MERCURIUS



Headache in the temples. [DEGNER, 1. c.]

Attacks of intractable headache, which required external compression of the head in order to alleviate it. [PET. SCHENK, (From cinnabar vapour.)vii, Obs. 213. ]

Swelling of the head; the cervical glands, the gums [SCHLEGEL, in Hufel. Jour., vii, 4.]

Great swelling of head and neck. [DEGNER, 1. c.]

10. The hair falls out [HEUERMANN,( From various mercurial substances, especially calomel. ) Bemerk. und Untersuch., ii, pp. 29, 30. ]

Altered features [SWEEDJAUR,( From the internal employment of oxydes and salts of mercury.) 1. c.]

The face becomes of a leaden hue. [ SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

Swelling of face, neck, and all internal parts of the mouth. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c. ]

Over-sensitiveness of the auditory organ; he starts at the least noise. [FOURCROY, in the translation of Ramazzini, (From the vapour of mercury.) Maladies des artisans, p 42.]

15. Epistaxis. [PET, SCHENK, 1. c.]

Violent epistaxis. [HEUERMANN, 1. C.]

Necrosis of the bone of the upper jaw. [MICHAELIS, is Hufel Jour, xxviii 4, p. 57.]

Spasmodic movement of the lips. [LOUVRIER, (From rubbing in mercurial ointment.) in Annalen der Heilkunde, 1810, December, pp. 1123, 1126.]

The tendons of the masseter muscles are affected, and, owing to their soreness, render the opening of the mouth painful. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

20. The gums are swollen and bleed on the slightest touch. [HEUER MANN, 1. C.]

Swelling of gums and fauces. [Mist. Nat. Cur., (From rubbing in much mercurial ointment. )Dec., iii, ann. 5, 6. ]

In the nerves of the teeth a violent burning pain. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

The teeth rise up, become loose, and fall out. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

Loose teeth. [DEGNER, 1. c.]

25. The teeth become black, loose, and at last fall out. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c. ]

Trembling of the tongue and consequent stammering, which was not removable by electricity. [FOURCROY, 1. C.]

Swelling of the tongue[ SCHLEGEL, 1. c.]

Stiff, swollen tongue. [DEGNER, 1. c.]

Swelling of the tongue, so that there is scarcely room for it in the mouth. [ENGEL, Specimina med., Berol., 1781, p. 99.] of the mouth, and as it were pinched betwixt the teeth. [FRIESE,( From rubbing in much mercurial ointment.) ]

30. Swollen, very sensitive tongue, projecting a hand’s breadth out in Geschichte und Versuche einer chirurg. Gesellschaft, Kopenh,1774.]

Tongue white furred, swollen, almost immovable, eroded on the borders by ulceration. [HEUERMANN, 1. c. ]

Aphthae on the tongue. [THOM. ACREY, (Internally calomel, externally rubbing in of mercurial ointment.) in lond Medorrhinum Journ.,1788. ]

Aphthae in the mouth. [SCHLEGEL, 1. c.]

Many eroding ulcers in the mouth. [FOURCROY, 1. c.]

35. Very painful spreading ulcers in the mouth. [FOURCROY, 1. c.]

The ulcers in the mouth bleed, especially at night. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

Foetor of the mouth. [DEGNER, 1. c.]

Carrion-like foetor of the mouth. [SCHLEGEL, 1. c.]

Great foetor of the mouth. [JAC. HILL_FOURCROY, 1. c.]

40. The palate bones or the jaw-bones are often destroyed.[SWEDJAUR, 1. C.]

Commencing ralivation. (OETTINGER,( From the internal use of artificial cinnabar.) Diss. Cinnabris exul. redux, Tubing 1760, p. 22.]

Immediately the most profuse salivation: [JAC. HILLY 1. c.]

Salivation. (WEDEL, (From the internal use of mineral cinnabar.) Amoenit. Mat. Medorrhinum, p. 153.]

Profuse salivation. [SCHLEGEL, 1. c.]

45. Bloody salivation. [DEGNER 1. c.]

Haemorrhage with the.salivation. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

The orifices of the salivary ducts of the parotids are eroded.[HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

The intolerable foetid saliva erodes the lips and cheeks, even eats them away. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

The Eustachian tubes in the fauces are often compressed by swelling, hence deafness. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

50. Fauces inflamed, so that she can scarcely swallow. [DEGNER,1. c.]

Burning pain in the fauces, as from live coals. [DEGNER. 1. C.]

Trembling of the pharynx and oesophagus; he only swallowed spasmodically, often with danger of suffocation. [FOURCDOY, 1. c.]

Want of appetite. [HUBER, (From the internal employment of solution of corrosive sublimate fur several weeks.) in Nov. Acts Nat. Cur., iii, Obs. 100.]

Inclination to vomit. [Mist. Nat. Cur., 1. C.]

55. Vomiting with convulsive movements. [HOFFMANN, in Baldinger’s Magaz., p. 963.]

Praecordial anxiety. [Misc. Nat. Cur., 1. c.]

Great distension of the abdomen. [RIVERIUS, (From rubbing in mercurial ointment.) Obs. Mod., p. 92.]

Horrible pinching in the abdomen. [JAC. HILL, 1. c.]

Intolerable shooting pain in the abdomen. [Misc. Nat. Cur., 1. c.]

