Mercurius Iodatus Flavus merc-i-f.

Diphtheritic and throat affections where the cervical and parotid glands are enormously swollen; membrane begins on or is < on right side; < by warm drinks, and empty swallowing (Lach.). Tongue: thick, yellow coating at base (Kali bi. - golden yellow coating at base, Nat. p.; dirty or greenish-gray coating at base, Nat. s.); tip and edges red; right side of throat and neck most affected. For Hunterian (hard) chancre, secondary symptoms rarely follow if given in proper dose; great swelling of inguinal glands, no disposition to suppurate.

Proto-iodide of Mercury

Throat affections, with greatly swollen glands and characteristic coating of tongue. Worse, right side. Chancre; induration remains long time. Swollen inguinal glands, large and hard. Mammary tumors, with tendency to much warm perspiration and gastric disturbances.

Coated thickly; yellow at the base. Tip and edges may be red and take imprint of teeth.

Lacunar tonsillitis. When only the superficial part of the tonsil is involved. Cheesy exudates with offensive breath. Swelling begins on right side. Small ulcers on posterior pharynx. Easily detached patches on inflamed pharynx and fauces; worse on right tonsil; much tenacious mucus. Sensation of a lump. Constant inclination to swallow.

Compare: Plum iod (in mammary tumors).

Second trituration.

Tongue coated thickly yellow at the base; tip and edges red or pale; takes the imprint of the teeth.

Swelling of the throat; begins on the right side (diphtheria) (left, Lachesis).

Genuine Hunterian chancre (l,000th clinical.).

It is a preparation that has a every reliable and prominent characteristic. It is "Tongue coated thickly, yellow at the base." The tip and edges may be red or pale and take the imprint of the teeth, like the other Mercuries. Of course, other remedies have a yellow-coated base of the tongue like Kali bichromicum, Natrum phos. and Chelidonium, so that this symptom would not indicate Mercurius Protoiodide to the exclusion of all others, but I think I am safe in saying that this remedy has it in the greatest degree.

In diphtheria the swelling of the throat and the formation of membrane begins on the right side, like Lycopodium, and the fœtid breath and flabby tongue, showing imprint of teeth, are generally present. Now if you have the thick yellow coating at the base of the tongue you need not hesitate to give this remedy. In regard to dose, I have seen good results from the 3d trituration to the C. M. potency. For myself I prefer the high, and have had abundant opportunity to test all the different potencies. If you are so prejudiced that you cannot give anything above the 12th because you cannot discover the drug with the microscope, don't give it too long; withdraw it after a few doses and give the powers of reaction a chance.

But diphtheria is not the only disease in which the yellow base of the tongue is an indication for the use of this remedy. Stomach and liver troubles often produce this appearance of the tongue. It is also a good remedy for Hunterian chancre, and no secondary symptoms follow its proper use. Here it must be given high.

Destructiveness, moodiness, depression of spirits.

Dizziness when reading, and when rising from a chair. Occasional shooting pains in the temples ; sharp stitches in the temples. The head feels dull and compressed, as if a heavy weight were pressing it down on the pillow. The head feels full and heavy. Throbbing pain in the (fore) head. Dull headache on awaking in the morning. Sharp pain on the vertex. Sensation as if the skull were cracking. Violent pain in the right side of the head (over the right temple).

Severe pain and soreness of right orbit (on rising in the morning). Black clouds float before his eyes, when lying on his left side.

Sharp, throbbing, boring pain, from within outward, deep in the (left) ear.

Pain at the root of the nose (shooting pain). A great deal of mucus in the nose. A great deal of mucus descends through the posterior nares into the throat. The right side of the septum and right nostril are very sore and much swollen.

Dull bruised pain in the right malar bone, radiating into the forehead and right side of the head, a small spot pulsates and burns like fire. Sharp stitches through the head and face. Soreness of all the bones of the face. Stinging in the left cheek.

