Argentum Nitricum arg-n.

MIND. NERVES: Cerebro-spinal. ABDOMINAL. MUCOUS MEMBRANE: STOMACH. Bowels. Eyes. Throat. Urethra. Periosteum. Skin. Left side.

EMOTIONS: ANXIETY. Suspense. In room. Sugar. Shut in places. Lying on R side. Looking down. Drinking. Crowds.

COOL: AIR; open. Bath. Hard pressure. Motion.

Old, dried up, tremulous and weak. Progressive emaciation. Paralysis, ascending. Parts seem ENLARGED or bound up (Glo.). VIOLENT PAINS; LIKE DEEPLY STICKING SPLINTERS; sharp shooting, like lightning; < down back or legs; cause starting; grinding or radiating. Sinking downward from head. Ulceration, with much yellow, bloody pus (Hep.).

Conjoined mental and digestive symptoms. Tormented by strange ideas or emotions. Nervous, impulsive and hurried, yet timid and anxious (Ars.). Fearsome. Dreads ordeals, impending evil, passing a certain point, dark (Stram.), etc. Incoherence. Faltering speech, gait, erections, etc. Nervous headache and nervous diarrhœa. Brain-fag. Head as if in a vise; > tight bandage. Vertigo; epileptic, < night. Compressive or deep head pains; loses his senses (Laur.). Boring in l. frontal eminence, 11-12 A.M. Migraine. Scaly tarsi. Eyeballs feel big (Guai.). Swelled carunculæ; chemosis. Photophobia. Violent purulent ophthalmia. Dilated pupils. Sickly, grayish, muddy color. Painful, red tip of tongue, or (dry) aphthæ on edge. Food lodges in pharynx. Throat sensitive; as of a rough stick (Phyt.) or splinter in, > cool drinks. Dark red fauces and uvula. Craves sugar, which <. Astringent sour or bitter-sour taste and vomitus. Alcoholic gastritis. Gastralgia; in a spot. Eructates ingesta. FLATULENCE; bursting (Lyc.); loud explosive belching (Coca.), discharged upward and downward; noisy diarrhœa. Emotional diarrhœa. Shreddy, mucus stools, turning green; < drinking. Violent pains from kidneys to bladder. Cutting in urethra, with painful priapism. Yellow, bloody gonorrhœa. Painful coition. Cough from laughing. Dyspnœa, nervous or flatulent; < gastric pains. Palpitation, < lying on r. side. Craves fresh air. Laryngitis. Throbbing or weak spine. Trembling limbs. Peripheral neuralgias. Ischias antica. Weakness, rigidity or twisting in calves. Ulcers, angry, deep; hard edges; warty granulations. Adherent crusts. Chill if uncovered, yet smothers when wrapped up. Shivers through bowels; up back.

Complementary: Nat-m. Antidotes: Cina. Nat-m. Related: Lyc. Pul.

Acute or chronic diseases fro unusual or long-continued mental exertion . Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried-up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec.). Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremeties (Am. m.); marasmus. Apprehension when ready for church or opera, diarrhoea sets in (Gels.). Time passes slowly (Can. I.); impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nervous (Aur. Lit.). Headache: congestive, with fullness and heaviness; with sense of expansion; habitual gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence or temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging (Apis, Puls.). Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw beef; discharge profuse, muco-purulent. Ophthalmia neonatorum: profuse, purulent discharge; cornea opaque, ulceration; lids sore, thick, swollen; agglutinated in morning (Apis, Mer. s., Rhus). Eye strain from sewing, < in warm room > in open air (Nat. m., Ruta); diseases due to defective accommodation. Craves sugar; child is fond of it, but diarrhoea results from eating (craves salt or smoked meat, Cal. p.). Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal; stomach, as it it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence. Diarrhoea: green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar; masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps (Asar.); with much noisy flatus (Aloe.). Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks (Ars., Crot. t., Throm.). Urine passes unconsciously day and night (Caust.). Impotence: erection fails when coition is attempted (Agnus, Calad., Selen.). Coition: painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from vagina (Nit. ac.). Netrorrhagia: in young widows; in sterility; with nervous erethism at change of life (Lach.). Great longing for fresh air (Amyl., Puls., Sulph.). Chronic laryngitis of singers; the high notes cause cough (Alum., Arg. m., Arum.). Great weakness of lower extremities, with trembling; cannot walk with the eyes closed (Alum.). Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself unobserved. Convulsions preceded by great restlessness. Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing (Dolch., Hep., Nit. ac., Sil.); in or about uterus when walking or riding. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up; craves fresh air.

Natrum mur, for the bad effects of cauterizing with nitrate of silver. Coffee increases nervous headache. Boys' complaints after using tabacco (Ars., Ver.). Similar: to, Nat. m., Nit. ac., Lach., Aur., Cup. After Ver.; Lyc. follows well in flatulent dyspepsia.

Cold food; cold air; eating sugar; ice cream; unusual mental exertion.

Open air; craves the wind blowing in his face; bathing with cold water. The 200 or 1000th potency in watery solution as a topical application in ophthalmia neonatorum has relieved when the crude Silver nitrate failed.

Think of this remedy on seeing a withered and dried-up person.

Apathy; taciturn and gloomy; time passes slowly; it seems as if others were hours in doing what is really accomplished in a short time; this worries the patient, because it seems such a long time. Memory weak, or lost; disturbed intellect; impulsive, time seems too short, wants to do things in a hurry, must walk fast, etc.--is always hurried; easily excited, nervous, irritable, anxious.

Vertigo; as if turning in a circle, accompanied by headache, head symptoms are very prominent, cannot walk, talk or think, the head gets so giddy. Headache better from being tightly bound up; head feels painfully full and as if too large; boring pain in forehead, left side. Excessive. congestion to the head, with throbbing carotids, obliging one to loosen the cravat. Scalp, extreme itching of; creeping and crawling, with sensation as though roots of the hair were being pulled upward. Strange feeling in the head as if skull bones were separated. Face looks old, sunken, dirty.

Great photophobia, worse in warm room, eyes bloodshot, much lachrymation; purulent ophthalmia; eye troubles in general, pupils dilated. Sight and eyes seem to suffer as abdominal sufferings increase.

Ringing in, with deafness.

Violent itching, obliging to rub until it looks raw. Much sneezing.

No appetite; longing for sugar; pain after eating. Wind dyspepsia, violent belching, bowels usually regular; great relief from belching; violent, noisy belching; much flatulence. Gastrodynia.

Much pain in the sound teeth, made worse by chewing; eating things; or from cold things in the mouth.

Diarrhœa after sugar or candy; after drinking any fluids--they go right through; stools green fetid mucus, like chopped spinach; with sand or gravel; expelled forcibly, with much fuss; turning green on diaper; stools epithelial, with much lymph, looking red or green, shreddy, with tenesmus, advanced dysentery, suspected ulceration. Itching of the anus, causing the sufferer to rub it, until it becomes sore.

