Mercurius Dulcis merc-d.

Ears. Eustachian tube. Tonsils. Liver. Duodenum. Bowels. Mucous membranes. Pleura.

Acids.

Cold drinks.

Pallid, flabby, catarrhal and bilious. Pale mucous membranes. Deficient oxidation. Reabsorbent action.

Painful scalp. Meningitis. Rapid winking. Obstructed Eustachian tube (Kali-m. Petr.) or larchrymal duct (Fag.). Deafness from every cold. Blows lumps from nose. Indurated tongue. Increased saliva. Fetor oris. Tonsil, (r); inflamed; > cold drinks (Ap. Merc-i-f. Phyt.). Biliary stasis. Acrid, grass-green diarrhœa; of infants. Slimy, pussy expectoration. Inflamed pleura. Sweatiness.

Related: Kali-m.

Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes, especially of the eye and ear. Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear (Kali m.). Eustachian tube closed; catarrhal deafness and otorrhoea in psoric children; deafness of old age (Kali m.). Acute affections of prostrate after maltreated stricture. Deafness and catarrhal affections of nares, throat, and pharynx, from mercurial amalgam fillings. Diarrhoea: of children; stools grass-green; like chopped eggs; profuse, causing soreness of anus.

Calomel

Has marked effect on catarrhal inflammation of ear, and useful in Eustachian catarrh, deafness. Diarrhœa, with soreness of anus. Prostatitis. Remittent bilious attacks. Pallor, flabby bloatedness, and turgid flaccidity. Inflammation with plastic exudate. Especially indicated in systems disposed to remittent bilious fevers; in peritonitis and meningitis with plastic exudate. Dropsies due to combined renal and cardiac diseases, especially with jaundice (Hale). Cirrhosis of the liver, especially in the hypertrophic form. Use 1x (Jousset).

Otitis media; closure of Eustachian tube; ear troubles of scrofulous children; membrana tympani retracted, thickened and immovable.

Offensive breath; salivation; sore gums. Ulcers. Tongue black. Constant flow of dark, putrid saliva; very offensive. Ulceration of throat, with dysphagia. Granular pharyngitis.

Nausea and vomiting. Cyclic vomiting of infants (Cup ars; Iris).

Scanty, bloody mucus, with bile, and constant desire, without tenesmus. Dark-green, watery, with griping. Anus sore and burning. Dysentery; small stools of mucus and blood, covered with bile.

Flabby and ill nourished. Swollen glands. Phagedenic ulcers. Copper-colored eruptions.

Compare: Kali mur.

Third to sixth trituration. For palliative (non-homeopathic) purposes, to secure evacuation of bowels, two or three-grain doses of first decimal trituration, repeated several times every hour.

Catarrhal inflammation of the Eustachian tube and middle ear. (Kali mur.)

Subchloride of Mercury. Calomel. Mercurous chloride. HgCl. Trituration.

Catarrh. Condylomata. Conjunctivitis. Deafness. Diarrhœa. Eustachian tube, affections of. Gastro-malachia. Meningitis. Peritonitis, plastic . Prostatitis. Throat, sore.

Merc. dulc . is responsible for a large amount of the mercurialisation of the past and for some of the present. As a comparatively mild and slow-acting form of mercurial, it has none of the corrosive effects of the perchloride, but it has all the power of the metal in it nevertheless, and it has had its own share of disasters. For constipation and any affection which could be ascribed to the liver, blue pill was at one time about the only recognised remedy. Some homœopaths have adopted a modification of this by prescribing Merc. dulc . 1x in two- or three-grain doses as a direct purgative. But as Merc. dulc . has caused both constipation and diarrhœa, it is probable that the action is roughly homœopathic. The Schema is made up for the most part of toxicological and clinical symptoms; though a proving of potencies has been made. It is especially scrofulous children who are liable to remittent bilious attacks who are benefited by Merc. dulc . The keynote of Merc. dulc ., in this as in other complaints is pallor : "pallid as a corpse," and with this a "flabby bloatedness" of appearance. Pale, scrofulous children who have swelling of cervical and other glands. Skin flabby and ill-nourished. Another leading feature of Merc. dulc . is inflammation with plastic exudation. I have seen Calomel in old-school practice rapidly resolve and cure a violent meningitis, with wild delirium, in a girl of five. In this case there was probably plastic exudation on the membranes. Plastic peritonitis. Gluing up of Eustachian tube with catarrh. Scrofulous inflammation in general and particularly of the eyes. Soreness round anus is a leading indication in many affections when it occurs as a concomitant.

Antidoted by: Hep. Compare: In stringy stools, Sul. ac. Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear, Kali m. Eustachian tube closed; deafness of old age, Kali m.

Agitated. — Apprehensive.

Heaviness across forehead. — Falling off of hair.

Gummy secretion on edges of lids; later, smarting and indistinct vision. — Eyes: red; dry; photophobia. — Symptoms < after exercise, and when heated from exercise. — Scrofulous ophthalmia. — Ciliary blepharitis.

Deafness, occasioned by a swelling, which compresses Eustachian tube. — (Deafness of old age.). — Scrofulous otitis. — Itching in external meatus. — Sudden fluttering in l. ear for a few moments.