The teeth feel too long ; cannot eat. Mouth, teeth and lips dry and sticky, the back part of the tongue is heavily coated. Fine bright and red eruption on the roof of the mouth. Tongue coated ; yellowish white ; dirty yellow ; light brown. Small, red, raised elevations on the tongue. Coating on the back part of the tongue (thick, dirty yellow). Coating bright yellow, the tips and edges are red. Burning in the throat when swallowing the saliva. Dryness of the mouth and throat with frequent empty swallowing. Dryness of the mouth and throat. Pharynx, tonsils and uvula are red and congested. Throat dry and burning with pain when swallowing. Excessive secretion of mucus in the throat, difficult to dislodge, and which causes retching. The mucous patches on the tonsils and walls of the pharynx are easily detached. Accumulation of mucus in the throat in the morning.

Thirst excessive, for acids or sour drinks. Nausea, with suffocation about the heart and dizziness. Weak, empty feeling at the stomach, with nausea. Nausea with sensation of disgust at the sight of food. Burning at the stomach, with pain as from a blow. Hardness of the abdomen. Heat at the umbilicus, as if from a hot coal, worse when inspiring. Small stool, of very tough feces, almost of the consistency of putty, requiring great straining for their evacuations. Stitching pain in the region of the liver relieved by pressing the hand against it. Pain in the left hypochondrium, with dizziness on awakening in the morning.

Urine copious and of a dark red color.

Men. Sharp, shooting stitches in the end of the penis, through the glans. Copious seminal emissions preceded by lewd dreams. Dreams that he must urinate this was followed by an emission. Seminal emission of which he know nothing fin morning.

Sharp pain in the chest, behind the sternum. Stitches through the (right side of the) chest. Slight hacking cough when inspiring. Stitching pain in the heart.

Throbbing pain between the shoulders. Severe pain as if bruised over the entire scapular region. Throbbing pain on the right scapula.

Upper. Numbness and wearied feeling in the right arm, aggravated by writing. Lameness and stiffness of the right shoulder. Rheumatic, laming pain in the right arm, aggravated by writing. Soreness and lameness of the left shoulder ani arm at night when lying on the left side. Soreness and pain of the right arm ; worse from pressure, rubbing and passive motion. Sharp pain in the right shoulder, obliging him to cease writing. Heavy feeling of the right arm. Lame numbness of the left shoulder and left arm. Rheumatic pain in the right hand, at night, in bed. Lower. Weariness in the legs, with dull pains and tingling. Heavy laming pains in the calves of both legs, with pain in the left knee-joint. Pain in the sole of the left foot (causing faintness), with feeling of faintness through the whole body.

Sticking pains : both scapulæ, right temple, right side of the chest, left ear, along the outer borders of both hands and both little fingers. Heaviness of the limbs, with laziness and drowsiness. He feels languid and sleepy. Excessive tired feeling of all the limbs, especially when lying on the left side, relieved by lying on the right side.

Sleeplessness without restlessness ; before 1 A.M. Frightful dreams ; nightmare.

Pulse weak, irregular and laboring. Chills with trembling all over the body.

Troublesome itching over the whole body, not relieved by scratching. Persistent itching spots over the whole body, following, each other in rapid succession.

While in church she felt as if she would faint. The stools during the day-time are copious, soft and of a dark or light yellowish brown color ; at night they are scanty, hard and black. Steady pressure sometimes relieves the pain. Aggravation; in the evening, at night until 1 A.M., or after dinner until 4 P.M. ; during rest ; during passive motion ; by writing. Amelioration; from active motion ; while exercising.

Symptoms disappear during care and anxiety ; they also retard action of remedy.
Lively, talkative, good natured, whistles and sings soon after great depression.
Disposition to destructiveness, can scarcely resist temptation to throw lamp through window.
Moodiness, depression of spirits.
While in bed imagined a man was in his room, who intended to perforate his throat with a gimlet.

Dizzy : when reading ; when rising from a chair.

Dull, pressing, boring pains over eyes. θ Leucorrhœa.
Dull frontal headache, with pain at root of nose.
Throbbing pain in forehead and temples.
Throbbing, bursting sensation in temples. θ Leucorrhœa.
Shooting pains in temple ; sharp stitches.
Sharp pain in vertex.
Violent pain in right side of head (over right temple).
Headache on top of head, or on right side.
Dull, heavy aching at base of brain.
Head feels dull and compressed, as if a heavy weight was pressing it down on pillow.
Dull headache on awaking in morning.
Headache felt more when at rest, > when mind or body is actively engaged.

