Mercurius Vivus merc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exanthema burning; pock-shaped (hence, think of this remedy in small-pox); of scarlet color; with swelling; miliary eruptions; purulent exanthema, i.e., ulcerating; ecchymosis, forming of black and blue spots, without receiving any external injury. Erysipelas. Sphacelus; brown mortification. Tetters in general; burning; suppurating. Ulcers in general; with burning on the edges; hard on the edges; with indented edges; with bloody pus; with corroding pus; with ichorous pus; having too little pus; too thin pus; thin, tenacious, sticky pus; swollen, inflamed; looking like lard; prickling; pulsating; painful on the edges; swollen on the edges.

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

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

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

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

Male: Affections of penis; glans penis; prepuce. Erections--little boys may have this, lasting all night, causing emaciation; boys often pull and tear at the prepuce all the time, which may cause great emaciation, and result in death; adults often have this pulling, a kind of itching being the cause, and a feeling as if he "must do so"; collection of smegma; i.e., of a whitish substance, behind the glans penis. Female: Leucorrhœa in general; complaints concomitant to leucorrhœa. Itching and burning of the genital organs, relieved by washing with cold water.

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

Sallow-colored face. Eructations; vomiting of bile. Blackness of outer parts; bleeding from inner parts; restlessness of the body; inflammation of inner parts; also of the mucous membranes; secretion of mucus increased from any of the mucous membranes. Scurvy, particularly where there is much salivation; wasting away of soft parts; strictures after inflammation; inflammatory swellings; parts which are usually white turn red; zona or shingles.

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

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

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

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

Quicksilver (MERCURIUS - HYDRARGYRUM)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Antidote: Hep; Aur; Mez.

Complementary: Badiaga.

Second to thirtieth potency.

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

Sweats day and night without relief in many complaints.

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

Sliminess of mucous membranes.

Moist tongue, with intense thirst.

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

Bone diseases; pains worse at night.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

( 1 ) MERCURIUS OXYDULATUS NIGER.

Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni. Dimercuros ammonium nitrate. 2 (NH 2 Hg 2 ) NO 3 H 2 O. [A mercurial preparation devised by Hahnemann as a substitute for the corrosive mercurial salts in use at the time, and at once adopted in all countries on account of its much milder and more efficacious anti-syphilitic qualities. It was prepared by precipitating Mercury from its solution in nitric acid by means of caustic ammonia. This is the preparation Hahnemann used in his proving.] Trituration.

( 2 ) MERCURIUS VIVUS.

Hydrargyrum. Argentum vivum. Chamæleon minerale, &c. Metallic Mercury. Quicksilver. Hg (A. W. 199.8). [Although Hahnemann proved Mercurius solubilis, he recommended the use of triturations of the pure metal in practice as being the simplest mercurial preparation, and more easily obtained and equally available with Merc. sol. for prescribing on the symptoms of the latter.] Trituration. [Decoction: water in which quicksilver has been boiled for half an hour.]

[The letters s and v indicate the preparation — Solubilis or Vivus — mentioned in the Prescriber in connection with the malady the name of which they follow; they are not intended to indicate a preference of one over the other.] Abscess (s) . Anæmia. Aphthæ. Appendicitis. Balanitis (s). Bone, disease of (s) . Brain, inflammation of. Breath, offensive (s). Bronchitis (s). Bubo (s) . Cancrum oris. Catarrh (s) . Chancre. Chicken-pox (s). Cold (s) . Condylomata. Cough (s). Dentition, abnormal (s). Diarrhœa (s) . Dysentery. Dyspepsia (s). Ecthyma (s) . Eczema. Emaciation. Excoriation (s). Eyes, affections of (s) ; gouty inflammation of. Fainting. Fevers. Fissures. Glandular swellings (s). Gout (s). Gum-boil (s). Gums, unhealthy (s). Heart, affections of (s). Herpes (s) . Hydrophobia. Jaundice (s). Joints, affections of (s) . Leucorrhœa; in little girls. Liver, affections of (s). Lumbago (s) . Mania. Measles (s). Melancholia (s) . Meningitis. Mollities ossium. Mucous patches. Mumps. Noises in the head (s). Odour, of body, offensive (s) . Ovaries, affections of. Pancreatitis (s). Parametritis (s) . Parotitis. Peritonitis. Perspiration, abnormal (s). Phimosis (s). Pregnancy, affections of (s.). Prostate, disease of (s). Purpura (s) (v). Pyæmia (s). Ranula (s). Rheumatism (s) (v) . Rickets. Rigg's disease. Salivation (s). Scurvy (s). Small-pox (s) . Stomatitis. Suppuration (s) . Surgical fever. Syphilis (s). Taste, disordered (s). Teeth, affections of (v). Throat-deafness (s). Throat, soreness of (v). Tongue, affections of (s) (v) ; mapped (v). Toothache (s). Tremors (s). Typhus fever (v). Ulcers (s). Vaccination (s) . Vomiting (s).