Violent epistaxis. — Dry, crusted nostrils. — Sore r. nostril.

Face flushed. — Pallid as a corpse. — Swelling of cheeks. — Exfoliation of lower jaw and death.

Violent burning in teeth; teeth become bare, shake, and fall out; gums swollen and bleeding when touched.

Difficulty to open mouth. — Ulcers in mouth, bleeding throughout night. — Aphthæ on tongue. — Salivation sometimes with hæmorrhage. — Flow of horribly fetid, dark saliva, which attacks lips and cheeks; tongue and whole mouth have black appearance.

Excessive ulceration of throat. — Difficulty of swallowing.

No appetite. — Urgent thirst. — Vomiting. — Weight and pain at epigastrium.

Violent pain in abdomen; griping; tenderness. — Bloated, hot, painful abdomen (gastro-malachia).

Diarrhœa; with vomiting. — Stools-watery, greenish; coppery green, like chopped eggs; grass-green; stringy; mucous, bloody, dysenteric; black with great epigastric oppression, sinking. — Constant disposition to stool. — Obstinate constipation. — Rectum: burning; tenesmus. — Soreness round anus. — Condylomata round anus.

Urine increased (2nd d.); diminished (3rd, 4th, and 5th d.).

Acute inflammation of prostate, after suppressed gonorrhœa; burning, pressing pains; intense dysuria; urine scanty. — Stinging and itching just back of corona glandis.

Broad, moist, burning condylomata around external genitals, perinæum and anus, of exceedingly offensive smell.

Great oppression in chest and in region of heart.

Trembling of hands and feet.

Rheumatic stiffness and catching pain in muscles of legs and knee-joints. — Cramps in calves at night.

Desquamation of skin, esp. of hands and feet. — Phagedænic ulcers, with white bases, and painful and inflamed margins, in mouth, palate, face, genital and other parts. — Copper-coloured eruption.

Feverish heat, profuse nocturnal sweat, tearing pains in limbs, prostration of strength, and trembling. — Fever, sometimes hot, putrid.

Calomel. Hg Cl.
Symptoms toxicological and clinical.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Ulceration of cornea , Norton, Oph. Therap. ; Phlyctenular conjunctivitis , Newton, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 68 ; Otorrhœa , Lobethal, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 369 ; Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear (93 cases), Houghton, Times Retros., vol. 1, p. 24 ; Angina tonsillaris , Hendricks, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 243 ; Gastromalacia (3 cases), Bicking, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 607 ; Diarrhœa , Hofrichter, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 421 ; Kafka, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 422 ; Constipation , Gerson, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 395 ; Prostatitis , Gerson, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 545 ; Condylomata , Syphilis, Battman, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 562.

Girl, æt. 6, light complexion, pale skin, muscles soft and flabby, glands enlarged, general strumous diathesis ; a very deep ulcer on left cornea, so nearly perforated that membrane of Descemet has begun to bulge ; small ulcers and pustules on border of cornea ; pustules and maculæ on right cornea ; considerable redness and photophobia. θ Strumous ophthalmia.
Irido-choroiditis, especially if dependent upon scrofulous diathesis and general cachexia.
Inflammations occurring in pale, flabby, scrofulous subjects.
Ciliary blepharitis associated with phlyctenular ophthalmia, and accompanied by eruption on face, soreness of nose and swelling of upper lip.

Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear.
Eustachian tube and mucous membrane of pharynx affected. θ Otitis media.
Closure of Eustachian tube ; deafness of advancing years.
Catarrhal otorrhœa occurring in scrofulous children, or accompanying scrofulous inflammation of eyes, occasionally hearing is affected.

Pallid as a corpse.

Inflammation of lips and tongue.
Whole mouth filled with ulcers.
Salivation.
Whole inside of mouth, tongue and all had a very black appearance, emitting a constant flow of dark, putrid saliva, of intolerable fetor.

Angina tonsillaris.
Excessive ulceration of throat.
Difficulty of swallowing.

Vomiting.

Bloated, hot, painful abdomen, particularly in region of stomach ; frequent vomiting, vomited matter smelling very sour ; milk rejected almost immediately, accompanied by much slime ; every day about twelve passages of greyish green, stringy, chopped masses ; constant restlessness ; crosses legs and draws them towards abdomen ; peculiar whimpering ; irregular febrile attacks ; emaciation ; greyish color of face, which appears long and has an old look ; distortion of mouth ; dulness of eyes. θ Gastromalacia.

Stools : watery, greenish ; black, with great epigastric oppression, sinking, etc.
Diarrhœa of children ; stools grass green, coppery green, like chopped eggs, watery, very profuse, excoriating, causing soreness of anus ; abdomen bloated ; liver enlarged ; skin pale ; face bloated ; mucous membrane of mouth pale ; aphthæ ; foul smell from mouth ; ptyalism ; glands of neck and submaxillary and inguinal glands swollen ; fever and thirst.
Symptoms thoroughly dysenteric.
Constant disposition to stool ; small discharges consisting of mucus and blood, colored with bile.
Obstinate constipation.
Burning pain in rectum.