Sensation as of a splinter when swallowing, eructating, breathing, moving the neck.

Stitching, ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs, worse from deep inspiration and touching the part.

Male: Want of sexual desire, the organs seem much shrivelled. Female, uterine hæmorrhage two weeks before menses.

Incontinence of; too copious; suppression of; emission of a few more drops after one is done urinating.

Aching pains in, size of half a dollar. Palpitation of heart with nausea and faintness. Suffocative cough at noon.

Lower: Paralytic affections, almost losing use of lower extremities from rigidity of CALVES of the legs.

Chills, shifting or constant are most lasting, with nausea.

Drowsy stupor. Emaciation; trembling weakness; debility mostly declared in legs, especially calves. Chronic hoarseness; chronic laryngitis of those who use their voices much, singers, lecturers, etc. Neuralgias, seldom acute, but spread over a large surface and are deeply seated. Convulsions (sometimes puerperal) preceded by great restlessness; hysteria; epilepsy. Nervous affections, particularly chorea, occurring at night, in morning or about noon, typical; paraplegia; from debilitating causes.

Peculiar discoloration, from blue-gray, violet, or bronze, to real black.

At night; in morning; cold food; sugar.

Calc. carb., Pulsat., Sepia. Next best: Lycop., Silic., Kali carb., Mercur.

Mercur., Natrum mur.

Sensation of expansion of the body, especially of the face and head, with feeling as if bones of skull separated. Purulent ophthalmia, with intense pains which are better in the open air. Intensely pink or scarlet red, profuse mucopurulent discharge. Canthi red as blood, the caruncula swollen standing out like a lump of red flesh, clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea. Bloody, mucous stools, with masses of epithelium connected by muco-lymph, severe bearing down in the hypogastrium, advanced dysentery with suspected ulceration. Prolapsus uteri, with ulceration of the os or cervix.

Nitrate of Silver

In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting; themselves which give certain indications for its homeopathic employment. Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts. Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis. Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic. Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion. Head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy. Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and prematurely aged look. Explosive belching especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden pinch (Dudgeon). Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anæmia.

Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly (Cann ind). Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry (Lilium). Peculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions.

Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if separated.

Inner canthi swollen and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred vision. Photophobia in warm room. Purulent ophthalmia. Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent. Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room. Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them. Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles. Paretic condition of ciliary muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Ulcer in cornea.

Loss of smell. Itching. Ulcers in septum. Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.

Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man's look; tight drawing of skin over bones.

Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent papillæ; tip is red and painful. Pain in sound teeth. Taste coppery, like ink. Canker sores.

Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking. Raw, rough and sore. Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing. Dark redness of throat. Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat. Strangulated feeling.

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus. Flatulence; painful swelling of pit. Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen. Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction. Ineffectual effort at eructation. Great craving for sweets. Gastritis of drunkards. Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs. Trembling and throbbing in stomach. Enormous distention. Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain. Desire for cheese and salt.

Colic, with much flatulent distention. Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.

Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive. Diarrhœa immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids go right through him; after sweets. After any emotion with flatulence. Itching of anus.

Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter. Urine scanty and dark. Emission of a few drops after having finished. Divided stream. Early stage of gonorrhœa; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine.

Impotence. Erection fails when coition is attempted. Cancer-like ulcers. Desire wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition painful.

Gastralgia at beginning of menses. Intense spasm of chest muscles. Organs at night. Nervous erethism at change of life. Leucorrhœa profuse, with erosion of cervix bleeding easily. Uterine hæmorrhage, two weeks after menses; Painful affections of left ovary.

High notes cause cough. Chronic hoarseness. Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat. Dyspnœa. Chest feels as if a bar were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side; (Alumen). Painful spots in chest. Angina pectoris, nightly aggravation. Many people in a room seem to take away his breath.

Much pain. Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, (Oxal acid) paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.

Cannot walk with eyes closed. Trembling, with general debility. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms. Rigidity of calves. Debility in calves especially. Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved. Numbness of arms. Post-diphtheritic paralysis (after Gelsem).

Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up. Irregular blotches.

Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification. Drowsy stupor.

Chills with nausea. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.

Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, left side. Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.

Antidote: Nat mur.

Compare: Ars; Merc; Phos; Pulsat. Argent cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of œsophagus) Argent iodat (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected). Protargol (gonorrhœa after acute stage 2 per cent solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10 per cent solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 per cent solution).

Argent phosph (An excellent diuretic in dropsy).

Argent oxyd (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhœa).

Third to thirtieth potency.

Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses. This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide.

Impulsive: time goes too slow; must walk fast.

Apprehension, on getting ready for church, opera, etc., has an attack of diarrhœa.

Vertigo, with buzzing in the ears and weakness and trembling.

Canthi, as red as blood; swollen, standing out like a lump of red flesh.

Irresistible desire for sugar; gastric ailments, with violent loud belchings.

Stool; green, mucous, like chopped spinach in flakes; turns green on remaining on diaper; expelled with much spluttering.

Profuse, sometimes purulent, discharges from mucous membranes, generally.

Dried-up, withered patients, made so by disease.

Craves fresh air.

Guernsey says: "We think of this remedy on seeing a withered and dried up person, made so by disease." This especially in children. "He looks like a little withered old man." (Fluoric acid, young people look old.) Argentum like Gold profoundly affects the mind. Like Gold it is one of the best remedies for hypochondriasis. The symptoms are so many in this trouble that we can only call attention to them as found in Guiding Symptoms. I will only mention a few more prominent and peculiar symptoms that have been frequently verified. "The sight of high houses makes him dizzy and causes him to stagger. It seemed as if the houses on both sides of the street would approach and crush him."

"When walking in the street he dreads to pass a street corner, because the corner of the house seems to project and he is afraid he will run against it." Impulsive, must walk very fast, always hurried. (Lilium tigrinum.) "Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera; brings on diarrhea." (Gelsemium).

The hurried feeling of both Argentum nitricum and Lilium tigrinum have occurred mostly in uterine troubles; while the diarrhœa on excitement seems to depend upon a general nervous condition. Unless the indications pointed strongly to one in preference to the other remedy it might be well to try the vegetable first. The minerals are generally longer and deeper in their action, and would perhaps be preferable the more chronic the case.

Some of the very curious symptoms found under this and other remedies are not found in everyday practice, but when found are all the more valuable because the cases presenting them are rare and not easily understood or cured by the ordinary remedies. Some of our most brilliant cures have been made in just such cases, and they are very gratifying to both physician and patient.

