“Merc is one of the best palliatives in cancer of the uterus and mammae. It will restrain and sometimes cure epithelioma. I knew one case cured by the proto-iodide, an ulcerated, indurated lump in the breast, as large as a goose egg, with knots in the axilla, blueness of the part, and no hope. The 100th attenuation, given as often as the pains were very severe, took it away and she remained well.
“The loaded tongue and the bilious fevers fade out after Mercurius It is wonderfully useful in hectic fever in the last stage of consumption, and in exhausting diseases with hectics, and in cancer, where there is aching, m foul sweat, etc when the patient is icteric, low, prostrated, tremulous, with quivering muscles, great exhaustion and continued fever.”
By the way Mercurius and Silica are “inimicals”. One has seen the severe aggravations in abscess cases, when the one is administered after the other. Here Hepar will” straighten things out” and restore order.
Merc,. besides its foulness of mouth and salivation, has salt taste; sweet taste; metallic taste; taste of rotten eggs; “slimy” taste,.
“Troubles occurring in or on margin of eyelids; forehead: scalp; bones of the head; external top of head; glands about the ears.
“Acrid nasal secretion, nose red and excoriated all the time;’dirty-nosed children’ (Sulph). Bridge of nose may swell up,. very large on both sides and the top. Rarely give Merc if the tongue is dry.” (Guernsey’s Keynotes,)
One cannot here discuss Mercurius in the treatment of venereal diseases as laid down in Hahnemann Chronic Diseases (which work seems to be coming into its own at last): and yet one cannot pass it over without notice. For what we have to say on the subject doctors may like to glance through a little pamphlet, published by the British Homoeopathic Association, entitled Hahnemann’s Conception of Chronic Disease as caused by Parasitic Micro- organisms.
One remembers the rapid cure of a bad case of “Flu- pneumonia”just after the War, with a few doses of Mercurius 30: given because of the filthy mouth and breath, and profuse offensive sweat.
