Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Mercurius Nitrosus merc-n.
General
Pure nitrate of Mercury is triturated for use.
Generalities
Cachectic condition, with discoloration of mucous surfaces and flabbiness of tissues. ▶ Tremor. ▶ Subsultus tendinum so that muscles jumped under skin like a mouse under a cloth. ▶ Pain; so that he rolled about the floor and called for a knife to kill himself. ▶ Indisposition. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Faintness.
Mind
Delirium. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Stupor. ▶ Memory poor.
Head, Eyes and Ears
Headache. ▶ Dizziness. ▶ Eyes sunken. ▶ Pupils dilated, to a certain extent obedient to light. ▶ Ringing in ears.
Clinical
A very valuable remedy in pustular conjunctivitis and keratitis, especially with burning pain, lachrymation, photophobia, great sensitiveness to heat or cold, sharp sticking pain. ▶ It is useful in various forms of ulceration, with Mercurial condition and with sharp pain. ▶ Staphyloma, with kerato-iritis.
"Mucous patches," with sticking pains.
Face
Pale and livid; P. and anxious. ▶ Flushed. ▶ Features contracted. ▶ Lips bluish-red.
Mouth
Gums swollen and bleeding. ▶ Blackish line on free border of gums, agg. around insertion of lower incisors and canine teeth. ▶ Tongue and lips tumid, parched and painful. ▶ Tongue coated. ▶ Tongue cannot be protruded well. ▶ Mucous membrane red and tumefied; mouth and fauces red and painful. ▶ Pain, and in throat. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Mercurial fetor. ▶ Coppery taste.
Throat
Soreness; of fauces, with redness and dryness.
Stomach
Eructations, with frothy discharge from mouth and occasional vomiting, first of a fluid containing a red powder, which sank to the bottom of the vessel, then V. of mucus. ▶ Hiccough. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Vomiting; of glairy and tenacious matter; of bilious matter streaked with blood; frequent, of bilious matter at night; and pain. ▶ Pain in epigastric region; in region of S. and abdomen on pressure.
Abdomen and Stool
Pain in hypogastrium. ▶ Tenesmus. ▶ Diarrhœa, with colic. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Frequent stools. ▶ Bloody S., with collapse.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Micturition painful. ▶ Urine high-colored, passed involuntarily. ▶ Urine suppressed; and urea was found in blood drawn from arm; but large quantities of water were taken. ▶ Sexual power diminished.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
Voice feeble and almost suppressed. ▶ Spasmodic movements of muscles of chest, so that heart-sounds cannot be distinctly heard.
Pulse
Rapid and small; and weak; and thready. ▶ Small and thready.
Extremities
Tremor causing difficulty in prehensile movements and in walking. ▶ Sore feeling where they came in contact with the bed, they looked red and inflamed. ▶ Control lost when standing and walking, twitchings in bed, with trembling when standing, and even in bed, spasms agg. towards evening. ▶ Cramp of lower.
Skin
Brownish-red projecting above healthy parts, on left chest and one on back (parts rubbed with the solution), skin red, inflamed, ecchymosed, with yellow-brown patches, and a similar tract towards right haunch, where the liquid had flowed down.
Sleep
Sleeplessness.
Fever
Chill. ▶ Cold skin; agg. limbs, and clammy. ▶ Cold and ecchymosed limbs. ▶ Heat; of skin. ▶ Sweat.