Mercurius Vivus merc.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Best adapted for light-haired persons; skin and muscles lax. In bone diseases, pains worse at night; glandular swellings with or without suppuration, but especially if suppuration be too profuse (Hep., Sil.). Cold swellings; abscesses, slow to suppurate. Profuse perspiration attends nearly every complaint, but does not relieve; may even increase the suffering (profuse perspiration relieves, Nat. m., Psor., Ver.). Great weakness and trembling from least exertion. Breath and body smell foul (Psor.). Hurried and rapid talking (Hep.). Catarrh: with much sneezing; fluent, acrid, corrosive; nostrils raw, ulcerated; yellow-green, fetid, pus-like; nasal bones swollen; < at night and from damp weather. Toothache: pulsating, tearing, lacerating, shooting into face or ears; < in damp weather or evening air, warmth of bed, from cold or warm things; > from rubbing the cheek. Crowns of teeth decay, roots remain (crowns intact, roots decay, Mez.). Ptyalism; tenacious, soapy, stringy, profuse, fetid, coppery, metallic-tasting saliva. Tongue: large, flabby, shows imprint of teeth (Chel., Pod., Rhus); painful, with ulcers; red or white. Intense thirst, although the tongue looks moist and the saliva is profuse (dry mouth, but no thirst, Puls.). Mumps, diphtheria, tonsillitis with profuse offensive saliva; tongue large, flabby with imprint of teeth; mapped tongue (Lach., Nat., Tarax.). Diphtheria: tonsils inflamed, uvula swollen, elongated, constant desire to swallow; membrane thick, gray, shred-like borders adherent or free. Dysentery: stool slimy, bloody, with colic and fainting, great tenesmus during and after, not > by stool, followed by chilliness and a "cannot finish" sensation. The more blood, the better indicated. Quantity of urine voided is larger than the amount of water drunk; frequent urging to urinate. Nocturnal emissions stained with blood (Led., Sars.). Leucorrhoea: acrid, burning, itching with rawness; always worse at night; pruritis, < from contact of urine which must be washed off (Sulph.). Morning sickness; profuse salivation, wets the pillow in sleep (Lac. ac.). Mammae painful, as if they would ulcerate at every menstrual period (Con., Lac. c.); milk in breasts instead of menses. Cough: dry, fatiguing, racking; in two paroxysms, worse at night and from warmth of bed; with utter inability to lie on right side. Affects lower lobe of right lung; stitches through to back (Chel., Kali c.). Suppuration of lungs, after haemorrhages of pneumonia (Kali c.). Ulcers on the gums, tongue, throat, inside of the cheek, with profuse salivation; irregular in shape, edges undefined; have a dirty, unhealthy look; lardaceous base surrounded with a dark halo; apt to run together (syphilitic ulcers are circular, attack the posterior parts of mouth, throat, and have well-defined edges, are surrounded with coppery hue, and do not extend from their primary seat). Trembling extremities, especially hands; paralysis agitans. Ailments from sugar, insect stings, vapors of arsenic or copper. Diseases occurring in winter.

Relations

Follows well: after, Bell., Hep., Lach., Sulph., but should not be given before or after Silicea. If given in low (weak) potencies hastens rather than aborts suppuration. The bad effects of Mer. are antidoted by Aur., Hep., Lach., Mez., Nit. ac., Sulph., and by a strong (high) potency of Mer., when the symptoms correspond. Compare: Mezereum, its vegetable analogue for bad effects of large doses or of too frequent repitition. Mercury is < by heat of, but > by rest in, bed. Arsenic is > by heat of, but < by rest in, bed.

Aggravation

At night; wet damp weather (Rhus); in autumn, warm days and cold, damp nights; lying on right side; perspiring.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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Mental

Very restless, is constantly changing from place to place; great anxiety of mind, and dread; indifference to everything, does not even care to eat. Dissatisfied; ill-humored.

Head

Troubles occurring in or on margin of the eyelids; forehead; scalp; bones of the head; external top of the head; glands about the ear.

Eyes and Ears

Momentary loss of sight; black spots before the eyes. Discharges from the ears.

Nose

Acrid nasal secretion, the nose sometimes being red and excoriated all the time; "dirty-nosed children"; bleeding of the nose; external nose (as the bridge of the nose may swell up very large on both sides and on the top).

Mouth and Throat

This remedy covers in general, affections of the mouth and fauces; right side of the fauces; right side of the neck; nape of the neck (i.e., affections appearing in any of the mentioned places). Gums are spongy and bleed easily; affections generally of the inner mouth; uvula; tongue; under the tongue; tongue covered with a very heavy, thick, yellow, moist covering; joints of the jaws, which are often stiff and sore; corners of the lips. Rarely give Mercur., if the tongue is dry. Increase of saliva; thirst, although there is so much saliva; bad smell from the mouth. Taste bitter; sometimes salt. Sensation as of something rising in the throat with desire to swallow it down; throat gets sore whenever a cold is taken.

Chest

Respiration having a bad smell. Cough and expectoration in the day, and none at night.

Abdomen

Inner region of the liver; external belly, which may be hard and sensitive to the touch; inguinal ring, either one.

Glands

Glands of the neck; of the lower jaw; about the ears; inguinal glands, they may swell every time the patient gets his feet wet, or takes cold--he gets stiff and can't walk; inflammation of: painful pricking; having pulsations in; swelling of; hot swelling of; inflammatory swelling of.

Joints

Joints in general, particularly arthritic pain in; weakness of.

Bones

Softening of the bones, so they will bend; enlargement of; caries of; inflammation of; prickling of; tearing in. Affections of shoulder-blades; shin-bones; bones of the leg.

Skin

Exanthema burning; pock-shaped (hence, think of this remedy in small-pox); of scarlet color; with swelling; miliary eruptions; purulent exanthema, i.e., ulcerating; ecchymosis, forming of black and blue spots, without receiving any external injury. Erysipelas. Sphacelus; brown mortification. Tetters in general; burning; suppurating. Ulcers in general; with burning on the edges; hard on the edges; with indented 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 the edges.

Fever

Perspiration in general; yellow, leaving a yellow stain on the linen; on the lower extremities, cold and clammy (especially at night), with concomitant complaints. Chilliness and heat alternately; heat and shuddering at the same time; heat with thirst; heat and shuddering alternately.

Sleep

Falling asleep late; complaints preventing (as toothache, or any severe pain or trouble, etc.); sleeplessness in general; before midnight.

Stool

Acrid; bloody; knotty; containing pus; viscid; complaints before--as a sick, painful, faint feeling comes on just before; complaints during; tenesmus; tenesmus without stool; diarrhœa with slime (Mercur. is rarely indicated in these troubles where there is no slime).

Urine

Acrid; dark; turbid; too frequent; complaints while passing, and after. Affections of the urethra.

Sexual

Male: Affections of penis; glans penis; prepuce. 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; i.e., of a whitish substance, behind the glans penis. Female: Leucorrhœa in general; complaints concomitant to leucorrhœa. Itching and burning of the genital organs, relieved by washing with cold water.

Sensation

sensation of coldness in outer parts; burning pain of inner parts; cutting in inner parts; darting pains in outer parts; darting in the bones.

Generalities

Sallow-colored face. Eructations; vomiting of bile. Blackness of outer parts; bleeding from inner parts; restlessness of the body; inflammation of inner parts; also of the mucous membranes; secretion of mucus increased from any of the 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.

Worse

At night; before falling asleep; when blowing the nose; during a catarrh; in children; from cold air; after taking cold; from lamp light; during perspiration; during small-pox; before stool; while urinating; on getting warm in bed; while lying on the right side; during stool; after having urinated.

Remedies following

Arsen., Asaf., Bellad., Calc. carb., Lycop., Phosphor., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia., Silic., Sulphur.

Antidotes

Bellad., Carb. veg., China, Hepar., Nitr. ac., Sulphur; and where there has been an overdosing, all symptoms agreeing, give Mercur., high.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

Gums painful to the touch, swollen, spongy, receding from the teeth, edges whitish, bleeding, fetid odour from the month. Moist tongue with intense thirst. Tongue swollen and flabby, showing impress of the teeth on the margins, movement difficult. Teeth feel loose, fall out, or become black and carious. During every menstrual period, anxiety, red tongue with dark spots and burning, salty taste; sickly colour of the gums and teeth set on edge. Leucorrhoea always worse at night, itching, burning, smarting, corroding with rawness. Itching of genitals, made worse from contact of urine remaining on the parts. Round spots shining through the skin, of a coppery-red colour. Syphilis. Flat, painless ulcers, pale, covered with phlegm-like pus, on the scalp, skin of penis, etc. Ulceration very superficial and wide spread. Ulcers having an impure lardaceous surface, with inflamed elevated, everted edges, like raw meat, readily bleeding. Colic, burning and tenesmus, before, during and after stools, chilliness between the stools Worse when lying on the right side, particularly the pain in the region of the liver, and bruised feeling in. the intestines. Boring pains in the exostoses at night. Cold, clammy, night sweats drive him out of bed. Sweating with all complaints, but the sweat affords., no relief.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Quicksilver (MERCURIUS - HYDRARGYRUM)

General

Every organ and tissue of the body is more or less affected by this powerful drug; it transforms healthy cells into decrepit, inflamed and necrotic wrecks, decomposes the blood, producing a profound anæmia. This malignant medicinal force is converted into useful life saving and life preserving service if employed homeopathically, guided by its clear cut symptoms. The lymphatic system is especially affected with all the membranes and glands, and internal organs, bones etc. Lesions produced by mercury very similar to those of syphilis. Very often indicated in the secondary stage of syphilis where there is a febrile chloro-anæmia, rheumatoid pains behind sternum, around joints, etc; ulcerations of mouth and throat, falling of the air, the eruptions and ulcerations of mouth and throat, etc. These are the special conditions and stages to which Mercur is homeopathic and where the 2x will do surprising work. Again, hereditary syphilis manifestations, are within its range; bullæ, abscesses, snuffles, marasmus, stomatitis or destructive inflammations. Tremors everywhere. Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion. All Mercury symptoms are worse at night, from warmth of bed, from damp, cold, rainy weather, worse during perspiration. Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling. A human "thermometer". Sensitive to heat and cold. Parts are much swollen, with raw, sore feeling; the profuse, oily perspiration does not relieve. Breath, excretions and body smell foul. Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked with thin blood.

Mind

Slow in answering questions. Memory weakened, and loss of will-power. Weary of life. Mistrustful. Thinks he is losing his reason.

Head

Vertigo, when lying on back. Band-feeling about head. One-sided, tearing pains. Tension about scalp, as if bandaged. Catarrhal headaches; much heat in head. Stinging, burning, fetid eruptions on scalp. Loss of hair. Exostosis, with feeling of soreness. Scalp tense; oily sweat on head.

Eyes

Lids red, thick, swollen. Profuse, burning, acrid discharge. Floating black spots. After exposure to glare of fire; foundrymen. Parenchymatous keratitis of syphilitic origin with burning pain. Iritis, with hypopyon.

Ears

Thick, yellow discharge; fetid and bloody. Otalgia, worse warmth of bed; at night sticking pains. Boils in external canal (Calc pic).

Nose

Much sneezing. Sneezing in sunshine. Nostrils raw, ulcerated; nasal bones swollen. Yellow-green, fetid, pus-like discharge. Coryza; acrid discharge, but too thick to run down the lip; worse, warm room. Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and caries, with greenish fetid ulceration. Nosebleed at night. Copious discharge of corroding mucus. Coryza, with sneezing; sore, raw, smarting sensation; worse, damp weather; profuse, fluent.

Face

Pale, earthy, dirty-looking, puffy. Aching in facial bones, Syphilitic pustules on face.

Mouth

Sweetish metallic taste. Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid. Saliva fetid, coppery. Speech difficult on account of trembling tongue. Gums spongy, recede, bleed easily. Sore pain on touch and from chewing. Whole mouth moist. Crown of teeth decay. Teeth loose, feel tender and elongated. Furrow in upper surface of tongue lengthwise. Tongue heavy, thick; moist coating; yellow, flabby, teeth-intended, feels as if burnt, with ulcers, Fetid odor from mouth, can smell it all over room. Alveolar abscess, worse at night. Great thirst, with moist mouth.

Throat

Bluish-red swelling. Constant desire to swallow. Putrid sore throat; worse right side. Ulcers and inflammation appearing at every change in weather. Stitches into ear on swallowing; fluids return through nose. Quinsy, with difficult swallowing, after pus has formed. Sore, raw, smarting, burning throat. Complete loss of voice. Burning in throat, as from hot vapor ascending.

Stomach

Putrid eructations. Intense thirst for cold drinks. Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. Stomach sensitive to touch. Hiccough and regurgitation. Feels replete and constricted.

Abdomen

Stabbing pain, with chilliness. Boring pain in right groin. Flatulent distention, with pain. Liver enlarged; sore to touch, indurated. Jaundice. Bile secreted deficiently.

Stool

Greenish, bloody and slimy, worse at night, with pain and tenesmus. Never-get-done feeling. Discharge accompanied by chilliness, sick stomach, cutting colic, and tenesmus. Whitish-gray stools.

Urine

Frequent urging. Greenish discharge from urethra; burning in urethra on beginning to urinate. Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous.

Male

Vesicles and ulcers; soft chancre. Cold genitals. Prepuce irritated; itches. Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood.

Female

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains. Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts. Stinging pain in ovaries (Apis). Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water. Morning sickness, with profuse salivation. Mammæ painful and full of milk at menses.

Respiratory

Soreness from fauces to sternum. Cannot lie on right side (Left side, Lycop). Cough, with yellow muco-purulent expectoration. Paroxysms of two; worse, night, and from warmth of bed. Catarrh, with chilliness; dread of air. Stitches from lower lobe of right lung to back. Whooping-cough with nosebleed (Arnica) Cough worse, tobacco smoke.

Back

Bruised pain in small of back, especially when sitting. Tearing pain in coccyx; better, pressing on abdomen.

Extremities

Weakness of limbs. Bone-pains and in limbs; worse, night. Patient very sensitive to cold. Oily perspiration. Trembling extremities, especially hands, paralysis agitans. Lacerating pain in joints. Cold, clammy sweat on legs at night. Dropsical swelling of feet and legs.

Skin

Almost constantly moist. Persistent dryness of the skin contra indicates mercurius. Excessive odorous viscid perspiration; worse, night. General tendency to free perspiration, but patient is not relieved thereby. Vesicular and pustular eruptions. Ulcers, irregular in shape, edges undefined. Pimples around the main eruption. Itching, worse from warmth of bed. Crusta lactea; yellowish-brown crusts, considerable suppuration. Glands swell every time patient takes cold. Buboes. Orchitis (Clemat, Hamam, Puls).

Fever

Generally gastric or bilious, with profuse nightly perspiration; debility, slow and lingering. Heat and shuddering alternately. Yellow perspiration. Profuse perspiration without relief. Creeping chilliness, worse in the evening and into night. Alternate flashes of heat in single parts.

Modalities

Worse, at night, wet, damp weather, lying on right side, perspiring; warm room and warm bed.

Relationship

Compare: Capparis coriaccea (polyuria, glandular affections, mucous diarrhœa; influenza); Epilobium--Willow herb--(chronic diarrhœa with tenesmus and mucous discharges; ptyalism, dysphagia; wasting of body and much debility; cholera infantum); Kali hyd (in hard chancre); Mercur acet (Congestion with stiffness, dryness and heat of parts affected. Eyes inflamed, burn and itch. Lack of moisture. Throat dry, talking difficult. Pressure in lower sternum; chancre in urethra; tenia capitis favosa margin of ulcers painful): Mercurius auratus (psoriasis and syphilitic catarrh; brain tumors; lues of nose and bones; ozæna; swelling of testicles); Mercurius bromatus (secondary syphilitic skin affection); Mercurius nitrosus-Nitrate of Mercury--(especially in postular conjunctivitis and keratitis; gonorrhœa and mucous patches, with sticking pains; syphilides); Mercurius phosphoricus (nervous diseases from syphilis; exostoses); Mercurius precipitatus ruber (suffocative attacks at night on lying down while on the point of falling asleep, obliged to jump up suddenly which relieves; gonorrhœa; urethra felt as a hard string; chancroid; phagedenic ulcer and bubo; pemphigus, mucous patches, eczema with rhagades and fissures, barber's itch; blepharitis, internally and externally; leaden heaviness in occiput, with otorrhœa); Mercurius tannicus (syphilides in patients with gastro-intestinal diseases, or, if very sensitive, to ordinary mercurial preparations); Erythrinus-South American Red Mullet Fish--(in pityriasis rubra and syphilis; red rash on chest; pityriasis); Lolium temulentum (in trembling of hands and legs); Mercur cum kali (inveterate colds, acute facial paralysis). Henchera-Alum root--(Gastro-enteritis nausea, vomiting of bile and frothy mucus; stools watery, profuse, slimy, tenesmus, never-get-done feeling. Dose, 2 to 10 drops of tincture).

Compare: Mez; Phos; Syph; Kali mur; Aethiops.

Antidote: Hep; Aur; Mez.

Complementary: Badiaga.

Dose

Second to thirtieth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Swollen, flabby tongue, taking imprint of the teeth; gums also swollen, spongy or bleeding; breath very offensive.

Sweats day and night without relief in many complaints.

Creeping chilliness in the beginning of a cold, or threatened suppuration.

Sliminess of mucous membranes.

Moist tongue, with intense thirst.

Glandular swellings, cold, inclined to suppurate; ulcers with lardaceous base.

Bone diseases; pains worse at night.

Dysentery: stools slimy, bloody, colic, fainting; great tenesmus during and after, followed by chilliness, and a "cannot finish sensation." The more blood and pain the better indicated.

Affects lower lobe of right lung; stitches through to back (Chel., Kali c.).

Intense thirst, although the tongue looks moist and the saliva is profuse.

In low potencies, hastens suppuration; in high, aborts suppuration, as in quinsy.

As in Antimonium crudum, so in Mercurius, the leading characteristic is found in the mouth, or, I might rather say, characteristics, for the gums are swollen, spongy, sometimes bleeding; the tongue is also swollen, flabby, taking the imprint of the teeth (Arsenicum, Chelidonium, Podophyllum, Rhus tox. and Stramonium), generally moist, yet with intense thirst; the whole mouth is moist with salivation which is soapy or stringy, and the odor from the mouth is very offensive; you can smell it all over the room. No remedy has this condition of mouth in any degree equal to Mercury. It is found in very many complaints, and if anything corroborative of the truth of "similia," etc., were desired the curative power of Mercury, when indicated by these symptoms, ought to be satisfactory. Many a time have I given great relief to my patient, and great credit to Homœopathy, by brilliant cures of that painful affection, quinsy, guided by these symptoms. Of course, in addition to the above symptoms the tonsils were greatly swollen and often apparently on the verge of suppuration. Right here let me warn against giving Mercurius too low, for if you do, it will hasten suppuration instead of aborting it. If anyone is skeptical as to the efficiency of the very high potencies, I invite him to a test in just such a case. Give a single dose, dry upon the tongue, or if you must seem to do more, dissolve a powder in four tablespoonfuls of water and give in half-hourly doses. Then Wait. I have done in many times and am convinced. If the patient has that other strong characteristic of Mercurius, viz., profuse perspiration, without relief of the suffering, success is doubly sure. (Sweat relieves, Arsenicum, Natrum mur., Psorinum.) I wish right here, as perhaps the most appropriate place, to disclaim being an exclusive high-potentist. The questions of dose is, and I believe must remain, an open one as long as different degrees of susceptibility are found in different diseases and persons. I have experimented along the whole line and know that both the high and the low are efficacious in certain cases. The preponderance of evidence, however, is greatly in favour of the high and the highest. This is my opinion. You may differ, and are welcome to do so.

The fever symptoms of Mercurius are notable, especially in the sweats. The chill also is peculiar as I have observed it. It is not a shaking chill, but is simply creeping chilliness. Often when this creeping chilliness is felt it is the first symptom of a cold that has been taken, and, if left alone, the coryza, sore throat, bronchitis of even pneumonia may follow; but, if taken early, a dose of Mercurius may prevent all such troubles. The chilliness is felt most generally in the evening and increases into the night if not removed by Mercury. It also alternates with flashes of heat; first chilly, then hot, then chilly, etc., like Arsenicum. It is often felt in single parts. Then again it is felt in abscesses and is the harbinger of pus formation. If pus has already formed, especially much of it, the only thing Mercury can do is to hasten its discharge; but if little or none is actually formed a dose of Mercury high will often check the formation and a profuse sweat often follows with a subsidence of the swelling and a rapid cure of the disease.

Now the sweats. They are very profuse and do not relieve like the sweats of inflammatory diseases generally do, but no the contrary the complaints increase with the sweat. (Tilia.). In what diseases is this condition found? It may be found in almost every disease: In sore throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleuritis, peritonitis, abscesses, rheumatism, etc., to the end of a long list. In short in any disease in which this profuse and persistent sweating without relief is present Mercurius is the first remedy to be thought of. Worse at night, and especially in the warmth of the bed, is another strong characteristic of Mercurius. (Ledum pal.) There is a long list of remedies that have aggravations at night, but not so many from warmth of the bed. I have cured many skin diseases of various names guided by this modality.

The glands and bones also come strongly under the influence of this remedy. The glandular swellings are cold, inclined to suppurate, having these chilly creepings aforementioned. These with the bone-pains in the exostoses and caries are all aggravated at night in the warmth of the bed.

The mucous membranes are everywhere affected; the discharges from them are at first thin and excoriating, even from the catarrh of the nose to the diarrhœic, or dysenteric, discharges. Afterwards they become thicker or more bland, like the Pulsatilla discharges. Where are worse at night also, even the leucorrhœa.

Hahnemann ranked Mercury (first) for syphilis, as he did Sulphur for psora and Thuja for sycosis, and no doubt justly so, for Mercury in its various forms symptomologically covers more cases of that disease than any other remedy. but it must be remembered that Mercury is no more a panacea for syphilis than is Sulphur for psora or Thuja for sycosis, else there would be no truth in similia similibus. The case in hand must simulate Mercury, or that remedy is not "in it," but some other remedy is. Experience abundantly corroborates this and proves the truth of the law, Similia Similibus Curantur.

Modalities

Modalities: < at night in warmth of bed, while sweating, lying on right side.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Anxiety, apprehension and restlessness, especially in the evening and at night, with fear of losing one's mind and understanding. Disgust of life. Great indifference to every thing. Irritable, quarrelsome mood. Continuous moaning and groaning. Peevish, taciturn, and auspicious. Hurried speech. Desire to flee, with nightly anxiety and apprehensions. Bad effects from fright, leaving one in a state of great anxiety and worse at night. Home-sickness with nightly anxiety and perspiration. Delirium ; mental derangement of drunkards.

Head

Fainting after sweetish rising in the throat, followed by sleep. Vertigo when lying on the back, with headache, nausea everything becomes black before the eyes. Weakness of memory, forgets every thing. Vertigo as if one were on a swing. Dull and stupid feeling, with dizziness. Vertigo on raising the head after stooping. Burning in the head, especially in the left temple, worse at night when lying in bed, better on sitting up. Compressive headache, the head feels as if it were in a vice with nausea ; worse in the open air, from sleeping, eating and drinking ; better in the room. Inflammation of the brain with burning and pulsation in the forehead, with the sensation as if the head were in a hoop ; worse at night, better after riding. Sensation of subcutaneous ulceration in the whole head ; worse at night when becoming warm in bed ; better after rising, and while sitting still in a warm room. Tearing in one (the left) side of the head and temple, extending from the neck, with insupportable heat and perspiration, worse at night and in the heat of the bed, relieved towards morning and while lying quiet. Tension over the forehead as from a tape or hoop, worse at night in bed ; better after rising and from laying the hand on it. Headache as if the head would burst with fulness of the brain. Congestion of blood to the head with heat in it. Hydrocephalus. Sensation of tension of the scalp. The scalp is painful to the touch ; worse when scratching, which is followed by bleeding. Tearing and stinging in the bones of the skull. Stitches through the heart. Itching on the hairy scalp, and forehead, and temples ; worse from scratching, when it bleeds and becomes erysipelatous. Dry, stinging, burning, fetid eruption like yellow crusts, on the forepart of the head and temples, when scratching inflammation and erysipelas. Exostoses on the hairy scalp, with sensation of subcutaneous ulceration on touching them, most painful at night in bed. Open fontanelles with dirty color of the face, restless sleep, and sour-smelling night-sweat. Falling off of the hair, mostly on the sides of the head and on the temple ; with humid eruptions on the head or after clammy perspirations of the head ; with itching at night in bed ; worse from scratching ; with burning ; with great tendency to perspiration. Great chilliness with contractive, tearing pain of the scalp, extending from the forehead to the neck. Fetid, sour-smelling, oily perspiration on the head and on the icy-cold forehead, with burning in the skin ; worse at night in bed, better after rising.