Argentum nitricum is sometimes the best remedy for hemicrania; this kind of headache is often very distressing and hard to cure. One peculiar symptom belonging to Argentum nitricum in headache is a feeling of expansion, feels as though head were enormously enlarged, and like Pulsatilla and Apis, feels better when tied up tight. This feeling of expansion is also a general symptom, feels as though the whole body or part of it were expanding, some express it as a feeling of fullness. (Æsculus hipocastanum). It is found under other remedies also, but very prominently under this.

Argentum nitricum has a great deal of vertigo, which is often accompanied with buzzing in the ears, general debility and trembling. Cannot walk with the eyes closed; the sight of high houses makes him dizzy. These symptoms call to remembrance Gelsemium. Both remedies have much vertigo; great tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility, actual trembling and tremulous sensation, and both have been found useful in locomotor ataxia. I should, other things being equal, give the preference to Gelsemium in recent cases, or in the beginning, and Argentum nitricum further along. But there are generally diagnostic indications which enable us to choose between them. In eye affections Argentum is one of our most valuable remedies, and like all remedies which are very valuable for anything has been woefully abused by the old school. It is a pity that they do not know enough to get the good and to avoid the bad effects of such valuable agents, for many times the disastrous results of their misuse brings the remedies into such disrepute that others are afraid to use them at all. It was for this reason that the old botanics rejected all mineral remedies. Mercury had so scared them. It falls to the Homœopath to teach how to use all such a way as to get the good, while avoiding the bad effects. In eye troubles Allen & Norton write as follows: "The greatest service that Argentum nitricum performs is in purulent ophthalmia. With large experience, in both hospital and private practice, we have not lost a single eye from this disease, and every one has been treated with internal remedies, most of them with Argentum nitricum of a high potency, 30th or 200th. We have witnessed the most intense chemosis, with strangulated vessels, most profuse purulent discharge, even the cornea beginning to get hazy and looking as though it would slough, subside rapidly under Argentum nitricum internally. The subjective symptoms are almost none. Their very absence, with the profuse purulent discharge, and the swollen lids from a collection of pus in the eye, or swelling of the sub-conjunctival tissue of the lids themselves, indicates the drug. (Apis; Rhus.)", Later Norton writes: "I do believe that there is no need of cauterization with it except in the gonorrhœal form of purulent conjunctivitis." Such testimony from such sources ought to shame the abuse of this agent in the hands of old school physicians, and sometimes bogus Homœopaths. In ophthalmia neonatorum in my own practice as a general practitioner I have had very often better success with Mercurius solubilis, especially where there was much purulent matter pouring out on opening the eyes. In blepharitis Graphites and Staphisagria have served me oftener than Argentum nitricum, but this may not be the experience of others, for in eye troubles, as in all others, the indications are to be studied and carefully recognized in their entirety. (Borax must not be forgotten in blepharitis.) Specialists are apt to lose sight of this and be led to local treatment when constitutional would be infinitely better. The symptom, "red, painful tip of the tongue, papillæ erect, prominent," has guided to the cure of many different kinds of cases. There are also some valuable symptoms in the digestive organs; for instance, "Irresistible desire for sugar; fluids go right through him; most gastric ailments are accompanied by belching; belching after every meal, stomach as if it would burst with wind, belching difficult; finally air rushes out with great noise and violence." All of these are characteristic, and there is no doubt that this remedy is sometimes indicated when Carbo veg., China or Lycopodium are given because they are generally so much better understood. Dyspepsia, gastralgia and even gastric ulcer have sometimes found a powerful remedy in Argentum, and it has also done great good in very obstinate cases of diarrhœa of various kinds.

"Green mucus like chopped spinach in flakes."

"Stool turning green after remaining in diaper."

"Stool expelled with much spluttering."

"Stool shreddy, red, green muco-lymph, epithelial substance."

"During stool emission of much noisy flatus."

Now there are other remedies which have some of these symptoms in a marked degree, notably: Calcarea phos., which has the spluttering stool with much noisy flatus, and it is also a fact that both remedies are very valuable ones in hydrocephaloid consequent on the long-continued drain from intractable cases of entero-colitis. If the bone development should be slow with open fontanelles and sweaty head of course Calcarea phos., would win. Then in Calcarea phos. the child wishes smoked meats, bacon, etc., in Argentum nitricum sugar or sweets. Yet both have great emaciation, the child looking old and wrinkled, and it will sometimes be close individualizing to choose between them. Argentum nitricum has its place in the treatment of throat affections. There is thick, tenacious mucus in the throat obliging him to hawk and causing slight hoarseness. Rawness, soreness, scraping in throat, causing hawking and cough. Sensation as of a splinter lodged in the throat (Nitric ac., Hepar sulph., Dolichos). and wartlike excrescences, which feel like pointed bodies when swallowing. This kind of throat may extend downward until it involves the larynx, especially in singers, clergymen, or lawyers who are using their voice very much. Then it is doubly indicated. When we come to the back and extremities we again find our remedy in the field for a share of the honors. "Pain in the back (small of) relieve when standing or walking, but severe when rising from a seat," is a condition often found in practice. I have often relieved it with Sulphur or Causticum, but remember also Argentum nitricum. If in back troubles we find great lassitude (Kali carbonicum), with weariness, especially in forearms and lower legs, especially calves, or if in addition to this we find vertigo and trembling of the extremities, we may be sure Argentum nitricum will do us good. In paraplegia from debilitating causes or paralysis after diphtheria we may find this remedy indicated. Also in epilepsy or convulsions; in the former (epilepsy) one characteristic symptom is that for hours or days before the attack the pupils are dilated; in the latter the convulsions are preceded for a short time by great restlessness.

Cuprum metallicum has great restlessness between the attacks. Finally Natrum muriaticum is the best antidote for the abuse of Argentum nit., especially upon mucous surfaces.

Very impulsive ; in continual motion ; he walks fast. Apathy.

Vertigo, with headache. Morning headache, (when he awakens). Excessive congestion of blood to the head. Stitches in the left frontal eminence. Digging up, incisive motion, through the left hemisphere of the brain. Headache, with chilliness. Headache relieved by tying a handkerchief tightly around the head. Headache worse in the open air. Itching, creeping, crawling of the hairy scalp. Sensation, as if the bones of the skull separated, with increase of temperature.

Mucus in the eyes drying up, and forming scurfs. Vanishing of light ; to is constantly obliged to wipe off the mucus, which obstructs the axis of vision. Opacity of the cornea. Ophthalmia, with intense pain ; worse in the warm room, better in the open air.

Ringing in the ears, and deafness, (left ear).

Violent itching of the nose. Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, sneezing, and stupefying, headache. Discharge of pus, with clots of blood.

Sunken, pale, bluish countenance. Hard blotches in the vermilion border of the upper lip, paler than the lip, and sore to the touch. The lips are dry and viscid, without thirst. The gums are swollen, inflamed, bleed easily, and are painful when touched. Sensitiveness of the teeth to cold water.

