The Mnemonic Similiad

Argentum Nitricum arg-n.

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Mnemonic names

Arg. n. / (2nd J) / The knight.

Verse

Argentum Nitricum- We name
Degeneration as thy name
The tissues all from head to heel
Thy wasting ravages reveal,
The brain, the spine, the membrane track
Give evidence of thy attack.
Thy memory shirks and leaves a state
Of hasty feeling, as if late.
The brain feels large, and giddiness
To tottery trembling adds distress.
The head with bursting pain is seized,
Which may, by bandage tight, be eased.
Thy eyes are clogged with pus or phelgm,
With constant need for wiping them.
Thy canthi look like raw beefsteak,
The cornea the while opaque.
The iris sensitive to light,
Whilst serpent forms beset the sight.
Thy nose on dire catarrh intent,
Discharges mucus purulent.
The Face is shrunken, pale or blue,
Or holds chlorosis up to view.
The mouth emits and odor vile,
The tongue is red-tipped, typhoid style.
The Throat in which tough mucus sticks,
Is pained with sense of splinter pricks.
The which with hawking may denote
A clue to clergyman's sore throat.
The chest feels tight, as if encased
By tensive cordage round the waist.
And hence for asthma comes a clue,
And so for emphysema, too.
The lungs are sor, and there is cough
that raising of the voice sets off.
The stomach foul, with wind replete,
Is ever craving something sweet.
And suffering catarrh, and fret
of ulceration, is beset.
and sometimes horrid torture feels,
Especially after taking meals.
The wind impacted causes pain,
'Til belching loud removes the strain.
The action of the heart may be
Disturbed by gastric sympathy.
The stools are noisy, fetid, green,
Or as in dysentery seen.
Or as in phthisis purging, too,
When drinks of water go right through,
The skin is subject to attack
Of small eruptions, blue or black.
Chora, spasms, tendon leap
Arousing patient out of sleep,
With nervous trembling, all give sign
Of irritation of the spine.
The urinary organs show
A dribbling paralytic flow.
There may be wetting of the bed,
Or burning when the stream is shed.
The genitals in such condition,
As causes pain when in coition.
Venereal tint may be canker,
Foul gonorrhoea, or a chancre.
All ailments strengthen in their might,
From walking, eating, and at night.

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Mnemonic sentences

The Knight,- Has Headache relieved by tight bandages.

The Knight of Apis, Claven Gel, begged a pass to China.

This Knight,- Who has a craving for sweets- Is at Lake Cina.

Indications

Headache Relieved by Tight Bandages: Arg. n., Apis, Cal. c., Gel., Bell., Glo., Pul., Sep., Chin.

Craving for Sweets: Arg. n., Lyc., Kal. c., Cina.