Aurum muriaticum

Auric chloride. Ascl^.

Hahnemann had, in his Materia Medica, 1818, published some symptoms obtained before the trituration was preferred. Dr. Molin published in the French journals, 1845, after a good proving of Aurum met., the first useful proving; he was followed by Buchner and others, contained, with the exception of Prasoberera, in Allen, Val. II, 1875.

Mind

Functions of mind in best order and clear in his views, except with regard to his health or disease ; he imagines he has all possible diseases, θ Angina pectoris.

▌ If left alone he thinks about nothing but his ailments, and gets more and more out of humor ; desires company, θ Angina pectoris.

▌ Inclined to suicide ; frequent weeping ; aversion to occupation.

▌ Laziness. θ Albuminuria.

▌ Great depression of mind. θ Dropsy.

Everything is disagreeable, dreary, even nature around.

││ Sadness, as when homesick ; I sad, as though a great misfortune impended.

▌ Melancholic mood. θ Ozsena syphilitica.

▌ Profound melancholy. θ Dropsy.

Great anxiety, with palpitation.

Loss of energy ; diminished virility ; unrefreshing sleep.

Stull of whims and notions.

Irritable without cause ; tired of life.

▌ Insurmountable mental or bodily restlessness; he has to spend hours in the street and in the open air. θ Angina pectoris.

▌ Thinking about his disease brings on palpitation. θ Angina pectoris.

▌ After fright or vexation, palpitation, which he can feel and hear, θ Angina pectoris.

▌ Ailments from violent chagrin.

Sensorium p. 283

Vertigo, as if he was walking in the air.

▌ Dullness of head, θ Albuminuria.

Inner Head p. 283

▌ Dull frontal headache.

Drawing headache in forehead.

▌ Drawing in left half of head.

▌ Constant burning in whole head; worse on left side.

Burning with stinging in occiput.

;sometimes a penetrating pain from forehead down to nose.

Throbbing, with heavy dreams ; throbbing in left temple after rising ; relieved by application of cold water.

Congestion to the head increasing to delirium.

Outer Head p. 283

Burning in the forehead.

▌ Head hot; limbs cool. θ Albuminuria.

Drawing, tearing in bones of skull from time to time ; head feels insensible.

Pressure on brain, along sagittal suture.

Cool sensation on vertex.

Tickling itching on the forehead.

TiHair, eyebrows and beard fall out.

Sight and Eyes p. 283

Sudden blindness in childbed.

▌ Amaurosis.

Cannot accomodate his eyes quickly for near or far objects.

Complete blindness, occurring suddenly after scarlet fever, with cold sweat; rapid, scarcely perceptible pulse; respiration rapid and unequal ; abdomen burning hot ; extremities cold and covered with sweat ; pupils do not react to light.

Evening, candle-light, letters disappear ; paper white, as if not printed upon.

Neuralgic pain in 1. eye.

Feeling as if eyes were drawn deep into the head.

▌ Sclerotica red, with sensation of burning heat and prickling.

▌▌ Keratitis parenchymatous ; cornea very opaque, traversed by a dense mass of blood-vessels in the cornea, proper (or not), and tending towards staphyloma, ciliary injection, some photophobia, and no vision.

▌ Acute ophthalmia, θ Caries of the nasal bones.

Burning, pricking itching and tickling in the eyes and lids.

Lachrymation.

Difficulty in keeping eyes shut.

Lids agglutinated in the morning.

▌ Chronic inflammation of edges of eyelids.

▌ Fistula lachrymalis.

Hearing and Ears p. 284

Buzzing in left ear and sensitiveness.

Ringing and roaring in ears, followed by deafness, with sensa^ tiou as if the ears were wide and hollow inside, so could not hear distinctly.

▌ Music relieves.

▌ Ears reddened. θ Angina pectoris.

Scurf behind the ears.

Burning and itching behind the ears, particularly at night.

Smell and Nose p. 284

Pressing pain in the nose.

Burning and itching in the nose.

BBIows blood from the nose.

Crawling in the cavities, as if a coryza was breaking out ; stinging itching on small places ; r. to 1.

▌ Coryza.

▌ Snuffles of a baby.

▌ Bad-smelling, watery discharge, irritating the upper lip.

▌ Discharge from nose containing some blood at times, θ Dropsy.

Yellow-greenish discharge, not offensive, after 10 days.

▌▌ Ozsena scrofulosa, with unbearable odor.

▌ Sudden running of pus from the nose. θ Ozsena syphilitica.

Nostrils stuffed up with hard crusts, θ Syphilitic ozsena.

BRed swelling of left side of nose ; nasal cavity ulcerated deep in, with dry, yellowish scurf and sense of obstruction, although enough air passes.

Nasal bones sensitive ; also upper middle of sinciput.

Burning and itching pain in upper part of nose, externally.

Redness and swelling of nose.

▌ Hardness around the corners of the nose and lips, θ Ozaena.

Deep cracks in the alas nasi ; in old cases of ozsena.

Lupus attacking the alae nasi.

▌ Infants nose dented in.

^ Face. B Red face, θ Angina pectoris.

Pale face with single red spots.

BFacepale; limbs cold ; sudden blindness. θ In child-bed.

││ Burning in face at times, mostly after shaving, with a dark redness of the cheeks.

On different parts of the face digging, gnawing, stitching pain.

Itching, as from the tickling of a feather on various parts of the face.

Acne rosacea.

Caries of the upper jaw-bone after typhoid fever; pain in bones and teeth.

▌ Infant with ancient appearance.

Lower Face p. 285

Caries of lower jaw since scarlatina in second year of her age ; set. 18.

▌ Exostosis of r. cheek-bone disappeared in two months after the treatment. ;trembling of lower jaw and threatened with trismus. Watery, offensive moisture inflaming the upper lip. Indurations in the lips.

Burning like pepper on the lips.

Pustule on the lip.

▌ Lips swollen, they burn and itch.

▌ Cancerous ulcers on the lips.

▌ Lips deep red. θ Angina pectoris.

Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Teeth and Gums p. 285

Loose teeth.

Jerking pain in the teeth.

Front teeth sensitive ; metallic taste.

Great tenderness of gums and slight salivation.

Gums inflamed or white, blueish ; painful in spots, even ulcerated.

▌ Dental fistula.

Taste and Tongue p. 285

Metallic taste.

Flat, bad taste in the mouth.

▌ Taste entirely lost. θ Cancer.

▌ Tongue as hard as leather, hardly moveable. ;tongue became stiff and prevented articulation of certain words, θ Cancer.

▌ Induration remaining after glossitis.

Redness, dryness, and excoriation of the tongue.

Yellow, furred tongue.

Warts on the tongue. ;tongue ulcerated in various places.

▌ Cancer on the tongue.

Inner Mouth p. 285

Dry mouth.

Inflammation of the mouth.

Burning itching and biting in mouth.

Saliva increased, frequent desire to swallow ; metallic taste. Mouth filled with aphthae.

Palate and Throat p. 285

Fauces red, pain in throat.

▌ Mucus in morning passes from head to throat, θ Ozsena.

▌ Inflammation with hoarseness.

▌ Suppurating ulcer on tonsils with loss of substance. Scraping and pricking in throat.

Painful redness of the fauces and pharynx.

Dryness in the throat ; difficult deglutition.

Frequent desire to swallow ; feeling of a plug in throat ; metallic taste ; increased saliva.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 285

Appetite increased or lost.

Thirst.

Sweetened coffee disgusts him.

Eating and Drinking p. 286

After eating : nausea ; distension and fullness of stomach ; frequent yawning.

After breakfast : nausea leaves.

Slow digestion.

▌ Diarrhoea after eating.

Worse from coffee, tea, wine.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 286

Belching and nausea ; risings have a putrid taste.

Nausea fasting, better after breakfast.

▌ Vomiting of a green fluid, θ Albuminuria.

Vomiting of some white frothy matter (dogs).

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 286

Pressure in scrobiculum.

Sensation of fullness in stomach.

▌ Burning, cutting, stitching in stomach. θ Cardialgia.

Painful drawing in pit to the middle of sternum ; as if a hard body was pressed into cavity ; worse stooping, eating, drinking; paroxysmal.

Slow digestion.

▌ Cramps in stomach.

Increased warmth in stomach.

▌ Inflammation of stomach.

Mucous membrane of stomach ulcerated ; in dogs.

Hypochondria p. 286

Burning in r. hypochondrium, with heat and pricking in abdomen.

Constant sensation of tension in r. hypochondrium.

▌ Induration of the liver with dropsy.

Pressure in the hypochondria.

▌ Burning in right hypochondrium ; constant disagreeable feeling ; hepatic hypersemia and swelling, θ Ascites.

▌ Spleen enlarged. θ Albuminuria.

Stitches in 1. hypochondrium, as after running.

Abdomen, Loins and Groins p. 286

Abdomen distended ; constrictive colic obliges her to double up ; only goes off in bed.

Redness, heat, itching and biting at the umbilicus.

Dull bellyache.

Pain in bowels, θ Albuminuria.

Tympanitis.

▌ Distension of single places in the abdomen.

Drawing pain in abdomen.

Straining, tensive pain, as if laced.

▌ Ascites. θ Liver affections. θ Albuminuria.

Tension in the loins.

▌ Stiffness in region of the groins.

Eruption of small red nodules above the pubes.

Abdomen sensitive to touch.

;considerable swelling of inguinal glands.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 287

Frequent fluid stools.

Diarrhoea : worse at night ; after eating ; with pain in bowels.

Stools : grayish-white, yellow, watery.

▌ Diarrhoea. θ Albuminuria.

Obstinate costiveness.

▌ Hemorrhoidal tumors ; blood discharged during stool.

Condylomata at the anus.

││ Excrescences near anus, with an abundant serous discharge.

▌ Anal and intercrural excoriation in a baby.

▌ Numerous circumanal condylomata, with a scrofulous, syphilitic baby.

▌▌ Fistula in ano of five months standing, with a young man, set. 21, bilious, sanguine temperament.

Urinary Organs p. 287

▌ Scanty urine. θ Anasarca.

Urine turbid, with a red lateritious sediment.

▌ Frequent urging to urinate ; worse at night, θ Albuminuria.

▌ Incontinence of urine; worse at night. θ Old man, after dropsy.

││ Burning on urinating ; urine feels as if too hot ; tenesmus vesicoe.

▌ Urine turbid. θ Dropsy.

▌ Increased discharge of urine; urine has a peculiar odor and sediment.

If the bladder is filled in the morning, he has strong erections but no sexual desire.

▌ Pressing around the waist ; increased urine ; renal hyperaemia. θ Heart disease, θ Morbus Brightii.

▌ Pains in region of kidneys ; urine pale, clear. θ Albuminuria in pregnancy.

Heat, tickling and burning in urethra.

;suppressed urethral discharges are re-established.

▌▌ Syphilitic gonorrhoea.

Male Sexual Organs p. 287

Diminished virility ; melancholy.

Increased sexual desire.

Exhausting erections ; hypergemia.

Testicles swollen, tense ; drawing along the cords.

Gleet; worse mornings.

Warts on the prepuce.

▌ Chancre-like ulcers.

▌ Condylomata on prepuce, anus and tongue.

Flat ulcers on the scrotum secreting a fetid ichor.

Chancres secrete an abundance of laudable pus ; buboes become vast hearths of suppuration.

▌▌ Chancres on the prepuce and scrotum.

▌▌ Bubo in 1. groin.

Excrescences extending from the glans up to os sacrum.

▌ Excrescences on scrotum, θ Fistula in ano.

Female Sexual Organs p. 287

: Sterility.

▌ Painful induration of the mouth of uterus.

▌ Metritis.

Menses too early and profuse ; blood acrid, makes her sore.

Before menses : leucorrhoea ; red pustules on the labia.

▌ Catamenia suppressed, θ Dropsy.

;amenorrhoea.

▌ Leucorrhoea, light-yellow, especially mornings; uterus prolapsed, indurated ; chronic metritis, with malposition and discharge.

▌ Pudenda oversensitive.

▌ Burning, itching of vulva.

▌ Heat and itching in vagina.

Vaginitis.

▌ Gonorrhoeal discharge and swelling of both groins.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 288

During pregnancy and after childbed: dropsical symptoms.

Infiltration of cellular tissue of legs in childbed. See 33.

Voice and Larynx p. 288

Trachea and Bronchia. Voice rough or screeching.

Speaking is difficult.

││ Hoarseness, with violent fever and pleuritic symptoms.

▌ Hoarseness, with inflammation of throat.

▌ Chronic irritation of the air passages.

Respiration p. 288

Pressure on the chest impedes breathing ; worse standing.

││ Anxious contraction of chest.

││ Long-lasting asthmatic symptoms.

Oppression as soon as the clothes are fastened.

▌ Anxious abdominal respiration; labored breathing. θ Anasarca.

Difficult breathing from stagnation of blood ; heart beats increased, too strong.

Suffocation at night.

Oppression compelling deep breathing, which relieves.

Cough p. 288

Short, dry cough in paroxysms, especially at night, followed by heat in throat.

Frequent hard cough, with white sputa mingled with threads of blood.

Frequent, loud-sounding cough.

Frequent night cough.

Loose cough, with thick yellow expectoration.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 288

▌ Pressure under sternum ; palpitation increases with every step, as if the chest would burst. θ Hypersemia from stenocardia.

▌ Pulmonary catarrh.

││ Stitches under the ribs and other signs of pleurisy.

Inflammatory symptoms of lungs.

▌ Pains in left side of chest, as in pleurisy ; they change place and sometimes leave.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 289

Sore aching in cardiac region ; burning, pricking.

Drawing and cutting in cardiac region.

Pressure in region of heart, with gnawing in abdomen.

Awakened by a sticking, boring at the point where impulse of apex is felt; feels as if he could not have endured it longer; deep breathing does not alter it ; hand pressed lightly does ; immediately afterwards lancinating streaming pain, thence to 1. hypochondrium.

Stitches directly above the heart.

Peculiar sensation of heaviness and rigidity in the heart, with sudden arrest of breathing.

▌ Cardiac anguish. θ Endocarditis.

▌▌ Angina pectoris (next to Arnic. indispensable).

▌ Endocarditis rheumatic.

▌ Heart disease accompanying carious affections of the bones.

▌ Beating of heart causes anxiety and sleeplessness, cannot rest until heart is quiet, θ Angina pectoris.

Percussion all along the heart dull, θ Stenocardia.

▌ Heart-beats irregular, with severe constriction of the chest; θ Rheumatism, after disappearance of swelling of joints.

Palpitation : with anxiety ; worse from every mental emotion.

Heart contracts more strongly; first sound increased.

▌ Heart-beats sharp and metallic, but no other abnormal sound. θ Angina pectoris.

▌ Violent, irregular palpitation, with great oppression of heart. θ Endocarditis.

Throbbing in the carotid and temporal arteries.

▌ Pulse large. θ Angina pectoris.

▌ Pulse small and frequent. θ Dropsy.

▌ Heart's beat weak ; apex felt indistinctly, θ Stenocardia.

▌ Weak pulse and feeble heart. θ Dropsy.

Neck and Back p. 289

▌ Hard swelling had twisted the neck to the r. shoulder, θ After scarlatina ; 2".

Dull drawing in the neck while sitting;.

Tension in dorsal vertebrae.

Burning, pricking, cutting and stiffness in back.

Very severe backache.

Upper Limbs p. 289

Drawing in shoulders ; worse in bed.

Disagreeable sensation in shoulders and arms.

││ Tearing in 1. shoulder ; in r. arm, from elbow to tip of little finger.

Burning, lancinating in arms and forearms.

Involuntary concussive shocks in arms.

▌ Spasmodic motion of arms.

Swelling in wrist, no pain, if left alone ; tensive only when bending hand back ; stitches on seizing anything.

Trembling of hands in the morning.

Stiffness of arms and finger-joints.

Tearing pain in middle finger after a meal.

;painful swelling of r. hand, θ Endocarditis.

Burning and itching of hands.

The hands can be closed with less facility.

Lower Limbs p. 290

Blood-boils on the nates and thighs.

Stiffness in the thighs and legs.

Heat, pricking and stinging in the knees.

Knees painfully swollen ; worse stretching leg.

▌ Exostoses, with bone-pain in both shin-bones. θ Secondary syphilis.

▌ Right tibia, anterior aspect of bone denuded and black nearly its entire length, surrounding soft parts inflamed and swollen ; with a boy, get. 12, exfoliating and healing within six months, θ Necrosis.

▌ Legs swollen and very tender along the inside of tibia.

▌ Left leg oedematous swollen.

▌ Infiltration of cellular tissue of legs; great tension, pain. θ Childbed.

Deep-seated, tensive pain in dorsum of left foot ; worse from motion, during evening and night, disturbing sleep ; also from warmth.

A doughy, sharply defined, semicircular swelling on dorsum of left foot, extremely sensitive to touch.

▌ Deep-seated, troublesome pain in left foot. θ After typhoid fever.

▌ Periostitis of left foot. θ After typhus. θ After mechanical injury-

Burning in the feet.

Swelling of the feet.

Cutting pain in the toes when walking.

▌ Redness and swelling of toes, with burning and stinging ; cannot put the feet down.

Limbs in General p. 290

Drawing, tearing, especially in the extremities.

▌ Limbs cold, covered with sweat. θ After scarlatina.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 290

Lying : cannot lie on back. θ Anasarca.

Must lie doubled up : in colic.

Sitting : drawing in the neck.

Standing : pressure on chest impeding breathing worse.

Stooping : pains in sternum worse.

Stretching leg : swollen knee worse.

Rising : throbbing 1. temple worse.

Motion : pain 1. foot < ; impossible in dropsy.

Walking : pain in toes.

▌ Ascending a hill or stairs causes palpitation and dyspnoea. θ Stenocardia.

▌ Great restlessness : changes his position every moment ; his friends call him "the quicksilver man." θ Neurosis cordis.

Nerves p. 291

Great nervous irritation.

Greatest exhaustion, mostly in the limbs.

Frequent startings. θ Dropsy.

Restlessness with the palpitation.

Weakness, fever, and the most violent symptoms, as if poisoned, after trituration in water, by the teaspoonful, for syphilitic ulcers in throat.

Nervous affections, with disgust of life ; insomnia and melancholy.

Sleep p. 291

Yawning after eating.

││ Sleepy by day even at work.

││ Comatose sleep, θ Albuminuria.

▌ Sleepless: from excitement; from palpitation.

Wakes with a start.

Dreams : with sadness ; tormenting.

Time p. 291

Morning : eyelids agglutinated ; mucus passed from head to throat; erection if bladder is full; gleet < ; leucorrhoea ▌< ; trembling of hands.

Day : sleepiness even while at work.

Evening : pain in 1. foot worse.

Night : burning and itching behind ears ; diarrhoea ; urging to urinate ; incontinence of urine < ; suffocation ; dry cough < ; pain in foot ; swelling of tissue worse.

Temperature and Weather p. 291

Cold washing: throbbing in 1. temple better.

Wet cold winter : improves.

Warmth : pain in 1. foot worse.

Cannot bear warmth of bed-clothes, throws off the covers.

Chill. Fever. Sweat p. 291

Slight chilliness over the body.

││ Violent chill and fever.

▌ Hectic fever: dropsy; after scarlatina; secondary syphilis.

Copious, offensive-smelling sweat.

Sweat increased.

▌ Copious, cold sweat, θ After scarlatina.

Promotes the sweat in small-pox.

Attacks p. 291

At times very much prostrated.

In paroxysms : drawing in stomach ; short cough.

Locality and Direction p. 291

Right : exostosis of cheek bone disappeared ; tension and burning in hypochondrium ; neck twisted to shoulder by hard swelling ; tearing in arm ; painful swelling of hand ; tibia denuded and black.

Left : drawing in half of head ; burning in side of head ; throbbing in temple ; neuralgia of eye ; buzzing in ear ; red swelling side of nose ; stitches in hypochondrium ; bubo in groin ; pains side of chest ; tearing in shoulder ; pain dorsum of foot,

R. to L.: stinging itching on small places.

Above downward : pain in forehead ; pain in elbow.

Diagonally : pain from apex of heart.

Sensations p. 292

As if eyes were drawn deep into head.

As if the ears were wide and hollow inside.

Feeling of a plug in throat.

As if a hard body was pressed into epigastrium.

Disagreeable sensation in shoulders and arms.

Boring : in cardiac region.

Cutting : in cardiac region ; in back ; in toes.

Lancinating: from cardiac region to 1. hypochonder ; in arms.

Stitching : in face ; in stomach ; in 1. hypochonder ; under ribs ; above the heart ; in wrist.

Pleuritic pains : in chest.

Stinging : in occiput ; in nose ; in knees ; in toes.

Pricking : in cardiac region ; in back ; in knees.

Prickling : in eyes ; in throat.

Burning : in head ; in occiput ; in forehead ; in eyes ; behind ears; in nose; in face; on lips ; in mouth ; in stomach ; in r. hypochonder ; on urinating ; in urethra ; of vulva ; in cardiac region ; in back ; in arms ; in feet ; in toes.

Biting : in mouth ; at umbilicus.

Tearing : in bones of skull ; in 1. shoulder ; in r. arm ; from elbow to tip of little finger ; in middle finger ; in extremities.

Digging : in face.

Jerking pain : in teeth.

Gnawing : in face.

Scraping : in throat.

Drawing : in 1. half of head ; in bones of skull ; epigastrium to sternum ; in abdomen ; along spermatic cords ; in cardiac region ; in neck ; in shoulders ; in extremities.

Pressure: on brain; in nose; in scrobiculum ; around waist; on chest ; under sternum ; in cardiac region.

Aching : in cardiac region.

Penetrating pain : from forehead to nose.

Undefined pain : in throat ; in bowels ; in kidneys ; in 1. foot:

Throbbing : in 1. temple.

Concussive shocks : in arms.

Constrictive colic.

Cramps : in stomach.

Contraction : of chest.

Tension : in loins ; in vertebrae ; in legs.

Straining, tensive pain, as if laced : in abdomen.

Stiffness : in groins.

Rigidity : in cardiac region.

Crawling : in nasal cavities.

Tickling : itching on forehead ; in eyes ; on face ; in urethra.

Itching : in eyes ; behind ears ; in nose ; on face ; of lips ; in mouth ; at umbilicus ; of vulva ; in vagina.

Fullness: in stomach.

Heaviness: in cardiac region.

Heat : at umbilicus ; in urethra ; in vagina ; in knees.

Coldness : on vertex.

Dryness : in throat.

Tissues p. 293

IBHypersemia from over-action of the heart ; consequent congestion of liver, kidneys, genitals.

▌ Violent rheumatic fever, with painful swelling of joints ; leaving the joints and attacking the heart.

▌▌ Dropsies: from heart-disease; from liver-affections; with albuminuria ; after scarlatina ; with intermittent fever.

▌ Swellings characterized by heat, hardness, tension, etc.; sensitiveness to touch ; worse at night, disturbing sleep.

Emaciation, especially in syphilis.

▌ Indurations. See Nose, Lips, Teeth, Uterus, etc.

▌ Cancerous glands.

▌▌ Bones: periosteum affected; exostoses; caries, especially after abuse of mercury ; syphilitic caries.

▌ Caries of the joints, with gnawing, boring deep in.

▌ Ascites.

Morbid secretions are at once re-established.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 293

Touch : abdomen sensitive; swellings sensitive.

Light pressure: pain at apex of heart better.

Tight clothing : oppression of breathing worse.

Stepping : palpitation worse.

Cannot put foot to ground : toes red, swollen.

After mechanical injury : periostitis of foot.

▌ Cured ascites even after three successive tappings.

Skin p. 293

▌ Eczema.

▌ Skin dry and shrunken. θ Dropsy. θ Albuminuria.

Small red itching elevations, leaving spots after they disappear.

Whole body covered with ulcers and scurf, with hectic fever. θ Secondary syphilis.

Eruptions of pimples ; crops of pustules all over the body.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 293

Lymphatic, scrofulous constitution, with dropsy after scarlatina and albuminuria.

▌ Girl, aet. 12, with hypertrophy of heart, with dilatation and insufficiency of the valves, θ Hydrops.

▌ Woman, ^t. 24, lymphatic constitution, scrofulous habit. θ Hydrops.

▌ Man, set. 32, sanguine, robust, θ Secondary syphilis.

▌ Woman, set. 40, after rheumatism and endocarditis, fatty degeneration. θ Stenocardia.

BA man, set, 57, well-preserved, lively temperament, had gonorrhoea. θ Angina pectoris.

▌ After syphilis, maltreated by mercury. θ Osteocopus.

▌ Mercurial affections.

;symptoms whose suppression had caused serious mischief, reappear.

▌ A stout young man, subject to rheumatic attacks. θ Endocarditis.

Relations p. 294

Gold salts and mercury salts both loosen the cohesion of the organic tissue. Both stimulate the absorbent, secreting and excreting functions of skin, kidneys and salivary glands. Employed for a longer period they initiate a peculiar metamorphosis of plastic life. They differ from the mercurials in stimulating more the activity of heart and blood-vessels, but not fluidity organic tissue so powerfully as dry mercury.

Similar to : Acon., Amm. cm-b. (hypersemia of chest from heart-disease) ; Arg. met., Arg. nitr., Arsen. (dropsy, albuminuria, heart) ; Bellad., Cinnah. (syphilis) ; Ferrum, Glonoine (intermediate remedy in neurosis cordis) ; Lycop., Mercur., Nitr. ae., Phosphor., Platin., Silic, Sulphur.

Incompatible : sulphur springs.

Antidotes: Bellad., Cinnah., Mercur.