2. Sweats day and night without relief.
3. Creeping chilliness in the beginning of a cold or threatened suppuration.
4. Sliminess of mucous membranes.
5. Moist tongue with intense thirst.
6. Glandular swelling, cold, inclined to suppurate. Ulcers with lardaceous base.
7. Modalities, (<) at night; in warmth of the bed while sweating, lying on right side.
This set is common to almost all the combinations of the Mercuries, but the very yellow coated tongue is found under the Mercurius iod. flavus. The bladder and urinary symptoms stand out most prominently under the Mercurius cor. So far as the Mercurius viv. and Mercurius sol are concerned they are so nearly similar that equally good prescribers use one or the other indiscriminately. Dr. Adolph Lippe preferred the Merc vivus, H. C. Allen the Mercurius solubilis. I use the Mercurius vivus oftenest, though for skin affections and the second stage of catarrhal affections I prefer the Mercurius solubilis. No drug has been more abused by the old school, both in the past and the present. It was Hahnemann’s great anti syphilitic, but under the bungling of the allopaths is responsible for sufferings worse than the disease. So taking together their indiscriminate use and overuse of it in so – called torpid liver and syphilis, they make a great mess of it both for those they treat and us who have so much to do in fixing up their drug – diseased, dilapidated patients.
