Plumbum Metallicum plb.
Mnemonic names
Plb. / (Plum.) / The Plumber.
Verse
Plumbum,-Stands for constipation,
Stools in balls, the indication.
Colic, with the bowels drawn in
Toward the spine as by a string.
Maybe vomiting of feces
When the danger much increases.
Painful seizures with constriction
Mark the mode of this affliction.
When spasmodic ills abate,
Then a paralytic state
Supervenes, and brings to view
Failing mind, and body, too.
Drips his urine, drop by drop,
Waste of tissue knows no stoop,
Face takes on a shining hue,
And his gums a line of blue.
Pains, neuralgic kind in chief-
May by rubbing find relief.
Mnemonic sentences
The Plumber,-Has sheep-dung stools.
The Plumber, Aster Chel, is the Opie Black.
This Plumber,-Who is subject to a shining hue of the face,- Is at Nathan Sanic's.
Indications
Stools like Sheep-Dung Balls: Plumb., Aster., Chel., Op., Sep.
Greasy, Shiny Hue of the Face: PB., Nat. m., Sanicula.