Mercurius Corrosivus merc-c.

RECTUM. Bladder. Eyes. THROAT: Uvula. Fauces. Palate. Kidneys. Bones (Flat).

AFTER: URINATING. STOOL. Swallowing. Night. Cold. Autumn. Hot days; cool nights. Acids.

Violent effects. Burning, internal; throat, stomach, rectum, neck of bladder, kidneys, etc. Inflammation, with swelling and constriction. Constriction of throat, rectum, bladder, etc. Cracks, on palms, soles, angles of mouth, etc. Erosive discharges; acrid, fluent coryza, lachrymation, etc. Phagedena. Syphilis.

Anxious and restless; rocks hard. Difficult thinking. Disturbed speech. Stupid. Aching temples, < looking sidewise. Photophobia. Iritis. Keratitis. Gluey nasal discharge. Swelled nose. Pale about mouth. Patchy tongue. Nightly toothache. Red, swollen uvula. Astringent, taste, regurgitation, etc. Sore, painful swelling in l. throat, < heat; sharp pains into ears, < pressure. DYSPHAGIA. Insatiable thirst. Vomits slime and blood. Cramp in epigastrium. Distended, sensitive stomach. Gastritis. Cutting colic. Painful flatulence. Continuous urging to stool and urine ( Canth. Lil-t. Sabi.); A NEVER GET DONE FEELING. SCANTY, BLOODY, SHREDDY OR SLIMY STOOLS, WITH TORMENTING TENESMUS. Passes pure blood or bloody water. Bleeding kidneys. Dysentery. Spasm of rectum, during coition. HOT URINE, PASSED DROP BY DROP, or scanty, frequent, dribbling; < sitting. Urethra bleeds after urinating. Nephritis; slow; of pregnancy. Cystitis. Gonorrhœa. Phimosis. Chordee. Hard chancres. Breathes as through a metallic tube. Cold skin. Chilly, after stool. Sweats from every motion; partial; < forehead and lower parts; foul, at night.

Related: Ars. Canth. Merc-p-r.

Diseases of men, syphilitic; ulcers, with corroding, acrid pus; Bright's disease. Dysentery and summer complaints of intestinal canal, occurring from May to November. Tenesmus: of rectum, not > by stool (< by stool, Nux); incessant, persistent; stool hot, scanty, bloody, slimy, offensive; shreds of mucous membrane and terrible cutting; colicky pains. Tenesmus: of bladder, with intense burning in urethra; urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; in drops with great pain; bloody, brown, brick-dust sediment; albuminous. Gonorrhoea: second stage, greenish discharge, < at night; great burning and tenesmus.

Fluent coryza, with rawness and smarting in the nostrils. Very distressing persistent tenesmus, and cutting colicky pains, after stool burning and tenesmus of rectum and bladder, stools frequent, nothing but mucus tinged with blood. Chancres assuming a phagedenic appearance, and secreting a thin, ichorus pus. Influenza, tightness across the chest, burning, cutting and stinging in trachea, with hoarseness and aphonia.

Corrosive Sublimate

This salt leads all other remedies in tenesmus of the rectum, which is incessant, and is not relieved by the stool. The tenesmus often involves the bladder as well. Bright's disease. Gonorrhœa; second stage, with continuous tenesmus. Destroys the secreting portions of the kidneys. This process is slow, but sure. Albuminuria in early pregnancy (Phosph later and at full term).

Delirium, stupor. Frontal pain, congestion of head with burning in cheeks. Drawing pain in periosteum of skull.

Pain behind eyeballs, as if forced out. Phlyctenulæ; deep ulcers on cornea. Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation. Iritis, ordinary or syphilitic (Give in association with atropin locally for prevention of adhesions). Pain severe at night; burning, shooting, tearing. Little tendency to pus formation. Iris muddy in color, thick, and neither contracts nor dilates. Retinitis albuminuric, ophthalmia neonatorum. Lids œdematous, red, excoriated. Severe burning. Soreness of the eyes.

Excessive coryza. Ozæna, with perforation of septum nasi (Kali bich). Rawness and smarting in nostrils. Post-nasal swelling, mucous membrane dry, red, and covered with bloody mucus.

Violent pulsations. Fetid pus.

Swollen. Red, puffy. Lips black, swollen. Sordes. Facial neuralgia within the bones.

Teeth loose. Gums purple, swollen, and spongy. Tongue swollen and inflamed. Salivation. Pyorrhea. Ptyalism. Taste salty and bitter.

Red, swollen, painful, intensely inflamed. Uvula swollen. Swallowing painful. Most pain in post-nasal with sharp pains to ears. Burning pain, with great swelling; worse, slight external pressure. All glands about thorax swollen.

Incessant, green, bilious vomiting. Epigastrium very sensitive.

Bruised sensation; cecal region and transverse colon painful. Bloated; very painful to least touch.

Dysentery; tenesmus, not relieved by stool; incessant. Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane.

Pain in larynx as cut with knife. Aphonia. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Pulse rapid and intermittent. Stitches through side of chest.

Intense burning in urethra. Urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. Tenesmus of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder. Perspiration after urinating.

Penis and testes enormously swollen. Chancres assume phagedænic appearance. Gonorrhœa; urethra orifice red, swollen; glans sore and hot. Discharge greenish, thick.

Chilly from slightest exposure. Profuse perspiration; surface cold.

Worse, evening, night, acids, Better, while at rest.

Compare: Ars; Lach; Leonurus-Mother-wort (Influences pelvic organs, allays spasm and nervous irritability, promotes secretion and reduces febrile excitement. Valuable in suppressed menses and lochia; dysentery; vomiting, frightful pains in abdomen, violent thirst. Tongue dry and cracked). Monsonia--An African plant belonging to the Geraniaceæ--(Used for dysentery in material doses).

Antidote: Calcium sulphide is antidotal to Bichloride poisoning. Use intravenous injection of 7 1/2 grains in 7 1/2 ozs boiled water.

Sixth potency. In solution 1:1000, hypodermically injected under conjunctiva in choroditis with progressive myopia. Stops immediately the severe aching pain behind eye-balls (Dr. G. D. Hallet).

Most persistent and terrible tenesmus before, during and after stool; stool scanty, mucus tinged with blood.

Tenesmus of the bladder and rectum at the same time; urine passed in drops with much pain.