No pains have been taken to keep distinct Merc. sol . and Merc. viv ., and I do not find it practicable to attempt to separate them. Though Merc. sol . was the preparation Hahnemann proved, he recommended Merc. viv . as a superior preparation for homœopathic prescribing in his preface to the proving. Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni was invented by him in his pre-homœopathic days in response to a general desire for a mercurial preparation which should be at once soluble and non-corrosive, and it at once took its place in pharmacy, a place it has never lost. The method of developing the medicinal power of metallic mercury by graduated trituration was a later discovery, though there was a suggestion of it in the well-known Hydrargyrum cum cretâ . To the symptoms of Hahnemann's pathogenesis of Merc. sol . are added observed effects of Mercury in those engaged in working with the metal, in patients taking Mercury , and effects in those applying mercurial inunctions to patients — many having been severely affected by absorbing it through their hands. There is no difference between these effects and the symptoms of the proving so far as the general characteristics are concerned. In the finer characteristics there must be differences. The symptoms of the proving are in general more particularly characterised than the effects of Merc. viv . For instance, "At night severe toothache, and when that went off great chilliness through the whole body," belongs to the Merc. sol . proving; and so do these: "Vertigo: when sitting at his desk there was whirling in the head, as if he were drunk, he rises up and walks about the room staggering, then anxious heat breaks out over him, with nausea but not to the length of vomiting; at the same time some headache." "From occiput a strong, tearing, continued pain, which went into the forehead and there pressed." The symptoms of nose-bleed and the more finely characterised throat symptoms ("stitches on tonsils"; "stitches into ear on swallowing"; "something hot rises into throat.,"), were produced by Merc. sol ., so were the majority of the symptoms in the male and female sexual organs. But this is not to say that Merc. viv . will not answer equally well, or even better, for curing them. The only bit of comparative experience I have in the action of the two is this: in a case of cold in which Merc . seemed indicated, Merc. sol . 30 was given and failed, and Merc. viv . 30 promptly cured. — We of the present generation can hardly form a conception of the havoc wrought by Mercury in the days when it was considered necessary to "touch the gums" in all cases for which Mercury was prescribed before any good could be hoped for. The motto, "Salivation is Salvation," tells its own tale. "It was quite an event," says Teste, "when in the sixteenth century the discovery was made that Mercury will cure syphilis without the patient being salivated. One error, however, being substituted in place of another, it was supposed that the sweat, the diuresis, or the diarrhœa which followed the exhibition of Mercury , replaced the absent salivation; the gross humoralism which prevailed at that period did not allow of another explanation. For a graphic picture of a practice which was part of the ordinary routine until recent times, I quote the following from Bransby Cooper's First Lines of Surgery , 6th ed., p. 348: " Mercury acts upon some individuals like a poison [!] they are seized with palpitations of the heart, tremblings of the limbs, oppression of the breathing, and irregular pulse. When such indisposition takes place in a person employing Mercury we conclude that this mineral is actually producing a deleterious impression on the system [!]. It was noticed by the late Mr. Pearson that every year, when it was the custom to salivate freely, a certain number of individuals thus treated died suddenly in the Lock Hospital. They were first affected as I have described, and, on attempting to make the slightest effort they dropped down dead. Mr. Pearson learned from experience [!] that these deaths arose from the deleterious action of Mercury on the constitution, and the derangement of the system thus excited he proposed to call the Mercurial erethismus ." Homœopathy has filled out this picture in full detail, and turned this deadly blundering to curative account. There was a fitness in naming this metal after the volatile deity. It provides us with weather-glasses and thermometers, and it turns those who are under its influence into weather-glasses and thermometers likewise. [An electrician, who at one time was required to work with his hands frequently in a trough filled with quicksilver, thereafter could not bear the slightest shock of electricity, though before he could stand very strong ones.] And herein lies one of the grand characteristics of the remedy: as the thermometer is sensitive to changes either to hot or cold , so is the Merc . patient. Other remedies are predominantly one or the other: Merc. is both — < by heat and < by cold. This is keynote No. 1. No. 2 is " < at night." This is a strong point of correspondence with syphilis. Especially is this noticeable in the bone pains. No. 3 is: Profuse sweat accompanying nearly all complaints and which does not relieve ; it may even aggravate. Guided chiefly by these two indications: "Profuse sweat with no relief" and " < at night," I have cured many cases of rheumatic fever with Merc. viv . 12, without any other remedy. Keynote No. 4 is: The mercurial odour. The mercurial patient is offensive; breath excessively fetid; sweat offensive, mawkish, sweetish. Keynote No. 5 is tremor . This symptom is so pronounced and universal that it renders Merc . the best general remedy in paralysis agitans. There is tremor of head, of hands, of tongue. Tremors commencing in the fingers. It is the tremor of weakness and paralysis; and as described by B. Cooper it may attack the heart and cause sudden death on the smallest effort. Short of this there is great tendency to fainting; extreme exhaustion after a stool. The tremors may become jerkings and even convulsions. Extreme restlessness. The mind is as weak and tremulous as the body; everything is done hastily. Hurried and rapid talking. On the other hand: slow in answering questions; loss of memory; of will power. Embarrassment. Absent-minded. Imbecility. Time seems to pass slowly. Desire to flee. Homesick. Suicidal. Murderous. Merc . is Hahnemann's typical antisyphilitic remedy, as Sul . is the typical antipsoric, and Thuja the typical antisycotic. In selecting Merc . as the remedy for syphilis the old practitioners were so far right, but they did not know how to give it. Merc . so far corresponds to syphilis that many undoubted cases of mercurial poisoning