INTRODUCTION
AUR. MUR. – The Muriate of Gold. Hahnemann’s “Chronic Diseases,” II
(Symptoms of Jahr, Noack, and Trinks,.).
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
Spasms and convulsions. Inflammatory affections of internal organs. Seething of the blood. Haemorrhages. Fainting fits. Aggravation of the syphilitic symptoms.
SKIN
Purple redness of the skin. – Condylomata.
SLEEP
Obstinate sleeplessness.
FEVER
Violent chills. Increase of the animal heat and of the turgor- vitalis; general erethism and acceleration of the circulation. Profuse sweats. Violent fever; fever, with excessive and continual heat of the skin; febrile paroxysm, with shuddering pain in the limbs, back, and stomach, terminating in critical sweat, sediment in the urine, and ptyalism; febrile paroxysm, with irritated pulse, slight chilliness, heat, thirst, redness of the skin, terminating in a critical sweat which continued for several days; urine, ptyalism, diarrhoea, blennorrhoea, and ulcers; fever, with hard, spasmodic pulse and great restlessness; the fever resembles the Mercury, but still more the Iodine fever. Feverish, full, strong pulse; pulse 80, 90, 100 a minute.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
Violent anguish. Sadness. Cheerfulness.
HEAD
Vertigo. Titillation in the forehead. Drawing pain in the forehead. Congestion of the blood to the head, increasing to delirium. Throbbing in the carotids and temporal arteries.
EYES
Lacerating in the left eye. – Amaurosis.
EARS
Tingling and humming in the ears, followed by hardness of hearing.
NOSE
Creeping and crawling in the nose; *redness and inflammation, with itching of the nose, and subsequent desquamation; *red swelling of the left side of the nose, ulceration of the inner cavity; *ozoena, with discharge of a yellowish-green pus, *also with discharge of blood from the nose.
TEETH
Darting pain in the teeth, partly on one side of the jaw, partly in the upper incisors. (N.B. According to Chrestien, the Muriate of Gold acts more violently than Corrosive Sublimate, but irritates the gums less).
MOUTH
Frequent accumulation of saliva in the mouth; mild, inodorous, watery salivation, with slight inflammation of the buccal cavity. Dry mouth. Painful irritation of the parts over which the food passes. Inflammation of the buccal cavity. Dryness of the tongue. Red tongue. excoriation of the tongue. Warts on the tongue. Blueness of the mucous membrane of the mouth and the tongue protruded from the mouth (in dogs). *Ulceration and swelling of the lips and nose, particularly in scrofulous persons.
PHARYNX AND OESOPHAGUS
Dryness of the fauces. Redness of the fauces and pharynx.
APPETITE AND TASTE
Metallic taste. Loss of appetite. Increased appetite.
STOMACH
Nausea. Vomiting; vomiting of white, frothy matter, or of a small quantity of livid-colored matter. Feeling of increased warmth in the stomach. Pressure in the region of the stomach. Cardialgia. – Gastric irritation. Most violent gastritis.
ABDOMEN
Distension of the abdomen. Contractive, tensive pain of the abdomen. Pains in the abdomen and diarrhoea.
STOOL AND ANUS
Constipation. Frequent liquid stools. Diarrhoea and pain in the bowels. Warts and condylomata at the anus.
URINE
Increased secretion of urine, the urine having a peculiar smell and sediment. Turbid urine, with brick-dust sediment.
GENITAL ORGANS
Increased sexual instinct. exhausting erections. Warts and condylomata on the prepuce. Flat ulcers on the scrotum. The menses appear sooner and are more profuse.
LARYNX
Feeling of obstruction in the larynx, with shortness of breath; *affections of the larynx in syphilitic persons, or from abuse of Mercury. Hoarseness, with violent fever.
CHEST
Deep, labored breathing; oppressed breathing. strong noise at every expiration. labored, whistling, panting breathing, threatening suffocation. Great oppression in the chest. Suffocation, with great pain. Sticking pain below the ribs, with all the symptoms of pleurisy. Inflammatory condition of the thoracic viscera; pneumonia. A few stitches directly above the heart. Peculiar feeling of heaviness and hardness in the heart, with frequent and sudden arrest of breathing. Palpitation of the heart. Inflammation of the heart.
EXTREMITIES
Swelling on the writ-joint, with tension when bending the hand backwards, and stitches in the swelling when grasping anything.