Throat intensely inflamed, swollen, burning, with swollen gums, which bleed easily.

While we are on the subject of mercury we may as well notice the various combinations of the drug. Mercurius solubilis and vivus are so nearly alike that with the same indications some use one and some the other preparation. It is claimed by some that the vivus is better adapted to men and solubilis to women. I have not observed it, but do think that the solubilis works better in skin troubles. Of Mercurius corrosivus we have to say that it leads all other remedies for tenesmus of the rectum. This tenesmus is incessant. Stool does not relieve it, and this is what decides between it and Nux vomica in dysentery. It has also severe tenesmus of the bladder, and may here vie with Cantharis, Capsicum and Nux vomica, especially in dysentery.

Other symptoms must decide the choice.

This severe tenesmus may begin in the rectum and extend to the bladder or vice versa.

It is a very efficient remedy in gonorrhœa, in the second stage, when the greenish discharge has set in and the burning and tenesmus continues. It seems to have gained some reputation in Bright's disease. I have no experience with it here, but would expect it to do good if it were indicated.

It seems, according to the testimony of others, to be a useful remedy for catarrhal affections of the eyes and nose. Here also I have no testimony to offer, but would not cast doubt upon it for that reason. I do not desire to place my own experience ahead of that of others. We are co-laborers. Let each add to the general store of medical knowledge, that all may draw freely from it as occasion demands.

Anxiety, preventing sleep. Weakness of the intellect ; he stares at persons who talk to him, and does not understand them.

Vertigo, with coldness, cold perspiration ; with deafness, when stooping. Heaviness of the head. Stitches in the forehead. Swelling of the head and neck.

Burning and dryness of the eyes. Inflammation of the eyes, the pain is pressing, burning, the pupils lose their roundness, are angular, the eyes feel too small. The eye sparkling, very movable ; pupils contracted, with red face. Pupils contracted and insensible. Objects appear smaller. Double, vision.

Inflammation with stitches in the ear. Discharge of fetid pus from the ear.

Swelling and redness of the nose. Fluent coryza, loss of smell. Ozæna, discharge from the nose like glue, drying up in the posterior nares, perforation of the septum.

Face and cheeks swollen, hard, red, bloated. Paleness of the distorted face. Œdematous swelling of the face. Yellow color of the face. The face is covered with cold perspiration.

Swelling of the lips, mouth, tongue, and throat. Swelling and turning up of the upper lip ; dark-red, swollen lip. The lips and tongue are whitish and contracted. Tongue coated with thick white mucus, or dry and red ; papillæ elevated like a strawberry ; coated white and swollen, and stiff. Looseness of the teeth ; they pain, they fall out. The gums swell, are covered with a false membrane, become gangrenous and bleed freely. Mouth dry with unquenchable thirst. Lymphatic exudations on the membranes in the mouth extending to the tonsils. Ulcers (phagædenic) in the mouth, or the gums and throat, with fetid breath. Burning in the mouth and gums. Ptyalism with salty taste ; bloody, yellowish, tough, acrid. Painful burning in the mouth extending to the stomach. Discharge of albuminous mucus from the mouth. Swelling of the tongue with ptyalism. Pricking in the throat as from needles. Tonsils swollen and covered with ulcers. Swelling of the throat, to suffocation, inability to swallow any fluid, with heat in the mouth, tongue and throat. Pharynx dark red, painful to contact. When he makes the effort to swallow, retching and vomiting. Taste in the mouth, metallic or salty.

Burning, from the pit of the stomach to the mouth ; in the stomach. Swelling, distension of the pit of the stomach not permitting the least touch. Vomiting, of albuminous matter ; of tough mucus ; of blood ; of stringy mucus, of green bitter substances like coffee grounds, with coagulated blood ; of bile ; of pus. Stitches as if in the middle of the liver. Bloated abdomen, very painful to the least touch. Cutting below the navel. Bruised pain in the abdomen.

Diarrhœa, yellow, green, bilious, bloody, of mucus, of feces with mucus and dark clotted blood. Burning in the rectum. Painful, almost unsuccessful pressing, straining and tenesmus, with almost insupportable cutting pain in the abdomen, and discharge of small quantities of bloody mucus. Tenesmus with dysenteric discharges, vomiting of bile, cramps in the calves, and stitches in the side. Painful bloody discharges ; with vomiting. Dysentery.

Tenesmus of the bladder ; suppressed urine. Increased discharge of urine. The urine is only passed in drops, and with great pain. Urine scanty, brown, with brick-dust sediment. Itching in the forepart of the urethra. Gonorrhœic discharges, first thin, then thicker, and then smarting pain when urinating, with stitches in the urethra. Burning in the urethra, more before micturition. Paraphymosis.

Men. Violent erections during sleep. Fine, painful stinging in the left testicle. Women. Menses too early and too profuse. Fluor albus, Smelling sweetish, pale-yellow.

Hoarseness ; aphonia. Burning and stinging in the trachea, with loss of voice. Respiration slow, interrupted sighing. Constriction of the chest, breathes with the pectoral muscles. Oppression of the chest. Stitches in the chest, through the thorax (right lower side). Hæmoptysis.

Coldness in the extremities, they look purple, with small, spasmodic frequent pulse. Upper. Rheumatic pains in the left shoulder and shoulder-blade. The deltoid muscle feels relaxed. The whole arm up to the shoulder in much swollen, red and covered with vesicles. Lower. Stitches in the right hip-joint. Sensation as if the legs had gone to sleep. The muscles of the thigh and calf feel relaxed. Cramps in the calves. The feet are icy cold.

Drawing in the periosteum, with heat in the head. Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels. Twitches, convulsive contractions. Convulsive twitchings of the muscles of the face, arms, and legs, and convulsions of the limbs. Trembling. Paralysis of the upper and lower extremities.

During sleep, violent hiccough. Somnolence. When trying to go to sleep violent starts. Sleeplessness on account of vertigo ; on account of anxiety.

Pulse small, weak, intermitting, sometimes trembling. Chilliness from the least movement and in the open air, generally with colic. Chilliness in the evening, especially on the head. Chilliness at night in bed. External heat with yellowness of the skin. Burning and stinging heat in the skin. Heat when stooping, and coldness when rising. Night-sweat. Towards morning the perspiration becomes fetid. Cold perspiration, often only on the forehead. The whole skin is covered with cold perspiration with anxiety.