Acute inflammation of prostate gland, particularly after maltreated gonorrhœal stricture ; both lobes enormously swollen, almost occluding rectum, with intolerably painful urinary symptoms ; severe burning, pressing pains ; scanty urine.

Broad, moist, burning condylomata around external genitals, perineum and anus, of extremely offensive smell.

Crosses legs and draws them towards abdomen ; gastromalacia.

Ill defined gastric disturbances during second stage ; painful sensibility of whole abdomen ; watery stools, colorless, or as if mixed with flocculent matter, or like washings of flesh, occurring most often at night. θ Typhoid fever.

Every day : about twelve passages of greyish green, stringy, chopped masses.

Right : pustules and maculæ on cornea.
Left : a very deep ulcer on cornea.

Burning pain : in rectum.
Burning and itching : in condylomata around anus.
Soreness : of nose ; of anus.
Painfulness : of abdomen.

Eruption over whole body of round copper colored spots, in centre of which are dry papules, around which, from centre to periphery, skin exfoliates ; broad, moist condylomata around anus, with severe burning and itching. θ Syphilis.

Child, æt. 3 mos. ; diarrhœa.
Three children æt. 1/2-1 1/2 years ; gastromalacia.
Girl, æt. 6, light complexion, pale skin, muscles soft and flabby, glands enlarged and general strumous diathesis ; ulceration of cornea.
XX, æt. 15 ; scrofulous diathesis, suffers frequently from sore eyes ; phlyctenular conjunctivitis.
Girl, æt. 19, fat, strong ; condylomata.

Antidoted by : Hepar .
Compare : Sulph. ac . in stringy stools.

Triturations of pure Calomel (Mercurous Chloride) are used.

The Mercurials in general.

Convulsion. ▶ Prostration. ▶ Languor in evening. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Agitation. ▶ Apprehension.

Headache; in morning. ▶ Pain or heaviness across forehead in evening. ▶ Conjunctiva red.

Scrofulous ophthalmia, ulceration of the cornea; chronic blepharitis.

A very valuable remedy in catarrh of the Eustachian tube and middle ear.

Valuable in diarrhœa of infants, with scarcely any tenesmus, stools grass-green, excoriating, liver enlarged, mouth pale, ulcerated, with offensive odor, swollen glands, ptyalism, etc. ▶ Asthma. ▶ Pulse rapid and hard; and full; and small; and small, in morning. ▶ Trembling of hands and feet.

▶ As pallid as a corpse. ▶ Flushed. ▶ Swelling, and of throat; of cheeks. ▶ Exfoliation of lower jaw. ▶ Inflammation of lips and tongue.

Teeth loose; and some came out. ▶ Uneasy sensation on gnashing teeth, in evening. ▶ Gums spongy. ▶ Tongue coated in morning; C. white, creamy; narrow coat in centre. ▶ Tongue so tumid that speech was gone. ▶ Filled with ulcers. ▶ Inside of M. and tongue black, and constant flow of dark putrid saliva of intolerable fetor, greater part of mouth and tongue mortified and part of tongue, under lip and part of one side of face sloughed off. ▶ Inside of cheeks inflamed and tender, and bloody puriform matter from right cheek. ▶ Salivation; returned every October and February, often on the same days of the month as at first, sometimes a few days later. ▶ Fetor of breath. ▶ Unpleasant taste in morning on waking.

▶ Ulceration. ▶ Swallowing difficult.

Loss of appetite in morning. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Nausea, with faintness. ▶ Vomiting; profuse, also profuse diarrhœa; of milk and water that she had drunk, without appearance of calomel. ▶ Weight and pain in epigastrium and right side, amel. vomiting a thick, ropy stuff consisting of calomel entangled in mucus.

Griping; and fulness, with burning pain in epigastric and umbilical regions, then frequent copious serous stools, stools gradually becoming less and composed of bloody mucus, with tenesmus and constant desire. ▶ Pain. ▶ Tenderness; in evening on firm pressure.

Burning pain. ▶ Soreness around fundament. ▶ Tenesmus.

▶ Dysentery. ▶ Small, of mucus and blood, covered with bile, in evening, with constant desire and feeling as if it would be a relief to discharge whole contents of abdomen, he had had two large bilious stools about 10 A.M. ▶ Watery, green; and small. ▶ Dark green, with griping (Mag. c.). ▶ Tinged with blood at night. ▶ Frequent, and black particles similar to those precipitated from the vomit adhered to the vessel.

Erythema beginning in pubic region and extending like scarlet redness over whole body, with pain or fever. ▶ Redness and swelling of face, extending over neck, shoulders and upper part of back, ending in serous exudation and desquamation. ▶ Round deep ulcers in mouth and fauces, on face, genitals and other parts, with white bases and inflamed painful margins, fever, night-sweats, weakness, tearing in limbs and trembling.

Temperature low.

Scanty; bloody mucus, with bile, with constant desire.
Watery, green.
Dark green, with gripings in the bowels.

Clinical:
Frequently valuable in infantile diarrhœa, with constant desire, but without tenesmus, grass-green stools, excoriating, with offensive breath, salivation, swollen glands, etc.