Eyes

Pain under the eyelids, as from a cutting body. Stitches in the eyes. Itching and heat in the eyes. Inflammation of the eyes, with redness of the white of the eye, and great painfulness when looking into the bright light. Violent lachrymation in the evening. Blear-eyedness. Pustules on the conjunctiva. Ulcers on the cornea. Scurfs around the eyes. Swelling of the eyelids, they are covered on the edges with scurfs and ulcers. The eyes are dim and without lustre. Violent contraction of the eyelids, it is difficult to open them. Periodical vanishing of sight. Aversion to light and to look into the fire. Mistiness before the eyes ; amaurotic dimness before the left eye. Black spots, flies, sparks and mistiness before the eyes. Twitching of the lids.

Ears

Inflammation of the internal and external ear (Otalgia), with stinging and tearing pain. Soreness of the ears. Fungous excrescences in the ear. Discharge of pus from the ear with ulceration of the external ear. Inflammatory swelling of the (right) parotid gland with stinging. Pulsative roaring in the ears. Hardness of hearing, all sounds vibrate violently in the ear, the ears feel obstructed, but open when swallowing or blowing the nose ; or the obstruction is caused by an enlargement of the tonsils. Buzzing, roaring, and ringing in the ears.

Nose

Red, shining swelling of the nose with itching. Greenish fetid pus is discharged from the nose. Swelling of the nasal bones. Blackish nose. Scurfy nostrils, bleeding when cleansed. Bleeding of the nose during sleep or when coughing. Profuse fluent coryza with profuse discharge of watery corrosive mucus.

Face

Pale, yellow, earthy color of the face with dull eyes without lustre. Heat and redness of the cheeks. Swelling of one (right) side of the face with heat and toothache. Yellow, dirty scurf in the face with discharge of fetid moisture, itching, bleeding after scratching. Crusta lactea. Tearing in the face. Lips rough, black, dry, painful to the touch. Cracks and rhagades in the lips and corners of the mouth. Burning pimples with yellow crusts on the lips. Pimples and eruptions on the chin. Lock-jaw with stinging pains and hard swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.

Mouth and Throat

Almost complete immovability of the jaw, scarcely permitting one to open the mouth, with violent pain and inflammatory swelling of the lower jaw. Caries of the jaw. Looseness of the teeth, which are painful when touched by the tongue -they fall out. Toothache aggravated from heat and cold (air), from eating, in the evening and at night, the heat of the bed makes it insupportable. The nightly pulsating toothache extends to the ear. Stitches in the teeth. Itching, burning and redness of the gums. Spongy, easily bleeding gums. The gums recede from the teeth, they are painful to the touch, burning at night, and swollen. The upper border of the gums looks indented, the indentations being white and ulcerated. The swollen gums have white, elevated, ulcerated, pointed edges. Bleeding of the gums when touching them ever so little. Fetid smell from the mouth. Inflammatory swelling of the inner mouth. Burning ulcers on the inside of the cheeks. Aphthæ of children : stomacace. Ulceration of salivary glands. Ptyalism, the saliva is often fetid and tenacious. Tongue moist, soft, covered with mucus. Tongue dry, hard, coated black. Inflammation, swelling, induration and suppuration of the tongue. Tongue swollen, soft, flabby, the edges become indented by the impression of the teeth. Quick and stuttering speech. Complete loss of speech and voice. Accumulation of much tough mucus in the mouth. Ranula. Pain when swallowing as if a foreign body were swallowed down. Burning in the throat as if from a hot vapor ascending from the stomach, with dryness in the throat when swallowing, and continuous desire to swallow, with accumulations of water in the mouth. Redness and pain of the throat : erysipelatous inflammation of all the soft parts of the mouth and throat. Inflammation and redness of the palate. Angina especially with stinging pains aggravated by empty deglutition at night and in the cold air. Continuous painful dryness of the throat ; the mouth being full of water. The fluid which is swallowed comes up through the nose. Sticking pain in the tonsils when swallowing. Ptyalism attends the sore throat. Syphilitic ulcers in the mouth and throat. Bitter sweetish or putrid taste in the mouth. Saltish taste on the lips. The bread tastes sweet.

Stomach and Abdomen

Canine hunger, even after eating. Excessive hunger, but does not relish any thing he eats. Has no appetite for dry food, likes liquid food. Violent burning thirst, especially for beer and cold drinks, day and night. Rising of air or acrid, bitter, putrid eructations. Regurgitation of the ingesta, vomiting of food. Nausea with sweet taste in the throat, vertigo, headache and heat. At night restlessness with bitter, bilious vomiting. Pressure in the stomach ; it hangs down heavily, even after very light, easily digestible food. Burning pain in the pit of the stomach. Painfulness of the region of the stomach especially to the touch. Great weakness of digestion with continuous hunger. The stomach feels replete and constricted. Swelling and induration of the liver. The region of the liver is painfully sensitive to contact. Inflammation of the liver with stinging pains. Distention of the abdomen with pressure and tension and painfulness to contact. Cutting and pinching in the abdomen, especially after taking cold. Cutting and tearing in the abdomen at night. Stabbing in the abdomen as from knives. Colic which only passes off in a recumbent position. The intestines feel bruised if he lies on the right side. Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen. Colic, caused by the cool evening air, with diarrhœa. Shaking sensation of the bowels on walking, they feel relaxed. Inflammation of the peritoneum and of the intestines. Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands. Bubœs.

Stool and Anus

Frequent ineffectual pressing to stool with tenesmus, worse at night. Constipation, stool tenacious or crumbling, can only be discharged after violent straining. Feces of small shape. Stools undigested, black, tenacious (pitch-like) yellowish, white-gray, green, mucus, blood and mucus, undigested, smelling-sour, excoriating the anus. Chilliness between the diarrhœic stools. During a diarrhœic stool nausea and eructations. Discharges of bloody mucus accompanied by colic and tenesmus -dysentery. Discharge of blood before, during and after a stool, if it is even hard. Burning pain in the anus with a loose stool. Discharge of mucus from the rectum. After the stool prolapsus ani, or when pressing and straining to stool. Discharge of ascarides and lumbrici. Diarrhœa preceded by colic from cool evening air. Rectum black, discharging blood.

Urinary Organs

Frequent, violent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge in feeble stream. Irresistible, sudden desire to urinate. Involuntary emission of urine. The quantity of urine emitted is larger than the quantity of fluid drank. Urine dark-red, soon becoming turbid and fetid. Urine smells sour and pungent. The urine looks as if mixed with blood, with white flakes or as if containing pus ; scanty, fiery red. Hæmorrhage from the urethra. Burning and stinging in the urethra. Thick greenish (or yellow) (gonorrhœic) discharge from the urethra, more at night.

Sexual Organs

Men. Perspiration on the genitals when walking. Soreness between the genitals and thighs. Swelling of the lymphatic vessels along the penis. Painful inflammation and swelling of the glans and prepuce. Ulcers on the glans with cheesy bottom. (Chancres). Chancre ulcers on the prepuce and glans. Hard swelling of the testicles with shining redness. Lascivious excitement with painful nightly erections. Nightly emissions of semen mixed with blood. Women. Menstruation too profuse, with anxiety and colic. Suppressed menstruation. Congestion of blood to the uterus. Sterility with too profuse menstruation ; easy conception. Swelling, heat and shining redness of the labia. Inflammation of the ovaries and uterus. Prolapsus vaginæ. Fluor albus, purulent and acrid. Hard swelling and suppuration of the mammæ with sore pains, ulcerated nipples. The infant rejects the milk.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness with burning and tickling in the larynx. Catarrh with cough, hoarseness, fluent coryza and sore throat. Cough with hoarseness from tickling in the larynx. Violent, racking dry cough, especially at night, as if it would burst the head and chest sometimes with vomiturition. Bloody expectoration. Spasmodic cough (hooping cough) ; two paroxysms follow one another rapidly, from tickling in the larynx and the upper part of the chest, at night, without cough during the day, with expectoration of acrid yellowish mucus, which is sometimes mixed with coagulated blood, tasting putrid or salty. The cough is aggravated in the night air, at night and when lying on the left side. Dyspnœa (sensation of spasmodic contraction when coughing or sneezing). Burning in the chest, extending to the throat. Soreness and burning in the chest. Stitches in the chest (right side, through from the shoulder-blade) ; inflammation of the lungs. Sensation of dryness in the chest. Palpitation of the heart. Suppuration of the lungs after hæmorrhages.

Back and Neck

Bruised sensation of the shoulder-blades, back and small of the back. Stinging pains in the small of the back, with the sensation of weakness. Erysipelatous inflammation, extending from the back like a girdle around the abdomen (Zona). Rheumatic stiffness and swelling of the neck. Inflammation and swelling of the glands of the neck, with pressing pains and stitches.

Extremities

Rheumatic pains in the shoulders and upper arms. Twitching of the arms and fingers. Red hot (arthritic) swelling from the elbow to the wrist. Burning, scaly herpes on the forearms and hands. Eruption like moist itch on the hands, with violent nightly itching. Painful stiffness of the right wrist-joint. Contraction of the fingers. Painful and bleeding rhagades on the hands. Swelling of the finger-joints. Exfoliation of the finger-nails. Lower. Tearing in the hip-joint and knee, worse at night or with pulsating pain, the suppuration beginning. Rheumatic pains in the leers with stinging, especially in the hip-joint, femur and knee, worse at night, the affected parts feel cold. Dropsical swelling of the legs. Cold sweat on the feet. Painful swelling of the metatarsal bones.

Generalities

Great debility and weakness, with trembling and ebullitions from the least exertion. Congestions to the head, chest and abdomen. Rheumatic and arthritic pains, tearing and stinging, especially in the limbs and joints, worse at night, with profuse perspiration which gives no relief. Stinging pains. Contractions of some parts. Inflammations ending in exudations and suppurations. Rheumatic and catarrhal inflammations, with great tendency to perspiration.

Sleep

Great sleepiness during the day. Sleeplessness at night on account of anxiety, ebullitions and congestions. Perspiration during sleep.

Fever

Pulse irregular, generally full and fast, with violent beating in the arteries, at times weak, slow and tremulous. Ebullitions with trembling from slight exertions. Chilliness early in the morning when rising, but more so in the evening after lying down, as if cold water had been thrown over him, and not relieved by the heat of the stove. Chilliness at night with frequent micturition. Chilliness between the diarrhœic stools. Internal chilliness with heat of the 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 the chest, alternating with chilliness. Perspiration, towards morning, with thirst and palpitation of the heart ; from the least exertion, even when eating. Perspiration in the evening before going to sleep. Very debilitating night-sweats. Perspiration has an offensive smell, or smells sour, and in cold, oily, clammy, and burns the skin. The perspiration gives no relief, and accompanies all ailments. Intermittent fever. Chilliness in the evening in bed, afterwards heat with violent thirst. Chilliness and heat without thirst, towards morning thirst ; during the perspiration, palpitation of the heart and nausea, the perspiration smells, fetid, or sour.

Skin

Swelling and inflammation of the bones, with pains at night. (Rachitis). (Caries). Skin dirty yellow, rough and dry. (Jaundice). Itching over the whole body, especially at night in bed, when getting warm. Ulcers corroding and easily bleeding. Itch-bleeding easily. Itching eruptions, burning after scratching. Herpes, burning when touched, humid with large scales on the edges. Syphilitic ulcers and herpes. Erysipelatous inflammation of external parts. Suppurations.

Conditions

Aggravation in the evening and at night ; from the heat of the bed, before failing asleep, from the candle-light during perspiration, when exercising. Amelioration in the morning, when at rest, when lying down.

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General

( 1 ) MERCURIUS OXYDULATUS NIGER.

Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni. Dimercuros ammonium nitrate. 2 (NH 2 Hg 2 ) NO 3 H 2 O. [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. Chamæleon 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) . Anæmia. Aphthæ. 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). Diarrhœa (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) . Leucorrhœa; 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). Pyæmia (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 homœopathic prescribing in his preface to the proving. Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni was invented by him in his pre-homœopathic 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 diarrhœa 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 ." Homœopathy 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. Gonorrhœa. 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. Œdema 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. Diarrhœa 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 homœopathic 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 mammæ 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; ozæna; 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. (gonorrhœa); 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. (diarrhœa; dentition); Caust. (gonorrhœa); 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 vulvæ < 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 hæmorrhages); 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 gonorrhœa. Suppressed foot-sweat.

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.

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.

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.

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 otorrhœa 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.

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.

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.).

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.

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, aphthæ 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. ─ Aphthæ 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 fœtid 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; fæces and urine passed easily; lasted three days; (almost complete relief by Hyo .). ─ Ranula. ─ Ulceration and caries of palate.

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 œsophagus. ─ 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.

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.

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.

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 diarrhœa), 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 cæcal region. ─ Ulceration and suppuration of inguinal glands. ─ Buboes. ─ Abdomen externally cold to touch.

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; diarrhœa with slime ( Merc . is rarely indicated in these troubles where there is no slime. ─ H. N. G.). ─ Constipation, with hard, tenacious and knotty fæces, which cannot be expelled without straining. ─ Fæces of small shape; ribbon-like. ─ Ineffectual, but frequent want to evacuate, esp. at night, and sometimes with tenesmus, protrusion of hæmorrhoids, 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. ─ Diarrhœa (preceded by colic), caused by the fresh air of evening. ─ Chilliness between the diarrhœic stools. ─ During a diarrhœic 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. ─ Fæces of consistence of pap, or frothy, or like hash. ─ Evacuation of corrosive and burning fæcal 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 hæmorrhoids. ─ 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.

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, (gonorrhœa) with phimosis; chancroids.

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 phagedænic 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.

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. ─ Leucorrhœa in general; complaints concomitant to leucorrhœa. ─ Leucorrhœa always < at night; greenish discharge; smarting, corroding, itching, burning after scratching. ─ Purulent, corrosive leucorrhœa, 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 vaginæ; 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.

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. ─ Dyspnœa (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.

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 hæmorrhages, or after pneumonia. ─ Emphysema of lungs.

Heart

Palpitation of heart; on slightest exertion. ─ Fainting. ─ Fatal syncope.

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).

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.

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 tibiæ. ─ 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. ─ Œdematous, 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.

Generalities

Œdema of face, hands, and feet with anæmia. ─ 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 hæmorrhages. ─ 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.

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 maculæ hepaticæ, 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.

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.

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 diarrhœic 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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Unconsciousness.
Memory weak ; forgets everything.
Loss of will power. [merc. v]
Slow in answering questions. [merc. v]
Intellect very weak ; shows every mark of imbecility. [merc. v]
Absentmindedness.
Time seems to pass more slowly.
Embarrassment.
Obtuseness of mental operations, with great inclination to sleep ; heaviness and muddledness of head. θ Typhoid.
Imbecility ; foolish, mischievous, disgusting actions.
Fancies ; rarely delirium.
Delirium and mental derangement of drunkards. [merc. v]
Muttering delirium. [merc. v]
Believes he is losing his reason, thinks he is dying, with illusions of fantasy ; sees water running where there is none. s.
Mania, with liver complaint.
Great restlessness as if he had committed a great crime ; has no desire for food, although he relishes it when commencing to eat ; considers everybody his enemy ; ideas constantly crowd upon his mind, one constantly chasing the other away ; great inclination when
walking to take people by the nose ; weakness of memory and intellect ; dull and stupid feeling in head ; complains that his head will burst. θ Mania.
Almost uncontrollable desire to travel far away.
Desire to flee, with nightly anxiety and apprehension.
Homesickness, or desire to travel ; wants to go abroad ; nightly anxiety and perspiration.
After suppression of foot sweat, whenever he sees an open window or a cutting instrument breaks into a sweat, with great heat of head, and is seized with an almost uncontrollable desire to commit suicide.
Desire to kill the person contradicting her.
Great desire to murder or commit suicide, particularly during menstrual period ; despondency ; involuntary crying ; great indifference ; is fearful that she may commit some wrong and kill herself ; something urges her to kill her husband, of whom she is very
fond, and she implores him to hide his razor.
Continuous moaning and groaning.
Hurried and rapid talking. s.
Excited, lively ; everything is done hastily. [merc. v]
Taciturn and indifferent.
Fear of being alone.
Anxiety and restless change of place ; ebullitions, sweat ; apprehensive, imaginary fears ; fears he will lose his mind ; < evening and night.
Anxiety and apprehension ; did not know what to do ; it seemed as though he had committed a crime ; without heat ; also with a feeling that he had not control over his senses. s.
Anxiety driving her to suicide ; thoughts of suicide ; during menses great anxiety from which she cannot free herself ; desire for death ; great indifference even to those she formerly loved ; crying almost involuntary, with relief ; hysteria ;
hypochondriasis.
Disgust of life.
Much wretchedness and dejection of spirits, with diarrhœa. s.
Hysterical melancholia, with inclination to murder.
Inexpressible pain of soul and body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil impended, < at night, with precordial anguish ; sweat of hands and heat of face ; disgusted with himself, has not courage to live ; constant suspicion, considering everybody his enemy. θ Melancholia.
Grief, with fear at night ; disposition to quarrel ; complaining of relations and surroundings.
Amativeness ; amorousness.
Morose and mistrustful ; treated his associates almost insultingly, looked upon every one as his worst enemy. s.
Great restlessness, must constantly change her place ; fear, with desire to escape, as if she had committed some crime. θ Hysteria.
A universal uneasiness of body, so that he could not remain one moment in the same posture. [merc. v]
Towards evening, an uneasiness that did not permit him to remain in any place ; could not remain sitting two minutes ; was forced to change. s.
No rest in any place, constantly anxious. s.
Extreme restlessness all night, beginning about 8 P. M., and lasting till morning. s.
Bad effects from fright, leaving one in a state of great anxiety, < at night.
Ailments from mortification ; from insults ; from egotism.

Sensorium

Sopor : coma. [merc. v]
Fainting after sweetish rising in throat, followed by sleep.
Dull and stupid feeling, with dizziness.
Confusion of head, in morning on waking. s.
Weakness in head like a dulness, and as if there was a vibration in forehead and a turning about in a circle. s.
Constant rotary motion of head, even when lying on pillow. [merc. v]
Vertigo : as if in a swing ; after stooping ; lying on back ; with headache and nausea ; everything turns black ; with nausea, distracted thoughts, momentary loss of vision ; cannot stand erect, or even sit up in bed for fear of falling.
Prophylactic in apoplexy, in lymphatic, or leuco-phlegmatic, ill nourished subjects.

Inner head

Tension over forehead, as if bandaged of in a hoop ; < at night in bed ; > after rising or when laying hand on it.
Pressure in forehead and pain in bone beneath eyebrow, even to touch. s.
Pains in forehead, with disordered liver.
Pressive or tearing pain in left temple. s.
Burning in head, especially in left temple ; < at night lying in bed, > sitting up.
Stitches through whole head.
Tearing, burning, stitching, boring or semilateral tearing down to teeth and neck, with stitches in ears.
Tearing, drawing pains in head having their seat in periosteum and in bones of face ; rheumatic headaches.
Headache as if just beneath scalp, as if it were too heavy and tight in brain. s.
Catarrhal, rheumatic or syphilitic headaches.
Violent headache. θ Yellow fever.
Chronic cephalalgia, with suicidal tendency, caused by suppression of foot sweat ; pressing or stitching pains in head, < in forehead, only during day.
Congestion to head ; head feels as if it would burst, with fulness of brain ; as if constricted by a band.
Head feels as if in a vise, with nausea ; < in open air, from sleeping, eating and drinking ; > in room.
Head feels heavy and swollen ; as if getting larger and larger.
Heaviness of head, vertigo when raising head, with nausea and vomiting ; child wants to lie quietly in horizontal position ; somnolence, indifference, with mournful expression of face ; diminution of all intellectual faculties ; amblyopia ; weakness and paralysis
of extremities ; convulsions. θ Hydrocephaloid.
Inflammation of brain, with hoop-like feeling ; burning and pulsation in forehead ; < at night, > after riding.
Lies in a dull, sleepy condition, from which he occasionally awakes without regaining complete consciousness ; restless at night ; anxious dreams ; delirious talk ; face pale, distorted ; head hot ; forehead moist ; eyes dim, pupils contracted,
conjunctivæ injected ; speech unintelligible on account of dryness of tongue ; lips dry ; temperature of skin elevated ; pulse 114 ; urine thick, ammoniacal ; constipation. θ Inflammation
of brain. [merc. v]
Drowsy, with restless throwing about and occasional waking with shrill cry, which is again followed by dozing off ; sensitive of eyes to light is diminished ; squinting. s. θ Meningitis.
Acute hydrocephalus after severe attack of scarlet fever ; every quarter or half hour ; terrible continuous shrieking for one or two minutes ; frequently moves right hand towards head, or thrusts hand into wide opened mouth, l. arm remaining motionless ; frequent
chewing motion of mouth ; strabismus ; sopor ; high fever, pulse cannot be counted ; involuntary urination. [merc. v]
For two years indications of hydrocephalus ; head large, hanging forward ; anterior fontanelle open ; forehead protruding ; eyes sunken ; pupils enlarged ; face earthy, œdematous ; constant flow of saliva ; teeth small ; impatient desire for
food. (Bellad. And Phos. also used.).
Brain troubles of drunkards.
Apoplexy, from effusion or congestion.

Outer head

Sutures open, large head ; precocious development ; restless sleep ; dirty color of face ; sour night sweat ; body bathed in sweat. θ Hydrocephalus.
All sutures pressed asunder, not a single border of a bone touches its neighbor ; even eyes appear unusually protruded. θ Hydrocephalus.
Exostoses, with feeling of soreness when touched ; pain at night in bed.
Lacerating, tearing and stinging in bones of skull.
Whole external head painful to touch. s.
Multiple abscesses of head ; rachitic, anterior fontanelles open ; large abdomen ; fever, loss of appetite, diarrhœa ; great weakness, cannot sit up despite pain caused by lying down. s.
Several days after birth, swelling over parietal bone near posterior fontanelle, resembling half a goose egg in form and size, fluctuating upon pressure and circumscribed by a ring of swollen bone. θ Cephalæmatoma.
Scalp : tense ; contractive, tearing pain from forehead to neck, with chilliness ; painful to touch, < when scratching, which causes bleeding ; eruption itching, dry, humid, pustular, fetid, with yellow crusts ; erysipelas < on
forehead ; hair falls out, mostly on sides and temples ; sweaty.
Fetid, sour smelling, oily sweat on head ; on forehead it is icy cold ; burning on skin ; < at night in bed and after rising.
Moist eruption on scalp that eats away hair, with sensitive pressure, especially in sore places. s.
Small elevated scabs between hairs on scalp. s.
On forehead, between eyebrows, small patches of pustular eruption, with greenish yellow scabs. θ Impetigo.
Profuse falling out of hair, mostly on sides of head and temples. [merc. v]

Sight and eyes

Worse from heat and glare of fire ; also from daylight. s.
Optical illusions : in dark colors ; in green colors ; black points ; muscæ volitantes ; mistiness ; cloud ; fiery sparks ; letters seem to move.
Eyes dim, lustreless ; blear-eyed.
For one year, failing sight ; frequent temporary loss of vision ; even when not using eyes there are always dark spots or a kind of cloud before sight, constant lachrymation and aching pressing pain in eye ; she cannot bear light of fire. θ Amblyopia.
Scotoma of right eye after a fall, with dimness of vision, constant flickering before eye and floating black specks.
If she attempts to look at anything cannot distinctly recognize it, and then eyes are almost always involuntarily drawn together ; the more she tries to restrain the contraction, the less able she is to prevent it ; is obliged to lie down and close
eyes. s.
Eyes forcibly drawn together, as if long deprived of sleep. s.
Fog before one or both eyes. s.
Dimness of vision ; vision weak. [merc. v]
Heat in eyes and lachrymation. s.
Burning in eyes ; itching. s.
Pressure in eyes. s.
Eyes hot, a kind of dry heat. s.
Heat, redness and pressure in both eyes. s.
Stitches in eyes.
Choroiditis.
Iritis ; syphilitic ; pains around eyes, on forehead and temples ; < from touch ; throbbing shooting pains in eye ; hypopion ; pains severe, tearing, boring, cutting, < at night and in damp weather ; much heat around eye and soreness of
corresponding side of head ; great sensitiveness to heat, cold and light ; acrid lachrymation ; pupil contracted and covered by thin bluish film, with great tendency to formation of adhesions to lens ; iris discolored, ciliary injection.
Tearing pains in forehead and vertex ; shooting from deep within eye ; < every evening and night ; conjunctiva of right eye greatly inflamed and swollen ; phlegmonous inflammation and swelling of lids which are painful to slightest touch ; great
photophobia ; flow of hot tears from eye ; white ring around cornea ; iris brown, greenish (blue in health) ; pupil fixed ; iris inflamed and at later stage became shaped like that of ruminating animals ; fever ; sleepless at night on account of pain ;
profuse sweats without relief ; every night at 12 o'clock, intolerable pains in eye almost exhausting him ; offensive odor from mouth ; much expectoration of mucus ; pappy taste ; tenesmus ; patient gouty.
Episcleritis.
Sclerotic swollen and very red ; cornea dim and showing indications of beginning formation of pus ; vertigo ; slimy mouth ; white coated tongue, yellow towards base ; loss of appetite ; great thirst ; chilliness, with heat and congestions to
head ; tendency to sweat ; steaming or moist skin ; transient stitches in body and limbs ; restless and sleepless at night.
Cornea dim, red, surrounded by puffy swelling like raw meat ; burning ; light dazzles ; it seems to him as if sparks of fire were being emitted from eyes ; stitches deep in eyes and in temples ; eyelids dry and swollen ; l. eye <.
Ulcers of cornea vascular and surrounded by greyish opacity ; pus between corneal layers ; onyx.
Pustule on cornea, with photophobia and lachrymation ; when eyes are well has noises in ears, and when eyes are sore top of head is so sore she cannot comb her hair ; profuse watery coryza excoriating nose. s.
Keratitis pustulosa ; pain in eye day and night, conjunctiva much congested, burning lachrymation ; excessive photophobia, eruptions around eye ; < at night ; bad breath in morning ; wants to sleep by day and cannot at night ; pain in bones at
night ; sharp sticking pains, < at night after gaslight. s.
Vesicles on margin of cornea, eyes feel < at night, watery eruption on face, hair falls out, nose swollen internally, cracked and unhealthy. s.
Lachrymation profuse, burning and excoriating.
Muco-purulent discharges, thin and acrid.
Lids are spasmodically closed, thick, red, swollen, excoriated, very sensitive to heat, cold and contact.
Lachrymation and photophobia (noises in ear disappear when eyes become sore) ; top of head so sore she cannot comb her hair. θ Keratitis pustulosa.
Keratitis parenchymatosa, due to hereditary syphilis.
Keratoiritis, with hypopion, pain very severe at night, eye feeling as if it was a ball of fire, lachrymation hot.
Inflammation of eyes ; cornea covered with scars from old ulcerations ; scleral vessels injected, especially between insertion of recti muscles, where sclera is slightly bulged and thinned, so that dark color of choroid shines through ; steady aching, < at night. θ Episcleritis.
Syphilitic iritis ; condylomata in iris ; hypopion ; contraction ; discoloration and immobility ; ciliary injection, haziness of aqueous ; pains of a tearing, boring character, chiefly around eye, in forehead and temples, which
are sore to touch ; throbbing, shooting, sticking pains in eye ; all < at night.
Retinitis and choroiditis, particularly if dependent upon syphilis ; retina very sensitive in glare.
Diseases of optic nerve and retina, occurring in workers in foundries.
Great opaqueness, violent pain, dacryorrhœa, photophobia, swelling of lids. θ Keratitis vasculosa. s.
Ophthalmia neonatorum ; discharge acrid, usually thin, makes cheek sore ; particularly if caused by syphilitic leucorrhœa.
Purulent ophthalmia, with copious discharge ; lids much swollen, underneath much purulent matter which pours out in quantities on opening eyes. s.
Rheumatic, arthritic, syphilitic or gonorrhœal ophthalmia.
Lids swollen ; sensation of a body causing dull pressive or cutting pains underneath lids, with difficulty in moving them ; daylight or candlelight insupportable and causes burning, gnawing pains in eyes which are moderately red, so that lids are closed convulsively, and can
with difficulty be opened ; lids agglutinated with raw pain at their edges.
Eyelids swollen ; lids and cheeks covered with a pustular eruption ; dried pus hangs upon eyelashes ; greyish white spots upon corneæ ; photophobia, lies upon face ; nose and lips swollen ; copious, thick, green, acrid discharge from nose, excoriating nose
and upper lip, back of hand and forearm, upon which child wiped its nose, corroded ; glands of ears swollen ; irritable, impatient, disposed to cry. θ Scrofulous inflammation of eyes.
Chronic syphilitic ophthalmia ; vessels of conjunctiva injected and distended ; pupil linear and contracted, and anterior and posterior chambers of eyes appeared quite confused ; objects appear quite small and indistinct ; feathers appear to come from angles of eyes
and hinder vision ; myopia ; frequent attacks of cramp in stomach in all phases of the moon, and on least atmospheric variation or immediately after some unusual pleasureable or painful impression ; stiffness of maxillary joint, and pain in sole of foot, could with difficulty
chew and could not bear to walk ; can scarcely keep in erect position, bone pains at night preventing sleep ; must be turned in bed by means of a sheet.
Eyes inflamed, with swollen inverted tarsi and very sensitive to light. [merc. v]
Pustules on conjunctiva.
Conjunctivitis pustulosa after measles ; scrofula, with enlarged cervical glands.
Great swelling of lids, sensibility to touch, < before midnight, no > from sweat. θ Blenorrhoea of conjunctiva.
Chronic conjunctivitis, with a fine, rosy red injection around cornea. [merc. v]
Pressure in eyes as from sand.
Burning pains, lachrymation acrid, photophobia, sensitiveness to extreme heat or cold very marked, especially heat of "glaring fire" and coldness of damp places. θ Granular
conjunctivitis.
Pupils dilated. s.
Biting and burning in eyes, especially in open air.
Cutting, stinging or aching pains in eyes, especially when exerting them.
Great swelling, redness and constriction of lids ; they are sensitive to touch ; upper lid tight and red like a stye.
Inflammatory swelling in region of lachrymal bone.
Eyes close forcibly, whether sitting, standing or walking.
Lids : spasmodically closed ; erysipelatous ; sensitive to cold, heat and to touch ; raw excoriated ; burning as from fiery points.
Blepharitis : lids red, thick and swollen, particularly upper ; sensitive ; lachrymation profuse, burning, acrid, making lids sore, red and painful ; < in open air or by constant application of cold water.
Ciliary blepharitis caused from working over fires or forges.
Inflammation or blenorrhœa of lachrymal sac.
Cutting under lid, as from a sharp body.
Edges of lids covered with scurfs and ulcers.
Absence of cilia (nadarosis), nose sore and excoriated ; Meibomian glands ulcerated, with scurf on margins of lids.
Entropium ; ectropium ; affections of Meibomian cysts.
Styes on upper lids.
Twitching of lids.
Violent contraction of eyelids, it is difficult to open them.

Hearing and ears

Subjective sounds : various kinds of ringing ; roaring ; pulsative roaring ; buzzing.
Deafness : sounds vibrate in ears ; obstruction momentarily > after swallowing or blowing nose ; external meatus moist ; catarrhal after catching cold ; after otitis.
Sensation of coldness in ears continually. θ Pregnancy.
Interstitial inflammation and swelling of periosteum.
Sensation as if right ear was stuffed up ; ringing in ear ; enlarged tonsils, with occlusion of Eustachian tubes and impaired hearing.
Soreness and excoriation of inner ears.
Tearing or shooting pain in ears.
Sticking and burning deep in both ears, < in left. s.
Ears inflamed internally and externally, pain cramplike, sticking and as if stopped by swelling. s.
Stinging, tearing pains ; purulent discharge, green, offensive ; glands swollen.
Inflammation of submucous and subcutaneous cellular tissue, extending to parotid gland, which becomes swollen and tender ; throbbing pain, < at night on getting warm in bed. θ Otitis.
Otitis after cold ; intolerable pains in whole head, but particularly in ears ; boring, tearing, stitching, with roaring and rumbling, particularly in left ear, which is externally red, hot and swollen ; pain so severe as to cause
fainting ; thirst ; great restlessness ; sleeplessness.
Hardness of hearing, roaring in ears, yellow discharge. θ Chronic otitis.
Watery discharge and hemorrhage from ears, first left, then right ; sides of neck red, swollen, tender ; noises like bells ringing, whistling or running of trains, first left, then r. ; shooting from left ear through head to right and from left ear to left temple ;
shooting > by cold, < by warmth ; discharge < by warmth ; noises and shooting < by lying on left side ; deaf ; shooting makes her hold head and shudder ; pulse 150, feeble ; pricking in ears before discharge comes ; aching in ears, first left,
then right, 5.45 P. M. [merc. v]
Since an attack of measles, twenty two years ago, has suffered from a profuse, offensive smelling discharge from right ear, to which within the last few years were associated hardness of hearing and ringing in ears ; watch could not be heard on
right side, upon left side could be heard only at distance of one and a half inches ; tuning fork could be heard only on right side ; right auditory canal occluded by soft, easily bleeding polypi ; mucous membrane red, puffed, raw and very sensitive ; yellowish white,
offensive, muco-purulent discharge ; polypi dropped off in six days.
Inflammation of left ear, with hardness of hearing ; subjective symptoms, as though a melody was ground upon an organ in head and after a few turns was snapped off ; sensation of fulness in ear and stopped up feeling, as though a wedge was driven in. s.
Pain beneath ear, extending down jaw. θ Otitis.
Stitching, tearing, pressing, burning pains deep in ear, extending to cheek ; ear burns externally, feels cold internally ; pinching and pressing ; ear moist.
Purulent offensive otorrhœa, with itching in ears ; vesicular eruption in face, each vesicle surrounded by a red areola ; itching nodular eruption on legs.
Enlarged cervical glands ; frequent otalgia ; chronic discharge of profuse, yellowish, very offensive pus from ear ; < at night ; pain in ears at night ; eruption behind ears. [merc. v]
Offensive otorrhœa ; itching in ears. θ Syphilis.
Matter flows from both ears ; in forepart of right ear is a sac of matter which, when touched, discharged through ear ; pains in whole right half of head and face, she was unable to lie on that side. s.
Bloody and offensive matter flows from right ear, with tearing pain. s.
Thin earwax runs from both ears. s.
Furuncles or boils in external meatus.
Fungous excrescences in ear. s.
Polypi in external meatus, which is inflamed. s.
Swelling of glands under ear ; also inflammatory.

Smell and nose

Swelling of nasal bones ; painful when taken hold of. s.
Nosebleed : when coughing and during sleep ; blood hangs in dark, coagulated string ; with worm symptoms, bleeding occurs at night.
Coryza, with much sneezing. s.
Food and drink rise up into choanæ.
Coryza : with much sneezing ; fluent, corrosive ; nostrils bleeding, scurfy ; nose red, swollen, shining ; < from damp weather ; at night ; from either cold or warm air ; not > by sweat ; smell from
nose as from an old cold ; inflammatory redness inside of nose ; with itching and formation of crusts and bleeding on cleansing nose ; chilliness in daytime, obliged to lie down ; copious sour smelling sweat at night ; part of mucus trickles down through posterior
nares into throat and causes hawking, with catarrhal inflammation of larynx, trachea, bronchi and eyes ; hoarseness and roughness of voice ; dry, rough cough from continual tickling in larynx, with or without fever ; catarrhal affection of frontal sinuses and Highmorian
cavities, pressive, tensive, tearing pains in forehead, cheeks, upper teeth and ears ; inflammation of tonsils and fauces ; rheumatic pains in limbs ; feverish ; does not like to be alone ; thirsty ; feels bad in a warm room and cannot bear cold either ;
with chilliness ; epidemic.
Fulness and pulsation in head extending into nose ; heat predominating over chilliness. θ Catarrh.
Greenish, fetid pus from nose ; nasal bones swollen.
Acrid matter flows from nose, having odor of old cheese. s.
The nostrils are red, raw and ulcerated. θ Coryza.
Swelling of whole or only tip of nose, accompanied by pain and inflammation, followed by cancer ; pus thin, ichorous and acrid. θ Cancer.

Upper face

Face : pale, yellow, earthy ; red and hot cheeks ; pale and sunken ; earthy colored, puffy ; sallow ; pale and bloated ; sickly, pale ; swollen ; pale, cold ; livid ; jaundiced.
Swelling of cheeks with toothache.
Tearing, lacerating pains in face ; salivation ; from cold or caries of teeth.
Neuralgia of trigeminus from taking cold.
Swelling or breaking out of upper lip.
Yellow, dirty scurf, with fetid discharge, itching and bleeding when scratched.
Pimples on face with a bluish red halo, without itching.
Forehead red, presenting a number of small orifices, like "worm holes," exuding serous fluid, margins of holes, which communicated with frontal bone, somewhat elevated ; pain in forehead when in bed, and subject to severe headache up to
time when forehead was affected. [merc. v]
Upon forehead between eyebrows, small patches of a pustular eruption, with greenish yellow scabs. θ Impetigo calvities. s.
Syphilitic spots and pustules on face and forehead. s.

Lower face

Tension in articulation of jaw on opening mouth. s.
Tearing in lower jaw toward evening. s.
Almost complete inability to move lower jaw or chew. [merc. v]
Cannot separate jaws. s.
Lockjaw from glandular swellings, with stinging pains.
Periostitis of lower jaw ; caries ; looseness of teeth, which are painful when touched by tongue, they fall out ; spongy, easily bleeding gums ; stitches in teeth ; toothache < from heat.
Soft, red swelling of upper lip.
Lips : painful when touched ; dry, cracked, ulcerated ; black ; burning pimples with yellow crusts ; greatly swollen, puffed out, fissured ; thick brown crusts, extending to chin ; cannot open lips or taste food.
Corners of mouth ulcerated and painfully sore. s.
Yellowish scabs, especially around mouth.
Mumps : on right side ; pale swelling ; fever slight or absent ; high degree of inflammation ; trismus ; in young scrofulous subjects ; suppuration threatens.
Inflammation of submaxillary or sublingual glands.

Teeth and gums

Toothache : with swelling of gums and salivary glands ; at night as it disappears great chilliness over whole body ; jerking, especially at night ; a pulse-like jerking from teeth of lower jaw into ear, from upper jaw into head, with
painfulness of gum from 9 P. M. on ; from caries, or inflamed dentine ; returns in damp weather or evening air ; pains tearing, lacerating, shooting into face and ears ; < from warmth of bed, from cold or warm things ; > from rubbing cheek.
Toothache during day and ceasing at night, followed by perspiration and pains, return in morning in paroxysms, with longer or shorter intervals, alternating with giddiness or tearing in limbs.
Frequent crackling in head, as from metal plates ; swelling of gums ; sensation as if teeth were fixed in a mass of pap ; burning and itching in gums ; ptyalism ; chilliness in evening ; steaming skin and tendency to sweat.
During an epidemic of influenza, toothache accompanied by fever.
Stitching, tearing pains in hollow and carious teeth, < at night ; hard painful swelling of cheek ; profuse accumulation of saliva in mouth ; offensive breath.
Toothache commencing in a molar tooth, commencing slowly, extending up to temple, getting gradually very violent, then ceasing suddenly, attacks repeated every few minutes.
Teeth sore and loose, some are too long. θ Pregnancy.
Feeling as if all the teeth were loose. s.
Teeth are loose ; at last drop out. [merc. v]
Teeth feel too long and are sensitive.
Looseness of teeth, especially of molars ; they become denuded of the gum and turn black, with nightly pains in teeth, jaws and head. [merc. v]
All teeth except incisors lost, at least crowns of teeth, leaving only roots, with very red and very soft gums. [merc. v]
Teeth : black, dirty grey, carious, become loose in succession.
Severe throbbing pain in left upper jaw, < at night : face swollen ; tongue whitish, moist and flabby ; teeth felt too long. [merc. v]
Copious salivation, little blisters on tongue, gums and cheeks ; large ulcers on protruding gums ; salivation arrested from taking cold, and convulsions occur ; diaper stained with yellowish, strong smelling urine ; abdomen hard and distended ; stools slimy,
bloody, green and accompanied by tenesmus. θ Dentition. s.
Gums painful to touch, swollen, receding from teeth, whitish edges, bleeding, with a fetid odor from mouth.
Pulsating toothache < at night ; gumboil.
Swelling of gums every night. s.
Gums red, swollen and covered with thin, white patches, easily removed from a non-ulcerating surface. [merc. v]
Gum has a bright red margin. [merc. v]
Gums swollen and of a livid red color. [merc. v]
Gums spongy and bleeding, partly destroyed. [merc. v]
Gum atrophies, especially on roots of lower teeth, leaving necks of teeth bare. [merc. v]

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : sweetish ; illusive sensation as if body was made up of sweets ; slimy ; salty on tongue and lips ; of bad eggs ; bitter ; putrid ; metallic ; flat ; fecal, putrid.
Bread tastes sweet. s.
Loss of taste.
Speech : quick, stuttering ; tremulous ; impeded ; difficult. [merc. v]
Complete loss of speech.
Difficulty in speaking and masticating. [merc. v]
Speech difficult : on account of trembling of mouth and tongue ; masseter muscles contracted.
Tongue : swollen, flabby ; takes imprint of teeth ; pale ; white ; tremulous ; dry, hard ; red and dry ; red, with dark spots and burning ; moist, with intense thirst.
Tongue coated : showing impress of teeth ; thickly ; as if covered with fur, especially in morning ; black ; moist ; covered with mucus ; dirty yellow, with foul breath ; black, with red edge.
Tongue inflamed, indurated or suppurating, with pricking pains.
Tongue not swollen ; grey patches on edges and a thin dirty yellow coat on upper surface. [merc. v]
Great swelling of tongue. s.
Tongue very much swollen, painful and covered with foul ulcers, with constant oozing of blood as from a spongy tissue ; these ulcers made swallowing very difficult. [merc. v]
For several days constant crying ; child desires nothing but drinks ; tongue and gums very red, swollen and covered with white vesicles ; fever ; restlessness ; sleeplessness.
Pricking pain in tongue, with swelling, pressure on tongue painful.
Tongue as white as chalk.
Intense redness of tongue ; severe pain, especially on side from contact of teeth ; profuse salivation and tendency to fissures or ulceration ; < from least contact of food, drink or even cold air ; cries and wrings hands in agony ; offensive breath and
saliva. θ Glossitis.
Ranula.

Inner mouth

Dry mouth and throat.
Mouth and tongue moist, and plenty of saliva, yet great thirst for cold water.
Much slime collects in mouth.
Salivation : saliva fetid or tastes metallic, coppery ; tenacious ; soapy and stringy.
Bloody saliva. [merc. v]
Salivation arrested from taking cold, then convulsions.
Profuse flow of saliva, breath has a mercurial odor. θ Hysteria.
Ptyalism, with nausea waking her from sleep, particularly after midnight. θ Pregnancy.
Mouth sore and studded with small vesicles. θ Scarlatina.
Salivation and scorbutic gums. θ Crusta lactea.
Odor from mouth : bad, fetid ; disagreeable, sweetish ; very offensive, more noticed by persons at distance than by patient himself.
Sickly smell from mouth. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Mucous membrane of mouth pale, with numerous erosions. [merc. v]
Bluish color of inner cheeks. θ Scurvy.
Internal swelling of upper lip. s.
Mouth inflamed, with burning aphthous ulcers ; copious, fetid, ropy saliva ; scorbutic gums ; large blisters in mouth ; whole mouth sore.
Aphthæ of children, stomacace.
Inflammation in whole buccal cavity. θ Thrush.
Confluent thrush, changing into cankers ; ptyalism ; bad smell from mouth ; feverishness ; green, slimy stools.
Thrush ; constant crying ; emaciation ; tongue as if covered with thick, white fur ; deglutition difficult ; will not nurse ; grass green passages from bowels ; no discharge of urine for thirty-six hours ; coldness.
Small ulcers, with lardaceous base and red inflamed edges on tongue and inside of lips and cheeks.
After catarrhal or gastric fever, small round vesicles upon reddened mucous membrane of mouth, which soon open and form flat ulcers with red edges and white or yellowish base.
Confluent ulcers in mouth, with ptyalism ; offensive odor from mouth.
Oval ulcer on gum, nearly an inch in length, with irregular edges ; ulcer also at corner of mouth ; small ulcers on mucous membrane of cheek ; ptyalism.
Scorbutic gums ; saliva copious, offensive, bloody ; ulcers with bases like lard ; inflammation of whole buccal cavity and ulcers upon gums ; glands swollen ; diarrhœa, with tenesmus.
Diffuse redness of whole mucous membrane of mouth, with profuse flow of saliva. θ Stomatitis from use of chewing gum. s.
After typhoid fever, painful cracks on tongue and ulcers on inner surface of lips and cheeks ; blandest food causes intolerable biting pains.
Ulcers : appear on gums, tongue, throat, inside of cheek, with salivation ; irregular in shape ; undefined edges ; dirty, unhealthy look ; lardaceous base, surrounded with a dark halo ; apt to run together ; the syphilitic ulcers are circular, attack
posterior parts of mouth, have well-defined edges, surrounded with a coppery hue, they do not extend from their primary seat. [merc. v]
Syphilitic ulceration of mouth ; ulcers rapidly affect surrounding parts, tonsils, larynx and pharynx becoming affected ; ulcers extend in depth, begin to suppurate or emit an offensive odor ; voice becomes hoarse, child becomes emaciated and death threatens from slow
fever.
Orifice of excretory duct of salivary gland between last teeth, swollen, white, ulcerated and extremely painful. s.
Pain, swelling and ulceration of salivary glands. s.
Right sublingual glands as large as hazel nuts, and very hard. [merc. v]
Ranula, right side ; had been opened several times and half a teacup full of fluid removed, but always returned five or six days afterwards.