Dryness of the tongue with thirst. Papillæ prominent, erect, feeling sore. Painful red tip of the tongue. Fetid actor from the mouth. Ptyalism.

Dark redness of the uvula and fences. Sensation, as if a splinter were lodged in the throat when swallowing. Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat.

Irresistible desire for sugar in the evening. Sweetish-bitter taste.

Violent belching. Violent vomiting, with anxiety in the præcordial region. Black vomit. Vomiting and diarrhœa with violent colicky pains. Gnawing pain in the left side of the stomach. Pressure, with heaviness and nausea in the stomach.

Stitches through the abdomen, like electric shocks, (left side).

Diarrhœa of green, fetid mucus, with very noisy emission of flatulence at night. Bloody stools. Constipation, fæces dry. Itching at the anus.

Frequent and copious emission of pale urine. Inflammation, and violent burning or shooting pains in the urethra, with increased gonorrhœa. Priapism, bleeding of the urethra. Stricture of the urethra.

Men. Chancre-like ulcer on the prepuce. Sexual desire wanting, the genital organs having become shrivelled.

Palpitation of the heart in paroxysm, with nausea.

Pain in the small of the back relieved when standing or walking.

Heaviness and debility of the legs. Great debility and weariness in the calf of the leg, as after a long journey.

Staggering gait. Great debility and weariness, (lower limbs). Convulsions. Epileptic attacks caused by fright, or during menstruation, (at night, or in the morning when rising). Sensation of expansion, (face and head).

Soporous condition. Nightly nervousness, with heat in the head. Restless sleep, with stupefaction and headache.

Chilliness, with nausea. Morning perspiration.

Wart-shaped excrescences on the skin. Discoloration of the skin -blue-gray, violet or bronze- colored tinges, to real black.

Nitrate of Silver. Lunar Caustic. Ag NO 3 . Trituration and solution.

Acidity. Addison's disease. Anæmia . Chancre. Dyspepsia . Epilepsy. Eructations . Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of. Flatulence. Gastric ulcer . Gonorrhœa. Hands, swelling of . Headache. Heartburn . Impetigo. Locomotor ataxy. Neuralgia . Ophthalmia neonatorum. Paralysis. Prostate, enlargement of . Scarlatina. Small-pox. Spinal irritation . Syphilis. Taste, altered. Throat, affections of. Tongue ulcerated . Warts. Zona.

It was the use of Argentum nit . in olden times in the treatment of epilepsy which led to the production of the lamentable cases of lead-coloured pigmentation of the skin called Argyria. Homœopathic experience has proved the applicability of the drug to many cases of epilepsy and the needlessness of employing a dosage that entails any risk whatever. The cases of epilepsy calling for this drug are those caused by fright, or occurring at the menstrual period. For days or hours before the attack the pupils are dilated, and after the attack the patient is very restless and has trembling of the hands.

Among the leading symptoms of Arg. n . are: Great tremor. Nervous feeling; sensation as if being squeezed in a vice. Feeling of constriction in various parts as of a band of iron round chest or waist. A feeling as if the body or some part of the body were expanding. Migraine, with feeling as if head were enormously enlarged; > tightly bound. Defective co-ordination. Paralyses of motion and sensation; a peculiar numbness accompanied with hyperæsthesia. Sensation of a splinter sticking in various parts. Burning sensations. Gowers has recorded a case in which the use of Arg. n . for stomach trouble caused (like lead), drop-wrist, gout, and albuminuria. In allopathic practice the dyspepsia for which it is given is < before food, when the stomach is empty. The opposite condition is the leading indication in homœopathic practice. E. P. Brewer ( Hahn. Monthly , July, 1883) has recorded a proving, (the prover, a young man, taking on three consecutive days one grain a day of Arg. n . triturated with sugar of milk), in which a number of motor and sensory symptoms were elicited, reminding Dr. Brewer of locomotor ataxy, in which it has been used with success by old-school practitioners. This use also has led to many cases of argyria. Among the symptoms of this proving were. "Mental operations sluggish; continued thought required special effort, but exertion of mind did not aggravate the heaviness and fulness of head. Lower extremities (loins, sacrum, and particularly gastrocnemii) fatigued; as if they would suddenly fail him. Loss of ambition. Building air castles by day: monstrous dreams by night." Another peculiar symptom was: chilly down the back beginning close to occiput extending to extreme tip of coccyx at noon every day; > by warmth; at 5 p.m. chills subsided, no sweat, but profound sleepiness, without sleep but enchanted with vivid imagination: burning heat followed. There was burning in one spot in front of rectum, probably in prostate gland. Micturition more frequent, burning in urethra. The headache was > by Act. r . In a proving by myself one of the most marked symptoms was a kind of numb sensitiveness of the skin of the arms — a hyperæsthetic-anæsthetic state, increased sensitiveness to contact, but diminished power of distinguishing sensations. Other symptoms were sore throat with white patches, rheumatic pains in (left) wrist (which I have since confirmed), and finger joints, with external tenderness of bony prominences, pain on rising in right sacro-iliac notch. Soreness of muscles of neck and back. Urticarious spots in various parts. In poisoning cases complete loss of consciousness, insensibility, and convulsions have occurred. Some of the notable digestive symptoms are: "Irresistible desire for sugar." "Fluids go right through him." Belching accompanies most gastric affections. Green stools are remarkable. "Green mucus like chopped spinach in flakes." "Stool turning green after remaining on diaper." "Stool expelled with much spluttering." "Stool shreddy, red, green muco-lymph or epithelial substance." There is a pain in the small of the back, > on standing or walking, but severe when rising from a seat. ( Sul., Caust .) Arg. n . has irresistible desire for sugar, which at the same time < Kent relates a case illustrating this. A nursing infant had a grass-green diarrhœa which failed to yield to Merc., Ars ., and Cham . At last Kent discovered that the mother ate a pound of candy a day. Arg. n . was given and the candy stopped and the child soon got well. Intestinal catarrh with shreddy membranous discharges is often cured by Arg. n .