have been diagnosed by experts as syphilis. Bones, glands, and skin are affected. Inflammation leads to induration, induration to ulceration. Merc , corresponds accurately to the true Hunterian chancre. Merc . ulcers have a grey, lardy, ashy, or cheesy base. There are burning or stinging pains in them. Another great feature of Merc ., almost constituting a keynote, is the tendency to the formation of pus. In the suppurative stage of small-pox it is specific. Flow of pus, and particularly bloody pus, from any orifice calls for Merc . Pus forms in cavities in abscesses, which burn and sting. Discharges are yellow-green in colour. Gonorrhœa. Fetid ear discharge. Merc . is a great solvent: it dissolves metals out of their ores and it dissolves living tissues, inducing excessive emaciation. Lowly organised tissues as indurations, exostoses, and some tumours are melted first. Œdema and dropsies are absorbed; rheumatic swellings. If the doses of Merc . are large and dropsies disappear rapidly under them, the tissues themselves may disappear also in offensive rapidly decomposing ulcers. The bones soften so that they will bend. Whilst Merc . intensifies the action of the absorbents, it may also paralyse them, hence enlargement of glands, with pricking pains, inflammation, suppuration. Next to syphilis, the liver has been the chief excuse for mercurialism, in the past, and Merc . certainly has a powerful liver action. The liver is congested, enlarged, inflamed, stitches in the liver, sensitiveness in the liver and inability to lie on right side . This " < lying on r. side" is a very characteristic condition of Merc ., and when present Merc . should always be considered. Along with the liver the stomach is disordered. Sweets disagree; aversion to meat, wine, brandy, beer, coffee, greasy food, butter. There is the characteristic flabby, coated, teeth-indented tongue, foul breath, and intense thirst. Throat dry and forepart of tongue moist. Merc . is rarely indicated when the tongue is dry. Sliminess is a general characteristic. Slimy stools; stools acrid, knotty, containing pus, viscid. Just before stool a sick, painful, faint feeling comes on. During stool there is tenesmus, or tenesmus and no stool. Dysentery with much straining; never-get-done feeling when there is no more to come. Diarrhœa with slime. " Merc . is rarely indicated in these troubles where there is no slime" (Guernsey). Merc . affects profoundly the generative organs of both sexes. It has stinging, cutting pains in ovaries; cutting pains from l. to r. in lower abdomen. "Stinging" is very frequent in mercurial pains, and "stinging pain in ovaries is just as likely to need Merc . as Apis " (Kent). Almost all kinds of eruptions are produced by Merc . Scurfy, syphilitic, pustular, moist, oozing, offensive eczema. Shingles. Small-pox. They are all < by warmth and at night and < by cold. In olden times it was recognised that a patient under a "course" of Mercury must be very careful not to catch cold. This gives one indication for Merc . in abnormal tendency to catch cold. But for this condition it must not be too frequently repeated, as it will aggravate it. The patient needing Merc . is sensitive to every draught and yet < by warmth the nasal secretion is acrid, and the nose red and excoriated; dirty-nosed children" (Guernsey). Old catarrhal smell in the nose inside nostrils smarting and burning. Aching, tearing, and out-pressing in the bones. " Kali iod . is better for the same bursting in the face, running coryza, and < from heat and warmth of the bed" (Kent). [I find that a much larger percentage of cases of acute cold come under the indications of Cepa and Chlorum than under those of Merc . or any other related remedy. In chronic colds I think first of Psor .] The eyes are very markedly influenced by Merc .; also the bones round the eye: "Whenever cold settles in the eye in gouty and rheumatic patients" (Kent). Every degree and kind of inflammation and ulceration is produced by Merc . and its salts. J. J. Hirsch, of Prague ( H. R ., vii. 220), relates some striking experiences with a preparation of Merc. viv . which he learned from an old allopath. Quicksilver is boiled in water for half an hour, two teaspoonfuls being given every two hours. Hirsch's cases were those of acute inflammation of the brain, in which Bell . was indicated, and in one of which Merc . (in the ordinary homœopathic preparation) had already been administered in vain. This is the case: A black-haired girl, 9, had malignant scarlatina, which commenced six days before Hirsch (who came as consultant) saw the case, signs of brain inflammation having set in on the third day. Hirsch found her unconscious, sharply defined redness of cheeks, pulse 120, hot skin. Piercing screams were emitted from time to time; boring head in pillows; chewing motion of jaws; gnashing teeth. Lips brown and dry; not much thirst; water not accepted readily; but milk seemed to be relished. Reddened patches here and there, especially along neck. Under the "decoction," which was given to the girl on Hirsch's suggestion, she slowly but steadily improved, and in a week was convalescent. — Among the Sensations of Merc . are: Vibration in forehead. Head as if in a vice; as if growing larger. As of sparks being emitted from eyes; as of a body underneath lids; as if feathers came from corners of eyes. As if a wedge driven in ear; as if ice in it; as if cold water running out of it. Cracklings in head as from metal plates. As if weight on forehead; as if weight hanging on to nose. As if teeth were loose; were fixed in a mass of pap. As if hot vapours rising into throat; of worm rising into throat, must swallow it down; of apple core sticking in throat. As if mammæ would ulcerate. As if everything in chest was dry. — Stabbing pains and stitches, burning, boring, digging, stinging, and dragging pains. Soreness and sensitiveness. Itching; voluptuous itching. Merc . is more particularly suited to: Light-haired persons with lax skin and muscle; women and children. Scrofulous children. ( Merc . has relation to psora and sycosis as well as syphilis.) The symptoms are < by touch or pressure. < At night; before falling asleep. < Blowing nose. < During a catarrh. < From cold air. < From taking cold. < From lamplight; firelight. < During perspiration; on getting warm in bed. < Before stool. < During urination and after. < Lying on right side. < Motion; walking; slightest exertion. < Evening. Rest > . Coitus > . Weeping > . < Touching anything cold ( = pain in abdomen). < Bending forward (digestion immediately disordered). < After eating (if he eats ever so little it causes a dragging down in stomach).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Affects light-haired persons most.

