore throat.─Continual
hoarseness and loss of voice.─Nasal voice.─Burning
and tickling in the larynx with hoarseness.─Dry cough, sometimes
fatiguing and shaking, principally in bed, in evening, or at night, also during sleep, and
on waking in morning, excited by a tickling, or a sensation of dryness in chest, and < by speaking.─Cough, as if caused by
irritation in stomach.─Convulsive cough, with retching.─Spasmodic
cough (whooping-cough); two paroxysms follow one another rapidly, from tickling in larynx
and upper part of chest, at night, without cough during day, with expectoration of acrid
yellowish mucus, which is sometimes mixed with coagulated blood, tasting putrid or salty.─Cough
< in night air, at night and when lying on l. side.─Dyspnśa
(sensation of spasmodic contraction when coughing or sneezing).─Pains in
head and chest when coughing, as if these parts were about to burst; or shootings in
occiput; or pain as from excoriation in chest, and pain in loins.─Inclination
to vomit and fits of choking, when coughing.─Cough with expectoration of
pure blood.─Bloody sputa in tuberculosis.─Hoarse
cough, with sensation of dryness and shootings in throat.
18. Chest.─
Difficult respiration, as from want of
breath, or short and loud respiration.─Breath having a bad smell.─Shortness
of breath when going upstairs and when walking quickly.─Anxious
oppression of chest, and difficulty of respiration, with want to take a deep inspiration,
chiefly after a meal, or with attacks of suffocation at night, or in evening in bed, when
lying down (on l. side).─Sensation of dryness in chest.─Want
of breath, with squeezing and tension in chest, and sensation, on least movement, or attempt
to speak, as if life were coming to an end.─Sharp pains, and sensation
as if muscles of chest were bruised.─Aching in chest, sometimes
penetrating to back, with inability to take a full inspiration.─Burning
in chest, sometimes extending to throat.─Soreness and burning in chest.─Lancinations
(as if caused by knives) in chest and sides, or as far as the back, principally when
breathing, sneezing, and coughing.─Stitches in r. chest through from
scapula; inflammation of lungs.─Sensation as of a contraction and of
swelling, and pain as from excoriation and ulceration, in chest.─Suppuration
of lungs after hćmorrhages, or after pneumonia.─Emphysema of lungs.
19. Heart.─
Palpitation of heart; on slightest
exertion.─Fainting.─Fatal syncope.
20. Neck and Back.─
Burning and drawing pain in
back and in nape of neck.─Indurated lymphatics.─Rigidity
and rheumatic swelling of nape of neck, and of neck.─Shootings in
muscles of neck.─Engorgement and inflammatory swelling of glands of
neck, with shooting and pressive pains.─Shooting pains, instability, and
weakness in loins.─Pain as from a bruise in sacrum, back, and
shoulder-blades.─Erysipelatous inflammation extending from back like a
girdle around abdomen (zona).
22. Upper Limbs.─
Sharp (rheumatic) pains in
shoulders and arms, principally at night, and when moving them.─Jerking
in arms and fingers.─Hot and red (arthritic) swelling of elbow, as far
as hand.─Itching miliary eruption on arms.─Furfuraceous
and burning tetters on forearms and on wrist.─Tremor of hands, with
weakness; could neither feed nor dress himself.─Cracking, weakness, and
sensation of paralysis in hand.─Sweat on palms.─Eruption
like moist itch on hands, with violent nightly itching.─Cramp-like
contraction of hands and fingers.─Swelling of joints of fingers.─Deep
and bleeding fissures and rhagades in hands and fingers.─Cramp-like
pains, and tendency to become stiff in hands when using them.─Swelling
of wrist, with pain on touching or moving it.─Rigidity of wrists.─Painful
stiffness of r. wrist-joint.─Ulceration at the nails.─Exfoliation
of fingers (of finger-nails).─Deadness of fingers.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Sharp and lancinating
(rheumatic) pains in hip-joints, as well as thighs and knees, chiefly at night, and during
movement, and often with a sensation of coldness in diseased parts.─Tearing
in the hip-joint and knee, < at night, or with
pulsating pain, suppuration commencing.─Burning in nates.─Soreness
between thighs and genitals.─Burning in periosteum of tibić.─Drawing
in tibia.─Great weakness, heaviness, and painful weariness in thighs and
legs.─Weakness and giving way in knees, could scarcely stand.─Sensation
of rigidity, of torpor and cramps in thighs.─Itching pimples on thighs.─Śdematous,
transparent swelling, of thighs and legs.─Dropsical swelling of legs.─Tension
in hams, as if tendons were too short.─Itching miliary eruption in legs.─Tetters
on thighs and legs.─Contraction of legs, and cramps in calves of legs
and toes.─Swelling of instep or heels, with sharp or shooting pains.─Wrenching
pains in foot.─Coldness and sweat in feet.─Painful
swelling of metatarsal bones.─Swelling of toes.─Ulceration
at nails.