Palate and throat

Uvula elongated, enlarged, greatly swollen.
Redness and swelling of soft palate, tonsils and whole oral cavity.
Soft palate and especially uvula of a coppery red color ; on left side a long, superficial ulcer. [merc. v]
Dryness of palate, as if caused by heat ; constantly obliged to swallow.
Difficult deglutition.
Fluids return through nose.
Sticking pains in tonsils when swallowing.
Pain when swallowing as if a foreign body was swallowed down.
Burning in throat as from hot vapor ascending from stomach.
Great heat rises to throat. s.
Painful dryness of throat, with mouth full of saliva ; rawness, roughness and burning in throat.
Throat constantly dry ; it hurt as if too tight posteriorly ; a pressure in it if he swallowed, yet he was constantly obliged to swallow, because mouth was always full of water. s.
Pain in throat, as if an apple core was sticking in it. s.
Stitches posteriorly in throat, penetrating ear when swallowing. s.
Angina : great dryness in mouth and throat ; expectoration of masses of mucus from pharynx and choanæ ; ptyalism ; face pale red ; left side swollen ; dry heat, with confusion of head ; burning skin ; constant thirst ; frequent, strong
pulse ; severe chill, with drawing in limbs and lassitude ; nauseating belching ; beating in left precordia ; severe drawing pain in nape and down back ; pain in parotid glands and muscles of neck, not < by motion ; fever < in evening ; thick, white
coat on tongue ; stitching pain in throat when moving jaw ; pain extending to ears ; vertigo when rising ; stitches in occiput, with slight cough ; severe headache, particularly in left temple ; severe dull pain in occiput ; skin of head and face seems
tense ; fauces of a coppery red color ; soft palate and tonsils greatly swollen, dark red and pressed forward ; stinging pains from empty swallowing at night and in cold air ; < Spring and Fall and in wet, cold weather ; epidemic, young people especially
affected ; chronic or habitual.
Inflammation of throat, extending upwards into posterior nares and downwards into larynx ; increased secretion of acid saliva.
Sensation as if food had to pass over a foreign body ; as if there was a burnt spot in pharynx ; when not swallowing painful tension and pressure in region of pharynx, < from external pressure.
Suppuration of tonsils, with sharp, sticking pain in fauces when swallowing. s.
Tonsils much enlarged. [merc. v]
Tonsils dark red ; studded with ulcers ; stinging pains in fauces ; quinsy only after pus has formed to hasten maturing.
Ulcer as large as point of knitting needle upon inflamed tonsils. θ Angina.
Slimy saliva flowing in strings from mouth, of a greyish color ; whitish, smeary concretions upon tonsils.
Mucous membrane of pharynx swollen in spots. [merc. v]
Trickling of mucus back into pharynx ; swelling and excoriation ; itching and bleeding of nose ; bad looking pimple on nose ; unpleasant odor. θ Pharyngeal catarrh.
Headache ; fever ; vomiting ; convulsions ; unconsciousness, with somnolency ; swelling of right tonsil, with some whitish grey, soft exudate. θ Diphtheria. s.
Diphtheritic membrane commences in one of arches of pharynx or in uvula ; mucous membrane of throat purplish ; tongue dirty grey, flabby, and takes imprint of teeth ; ptyalism, bleeding of gums ; submaxillary glands and parotids swollen hard, trismus ; profuse,
clammy sweat at night ; desire for milk. θ Diphtheria. s.
Erysipelatous inflammation of throat.
Syphilitic ulcers in throat and mouth.
Syphilitic ulcers in throat after local treatment of chancre upon genitals.
Mucous patches in throat, swollen glands, right side, fever.
Slight redness of throat ; several flat ulcers ; < in bad weather ; tickling in throat, stitches when swallowing ; two small, flat ulcers upon genitals. θ Syphilis.
Angina faucium, with grey ulceration, hoarseness, fetor of breath. θ Secondary syphilis.
Lymphatic glands of throat hard and large.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Canine hunger even after eating ; relishes nothing ; grows weaker and weaker. θ Worms.
Complete loss of appetite. s.
Much thirst day and night. s.
Thirst violent, burning, especially for beer and cold drinks.
Great thirst for ice water, though it makes cough worse. θ Bronchitis.
Desire : for milk ; for sweets, but they disagree ; for beer ; for liquid food ; for bread and butter. s.
Aversion : to meat ; to wine and brandy ; to coffee ; to greasy food ; to butter. s.

Eating and drinking

Worse after drinking ; from drinking wine ; from spirituous liquors ; from coffee ; from cold drinks.
Better : from smoking.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Frequent hiccough. s.
Acrid, bitter, putrid or rancid eructations, < at night.
Constant risings of air.
Heartburn all night. θ Pregnancy.
Nausea ; with vertigo, headache, obscured vision and flashes of heat ; with sweet taste in throat ; nausea in œsophagus or in stomach.
Inclination to vomit while coughing. s.
Regurgitation or vomiting of food ; bitter vomit.
Much water collects in mouth at 1 A. M., together with nausea, that wakens her and obliges her to vomit. s.
Vomiting bile and food.
Violent convulsive vomiting of slime and bilious matter. θ Yellow fever.

Scrobiculum and stomach

The food weighs like a stone in pit of stomach ; burning pain.
Pressure in stomach ; it hangs down heavily, even after light, easily digestible food.
Burning pain and sensitiveness of stomach. θ Yellow fever.
Stomach : burns, is swollen and sensitive to touch ; hard and tense ; feels replete and constricted.
Peculiar deathly faintness caused by pressure in epigastrium. s.
Weak digestion, with continuous hunger.

Hypochondria

Pressing pain or stitches in liver ; cannot lie upon right side ; bitter taste in mouth ; thirst, with little appetite for food ; constant chilliness ; yellowness of skin and whites of eyes ; liver tender to touch. θ Hepatitis.
Great distension of left hypochondrium ; pains not very severe, mostly stitching in character ; pain in shoulders ; light yellow color of skin ; flabby constitutions. θ Hepatitis.
Inflammation of pleura and liver ; severe vertigo ; face yellow or dark red ; great thirst ; white coated tongue ; debility ; severe, obstinate, short cough, with tenacious, blood streaked or entirely bloody expectoration ; stitching tearing pains under
false ribs and in hepatic region ; loss of appetite ; offensive, bitter taste in mouth ; yellow, orange colored or red urine ; frequent sweats ; pains in limbs.
Face red, bloated ; lips dry and hot ; tongue white, moist sour, bitter taste in mouth ; great thirst ; forcible eructations ; frequent vomiting of bile and water ; great tension of precordium ; severe stitching, burning pain in whole convex portion of
liver, extending to spine ; < from pressure, sneezing, coughing, or on taking deep inspiration ; moans and throws herself about in bed ; liver greatly swollen, hard, hot and projects from under ribs ; constipation ; urine frequent, burning ; skin moderately
warm ; pulse small, hard, contracted. θ Inflammation of liver.
Region of liver : sensitive ; cannot lie on right side ; swollen, hard, from induration ; stinging, stitching or pressing pains ; dull pain, with jaundice.
Jaundice : with violent rush of blood to head ; bad taste ; tongue moist and furred yellow ; soreness in hepatic region ; from gall stones ; duodenal catarrh ; in the new born.
Violent stitches in hepatic region, on account of which he could not breathe nor eructate. s.
Worse lying on right side, particularly pain in region of liver, or bruised feeling of intestines.
Chronic atrophy of liver, with emaciation and dessication of body. [merc. v]

Abdomen and loins

Abdomen : greatly distended ; tympanitic ; painfully inflated ; tense, hard, swollen and sensitive ; fulness and tenderness across epigastrium and hypochondria ; painful to contact ; rumbling sensation ; pressure as
from a stone ; pressure in right side ; sense of emptiness.
Shaking sensation of bowels when walking, they feel relaxed, as if they had to be held up.
Intestines feel bruised when he lies on right side.
Sensation as if bowels fell to side on which one is lying.
Intestines sore as if pressed, cannot sleep on right side. s.
Shooting, diarrheic feeling in lower bowels.
Colic : > by a slimy, bloody stool, with straining ; as from a cold ; occasioned by cool evening air, with diarrhœa ; from worms ; lancinating, boring and pressing pains ; stabbing in abdomen as from knives ; passes off in a recumbent
position ; twisting, constricting pains.
Cutting stitch in lower abdomen, from right to left, < by walking.
Stitching, pressive pains in lower region of abdomen, left. side.
Child cries violently from severe pain, > by passing a green, slimy stool. θ Bilious colic. s.
Peritonitis, with purulent exudation, especially with typhlitis.
Painful, hard, hot and red swelling in ileo-cecal region painful to touch. θ Typhlitis.
Enteritis : lancinating pains ; bloody, slimy stools ; sweat without relief.
Sore pain deep in centre of pelvis, severe dragging in loins and lumbar region, bearing down pressure in lower abdomen ; mental depression.
Cutting pain in intestines, < when feces or air passes through affected parts ; slimy, watery stools, often mixed with blood. θ Inflammation of intestinal mucous
membranes.
Painful, hard, hot, movable swelling, as hard as a hen's egg, near right ilium, preventing extension of thigh ; constipation ; dark urine ; miserable, pale appearance ; loss of appetite ; moderate thirst ; fever. θ Perityphlitis.
Hard, hot, red swelling, as large as a dollar and painful to touch, between umbilicus and anterior inferior spine of ilium ; must lie upon back with thigh flexed ; fever ; flushed face ; thirst ; anorexia ; red, dry tongue ; constipation ; red
urine. θ Perityphlitis.
Catarrh of pancreatic duct.
Stitches in last right rib and in inguinal region, with tightness of breath on inspiration, while walking in open air. s.
Swelling of inguinal glands, with circumscribed redness, not very painful, except on pressure and long walking. s.
Swelling of inguinal glands (bubo), at first with circumscribed redness, painful on pressure and walking, then red, elevated and inflamed ; could neither stand nor walk without great pain. s.
Inguinal gland swollen or suppurating.
Inguinal glands sympathize with cancerous affections.
Pressive boring pain in right groin. s.
Zona on right side and extending across abdomen ; < at night from warmth of bed.
Abdomen externally cold to touch.

Stools and rectum

Stools : dark green, bilious, frothy ; like stirred eggs ; brownish ; greenish brown ; watery and colorless ; black ; yellowish ; yellow ; color of sulphur ; like chopped eggs ; greyish ; watery,
with greenish scum floating on surface of water ; whitish, watery, reddish, mucous ; green mucous ; bloody mucous ; pea green ; green slimy ; acrid and excoriating ; bloody ; blood streaked ; slimy and fecal ; purulent ;
undigested ; frequent ; scanty ; corrosive ; sour smelling ; pitch-like ; tenacious ; dark green ; clay colored and offensive ; clotted blood mixed with feces ; soft, brownish, floats on water ; whitish grey.
Stools : tenacious, or crumbling ; small, knotty masses ; small like sheep dung ; pale, white stools ; small pieces, pale, with mucus, or streaked with blood ; form of a narrow ribbon.
Before stool : frequent desire, < at night ; ineffectual straining ; protrusion of hemorrhoids, with straining which causes pain as of ulceration ; violent and frequent urging ; nausea ; pinching and cutting in abdomen ;
anxiety, anguish, trembling and sweat, either warm or cold ; chilliness ; chilliness mingled with flashes of heat ; trembling of whole body.
During stool : great straining, with scanty stool, with pinching in belly ; severe pains in anus ; evacuation after a great length of time ; violent urging ; nausea and vomiting ; eructations ; pinching and cutting colic, making one bend double ;
burning at anus ; chilliness ; hot sweat on forehead ; tenesmus ; screaming (children in dysentery) ; chilliness, ceasing after evacuation.
Chilliness between stools.
After stool : great relief ; cutting and pinching colic ; rawness, burning and itching of anus and adjacent parts ; sensation of constriction in rectum, causing faintness ; continued tenesmus and prolapsus ani ; bleeding hemorrhoids ; pains in rectum
sometimes extend to back ; violent tenesmus and continued urging ; "never-get-done" feeling ; prolapsus recti ; rectum looking dark and bloody ; warm sweat on forehead becomes cold ; exhaustion ; rigors ; trembling.
Diarrhœa, with much wretchedness and dejection of spirits. s.
Evening air causes colic and diarrhœa. s.
Morning diarrhœa composed mostly of slime and fecal matter, with tenesmus before and during stool. s.
Purulent diarrhœa, with chill between and hot flashes during stool.
Frequent vomiting ; nausea ; diarrhœa ; much crying ; thirst, great heat ; trembling of hands ; inability to stand ; loud screaming when touched ; restless at night ; convulsive motions ; distortion of eyes ; twitching of muscles of
face, arms and legs ; grinding of teeth ; face red, hot ; profuse sweat ; diarrheic discharges, every half hour, of yellow, green frothy mucus.
Diarrhœa of children, about four month ; stools green, often grass green ; watery ; slimy ; frothy ; like chopped eggs ; mixed with bloody mucus ; much screaming ; cutting in abdomen ; emaciation ; also in older children when aphthæ are
present.
Long continued diarrhœa, with a swelling size of fist in region of transverse colon.
Diarrhœa biliosa ; passage of quantities of bile, yellow and painfully hot ; face yellow ; pain and tenderness over right hypochondrium.
After cholera, when stools remain bloody and watery and are accompanied by tenesmus (also useful after Ipec.) ; when choleraic symptoms are > and partial reaction has set in, but tongue becomes thickly coated with mucus.
Painless congestions ; spine drawn to one side, tossing about, grinding of teeth and trismus, as in epilepsy ; thumbs not clenched ; preceded by an attack of diarrhœa and vomiting ; about every half hour return of consciousness, during which he desires water, then
spasms recur.
Ineffectual pressure to stool, with protruding hemorrhoids, which are painfully sore. s.
Dysenteric diarrhœa in a nursing infant ; passages often of pure bright blood, occasionally mixed with mucus or green chopped-like stuff ; fever ; refusal to take breast.
Green slimy discharges, with pinching and cutting ; prolapsus of rectum.
Fever, with violent griping ; scanty, bloody, mucous discharges, with much burning pain and tenesmus ; dry, coated tongue ; loss of appetite ; tearing in limbs. θ Dysentery.
Frightful pain in bowels, as if they were cut in pieces, most violent when at stool ; great pressure at stool, as if bowels would be forced out ; discharge of a little bloody mucus after straining ; increased desire to go to stool at night ; during stool sweat on
brow, at first warm, but soon becoming cold and clammy ; sleeplessness ; great prostration ; evacuations corrode anus, and cause painful burning. θ Autumnal dysentery.
Rectum prolapsed ; looked dark and was very painful, especially to touch ; spurting of blood from rectum ; stools lumpy, accompanied by pressing and crying ; loss of appetite ; little sleep ; irritable disposition.
Croupous inflammation of rectum after catching cold while bathing in open air ; croupous stools occur principally at night and alternate with a pappy fecal stool ; constant sensation of fulness and distension in rectum, with burning and pinching in lower part ; every hour
or so discharge of a round, shreddy mass, accompanied by a watery, fecal discharge, with chilliness and heat, extending towards head ; abdomen not painful to pressure, except in a few places where large intestine is distended with gas ; rumbling and slight pinching pains in
abdomen ; urine scanty ; appetite impaired ; thick, mucous coating on tongue ; great prostration.
Constipation, stool tenacious or crumbling, discharged only with violent straining ; constant ineffectual urging, < at night ; blood with stool. s.
Constipation, or diarrhœa of slime, bile or blood. θ Yellow fever.
Discharge of mucus from rectum.
Paralysis of rectum. θ Meningitis.
Burning pain in anus, with soft stools. s.
Anus feels raw ; chafed. s.
Large bleeding varices, which suppurate ; hemorrhage after micturition.
Discharge of thread and round worms ; seat worms ; tape worm (in alternation with Sulphur.).
Continuous greediness for eating and still becomes steadily weaker ; fetid breath ; itching of anus ; inflammation of vulva. θ Worm affections.

Urinary organs

Great soreness in region of bladder when touching it ; urine flows in a thin stream or only drop by drop ; contains mucus, blood or pus. θ Gonorrhœa. θ Cystitis.
Paralysis of bladder. θ Meningitis.
Urine is passed involuntarily.
Frequent urging to urinate, only a little passes ; must hurry, otherwise he cannot retain it ; scanty discharge in feeble stream ; copious flow ; was obliged to urinate at every hour, day and night, with violent burning in urethra on
beginning to urinate ; burning biting pain. s.
Far more urine passes than water has been drunk. s.
Urine : dark red, soon becoming turbid and fetid ; smells sour and pungent ; looks as if mixed with blood, with white flakes or as if containing pus ; flesh-like lumps of mucus ; thick, white sediment as if flour had been stirred in ; yellowish, strong
smelling, staining diaper ; scanty, fiery red ; very dark.
Children perspire easily, urine hot, acrid, sour smelling. θ Enuresis nocturna.
Hæmaturia : with violent and frequent urging to urinate ; in typhus, etc.
Urine reddish, becoming thick on standing, and causing cutting when passed. s.
Intolerable burning ; every few minutes urging to urinate, followed by discharge of a few drops of slimy, burning urine. θ Dysuria.
Cutting and pinching in abdomen, with great urging to urinate ; after much exertion and great pain passes a few drops of burning urine, accompanied by severe and constant tenesmus ; bloated abdomen ; belching ; nausea ; retching and vomiting ;
sleeplessness ; < at night ; in morning, vertigo, heaviness of head, thirst, tearing, constricting pinching pains in abdomen. θ Dysuria.
Diminished secretion of urine, with great desire to pass it ; urine saturated dark brown, mixed with blood, with dirty white sediment. θ Nephritis.
Albuminuria.
Hemorrhage from urethra, burning and stinging it.
Thick, greenish or yellow discharge from urethra, < at night. θ Gonorrhœa.
Painless discharge of blood.
Burning and scalding sensation of urine as from raw surfaces. s.
Intense itching, < by presence of urine remaining on parts after urinating ; it has to be washed off.

Male sexual organs

Total loss of sexual power. [merc. v]
Lascivious excitement, with painful nightly erections.
Pollutions ; sperm mixed with blood (gonorrhœa) ; chilliness ; sallow face ; constipation.
After emission burning pain in back and icy cold hands. θ Spermatorrhœa.
Feeling of coldness in testicles, in afternoon and evening. s.
Testicles swollen, hard, shining.
Violent thirst ; drawing with pressure in testicles ; drawing in groin and spermatic cord. θ Orchitis.
Inflammation of testicles, consequent upon an attack of gonorrhœa ; induration of testicles.
Burning in urethra.
Gonorrhœa : burning pain ; frequent painful erections ; discharge purulent and green ; < at night ; greenish, painless ; with phimosis or chancroids ; complicated with chancre ; gleet yellowish green and purulent.
Gonorrhœa of two weeks' standing, treated with injections of various kinds ; pain in left testicle and along cord ; painful erections ; not very profuse discharge, much nervousness and anxiety, < at night.
Right testicle swollen, hard, as large as a hen's egg ; shocks of severe drawing pain, extending from testicles up into abdomen and down legs to feet ; scrotum red, shining, < right side ; itching in scrotum ; severe chill alternating with heat ; pulse
feverish ; vertigo ; general depression ; tearing in head, < right side. θ Gonorrhœa.
Urging to urinate ; intolerable burning in forepart of urethra when passing last few drops ; hot, swollen prepuce ; green discharge. θ Gonorrhœa.
Discharge greenish, offensive odor from mouth ; ptyalism, gums swollen, easily bleeding, fever, heat alternating with horripilations, < at night, tearing pains in head ; threatened bubo, with drawing pain in inguinal region ; soft chancre. θ Gonorrhœa.
Gonorrhœa of a torpid character in course of syphilis, with suppurating bubo. s.
Severe burning on urination ; prepuce and glans greatly swollen ; discharge like thin milk, leaving a stain upon linen ; has taken copaiva and Cubebs four weeks. θ Gonorrhœa.
Swelling of prepuce and inflamed redness of its inner surface, with painful sensitiveness. s.
Great swelling of prepuce, as if it was distended with air or water to a blister. s.
Vesicles on forepart and sides of glans penis ; they eat deeply in and spread ; several small white blisters, which also ooze fluid, but soon disappear.
Swelling of forepart of urethra, with suppuration between glans and prepuce which is red, hot and painful to touch and on walking ; raging pain in forehead ; rough itch-like eruption on hands, especially in region of first joint of thumb, more on upper surface, itching at
night. s.
Several small red vesicles on end of glans penis, under prepuce, after four days become ulcers and discharge yellow white matter of strong odor, staining shirt ; afterwards large ulcers bleed when touched, pain affects whole body ; they are round, the margins everted like raw
meat, and their bases covered with a caseous coat. s.
Herpes preputialis.
Blisters on glans ; burning of penis, eruption on prepuce, condylomata. s.
Pale red vesicles, form small ulcers after breaking, on glans and prepuce.
A number of small red vesicles behind glans, changing to ulcers, which burst and discharge a yellowish white, stringy, strong smelling matter. s.
Ulcers on glans, with cheesy base ; chancroids.
Simple, recently acquired, soft chancres of a superficial and regular form and free secretion of thick pus.
Chancre ; enlargement of glands ; psoriasis on nape of neck ; nodes on tibia, sensitive to pressure. θ Secondary syphilis.
Swelling of lymphatic vessels along penis.
Chancre : primary ; regular indurated Hunterian, with lardaceous base ; small, with cheesy bottom and inverted red edges ; painful, bleeding ; yellowish fetid discharge, spreading and deeply penetrating on glans and prepuce ; red on prepuce ; with
phimosis or paraphimosis ; eating through frenum ; round, deep, on glans.
Several small ulcers which bleed easily so soon as prepuce moves, or on handling parts ; painful ulcers on glans and on both sides of frenum ; pain in inguinal region on walking, no redness of skin ; heavy pressure on inguinal glands causes pain. s. Chancre. s.
Foreskin sore ; yellowish pus in drops.
Rubbing and scratching genitals at night when in bed.
Children scratch and pull at genitals.
Dry, fine vesicular eruption on genitals. s.
Sweat on genitals, soreness between scrotum and thighs.

Female sexual organs

Prolapsus uteri at vagina ; feels > after coition.
Peculiar weak feeling in abdomen, as though she had to hold it up ; close above genitals sensation as if something heavy was pulling downward ; pulling pain in both thighs, as if muscles and tendons were too short. θ Displacement
of womb.
Bleeding excrescences on os uteri. θ Syphilis.
Copious discharge from vagina, of muco-purulent matter ; < after catamenia, but constant ; system greatly exhausted by flooding and repeated miscarriages ; conceived readily enough, but was certain to lose ovum at the end of third month, if not before ; deep ulcers
on os and in cervix, with ragged edges which bleed freely when touched ; vaginal walls ulcerated, prolapsus uteri and vagina ; sore pain deep in centre of pelvis ; severe dragging in loins and lumbar regions ; bearing down pressure in lower abdomen ; mental
depression. θ Ulcerated cervix.
Stitching, aching or boring pains in uterus, with little heat, but frequent sweats and chills ; moist tongue, with intense thirst ; < at night. θ Metritis.
Before menses : dry heat and rush of blood to head ; dysmenorrhœa.
During menses : anxiety ; red tongue, with dark spots ; saltish taste, sickly color of gums, teeth on edge ; breath of a mercurial odor and salivation ; prolapsus of vagina ; pain in mamma, as if they would ulcerate ; œdematous swelling of hands, feet
and face.
Milk in breasts instead of menses.
Unnatural swelling of female mamma, especially of nipples, which were harder than usual. s.
Pressure in genitals, obliging her to urinate often. s.
Menses : blood light red, serous ; too profuse ; too late and scanty ; suppressed ; of short duration.
Sterility.
Menses irregular for two or three years, without any assignable cause ; headache, impaired vision and memory ; nervous trembling, hands shake ; complexion muddy, sallow, greenish ; countenance distrait ; pulse feeble ; increasing spinal curvature ;
menstrual function ceases for three or four months, then occurs sparingly ; general anasarca ; walking produces dyspnœa.
Amenorrhœa, with congestions and ebullitions.
Metrorrhagia ; attacks of fainting following each other in rapid succession ; face cold, covered with sweat ; cold extremities ; breathing imperceptible ; attack preceded by heat, congestion, anxiety, dry mouth, belching, mucous collection in mouth and throat,
pressure and cutting from stomach to genitals, dry cough, oppression in epigastrium ; menses irregular or every two weeks.
Metrorrhagia in aged females ; scorbutic gums ; salivation.
Leucorrhœa : smarting, corroding, causing itching and biting in genitals ; purulent ; containing lumps ; < at night ; adhesive, sticky ; green, bloody ; obliging to scratch, violent burning after scratching ; swelling of labia and
vaginitis ; flocks, pus and mucus as large as hazelnuts ; syphilitic ; sensitive itching of labia majora ; swelling and sensitiveness of lymphatic vessels of nympha.
Burning, throbbing and itching of vagina and external genitals, < on left side ; numbness down left leg ; swelling in hypogastrium, abdomen swelled ; feels hard internally ; yellow discharge from vagina ; on mucous surface of genitals, reaching as high up as
she could see, and on external parts, especially near urethra, whitish patches like aphthæ ; when removed, a red raw surface is left, uneven to touch, with little red elevations ; throbbing > by lying still ; burning < from cold and washing ; cannot go to closet on
account of draft of air causing pain ; thinking about pains makes them < and makes her want to urinate ; contact of urine makes parts burn ; thrill in urethra when urine passes ; menses delay. [merc. v] θ Vaginitis.
Itching of genitals, < from contact of urine, it must be washed off.
Phlegmonous swelling of labia. θ Abortion threatened.
Pimples or tubercles on labia, more troublesome at night.
Indurations and inguinal growths.
Parts have strong tendency to excoriate, to swell and become inflamed ; sensation of rawness in parts. s. θ Spasm of vagina.
Pruritus vulvæ.
Swollen labia, with soreness of groins.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Morning sickness ; profuse salivation, wets pillow in sleep.
Œdema or pruritis of vulva during pregnancy.
Threatened abortion ; frequent attacks of pain in small of back ; pressing pulsation in abdomen ; pressure towards external genitals, which were so swollen that sitting posture became difficult ; pressure at times accompanied by discharge of reddish mucus from
genitals.
Repeated miscarriages at end of third month, or before.
Expels moles.
Much salivation, constant drivelling from mouth ; convulsions mostly in extremities. s. θ Puerperal convulsions.
Lochial discharge, < at night, with swelling and inflammation of genitals ; swollen and sore groins.
Milk scanty or spoiled, child refuses it ; nipples raw and sore. θ Mastitis.
Pain in mamma at every menstrual period, as if they would ulcerate.
Mamma swollen, hard, with sore, maddening pains, ulcerated nipples ; suppuration of mamma, favors evacuation of pus.
Cancer mamma, sore pain, a sort of raw feeling.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarse, rough voice ; burning, rawness and tickling in larynx ; fluent coryza and sore throat ; < from least current of air ; sweat without relief.
Lack of voice, not clear, or trembling.
Chronic hoarseness ; tendency to sweat ; profuse accumulation of saliva.
Aphonia, catarrhal or syphilitic, or occasioned by nervous paralysis.
Eyes full of tears ; red about wings of nose ; much sneezing ; dulness of head. θ Hoarseness.
Intense catarrhal inflammation of throat, with mucous follicles swollen to size of hemp seed.
Complete aphonia from straining voice when just recovered from a former hoarseness ; talked in whisper, every attempt to talk audibly sent blood to face and tears to eyes ; slight burning in region of larynx.
Stiffness of neck, dry, racking cough and occasional expectoration of blood. θ Chronic laryngitis.
Laryngo tracheitis.
Roughness, burning, sensation of soreness in throat and under sternum, hoarseness and covered voice, cough dry, rough, concussive, exhausting, < at night ; expectoration tough, watery, like saliva, foul, with streaks of blood ; catarrhal headache ; fluent coryza ;
diarrhœa ; fever ; sweating fails to relieve. θ Bronchitis.

Respiration

Fetid breath. [merc. v]
Shortness of breath : suffocation ; on going up stairs or walking.
Anxious oppression and heavy breathing, with desire to take deep breath.
Asthma from fumes of arsenic ; > from tobacco smoke and in cold air.
Dyspnœa ; sensation of spasmodic contraction when coughing or sneezing.

Cough

Cough : violent for several nights ; dry, sounds and feels as if everything in chest was dry ; with pain in chest and small of back ; dry, with fluent coryza ; short, dry, fatiguing, caused by tickling beneath upper portion of chest ; dry,
fatiguing, racking ; in two paroxysms ; particularly at night ; inability to lie on right side ; tickling before falling asleep ; with stitching pains in chest ; in children ; with nosebleed ; with vomiting ; as if head and chest would
burst ; with hoarseness ; with diarrhœa ; not allowing him to utter an audible word ; spasmodic, with retching ; during sleep ; excited by a sensation of tickling or dryness in bronchia ; with shortness of breath and ptyalism ; from tickling in larynx
and upper part of chest ; only at night or only by day ; with acrid or yellowish mucus, at times mixed with coagulated blood and tasting putrid or saltish.
Constant, short and choking cough. θ Dropsy of uterus.
During cough : stitches in occiput, chest, back and scapula ; epistaxis ; offensive breath ; nausea, retching, vomiting ; secessus.
Whooping cough : two paroxysms in rapid succession at night, followed by a long interval of rest ; vomiting, with epistaxis, blood at once coagulating ; profuse sweat at night ; children who were previously troubled with worms (complementary Carb. veg.) ;
involuntary grass-green diarrhœa during paroxysm, great prostration afterwards ; sweat very much at night and bleed at nose and mouth with every coughing spell ; either by day or by night only.
Catarrh : trachea ; inflammation running from fauces through to finest bronchi ; roughness, burning, feeling of soreness from fauces down ; hoarseness ; dry cough, raw, concussive, exhausting ; sputum ropy, watery, spittle-like, offensive, bloody ;
headache ; coryza ; diarrhœa ; fever ; non-ameliorating night sweats.
Cough < when lying on right side. θ Bronchitis.
When coughing or sneezing a stitch runs directly through chest to back. θ Hepatitis.
Cough < in night air, at night when lying on left side.
Moist, barking cough, with some sound of moisture in air passages, but no expectoration ; cough almost convulsive, cannot be controlled ; occurring in frequent paroxysms, particularly from 9 A. M. until 5 or 6 P. M. θ Measles.
Sputa bloody, in consequence of destroyed lung parenchyma. θ Tuberculosis.

Inner chest and lungs

Sensation of dryness in chest.
Rush of blood to chest ; constriction ; soreness, burning extending to throat.
Sharp stitches in chest. s.
Stitch in anterior and upper portion of chest, extending through to back, only on sneezing or coughing, not when breathing ; it constricts chest. s.
Acute pain striking forward through chest from right scapula. s.
Stitches in right chest on sneezing and coughing. s.
Stabbing pain in left side under short ribs during every inspiration. s.
Stitches in chest through from right scapula. θ Pneumonia, with bilious symptoms.
For several days before attack, bloody diarrhœa ; cough oppressive, constant ; high fever ; great prostration ; respiration short, anxious, quick, with rattling on chest and great oppression and sobbing ; restlessness ; skin moist ; sweat about
head ; sleeplessness ; trembling of limbs ; constant thirst and headache ; quick pulse. θ Pneumonia.
Fever ; full, frequent pulse ; confusion of head and vertigo ; pain around eyes ; dryness of nose ; eruption at corner of mouth ; loss of taste ; dry, short cough caused by scratching sensation under manubrium ; much talking during sleep ;
sweat towards morning, particularly about head. θ Pneumonia.
Asthenic pneumonia, with feeling of weight in lungs, short cough and expectoration of bloody saliva.
Pneumonia and bronchitis, especially when there is a disposition to blenorrhœa, or there is present profuse expectoration of viscid bloody mucus.
Bilious pneumonia, with great tenderness over right hypochondrium.
Infantile lobular pneumonia.
Emphysema of lungs. [merc. v]
Debilitating night and morning sweats. θ Tuberculosis.
Sputa bloody in consequence of destroyed lung parenchyma. s. θ Phthisis.
Acts on lower part of right lung ; stitches through to back.
Suppuration of lungs after hemorrhages of pneumonia.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Weakness at heart as if dying.
Awakens with trembling at heart and agitation as if frightened.
Aching pain at apex of heart extending upwards towards base ; cardiac oppression.
Palpitation : with fear ; < at night ; on slightest exertion ; with cough and bloody expectoration.
Orgasm, with trembling from slight exertion.
Pulse : full and accelerated, with erethism, frequent at night, slower by day ; when slow it is weak and trembling ; imperceptible, with warmth of body ; irregular, generally full and fast, with violent beating in arteries, at times weak, slow, tremulous.
Pulse irregular, quick, strong and intermittent, or soft and trembling. θ Yellow fever.

Outer chest

Sweating on chest with old people, from opium.

Neck and back

Rheumatic stiffness and swelling of neck.
Swollen glands on neck painful on swallowing. θ Rheumatism.
Glands inflamed, swollen, hard, with pressing pain and stitches. [merc. v]
Goitre becomes softened.
Bruised sensation of scapulæ, back and small of back.
Stinging pains in small of back, with sensation of weakness.
Sticking in small of back, on breathing. s.
Violent pain in spine, < from motion. θ Meningitis.
Stitching pain in small of back and legs on being touched. s.
Stitching pain, with unsteadiness in back, knees and feet. s.
Erysipelatous inflammation extending from back like a girdle around abdomen. θ Zona.
Pricking itching in sacrum when walking.
Tearing pain in coccyx, > by pressing hands against abdomen ; pain in sacrum as if one had been lying on too hard a cough ; pricking itching in sacrum when walking. θ Coccygodynia.
Acute inflammation of vertebræ.
Myelitis ; paraplegia of extremities, of bladder and anus, with tendency to twitching and shocks ; severe spinal pains < from pressure ; restlessness and sleeplessness ; anesthesia of skin.

Upper limbs

Rheumatism of shoulders and upper arms.
Rheumatic affection of capsular ligament of arm ; arm as if too heavy, as if broken or beaten ; < at night ; cannot tolerate warmth of bed.
Lacerating in shoulder joints, arms and wrists, especially at night and when moving part.
Red and hot (arthritic) swelling from elbow to wrist.
Burning, scaly herpes on forearms and hands.
Twitching of arms and fingers.
Tremor of hands, with great weakness. [merc. v]
Involuntary trembling of hands ; could not carry a glass of water to mouth without spilling it ; could take neither food nor drink, but had to be fed like a child. [merc. v]
Frequent involuntary jerking of hands and fingers ; convulsions < by every exertion. [merc. v]
Eczema on left hand gradually spreads to fingers and up to arm.
Eczema of hands ; whole dorsal surface of both hands raw, denuded ; commenced with cracks on joints ; stinging, burning pain ; surroundings inflame easily after scratching ; every Winter for a number of years ; moist surface becomes dry at times, forming in
yellow crusts.
Eruption like moist itch on hands, with violent nightly itching ; painful stiffness of right wrist joint ; contraction of fingers ; painful and bleeding rhagades on hands ; swelling of finger joints ; exfoliation of finger nails.
Fingers of both hands flexed, especially thumb, so that it is completely drawn inward, as in epilepsy ; without assistance is unable without great exertion to open fingers farther than about two-thirds ; with trembling of hands. s.
Inflammation of cellular tissue beneath cutis, in sinews, their fascia and phalangeal joints ; pains not violent, more throbbing and shooting ; extremely sensitive to heat and cold. θ Panaritium.

Lower limbs

Spontaneous luxation of right hip joint ; severe stitching pains, < from motion ; right thigh a finger's breadth longer than left.
Tearing in hip joint and knee, < at night or with pulsating pains ; beginning suppuration.
Rheumatic pains in legs, with stinging, especially in hip joint, femur and knee, < at night ; affected parts feel cold.
Dropsical swelling of legs ; cold sweat on feet.
Painful swelling of metatarsal bones.
When first signs of disease manifest themselves ; sharp stitches flashing periodically through joint ; acute stitches in right ilium at regular short intervals, and in anterior inferior spinous process of ilium ; boring pain in right glutei muscles ; burning of
nates ; red pimple, with a white tip on nates, painful and stinging ; tearing pain in hip joint, in knee and in femur, < during motion ; tearing, drawing from heel to buttocks, < at night, with contraction and giving away of knees ; limbs feel stiff when
walking ; stitches in thighs and legs during motion ; involuntary twitching in limbs ; trembling when walking, < about knees and in inguinal region ; pain in right thigh as if bruised, < after walking ; during nightly slumber (without sleep) he feels a violent
tensive pain in posterior part of left thigh and in buttock, most violent between buttock and thigh, and extending as far as bend of knee ; > in recumbent position, by supporting thigh ; cannot sit on posterior part on account of pain, which is < periodically ; single
pointed stitches in region of external condyle of tibia, not in knee ; spasmodic drawing up of legs ; they remain contracted all night. θ Hip joint disease.
Pain in sinews of left thigh, which are sore to touch. s.
Involuntary twitching and a kind of spasmodic adduction of legs and thighs.
Soreness between thighs and genitals. s.
Hard, glandular swelling in upper part of left thigh, suppurated. s.
Tumor on upper part of left thigh. s.
Small pimples on inner side of thighs. s.
Herpes on legs and thighs. s.
Legs and thighs cold and clammy at night. θ Dysentery.
Excessive weakness and giving away of knees and legs. s.
Sensation as if knee was larger.
Gonarthrocace after suppressed itch.
Weariness and uneasiness in legs in evening. s.
Could scarcely drag her limbs because they were so heavy. s.
Tearing and stitching in lower limbs, at night and during motion, with sensation of coldness.
Pressing pain in periosteum of right tibia. s.
Boring and drawing pain in tibia. s.
Red, shining, hard swelling on right tibia. s.
High fever and swelling of leg. θ Periostitis of tibia.
Ulcers on legs which bleed easily and become putrid, spongy and bluish.
After abuse of mercury, two large ulcers on leg below knee ; in paroxysms of perhaps a minute's duration, once in ten or fifteen minutes, lancinating darting pain, forcing screams ; these sores were of two years' duration and were preceded by
others, similar, two or three times healed by local treatment ; commenced by a pimple, which being broken, formed into a deep foul ulcer, grey colored, slough thin, ichorous pus ; inflamed, swollen elevated edges, with a varicose condition of veins in vicinity ; < by heat
of bed, hot or cold applications, from pressure, motion, evening until midnight. s.
A woman, æt. 30, dark hair and complexion ; about eight years ago had a fall, spraining left ankle ; soon after an ulcer which continued to spread ; anterior and external surface of leg from ankle to middle third of thigh one mass of ulceration ; spongy appearance,
with elevations and depressions, constant ichorous discharge ; constant pain, burning, stinging and gnawing, < from least touch ; whole limb felt heavy and weary ; gnawing, lacerating pain in knee joint ; walking and standing painful ; pains become unendurable
from warmth of bed ; enlarged and sensitive inguinal glands. s.
Tarsal bones of right foot greatly swollen ; acute pain ; threatening suppuration.
Pain in right tarsal joints, as if sprained. s.
After catching cold in a sudden shower, painful swelling of foot, followed by formation of abscess, from which was discharged a thin, watery secretion, swelling increased and eight fistulous openings formed, from which fragments of bone were discharged ; miserable
appearance ; skin hot and burning ; pulse feverish ; loss of appetite ; sleeplessness. θ Caries of tarsal and metatarsal bones.
After wearing boots for several days, which he usually could not wear on account of swelling of tarsal bones of right foot, violent pain in that part of foot, rapidly increasing ; foot somewhat swollen and reddened, could not bear touch or motion ; slight chill, with subsequent
dry heat and full pulse.
Œdematous swelling of foot. θ Peritonitis.
Swelling of backs of feet. s.
Cold sweat on feet.
Foot sweat scentless.

Limbs in general

Trembling of extremities, especially hands.
Involuntary jerking in limbs ; twitching of arms and legs.
Weakness and weariness in limbs ; bruised sensation. s.
Arms and thighs sore to touch, can hardly move them.
Drawing and tearing in all the limbs. s.
Rigidity and immobility of limbs, though they can easily be moved by others. θ Paralysis.
Painful stiffness in limbs ; use of all lost, except right arm ; face livid ; no appetite ; emaciated ; in bed for a year ; constipated ; pain at night ; < from changes of weather.
Convulsions mostly in extremities.
Syphilitis or strumous synovitis, chronic ; tendency to complete destruction of joint ; pains aching or stabbing, < at night and from external warmth.
Abscess in joints.
Rheumatic and arthritic pains ; tearing stinging, < at night in warm bed ; with profuse sweat, no relief ; œdema of affected parts, especially of feet and ankles ; joints swollen, pale or slightly red.
Sudden pain and stiffness of nape of neck and of upper and lower limbs, probably brought on by exposure ; lay motionless in bed, great weakness and lameness necessitating assistance when any change of position was desirable ; could slightly raise right arm ; face sunken,
earthy in color ; emaciation of whole body ; loss of appetite ; sleep disturbed by nightly pains ; pains < in change of weather ; constipation, with pains in small of back.
Coldness of extremities, with cramps. θ Yellow fever.

Rest. position. motion

Lying : rotary motion of head ; vertigo ; burning in head <.
Lying still : throbbing in vagina >.
Recumbent position : colic passes off ; tensive pain in thigh and buttock >.
Obliged to lie down : involuntary contraction of eyes ; chilliness ; prostration, with sick feeling of body and mind.
Must lie upon back with thigh flexed : on account of swelling between umbilicus and anterior inferior spine of ilium.
Lying on right side : intestines feel bruised.
Unable to lie on right side : on account of pain in head ; stitches in liver ; cough.
Lying on left side : shooting in ears <.
Lay motionless in bed : from pain and stiffness of nape of neck and limbs.
Child wants to lie quietly in horizontal position.
Sitting : weariness <.
Sitting up : burning in head > ; difficult, on account of swelling of external genitals.
Cannot sit up in bed for fear of falling : great weakness.
Cannot sit on posterior part of thigh : on account of pain.
Must bend double : colic.
By supporting thigh by laying something underneath : tensive pain in thigh and buttock >.
Cannot extend thigh : on account of swelling near right ilium.
Standing : painful on account of ulcer on left ankle.
Cannot stand erect : vertigo ; pain in soles of feet.
Can neither stand nor walk : with great pain in inguinal glands.
Stooping : vertigo.
Motion : stitching pain in throat ; violent pain in spine < ; lacerating in shoulder joints, arms and wrists < ; pain in hip joint < ; tearing in hip joint, knee and femur < ; stitches in thighs and legs ; ulcers on leg < ; of swollen right foot unbearable.
Rising : tension over forehead > ; burning in skin, with sweat < ; vertigo.
Raising head : vertigo.
Moves right hand towards head or thrusts hands into wide open mouth, left arm remaining motionless.
Frequent chewing motion of mouth.
Could with difficulty chew : stiffness of maxillary joints.
Cannot separate jaw.
Eating causes sweat.
Can hardly move arms and thighs.
Slightest exertion : palpitation < ; orgasm, with trembling ; convulsions < ; weakness, with ebullition and trembling ; hot flashes ; sweat.
Could not bear to walk : pain in soles of feet.
Walking : shaking sensation of bowels ; cutting stitch in abdomen < ; stitches in last right rib ; swelling of inguinal glands painful ; swelling of urethra painful ; pain in inguinal glands ; shortness of breath ; pricking itching in sacrum ;
limbs feel stiff ; trembling in knees and inguinal region ; bruised pain in right thigh < ; painful on account of ulcer on left ankle ; sweat.
Going up stairs : shortness of breath.

Nerves

Great irritability of all the organs. θ Yellow fever.
Involuntary motions, which can be momentarily suppressed by volition, or involuntary tremors. [merc. v]
Involuntary motions of head and hands. [merc. v]
Nervousness and trembling of hands.
Paroxysmal trembling.
General tremors, with stammering of speech. [merc. v]
Tremors always commencing in fingers. [merc. v]
Trembling of hands and tongue. [merc. v]
Tremor of hands so that he could not lift anything, eat or write ; marked tremor of neck and lower extremities. [merc. v]
Jerkings. s.
Convulsions : with cries ; rigidity, bloated abdomen, itching of nose and thirst ; < at night ; much salivation ; child takes cold and salivation is arrested ; mostly in extremities ; epileptic, at night.
Great weakness, ebullitions and trembling from exertion.
Lassitude ; weakness, approaching palsy. [merc. v]
Weary, especially while sitting, as if all his limbs would fall from him. s.
Weakness, with depression of spirits. s.
Very much exhausted after a stool. s.
Prostration, with an inexpressible sick feeling of body and mind, obliging him to lie down. s.
Frequent fainting. θ Metrorrhagia.
Great debility. θ Rheumatism. θ Typhoid.
Contraction of joints.
Rheumatic patients with night sweats, tearing, lancinating pains, sensation of cold in affected parts, < at night ; great weakness ; hot flashes from least exertion ; pale face and evanescent redness on cheeks. θ Neuralgia.
Paralysis agitans.
Paralysis of lower extremities. θ Spinal meningitis.
Limbs stiff but can be moved by others. θ Paralysis.
Occasional jerks in paralyzed parts. θ Meningitis.

Sleep

Great sleepiness : during day, not > by long sleep.
Sleepless at night : on account of anxiety, ebullitions and congestions ; from itching ; from seeing frightful faces ; frequent waking.
Sweat during sleep.
Falls asleep late ; wakeful until three in morning.
Excessive restlessness and malaise, with sleeplessness.
As soon as he went to bed in evening pains recommenced and banished sleep. s.
Just after falling asleep, pains become more violent. s.
Dreams : of water ; thieves ; animals ; shooting ; misfortunes.
Wakes with nervous trembling, thumping of heart and agitation, as if he had been frightened.

Time

Towards morning : sweat ; heat and violent thirst.
Morning : on waking, confusion in head ; bad breath ; toothache in paroxysms ; tongue as if covered with fur ; diarrhœa ; vertigo ; debilitating sweats ; when rising, chill ; vesicles in various parts of body.
At 1 A. M. : water collects in mouth.
Day : pressing or stitching pains in head ; pain in eye ; wants to sleep ; chilliness ; toothache ; much thirst ; cough ; pulse slower, weak and trembling ; sleepiness by day.
Afternoon : feeling of coldness in testicles.
At 5.45 P. M. : aching in ears.
Toward evening : tearing in lower jaw.
Evening : chilliness ; fever < ; feeling of coldness ; general aggravation, with heat ; weariness and uneasiness in legs ; until midnight ulcers on leg < ; as soon as he went to bed pains recommenced and banished sleep ; after lying down, chill ;
in bed, sweat ; chill ; intolerable sticking itching here and there ; tearing pains in elbows and joints.
From 9 P. M. : painfulness of gum.
Day and night : sweat.
Night : tension over forehead < ; pulsating in forehead < ; restless ; pain in exostoses ; burning of skin, with sweat, < in bed ; pain around eyes < ; pain in eye ; eruption around eye < ; cannot sleep ; keratitis pustulosa < ; steady
aching in eye < ; boring pains preventing sleep ; throbbing pain in parotid gland < ; offensive discharge from ear < ; pain in ears ; bleeding from nose, with worm symptoms ; coryza ; copious, sour smelling sweat ; throbbing in upper jaw < ; pulsating
toothache < ; when toothache disappears, chilliness ; jerking in teeth < ; stinging pains in throat ; profuse, clammy sweat ; much thirst ; eructations < ; heartburn ; zona < ; frequent desire for stool < ; restlessness ; croupous stools ;
ineffectual urging to stool ; sleeplessness < ; thick discharge from urethra < ; gonorrhœa < ; much nervousness and anxiety ; heat alternating with horripilations ; moist tongue, with intense thirst ; leucorrhœa < ; tubercles on labia < ; profuse
salivation, wets pillow ; lochial discharge < ; exhausting cough < ; cough in two paroxysms ; profuse sweat ; cough < lying on left side ; dyspnœa, with spasmodic cough ; debilitating sweat ; palpitation, with fear ; pulse accelerated, with
erethism ; rheumatism of arm < ; lacerating in shoulder joint, arms and wrists < ; tearing in hip joint and knee < ; rheumatic pains in lower limbs < ; tearing from heel to buttocks < ; pain in right thigh ; legs remain contracted ; legs and thighs cold and
clammy ; stinging and gnawing in ulcers on left ankle < ; pain in all limbs ; syphilitis or strumous synovitis, pains < ; rheumatic and arthritic pains < ; itching of nose and thirst < ; epileptic convulsions ; sleepless ; chilliness, with frequent
micturition ; boring pains in exostoses ; bone diseases painful ; itching <.
Before midnight : great swelling of lids.
After midnight : ptyalism, with nausea < ; heat, with violent thirst for cold drinks.

Temperature and weather

Open air : head as if in a vice, < ; biting burning in eyes < ; blepharitis < ; stitches in last right rib ; bathing, causes croupous inflammation of rectum ; chilliness.
In room : head feels as if in a vice, >.
Warmth : shooting in ear < ; external pains < ; syphilitic or strumous synovitis <.
Warmth of bed : tension over forehead < ; pain in forehead < ; throbbing pain in parotid gland < ; shooting from teeth into face and ears < ; zona < ; cannot tolerate, rheumatic affection ; ulcers on leg < ; rheumatic and arthritic pains < ; itching of
whole body <.
Warmth of stove : does not > chill.
Warm drink : causes sweat.
In hot Summer : wears a heavy overcoat.
Heat : eyes < ; eyes very sensitive ; toothache < ; extremely sensitive.
Least atmospheric variation : attacks of cramps of stomach ; painful stiffness of all limbs <.
Either cold or warm air : coryza.
Cold or warm things : toothache <.
Hot or cold applications : ulcers on leg < ; cancerous ulcers pain.
Washing : throbbing in vagina < ; violent burning of skin.
Cold water : blepharitis <.
Damp weather : pains in eyes < : coryza < ; toothache returns.
Coldness of damp places : eyes very sensitive.
Wet, cold weather : stinging pains in throat.
Bad weather : ulcers in throat <.
Aversion to uncover : heat.
Cold : cannot bear it ; eyes sensitive ; shooting in ear > ; throbbing in vagina < ; extremely sensitive.
Cold air : tongue painful : stinging in throat ; asthma > ; when undressing, itching.
Draft of air : pain in vagina ; hoarseness <.
Evening air : toothache ; colic ; diarrhœa.
Night air : cough <.
Cold drinks : great thirst, with heat.
After catching cold in a sudden shower : painful swelling of foot, followed by abscess.