A mental peculiarity is one of apprehension and fear: when ready to go to church, &c., diarrhœa sets in. Fears projecting corners of buildings and high buildings. The sight of high buildings makes him giddy and causes him to stagger; it seems as if houses on both sides of street would approach and crush him. Imagines he cannot pass a certain point ( Kali bro .). When crossing a bridge has an almost irresistible desire to jump over. Impulsion to walk very fast ( Lil. t .). Mucous membranes affected, purulent and bloody discharges; membranous diarrhœa with agonising pains. Epithelium affected (cancers). Most symptoms are < night; very nervous at night. < At night or in morning on rising (epileptic attacks). Day half more cough, night half more diarrhœa. < On awaking. At 11 a.m. nervous attacks > by stimulants. Chill down back every day at noon. < In warm room; over a fire; in summer; warmth of bed; > by warm drinks. > In cool open air, > washing with cold water; < from cold food; < ice creams. Motion generally < ; but walking in open air > back pains, which are < sitting. Lying on right side = pains in abdomen; palpitation. Heat < ; but there 19 also < from uncovering; aversion to uncovering. < Rising from sitting. < Inspiration. < Touching the parts. > Bending double. < Thinking intently. < Riding. > Tight bandage (headache). — Suited to: Hysteric nervous persons; headaches from mental causes characterised by dulness of head. Women with menstrual disturbances. Cachetic state. Scrawny, feeble, dried-up-looking women. Guernsey puts it, "withered and dried up by disease. A child looks like a withered old man." It corresponds in lower potencies to Grauvogl's carbo-nitrogenoid constitution ( Sul., Cupr .); in higher to the hydrogenoid or sycotic constitution. A large number of symptoms appear on the left side.

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Loss of consciousness ; faint feeling.
Loss of memory. θ Headache from dancing.
Loss of memory ; lies with closed eyes, shunning light and conversation. θ Melancholia.
Weakness of memory, which frequently did not allow him to find the right word, hence falters in speech. θ Melancholia.
In conversation, forgetting what he wanted to say, he looked around as if expecting some one to help him out. θ Hypochondriasis.
Time seems to pass very slowly.
Dulness of head, mental confusion ; dizziness ; tendency to fall sideways.
To fix his thoughts on anything, or to give his business any consideration, was impossible for him ; on attempting it, it immediately got dark before his eyes and headache increased. θ Malarial
ataxy.
Great weakness of mind. θ Headache.
General appearance imbecile ; talk very childish ; does not work because he thinks it will do him harm, or that he is not able to stand it. θ Hypochondriasis.
Awful faces appear on shutting eyes.
The sight of high houses always made him dizzy and caused him to stagger ; it seemed as if houses on both sides would approach and crush him.
Frequently settled upon time he should die. θ Hypochondriasis.
Thinks he has softening of brain, or some other incurable affection, which almost drives him to despair. θ Hypochondriasis.
When walking gets nervous, thinks he will have a fit or die suddenly, which makes him walk faster, but soon has to stop, because he gets tired. θ Hypochondriasis.
Possessed of distressing idea that all his undertakings will and must fail. θ Melancholia.
Refused food, saying one who does not work should not eat ; but driven by hunger he tried to secretly procure it. θ Melancholia.
Feels as if everything at home had changed and that his mind is weak. θ Hypochondriasis.
He wept and assured every one that he was lost beyond hope for this world ; that no one could delude him in that respect, and no one could reason him out of it. θ Melancholia.
Thoughts about suicide.
Thinks about killing himself. θ Cholera.
On crossing a bridge, almost irresistible desire to jump into river ; meeting some one prevented it. θ Hypochondriasis.
Often awakes his wife or child to have some one to talk to. θ Hypochondriasis.
Constantly talking about his sufferings. θ Hypochondriasis.
Impulsive, must walk very fast ; frequent turns of anxiety.
Always hurried. θ Prolapsus uteri.
If a time is set, becomes uneasy the day before ; is worried and ready long before the time. θ Chronic diarrhœa. θ Epilepsy.
Reserved, sad, taciturn, with dulness of head and throbbing in whole body.
Frequently remains in bed on slightest pretext of being "indisposed". θ Hypochondriasis.
No real inclination to work. θ Asthma.
Does not work, thinking it will do him harm or that he is not able to stand it. θ Hypochondriasis.
Easily wearied. θ Headache from dancing.
Great weariness and depression. θ Melancholia.
Gloomy, dull ; wishes to do nothing.
Sad ; fear of apoplexy (no apoplexy).
Sad and taciturn, with dulness of head and throbbing in whole body.
Weeping mood.
Melancholic, constantly complains of vertigo.
Great melancholy and weakness of mind with congestion to head.
Melancholy since an undeserved slight ; fixed idea that he was neglected and despised by his family ; his calling became indifferent to him.
Despaired of help from himself or others. θ Melancholia.
Fits of despondency and all kinds of fanciful notions ; for example, that whilst walking along street he could not pass a given point without falling ; frequently settled on the time he was to die. θ Hypochondriasis.
Alarmed by vertigo and weakness of left side.
Apprehension of some serious disease. θ Hypochondriasis.
Apprehension when ready to go to church or to opera ; diarrhœa sets in.
Easily frightened ; fears disease may result seriously ; weeping mood.
Fear or thinking brings on diarrhœa.
Great nervousness and prostration ; fears to be alone, because he thinks he will die ; is apprehensive of some serious disease, which almost drives him to despair. θ Hypochondriasis.
Fears if passing a certain corner or building that he will drop down and create a sensation ; is relieved by going in another direction. θ Hypochondriasis.
Incessant mental distress, respiration 28, pulsations 88. θ Melancholia.
Tormented with anxiety. θ Asthma.
Frequent attacks of anxiety with weakness in legs, coming on about 11 A. M. ; > after drinking a little whiskey. θ Hypochondriasis.
When walking, becomes faint with anxiety, which makes him walk faster. θ Hypochondriasis.
Became insensible to all social pleasures and lost all desire for labor. θ Melancholia.
Apathy.
Was utterly bereft of all power of will. θ Melancholia.
Very irritable when nervous.
So much unstrung and irritated that, without the knowledge of his physician, he sprang up to get into the open air. θ Malarial ataxy.
Against whatever was proposed he had the queerest objections. θ Melancholia.
She became angry very easily, whereupon she always had to endure for many days stitching pains in chest and cough.
At night very much excited and murmured constantly. θ Typhus.
Sometimes nerves go so unstrung that he was in a frenzy of excitement ; when seized with these attacks did not desire to move or talk, but always sought a chair and stubbornly stuck to it.
Thinking intently increases headache and causes dimness of vision.

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We shall find by examining the symptoms of this remedy that the intellectual feature predominates, as in the metal; that the affections are disturbed only in a limited way. There is a predominance of mental symptoms.

First of all, disturbance in the memory, disturbance of reason, he becomes most irrational in his explanations of his actions.

He is irrational and does strange things and comes to strange conclusions; foolish things.

He has all sorts of imaginations, illusions, hallucinations. He is tormented in his mind by the inflowing of troublesome thoughts, and especially at night his thoughts torment him. to the extent that he is extremely anxious and this puts him in a hurry and in a fidget and he goes out and walks and walks, and the faster he walks the faster he thinks he must walk, and he walks till fatigued.

Strange notions and ideas and fears come into his mind. He has an impulse that lie is going to have a fit or that he is going to have a sickness.

