Argentum nitricum

The Silver Nitrate. TlgO, NO^.

Keynotes

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

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

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

Apprehension when ready for church or opera, diarrhoea sets in (Gels.).

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

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

Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw beef; discharge profuse, muco-purulent.

Ophthalmia neonatorum : profuse, purulent discharge ; cornea opaque, ulcerated ; lids sore, thick, swollen; agglutinated in morning (Apis, Mer. s., Rhus ) .

Eye strain from sewing, < in warm room > in open air (Nat. m., Ruta) ; diseases due to defective accommodation.

Craves sugar; child is fond of it, but diarrhoea results from eating (craves salt or smoked meat, Col. p.).

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.

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

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

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

Urine passes unconsciously day and night (Caust.).

Impotence : erection fails when coition is attempted (Agnus, Calad., Selen.).

Coition : painful in both sexes ; followed by bleeding from the vagina (Nit. ac.).

Metrorrhagia : in young widows ; in sterility ; with nervous erethism at change of life (Lach.). Great longing for fresh air (Amyl., Puls., Sulph.). Chronic laryngitis of singers ; the high notes cause cough (Alum., Arg. m., Arum).

Great weakness of lower extremities, with trembling; cannot walk with the eyes closed (Alum.).

Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself unobserved. Convulsions preceded by great restlessness. Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing (Dolich., Hep., Nit. ac., Sil.) ; in or about uterus when walking or riding.

Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up; craves fresh air. Prevents excessive granulation in ulcers. Relation. — Natrum mur. for the bad effect of cauterizing with nitrate of silver. Coffea increases nervous headache. Boys’ complaints after using tobacco (Ars., Ver.). Similar: to, Nat. m., Nit. ac., Lach., Aur., Cup. After Ver. ; Lyc. follows well in flatulent dyspepsia. Aggravation. — Cold food; cold air; eating sugar; ice cream ; unusual mental exertion.

Amelioration. — Open air; craves the wind blowing in his face ; bathing with cold water.

The 200 or loooth potency in watery solution as a topical application in ophthalmia neonatorum has relieved when the crude Silver nitrate failed.