60. Liver diseases. [LARREY, 1. c.]

Complete jaundice. [J. CHEYNE, in Dublin Hospital Reports and Communication in medicine and Surgery, Dublin, 1816, vol, i,]

Dangerous diarrhoeas. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.].

Green stools. [MICHAELLIS, in HufeL. Journ., vi, pp. 22, 24.]

Stools passed with burning and smarting in the anus. [FELIX PLATER, obs. 1.]

65. Frequent stools with the smell of the faetor of the mouth. [DEGNER, 1. c.]

Constant tenesmus, with very frequent discharge of blood by stool. [Mist. Nat. Cur., 1. c.]

The urine passes only by drops, with scalding. [FEL, PLATER, (From crude mercury triturated with licorice powder. ) Obs. 1, Basil, 1614.]

When urinating, scalding acridity. [PLATER, 1. c.]

Enormous flow of urine (diabetes) with extreme emaciation. [ SCHLICHTING, in Acta Nat. Cur,, viii. ]

70. Inflammation of the oriffice of the urethra. [Hufel, Journ.( From the internal use of corrosive sublimate. ) xxvi, 4. ]

Urethral blennorrboea. [Hufel. Journ., 1. c.]

Constant hoarseness. [FOURCROY, 1. c.]

Cough. [JAC. HILL, 1. C.]

Haemoptysis. (SWEDJAUR 1. C.]

75. Violent haemoptysis. [A. GOTTL, RICHTER, (From corrosive sublimate internally.) Chirurg. Bibiiot., vi, p. 277. ]

Violent oppression in the chest and about the heart. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

Great tightness of the chest, recurring in fits; on account of the fear of suffocation he can neither walk nor stoop. [FOURCROY, 1.c.]

Suffocation. [RIVERIUS, 1. c.]

Trembling. [SWEDJAUR 1. c.]

80. The most violent, trembling at first of the hands, than of the whole body. [FOURCROY, 1. c.]

Attacks of spasmodic contraction of the arms and leas. [RIVERIUS, 1. c.]

Local or general tetanus. [SEWEDJACUR, 1. c.]

First flying, then fixed extremely penetrating pains in the loins and knees, then also in the rest of the limbs. [HUBER, 1. c.]

The most violent pains in the muscles, tendons or joints, similar to rheumatic or arthritic pains. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

85. Easy frangibility of the bones, after previous rheumatic, pains. [FOURCROY. 1. c.]

Eroding ulcers. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

Spongy looking, bluish ulcers, which bleed easily. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c. ]

Ulcers, extremely painful at the slightest touch, which excrete an acrid corrosive ichor, rapidly increase in size and form irregular elevations and depressions, as if eaten out by insects, with irregular rapid pulse; the patient loses sleep, cannot rest, breaks out into profuse perspiration at night; the least thing irritates him and makes him impatient. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

A sort of miliary eruption on the skin, somewhat resembling measles, accompanied by burning and itching. [BELL, (From rubbing in mercurial ointment.) On Maligmant Gonorrhoea and Venereal Disease, Leipzig, 1794, ii, p. 236.]

90. All the skin, especially on the chest, thighs, and lower parts of the back, covered with miliary rush. [ENGEL, 1. c.]

Spots all over the body, resembling scorbutus, and between them itch-like eruption, tetters and boils. [HUBER, 1. c.]

The epidermis desquamates, particularly in the hands and feet. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

Erysipelas. [ClARE. (From external employment of mercurial ointment.) ]

Thickening of the periosteum. (J. HUNTER, Treatise on Venereal Disease, p. 632]

95. Swelling of the bones. [LOUVRIER, 1. c.]

Caries of the bones and abscesses in the joints. [BETHKE, Schlagfluss, P. 406.]

Extreme emaciation. [FOURCROY, 1. c.]

Desiccation of the whole body. [RICHTER, 1. c.-LOUIS in pibrac, Memoires de l` Acad. royale de Chirurgie, t. iv. ]

General emaciation and prostration of strength. [ SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

100. Extreme sensitiveness to electricity. [HUNTER, 1. c.]

General immobility; a kind of cataleptic state. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

Paralysis of various limbs. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

Apoplexy. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

Syncopes. [SWEDJAUR, (From mercurial vapour.) 1.c. ]

105. Internal repeated syncopes. [Misc Nat. Cur., 1, c.]

Loss of strength. [HUBER, 1. c.]

Continued sleeplessness. [DEGNER, 1. c.]

First quick, intermittent, strong pulse, then trembling weak pulse. [JAC. HILL, 1. c.]

Fever; general, irritability of the nervous system, [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

110. Fever, with very painful local inflammations, ending in gangrene. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

Slow fever. [SWEDJAUR, 1. c.]

Slow fever, with perceptible emaciation of the body. (Removed by seltzer water and milk.) [RICHTER, 1. c.]

Hectic fever. [RICHTER, 1, c. i, i, p. 40.]

Acute, putrid fever. [HEUERMANN, 1. c.]

115. Exhausting perspirations. [WEDEL, 1. c.]

Very oppressed respiration, great dislike to fluids, then a kind of mania, in which he tried to tear to pieces everything he could lay hands on.( Nine days after inunction of mercurial ointment for supposed syphilis in a young man,) [Remarks of the French translator of Cullen’s First Lines.]

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.