Painful drawing in the periosteum, as if a chill would set in. Inflammation of the periosteum (lower jaw). Necrosis of the upper jaw. Burning and redness of the skin, with the formation of small vesicles. Swelling of the glands (neck, bubœs). Gray color of the nails.

Aggravation in the evening and at night.

Mercurius corrosivus sublimatus. Corrosive sublimate. Mercuric chloride. HgCl 2 . Trituration. Solution.

Antrum of Highmore, affections of. Aphthæ . Appendicitis. Bones, affections of . Bright's disease. Cancrum oris. Chancre. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Eczema. Enteric fever. Eyes, affections of. Gums, affections of. Intestines, ulcerated . Intussusception. Iritis. Jaundice. Kidneys, inflammation of. Labour, puerperal fever. Measles. Miscarriage. Mouth, affections of. Mumps. Œsophagus, stricture of. Paralysis . Paraphimosis. Pemphigus. Perimetritis, Peritonitis . Prosopalgia. Rigg's disease. Supra-orbital neuralgia. Syphilis. Tabes mesenterica. Taste, disordered. Tenesmus. Throat, inflamed. Tongue, affections of. Uvula, elongated .

The chief effect of the Chlorine element in this salt appears to be to intensify the mercurial action. Mer c. cor . is Merc. viv . with a much greater rapidity of action. Phagedena is the type of Merc. cor . ulceration. Chancres spread with great rapidity. The burning of Merc. cor . is more intense. The dysenteric straining is more excessive. For this reason Merc. cor . is more generally prescribed In dysentery than Merc. viv ., and it has even become a recognised remedy in the old school. As with other ulcerating remedies, Merc. cor . is a powerful disinfectant. Being much less irritating than Carbolic acid , it has taken the place of the latter as the leading antiseptic. Before the proper degree of dilution had been ascertained many patients were poisoned by its external use. Merc. cor . has some of its most characteristic symptoms in the urinary sphere. The urine is albuminous, scanty, hot, bloody; may be retained or suppressed. There is intense vesical tenesmus. In some of the poisoning cases the bladder was found after death firmly contracted into a small hard lump. "Tenesmus vesicæ, with intense burning in urethra and discharge of mucus and blood with the urine or after it," is a keynote for Merc. cor . When this accompanies dysentery Merc. cor . is the remedy. In such cases the rectal and vesical tenesmus will go together. A patient of mine who had had under allopathic treatment an injection of a solution of Merc. cor . (gr. vi to two ounces) injected into his urethra for gonorrhœa, not only suffered intensely in the urethra at the time, but for years afterwards had a painful spasm of the rectum every time he had coitus. The tenesmus is < (or at any rate not > ) after stool. This is the note of Merc. cor . In the diarrhœa calling for Merc. cor . there is the "never-get-done feeling" long after all has passed that there is to come. This is also the indication in intussusception. Membranous threads in stool; much pure blood; weakness, faintness, shuddering. Merc. cor . is a true gonorrhœa remedy, but local injections of it are not the right form of administration. The indications are: Greenish-yellow, or bloody, watery discharge, with violent burning, urging, and painful erections; dark purplish swelling; glans has a dark red or gangrenous appearance; phimosis or paraphimosis. The chancres of Merc. cor . spread with great rapidity. Serpigenous ulcers; ulcers with ragged edges which will eat away half the penis in a few days. The sore throat of Merc. cor . is also characterised by the rapid spread of the affection and by the intensity of the burning pains. The mouth is specifically affected. There is one useful bit of practice in this connection which I learned from Dr. McKechnie. Long uvulas sometimes give rise to irritating coughs. If to the uvula is applied on a brush a little of a low trituration of Merc. cor . it will in many cases immediately, and often permanently, relieve the trouble. In syphilitic eye affections Merc. cor . is a leading remedy. The inflammatory symptoms are of the most violent character. Burning, agonising pains with excessive photophobia causing excoriation of cheeks. Tearing pains in bones and around eyes. Scrofulous no less than syphilitic ophthalmias with these characters yield to Merc. cor . Near to the eyes are the superior maxillary bones and their antra. These are affected by Merc. cor . The nasal catarrh is thick and glue-like; acrid excoriating. The gullet is very markedly affected. Constriction is a leading note of the remedy. Any attempt to swallow (solid or liquid) causes violent spasm and immediate ejection. Cutting as from a knife in throat. There is raging thirst for cold things. Desire for cold food and intolerance of hot things. Skin affections of many kinds are met by Merc. cor ., including syphilitic roseola and small-pox and condylomata. In addition to the upper jaw and cranium, the sternum, ribs, and tibiæ are prominently affected. When present in cases of enteric fever, pains in the tibiæ may form an indication for Merc. cor . along with the symptoms of intestinal ulceration; also affections of the tibiæ occurring as sequelæ of enteric. Like Merc. viv., Merc. cor . has a distinct place in rheumatism and rheumatic fever. — A case of poisoning by Merc. cor . is quoted from Eisenhardt in Brit. Med. Jour ., July 18, 189l. A woman, 37, drank a tumblerful of tepid water in which a 5 per cent. sublimate pastille had been dissolved. Immediately she felt nausea, faintness; knees so weak she could not crawl into bed. Directly she was put to bed violent choking sensation set in, and she vomited bile-stained mucus. In an hour and a half, when Eisenhardt saw her, the symptoms were intensified, and in addition there were: General trembling movements, especially in upper part of body. Unable to speak; she indicated by signs pain in stomach, pharynx, and head. Pulse rapid, soft. Temperature subnormal. Pupils contracted. She had taken (with great difficulty) a quart of milk. Whites of eggs were also given, and later oil of Camphor and hypodermic injections of Morphine . There was temporary suppression of urine, but the kidneys acted in twenty-four hours. Tea and black coffee favoured diuresis but were quickly vomited. The vomiting gradually ceased. On the third day profuse salivation set in, and ulcerating stomatitis with bloody and slimy stools and scanty and occasionally albuminous urine. Emaciation; falling out of hair; failure of sight. In a fortnight she could stand, and was convalescent in a month. Unna reports two cases, in elderly women, of poisoning by sublimate lotion, lint, and gauze after ablation of the breast. The dressings were removed the second day in each case. The first symptoms were intense irritation of the skin and diffused redness of the part. The wounds failed to heal by first intention. Widespread dermatitis followed, and in the course of a few days a diffuse erythema spread over the whole body, creeping onwards like "water on blotting paper." Some fever, general malaise, nausea, restlessness. In one case the eruption lasted three weeks and changed its type; "scattered urticarial and erythematous itching spots on all parts of the body suggested that there was at that period a poisoning of the more central nervous system" (Calcott Fox quoted in Brit. Med. Jour ., December 13, 1890). R. C. Markham ( Med. Adv ., xxi. 524) records a cure with Merc. cor . after the failure of Merc. viv . in a case of dysentery. The symptoms were: ( 1 ) Stool: bloody mucus. ( 2 ) Tenesmus after stool. ( 3 ) Cutting colic below umbilicus. ( 4 ) Nausea. ( 5 ) Perspiration before and after stool, most pronounced on lower part of body and thigh. Symptoms 3 and 5 were not found under Merc. viv ., but were under Merc. cor . The patient felt better within ten minutes of receiving a dose of Merc. cor . 1m. (I give the case, as it is a striking one, but I am unable to find the indications he names under Merc. cor . in Bell's work on Diarrhœa , from which Markham says he obtained them. My editions are third and fourth.) The Conditions of Merc. cor . are in the main those of Merc . Motion > pain in hip-joints. < By coitus. Dysentery and summer complaints from May to November. Notable Concomitants are: Vesical tenesmus and tibial pains. According to Teste, Merc. cor . is suited to males, and Merc. sol . to females. Merc. cor . will act in men on indications for Merc. sol . He lays this down as a positive law, and without going into the details of experience on which it is based, he mentions this as a "curious fact": Both Merc. cor . and Merc. sol . antidote Sepia , which antidotes them in turn but imperfectly. But " this neutralisation of Merc. cor. by Sepia, and vice versâ, does not take place thoroughly except in the case of males, nor does the neutralisation of Merc. sol. by Sepia, and vice versâ, take place thoroughly except in females ."