Fever

Sensation of coldness, with tremors, though without diminished temperature. [merc. v]
Chilliness : on going into open air : as from cold water poured over one ; in abdomen ; while at stool ; at night, with frequent micturition ; between diarrheic stools ; internal, with heat of face ; in daytime,
obliging to lie down ; wore a heavy overcoat in hot Summer.
Constant cold hands and feet. s.
Chill : in morning when rising, but more generally in evening after lying down, as from cold water poured over one ; not > by warmth of stove ; alternating with heat often only on single parts ; internal, with heat of face.
Heat : in bed, chill when out of bed ; after midnight, with violent thirst for cold drinks ; anxious, with sensation of pressing together of chest, alternating with chill ; with aversion to uncover.
Sweat : profuse, offensive ; does not >, may even < suffering ; on every motion, immediately on drinking something warm ; while walking ; day and night, though more at night ; in evening in bed ; falls asleep while
perspiring ; profuse and very debilitating at night ; in morning ; towards morning, with thirst and palpitation or nausea ; from least exertion, even when eating ; clammy and cold, driving out of bed ; peculiar, sour smelling, shrivelling fingers and bedewing
feet ; profuse, cold on face though rest of body is dry ; offensive, cold, oily, clammy and burns skin ; soaking through bedclothes ; stains linen saffron yellow ; cannot be removed by washing ; profuse, fetid, tinging linen yellow and stiffening it.
Complaints increase during sweat.
Intermittent fever : evening chill ; heat and violent thirst or thirst towards morning ; during sweat, palpitation and nausea ; sweat fetid or sour.
Continued or remittent fevers, particularly when complicated with enlargement or subacute inflammation of liver.
Worm fever, with intestinal inflammation and diarrhœa.
Hectic fever, especially of children.
Mucous fever, with prostration.
Catarrhal, rheumatic fever, after catching cold.
Typhoid fevers, with marked icteroid or scorbutic symptoms.
Obtuseness of mental operations, with great inclination to sleep ; heaviness and muddledness of head ; thick and dirty coating of tongue ; insipid, pappy, slimy, foul taste, with desire for refreshing things ; thirst, painful sensitiveness of precordial, hepatic,
umbilical and ileo-cecal region ; bilious, slimy or watery diarrhœa, which, however, may be absent ; prostration ; sometimes copious, debilitating perspiration ; pale ; sunken face and eyes ; dirty, yellowish color of face. θ Typhoid
fever.
Yellow color of skin ; red eyes ; bloodvessels of sclerotic injected ; eyes sensitive to light ; paresis of one or more limbs ; tongue moist, with thick, white coating or dry and covered with brown mucus ; pulse irregular or quick, strong and intermittent,
or soft and tremulous ; great disposition to sleep, or sleepless from nervous irritation ; feeling of weakness and prostration ; rapid loss of strength ; vertigo or severe headache ; convulsive vomiting of slime and bilious matter ; burning pain and
sensitiveness of stomach ; constipation or diarrhœa ; evacuations slimy, bilious or bloody ; coldness of arms and legs, with cramps, irritability and sensitiveness of all the organs ; anxiety and restlessness ; weak memory ; timorous, depressed,
complaining ; delirium. θ Yellow fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Alternates : toothache, with giddiness and tearing in limbs ; croupous and pappy fecal stools ; heat and horripilations.
Periodical : flashes of sharp stitches through hip joint ; < pain in thigh and buttock ; burning as of fire in eruption.
Two paroxysms of cough in rapid succession at night, followed by long interval of rest.
At regular short intervals : acute stitches in right ilium.
Every few minutes : attacks of toothache ; urging to urinate.
In paroxysms of perhaps a minute's duration, once in ten or fifteen minutes ; lancinating, darting pain in large ulcers on leg.
Every quarter or half hour : terrible continuous shrieking for one or two minutes.
Every half hour : diarrheic discharges.
Every hour : discharge of a round, shreddy mass from bowels ; obliged to urinate.
Every night : pains deep in eye < ; at 12 o'clock, intolerable pain in eye ; swelling of gums ; pains in teeth ; painful erections ; violent itching of eruption on hands.
From 9 A. M. until 5 or 6 P. M. : frequent paroxysms of cough.
For a week or ten days : redness of erythema.
Fourteen days after childbirth : eruption of vesicles on neck, shoulders, chest and abdomen.
Every two weeks : menses.
At every menstrual period : pain in mamma.
In all phases of moon : frequent attacks of cramps in stomach.
At third month : repeated miscarriages.
Spring and Fall : stinging pains in throat.
Every Winter for a number of years : eczema of left hand.
For one year : failing sight.
Two years' duration : sores.
For two years : indications of hydrocephalus.
For two or three years : menses irregular.
Fourteen years' duration : chronic otitis.

Locality and direction

Right : scotoma of eye ; as if ear was stuffed up ; offensive smelling discharge from ear ; could not be heard on side ; auditory canal occluded by polypi ; in forepart of ear a sac of matter ; pain in whole half of head and face ;
bloody and offensive matter flows from ear ; mumps ; ranula ; swelling of tonsil ; patches on throat ; cannot lie on side ; stitches in liver ; great distension of hypochondrium ; pressure in side ; lying on side, intestines feel bruised ;
painful swelling near ilium ; stitches in last rib ; pressive boring pains in groin ; zona on side ; tenderness over hypochondrium ; testicle swollen, hard, as large as hen's egg ; scrotum red, shining ; tearing in head ; acute pain through chest to
scapula ; stitches in chest ; acts on lower part of lung ; tenderness over hypochondrium ; painful stiffness of wrist ; spontaneous luxation of hip ; thigh finger's breadth longer than left ; stitches in ilium ; boring in glutei muscles ; thigh as
if bruised ; pressing in periosteum of tibia ; swelling on tibia ; tarsal bones swollen as if sprained ; loss of use of arm ; tetters on forearm.
Left : tearing or pressive pain in temple ; burning in temple ; dryness and swelling of eyelid ; sticking and burning deep in ear ; roaring and rumbling in ear ; shooting from ear to temple ; watch could be heard only at distance of one and a half
inches ; inflammation of ear with deafness ; throbbing in upper jaw ; throat swollen ; beating in precordia ; headache in temple ; stitching in side of abdomen ; pain in testicle ; burning and itching of vagina ; numbness down leg ; cough
< lying on side ; stabbing under short ribs ; eczema of hand ; pain in thigh and buttock ; pain in sinews of thigh ; glandular swelling in upper part of thigh ; tumors on upper part of thigh ; sprained ankle, then an ulcer appeared ; tarsal bones of
foot greatly swollen ; eruption on arm ; tettery spot on cheek bone.
First left, then right : hemorrhage from ears ; ringing, whistling in ears ; shooting in ears ; aching in ears.
From right to left : cutting stitch in lower abdomen.

Sensations

As if there was a vibrating in forehead and a turning about in a circle ; as if in a swing ; forehead as if bandaged or in a hoop ; pain as if just beneath scalp, as if it was too heavy and tight on brain ; as if head would burst ; head as if
constricted by a band ; head as if in a vice ; head as if getting larger and larger ; eyes as if long deprived of sleep ; as if sparks of fire were being emitted from eyes ; eye as if it was a ball of fire ; as of a body underneath lids ; as if feathers
came from corners of eyes ; as of sand in eyes ; as of fiery points in eyes ; as if right ear was stuffed up ; ears as if stopped by swelling ; as though a wedge was driven in ear ; crackling in head as from metal plates ; as if teeth were fixed in a mass
of pap ; as if teeth were loose or too long ; as if foreign body was swallowed down ; as from hot vapor ascending from stomach ; throat as if too tight posteriorly ; as if an apple core was in throat ; as if food had to pass over a foreign body ; as if
there was a burnt spot ; pressure in abdomen as from a stone ; as if bowels had to be held up ; as if bowels fell to side on which he lies ; intestines as if pressed ; stabbing in abdomen as from knives ; as if bowels were cut to pieces ; as if bowels would
be forced out ; as of something heavy pulling downward close above genitals ; as if muscles and tendons were too short ; as if mamma would ulcerate ; as if everything in chest was dry ; as if head and chest would burst ; weakness at heart as if dying ;
agitation as if frightened ; pain in sacrum as if one had been lying on too hard a couch ; arm as if too heavy, as if broken or beaten ; pain in right thigh as if bruised ; as if knee was larger ; pain as if sprained in tarsal joints ; as if all his limbs would
fall from him ; pain in bones as if broken ; itching as from fleabites ; burning as from fire in eruption.
Pain : in bone beneath eyebrow ; in periosteum and bones of face ; in forehead ; around eyes, on forehead and temples ; in sole of foot ; around ear down jaw ; in ears ; in whole right half of head and face ; of salivary glands ; in
parotid glands and muscles of neck ; from throat to ear ; in shoulders ; in limbs ; in region of liver ; in rectum, sometimes to back ; over right hypochondrium ; in left testicle and along cord ; in inguinal region ; in mamma ; in small of
back ; in chest ; in sacrum ; in right thigh ; in sinews of left thigh ; in right tarsal joints ; in bones ; in bowels.
Frightful pain : in bowels.
Raging pain : in forehead.
Sore, maddening pain : in mamma.
Intolerable pain : in eye ; in whole head, < in ears.
Violent pain : in head ; in eyes ; in spine ; in foot.
Acute pain : striking forward through chest to right scapula ; in tarsal bones of left foot ; in impetigo figurata.
Severe pain : in eyes ; in tongue ; in head ; at anus ; in spine ; in ulcers in mouth.
Severe dull pain : in occiput.
Tearing pain : in forehead and vertex ; in left temple ; from head to teeth and neck ; in eyes ; in ears ; in lower jaw ; in limbs ; in head ; in coccyx ; in hip joint and knee ; in femur ; in lower limbs.
Tearing, lacerating, shooting : into face and ear.
Tearing, lacerating : in face.
Tearing, drawing : in head ; from heel to buttocks.
Lacerating : in shoulder joints, arms and wrists.
Stabbing : in abdomen ; in left side under short ribs.
Lancinating, darting : in ulcers on leg ; in cancerous ulcers.
Lancinating, boring, pressing : in abdomen.
Tearing, constricting, pinching : in abdomen.
Lacerating, tearing, stinging : in bones of skull.
Gnawing, lacerating : in knee joint.
Boring, tearing, stitching : in ears.
Pressive, tensive tearing : in forehead, cheeks, upper teeth and ears.
Boring : from head to teeth and neck ; in eyes ; preventing sleep ; in uterus ; in right glutei muscles ; in tibia ; in exostoses.
Cutting : in eyes ; in intestines ; in abdomen ; from stomach to genitals ; in abdomen.
Dull, cutting, pressive pain : underneath lids.
Burning, gnawing : in eyes.
Pinching : in ear ; in abdomen.
Pressive boring : in right groin.
Violent beating : in arteries ; in left precordia.
Severe throbbing pain : in left upper jaw ; otitis ; of vagina.
Throbbing, shooting : in eye.
Pulsating pains : in hip joint and knee.
Violent stitches : in hepatic region ; in right ilium.
Transient stitches : in body and limbs.
Stitching, tearing, pressing, burning : deep in ear to cheek.
Stitching, tearing : in hollow and carious teeth ; under false ribs and in hepatic region.
Single pointed stitches : in region of external condyle of tibia.
Stitches : through whole head ; in ears ; in eyes ; deep in eyes and temples ; in teeth ; posteriorly in throat ; in occiput ; in liver ; in last right rib and inguinal region ; in back and scapula ; through chest to back ; in
anterior and upper portion of chest ; in right chest ; in glands ; flashing periodically through hip joint ; in thighs and legs ; from head to teeth ; in right hypochondrium ; in region of liver ; in uterus ; in small of back and legs ; in
hip joint, knees and feet ; in lower limbs ; in red spots on small of back.
Cutting stitch : in lower abdomen.
Severe shooting pain : from deep within eye ; in ears ; from l. ear to right ; from left ear to left temple.
Stinging, tearing : in ears.
Sharp sticking : in eyes ; in fauces ; deep in both ears ; in tonsils ; in small of back.
Severe stitching, burning : in whole convex portion of liver to spine.
Stinging : in jaw ; in throat ; in fauces ; in region of liver ; in urethra ; in small of back ; in hip joint, femur and knee ; in pimple on nates.
Violent griping : in bowels.
Twisting, constricting pains : in abdomen.
Violent tensive pain : in posterior part of left thigh and in buttock, extending as far as knee.
Cramps : in stomach.
Dragging : in loins and lumbar region.
Drawing pain : from testicles into abdomen, down legs to feet ; in testicles, groin and spermatic cord ; in inguinal region ; in tibia ; in nape and down back.
Pulling pain : in both thighs.
Aching : in eye ; in ears ; in teeth ; in uterus ; at apex of heart.
Pressive pain : in left temple ; in head ; in liver ; in glands ; in periosteum of right tibia.
Dull pain : in region of liver.
Sudden pain : in nape of neck and upper and lower limbs.
Rheumatic pains : in head ; in limbs ; in legs ; of shoulders and upper arms.
Aching, pressing pain : in eye.
Sore pain : deep in pelvis ; in mamma.
Pricking pain : in ulcers.
Extremely painful : orifice of excretory duct of salivary gland.
Raw pain : at edges of lids.
Intolerable biting pain : on tongue.
Burning : in urethra ; in genitals ; after scratching ; from head to teeth and neck ; in eyes ; in ears ; in stomach ; in bowels ; in back ; in herpes zoster, like a girdle from back around abdomen ; in head, < left temple ;
in forehead ; of skin of forehead ; in eyes ; in gums ; in throat ; in region of larynx ; of skin ; at anus ; of penis ; of vagina ; from fauces down ; in scaly herpes ; of nates ; of tetter in bend of elbows, inguinal region
and hollow of knee.
Burning, biting : during micturition.
Stinging, burning : eczema of hands.
Biting : in eyes ; in genitals.
Heat : in eyes ; around eyes ; rises in throat.
Burning rawness : in larynx.
Burning, stinging, gnawing : in ulcers on leg.
Pricking, stinging : in veins.
Pricking : in ears ; in tongue.
Bruised feeling : in intestines ; of scapulæ, back and small of back.
Soreness : of hemorrhoids ; exostoses ; on sides of head ; of top of head ; of lids ; of nose ; of inner ears ; of teeth ; of corners of mouth ; of mouth ; of hepatic region ; of intestines ; of hemorrhoids ; in region
of bladder ; of foreskin ; between scrotum and thighs ; of groins ; of nipples under sternum ; from fauces down.
Painful pressure : in region of pharynx.
Painful dryness : in throat.
Painful stiffness : of right wrist joint.
Painful tension : in knee and elbow joints ; in wrists and ankles.
Sensitiveness : of lymphatic vessels of nympha.
Tenderness : across hypochondria and epigastrium ; over r. hypochondrium.
Rawness : in throat ; of anus and adjacent parts ; in genitals ; of nipples.
Scratching sensation : under manubrium.
Pulse-like jerking : from teeth to lower jaw into ear, from upper jaw into head.
Throbbing : in veins.
Pulsating : in forehead ; in head ; toothache ; in abdomen.
Twitching : of lids, of arms and fingers ; in limbs ; of arms and legs.
Thrill : in urethra when urine passes.
Trembling : of whole body ; of heart ; of extremities ; of hands and tongue.
Spasmodic contraction : when coughing or sneezing.
Pressure : in ear ; in abdomen ; in head ; in forehead ; in eyes ; on tongue ; in throat ; in stomach ; in epigastrium ; in abdomen ; in genitals ; from stomach to genitals.
Tension : over forehead ; in articulation of jaw ; in region of pharynx ; of precordium.
Pressing together : of chest.
Constriction : of lids ; of stomach ; in rectum.
Bearing down pressure : in lower abdomen.
Drawing : in limbs ; with pressure in testicles.
Rheumatic stiffness : of neck.
Fulness : in ear ; in head ; across epigastrium and hypochondria ; in rectum.
Oppression : in epigastrium ; of chest.
Uneasiness : in legs.
Heaviness : in head.
Weight : in lungs.
Weariness : in legs.
Confusion : in head.
Shaking sensation : of bowels.
Rumbling sensation : in abdomen.
Weakness : at heart.
Weakness like a dulness : in head.
Peculiar weak feeling : in abdomen.
Tickling : in larynx ; in throat ; beneath upper portion of chest ; in bronchia.
Roughness : in throat ; from fauces down.
Dryness : of tongue ; of lips ; of eyelids ; of palate ; in mouth ; in throat ; in bronchia ; in chest.
Numbness : down left leg.
Intolerable sticking, itching : here and there over body ; prurigo.
Intense itching : by presence of urine on parts ; in eruption on hands ; on all parts of body.
Terrible itching and burning : on various places.
Voluptuous itching : of tetter on right forearm.
Biting, itching : over abdomen.
Itching, stitching : impetigo figurata.
Pricking, itching : in sacrum.
Sensitive itching : of labia majora.
Itching : in eyes ; in ears ; in nodular eruption on legs ; in nose ; in gums ; of anus ; in scrotum ; of vagina ; of genitals ; over whole body ; of herpes zoster.
Coldness : in ears ; in testicles ; in lower limbs ; of arms and legs.

Tissues

Ascites from organic lesions of liver ; anasarca after scarlatina.
Œdema of face, hands and feet, with anemia.
Blood coagulates easily ; throbbing or pricking stinging in veins.
Epistaxis ; hemorrhages in old women after climacteric period ; hæmaturia in typhoid fever ; blonde hair, lax skin and muscles ; tongue and mouth moist, with thirst ; sweat of feet without odor ; disposition earnest, anxious ; blood light
colored ; scorbutic condition of gums. θ Hemorrhages.
Bone pains ; < at night ; boring pains in exostoses.
Glandular swellings, with or without suppuration, but especially if suppuration is profuse.
Exostoses ; caries ; pains in bones as if broken.
Abscesses in joints.
Rheumatic-catarrhal inflammations, with disposition to sweat.
Rheumatism, especially in cases of syphilitic origin or complication, affecting joints, bones, or periosteum, swelling of joints, pale or slightly red, puffy or œdematous ; pains tearing, drawing, shooting, pressing ; in bones as if broken ; in joints as if
sprained ; < evenings and at night, and insupportable in heat of bed ; accompanied by profuse sweat (often sour or offensive smelling) without > pains.
Gouty, shining red swellings.
Gouty and rheumatic pains, with sweats without relief.
Excessive emaciation. [merc. v]
Glandular swellings with or without suppuration.
Cold swellings ; slowly suppurating abscesses.
Suppuration, especially if too profuse.
Ulcerations : very superficial and widespread ; with whitish grey bases, bleeding easily and exuding thin matter ; spreading, spongy, readily bleeding and extremely painful ; unequal elevations and depressions in floor of ulcer ; cancerous, with severe shooting,
lancinating pain, not > by either hot or cold applications ; fungous, chancrous, phagedenic, carious and syphilitic.
Chancre ; gonorrhœa ; blenorrhagia uretheralis and vaginalis.
Erysipelatous inflammation, especially about joints.
Gangrene of lips, cheeks and gums ; inflammation and swelling of glands of neck ; pains < by hot or cold applications.
Breath and whole body smell foul. [merc. v]

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : pain in bones ; feeling of soreness of exostoses ; external head painful ; scalp painful ; pain around eyes < ; lids sensitive ; gums painful ; teeth painful to touch of tongue ; lips painful ; stomach sensitive ;
liver tender ; swelling in ileo-cecal region painful ; rectum painful ; soreness of region of bladder ; swelling of urethra painful ; causes bleeding of ulcers ; cannot bear it on swollen right foot ; arms and thighs sore ; herpes burning.
Laying hand on forehead ; tension >.
When taken hold of : painfulness of nasal bones.
Contact : of teeth, severe pain in teeth ; of food, tongue painful ; abdomen painful ; skin extremely sensitive to clothes ; violent burning of skin.
Heavy pressure : in inguinal glands causes pain.
Pressure : swelling over parietal bone fluctuates ; tongue painful ; external, tension in pharynx < ; pain in liver < ; swelling of inguinal glands painful ; nodes on tibia sensitive ; pain in spine < ; ulcers on leg <.
Pressing hand against abdomen : > pain in coccyx.
Rubbing : toothache > ; of genitals at night in bed ; violent burning of skin.
Wearing boot on swollen foot : caused violent pain.
Scratching : scalp causes bleeding ; causes bleeding of yellow scurf on face ; of genitals at night in bed ; biting in genitals changes to violent burning ; eczema on hand inflames surroundings ; itching becomes pleasant ; causes burning in eruption.
Riding : pulsating in forehead >.
After fall : scotoma of right eye ; sprained left ankle, then an ulcer appeared.

