Mercurius Corrosivus

Skin

Burning and redness of skin, with formation of small vesicles. Severe and stubborn eczema of sweating parts of body exposed to the fumes. Condylomata. Syphilitic rash. Phagedenic ulcers. Serpiginous ulcers. Chancre. Small-pox. Swelling of glands (neck, buboes). Grey colour of nails.

Sleep

During sleep, violent hiccough. Somnolence. Frequent yawning and stretching. Sleepless at night, when trying to go to sleep violent starts, starting from sleep. Sleeplessness on account of vertigo, on account of anxiety. Dreams: of conflagrations and murder.

Fever

Pulse small, weak, intermitting, sometimes trembling. Chilliness from least movement and in open air, generally with colic. Chilliness in evening, especially on head. Chilliness at night in bed. Heat when stooping, and coldness when rising. Surface cold and covered with profuse perspiration, especially on forehead, cold perspiration, often only on forehead. Clammy, cold perspiration, offensive, toward morning. Whole skin covered with cold perspiration, with anxiety. Night-sweat. Burning and stinging heat in skin. Great heat of skin, at night with anxiety, preventing rest. External heat with yellowness of skin.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica