Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum

Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. II, p. 295

Coro-aurate of Soda. Nael, AuOl^, 2ff^0.

A double salt like the alum and tart. emet. Not proved, but used at random ; preferred by the old school.

Mind

^His disposition is much brighter, θ Mercurio-syphilis.

Feeling of unrest and impatience.

▌ After vexation. θ Jaundice.

Sensorium

Continual humming in head, with beating of carotids (see 29), almost causing delirium.

Inner Head

Violent pains on whole left side of head, mostly over the eye. θ Mercurio-syphilitic affections.

▌ Every morning pressure over eyes, pains in forehead, dullness in head, lasting until afternoon ; better in the evening ; nasal discharge bloody, fetid, ichorous.

Outer Head

Hair falls out.

Sight and Eyes

> Amaurosis.

▌ Chronic ophthalmia ; malignant, cancerous ; at the same time, nose scurfy.

▌▌ Scrofulous ophthalmia.

▌ Yellow albuginea. θ Jaundice.

▌ Swelling above 1. eye. θ Mercurio-syphilis.

^ Nose. 1 Destruction of the nasal bones, θ Ozaena.

▌ Nasal discharge bloody, ichorous, fetid.

▌▌ Ulcers in the nose.

▌ Nose swollen, hard, shining (scrofula) ; if he takes cold, erysipelas sets in.

Scurfy, oozing tetter on the nose.

▌ Deep-spreading syphilitic ulcer of skin. θ Affection of nasal bones.

® Face. ulcers in the cavities of the upper jaw.

▌ Complexion pale; embonpoint nearly lost.

Lower Face

Periosteal indurations ; after a cellulitis on lower jaw.

Ulcer in the right corner of the mouth.

▌ Opening mouth difficult, θ After cynanche cellularis.

Teeth

Teeth look dirty, get loose and gums recede ; caries of the jaw. θ Mercurio-syphilis.

Tongue

Tongue furred ; bitter taste. .

▌ Tongue white, θ Jaundice.

Warts on the tongue.

Inner Mouth p. 296

▌ Fetid odor from the mouth. θ Mercurio-syphilis.

6 Leucorrhoea.

Throat p. 296

Small blisters on fauces with swelling and inflammation ot the fauces.

▌ Two small ulcers on the right tonsil. θ Mercurio-syphilis.

'^Appetite, B No appetite, f^ Jaundice.

^^Hypochondria. Pressure in right hypochondria. θ Jaundice.

Abdomen p. 296

▌ Dropsy without fever but threatening suffocation.

EB Ascites.

Stool p. 296

Feces like whitish clay. θ Jaundice.

││ Stools harder.

Urine p. 296

Diuresis. θ Dropsy.

;suppression of urine.

▌ Urine dark. θ Jaundice.

Urine gets turbid ; more profuse than usual.

▌ Morbus Brightii.

Male Sexual Organs p. 296

Chancre, on internal surface of prepuce.

Bubo in the fold of groin.

▌ Ulcers on the foreskin ; warts around them ; ulcers on the glans eating deeply.

Female Sexual Organs p. 296

Enormous distension of an ovary.

Induration of one part and softening of another part of the uterus,

▌ Ulcers with induration of the uterus.

Neoplasmata in the abdomen.

││ Ovarian enlargement ; even dropsy.

Leucorrhoea corroding the parts.

▌ Pustules on the genitals. θ Leucorrhoea.

Pregnancy p. 296

││ Abortion from uterine indurations.

Given to syphilitic mothers to prevent the disease in her oflspring.

Scirrhus of uterus.

▌ Carcinoma mammae et uteri.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 296

;beating of carotid and temporal arteries visible to the eye; the violence of this beating became extremely annoying, and so violent was it that nothing could calm it; the disquiet caused by it put the sufferer into constant terror almost to delirium.

Neck and Back p. 296

S Pustular eruption on the back. θ Leucorrhoea.

Limbs in General p. 296

Old cases of rheumatism or gouty pains,

Time p. 296

Morning: pressure over eyes ; pains in forehead; dullness in head.

Evening : headache better.

Temperature and Weather p. 296

From October until Spring : violent headache ; four years in succession, θ Mercuriosyphilis.

TzDrj, warm weather, favors its action.

Cold, wet weather, causes inconveniences.

Chill. Fever. Sweat p. 297

;7Unusual heat and malaise.

▌ Violent fever, forcing him to keep his bed, urine copious. θ Ascites.

▌ Sweats only on right side, left (affected) side of head remains dry. θ Mercurio-syphilitic affections.

▌▌ Excessive perspiration.

;suppression of perspiration.

Locality and Direction p. 297

Right : ulcer on corner of mouth ; ulcers on tonsil ; pressure in hypochondrium ; sweats only on side of head.

Left : pains side of head ; swelling above eye ; affected side of head does not sweat.

Tissues p. 297

> Dropsy from induration of abdominal organs.

▌ Scrofula.

▌ Chronic suppuration of glands and bones.

▌▌ Indurations.

▌ Ascites.

▌▌ Caries.

Skin p. 297

Intolerable itching all over the body ; soon followed by an eruption of tubercles (little lumps), several of which being covered with dark looking scabs.

The little lumps increased and became as hard as horn ; a beginning gutta Serena was soon added.

▌ Yellow skin. θ Jaundice.

▌ Deep-spreading syphilitic ulcers of the skin.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 297

Carbo-nitrogenoid constitutions.

▌▌ Mercurio-syphilitic constitutions.

Irritable, sanguine, bilious persons are more obnoxious to its effects than phlegmatic.

Relations p. 297

Similar to : Aurum and Aur. mur. (chemically); Arg. nitr., Arsen., Badiag.θ Bryon. (ascites); Cist, can., Conium (indurations); GfrapJdt., Ifepar, loduni, Kalihichr., Kali hydr. (mercurio-syphilis) ; Lycop. (ascites) ; Ifercur. vivus et sulphur (ascites) ; Merc. jod. (caries, syphilis, glandular enlargements, etc.) ; Nitr. ac, Phosphor., PJiosph. ac, sulphur, Thuya (warts).

Incompatible : coffee and alcohol.

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