Hurried and rapid talking (Hep.).

Breath and body smell foul (Psor.).

Cold swellings; abscesses, slow to suppurate.

Great weakness and trembling from least exertion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trembling extremities, especially hands; paralysis agitans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Memory weak; mind obtuse; drowsy.
Anxiety and restless change of place; ebullitions, sweat; apprehensive; imaginary fears; fears he will lose his mind; worse evening and night; wants to go abroad; tries to flee from the house.
Homesickness.
Delirium and other mental derangements of drunkards.
Hurried speech.
Continuous moaning and groaning.
Irritable, quarrelsome; or, taciturn and indifferent.
Suspicious, distrustful mood.
Imbecility; does foolish, mischievous, disgusting actions.

Fainting after sweetish rising in the throat, followed by sleep.
Vertigo: as if in a swing; after stooping; when lying on the back; with headache and nausea; everything turns black.
Dull and stupid feeling, with dizziness.

Burning in head, especially in left temple; worse at night lying in bed, better on sitting up.
Head feels as if in a vice, with nausea; worse in the open air, from sleeping, eating and drinking; better in room.
Tension over forehead, as if in a hoop; worse at night in bed; better after rising and from lying the hand on it.
Inflammation of brain, with this hoop-like feeling; burning and pulsation in forehead; worse at night, better after riding.
Congestion to the head.
Head feels as if it would burst, with fulness of the brain.
Head feels as if it was getting larger.
Severe pains in forehead, top of head and occiput; stitches through the head.
Dulness in forehead, stitches through temples; aching and weariness in nape of neck.
Tearing in head; heat and sweat; worse at night, in warmth of bed; better toward morning and while lying quietly.

Hydrocephalus; body bathed in sweat.
Sutures open, large head; precocious or premature mental development; dirty color of the face; sour night-sweat.
Exostoses on the hairy scalp, with feeling of soreness when touched; worse at night, in bed.
Scalp: tense; painful to touch; worse when scratching, which causes bleeding; eruption, pustular, fetid, with yellow crusts; erysipelatous; worse on the forehead; hairs fall out, mostly on sides and temples.
Lacerating, tearing and stinging in the bones of the skull.
Fetid, sour-smelling, oily sweat on the head; on the forehead it is icy-cold; with burning in the skin, worse at night, in bed, and after rising.
Great chilliness, with contractive, tearing pain of the scalp, extending from forehead to neck.

Black points before the yes.
Vanishing of sight for a few moments.
Much worse from heat and glare of fire.
Lachrymation profuse, burning, excoriating; discharges muco-purulent, thin, acrid; burning, tearing, sticking pains in and around eyes; worse at night; pimples on the cheeks.
Ulcers of the cornea, vascular and surrounded by greyish opacity; pus between the corneal layers.
Iritis, syphilitic; pains around the eye, on forehead and temples; worse from touch at night; throbbing, shooting pains in the eye.
Hypopyon.
Lids: spasmodically closed; thick, red, swollen, erysipelatous; sensitive to cold, heat and to touch; raw, excoriated; burning, as from fiery points; margins ulcerated, scabby.
Ciliary blepharitis, caused by working over fires or forges.

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Triturations of pure Quicksilver, or of Hahnemann's black oxide (Mercurius solubilis, Hahnemanni), are used. It is probable that there is no essential difference in the effects of the two preparations. Pure Quicksilver is, however, to be preferred as more stable and perfectly pure.

Mercury produces in general profound anæmia, with degeneration of the red corpuscles, loss of albumen and febrin and diminished coagulability of the blood; with this there is a marked tendency to destructive action as seen in the inability of wounds to heal and in ulcerations of mucous surfaces and of the skin. ▶ Sore mouth, salivation, destruction of the teeth and gums, with enlarged glands, are among the earliest manifestations. ▶ Inflammation of the liver, and especially of the kidneys, is an almost constant effect. ▶ A low type of fever and a condition resembling scurvy frequently ensue. ▶ Instead of the ulcerations and inflammations nervous phenomena sometimes occur, paralysis agitans, epilepsy, melancholia, neuralgia and a remarkable chorea. ▶ The long bones are attacked rather than the flat ones (opposite of syphilis). ▶ The iris is never affected.

Iod. , Nit. ac., Hep. , Lyc., Nat. m., Plat., Aur., Tellur., Phos.

▶ Foul smell of whole body and breath. ▶ Emaciation (Iod.); then the frame speedily acquired greater bulk than it previously had. ▶ Cachectic condition. ▶ Child of a woman-worker was badly nourished and when a year old and no teeth. ▶ A daughter born during her mercurialismus was very small, only learned to walk when three years old, never was over four feet in height, had kyphoskoliotic curvature of the spine, head was drawn to chest and somewhat to left, and there was imperfect development of muscle and bone. ▶ Consumption. ▶ Scrofula in children; and rachitis. ▶ Chlorosis and amenorrhœa, palpitation, weakness, loss of appetite; C., face and mucous membrane pale, eyes watery, pulse small, rapid, great thirst, palpitation, dyspnœa, pains in head and stomach, œdema of lower limbs, weakness, depressed mood, blowing sounds in carotids.

