Mercurius corrosivus

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.)

Head

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

Eyes

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. ris muddy in color, thick, and neither contracts nor dilates. Retinitis albuminuric, ophthalmia neonatorum. Lids edematous, red, excoriated. Severe burning. Soreness of the eyes.

Nose

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.

Ears

Violent pulsations. Fetid pus.

Face

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

Mouth

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

Throat p. 437

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

Stomach p. 437

Incessant, green, bilious vomiting. Epigastrium very sensitive.

Abdomen p. 437

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

Stool p. 437

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

Respiratory p. 437

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

Urine p. 437

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. .

Male p. 437

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

Fever p. 437

Chilly from slightest exposure. Profuse perspiration; surfaces cold.

Modalities p. 437

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

Relationship p. 437

Compare: Ars.; Lach.; Leonurus—Motherwort (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 7½ grains in 7½ ozs. boiled water.