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Greatly depressed ; very ill humored.
Stares at persons who talk to him and does not understand them.
Weakness of intellect.
Mind sluggish, with torpid digestion.
Anxiety preventing sleep.
Stupor and delirium.

Vertigo : with coldness, cold perspiration ; with deafness, when stooping.
Head much affected, with coma.

Violent headache in forehead ; stitches.
Violent rush of blood to head, with severe pain in forehead and temples ; burning in cheeks.
Pain in head, like drawing in pericranium.
Tearing as if in bone above left eye, near root of nose, and in other parts of bone.
Heaviness of head.
Syphilitic tumors in brain ; vertigo.

Profuse perspiration on forehead.
Swelling of head and neck.
Falling out of hair.

Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation.
Objects appear smaller ; or double vision.
Pupils contracted and insensible.
Eyes painful.
Pain behind eyeballs, as if they would be forced out.
Retinitis hemorrhagica, or apoplexia retina.
Retinitis albuminurica ; also with tearing at eyebrow, bones tender.
Nephritic retinitis during pregnancy ; lids œdematous, edges swollen, burning, smarting ; albumen in urine.
Cyclitis ; choroiditis ; irido-cyclitis or irido-choroiditis.
Episcleritis, with much pain in and around eye at night.
Severe, burning, cramping pains. θ Syphilitis iritis.
Iritis, especially if syphilitic ; pains severe over eyes and through them, through head and in temples ; < at night.
Kerato-iritis ; posterior synechia ; causes them to soften.
Hypopion occurring in abscess of cornea or iritis.
Small, unclean, red ulcer at edge of cornea, with much itching and burning.
Ulcers on cornea of scrofulous children ; ulcer rapidly affects surrounding parts ; ichorous discharge ; intense pain and photophobia.
Phlyctenulæ, deep ulcers on cornea ; discharge ichorous, acrid, making surrounding parts sore ; pimples around eyes like small boils.
Cannot look up and resists any attempt to open eyes ; eyelids externally tumid ; photophobia intense, when eyelids are separated, profuse lachrymation ; conjunctival membrane red and injected, small ulcers on cornea. θ Phlyctenular
ophthalmia.
Photophobia and lachrymation ; conjunctiva inflamed, bunches of vessels coming towards cornea and terminating in vesicles.
Photophobia, general injection of conjunctiva, pinkish zone around cornea, with small vesicles at its margin ; child turns from light and keeps head down, resisting all attempts to examine.
Eye is very red, bunches of injected vessels terminating in vesicles ; constant escape of scalding tears, intolerance of light, with spasmodic closure of orbicularis.
Chronic ulceration of cornea.
Pustular form of syndesmitis exanthematica.
Ophthalmia neonatorum, with acrid discharges ; caused by syphilitic or gonorrhœal leucorrhœa.
Scrofulous inflammation of eyes, erysipelatous in character, with great œdema ; discharges thin ; skin of surrounding parts excoriated ; intense pain ; spasm of lids ; < at night.
Numerous, bright red, rather fine, injected bloodvessels, proceeding from larger trunks in conjunctiva sclerotica, run from conjunctiva bulbi over edge of cornea, in a very slightly tortuous course, and there divide into numerous branches, without forming many anastomoses, their
disposition is arborescent ; the finer vessels, without communicating much with each other, gradually decrease in calibre and are lost imperceptibly almost in centre of cornea, or in vicinity of small ulcers that are generally seated about centre of cornea. θ Erithistic
scrofulous ophthalmia.
Scrofulous inflammation of eyes, erethistic form ; lids red, greatly swollen and spasmodically closed ; great photophobia, child sits in a dark corner of room, or covers eyes tightly with hand or walks about with eyes closed and head sunk upon breast ; on attempting to
open eyes hot tears gush from them, causing redness, rawness and a pustular eruption on surrounding parts ; intense redness of conjunctiva, palpebral and bulbar ; on latter bundles of vessels run towards cornea and pass over edge which looks dim.
Burning in eyes.
Chronic catarrhal conjunctivitis, tending towards trachoma, with redness and excoriation of lids and a dull feeling, with itching in eyes in evening.
Blepharitis scrofulosa ; margins of lids red and raw, with crusts and ulcers upon lids ; tendency towards formation of ecor entropium.
Indurated lids ; secretion thin and excoriating ; nocturnal aggravation.
Lids : œdematous or erysipelatous ; red, excoriated ; edges swollen, burning, smarting ; edges covered with thick crusts or pustules ; spasmodically closed.
Since childhood, twenty years ago, after abuse of calomel, highly inflamed lids, very much thickened and infiltrated ; ciliæ matted in bunches along upper and lower margins ; profuse lachrymation of a muco-purulent nature ; surrounding integument excoriated, presenting
appearance as if burned ; intolerable burning, conjunctivæ, both palpebral and ocular portion, much injected, the former presenting a rough, granular appearance ; vision more or less impaired, objects look dim, as if enveloped in a halo or mist, eyeballs feel tense, sensitive to
both light and pressure ; yearly attacks. θ Ophthalmia tarsi.
Tearing as if in bone above left eye, near root of nose, and in other parts of bone.