▶ Periostitis, then necrosis. ▶ Caries affects bones and joints that are never or rarely affected by syphilis. ▶ Exostosis, agg. tibia, seldom on upper arm or head, with swelling and sensitiveness of periosteum, agg. night, warmth of bed, cold, damp weather, thunder-storms, etc. ▶ So full of mercury that on putting brass into his mouth or rubbing it in his fingers it immediately became white like silver. ▶ She rubs temples and cheeks with both hands and becomes faint. ▶ Fell to the ground on attempting to stand. ▶ Cramp in several parts on motion. ▶ Hastiness in all motions. ▶ Involuntary motions of head and hands.

▶ Trembling (Arg. nit., Plat.); of hands and tongue; of neck and hands; limbs and head; fingers and arms, then knees, limbs and tongue; agg. limbs, especially thighs, legs and forearms. ▶ While dorsa and gluteal muscles and those of pelvis and shoulder were less affected, those of upper arm, anterior chest and face not at all; after long standing or walking, amel. rest; on attempting to move; on muscular exertion, except of neck and face, then they extended to muscles not in motion, so that the outstretched hand trembled, agg. stretching fingers, and on repeated pronation and supination of arm the whole body trembled and the protruded tongue trembled; agg. night; agg. surprise or fear; agg. excitement, preventing speech; beginning in hands, agg. attempting to hold anything, attacking knees and rarely neck; agg. closing eyes, when it is noticed even in feet, amel. walking and standing; of muscles of head and spine, amel. sleep in bed; sudden; alternating with convulsions; usually prevents sleep, or a convulsive shock wakes him as soon as he falls asleep and the T. begins anew; paralytic. ▶ Paroxysmal trembling; generally worse in morning than in evening; from excitement or physical exertion, at times resembling the shaking of ague; so that he was liable to break whatever he touched, movement of legs so irregular that in descending stairs he must sometimes jump over two or three steps at once, to avoid this he crawled backward and on his hands, if he drank out of a glass it was crushed by the spasmodic clenching of jaws; and regular vibrations of almost the whole locomotive apparatus, apparently caused by alternate muscular relaxation and contraction, more in upper than lower limbs and on left side, agg. attempting certain movements, especially if of a tonic character, and these more disordered in proportion as they required precision and voluntary effort. ▶ Those who had salivation rarely had tremors.

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The marked features of Mercury are:

(1) Destruction of tissue, as shown in ulceration of mucous surfaces, periosteal inflammation; destruction of bone, attacking especially long bones.
(2) Increased secretions, mucus, sweat, glandular secretions.
(3) Chorea-like spasms (which in cases of poisoning seem to take the place of tissue changes).
(4) Gastro-intestinal inflammations, even true dysentery; acute inflammation of the kidneys and liver.
(5) Mercury does not seem to attack the flat bones, has never produced iritis; the periosteal pains are very marked, and the symptoms are always < night.

Foul odors from the whole body.
Emaciation, followed by dropsical swellings.
General aggravation from cold, damp weather and at night.
Trembling of the tongue and of the extremities.
Pains appear in the evening on going to bed; seem to be seated in the bones.
Extreme weakness and anæmia.

Mental restlessness; hurried talking.
Wretched and sad; irritable.
Thinks he is losing his reason and will die; has numerous illusions.
Is weary of life; is mistrustful; thinks every one is his enemy.
Slow in answering questions.
Memory weak.

Dull pain like a tension, encircling the head above the eyes and ears.
Tearing burning pains in the temples; or one-sided tearing pains in the head at night.
Pressing headache.
A feeling as if a band were tied about the head.
Moist eruption on the scalp, with loss of hair, soreness, ulceration, etc.

Inflammation of the margins of the lids, which are swollen, often ulcerated.
General inflammation, with intolerance of light; mucous discharge which excoriates the lids.
Vision dim, with involuntary closing of the eyes; intolerance of firelight.
Floating black spots.

Clinical:
Various external inflammations of the conjunctiva and cornea, catarrhal, with tendency to ulceration of cornea and lids, and also episcleritis.
All aggravated at night and by the heat of a fire.
Does not affect the iris, and is rarely useful in inflammation of that membrane.
Valuable in inflammation of the retina when aggravated by firelight and worse at night.

Bloody, offensive discharge, excoriating; even with tearing pains.
Shooting pains in the ears, which feel swollen and stopped.
Various disturbances of hearing.

Clinical:
Inflammation of the external canal, eczematous or suppurative; discharges offensive, excoriating.
Furuncles of the canal.
Catarrh of the tympanum and Eustachian tube.

Inflammation, with sneezing and acrid discharges.
Offensive odor from the nose.
Pain in the nasal bones, which are sore.
Nasal discharge of mucus, excoriating, sometimes offensive.
Nose-bleed during sleep at night.

Earthy colored and puffy.
Pale, bloated and sallow.
Contractions of the masseter muscles, so that speaking and eating is difficult.
Periostitis of the jaw, progressing to necrosis.
Inflammation of the roots of the teeth, which ulcerate and fall out.
Inflammation extends to the alveolar processes.

Lips swollen, ulcerated, especially in the corners.
Teeth decay, become painful and loose and fall out.
Inflammation and ulceration in the roots of the teeth, with violent pain at night.
The gums recede from the teeth and are ulcerated.
Violent, jerking toothache at night, involving the whole face, with chilliness, salivation, etc.
Gums bleed easily, or are spongy and unhealthy.
Tongue red and swollen, showing the imprint of the teeth; coated white or sometimes with red edges; even black and dry.
Tongue covered with ulcers, bleeding, with a thick yellow coating.
Tongue trembling.
Stammering.
Speech difficult on account of trembling of tongue.
Salivation, with swelling of the glands.
The orifices of the salivary ducts inflamed and ulcerated and all the salivary glands become inflamed and sore.
Aphthæ in the mouth; mucous membrane bluish-red and spongy.
Mucous discharge fetid.
General stomatitis, with tendency to ulceration.
Saliva greatly increased, of a sweetish taste and bad odor.
General sweet taste, occasionally salt or putrid.