Skin

Yellow skin. θ Yellow fever. θ Icterus.
Jaundice, with biting itching over abdomen. s.
Skin chafed, sore.
Itching over whole body, especially at night in bed, when getting warm.
Itching that becomes pleasant on scratching. s.
Violent itching on all parts of body, is obliged to scratch a great deal at night. s.
Intolerable sticking itching, here and there over body, as from fleabites, in evening. s.
Intolerable itching all over body, assuming appearance of nettlerash.
Nocturnal itching without eruption.
Insensibility of skin. θ Meningitis.
After use of rosin plaster on pit of stomach, terrible itching and burning in various places, gradually spreading over body ; < at night in bed. s. θ Pruritus cutaneus universalis.
Erythema, upon which vesicles form and pour out a thin, clear fluid ; vesicles quickly broken, contents dessicate, redness remains for a week or ten days. [merc. v]
Round spots shining through skin, of a coppery red color.
Exanthemata spreading from pit of stomach over abdomen and chest. [merc. v]
Small, flat, light red blotches on sexual parts, abdomen, chest and inner side of thighs. [merc. v]
Red spots covered with small vesicles of size of millet seed, filled with purulent lymph. [merc. v]
Grey flat scurf on a swollen spot. s.
Scurfy eruption beginning on head and spreading over whole body.
Dry, rash-like, readily bleeding eruption. s.
Ulcerated, incrusted pimples. s.
Desquamation all over, especially from backs of hands and from feet. s.
Circular crop of miliary papula, raised and rough, bright scarlet, irritable, itching, scratching at night, rough spot on forehead at times ; face pale and puffy, frequently changes color ; after day or two spot became moist and much humor was exuded ; tongue rough
like a strawberry from papillary enlargement and covered with a white film ; very susceptible to cold. θ Intertrigo of arms.
Eruption commencing upon forearms and chest and gradually extending over whole body (except face and posterior surface of upper and lower extremities) ; it begins as small, scattered, red spots, as large as peas, gradually enlarging in a circular form, run together and become
continuous ; color at first light red, afterwards either scarlet or bluish red, darker on margin and lighter in centre ; as spots enlarge skin in their centre becomes healthy ; they are slightly elevated, rough and dry, and covered with small whitish scales, which are
continually rubbed off by clothes and redevelop, so that in evening clothes look as if sprinkled with meal ; tetter < in axillæ, bends of elbows, inguinal regions and hollows of knees burning and paining continually, when first making their appearance accompanied by some
fever ; affected portions of skin swollen, red and extremely sensitive to contact of clothes ; use of arms impeded ; sleep wanting or very restless ; itching on contact of cold air when undressing, disappearing in warmth of bed ; violent burning after contact,
rubbing, washing, or taking wine ; axillary and inguinal glands swollen ; in some places, as for example, in inguinal region, small, superficial, moist ulcers develop on tetter, which after some days become covered with yellow scabs and heal ; tearing pains in joints,
especially elbows and knees, in evening ; on palms of hands, small transparent vesicles without sensation. s.
Eczema, yellow crusts and inflamed surroundings after scratching, on face, legs and bends of extremities. s.
Moist eczema on forearms and legs.
Whole body with exception of face covered with small, elevated, dark red spots, close to each other, resembling measles ; on inner side of arms and legs, and on hands and feet, eruption presents an unbroken, dark red surface, in these parts skin is also swollen ; on flexing
arms and when walking, painful tension in knee and elbow joints ; same pain in wrists and ankles ; vesicles filled with yellow serum upon surface of eruption, near ankles ; small, thin, white scurfs on surface of eruption ; slight itching ; painful burning < from
touch, rubbing, in evening and during night. θ Eczema.
Rash on forearm, measle shaped, over whole body, but particularly on chest, thighs and lower part of back. s.
Herpes burning when touched, humid, with large scales on edges.
Moist vesicles surrounded by dry scales, easily bleeding.
Very small transparent vesicles, containing water, appear in various parts of body, in morning before daybreak. s.
Itching pimples and watery vesicles. s.
Herpetic spots and suppurating pustules sometimes running together, forming dry and scaly spots, or crusts and acrid discharges.
Herpes zoster, burning pains, with gastric disturbance ; like a girdle from back around abdomen ; much itching and tendency to suppurate.
Red spots in small of back with stitching pains ; during course of several days more spots appeared, eruption extending towards navel and nearly encircling body ; girdle of eruption about three fingers wide, watery discharge on scratching ; periodical burning as of
fire in eruption. θ Zona.
Fourteen days after childbirth, eruption of vesicles as large as peas on neck, shoulders, chest and abdomen, down as far as umbilicus ; lochia scanty ; pain in small of back ; vertigo ; great redness of face ; white coated
tongue ; offensive taste in mouth ; thirst ; sleeplessness ; great restlessness ; trembling of limbs ; heat and chilliness. θ Vesicular eruption.
Excoriations of a tettery nature oozing constantly and bleeding easily when scratched.
Phagedenic blisters.
Impetiginous and furfuraceous herpes. s.
Itch : dry, rash-like, easily bleeding ; fat, especially in bends of elbows, some of vesicles become pustular.
Itching eruptions, burning after scratching.
Skin dirty yellow, rough and dry ; scaly, dry tetters ; eruptions of not inflamed, little red elevations, points of which peel off, on left arm ; red, round, scaly spots, one inch in diameter, on forearm and wrist ; rough, partly reddish, partly whitish,
tettery spot on left cheek bone ; dry, elevated, burning itching tetters on whole body, especially on legs, arms, wrists and hands, even between fingers ; tetter on right forearm, which peels and causes a voluptuous itching ; places which have remained free from impetigo
mercurialis turn rough, dry, crack and peel off constantly in white, bran-like scales, especially on scalp, whiskers and eyebrows, without attacking face ; deep rhagades, like cuts, on hands and fingers, especially on their inside, their basis looks raw and bloody and they are very
painful. θ Psoriasis.
Itching so intolerable it almost sets him crazy if he gets a little warmer than usual when at work ; when he first gets into bed, the cool sheets feel so nice he goes right to sleep, but after sleeping about half an hour, he is awakened by itching and has to get out of bed and walk
floor until sheets get cool again ; skin covered with crusts and papula. [merc. v] θ Prurigo.
Stinging and burning ; surroundings inflame after scratching. θ Impetigo.
Impetigo figurata ; considerable suppuration under crusts ; itching, stitching and very acute pains ; eruption has a tendency to spread.
Eruption of pustules varying in size from a millet seed to a large pea and filled with thick yellow matter, discharges after two or three days, making parts sore ; commenced on one foot, extending to knee, and in running together made one continuous sore ; then eruption
appeared in like manner on abdomen and on back of head ; scattering pustules on hands, arms and all over body ; child thin and pale ; very restless ; difficult to lie in any position so that it could sleep, on account of having to lie on sores ; all symptoms much
< by warmth of bed at night. s.
Suppurating pustules which either run into one another, discharging an acrid humor, or remain sore, become hollow, afterwards raised and cicatrized ; pustules bleed easily and are painful to touch. θ Ecthyma.
Diarrhœa with pain in bowels and tenesmus ; moist, barking cough without expectoration ; cough is almost convulsive and cannot be controlled, occurring in frequent paroxysms, particularly from 9 A. M. till 5 or 6 P. M. θ Measles.
Tardy development of eruption ; fever ; bronchitis. θ Measles.
During desquamation entire mucous membrane of mouth covered with flat, lentil sized ulcers with lardaceous base and causing severe pain while eating ; edges of forepart of tongue and gums also covered with ulcers. θ Measles.
Burning heat ; face very red and swollen ; thirst ; restlessness ; fright and starting during sleep ; delirium ; sensorial depression and sopor ; great oppression of chest ; short, quick respiration ; anxiety before appearance of
eruption ; eruption of slightly elevated papillary red spots, as large as a linseed, upon a reddish base, latter finally assuming a pale red appearance ; skin at one time burning hot, at another moist ; tongue dry, brown at tip, with elevated red papillæ ; cutting in
abdomen, diarrhœa. θ Scarlatina.
Anginose variety ; dirty yellow coating on tongue, clean at tip ; foul breath ; itching and restlessness < by sweating ; swelling of parotid, submaxillary and lymphatic glands ; ptyalism, hawking and spitting. θ Scarlatina.
Varicella ; water blotches turn yellow and maturate. s.
Variola : in stage of maturation ; dysenteric symptoms.
Erysipelas : spreading from back around upon abdomen ; of syphilitic origin ; simple and phlegmonous.
Erysipelas of newborn children of syphilitic or scrofulous nature ; a few days after birth red spots appear upon skin, especially about groins, on scrotum and thighs ; spots at first pale, gradually assume a brighter red color, forming a sort
of intertrigo, the discharge of which is of an offensive odor and has a tendency to become purulent ; finally bright red spots appear upon lower abdomen and region of navel, gradually becoming erysipelatous in character, and as this progresses primary seat of eruption also assumes an
erysipelatous character ; diarrheic, fermented stools and considerable fever.
In dropsical patients rapid disappearance of swelling and appearance of offensive, rapidly decomposing ulcers on thighs. s.
Ulcers : large, bleeding, margins everted like raw meat, their bases covered with a caseous coat ; superficial, flat, readily bleeding, base lardaceous, < from heat of bed and hot or cold applications ; round, of an impure lardaceous surface, with inflamed,
elevated, turned up edges and pricking pain ; serpiginous.
Primary and secondary syphilis ; round, coppery red spots shining through skin.
Boils after pus has formed.
Panaritium when inflammation extends to sheaths of tendons and ligaments of joints.
Carious ulcers.

Stage of life, constitution

Suitable for light-haired persons with lax skin and muscle.
Often indicated with women and children.
Boy, æt. 12 days ; cerebral hernia ; ophthalmia neonatorum and aphthæ.
Child, æt. 14 days, suffering eight days ; thrush.
Child, æt. 4 months ; scurfy eruption.
Child, æt. 5 months, suffering two days ; bilious colic. s.
Child, æt. 1, thin and pale ; pustular eruption. s.
Two children, æt. 1 ; diarrhœa.
Girl, æt. 1 1/4, had itch ; otorrhœa and eruption on face and legs.
Boy, æt. 2, robust ; prolapsus of rectum.
Boy, æt. 2 ; pneumonia.
Girl, æt. 2, suffering three months ; scrofulous inflammation of eyes.
Child, æt. 2, scrofulous, suffering for more than a year ; inflammation of eyes.
Boy, æt. 3, suffering two years ; hydrocephalus.
Child, æt. 3 ; glossitis.
Boy, æt. 3, suffering thirteen days ; ulcers in mouth.
Girl, æt. 3 ; inflammation of parotid gland.
Boy, æt. 3 1/2, suffering two weeks ; ulcerated mouth.
Girl, æt. 4, often has rawness behind ears, glandular swellings and inflammation of eyes ; eruption on lips.
Girl, æt. 4, suffering four weeks ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 4 ; intertrigo on arms.
Boy, æt. 4 1/2, stout, but hydrocephalic head, broad nose, thick lips, had had tinea and swollen glands, and suffered frequently from eyes ; keratoiritis.
Girl, æt. 5, scrofulous, after scarlet fever ; acute hydrocephalus.
Child, æt. 5, sickly ; periostitis of tibia. s.
Girl, æt. 5, after being ill four days ; typhoid fever.
Child, æt. 7 ; purpura hemorrhagica.
Girl, æt. 8, suffering eight days ; inflammation of eye.
Girl, æt. 8, has suffered from repeated attacks ; keratitis pustulosa.
Girl, æt. 8 ; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Boy, æt. 8 ; diphtheria. s.
Girl, after catching cold ; sore throat. [merc. v]
Girl, æt. 10, suffering four weeks ; luxation of hip joint.
Girl, æt. 12, strong ; inflammation of submaxillary gland.
Boy, æt. 12 ; zona.
Girl, æt. 14, during an attack of influenza ; typhoid fever.
Boy, æt. 14, strong ; inflammation of brain.
Girl, æt. 15 ; inflammation of sublinguinal gland.
Boy, æt. 15, after disappearance of itch ; affection of knee.
Boy, æt. 15 ; ulcers in mouth.
Boy, æt. 16, after fourteen days of previous illness ; dysentery.
Girl, æt. 17, menses suppressed ; vertigo.
Boy, æt. 17, caught after an attack of pain in joints, accompanied by a vesicular eruption on arms ; otitis.
Man, æt. 18 ; chancre.
Girl, æt. 18, brunette ; ranula.
Girl, æt. 19, strong, blonde, blue eyes, delicate skin ; rheumatic ophthalmia.
Man, æt. 19, strong, florid complexion ; stomatitis.
Girl, æt. 19, well nourished, plethoric ; dysentery.
Man, æt. 19, weaver, phlegmatic, scrofulous, had suffered from glandular swellings in right axilla ; swelling of glands of neck.
Man, æt. 20 ; ulcers in mouth.
Man, æt. 20 ; strong ; swelling of submaxillary gland.
Girl, æt. 20 ; syphilis.
Woman, æt. 24, lymphatic temperament, after catching cold in a shower ; caries of bones of foot.
Soldier, æt. 24, choleric temperament ; dysentery.
Man, æt. 24 ; chancre.
Woman, æt. 24, unmarried, gouty tendency ; gout.
Mrs. S., æt. 25, blonde, tall and thin, mild disposition, has been confined to bed most of time with womb disease for three years ; ulceration of cervix uteri.
Man, æt. 25 ; chancre.
Woman, æt. 26, unmarried, suffering from tuberculosis ; morning sweats.
Man, æt. 27, four weeks ago had gonorrhœa, discharge after three weeks duration ceased of itself ; swelling of testicle.
Man, æt. 27 ; chancre.
Woman, æt. 27, unmarried, subject every Autumn to attacks of angina ; rheumatic pains.
Woman, æt. 28, six months ago became mother of second child ; peritonitis.
Man, æt. 28, weak, melancholy temperament ; chancre.
Man, æt. 28, had measles when six years old, since which time has been suffering ; otorrhœa and deafness.
Woman, æt. 29, scrofulous, suffered formerly from eruptions on head ; cephalalgia and desire to commit suicide.
Woman, æt. 30, during childhood had an eruption on face and since womanhood is subject to profuse and too early menstrual discharge, suffering three months ; toothache. s.
Man, æt. 30 ; chancre.
Man, æt. 30, sanguine nervous temperament, delicate complexion and body, has lived for some time in Brazil ; syphilitic ophthalmia and rheumatism.
Woman, æt. 30 ; irregular menstruation.
Man, æt. 30, subject to rheumatism and gastric and intermittent fevers ; typhoid fever.
Man, æt. 30 ; syphilis.
Man, æt. 30, suffering three weeks ; hæmaturia.
Woman, æt. 30, childless ; dysuria.
Woman, æt. 30, delicate constitution, gentle disposition, for one year has noticed a marked decrease of visual power, particularly of right eye ; amblyopia.
Woman, æt. 30, dark complexioned, eight years ago fell and sprained left ankle ; ulcer on leg. s.
Widow, æt. 32 ; diarrhœa.
Woman, æt. 33, syphilitic, menses regular ; desire to murder or commit suicide.
Man, æt. 34, has had several attacks ; gonorrhœa.
Man, æt. 35, porter ; glossitis.
Man, æt. 35, robust, after catching cold ; rheumatic fever.
Woman, æt. 36, suffering from affection of stomach ; metrorrhagia.
Woman, æt. 36, after external application of mercury ; stomatitis.
Woman, æt. 36, no children, two years ago had inflammatory affection of chest, after nursing a cachectic husband ; phthisis.
Woman, æt. 36, unmarried, suffering three months from pain in stomach ; rheumatism.
Man, æt. 37 ; chancre.
Woman, æt. 37, nervous, suffering eight days ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 38 ; chancre.
Man, æt. 39, after suppression of foot sweat ; desire to commit suicide.
Woman, who had suffered previously from two abortions, Secale given during second one because of severe hemorrhage, since which she has been in ill health ; threatened abortion.
Woman, arthritic, living in squalor and poverty, unable to nurse child on account of pain in nipples, fourteen days after childbirth ; vesicular eruption.
Woman, after an orthodox course of mercury ; ulcer on leg. s.
Woman, robust, sanguine temperament ; diarrhœa.
Woman, delicate, psoric ; rheumatic ophthalmia.
Man, suffering every Winter, for a number of years ; eczema of hands. s.
Woman, æt. 40, single ; vaginitis. [merc. v]
Man, æt. 40, suffering one year, probably after catching cold ; pain and stiffness of limbs.
Man, æt. 40, strong ; perityphlitis.
Woman, æt. 40, sanguine choleric temperament, very tall, after a cutting, cold, east wind ; inflammation of liver.
Man, æt. 40, robust, suffering six days ; dysentery.
Woman, æt. 40 ; glossitis.
Man, æt. 40 ; rheumatism of shoulder.
Man, æt. 40 ; chancre.
Woman, æt. 40, brunette, lively, choleric temperament, previously suffered from similar eruption ; eczema.
Man, æt. 41 ; muscular rheumatism.
Man, æt. 48, scrofulous, suffering several weeks, after catching cold while bathing in open air ; croupous inflammation of rectum.
Woman, æt. 50, after habitual use of blue pills for constipation ; ulcers on forehead.
Woman, æt. 50, suffering three months ; toothache. s.
Woman, æt. 50, married seven years, no children, nervous temperament, had rheumatism in her youth ; toothache.
Woman, æt. 50 ; rheumatism.
Woman, æt. 50, subject to attacks of prosopalgia, after rising from bed too soon after attack of left sided pneumonia ; pneumonia.
Man, æt. 50, drunkard ; glossitis.
Man, æt. 50 ; ulcers in mouth.
Strong man, æt. 50, subject to gouty pains in joints ; iritis.
Woman, æt. 53, sick last four years ; rheumatism.
Man, æt. 54, strong ; glossitis.
Woman, æt. 54, small, plethoric ; glossitis.
Man, æt. 55 ; dysentery.
Woman, æt. 60, robust ; typhoid fever.
Man, æt. 60, tailor, eruption two years ago, first small, elevated spots on back of wrists, gradually extending to other portions of body ; prurigo. [merc. v]
Woman, æt. 67, subject to erysipelatous inflammations ; inflammation of eye.
Woman, æt. 70, plethoric habit, bilious diathesis, subject to fluent hemorrhoids ; bilious diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 70, always good health, after cessation of an habitual expectoration ; typhoid fever.
Woman, æt. 70 ; diarrhœa.

Relations

Antidoted by : Aurum., Asaf., Bellad., Carbo veg., Cinchon., Dulcam., Ferrum, Guajac ., Hepar , Iodium, Kali chlor., Kali hyd ., Laches .,
Mezer ., Nitr. ac ., Staphis., Stillingia , Sulphur and, according to Guernsey, by Mercur ., itself high, all
symptoms agreeing.
It antidotes : bad effects from sugar ; stings of insects ; ailments from arsenic or copper vapors ; Aurum, Antimon., Laches., Bellad., Opium, Phytol., Valer., Cinchon., Dulcam., Mezer .
Compatible : after Bellad., Hepar, Laches., Sulphur . Before Arsen., Asaf., Bellad., Calc. ostr., Cinchon., Lycop., Nitr. ac., Phosphor., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur .
Incompatible : Silic .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

General features

The pathogenesis of Mercury is found in the provings of Merc. viv. and Merc. sol., two slightly different preparations, but not different enough to make any distinction in practice.

Mercury is used in testing the temperature, and a Merc. constitution is just as changeable and sensitive to heat and cold. The patient is worse from the extremes of temperature, worse from both heat and cold. Both the symptoms and the patient are worse in a warm atmosphere, worse in the open air, and worse in the cold.

The complaints of Mercury when sufficiently acute to send him to bed are worse from the warmth of the bed, so that he is forced to uncover; but after he uncovers and cools off he gets worse again, so that he has difficulty in keeping comfortable. This applies to the pains, the fever, ulcers and eruptions and the patient himself.

He is an offensive patient. We speak of mercurial odors. The breath especially is very foetid, and it can be detected on entering the room; it permeates the whole room. The perspiration is offensive; it has a strong, sweetish, penetrating odor. Offensiveness runs all through; offensive urine, stool and sweat; the odors from the nose and mouth are offensive. When Merc. is used in large doses and the patient is salivated he gives off these odors.

One who has once smelt a salivated patient will remember the mercurial odor. I remember when I was a student, almost every room had the mercurial odor. Mercury was given till the gums were touched and salivation was produced. That odor is often an index to the use of Merc.

He is worse at night. The bone pains, joint affections and inflammatory conditions are all worse at night and somewhat relieved during the day. Bone pains are universal, but especially where the flesh is thin over the bones. Periosteal pains, boring pains, worse at night and from warmth of the bed.

The glands are inflamed, and swollen; the parotids, sub-linguals, lymphatic glands of the neck, groin and axilla are all affected; the mammae swell and there is inflammation and swelling of the liver. It is pre-eminently a glandular remedy. Induration is also a general; inflamed parts indurate. If the skin is inflamed it is hard. Inflamed glands are hard.

There is induration with ulceration. A tendency to ulcerate runs through the remedy. Ulcers are found everywhere, in the throat, nose, mouth, and on the lower limbs. Ulcers sting and burn and have a lardaceous base, an ashy-white appearance looking as if spread over with a coating of lard. It looks like a diphtheritic exudate, and Merc. has diphtheritic exudations on inflamed surfaces.

Ulcers in the throat have this appearance. The mucous membrane sometimes inflames without ulceration, but with exudation, and hence it is useful in diphtheria. It has the same condition in ulcers; when the system is run down they exude a grey lardy or ashy deposit. Chancres take on that form, a whitish cheesy deposit on the base. When you realize that the complaints of Merc. are worse at night, and think of the bone pains, periosteal inflammations, etc., it is not surprising that Merc. sometimes cures syphilis. It is wonderful that the allopath hit upon it for this disease, and he cures or suppresses enough cases by similarity to justify its continued use. When given suitably it cures.

Another marked feature is the tendency to the formation of pus. With inflammation there is burning and stinging and the rapid formation of pus and the part is aggravated by both warmth and cold. Abscesses burn and sting; inflammation of joints is attended with pus formation; in inflammation of the pleura the cavity fills up with pus. The discharges of pus are yellow-green. The Merc. gonorrheal discharge is thick greenish-yellow, with stinging and burning in the urethra.

Rheumatic inflammation of joints and catarrhal inflammation of mucous membrane are features running through the remedy, and these are attended with sweat, and an astonishing feature is that the sweat does not relieve, and there is even an aggravation while sweating.

Rheumatism in old syphilitic, gonorrhoeal and gouty patients. It is similar enough to relate to some cases of psora, syphilis and sycosis. It partakes of the nature of all three miasms.

After a prover has taken Merc. a long time he emaciates. This is seen in old mercury takers and in syphilitics who have been mercurialized. It is a great remedy in this condition-steady emaciation with trembling, worse at night and from the warmth of the bed, great restlessness, can't find peace in any position. These miserable wretches, who are breaking down, are great sufferers, whether psoric, syphilitic or sycotic.

A strange feature is repeated swelling and abscess formation without any heat. An abscess or swelling in a joint forms, and he sweats from head to foot, is worse at night, loses flesh, trembles and is weak, but there is no heat while the abscess goes on. Abscesses form when the life force is so low that there is no tendency to repair; a slow and prolonged pus formation, no irritability in the abscess, no tendency to granulate, it opens and keeps on discharging and seems dead. Merc. will warm it up, stop the sweat and favor granulation.

The superficial ulceration is inclined to spread and become phagedenic; it is not deep but grows larger. These open ulcers are especially seen in old syphilitics; lardaceous base; not much irritability, they are even numb, and if pus is discharged it is greenish-yellow; false granulations appear. Merc. cor. is a greater remedy for the superficial, eating, phagedenic ulcer.

At times Merc. takes on a gangrenous condition. This may be seen anywhere, but especially on the lips, cheeks and gums. Cancrum oris. Gangrenous chancre, foetid and black; a sphacelus forms in the chancre and the part sloughs off. All these conditions are aggravated by beat.

A patient with a typical Merc. abscess rebels at times against the poultice, for it makes the trouble worse.

Trembling runs through the remedy, quivering all over. It has been used with benefit in paralysis agitans. Tremor of the hands so that he cannot lift anything or eat or write. Merc. is a great remedy in children with epileptiform fits, twitching and disorderly motions. It will help children to grow out of these in coordinate angular movements of the hands and feet.

Jerking, twitching and trembling. The motions of the tongue are disorderly and the child cannot talk. Convulsions. Involuntary motions which can be momentarily controlled by volition. The restlessness is extreme.

The trembling, weakness, sweat, foetor, suppuration and ulceration, the aggravation at night and from heat and cold, give the earlier impressions of the remedy.

Mind

The mental symptoms, which still more deeply show the nature of the medicine, are rich.

A marked feature running all through is hastiness; a hurried, restless, anxious, impulsive disposition. Coming in spells, in cold cloudy weather, or damp weather, the mind will not work, it is slow and sluggish and he is forgetful. This is noticed in persons who are tending toward imbecility. He cannot answer questions right off, looks and thinks, and finally grasps it. Imbecility and softening of the brain are strong features.

He becomes foolish. Delirium in acute complaints. From his feelings he thinks he must be losing his reason. Desire to kill persons contradicting her. Impulse to kill or commit suicide; sudden anger with impulse to do violence. She has the impulse to commit suicide or violent things, and she is fearful that she will lose her reason and carry the impulses out. Impulsive insanity, then, is a feature, but imbecility is more common than insanity.

These impulses are leading features. The patient will not tell you about his impulses, but they relate to deep evils of the will, they fairly drive him to do something. Given a Merc. patient, and he has impulses that he tries to control, no matter what, Merc. will do something for him. During menses, great anxiety, great sadness. Anxious and restless as if some evil impended, worse at night, with sweat.

Al these symptoms are common in old syphilitics, broken down after mercurial treatment and sulphur baths, at the springs, with their bone pains, glandular troubles, sweating, catarrhs and ulcerations everywhere.

Head

Merc. is suitable to rheumatic troubles of the scalp, and neuralgias and brain trouble when there are burning, stinging pains and pains affected by the weather, and when there are head troubles that have come on from suppressed discharges, such as suppressed otorrhoea after scarlet fever, or when there are head troubles in scarlet fever.

Think of Merc. if you are called to a child with sweating of the head, dilated pupils, rolling of the head, and aggravation at night, who has had scarlet fever or a suppressed ear discharge. Merc. cures lingering febrile conditions analogous to the typhoid state, but caused by suppressed ear discharge. I have cured cases that were due to packing the ear with borax, iodoform, etc., the patient having first a remittent and later a continued fever.

This would go on for five or six weeks and be relieved only when the discharge returned after a dose of Merc. I remember a case of this type. It was called cerebro-spinal meningitis; the head was drawn back and twisted and held to one side.

It began as an otitis media with discharge which was suppressed. Two or three doctors were called and could do nothing. In the night I went to the bedside and got the history and symptoms of Merc. Merc. re-established the discharge in twenty-four hours, the torticolis passed away, the fever subsided and the child made an excellent recovery. I can recall many such cases.

There is a tension about the scalp as if it were bandaged. Nervous girls have headache over the nose and around the eyes as if tied with a tape, or as if a tight hat were pressing on the head. Pressing, tearing pain in the eyes. Burning pains in the temples ameliorated by sitting up and moving about, worse at night.

Periosteal pains worse in cold, damp weather, in rheumatic and gouty constitutions, with sensitiveness in the eyes and ears, sore throat and glandular swellings. Headaches in old mercurialized syphilitics; they become barometers; sensitive to the weather. The catarrhal headaches are very troublesome; headache in those suffering from chronic catarrh with thick discharge.