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Merc. cor. has more excoriation and burning, more activity and excitement.

Merc. is slower and more sluggish. Merc. cor. is violent and active in its movements, it takes hold and runs its course with greater activity. So with a mercury base we have often to prefer this salt.

In the eye symptoms there is more excoriation. The pains, burning, smarting, etc., in the eruptions and ulcers are more violent. In Merc. we have slow spreading ulcers, but in Merc. cor. there is great eating; it will spread over an area as large as your hand in a night. He has the mercurial odor and sweat, and he is sallow; he needs mercury, but a more active preparation than Merc. viv.

Merc. cor. has decided symptoms of its own, but they are limited. You cannot tell the ptyalism, or the lardaceous ulcers apart.

In sore throat, if it is a Merc. case, the ulcers are spreading rapidly and burning and smarting like coals of fire, you would say that Merc. is not so intense as this. You need Merc. cor. for the violence, the intense burning, and the rapid spread. The throat is enormously swollen, the glands are swollen, and the thirst is insatiable.

In dysentery there is more violence; copious bleeding; great anxiety, can scarcely leave the stool a second, great tenesmus of rectum and bladder; urging to urination and stool is constant; great burning in the rectum. It is a violent case of dysentery. I would prefer Merc. in ordinary Merc. cases, but if this patient is not relieved he will not live, and Merc. cor. is needed here.

In the urinary organs the symptoms are violent. Albuminuria is more marked in Merc. cor. than in Merc. It is one of the most frequently indicated remedies in the albuminuria of pregnancy and a very useful remedy when gout is present.

From slight irritation of the foreskin of the male organ, the mucous membrane and skin contract and phimosis takes place.

Merc. cor. relieves the itching and burning, and causes the purse-string to let up. It is seldom indicated in gonorrhoea, but is called for when there is greenish yellow or bloody watery discharge, with violent burning and urging to urination and to stool, and violent painful erections. Chancres spread with great rapidity.

Stitching, rending, tearing pains, here and there, especially in the chest.

Stares at persons who talk to him, and dose not understand them.
Weakness of the intellect.
Mind sluggish, with torpid digestion.
Anxiety, preventing sleep.

Vertigo, with coldness, cold perspiration; with deafness, when stooping.

Violent temporal headache.
Heaviness of head.
Stitches in the forehead.

Swelling of the head and neck.

Objects appear smaller; or, double vision.
Pupils contracted and insensible.
Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation.
Phlyctenulæ, deep ulcers on the cornea; discharges ichorous, acrid, making the surrounding parts sore; pimples around the eyes like small boils.
Iritis, especially if syphilitic, pains severe, worse at night.
Retinitis albuminuria, also with tearing at the eyebrow, bones tender.
Hypopyon occurring in abscess of the cornea or iritis.
Ophthalmia neonatorum, with acrid discharges; caused by syphilitic leucorrhœa.
Posterior synechiæ; causes them to soften.
Lids: œdematous, or erysipelatous; red excoriated; edges swollen, burning, smarting; edges covered with thick crusts or pustules; spasmodically closed.

Inflammation, with stitches in the ear.
Discharge of fetid pus from the ear.

Swelling and redness of the nose.
Fluent coryza; loss of smell.
Ozæna, discharge from the nose like glue, drying up in the posterior nares; perforation of the septum.
Nose stopped up and at the same time runs; rawness, smarting in the nostrils.

Swelling and turning up of the upper lip; dark red, swollen lip.
Face and cheeks swollen, hard, red; bloated.
Paleness of the distorted face.
Œdematous swelling of the face, paleness; albuminuria.
Yellow color of the face.

Looseness of the teeth, they pain and fall out.
Gums swell; covered with a false membrane; gangrenous; bleed freely.

Lips and tongue, whitish and contracted.
Tongue coated with thick white mucus, or dry and red; papillæ, elevated, strawberry-like; coated white, swollen and stiff.
Swelling of the tongue, with ptyalism.

Sensation as if the mouth was scalded.
Taste in the mouth, metallic or salty.
Mouth dry, with unquenchable thirst.
Exudations on mucous membranes, extending to tonsils.
Ulcers (phagedenic) in mouth, throat, or on gums, with fetid breath.
Ptyalism, with salty taste; saliva bloody, yellowish tough, acrid.
Painful burning in the mouth, extending to the stomach.
Discharge of albuminous mucus from the mouth.
Buccal cavity and lips covered with aphthæ; on the lips they are surrounded by vesicles, which burn.

Uvula swollen elongated, dark-red.
Throat intensely inflamed, preventing swallowing and causing suffocation.
Tonsils swollen and covered with ulcers.
Pricking in the throat as from needles.
Retching and vomiting on attempting to swallow.

No appetite.

Vomiting: of albuminous matter; of tough, or stringy mucus; of green, bitter substances; of bile; of blood; like coffee-grounds, with coagulated blood; of pus.

Distension and soreness of the pit of stomach, not permitting the least touch, even of clothes.
Burning, gnawing, darting pains in the stomach.

Stitches as if in the middle of liver.

Bloated abdomen, very painful to least touch.
Cutting below the navel.
Bruised pain in the abdomen.
Pain and distention in colon, especially transverse portion.

Stools: yellow, green, bilious, followed by slime and blood; with tenesmus and insupportable cutting colicky pains; after stool, burning and tenesmus of rectum and bladder; worse in fall; worse after midnight.
Painful bloody discharges, with vomiting.
Constipation.