Suppuration of the tonsils, with stinging pain on swallowing.
Dryness, with pain on swallowing, but is constantly obliged to swallow the profuse saliva.
Spreading ulcers in the throat, with shooting pains in the enlarged glands and salivation.

Unnatural hunger; or aversion to all food.
Unquenchable thirst.
Thirst for cold drinks.
Pain in the stomach; a sensation of dragging downward after eating.
Hiccough and regurgitation of water or food.

Numerous pains in the region of the liver, < lying upon it, with thirst, bitter taste, loss of appetite, chilliness, yellow skin.
Flatulent distention of abdomen, with numerous pains.
Intestines feel sore, < lying on right side.
Inguinal glands swollen and inflamed, with shooting pains.
Boring pains in the right groin.

Clinical:
In addition to hepatitis, it is valuable in catarrhal enteritis, with numerous pains, mostly sharp, preceding evacuations of mucus and blood.
Colitis, profuse mucus evacuations.
Abdominal symptoms, aggravated at night and lying on right side.

Constant, ineffectual urging, with tenesmus in rectum; < night.
Stools of mucus, bloody, or green mucus, sour odor, causing soreness in the anus, followed by protrusion and straining.
Stools whitish-gray.

Clinical:
Stools usually contain mucus, often bloody, always with more or less tenesmus.
Dysentery, with fever, perspiration; aggravation at night; tenesmus and burning pain, even with prolapsus.
Whitish-gray stools, sometimes constipated, with symptoms of inflamed liver.

Constant urging, with scanty evacuation.
Burning in the urethra on beginning to urinate.
Micturition frequent at night, even involuntary.
Inflammation of the kidneys with albuminuria.
Urethral discharge, greenish, < night.
Burning in the urethra, even when not urinating.
Urine usually dark, scanty, bloody and albuminous, depositing a sediment.

Clinical:
Nephritis.
Pain in the back, burning and tenesmus in the bladder; easy perspiration, nocturnal aggravation.
Cystitis.
Urethritis.

Inflammation of prepuce, with swelling.
Development of vesicular eruption which ulcerates and has an offensive discharge; ulcers bleed, spread rapidly, painful at night.
Coldness of genitals evening and night.
Sexual power decreased.
Seminal emissions at night bloody.

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains.
Leucorrhœa greenish, corrosive, biting, burning, < evening and night.

Cough dry, short, fatiguing, from tickling beneath upper part of sternum, < talking.
Expectoration easy; salt or bitter tenacious mucus.
Cough causes pressing pains in the head and chest.
Shortness of breath on ascending stairs, with suffocation.

Shooting pains in the chest, extending through to the back, < coughing.
Sensation of burning or constriction in the chest, < night.

Cervical glands swollen and inflamed, hard, with shooting pains.
Bruised pain in the back, < open air.
Shooting pains in the sacrum on breathing.
Tearing pains in the coccyx, > pressing on abdomen.

Nocturnal pains in upper and lower extremities.
Weakness of extremities.
Dropsical swellings, especially of the lower extremities.
Tremblings of the hands so that he could not use them.

Yellow skin, at times with biting and itching, especially on arm.
Tendency to ulceration in folds.
Eruptions of sores, with tendency to ulceration, bleeding, excoriating discharge, itching < night.
Scratching followed by burning.

Falls asleep very late, with tossing about, lassitude and anxiety.

Paroxysms, < evening and night; chilliness as if dashed with cold water, so that he cannot get warm even by the stove.
Febrile stage not marked; very profuse perspiration, skin almost constantly moist, especially at night, and on slight exertion; sweat offensive, oily, staining the clothes yellow.

Mer. / (1st M.) / Merchant

Mercury, - Thou ghoul of night!
Ulceration thy delight.
Fetid breath, and salivation,
Thy unfailing indication.
Thine a flurried mind and speech,
Memory failing in her reach.
Head in motion, side to side,
Aching as in cordage tied,
Scalp in foul eruption's clutch,
Sore and painful to the touch.
Eyes in suppurating plight,
Dim of vision, dreading light.
Nostrils sore, that dripping keep,
Epistaxis during sleep.
Face of pale and earthy cast,
Jaw by spasm tightened fast.
Mouth with ulcers sorely set,
Slobber, making the pillow wet.
Bleeding gums, and teeth all black,
Toothache nightly in attack.
Tongue raw, red, or white, presented,
Flabby, and by teeth indented.
Throat beset with inflammation
Leading on to suppuration.
When the drink in swallowing goes
Up and outward through the nose.
Rawness in the tracheal track,
Cough with stitches in the back.
Palpations of the heart,
From exertion prone to start.
Abdomen distended, hard,
Sore when pressed upon, or jarred.
Stools of mucus - bloody - green,
Leagued with shudders in between.
Or with straining- "ne'er get through,"
Sometimes bringing worms to view.
Urine flow in frequent calls,
Burning in the channel walls.
Gonorrhoea, green or white,
Always running more at night.
Wife, with leucorrhoea green,
Rawness of the parts within,
With distressful itching turns,
That from rubbing smarts and burns.
Which cold water laving may
For a while allay.
And those breasts a soreness show,
Just before the menstrual flow.
Glands where'er their situation,
In a state of inflammation.
Bones too in similar plight,
Always aching more at night.
Bleeding ulcers - white within,
Nightly itching mar the skin.
Thine are trembling hands and feet,
With weariness complete.
Clammy sweats, that nightly drain,
Giving clothes a yellow stain.
No relief from perspiration,
Nay, - but rather aggravation.
All is worse at night, as said,
Worse at night when warm in bed.