Stiffness and soreness in occiput, also when touched, more to left and down back, < when lying.
Sensation as if skull was cracking.
Itching of scalp.

Excessive photophobia. θ Ulcers on cornea.
Black motes before eyes ; opacities of vitreous.
Black clouds float before eyes when lying on left side.
Miss L., æt. 26 ; eight years ago noticed a heaviness and drooping of eyelids ; after two years sight of left eye imperfect, and when this dimness appeared, drooping of both eyelids ceased ; no redness, pain, or photophobia, but black spots and
flashes of light ; a year later right eye was affected and rapidly grew < than left ; finally sight failed entirely ; examination of right eye ; no external redness ; anterior chamber shallow ; iris discolored, crowded forward by a swollen opaque lens, to
capsule of which it was attached all around margin of a contracted pupil, not even quantitative sight existed ; left eye ; anterior chamber shallow ; iris dimmed and discolored ; pupil moderately dilated and mobile ; pigment spots on lens capsule ; vitreous hazy
throughout ; lying in it near retina, three greenish blue spots, a little larger than optic nerve ; probably hemorrhagic effusions undergoing degeneration ; vision 20/50 ; Snellen 1 1/2 read slowly at three inches ; irregular dilatation of pupil under Atropine.
Impaired sight, with weakness of internal recti ; aching over eyes ; fundus slightly hyperemic ; right pupil slightly larger than left ; paralysis of all muscles of eye and lid supplied by third pair ; diplopia on holding eyes
to left for some time, and distant objects look blurred a little. θ Syphilis.
Throbbing, aching, nightly pains.
Severe pain and soreness of right orbit on rising in morning.
Syphilitic iritis.
Pannus, all stages, but especially in acute aggravations after first, or Aconite stage, has passed.
Trachoma with and without pannus.
Ulcers occurring in course of pannus and conjunctivitis granulosa.
Large excavating ulcer on upper part of cornea, with several small ulcers on lower portion ; generally excessive photophobia ; thick yellow coating at base of tongue.
Serpiginous ulceration, commencing at margin and extending over whole cornea, or a portion, especially upper part of it, involving only superficial layers.
Small pustule on left eye, some pain in evening and at night, no photophobia nor lachrymation, tongue coated yellow at base.
Large pustules on conjunctiva, no pain during day and only a little at night, gums swollen and bleed easily, tongue coated yellow, bad taste in mouth.
Entire sclero-corneal margin occupied by a slightly elevated opacity of little width, and upon which was situated a chain of very minute vesicles ; peri-corneal and subconjunctival tissue profusely injected with very fine vessels, through which was also distributed a large quantity
of pigment, forming a zone as striking in appearance as the one occupying the limbus corneæ, into which it imperceptibly merged ; opacity of cornea was sharply defined.
Large excavating ulcer on upper part of cornea, with several small ulcers on lower portion.
Syndesmitis membranacea.
Paralysis of oculo motor nerve, of syphilitic origin.
Complete paralysis of all fibres of third pair of nerves of right eye, probably of syphilitic origin.
Uncomplicated granular lids.
Blepharitis ciliaris of syphilitic origin, abscesses of lashes, lids red and swollen, eruption on scalp itches, < at night ; discharge from nose excoriating ; upper lip swollen ; tongue spongy, with a thick, yellow coating at base ; breath offensive.

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There are sore throats that especially call for the proto-iodide.

When in sore throats the inflammation and pain predominantly affect the right side, and there is a tendency to remain on the right side, or if the Merc. state is present and the sore throat goes from right to left , it is the proto-iodide you want.

The patient that needs this remedy for constitutional troubles will be worse during rest and from a warm room and better in the open air.

This is especially true when the patient needs Merc. prot. in neuritis of the right arm that comes on in writers.

The arm then is very painful when writing, from passive motion, from rubbing, from pressure, from both beat and cold, but better from walking in the open! air.

Complaints are nearly all worse on the right side of the body.

Lively, talkative, good-natured.
Destructive mood.
Anxiety, low-spiritedness, etc., retard the action of remedy.

Dizzy: when reading; when rising from a chair.

Shooting pains in the temples.
Dull headache over the eyes, with pain at the root of nose.
Throbbing pain in the forehead or temples.
Dull heavy aching at the base of the brain; with 11: 48.

Generally, excessive photophobia.
Black motes before the eyes; opacities of the vitreous.
Throbbing, aching, nightly pains.
Keratitis, with ulceration commencing at the corneal margin; with 11.

Sudden, sharp pains in the ear.
Throbbing, boring, from within outward, deep in left ear.

Septum nares sore; sharp pains.
Much mucus descends into the throat, causing hawking; spots in nose feel sore; constant inclination to swallow.

Dull aching and soreness in bones of the face; also in jaws.

Molar teeth feel too long; worse bringing them together.
Grinding and drawing pains in teeth; wants to press them together.
Stiffness of the jaws.

Tongue coated: thick yellow at the base; bright yellow at the back part, tips and edges red (with many affections).

Mouth, lips and tongue dry and sticky.

Throat dry, with frequent, empty swallowing.
Easily detached patches on the inflamed pharynx and fauces; worse in the right tonsil; salivary glands much swollen; fetid discharge; with 11.
Much tenacious mucus in throat; hawking causes gagging.
Sensation of a lump in the throat.

Appetite variable; disgust at seeing food.
Excessive thirst, occasionally for acid drinks.

Nausea, faintness, with dizziness and suffocation about the heart.

Weak, empty feeling at the stomach, nausea.
Bruised, burning pain at the stomach.
Cutting pains, with nausea and inclination to vomit.

Stitches in region of liver, better by pressure with hand; pains about liver, right side of chest and back; soreness under right scapula, worse motion and at night.

Hardness of the abdomen, as from flatulence.
Burning at the umbilicus, as from a hot coal.
Faint, sick feeling in the hypogastrium before stool.
Indolent bubo.

Cutting, colicky pains, followed by diarrhœa, or discharge of fetid flatus; stools thin, light brown, frothy.
Frequent urging to stool.
Black discharges, with or without blood.
Stools tough, like putty, with much straining.

Copious, dark red; scanty.

Copious seminal emissions, preceded by lewd dreams.
Hard chancre (given at once it prevents secondary symptoms).
Painless chancres, with great swelling of inguinal glands, not disposed to suppurate.

Yellow leucorrhœa, especially with children.

Morning sickness.

Loss of voice, hoarseness.

Loose, rattling cough, bronchi loaded with mucus; sputum copious and yellow.

Stitches through the right side of the chest.

Sharp pains at the heart.
Sudden spasmodic action of the heart.
Pulse weak, irregular and labored.

Neck stiff; soreness in occiput, worse when lying.
Sharp pains in the back.

Arms stiff and sore, worse when moved.
Arms and hands numb.

Weariness in the legs, tingling.
Dull, boring pains in the legs, worse at night.
Heavy, laming pains in the calves, with pain in left knee-joint.
Lame feeling in the feet.

Exercise generally relieves.
Motion: 32. Rising: 2. Lying: 31.

Very tired feeling; especially of the limbs.
Faint feeling, worse in church.

Sleeplessness until 1 A.M.
Dreams are frightful.

Night: 5, 33, 37, 46.

Sensitive to the cold air.
The open air relieves unpleasant sensation.
Worse: in cold, damp weather; in Spring.

Chills, with trembling all over.

Right: 13, 18, 28. Left: 6, 16, 33. Within outward: 6.

Glands swollen, indurated.

Pressure: 10, 18.

Hard papulæ over the body.
Itching, pricking all over, worse at night.
Bright red, fine eruption on chest and abdomen.
Milk crust in children of syphilitic taint.

The pure proto-iodide of Mercury is triturated for use.

Compare lists under Mercury and Iodine.