Tenesmus of the bladder; urine suppressed.
Urine: increased; scanty, hot, bloody; passed in drops with great pain; scanty, brown, with brick-dust sediment.
Filaments, flocks or dark flesh-like piece of mucus in urine.
Albumen in urine; after diphtheria or in Morbus Brightii.
Gonorrhœa greenish, worse night; burning, smarting urination.
Paraphimosis.

Violent erections during sleep.
Fine painful stinging in left testicle.
When the chancre assumes a phagedenic appearance and secrets a thin, ichorous pus.

Menses too early and too profuse.
Leucorrhœa, pale yellow; smelling sweetish.

Hoarseness or aphonia; burning and stinging in the trachea, tightness across the chest.
Larynx and epiglottis pain when swallowing food; pain worse when depressing tongue; cutting in throat, as from a knife.

Respiration slow; interrupted, sighing.
Excessive dyspnœa; palpitation.

Hæmoptysis.
Stitches in chest, through the thorax (right, lower side).

Palpitation of the heart in sleep.
Pain in the precordial region.
Pulse small, weak, intermitting, sometimes trembling.

Glands of neck hard and swollen.
Pains in head, back and limbs; kidneys affected.
Lies on the back with knees up; Pott's disease.

Arm up to the shoulder much swollen, red and covered with vesicles.
Rheumatic pains in left shoulder and shoulder-blade.
The deltoid muscle feels relaxed.

Stitches in the right hip-joint.
Sensation as if the legs had "gone to sleep".
The muscles of the thigh and calf feel relaxed.
Cramps in the calves. θ Dysentery.
The feet are icy-cold.

Coldness in the extremities, they look purple; with small spasmodic, frequent pulse.
Paralysis of the upper and lower extremities.

Motion: 40. Stooping: 2, 40. Rising: 40.

Convulsive twitching of muscles of face, arms and legs, and convulsions of limbs; convulsive contractions.
Trembling.

During sleep, violent hiccough.
Somnolence.
When trying to go to sleep, violent starts.
Sleeplessness on account of vertigo; on account of anxiety.

Morning: 40. Evening: 40. Night: 5, 21, 40. After midnight: 20.

Worse in the open air: 40.

Chilliness; from the least movement and in the open air, generally with colic; in the evening; especially on the head, at night in bed.
External heat, with yellow skin.
Burning, stinging heat in the skin.
Heat when stooping, and coldness when rising.
Sweat night, or fetid toward morning.
Cold sweat, often only on the forehead; or, general cold sweat; with anxiety.

Autumn: 40.

Right: 28, 33. Left: 22, 32. Above downward: 12.

Buboes.
Swelling of glands.
Necrosis of the upper jaw.
Drawing in the periosteum, with heat in the head; inflammation of the periosteum.
Swelling and tenseness, rapid progress of disease. θ In osteo-myelitis.
General anasarca; face red and swollen. θ Morbus Brightii.

Worse from touch: 17, 19.

Burning and redness of the skin with the formation of small vesicles.
Grey color of the nails.
Severe and stubborn eczema of the sweating parts of the body exposed to the fumes of the poison.
Condylomata.
Rash of secondary syphilis.
Ulcers which perforate or become phagedenic.

Merc. subl. antidoted by Silic.

Corrosive Sublimate is dissolved in alcohol (1 to 99).

Similar to Mercury, but much more violent. ▶ Its symptoms of ulceration, diarrhœa, dysentery, nephritis, cystitis, et cetera, are attended with more pain and fever.

Compare the list under Mercurius and add Ars., Canth., Lach.

▶ Dorsal decubitus. ▶ Lying on back with knees bent up. ▶ Lies with knees drawn up. ▶ Lies with eyes half shut and with a choleraic aspect. ▶ Appearance as in the last stage of typhus fever. ▶ Collapse. ▶ Emaciation. ▶ Jactitation and trembling. ▶ Trembling of whole left half of body when leaning heavily on left arm while standing. ▶ Rolling incessantly from side to side. ▶ Convulsions; of face, arms and legs; in toes and feet, then in fingers and hands, then extending up legs and arms; with rigors; and face flushed, cheeks and forehead hot, but white around mouth and purple under eyes, pupils dilated, eyes rolled up. ▶ Convulsive shudderings in whole body alternating with drawing in arms and tearing in all limbs, and unconsciousness and oppression of heart. ▶ Cramps; even of hands and fingers.

Sticking here and there in muscles during the day; S. in parenchyma of organs, as in lungs, liver, and very fine in testicles. ▶ Myalgia. ▶ Pains; on every motion; over whole body; over whole body, agg. motion, with stiffness; intermittent, agg. about scrobiculus cordis and umbilicus; so that she ran about the room out of her senses and screaming. ▶ Malaise. ▶ Discomfort in periosteum of all bones, like onset of intermittent fever, with heat in head towards evening. ▶ Restlessness; obliging him to leave the bed. ▶ Debility; in morning, with suffering; agg. joints. ▶ Faintness; frequent. ▶ Aggravation in morning, especially weakness and vertigo, weakness amel. work; A. on walking in open air; from acids; from fat food. ▶ Amelioration from rest.

▶ Delirium; and stupor; at night; must be forcibly confined to his bed. ▶ Indecent exposure of person. ▶ Ill humor; all day; in afternoon; alternating with joyfulness. ▶ Low spirits. ▶ Anxiety; at night. ▶ Disinclination to talk. ▶ Intellect weak, looks at us with wide-open eyes and does not understand us; dull, but rational when fairly awake. ▶ Stupor; with pallor and dry, unsteady eyes. ▶ Thoughts disconnected, spoke of three kinds of headache, tried to correct himself, till he was obliged to stop from vexation. ▶ Coma. ▶ Unconscious, pulseless at wrists, tossing about.

Aching; like a drawing in periosteum of skull; as if on fire. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Confusion; agg. above brows; amel. emission of flatus. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Congestion of H. and face, with burning in cheeks. ▶ Vertigo; on lifting head from pillow; agg. 8 P.M. on lying down, with almost loss of hearing and tearing in occiput. ▶ Sticking in forehead; above left eye, mingled with pressure, agg. stooping. ▶ Frontal pain; in right eminence. ▶ Dullness in upper part of forehead; in forehead, with waving pain in both hemispheres of brain. ▶ Pain in temples; changing to pressure above left eye. ▶ Sticking in left parietal bone.