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The Merchant, - Has pains worse at night.

The Merchant, Colchi, swears he beat the actor, Clem Phyto.

This Merchant,- Who is subject to bleeding gums,- Is at Kip Carbo's looking for Amanda, in the passing wagon at night.

Worse at night: Mer., Colch., Sul., Ars., Rhus., Sil., Bell., Thuj., Aco., Clem., Phyt., etc.

Bleeding Gums: Mer., Kal. p., Carb. v., Lach., Kreo., Am. c., Pho., Sep., Ars., Graph., Nit. a. (Black Blood, Ars., Graph., Kal. p., Kreo.)

Indicated in a great variety of affections, characterized by aggravation from damp, rainy weather and at night, constant and copious sweating without relief, and flabby tongue with induration of teeth. Of service in involvement of glandular and lymphatic structures; in sore throats, diphtheria, hepatic derangements, diarrhoea, catarrh (nose, throat, ears, respiratory organs, genital mucous membrane, etc.), with tendency to involvement of the deep structures; gastric and bilious fevers of a lingering type; venereal diseases.

Copious sweating without relief.

Bone-pains, worse at night.

Face pale, earthy, dirty.

All the symptoms worse at night.

Tongue dirty-white, yellowish, large, flabby, showing indentations of the teeth.

Creeping chilliness, worse in the evening.

Glandular enlargements, with tendency to copious sweating; glands enlarge from every cold.

Headache, semi-lateral, in the temple, as if head would burst, with soreness and tired aching in the nape of the neck.

Gums spongy, receding, easily bleeding, ulcerated.

Salivation, with fetid breath and foul, coppery taste.

Ulcers in mouth and throat, irregular, of dirty, unhealthy appearance; lardaceous, with dark redness of surrounding tissues.

Membraneous deposits on the throat, thick, gray, with shreddy borders.

Nostrils raw, ulcerated, with swelling and soreness of nasal bones and thick, greenish, pus-like discharge.

Cough dry, hard, racking, especially at night.

Cough with expectoration of heavy, acrid, yellowish mucus, at times mixed with blood, of putrid or salty taste.

Diarrhoea; stools green, slimy, bloody; marked tenesmus during and after stool; "cannot get done;" cutting colic; worse at night.

Worse at night; from damp weather; from warmth of room or bed; from sweating.

Great mental (and bodily) restlessness, especially in evening and at night. Effects of grief or fright with nightly anxiety and fear. Impatience and willfulness. Inclination to contradict and quarrel. Dissatisfied and complains about everything, his relations, surroundings, etc. Satiety of life. Desire to escape. Homesickness.

Whirling vertigo when lying on back, with headache, blackness before eyes, nausea and heat. Sweetish rising in throat, followed by fainting, then sleep.

Congestion to. Tearing, burning pain in one (mostly the left) side and temple. Bursting ache. Pains: Burning, sticking, festering, ascending from naps. Feels as if a band lay around it, or it were screwed in. Meningitis, with ebullition and throbbing in forehead. Painful soreness of. Exostoses easily passing into caries. Open fontanelles. Eruption of offensive yellowish crusts on. Tickling and crawling itching, bleeding easily when scratched or passing into an erysipelatous inflammation. Falling of hair. Worse: Evening, becoming insufferable in warmth of bed at night, touch. Better: Sitting up, after rising from bed, at rest, in a warm room, laying hand on part, dry weather, rubbing.

Ulcerated and scurfy tarsi, with scurfs around eyes. Inflamed, with intolerance of firelight. Profuse, acrid lachrymation. Pain as of a cutting body under lids. Pain as of a cutting body under lids. Biting and burning in, especially in open air. Black points before. Progressive paralysis of optic nerve. Aversion to light and firelight.

Earache, tearing or sticking pains. Ulceration of concha. Discharge of blood and foul - smelling pus from. Fungous growths in. Swelling of parotid gland. Difficult bearing, after blowing nose. Roaring in.

Red, glistening swelling of. Nose bleed, blood coagulates quickly. Violent, fluent coryza, acrid watery discharge. Sneezing.

Deathly pallor. Dirty, earth - colored. Dirty yellow crusts on, which bleed after scratching. Pimply eruption on chin. Swelling of one cheek. Sore, cracked lips. Induration of submaxillary (parotid and cervical) glands.

Ragged, swollen gums, with nightly burning, smarting pains, especially when touched and during eating. Ulcerated gums, with jagged prominences. Teeth loose, falling out. Nightly tearing toothache, excited by cold air, eating and cold as well as warm drinks. Stitches in.

Fetid odor from. Burning ulcers or aphthae in. Swelling of soft palate, pharynx and tongue. Burning in throat. Inflammation and suppuration of throat. Constant inclination to swallow. Sticking pain in throat and tonsils when swallowing. Copious, fetid saliva. Swelling, induration and suppuration of tongue. Inability to speak. Hoarse, husky voice.