A strange thought comes into his mind that if be goes past a certain corner of the street he will create a sensation, will fall down and have a fit, and to avoid that he will go around the block.

He avoids going past that corner for fear he will do something strange, He is so reduced in his mental state that he admits into the mind all sorts of impulses.

There is inflowing of strange thoughts into his mind, and when crossing a bridge or high place the thought that he might kill himself, or perhaps he might jump off, or what if he should jump off, and sometimes the actual impulse comes to jump off the bridge into the water.

When looking out of a window the thought comes to his mind what an awful thing it would be to jump out of the window, and sometimes the impulse comes to actually jump out of the window.

There is fear of death, the over-anxious state, that death is near, and often at times like Aconite he predicts the moment he is going to die.

Looking forward to times he is anxious. When looking forward to some thing that he is about to do, or in the expectation of things, he is anxious.

When about to meet an engagement he is anxious until the time comes.

If he is about to take a railroad journey he is anxious, full of fear and anxiety and tremulous nervousness until he is on the car going and then it passes away. If he is about to meet a certain person on the street corner he is anxious and breaks out often in a sweat from anxiety until it is over with.

Not only is this particular symptom present, but the symptoms come on as a result of his anxiety.

He is excitable, angers easily, and as a result of this pain comes. When he becomes angry he becomes vehement and pain in the head comes on; cough, pain in the chest and weakness follow this anger

The anxiety he has from these circumstances will bring on complaints.

When he is going anywhere, going to a wedding or to the opera, or any unusual event it is attended with anxiety, fear and diarrhea.

So it is we have in this a wonderful medicine. It says in the text that he gave all sorts of queer reasons for his strange conduct, endeavoring to cover up, as it were, his foolishness which he himself realizes.

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Acute or chronic diseases from unusual or long-continued mental exertion.

Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried- up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec.).

Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremities (Am. m.); marasmus.

Apprehension when ready for church or opera; diarrhœa sets in (Gels.).

Time passes slowly (Can.); impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nervous (Aur., Lil.).

Great longing for fresh air (Amyl, Puls., Sulph.).

Headache: congestive, with fulness and heaviness; with sense of expansion; habitual, gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence or temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging (Apis, Puls.).

Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal; stomach, as if it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence.

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.

Diarrhœa: green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar; masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps (Asar.); with much noisy flatus (Aloe).

Diarrhœa as soon as he drinks (Ars., Crot. t., Throm.).

Urine passes

Continued, remittent, typhus, yellow fever, especially the second stage.

Without thirst. Chilliness with nausea; constant, up the back and over the shoulders; < after meals (Nux); coming into the room from the open air; with cold extremities. General chill followed in a short time by general heat; chill returns on uncovering, even during heat; no thirst.

Evening chill followed by sweat.

Temperature, subnormal.

Chill from being uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.

Without thirst, with aversion to uncover (Arn., Nux).

Always kept covered because easily chilled.

General heat following general chill with perceptible pulsations in the left temporal artery.

Sweat and chilliness, as soon as he gets warm in bed.

Profuse sweat, it stands out on the face in beads.

Night sweats.

Had to leave a window open day and night, for when it was shut patient became restless.

Septic fever following scarlatina.

Dicrotic; finally feeble, small, could not be counted.

Loss of consciousness; faint feeling.
Loses his memory; frequently cannot find the right word, hence falters in speech; lies with closed eyes, shunning light and conversation.
Imbecility.
Time seems to pass very slowly.
Dullness of the head, mental confusion; dizziness, tendency to fall sideways.
Thinks about killing himself.
Impulsive, must walk fast; frequent attacks of anxiety.
Indifference to occupation, loses all inclination for work; believes that all his undertaking will fail.
Reserved; sad; taciturn, with dullness of the head and beating in the whole body.
Feeling as if a cloud hung over him, with great depression; usually with sighing respiration, worse in a close room.
Easily frightened; fears the disease may result seriously; weeping mood.
Easily angered; from it cough and stitches in the chest.
Thinking intently increases headache and causes dimness of vision.
Noticing beating of heart, increases it.
Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera, bringing on diarrhœa.

Vertigo: when walking with eyes closed, with eyes closed, which alarms him; staggers when walking in the dark, has to seize hold of things; buzzing in ears; general debility of the limbs and trembling; vertigo and complete but transient blindness; epilepsy.
Drowsy, dilated pupils; green stools. θ Hydrocephaloid.

Congestion of blood to head and face.
Rush of blood, throbbing carotids, head seems too large; relieved by tight bandage.
Boring in left frontal eminence, worse at night in warm bed.
Pressing pains sometimes on vertex, sometimes left frontal bone, relieved by pressure or by tight bandaging; worse from any exhaustive mental labor; letters would then run together.
Violent pressure in the forehead commencing over the eyes, spreading upwards to coronal suture; in morning.
Hemicrania; pressive, screwing; throbbing pain in one frontal protuberance, temple or into the bones of the face. At its height, trembling of the whole body, intense nausea, which ends in watery, bilious vomit; lies senseless, eyes closed, shuns light and conversation.
Digging pains in right hemisphere of the brain.
Digging, cutting motion through left hemisphere, from occiput to frontal protuberance, recurs frequently, increases and decreases rapidly.

Almost constant boring, cutting in bones of forehead, vertex, temples and face.
Head feels much enlarged.
Itching, creeping, crawling, as from vermin; roots of hair feel as if pull upwards; she had to stretch all the time.
Herpetic eruption on the occiput.
Burning in the scalp, which feels as if drawn right; cold feeling in eyes.

Far-sighted.
Grey spots and serpent-like bodies moved before him.
Letters become blurred; run together.
Photophobia, eyes filled with mucus.
Photophobia and weak sight, preventing his writing.
Vanishing of sight, he must constantly wipe away mucus.
Paralysis of accommodation from errors of refraction, glasses failing.
Eyes red, shuns light, after straining them while sewing; worse in the warm room, better in the open air.
Conjunctiva towards inner canthus is red and swollen, like pterygium.
Canthi as red as blood, the caruncula swollen, standing out like a lump of red flesh; clusters of intensely red vessels, extend from inner canthus to the cornea.
Cornea opaque; ulceration of the cornea in new born infants; profuse purulent discharge from the lids.
Conjunctiva of ball and lids intensely congested; bright red granulations on lids; lids swollen, thick pus discharges.
Œdema of the lids and sensation of fulness, dryness and heat, especially on moving the ball, which is sensitive to touch; chemosis; non-excoriating lachrymation.
Lids crusty, swollen, thick; with pannus.
Ciliary blepharitis from being over a fire; better from cold air and cold applications. θ Ectropion.

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Nitrate of silver is prepared for use by dissolving the pure salt in distilled water.