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Lies on the back, with the knees bent up.
Extreme debility.

Ill humor.
Low spirits.
Delirium; must be confined to the bed forcibly, at night.
Stupidity.
Stupor.
Coma.

Drawing pains in the periosteum.
Congestion.
Headaches, with burning in the cheeks and face.

Pain, as if the eyes would be forced out.
Conjunctiva red.
Inflammation; with tearing in the bones about the eyes.
Pupils insensible.
Photophobia.

Violent coryza, with heat and dryness in the nose, rather scanty mucous discharge, soreness and burning of the nostrils; discharge excoriates the upper lip.
Nose-bleed.

Swollen and red.
At times sunken, with an expression of collapse.
Lips black, swollen and tender.
Dry and cracked.

Gums swollen and spongy, bleed easily.
Teeth sore, loose and painful at night.
Tongue swollen, inflamed and white.
Very red, with blackish coat.
Coated and moist, with red edges.
General inflammation of the mouth, with ulceration, burning pain.
Dryness and burning of the mouth, with salivation.
Bitter or salt taste.
Metallic taste.

Internal and external swelling, with tenderness.
Inflammation, with threatening suffocation, with excessive swallowing, ulceration, salivation, violent headache, even delirium, prostration, especially involving arches of the palate and uvula.
Burning pain in the throat, extending through œsophagus to stomach, < external pressure.
Swallowing, even of fluids, extremely difficult, with constriction and dryness of throat.
Spasm of the œsophagus on attempting to swallow.

Thirst excessive for large quantities, though with difficulty in swallowing.
Vomiting of tenacious mucus, with bile or blood; green, bilious, incessant; epigastric region swollen, sensitive.

Swollen and painful.
Bruised sensation, worse in the cœcal region, extending along colon.
Soreness of transverse colon.

Most extreme tenesmus, with scanty evacuations of mucus and blood.
Violent burning in the rectum and anus.
Stools consist of blood and mucus, with constant straining.
Stools pasty, dark green, blackish, offensive.
Stools of bloody mucus, with cutting pains in abdomen, accompanied by burning in the anus and tenesmus of rectum and bladder together.

Extreme burning and straining in the neck of the bladder.
Micturition frequent, very scanty.
Urine scanty, containing albumen, bloody.

Clinical:
Indicated in violent inflammations of the bladder, with extreme tenesmus and burning.
Inflammation of kidneys, associated with pain in the neck of the bladder.
Urethritis, with greenish discharge, burning pain and tenesmus.

Swelling of the male organs.
Inflammation and swelling of female organs.

Cough, with expectoration of bloody mucus.
Difficult respiration.

Clinical:
Laryngitis, with aphonia, hoarseness, burning and pain as if the larynx were being cut by a knife.

Sticking pains, worse on right side.

Pulse rapid, intermittent, even irregular.

Clinical:
Pott's disease of the spine, with abscesses and numerous symptoms of Mercury.

General weakness, with trembling.
Must lie with the lower extremities drawn up in bed.
Sticking pains in the hips, > motion.

Wakeful after 3 A. M.
Starts up from sleep.
Frightful dreams.

Shivering, with cold skin, small, intermittent pulse, even with sweat.
Coldness of the limbs.
Shivering during and after swallowing.
Heat, causing great restlessness at night, with anxiety; often temporarily > drinking cold water.
Sweat at night on various parts of the body; offensive towards morning.

Mer. c. / (Mc.) / Mercy.

Mercury c. like Mercury s.,
Ills of similar kind express.
But in dysentery, we
Give the choice to Mercury c.
And for blackness of the lips,
Mercury c. the balance tips.

Mercy, - Has Dysentery.

Mercy Pi-bel Carbola, the Spanish queen, is on the way to Baptisia in Russia, with Colonel Colch.

This Mercy, - Whose lips are black, - Is in China with Philip the weaver.

Dysentery: Mer. c., Pet., Bell., Carbol. a., Canth., Ipe., Nux v., Ars., Arn., Bap., Rhus, Colo., Colch.

Black Lips: Merc. c., Chin., Pho., Ars., Ver. a.

Indicated chiefly in dysentery; when to the indications of Mercury is added an element of intensity and a tendency to destruction of tissue lacking in the other mercurials.

Diarrhoea, dysentery; stools yellow, green, followed by slime and blood; with severe, cutting, colicky pain; tenesmus almost constant, but especially violent during and for some time after stool; tenesmus almost continuous, with brief intervals; tenesmus extends into the bladder; after stool, burning in the rectum and anus.

Chilliness between the stools.

Urine scanty, suppressed.

Urine contains substance looking like flesh.

Great agitation with anxiety, inquietude and continued jactitation. Anxiety, during sleep. Low spirited. Ill humor. Weak intellect. Indecent exposure. Delirium and stupor. disconnected speech.

Vertigo, - On lifting head.

Confusion, emission of flatus. Congestion to, and to face, with burning cheeks. Pains: Violent, causing screaming, as if on fire, sticking, tearing in occiput, aching, drawing in pericranium, undulating, in brain. Falling of hair.

Protruding. Glistening. Inflamed. Bloodshot. Burning in. Dry. As if forced out from behind. Tearing in bones above. Squint seem smaller and more distant. Worse: Light.

Violent pulsation in. Whirring, rhythmical with the pulse.

Coryza. Frequent nosebleed. Perforation of cartilage. Discharge like is in glass. Dryness, in back of, in open air.

Swollen, worse lower part, tense shining cheeks, and red. Pale, anxious and pinched. Frowning. Hippocratic, with sunken eyes. Convulsive motions of. Tearing in malar bones. Necrosis of upper jaw. Painfully swollen glands.

Lips black: excessively swollen and tender. Lips blue. Lips dry and cracked. Convulsive motions at corners of lips.

Loose, and feel blunt. Sordes on. Prickling at roots of. Gums: Purple. Swollen, spongy and tender, bleeding easily. Inflamed, with burning pains. Ulcerated. Worse: Night.

Inflamed, swollen, preventing protrusion.

