Generalities
Gold makes a profound impression on the MIND, producing acute mental depression, hopelessness and loss of love of life. CIRCULATION IS DISTURBED; all the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs. Orgasms, as if blood were boiling in all the veins. Erratic ebullitions. Venous congestion_more to head and chest. Caries of bones esp. of nose; palatine and mastoid. Bone pains are boring and cutting. Pains wander, impelling motion, finally attack heart. Indurations and glandular swellings. Exostosis, osteitis, Sclerosis of arteries; coronary, liver, brain. Extremely violent symptoms. Mercuric syphilitic dyscrasia. Chronicity of complaints. Heart feels loose on walking. As of air blowing on part. It is adapted to nervous, hysterical women; girls at puberty; pining boys; old people with heart disease; to persons who are low-spirited, lifeless, weak memory; yet sensitive to pain; which drives them to despair. Ill effects of grief, fright, anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved displeasure. Prolonged anxiety; unusual responsibility. Loss of property. Hopeless with heart disease; hopeful with lung disease. Cancerous ulcers. Necrosis. Dropsy.
Worse
Emotions. Depressing; disordered affections. Mental exertion. Cold, weather. Night_Sunset to Sunrise. Mercury. Alcohol. Pot- Iodide. Cloudy weather. Winter.
Better
Cool; Open air. Cold bathing Becoming warm. Music. Walking. Moonlight.
Mind
Intense hopeless depression; and disgust of life. Talk of committing suicide. Suicidal anguish. Peevish and vehement on least contradiction, or cheerful alternately. Brooding melancholy; alternating with irritability or moroseness. Feeling of condemnation and utter worthlessness. Weeping, praying and self reproaching from heart disease. Loquacity. Rapid questioning, without waiting for a reply. Fears the least noise. Weak memory. Vexed mood. Violent hysteria; with desperate actions; thrashes oneself about etc. Self reproach; self criticism. Changing moods. She does everything wrong; thinks had neglected something; her friends; her duty. Indisposed to talk. Hateful and quarrelsome. Future looks dark. Grumbling.
Head
Violent pain in head causing confusion. Headache of students, with precordial anxiety and flushes of heat to the head. Head hot, full. Exostosis with boring pain. Boils on scalp. Lumps under scalp. Baldness from syphilis. As if air passed over the brain.
Eyes
Photophobia. Hemiopia; upper half of objects invisible. Orbits feel sore. Glaucoma. Pupils; irregular. Yellow crescent bodies floating obliquely upward. Black spots, flames, sparks before the eyes. Everything looks blue.
Ears
Caries of the mastoid. Obstinate foetid otorrhoea. Nerve deafness, with embarrassed speech. Oversensitive to noise, but better music.
Nose
Ulcerated, painful swollen_caries; foetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Red, knobby tip of nose. Ozena. Snubbed.
Face
Congested, bluish-red. Parotids swollen, painful to touch. Pains in zygomae. Fine eruptions on lips, face or forehead.
Mouth
Offensive odour; in girls at puberty. Tongue leathery, hard. Milky or sweetish taste, foul even to water. Warts on tongue. Caries of teeth. Ulcers on palate. Gums swollen, dark red, bleeding.
Throat
Stitches on swallowing. Caries of palate. Drinks come through nose.
Stomach
Burning at stomach, with hot risings. Desire for milk and coffee. Loss of appetite in pining boys. Thirst. Voracious appetite.
Abdomen
Liver region hot and painful. Hepatitis. Jaundice; of pregnancy. Liver with heart symptoms. Ascites, with heart affections. Constipation better during menses. Stools, knotty, hard, large. Warts around the anus. Grumbling and rumbling in. Inguinal hernia of children.
Urinary Organs
Urine turbid like buttermilk. Painful, paralytic retention.
Male
Pain and swelling of testicles_orchitis. Atrophy of testicles in boys. Hydrocele; of children. Chronic induration of testicles. Sarcocele. Epididymitis.
Females
Syphilitic sterility; also of those women who are mentally depressed on account of their barrenness. Uterus enlarged and prolapsed. Constant oozing from the vulva. Vaginismus. Labour pains make her desperate. Uterine troubles, worse reaching high with arms. Induration and ulceration of the womb from repeated abortions. Leucorrhoea worse walking. Amenorrhoea with great sadness. Menses late, scanty.
Respiratory organs
Crushing weight under sternum worse ascending. Dyspnoea worse laughing, at night. Dry, nervous spasmodic cough, peculiar to women, from sunset to sunrise. Always takes a deep breath, and cannot get enough air.
Heart
Sensation as if the heart stopped beating, immediately followed by hard rebound. Oppression at the heart. Violent palpitation, at puberty. Cardiac hypertrophy. Angina Pectoris. Aortic disease. Carotids and temporal arteries throb visibly. Pulse, rapid, feeble, irregular. High blood pressure. Feels loose on walking. Palpitation compels him to stop. Heart bruised, sore worse suppressed foot sweat.
Neck and Back
Swollen cervical glands; like knotted cord. As if lower spine bulged backwards. Lumbar muscles painfully stiff, thigh cannot be raised. Port’s disease.
Extremities
Nightly leg pains. Holds the left arm during attack of palpitation. Knees weak. Paralytic feeling in legs. Nails turn blue. Pains in both the knees as if tightly bandaged. Trembling feet. Hot bruised soles, at night. Cold foul foot sweat.
Sleep
Restless, with anxious, frightful dreams. Sobs aloud in sleep. Disturbed by sexual excitement.
Fever
Painfully sensitive to cold; shivering in bed. Cold and damp all over. Sweat about genitals.
Skin
Lipoma. Warts. Acne.
Related
Mercurius