of the nose, the nose is dry and obstructed, the cheeks are hot, deglutition is impeded by a tensive, burning, and stinging pain, the submaxillary and parotid glands are swollen, drawing and lacerating in the ears, the teeth become very sensitive, the root of the tongue is coated with a whitish mucus, breathing becomes more and more anxious, the oppression increases, the pulse becomes quick, undulating, the patients complain of excessive oppression and tightness. These phenomena characterize the acme of the fever, and disappear by violent critical discharges, ptyalism, lienteria, leucorrhoea, hydrosis (excessive sweats), or by an exanthem (Dietterich). Febris adynamic: livid look, with blue margins around their dim and glassy eyes. The head feels giddy, nose, face, and extremities are cold. Towards evening the patients experience slight chills and flushes of heat. At the same time the patients feel oppressed, moan a good deal, complain of anguish and a presser in the praecordia. Their sleep is heavy and restless, their pulse quick and small, the urine is clear, yellowish, with slight retention of the stool. This condition lasts a few days, increasing in violence; the patients are in a state of perfect apathy, they lie in their beds listless and weak, their feces are pale as death, the whole body feels cool, and the pulse become somewhat fuller. At this stage the condition of things changes suddenly, the patients are seized with an inclination to vomit, the oppression of the chest in creases, the breathing becomes manifestly more difficult, the eyes wander, and the pulse is frequently intermittent. At night a bland delirium sets in, and even in the daytime the latter being without a coating. Lentescent fever with perceptible emaciation. Hectic fever. Exhausting sweats. Hydrosis mercurialis.
MORAL SYMPTOMS.
Paroxysms of oppressive anxiety. Craziness. Mania:; great anguish and uneasiness of mind, general confusion of ideas. Self- illusion. Weakness of mind. Imbecility. Great want of memory.
HEAD.
Violent vertigo. Heaviness and dullness of the head. Headache in the temples. Paroxysms of raging headache, relieved by pressing the head together. Considerable swelling of the head, cervical glands, and gums. FALLING OFF THE HAIR. Imbecility, stupefaction, dumbness, and deafness, with involuntary stools. Loss of sense and indolence.
EYES.
Conjunctivitis mercurialis:; distinguished by a peculiar lilac appearance. Ophthalmia: the conjunctiva of the globe of the eye and of the lids are inflamed, the eyes-lids are swollen, red, the canthi are round, excoriated, with smarting pain in them. The margins of the lids are burning and itching; they are agglutinated in the morning, after the night’s sleep, and secret a quantity of thick purulent gum. Presser and rubbing in the eye. Sensitiveness to light, lachrymation. The schneiderian membrane is affected as in catarrh, with soreness of the nostrils and upper lip. Iritis mercurialis. Retinitis: burning aching pain in the bottom of the eye, great photophobia, constant lachrymation, a variety of bright colors, sparks, fiery rings before the eyes,.
EARS.
Excessive sensitiveness of the organ of hearing. Stating on hearing the least noise. Humming in the ears.
NOSE.
Violent bleeding at the nose.
FACE.
Lead-colored complexion. Cadaverous paleness of the face. Swelling of the face, neck, and inner mouth. Paleness and caries of the jaws. Neuralgia of the facial nerve. Partial paralysis of one side of the face.
TEETH.
Swelling and bleeding of the gums from the least contact. Survey of the gums. Violent tooth and face-ache at night, and ptyalism. The teeth become elongated, black, loose, and finally fall out. Violent burning pain in the nerves of the teeth.
MOUTH.
Cadaverous smell from the mouth Stammering. The tongue is swollen, extremely sensitive, protruded from the mouth. The tongue is coated, whitish, big, almost immovable, and ulcerated at the edges. Aphthae to the tongue, in the mouth and fauces. Fetid ulcers in the mouth, constantly discharging a foul ichor. A number of painful spreading ulcers in the mouth, Bleeding of ulcers in the mouth, particularly at night. Caries of the jaw and palate-bones. Mercurial ptyalism. Violent burning pains are experienced in the affected parts in the mucous membrane. The teeth are covered with a thick putrid-smelling sordes, corroding the enamel. The patient generally complains of dullness and heaviness of the head, the nose is stopped, and languor is excessive. Ptyalism, ulcers of the mouth and tongue, accompanied by partial paralysis and derangement of the digestive organs. The gums and fauces are swollen, dry, painful. The cheeks, parotid, and salivary glands are likewise swollen and painful.
THROAT.
Burning pain in the fauces, as from red hot coal. Inflammation of the fauces, rendering deglutition very difficult. the eustachian tube is frequently compressed by swelling, which induces deafness. Trembling of the pharynx and oesophagus. Chronic mercurial angina faucium.
APPETITE.
Loss of appetite.
STOMACH.
Inclination to vomit. Vomiting, with convulsive motions.
ABDOMEN.
Anxiety in the praecordial regions. Infarctions and induration of the liver. Jaundice. Colicky pains. Great distention of the abdomen. Excessive pinching in the abdomen. Mercurial ptyalism of the pancreas. In the region of the pancreas, the patients complain of a dull burning pain. Aching pains are experienced in that region, on making pressure with the finger. The face becomes livid, the eyes recede onto their sockets, and are surrounded with blue rings, the skin is cold and flaccid, the secretion of urine is almost entirely suppressed, the patients feel wretched remain in bed exhausted, and desire to drink continually. The pancreatic ptyalism is apt to occur in individuals with an atrabilious constitution, in hysteric and hypochondriac. It may likewise take place by metastasis, in consequence of suppressed ptyalism.
STOOL.
Bilious diarrhoea. Discharge of a yellow-green substance, with coagulated blood. Painful stools mixed with blood and mucus. Painful dysentery continuing eleven days. Dangerous diarrhoea. Evacuations, with burning and biting at the anus. Green stools. Constant tenesmus, with frequent discharge of blood stool.
URINE.
Urorrhoea mercurialis. Excessive diabetes, with extreme emaciation. Burning acridity in urinating.
MALE GENITAL ORGANS.
Inflammation of the orifice of the urethra Gonorrhoea. The urine is discharged drop by drop, with burning.
FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS.
Miscarriage.
LARYNX.
Constant hoarseness. Complete paralysis of the organs of voice. Loss of speech. Consumption. Cough. Violent haemoptysis. Haemoptysis, followed by pulmonary consumption.
CHEST.
Violent oppression on the chest and about the heart. Paroxysms of violent asthma, with danger of suffocation in walking or stooping. Asthma.
BACK.
Atrophy of the spinal marrow.
ARMS.
Trembling and weakness of the hands, with convulsions of the hands.
LEGS.
Neuralgia of the sciatic nerves. Intense inflammation and superficial suppuration of the whole leg and of the feet, with complete desquamation of the epidermis of those parts, and even of the soles of the feet. OEdema-pedum.