An irritant poison causing violent inflammation and ulceration of throat and stomach and mucous membranes generally. ▶ It attacks and destroys the red corpuscles of the blood causing general malnutrition, especially ecchymoses. ▶ It increases the flow of bile and causes degenerative conges in the liver and albuminuria. ▶ It depresses the temperature. ▶ It produces violent tetanic convulsions, followed by paralysis.

Sharp splinter-like pains in mucous membranes (Nit. ac.), free muco-purulent discharge. ▶ Tremulous, weakness, with coldness.

Aurum, Cuprum, Mercur., Plumb., Zinc., Nitric acid and compounds, Picric ac., Gelsem ., Hydrastis.

Emaciation. ▶ Dropsy; œdema of legs and ascites. ▶ Convulsions; and twitchings. ▶ Trembling and tremulous sensation (Gels., Cupr., Merc.). ▶ Excitation of muscles and nerves, with consensual excitation of nerves of stomach. ▶ Pressure in groins at 10 P.M. while sitting, and in hollow of right knee, in left knee, in left little finger and on back of left foot. ▶ Pain in sides in morning after a restless night, with bruised feeling in limbs; in groins, below and in front of left trochanter, when walking, causing knees to bend; drawing, in groins, thighs, calves, especially in tibia and left thigh.

Clucking sensation in spots in upper arm or thigh, hand, one ear and on left cheek; also the same, or in one leg, or else drawing in finger-joints, or in one knee, or in spot of right upper arm, if the pain in forehead decreased for some time. ▶ Expanding sensation, especially in face and head (Glon., Gels.), with a feeling as if bones of skull separated, and with heat. ▶ Disagreeable sensation moving about, now in limbs, especially in right upper, now in head, especially about right temple. ▶ Orgasms in whole body, with heat (Sulph.). ▶ Restlessness at night, with headache and stupefaction (Sulph.). ▶ Presentiment of the approaching epileptic fit.

Weakness; morning on waking, with apathy; morning on rising, with oppression of body and mind; morning after rising, with trembling and irritated and apprehensive mood; after breakfast, with nervousness, trembling and fear no undertake anything; in afternoon; afternoon, with heat; after a short walk; with rigidity of calves; with despondency; tremulous, with debility and apathy. ▶ Insensibility of body. ▶ Aggravation during the day; of mental and head symptoms at night, but of general symptoms in morning; on left side. ▶ Amelioration from emission of flatus.

General tremulous weakness, with nervous restlessness, emaciation and sighing respiration. ▶ Epileptiform convulsions or even true epilepsy, the patient is very restless or tremulous before or after the attacks. ▶ Especially useful in epilepsy caused by fright, or associated with menstruation. ▶ For chronic nervous results of alcoholic stimulants or the effects of excessive sexual indulgence, very restless, afraid to be alone, very melancholy, especially worse after eating, with flatulent distention, palpitation, etc. ▶ Paralysis from diseases of the spine, with great exhaustion and restlessness, sighting respiration. ▶ It has probably cured some cases of locomotor ataxia. ▶ Paralysis involving the diaphragm and lungs, sighing, gasping for breath. ▶ Post-diphtheritic paralysis. ▶ In all these cases there must be present more or less of the characteristic mental and abdominal symptoms of the drug.

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This caustic produces destruction of tissue wherever applied.
Taken internally, it produces a profound anæmia and general malnutrition, ecchymosis especially. Its action on the liver and kidneys is marked, increasing at first the flow of bile, and finally causing degeneration of the liver, albuminuria, etc. It produces violent tetaniform or epileptiform convulsions, followed sometimes by paralysis. Dilute solutions produce a violent inflammation of mucous membranes, characterized by a profuse muco-purulent secretion.

Tremblings, twitchings, convulsions.
General restlessness.
Weakness; paralytic symptoms.
General stinging pains.

Irresolute.
Apprehensive.
Nervous faintness.
Imbecility; loss of memory.

In general, dull, aching fullness of head, ameliorated by tight binding.
Full, throbbing, congested feeling.
Dull, stupefying ache.
Vertigo, with buzzing in ears, weakness and trembling.
Boring in left frontal eminence.
One side of head feels enlarged.
The roots of the hair feel pulled; scalp tender.

Violent ophthalmia; conjunctiva swollen; eyeball congested; very profuse purulent discharge.
Caruncula lachrymalis intensely red, swollen.
Eyeballs unsteady from lack of muscular tone.
Asthenopia from muscular paresis, especially from lack of power of accommodation.
Photophobia.
Vision dim.
Vision distorted.
Floating opacities, like filaments or serpents.
Illusions of vision; seems to see serpents (mental).

Deafness.
Whizzing or ringing in ears.

Catarrh (like Arg. met.).
Coryza, with stupefying headache.
Loss of smell.

Sickly looking, pale or even cyanotic.
Facial neuralgia, left side; boring pain (usually).

General sensitiveness to cold things.
Toothache from sour or cold things, aggravated by chewing.
Gums loose, tender, bleed easily.
Tongue red at tip, dry, papillæ enlarged.
Saliva increased, thin, fetid.

Dark, red.
Inflamed, with sensation of a splinter or a stick when swallowing.
Throat raw and sore.
Rough.
Much tenacious mucus, with much hawking.
Dryness and burning.

Craving for sugar.
Nausea.
Retching; vomiting; ejecta become black.
Flatulent distention of stomach, extreme.
Pit of stomach painfully swollen.
Bursting sensation in pit, ameliorated by eructations.
Eructations difficult, as if œsophagus were spasmodically closed.
Vomiting of glairy mucus.
Pain in pit, extends around sides or into the chest.

Flatulent distention.
Flatulent pains, often sharp, followed by evacuations of gas and green, fetid mucus.
Pain around hypochondria.

Itching.
Burning.
Hæmorrhoids.

Green, fetid mucus.
Watery, with flatulence.
Mucus in shreds, white or green, sour or fetid.
Bloody mucus.
Diarrhœa, chronic, resulting from emotional disturbances.

Urine usually clear and copious.
Urethra inflamed; violent, acute inflammation, great swelling, burning; profuse purulent discharge; urine bloody.
Priapismus, with shooting pains, severe inflammation, etc.

Inflammation of prepuce, ulceration.

Female (Vagina sensitive, bleeding. Ulcerations, purulent leucorrhœa, etc. - Clin.)
- Sexual dreams and orgasms at night (in an epileptic).

Hoarseness.
Cough, suffocative, aggravated by tobacco smoke.
Larynx sore, raw.
Suffocative dyspnœa.

Burning.
Heaviness.
Tension in muscles as if a clamp were around the chest.

Anxiety.
Palpitation.
Pulse irregular, intermitting.

Backache, ameliorated by standing or walking.
Heaviness in sacrum, as before menses.
Paralytic sensations; must stretch and walk.