Appetite: Ravenous hunger, with weak digestion. Aversion to all food. Unconquerable, burning thirst. Violent thirst for cold drinks.

Taste: Putrid (also salty or sweetish).

Nausea, etc. - Inclination to vomit, with a sweetish taste in throat. Nightly vomiting of bile.

Pressure in, with sensation as though hanging down heavily. After every meal.

Hypochondria: Inflammation and induration of liver, with sticking pains.

Inflammation with distension of. Cutting and pinching in, after taking cold. Feeling of something alive in. (following inflammation of the mesenteric glands). Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands. Erysipelas encircling abdomen.

Frequent, ineffectual urging to, with tenesmus, especially at night, Dysenteric diarrhea with tenesmus. Acrid, bloody, mucus. Sour - smelling, green, excoriating anus. Involuntary.

Prolapsus of, during and after, urging to stool.

Frequent, sudden urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. Excessive urination. dark red, very foul smelling u.

Gonorrhea of glands (Jacaranda). Gonorrhea discharge from penis, especially at night. Swelling of glands and foreskin. Ulcers on glands and foreskin, with a cheesy lardaceous base and hard margin. Painful nightly erections. Prolapsus uteri.

Menses: Too profuse, with abdominal pains and anxiety Purulent, corrosive leucorrhoea.

- Short, when ascending steps, and walking rapidly.

Dry, hackling, as though head and chest would burst. Spasmodic, always in two rapidly succeeding fits, excited by irritation in larynx and upper part of chest. Dry at night, in daytime, expectoration of a thin, acrid, purulent, yellow mucus often mixed with bright red, somewhat clotted blood, and of a repulsive or saltish taste and offensive odor. Haemoptysis.

Hoarseness, even to aphonia.

Spasms of. Stitches extending to back, coughing. Burning pain in, Soreness. Dry feeling in. Burning in. Inflammation of lungs Palpitation. Deformed, suppurating nipples. Bad breast milk. it is repugnant to infant.

Bruised pain in scapula, back and lumbar region.

Neck: Swollen cervical glands, with sticking pains therein.

Nightly tearing in shoulders, upper arm and legs. Hot, red swelling of forearm. Cracks on fingers. Hang nails.

Nightly tearing in. Dropsical swelling of thigh and leg. Painful swelling of bones of feet.

Acts on the upper limbs first. Nightly tearing pains in extremities, with continual sweating. Sticking pains in limbs and joints. Gouty arthritis, with swelling and cold sensation in affected parts. Tremulous restlessness of limbs in the evening. Great debility and weakness from slight exertion. The symptoms are in the evening, at night they become quite insupportable from the warmth of the bed.

Inflammatory swelling and induration of glands. Suppurating glands.

Painlessness of all. Inflammation, with nightly pains. Suppurative osteitis. Rachitis.

Increased itching, from warmth of bed at night. So - called fatty itch. Dry, miliary eruption bleeding when scratched. Eruptions burn after scratching. Hot inflammations with tardy formation of pus. syphilitic ulcerations. Liver spots.

Late falling to sleep on account of anxiousness and restlessness. Prevented by frightful phantasies. Very light sleep. somnolency.

Pulse: Irregular, mostly full and accelerated, with strong throbbing in blood vessels, sometimes weak, slow and trembling, seldom intermittent. Disappearing, with warmth of body. Ebullition of blood, with trembling from slight exertion. Chill: In early morning while rising but most in evening when lying down, as if dashed with cold water, not by warmth of stove. Nocturnal, with frequent urination. Alternating with heat, often on single parts only. Internal. with heat of face. Heat: In bed, and chill out of it. After midnight, with violent thirst for cold drinks. Anxious h, with compression of chest. Sweat: Toward morning, with thirst and palpitation. Profuse, from least exertion, even from eating. Evenings, in bed, before going to sleep. Copious night sweats, very debilitating. Sour or offensive smelling, also cold, greasy or sticky s., and burning of skin with almost all pains. On affected parts.

Allied Remedies: Aco., Ag - c., Alo., ANT-C., Ap., Arg., Arn., Arn., ASAF., Aur., BELL. Bry., Calc-c., CARB-V., CHIN., Cic., Cina., Clem., Coff., Colch., Cupr., Dig., Dulc., EUPHORB., Guai., HEP., Iod., Kali bi., LACH., Laur., Lyc., MERC-C., Mez., NIT-AC., Nux - v., OP., Phos - ac., Phyt., Plat., Pod., Puls., Rhe., Rhod. Rhus - t., SARS., Selen., Sep., Sil., Spig., STAPH., Sul., Thuj., Valer., Verat - a., Zinc.

Complementary: Bell., Sil., Hep. Sul., Intensified the action of Merc.

Nightly tearing pains with perspiration.

Stringing pain in the limbs.

Rheumatism of the joints with swelling and sensation of coldness.

Icteric complaints very beneficially affected.

Weakness and debility from exertion.

Congestion of blood to chest, head and abdomen, with pulsation in the arteries.

Rheumatic shining red swellings.

A very valuable remedy for the cure of dysentery.

Dry itch, which bleeds after scratching.

Of great service in the treatment of all forms of syphilitic disorders (all stages and varying conditions of luetic disease).

All parts of the body go to sleep while sitting.

Perspiration which do not relieve.

Cold perspiration of the forehead.

Salivation very marked.

Amelioration in the morning and whilst lying down.

Inflammatory states going on even to suppuration of the parts.

Bleeding of the nose.