Inflammation, swelling, ulceration and burning heat, extending into stomach. Great dryness of, and of throat, with intolerable thirst for cold water. Rawness of and of throat. Fissured. False membrane in, and in throat. Fetor. Salvation: Bloody, yellowish, difficult to expectorate. Better cold water.

Taste: Bitter, Salt, astringent, metallic, fatty.

Excessively violent burning pain in fauces, pharynx and oesophagus, Swelling: Threatening suffocation, of pillars and tonsils, of uvula with elongation, of glands, externally, with heat. Extremely painful soreness of, and of mouth and tongue. Constriction with dysphagia. Spasm of glottis, oesophagus and stomach. Dark, or fiery redness of. Scraping roughness, causing hawking. Filled with a glairy, sticky or bloody mucus. As if something stuck in lower oesophagus. Better: cold water. Worse: Slightest external pressure.

Painful inflammation and contraction of gastro - intestinal tract. Hiccup, with every motion of body. Regurgitation thro nose, Vomiting: Violent, with constriction of throat, incessant, after least quantity of water, with nausea, painful retching and insatiable thirst, spasmodic, profuse, at night, with frightful pains in pit and umbilical regions, with bilious diarrhoea, green, stringy, sticky, bloody, in streaks or like coffee grounds, blue. Pains, Pricking, griping, pinching. Swelling of. Ulcers and ecchymoses in. Worse: Slight pressure.

Swollen, tympanitic and exquisitely sensitive. Pains: Cutting, griping, pinching, sticking bruised, worse in caecal region and transverse colon, colicky at umbilicus, in epigastrium, with cramps in pelvic and genital organs. Coldness of skin all over. Apprehension in lower, and in bladder region. Swollen sensation in inguinal and axillary glands. Worse: Sensitive to touch, pressure and the air. Better: Passing flatus. Bending double.

Bloody: Frequent, at night, with great tenesmus and colic, scanty, of blood and mucus, with constant desire, dysenteric, of scanty bloody mucus with cutting in abdomen. excessively painful tenesmus and almost ineffectual urging, dark green, blackish, streaked, bluish, grumous, pasty, of membranous shreds, involuntary, of pure blood, very offensive, purulent.

Oozing corrosive ichor. violent burning in, and in anus. Distressing tenesmus, getting worse and worse, passes nothing but blood - tinged mucus. Inflammation and ulceration of.

Suppression of urine and stool. Urination frequent, scanty, urine passed drop by drop with great pain, burning and tenesmus. Urine: albuminous, thick, blackish, bloody, containing mucus, scalding. Pyelitis. Bladder: Feels full, even after micturition, inflamed, contracted. Gonorrhea. discharge thick, with smarting urination and shooting pains along urethra. Sticking, burning, itching, shooting and inflammation in urethra and meatus.

Inflamed and enormously swollen. Violent erections and sexual desire, burning in urethra after coition. Shooting or painful griping in testicles. Leucorrhoea of a nauseating sweetish odor. Suppressed menses, with headache and trembling of hands, legs and neck. Menses excessive, like a flooding. Pressive pain on touching on uteri during coition. Painful swelling of glands around nipples.

Paroxysmal tickling in throat, with convulsive, suffocative cough and anxiety. Coughs up blood tinged mucus. Dryness of larynx. Frequent stitches shoot through thorax. Chronic pleuro - pneumonia, especially of left side. Cramp from right breast to back, just below scapula. Milk suppressed.

Best, Tumultuous, intermittent. Pulse uneven.

- Tonic cramps during which respiration stops. Lumbar pains which spread into hypogastrium and groins, alternating with convulsions and contraction of muscles.

Hands and feet livid, shrunken and cold. Formication, numbness, heaviness, weakness and trembling of. Cramps, convulsions or stiffness of. lax feeling in deltoid, calf and thigh muscles, in joints.

Drawn up. Sticking, tearing or shooting pains in hip joint. Feet icy cold. Paralysis and complete insensibility of. Pricking in.

Violence characterizes its action. Intolerably violent pains. Osteocopic pains, painful drawing in periosteum. Acrid or corrosive discharges. Spasms and spasmodic motions. Tremblings. Lying on back with knees bent up. Great debility and inclination to lie down. Extreme sensitiveness of whole body. Paralytic stiffness and paralysis of extremities, with extreme sensitiveness to the slightest motion, headache at the root of the nose, eyes fixed and brilliant, and skin dry, sweating on forehead only. Violent swelling and burning of affected parts. Pains in body with general stiffness, more from movement. Worse: Walking in open air aggravates many symptoms. Acids. Fat foods. Motion. Night. Better: Rest.

Formication in. Desquamative dermatitis. Shriveled. Dry, burning, hot and smarting. Great coldness of. Pustules. Itching, prickling, sticking in. Rapid ulcerations.

Continual insomnia. Somnolency, frequent yawning and stretching. Starting during or on falling to sleep. Frightful dreams. Coma.

Pulse: Small, weak, often intermittent, sometimes tremulous. Chill: From the least movement and in open air, cutting in abdomen is an almost constant accompaniment. Chilliness in evening, especially on head. Chill at night in bed. Hear: External, with yellow skin. Burning and sticking heat in skin. Heat when stooping and coldness when raising up. Sweat: Nightsweat: towards morning it becomes offensive. Cold sweat often upon forehead only. Entire skin covered with a cold anxious sweat. Sticky sweat.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Aur., Bell., Cad-s., Canth., Kali - c., Kali - io, Kre., Lach., MERC., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Sul - ac., Verat-a.

Antidote: Ars.

Tearing in the periosteum, as from intermittent fever with sensation of heat about the head.

Chilliness from the least motion with cutting in the abdomen and tenesmus.

Swelling of the upper lip.

Salivation of salty taste a very valuable indication for the sublimatus.

Dysentery is more favorably effected by the sublimatus than any other homoeopathic preparation as yet used.

Bloody frequent motions of dysentery at once benefitted - that state if diarrhoeal disease termed "the bloody flux" in the late American Civil War.

Also green motions consisting of mucus like scrapings of the intestines with continued cutting in the abdomen, tenesmus and clotted blood.

Syphillis in all its various manifestations.

In painful and acute swelling of the mammary glands and the nipples.

Swelling of the testicles after suppressed gonorrhoeal disease.