Tremblings.
Twitchings.
Paralysis.
Upper: Various pains; tremblings.
Lower: Weakness; paralytic heaviness.

Sleepless, or restless sleep.
Dreams of snakes or of strange figures; wakes in fright.

Chilly; feverish; no thirst.
Sweat in morning, or at night.

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

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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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.

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.

Indicated in chronic hoarseness of singers; in gastric ailments characterized by much gastric flatulency and noisy belching of gas; diarrhoea; spinal diseases; trembling and weakness of legs; neurasthenia; chorea; hysteria; affections of the eyes, with burning heat, photophobia, copious muco-purulent discharge; early stage of gonorrhoea.

Face aged, withered, bluish.

Pains increase and decrease gradually.

Always in a hurry.

Great longing for fresh air.

Great desire for sweets.

Apprehension and dread of meeting people, of being in a crowd. Going to some public entertainment brings on diarrhoea.

Erroneous perception; as to time, minutes seem hours; as to gait, a slow gait seems fast.

Feeling as though the affected parts were expanding.

Headache, relieved by tightly bandaging the head, with creeping, crawling sensation in the scalp.

Great heat in the eyes; it dries up the eyelashes.

Ophthalmia, with soreness and swelling of the lids, photophobia, heat in the eye, purulent discharge, agglutination of the lids in the morning. Ophthalmia neonatorum.

Itching in the nose, rubbing brings on bleeding.

Coughing when singing a high note; chronic hoarseness.

Ulcerative pain in the throat, with sensation as of a splinter in the throat.

Gastralgia; pain confined to a small spot between xyphoid cartilage and umbilicus, with sensitiveness to pressure, radiating into the back, shoulders, hypochondria.

Pain in the stomach, relieved by pressure with the clinched fist.

Excessive gastric flatulency; seems as though stomach would burst; gas belched up with great difficulty and much noise.

Diarrhoea, green like spinach, in flakes, as soon as he drinks or eats sweets.

Ulcerative soreness in the middle of the urethra as from a splinter. When passing the last drops of urine, cutting pain from the posterior urethra to anus.

Unsteadiness in walking and standing, seemingly from weakness and unreliability of the legs.

Worse from cold food; from sweets; from mental exertion; at night.

Better in the open air; when the wind blows in his face; from belching up of gas.

Imbecile appearance, shy (Ign.) and childish. Weak memory, confusion of thought. Falters in speech. Anxiety: With gastrointestinal symptoms, with palpitation, apprehensive, hurried and impulsive. Bed effects of anxiety or suspense. Awakes with complete loss of memory. Impulsive but apprehensive with loss of control somewhere. Distraction. Taciturn. Timid. Builds air - castles by day and has monstrous dreams at night.

As intoxicated, with confusion, with headache, with buzzing in ears, week limbs and trembling, with blindness.

Enlarged feeling, as if to burst, with eructations and chilliness. As if in a vise. As of a cool current in. Unilateral radiating, digging or boring pains so violent that he loses his senses, with bitter sour taste and vomiting. Worse: Mental exertion and in open air. Better: Tight banding.

Scalp: Extremely troublesome itching and crawling. Roots of hair feel pulled upward.

Ophthalmia with sticking pains and swelled carunculae, conjunctiva blood - red, swollen or puckered. Agglutinated lids. Filled with mucus. Dilated pupils. Filled pupils. Misty vision. Serpents, gray spots or fiery bodies before. Chemosis. Opacity or cornea. Worse: From heat of fire. Better: In cool air.

Coryza with chilliness. Sneezing excited by tingling in and in posterior nares. Obstructed in room but flowing a thin mucus in open air. Bruised pain in bones of. Violent itching, rubs until it becomes raw. Blows bloody, purulent mucus from, as cough improves. Dull sense of smell.

Sickly, sunken, pale or bluish. Aged expression.

Grumbling digging in worse from cold or sour things. Loose. Readily bleeding gums.

Dry. Salivation.

Taste: Astringent, metallic, like ink, sweetish or clayey, straw - like to food.

Dark red. Thick, tenacious mucus in, obliges hawking. As of a splinter in. Rawness, soreness or roughness in. Tickling in, causing lachrymation Cramps, choking or astringent sensation in.

Pit: Painful swelling of, sense of a lump in. Radiating, twisting, griping, ulcerative gnawing or dragging pains, better from diarrhoea, worse touch, drinking, after food and by deep inspiration. Sense of being filled unto bursting, better copious eructations.

Appetite: Irresistible for sugar which worse.

Eructations: Violent, tasting of ingesta.

Nausea: With gnawing in stomach and shuddering. Retching better from eating.

Flatulent distension, better passing flatus. Gurgling in. Feeling of a ball rising into throat from. Drawing extending into throat from. Drawing extending into groins, dragging in. Stitches. Intolerance of lacing. Worse: Lying on right side.

Creeping with burning in.

Scanty, watery or of greenish, fetid mucus with noisy flatus or flatulent colic. Diarrhoea from eating sugar, after mental emotions or drinking. In flakes like spinach.

Can't pass urine in a projecting stream. Urethra: Feels swollen, hard and knotty, cutting from behind forward in, stretched feeling in, during coition. Itching at meatus.

Chancre - like ulcers in prepuce. Desire wanting, with shriveled genitals. Painful coition.

Hoarseness. Cough: with lachrymation from tickling in throat and palate, with suffocation, worse from tobacco smoke.

Burning. - Heaviness. Worse while lying down and in evening. Palpitation: Irregular heart beat, worse thinking there of, better from motion in open air.

Lumbar pain, worse rising from sitting, better walking. Heaviness in sacrum.

Chorea - like motions. Startings in. Paralysis. Walks as if intoxicated. Left arm feels bound.

Great debility: With trembling, with rigidity and bruised feeling in calves and loins. General throbbing worse spine. Feels better out of doors. Incoherent ideas and incoordinate movements. Feeling of a hot fluid running along parts, skin, urethra, etc Sensation: Of expansion;of bursting: as if bones of head were separating or sacral bones were loose, as of a band about parts. Boring pains. Pains in spots. Heaviness. Emaciation. Many left sided symptoms. Splinter - like sensation.

Worse: Emotions, mental strain, thinking, in a warm room.

Tense and hard Leaden hue.

Sleepless from fancies. Dreams of serpents, with horror.

Chills: Along spine, creeping. with nausea Heat: With burning, in spots. With chilliness on uncovering. Sweat: on palms, lower abdomen and inside of thighs.

Allied Remedies: Arg-m., Aur., Bar-c., Carbo., Con., Gel., Hell., Hep., Lyc., Merc., Merc-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Pul, Thuj., ARS., Plb., Cup., Zinc.

Complementary: Puls.

Antidotes: Nat-m., Bell.