24. Generalities.─
Śdema of face, hands, and feet
with anćmia.─Cellulitis with lumpiness in any region.─Periostitis
then necrosis.─Tearing and drawing, or shooting pains in limbs, chiefly
at night, in heat of bed, which renders the pain insupportable.─Red and
shining inflammatory swellings.─Inflammations ending in exudations and
suppurations.─Nocturnal pains in bones.─Softening of
the bones, so they will bend (rickets); enlargement of; caries of; inflammation of;
prickling of; tearing in.─Affections of shoulder-blades; shin-bones;
bones of the leg.─Sufferings < at
night, or in evening, also from fresh (evening) air.─Throbbings,
sensation of dislocation, and arthritic pains in joints, with swelling.─Rheumatic
and catarrhal inflammations.─Rheumatic pains, with profuse sweat, which
affords no relief.─The patient feels much better in morning and during
repose, and esp. when lying down than when seated or walking.─Whole body
feels as if bruised, with soreness in all bones.─Great agitation in
limbs, with pains in joints, principally in evening.─Great fatigue,
weakness, and rapid loss of strength, with great uneasiness of body and mind.─Ebullition
of blood, and frequent trembling, even after least exertion.─Sanguineous
congestions (to head, chest, and abdomen) and hćmorrhages.─Great
tendency of limbs to become numb.─Contractions of some parts.─Cramps,
convulsive movements, and nocturnal attacks of epilepsy, with cries, rigidity of body,
distension of abdomen, itching in nose, and thirst.─Sensation of
coldness in outer parts; burning pain of inner parts; cutting in inner parts; darting pains
in outer parts; darting in bones.─Sallow-coloured face.─Eructations;
vomiting of bile.─Blackness of outer parts; bleeding from inner parts;
restlessness of body; inflammation of inner parts, also of mucous membranes; secretion of
mucus increased from any of mucous membranes.─Scurvy, particularly where
there is much salivation; wasting away of soft parts; strictures after inflammation;
inflammatory swellings, parts which are usually white turn red; zona or shingles.─Tonic
spasms and tetanus.─Cataleptic rigidity of body.─Fainting
fits.─Paralysis of several of limbs.─Emaciation and
atrophy of whole body.─Excitability and sensitiveness of all the organs.─Cannot
lie on r. side.
25. Skin.─
Yellow colour of the skin, with
perspiration which imparts a yellow colour to linen.─Skin dirty yellow,
rough and dry.─(Jaundice.).─Engorgement,
inflammation, and ulceration of the glands, with pulsative and shooting pains, hard
swelling, red and shining, or without any perceptible alteration in skin.─Miliary,
urticarial, pimpled, or pustular and purulent eruptions.─Exanthema
burning; pock-shaped (hence, think of this remedy in small-pox); of scarlet colour; with
swelling; purulent exanthema, i.e., ulcerating;
ecchymoses appear, of black and blue spots, without receiving any external injury.─Erysipelas.─Spacelus;
brown mortification.─Tetters in general; burning suppurating.─Ulcers
in general; with burning on edges; hard on edges with bloody pus; with corroding pus; with
ichorous pus; having too little pus; too thin pus; thin, tenacious, sticky pus; swollen,
inflamed; looking like lard; prickling; pulsating; painful on the edges; swollen on edges.─Flat,
painless ulcers, pate, covered with phlegm-like pus; on scalp, skin of penis, &c.─Primary
and secondary syphilis; round coppery red spots shining through skin.─Itching
pimples, which burn after being scratched.─Eruptions which resemble
scabies, and which bleed readily.─Wounds ulcerate easily (and become
gangrened).─Erysipelatous inflammations.─Spots red
and raised, or maculć hepaticć, or which resemble scorbutic spots.─Small
and very itchy pimples, which ulcerate, and become encrusted.─Tettery,
excoriated, and oozing spots, or dry, itching, and mealy tetters.─Desquamation
of skin.─Phagedenic ulcers, or bluish, fungous, and easily bleeding, or
superficial, and appearing as if bitten by insects, or secreting an ichorous and corrosive
pus.─Chancrous ulcers.─Violent and voluptuous
itching over whole body, principally in evening, or at night, <
by heat of bed, and sometimes attended by burning after scratching.─Thickening
of periosteum; exostosis and caries; abscess in joints; great brittleness of bones.
