MERCURIUS



Frequent attacks of fever composed of general flying heat and frequently recurring chill and shivering (especially over face, back, chest, and arms).

Alternate sensation of heat and chill; not perceptible, externally to the touch.

1190. Heat and hot sensation in the face with pale face.

After midnight heat and redness of the left cheek and perspiraton of the palms; afterwards diarrhoea and loathing of food.

Attacks of heat with great anxiety, as from compression of the chest, without thirst, alternating with cold feeling over the whole body and great prostration.

Heat, redness, and aching in both eyes. [Fr. H-n.]

When he has been seated sometime heat comes into his cheeks and head, with redness of face, without thirst. [Stf.]

1195. In cold and raw air he feels very warm in all parts of the body, for four days (immediately). [Fr.H-n]

From time to time heat in head and face. [Stf.]

Continual intermingled heat and chill; when out of bed chill, in bed heat, with great thirst for milk at night (he drank in one night three jugs of milk.) [Stf.]

Febrile rigor over the whole body, without heat or thirst, in every position (aft. 7.5 h.). [Lr.]

Perspiration which causes burning sensation on the skin.[Fr. H-n.]

1200. Day and night much disposed to perspiration, moat at night. [Fr. H-n.]

Profuse perspiration all night, from the evening till the morning. [Fr. H-n.]

Foetid perspiration for many nights. [Fr. H-n.]

Profuse night sweat. [Fr. H-n]

At night very profuse perspiration of a fatty or oily character, making the linen feel, stiff, as if starched, and yellow. [Fr. H-n.]

1205. Profuse foetid perspirations so that the upper and under sheets are as if soaked in water. [Hbg.]

Perspiration on the face and chest. [Fr. H-n.]

Profuse cold sweat on the face, while the rest of the. body is dry.[Fr. H-n.]

Uncommonly profuse sweat, that smells sour and repulsive, and the fingers look softened spongy, and wrinkled, as in washerwomen. [Fr H-n. ]

Sour -smelling perspiration, and when she put a limb out of bed there occurred in it immediately the most violent tearing pain.

1210. Perspiration every evening for an hour and a half after going to bed.

Profuse morning sweat.

During the morning g sweat, thirst, nausea to vomiting, and intolerable uncontrollable palpitation of the heart.

Sweat by day with nausea..

Profuse sweat in the evening in bed; he falls asleep during the sweat.

1215. Profuse night sweat.

Sweat in the palms and soles.

Partial sweat; he perspires at night on different parts and on other parts he is dry the perspiring parts were not above six inches large but the sweat was dripping; the head and all the face were dry.[Fr. H-n.]

As soon as she eats she has great anxiety and perspiration on the head and forehead, which feels icy cold; she must go into the open air before the sweat will go off; at the same time she has loss of breath and shooting in the right side close under the ribs. [Fr. H-n]

Attacks of trembling.

1220. Palpitation of the heart.

Excessive fright at a slight surprise, she trembles in her whole body, is as if paralysed, a tremendous glow rises into the right cheek, which at the same time swelled and became bluish red and remained so for two hours; she was so much affected that; she could not compose herself again; all the limbs were as if bruised, violent rigor, tottering of the knees compelled her to go to bed before the usual time.

Restlessness, he cannot remain quiet in any place; he can neither stand nor lie, and is as if mad, or as if lie had committed a great crime.

Disposition restless; dejected; anxiety without any particular thoughts.

Indescribable sensation of an internal, intolerable ill, during which he remains silent and will not get up from bed.

1225. Imagines he is enduring the tortures of hell, without being able to account for it.

Anxiety.

Much anxiety and ebullition in the blood at night, and shooting in the blood-vessels.(Repetition of S. 1112)

She is always anxious and fearful; she then has a sudden pain in the scrobiculus cordis, the hands commence to perspire, and she becomes hot in the face.

Anxiety as if he had committed a crime. [Hbg.]

1230. No rest, always anxious. [Hbg.]

He has no rest, and must go hither and thither, and cannot remain long in one place. [Fr. H-n.]

Extreme restlessness all night from evening to morning; he would sometimes rise up, sometimes lie down, nowhere could he find rest. [Stf.]

Extreme restlessness all night, beginning about 8 p.m. and lasting till moaning; he sometimes rose up because he had no rest when lying, sometimes he lay down again, because walking was intolerable to him, nowhere had he rest. [Stf.]

Anxiety and apprehension in the blood, he knew not how to compose himself; he felt as if he had committed a crime, without heat, also at the same time as if he was not quite master of his senses, all day.

1235. Anxiety that could drive him far away as if he had committed a crime or some misfortune were about to happen to him.

He thinks he is losing his reason, that he is going to die; with illusions of the imagination, e.g. he sees water flowing where there is none (inthe morning).

With absence of thought he feels as if he had done something bad.

No inclination for serious work. [Gn.]

In the evening very much disposed to start in affright. [Fr. H-n.]

1240. He had no courage to live. [Fr. H-n.]

He wished to die, was indifferent to every thing, even to what he took most delight in. [Hbg.]

All day long great seriousness with much indifference; he got angry when others laughed at a trifle, and at the same time was extremely indifferent to all about him. [Lr.]

He is indifferent to everything in the world, has no desire to eat, and yet when he does eat he relishes his food and call partake of what is required.

Extreme indifference.

1245. He cares for nothing and is indifferent to everything.

Everything is distasteful to him, even music.

Disposition rather indifferent. [Gss.]

Without cause he is very discontented with himself and his position. [Gn.]

All day long depression of spirits combined with anxiety; he always thought he was going to hear of something disagreeable. [Lr.]

1250. All day long sulky; he was extremely laconic and grave. [Lr.]

All day long cross and peevish; he believed that all his efforts would finally fail. [Lr.]

Disposition irritable, irascible, daring.

Very cross and intolerant, easily irritated, very suspicious.

Quarrelling with every one, opinionative, quarrelsome.

1255. Disputatious, quarrelsome.

All day long sulky and distrustful; he almost insulted those about him, and regarded them all as his greatest enemies. [Lr.]

During the whole day cross, as if at variance and dissatisfied with himself, and had no inclination for speaking and joking. [Lr.]

Longing nostalgia. [Gn.]

An almost irresistible desire to travel away to a distance. [Gn.]

1260. Hurry and rapidity in speaking. [Fr. H-n. ]

He talked nonsense: look! you strike a. fly on your hand, and you had previously forbidden me to do so (which was not the case).

He is silly, acts the buffoon, and does stupid nonsensical things, in the evening (though it was hot summer weather) he lit his fire, laid swords across one another, and put candles in one corner of the room, in the other boots, and all this quite gravely, while at the same time he was quite indifferent to heat and cold; he was stupid and heavy in the head.

Mania; she throws off the clothes at night, tears the straw about, and scolds; by day she leaps up high (like a.petulant extravagant person) in the open air as well as in the room; she talks and scolds much to herself, does not know her nearest relations, spits frequently and spreads the saliva out with her feet, and licks some of it up again; she often licks cowdung and the mud of ponds; she often takes little stones in her mouth, without swallowing them, and at the same time complains that they are cutting her bowels; much clotted blood passes with her motion; she does no harm to any one, but resists much when any one touches her; she does nothing she is told to do, will not sit down to any meal, though most days she takes food and drink irregularly; she looks very pale and ill, and appears to be much more exhausted than before. [Fr. H-n.]

When taking a walk he felt a strong inclination to catch by the nose strangers whom he met.

1285. During his nonsensical acts he was much disposed to weep, and when this paroxysm passed he felt very exhausted.

Almost involuntary, weeping with relief.( The number of symptoms apparently exceeds by two that given by HAHNEMANN, owing to his having omitted to reckon two symptoms between 890and the end.)

MERCURIUS DULCIS.

(Calomel.)

During a continued fever accompanied by constant heat, with night-sweats, sinking of the strength, tearing pains in the limbs and trembling, numerous round, deep, eroding ulcers in the mouth and fauces, on the face, on the genitals, and on the rest of the body, with white bottom and inflamed, very painful borders.

MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.

(Corrosive Sublimate.)

Weakness of the mind; he looks at us with staring large eyes and does not understand us (aft.2 h.).

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.