Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

Aurum Metallicum aur.

Boger (1915)In every bookSave

Region

MIND. Nerves. VASCULAR SYSTEM. Heart (R). Bones: NASAL. Skull. Patellæ. Joints. Glands. Liver. Kidneys.

Worse

Emotions: Depressing. Disordered affections. Mental exertion. Cold. Night: Sunset to sunrise. Abuse of Merc. or Kali-iod. Cloudy weather.

Better

Cool; open air. Cold bathing. Becoming warm. Music. Walking.

General

Vaso-motor mobility; erratic ebullitions and venous congestion, more to head and chest. Vascularity. Weak, yet sensitive to pain. Pains wander, impel motion, finally attack heart (Benz-ac. Colch.); boring, cutting osteocopic. Indurations; glandular. Sclerosis; coronary. Necrosis. Chronicity. Mercurio-syphilitic dyscrasia. Extremely violent symptoms. Heart feels loose on walking. As of air blowing on part.

Particulars

Intense, hopeless depression and suicidal anguish. Brooding melancholy; alternating with irritability or moroseness. Praying and self-reproaches; starting from heart. Weak memory. Vexed mood; enraged by least contradiction. Loquacity. Rapid questioning. Fears the least noise. Violent confusing headache; syphilitic. Hemiopia upper horizontal. Sore orbits. Congested, bluish-red face. Pains in zygomæ. Red knobby nose. Ozœna. Foul breath. Bulimy. Soreness over liver. Hepatitis. Ascites. Jaundice, of pregnancy. Liver, with heart symptoms. Chronic orchitis. Crushing weight under sternum < ascending. Dyspnœa; < laughing. Oppression at heart; as if to stop, then gives one hard thump. Violent palpitation; at puberty. Cardiac hypertrophy. Angina pectoris. Aortic disease. As if lower spine bulged backward. Pott's disease. Nightly leg pains. Painfully sensitive to cold. Sweat about genitals. Cold and damp all over.

Related

Related: Merc.