Sticking in scapulæ, right temple, right chest, left ear, along outer borders of hands and little fingers. ▶ Pains are generally deep in bones. ▶ Pains proceed from right to left. ▶ The following appeared in rapid succession at night. ▶ Pain behind left ear, then in tips of right fingers and in right sole near toes, then in left toes, then in occiput, then in forehead, then near right ear, then sharp pain in right toes, pain about heart, violent pain in right side of head, pain in right heel, then above right temple, then sharp pain in left side of neck. ▶ Weariness after sitting several hours; W., agg. limbs; W., with sleepiness; at 4 P.M., amel. lying down, with disposition to sleep, but sleeplessness. ▶ Indisposition to do anything, with desire to lie down and rest. ▶ Faint feeling when in church; F., with feeling that it would be amel. lying down; F., with loss of muscular power, then spasmodic motion upward and downward of lower jaw.

Aggravation in morning after rising and in forenoon; from time of waking till noon; in evening; at night till 1 A.M., and in morning before and after rising; many symptoms appear at night in bed; after dinner till 4 P.M.; from passive motion (moving the part when sitting or lying); during rest; on right side. ▶ Amelioration after rising till noon and from 4 till 6 P.M.; A. in open air; from care, grief, anxiety, etc; active motion (walking or riding); steady pressure; during the pressure, the relief passes away as soon as the pressure is removed; the pains that he had at night when lying on left side amel. lying on right.

Imagined that there was a man in the room who intended to perforate his throat with a gimlet. ▶ Lively, talkative; L., whistling, singing (soon after great depression). ▶ Moodiness. ▶ Depression from noon till 4 P.M., then liveliness till 6 P.M., then aggravation of symptoms till morning; D. in a warm room, with dullness. ▶ Destructive disposition, he can scarcely resist the temptation to throw his lamp through the window.

Stitches through H. and face. ▶ Aching; in morning on waking; in morning on waking, amel. exercise; in morning when rising; in forenoon; in evening, with soreness of bones of face and nose; at night on waking; after dinner; on waking; in a warm room, with dullness; in church, with faintness; agg. morning before and after rising; agg. walking about the house; agg. pressure; in H. and face, amel. during pressure, agg. after pressure in removed; with soreness of bones of face; with wavelike motion of blood; agg. right temple, with nausea. ▶ Throbbing pain, agg. forehead. ▶ Dizzy pain like a rush of blood, then pain above right temple. ▶ Heavy pain at base of brain and in throat and nostrils. ▶ Heaviness and fulness; H., with soreness of bones of face. ▶ Dullness at night on waking, with frontal pain; D., with compression and feeling as if pressed down upon the pillow.

Shooting, and in superior arch of right orbit and in root of nose. ▶ Sharp pain above left temple; suddenly above right. ▶ Pain; all day, with occasional sticking through head and face; in evening; at night on waking, with pain in orbits and root of nose; with pain at root of nose (Iod.); over right temple; above left temple, then throbbing pain in right temple; in right half, with pain in right orbit and eyeball; over right half of frontal and right parietal bones, also with pain in right ear, with soreness of right orbit and right eyeball. ▶ Heavy pain in F. and temples, extending down side of face.

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General aggravation at night in bed from motion; on the right side; sometimes > lying on the right side.

Pain at the root of the nose, < morning on waking, somewhat > pressure.
Pain on the vertex.

Clinical:
Syphilitic iritis, aggravated at night.
Ulceration of the cornea.
Pustular conjunctivitis.
Ciliary blepharitis, with ulceration of margins of lids, etc.

Clinical:
Catarrh of frontal sinuses, with offensive discharge, particularly with boring, shooting pains at the root of the nose.
Chronic catarrh of posterior nares, extending into the throat.

Tongue covered with dirty yellow fur on the back, especially in the morning; edges red.

Inflammation, with ulceration, particularly of the right tonsil and right side of the throat.
Soreness, with difficult swallowing; a sensation of swelling.

Persistent nausea.
Thirst for sour drinks.
Sharp pains, < pressure.

Numerous flatulent symptoms.

Frequent, profuse, light colored; stools at night, often hard, scanty and black.
Stools like putty, requiring great straining.

Much itching in various spots over the whole body, < night in the bed, not > scratching.

Indicated in the common forms of sore throat, with pronounced tendency to glandular enlargements.

Preference for the right side.

Tongue coated thickly, red at tip and edges, yellow at the base.

Tongue flabby, showing imprint of teeth.

Small ulcers on the posterior throat; patches in the throat.

Swelling of cervical and parotid glands.