26. Sleep.─
Excessive sleepiness, day and night;
deep and prolonged sleep.─Great sleepiness during day.─Inclination
to sleep without the power to do so.─Sleep retarded in evening, and too
early awakening in morning.─Failing asleep late; complaints preventing
sleep (as toothache, or any severe pain or trouble, &c.); sleeplessness in general
before midnight.─Very light and unquiet sleep, with frequent awaking,
starts, and fright.─Sleeplessness from nervous excitability.─Frequent,
anxious, horrible, fantastic, historical, vivid and voluptuous dreams; dreams of robbers, of
dogs that bite, of rebellion, of floods, of discharges of firearms, &c.─At
night, restlessness, anxiety, agitation and tossing, uneasiness, pains, heat or sweat,
ebullition of blood, cries, tears, palpitation of the heart, vertigo, and many other
affections.─On going to sleep: <
of the pains, starts, and frightful spectres before the sight.─During
sleep: talking, groans, sighs, short respiration, with mouth open and hands cold; on waking,
sweat, cries, tears, and incoherent expressions.
27. Fever.─
Chilliness early in morning, when
rising, but more so in evening after lying down, as if cold water had been thrown over him,
and not > by heat of stove.─Chilliness
at night with frequent micturition.─Chilliness between the diarrhśic
stools.─Internal chilliness with heat of face.─Heat
while in bed; as soon as one rises chilliness.─Heat after midnight with
violent thirst for cold drinks.─Heat with anxiety and constriction of
chest alternating with chilliness.─Perspiration towards morning, with
thirst and palpitation of heart; from least exertion even when eating.─Perspiration
in evening before going to sleep.─Very debilitating night-sweats.─Perspiration
gives no relief, and accompanies all ailments.─Intermittent fever.─Chilliness
in evening in bed, afterwards heat with violent thirst.─Chilliness and
heat without thirst, towards morning thirst; during perspiration, palpitation of heart and
nausea, the perspiration smells sour or fetid.─Coldness, shivering, and
shuddering over whole body, principally after having slept, either by day and night, or only
at night, or in evening, and in morning in bed, and sometimes with bluish colour of skin,
icy coldness in hands and feet, muscular palpitations, convulsive movements of head, arms,
and legs, contusive pain in limbs, and inclination to lie down, trembling in limbs, sharp
pains in head, want to urinate, somnolence, &c.─Ebullitions with
trembling from slight exertion.─Heat in face and head, with redness and
burning of cheeks, and coldness, or shivering, or shuddering over whole body; or heat,
mingled with shiverings or sweats.─During the heat, insatiable thirst,
great desire for milk, and < of pains when uncovered.─Febrile
attacks at night, or in evening; fever, with inflammatory symptoms, or with putridity; slow
and hectic fever.─Pulse, irregular, or quick, strong, and intermittent,
or weak, slow and trembling (generally full and fast, with violent beating in arteries).─Copious,
excessive, and colliquative sweats, both day and night, in morning, in evening after lying
down, and when eating, and sometimes fetid, clammy, sour, or oily, giving linen a yellow
colour, and burning the skin.─Sweat, with nausea and inclination to
vomit, great fatigue, thirst, anxiety, obstructed respiration, stitches in side, &c.® 2000
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