The thick discharge becomes watery and the pain in the forehead, face and ears very distressing. These headaches are violent. Chronic rheumatic headache from the suppression of a discharge from any part, or from foot sweat suppressed; alternation of foot sweat and headache. When the foot sweat is gone he has pain and stiffness in the joints.

Silicea has that also. Sil. and Merc. do not follow each other well, when well selected; but if crude Mercury has been taken for a long time, Silica, like Nitric acid, is a good remedy to eliminate it when the symptoms agree.

With all headaches there is much heat in the head. Bursting headaches, fullness of the brain, and. constriction like a band. Vise-like pressure. He is sensitive to the air when he has headache. This is true of Merc. all through. He is relieved in the room, but worse in a warm or cold room, and violently worse from a draught. He wants to be covered but is worse from heat. The hoop-like sensation is worse at night.

Merc. is a wonderful remedy to ward off acute hydrocephalus after measles and scarlatina; the child rolls the head and moans, and the head sweats. It is closely related to Apis, which is also a great remedy after scarlet fever to ward off or cure hydrocephalus. Exostoses in old syphilitics.

Lacerating, tearing pains in the pericranium.

The whole external head is painful to touch. The scalp is tense and sore. Foetid, oily sweat on the head. Children have moist eczema, an excoriating, offensive eruption.

Eyes

Merc. is a wonderful eye remedy, especially for "colds."

Every cold settles in the eye in gouty and rheumatic patients. Catarrh of the eyes worse from looking into the fire or rather from sitting close to the fire; the radiated heat causes smarting. Eyelids forcibly drawn together as if long deprived of sleep. Fog or mist before the eye. Merc. cures iritis in syphilitics.

The rule now-a-days is to use a mydriatic in iritis to prevent adhesions. I have treated many cases and I have no desire to dilate the pupil. I believe it is unnecessary. The homoeopathic remedy will stop the iritis speedily so that no adhesions will form, and if they have begun the remedy will remove them. Pains tearing and burning around the eyes, in temples, etc. Tension of the scalp as if it were a tight fitting cap, or tension as from a tape.

Ulceration and inflammation of the cornea. Vascular appearance of the cornea; inflammation, especially confined to the cornea, sometimes pustular, sometimes diffused. There is copious lachrymation with all eye symptoms, and the tears excoriate, causing a red line down the cheeks. Greenish yellow, or a green discharge. Lids spasmodically closed. Great photophobia. In inflammatory conditions of all the tissues of the eye lids, conjunctiva and deeper structures. Colds settle in the eye like Dulc.

Sometimes you will see a little fine growth on the iris, growing across the pupil and attached by a pedicle. It is really a syphilitic condylomata. Merc. cures it in a few days. Inflammation of the retina and choroid and of the optic nerve. All sorts of disturbed vision. It is useful in purulent ophthalmia, with swollen lids. Two kinds of constitution need it, the syphilitic and the rheumatic or gouty. He can not open the eyes; they are spasmodically closed, and there is great tumefaction.

Ears

Ear troubles. Horribly stinking greenish discharge. Green, thick, acrid pus from the ears like the discharge from the nose and other parts. Stinking otorrhoea. In otitis media with ruptured drum, Merc. is a frequently required remedy. In Spring after a long, cold Winter, the cold, damp weather causes many cases of otorrhoea; it is almost endemic in large cities. The ear drum heals like any other place if the patient is put in good condition by the remedy. It not well treated a hole will be left. Ears inflamed, with cramp-like pains.

Merc has stinging pain like Apis . All routinists will give Apis for stinging pains, and yet it often is Merc. that the patient needs. Purulent, offensive otorrhoea. Enlargement of the parotids and cervical glands with all inflammations of the ears. Parotids sore and enlarged, neck stiff, and head sometimes drawn back., Furuncles in external canal. Fungous excrescences and polypi.

The nose troubles would take a long time to describe.

Old syphilitics, with nasal bones affected, thick, greenish, yellow, acrid, stinking discharge. Nosebleed and bloody discharge from the nose. Coryza acrid, watery, with pressure through the bones of the face, worse from heat or cold, worse at night; sensitive to every draught; must get up and walk the floor. It has coryza with much sneezing with an opposite state, ameliorated lying, not at all during the night while lying in bed, only in the daytime while up and about.

The inhalation of hot air feels good to the nose, but the heat aggravates the body. Incessant sneezing. Bleeding, scurfy, red nostrils. Old catarrhal smell in the nose. Rawness, burning and swelling. Inside of the nostrils smarting and burning. Aching, tearing and pressure in the bones. Bones of the face painful, feel as if pressed outward, and be wants to press, but it is painful.

Merc. is not deep enough to cure the whole constitution in psoric cases that are constantly taking cold. It cures the cold at once, but implants its own nature and the patient catches cold oftener. It should not be given often, not oftener than twice in a winter. Kali iod, is better for the same burning in the face, running coryza, and aggravation from heat and warmth of the bed, and it will cure the coryza in a night when apparently Merc. is indicated. it is also an antidote to Merc. Don't give many doses of Merc. in psoric cases; look for a deeper medicine.

Face

It has syphilitic eruptions and neuralgias of the face with or without catarrh. It is a great medicine for mumps; it is a routine remedy for this condition, which shows that it must be frequently indicated. It cures where the symptoms agree.

Scorbutic gums in those who have been salivated. Rigg's disease; purulent discharge from around the teeth. Toothache; every tooth aches, especially in old gouty and mercurialized patients. Looseness of the teeth. Red, soft gums. Teeth black and dirty. Black teeth and early decay of the teeth in syphilitic children, like Staph. Copious salivation.

Gums painful to touch. Pulsation in the gums and roots. Gums have a blue red margin, or purple color, and are spongy and, bleed easily. Gums settle away, and the teeth feel long, and are elongated. Teeth sore and painful so that he cannot masticate. Abscesses of the gums and roots of the teeth.

The taste, tongue and mouth furnish important and distinctive symptoms. As the tongue is projected it is seen to be flabby, has a mealy surface, and is often pale. The imprint of the teeth is observed all round the edge of the tongue. The tongue is swollen as if spongy, and presses in around the teeth and thus gets the imprint of the teeth. Inflammation, ulceration and swelling of the tongue are strong features.

Old gouty constitutions have swollen tongue; the tongue will swell in the night and he will waken up with a mouthful. The taste is perverted, nothing tastes right. The tongue is coated yellow or white as chalk in a layer. Offensive mouth; putrid odors from the mouth especially the mercurial odor of the salivated patient. The tongue becomes clumsy; difficulty in talking; his speech is hardly intelligible. Awkwardness of the tongue as in persons intoxicated. Ulcers flat; eating ulcers; holes are eaten through the cheek. Eating away of the soft palate and the bone of the bard palate is often eaten away.

Purulent formation in the antrum of Highmore and fistulae from the mouth to the antrum. Fluoric acid and Silicea are more frequently indicated in these fistulae, especially if the bone is involved. Copious flow of foetid saliva. Sore mouth of children and nursing mothers; little aphthous patches with the mercurial odor and flabby, spongy appearance of the mucous membrane and tongue. General diffused inflammation of the mouth. The whole mucous membrane is sensitive and painful, burning, stinging and smarting; dryness with or without aphthous patches. Thrush of children. Scorbutic gums.

Throat

Sore throat. It is a remedy for inflammation of the throat, with spongy appearance, general diffused tumefaction swelling of the parotids, fullness and stiffness of the neck. Lardaceous base in ulcers; flat ulcers, spreading ulcers. Great dryness in the throat. The swelling impairs the motion of all the ' muscles that take part in swallowing.

Swallowing is attended with difficulty, pain and paralytic weakness, and the effort to swallow forces the bolus up into the nose, and liquids come out through the nostrils. The mercurial odor is a strong feature, but Merc. often cures when that odor is not perceptible; it has such an affinity for the throat. it has chronic throat troubles and syphilitic ulcers and patches.

The inflammation extends upwards and downwards, red and pale patches, the red looking as if they would suppurate or ulcerate. The red spots become quite purple, but the more purple they are the more they are like Lach. Tonsils dark red with stinging pains. Quinsy, after pus has formed. It is useful in diphtheria, and most cases are diffused, extensive patches or patches here and there, with spongy appearance, but no ulceration. Tumefaction; and the exudations are upon a tumefied base. Stiff neck. Erysipelatous inflammation of the throat. Dark, sloughing, eating, corroding ulcers in the throat.

Stomach

He has aversion to meat, wine, brandy, coffee, greasy food, butter.

Milk disagrees, and comes up sour. Sweets disagree. He is turned against his beer. The stomach is chronically disordered; eructations, regurgitations, heartburn, etc. Sour stomach; it is foul. He has nausea with vomiting and regurgitation of food. In such a stomach food is like a load. Bad taste; bitter mouth; be tastes the food; it comes up sour.

With all this the saliva constantly runs from the mouth. It does not improve as digestion goes on. The half-digested substances are vomited. It is like the state in persons who have destroyed their stomach from crossing liquors, beer, wine and whisky.

Liver

The liver furnishes much trouble.

Our forefathers for years took blue mass every Spring to regulate the liver. They physicked themselves with it and tapped their liver every Spring with it, and as a result they had worse livers than they would have had if the doctors had stayed at home. Constipation, bilious habits and disordered stomach.

The fullness in the region of the stomach, coming in spells, worse in cold, damp weather and warm, damp weather, worse in the Spring, jaundiced condition, disordered stomach, the aggravation at night and from the warmth of the bed, nightly feverishness and foul mouth, will give you the Merc. state.

Stitches in the liver. Liver symptoms worse lying on the right side. Many complaints of Merc. are aggravated by lying on the right side . The lung symptoms and cough, liver, stomach and bowel symptoms are all worse while lying on the right side.

Abdomen

In the abdomen we find colic, rumbling, distension, aches and pains, stinging and burning.

It has a great variety of stools, of diarrhoea and constipation. It has a well-defined dysenteric condition. Slimy, bloody stools with much straining, he feels as if he could never finish, even when no more is passing, a " never-get-done" feeling.

This is the very opposite of Nux and Rhus in dysentery . These are relieved if a little stool is passed, but Merc. and Sulph. will sit and strain, and all the salts of Merc. have the same state. Merc. cor. has a more violent attack, with violent urging to stool and to urinate, and intense suffering, with burning in the parts and the passage of pure blood.

Merc., Ipec. and Acon. are frequently indicated in epidemic dysentery that comes in hot weather, and Ipec., Dulc. and Merc. are frequently indicated in the dysentery of cold weather.

You should go to the bedside of a case of dysentery with the repertory or go home and send medicine. Your first prescription should cure in epidemic dysentery, and if you work cautiously you will cure every case. It is a very simple condition to cure, but a very bad thing to get mixed up. Do not give Arsenic just because it conforms to the dysenteric condition, for if it does not cure it will mix up the case. Hesitate about giving Ars. in dysentery until you are perfectly sure it is indicated.

A few days ago I saw a patient who could not lie down because, of pain in both hypochondria; he had incessant vomiting, inflammatory rheumatism of the ankles, hands, arms and shoulders, he had purpuric spots on the arms and legs, he had inflammation of the stomach, and was a perfect museum of diseases. He had had Phos. and Ars . and many remedies very high, all supposed to be well selected but Cadmium sulph . put him to sleep in fifteen minutes.

The point was that he wanted to keep perfectly still, and hence it was unlike Ars., although all the other symptoms were like Ars.

That is a strong feature of Cadmium sulph; he wants to keep as still as Colch. and Bry. For many years I have used it for such cases. I saw another case of cancer with coffee-ground vomit, and Cadmium sulph. stopped her vomiting, and she ate quite well until she died six weeks later. The doctor in charge had given her Ars. and Phos. and Morphine till she could take no more.

Urines

The urine burns and smarts.

Frequent urging to urinate, dribbling a little; bloody urine, great burning. Haemorrhage from the urethra. Itching worse from the presence of urine. Gonorrhoea which has existed for some time; discharge thick, greenish-yellow, and offensive. Smarting and burning in the urethra when urinating. Loss of sexual power.

Genitals

Lascivious excitement with painful erections.

Ulcers on the prepuce and glans, making it suitable in chancre and chancroid. Flat ulcers; ulcers with lardaceous base. Inflammation of the inner surface of the prepuce. Balanitis, offensive pus. In chronic balanitis when pus forms behind the glans and under the foreskin, gonorrheal or psoric, consult jacaranda caroba.

The woman has much tribulation. Burning, stinging in ovaries. Screaming from pain. Stinging, tearing, cutting pains in the ovaries, patient covered with sweat. Copious, excoriating leucorrhoea, parts raw, sore, inflamed and itching.

Stinging, itching and boring pains in the uterus. Pains in the uterus and ovaries at the menstrual period. Milk in the breast of the non-pregnant woman at the menstrual period. Milk in the breasts instead of the menstrual flow. I once had a freak in a sixteen-year-old boy, who had milk in his breasts. I cured him with Merc.

Menstrual flow light red, pale, acrid, clotted, and profuse or scanty. The menses are sometimes suppressed. Women who have been in the habit of taking mercury for biliousness remain sterile. (Coffee drinkers often remain sterile also and you must stop their coffee.)

Amenorrhoea with ebullitions. Chancres on the female genitals. Aged women have denuded genitals, rawness, soreness and false granulations, which are always bleeding. Burning, throbbing and itching in the vagina. Itching of the genitals from the contact of the urine; it must be washed off.

In children, boys or girls, the urine burns after urinating and they are always carrying the hands to the genitals. Little girls have acrid leucorrhoea causing burning and itching and much trouble. Phlegmonous inflammation of the genitals. Boils and abscesses at the menstrual period; little elongated abscesses along tho margin of the mucous membrane and skin, painful, aggravated by walking, forming during the flow and breaking after the period. This with itching, causes great suffering.

Morning sickness. A woman, while pregnant, has oedematous swelling of the genitals. Diffused inflammation, soreness and fullness of the genitals and pelvis, causing difficulty in walking, and she must take to bed.

In pelvic cellulitis in the early months of pregnancy Merc. is an important remedy. Repeated miscarriages from sheer weakness Merc. is a wonderful strengthener when properly used. Prolonged lochia. Milk scanty and spoiled.

Merc. is one of the best palliatives in cancer of the uterus and mammae. It will restrain and sometimes cure epithelioma. I knew one case cured by the Proto-iodide, an ulcerated, indurated lump in the breast, as large as a goose egg with knots in the axilla, blueness of the part, and no hope.

The stooth attenuation, given as often as the pains were very severe, took it away and she remained well. The effect observed on the nose is not all of the Merc. coryza.

Respiratory

Most Merc cases begin in the nose and travel down the throat, creating rawness and scraping of the larynx, and rawness and soreness in the chest; laryngitis, tracheitis and bronchitis.

Loss of voice, complete aphonia. The course of the Merc. cold is downwards, even going on to pneumonia, with sweat, restlessness and aggravation from the warmth of the bed. Of course many of the colds remain in the nose.

There are various conditions in the chest. Coughs; colds that remain in the chest, lack of reaction and tardy recovery. The colds finally settle in the bronchial tubes; the chest feels as if it would burst and the cough is worse lying on the right side. I look back over many cases of patients who took cold from exposure and now look sickly and sallow, with a dreadful cough and rattling on the chest; every change of the weather gives them a new cold, and they cannot lie on the right side; their tendency is to go into mucous phthisis or quick consumption.

The cough is worse in the night air. There are many pains in the chest. He has a rheumatic constitution, is always sweating, worse while sweating and from the extremes of heat and cold. Stitching stabbing, rheumatic pains in the chest with night sweats. Bloody, thick green expectoration. Suppuration of the lung, great quantities of pus form.

Tremendous orgasms, bubbling and flushes of heat in the chest. With many complaints there is sore throat and rheumatism and stiffness of the neck; stiff neck with swollen glands and goitre. Stiff neck with every cold; stiffness of the side and back of the neck. Induration and soreness of the cervical glands along with other complaints.

Limbs

Merc. especially affects the joints; inflammatory rheumatism with much swelling, aggravated from the heat of the bed and from uncovering.

It is difficult to get just the right weight of clothing. Rheumatic affection with sweat, aggravation at night, from the warmth of the bed and while sweating, with sickly countenance. It especially attacks the upper limbs, but is also found in the lower.

Tremulous condition of the extremities, like paralysis agitans. Trembling of the hands with great weakness. Paralysis of the lower limbs, and twitching, jerking and quivering of the paralyzed parts. Arg. n., Phos., Stram., Secale and Merc. have twitching of the muscles of the paralyzed limb.

Soreness between the thighs and genitals. Ulcers on the legs; abscesses. Oedematous swelling of the feet. Cold perspiration. Copious sweat during sleep. Pain and sweat come on when comfortable in bed; bone pains. He covers up because he feels cold, but when he becomes warm the pains are aggravated.

Fever

Merc. is full of fever. Very seldom, however, has it a true, idiopathic, continued fever. It stands very low for continued fever alone, but it is especially indicated in surgical fevers, at first remittent, but later continued, such as come on from the suppression of discharges.

The Merc. patient about to go into a chill is chilly even when the chill has not yet come on; sensitive to the moving air in a warm room; violently sensitive to a draught. Cold hands and feet. The sweat is profuse and offensive.

The complaints in general are worse while he sweats, and the more he sweats the worse he is. He sweats copiously and his greatest sufferings are in the sweat. Merc. does not have a clear intermittent.

Between the paroxysms be has liver disturbances, diarrhoea, fever. In surgical fevers, bilious fevers, worm fever in children, and remittent fevers there is much aching in the bones, great sensitiveness to the air, aggravation at night in bed when the fever runs highest, mercurial breath and sallow skin. The fever does not go so high. and the skin is not so hot as in Bell. The loaded tongue and the bilious fevers fade out after Merc.

It is useful in hectic fever in the last stages of consumption, and in exhausting diseases with hectics, and in cancer when there is the aching, foul sweat, etc. It acts wonderfully in catarrhal fever, grippe, etc., and when colds extend to the chest and there are the copious discharges everywhere. It is suitable in quasi-typhoids that have come out of remittents, symptomatic typhoids, when the patient is icteric, low, prostrated, tremulous, with quivering muscles, great exhaustion and continued fever.

Skin

There are many skin symptoms; scurfy eruptions, vesicular eruptions, eruptions discharging pus.

Vesicles burn and smart, with excoriating discharges, especially on the head. Much itching of the skin, violent, in all parts of the body, as from fleas, especially when warm in bed at night. Copper-colored eruptions as. in syphilis, and mucous patches. The scurfy eruptions are especially marked.

Ulcers on parts where the skin and flesh are thin over the bones. Offensive forms of eczema. Most eruptions are moist with copious oozing. It cures shingles.

The skin is sallow. Excoriating wherever two parts come together. Rawness between the thighs and between the scrotum and thighs. Eruptions in such places. it has fissures at commissures, at the corners of the mouth and eyes; rawness and bleeding of the perineum rendering walking difficult.

This furnishes a basis for the Salts of Mercury.

When we go to rheumatic and gouty cases with the aggravation from sweat, aggravation from the warmth of the bed, the mercurial odor, etc., we can commonly say that one of the Mercurius will cure this case.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Indicated in bone diseases, pains worse at night; glandular swellings, with or without suppuration, but especially if suppuration be too profuse (Hep., Sil.).

Affects light-haired persons most.

Hurried and rapid talking (Hep.).

Breath and body smell foul (Psor.).

Cold swellings; abscesses, slow to suppurate.

Great weakness and trembling from least exertion.

Profuse perspiration attends nearly every complaint, but does not relieve and may even increase the suffering (profuse perspiration relieves, Nat., Psor., Ver.).

Ptyalism: profuse, fetid, metallic-tasting saliva; soapy, stringy.

Crowns of teeth decay, roots remain (crowns intact, roots decay, Mez.).

Dysentery: stools slimy, bloody, colic, fainting; great tenesmus during and after, followed by chilliness, and a "cannot finish sensation." The more blood and pain the better indicated.

Morning sickness; profuse salivation wets pillow in sleep (Lac. ac.).

Mammæ painful, as if they would ulcerate, at every menstrual period (Con., Lac c.); milk in breasts instead of the menses.

Leucorrhœa: acrid, burning, itching, with rawness; always worse at night; pruritus, < from contact of urine, must be washed off (Sul.).

Cough: dry, fatiguing, racking; in two paroxysms; worse at night, from warmth of bed, with utter impossibility of lying on right side.

Affects lower lobe of r. lung; stitches through to back (Chel., Kali c.).

Suppuration of lungs, after hemorrhages of pneumonia (Kali c.).

Tongue: large, flabby, shows imprint of teeth (Chel., Pod., Rhus); painful, with ulcers; red, or white.

Intense thirst, although the tongue looks moist and the saliva is profuse (dry mouth, but no thirst, Puls.).

Quantity of urine voided is larger than the amount of water drank; frequent urging to urinate.

Nocturnal emissions stained with blood (Led., Sars.).

Trembling extremities, especially hands; paralysis agitans.

"Ulcers appear on the gums, tongue, throat, inside the cheek, with salivation; irregular in shape; undefined edges; have a dirty, unhealthy look; lardaceous base surrounded with a dark halo; apt to run together. The syphilitic ulcers are circular, attack posterior parts of mouth and throat; have well-defined edges; surrounded with a coppery hue, and do not extend from their primary seat."—DUNHAM.

Relations

Follows Hep., Lach. and Sul. well, but should not be given before or after Silica; in low potencies hastens rather than aborts suppuration.

Compare: Mezereum, its vegetable analogue, for bad effects of large doses or of too frequent repetition.

Aggravation

At night; wet, damp, cool air especially in evening; in autumn, warm days and cold, damp nights; uncovering, cold air coming in contact with exposed parts (Bar., Hep.); lying on the right side; perspiring; heat of bed.

Amelioration

In open air; active motion, during work; rest in bed. Both Arsenic and Mercury have aggravation and amelioration in bed.

Mercury is < by heat of bed, but > by rest in bed.

Arsenic is < by rest in bed, but > by heat of bed.

Type

Periodicity not marked. Tertian rarely; anticipating occasionally. Bilious forms of typhoid or typhus.

Time

No certain hour. Midday; 12 M., 1 P. M., evening; night.

Cause

Atmospheric variations; exposure to cold, to damp places, to cold wet weather.

Chill

Without thirst; in the morning when rising; more generally in the evening after lying down, or in bed at night. Chilliness on going into the open air (Rhus—reverse of, Puls.). Chilliness all over, with ice cold hands; as from cold water poured over one (Mag. c., Rhus). More chilly in the open air than in the house, same temperature. Violent shaking chill in evening, in bed; she could not get warm. Chilliness in the abdomen (coldness of abdomen, Meny.). Chill; not relieved by warmth of stove; alternating with heat; of single parts only; internal with hot face. Sensation in soles of feet as if put in cold water, simultaneously with burning in them. Hands and feet constantly cold.

Heat

With thirst. Alternate sensation of heat and chilliness; not perceptible to external touch. Heat in bed; chilly when not in bed. Heat alternating with chill, often of single parts. Aversion to uncover (Mag. c.). Heat and redness of face, and palms; then shaking chill far into the night, and thirst towards morning.

Sweat

Profuse on every motion (Bry., Samb.). Profuse sweat at night; same in the morning. Unusually profuse sweat that is sour and offensive and makes the fingers look softened, spongy, wrinkled, like a washerwoman's (Ant. c., Canch.). Profuse, fatty and oily perspiration at night (Thuja, Sabad.), makes linen yellow and stiff. Profuse, offensive perspiration, soaking through the bed-clothes; the linen was stained saffron yellow and could not be removed by washing (Carbo a., Cinch., Bry.). Sweat that causes a burning sensation in the skin (Caps.). Profuse sweat on single parts not over six inches large, while other parts are dry. Worse while sweating; weakness aggravated (Rhus). Sweat towards morning, with palpitation and nausea.

Apyrexia

Great weakness, trembling from least exertion; vertigo when sitting down; gums inflamed and painful; thick, salty saliva; throat sore, painful when swallowing.

Analysis

The constitutional symptoms are guiding. Sweat; profuse on every motion; at night and in early morning; oily, greasy; fingers wrinkled like a washerwoman's; offensive, wetting the bed, stains saffron yellow.