Silver Nitrate.
CHARACTERISTICS
Nervous dyspepsia, morbid sensibility, chronic catarrh or chronic ulcer of the stomach. Great distension of the stomach with violent belching of gas. Diarrhoea dependent upon debility of the intestine. Ulcers of the mouth. Bed-sores. Paresis of ocular and other muscles due to exhaustion venery alcoholism etc. Hypochondriasis, headache and weakness of memory in debilitated subjects. Purulent conjunctivitis.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Scorbutic state ecchymoses, etc. Progressive diminution of weight and strength.1 General depression, mental debility, tinnitus spasm of muscles of the eyes and face anaesthesia muscular weakness tetanic convulsions, paralysis and insensibility of centric origin.2. Gastric irritation and diarrhoea, violent gastro-enteritis, gastric catarrh, increased secretion from intestinal glandular apparatus, dejections softer and more frequent. Ulcer of the stomach and duodenum. Epithelium of intestinal mucous membrane, kidneys and liver swollen, cloudy and sometimes fatty. Muscles become granular and their striae obliterated, but their contractility in not destroyed.
DOSE.
One one-hundredth to one-fourth grain in pill or in distilled water.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Dull chronic headache of business and literary men. 2.
Hypochondriasis in men due to alcoholism and venery.
Great melancholia and weakness of the memory cannot fix the mind upon anything. 2.
Patient can not think talk or walk because of apathy. Becomes dizzy. Time seems to pass too slowly. 2.
Paralytic weakness of the ciliary muscles causing imperfect accommodation. 2
Simple paraplegia from exhaustion, diphtheria concussion alcoholism or hysteria..2
Posterior spinal sclerosis. 2.
Dyspepsia: vomiting large quantities of yeasty fluid. 3 (one -eight to one -third grain pill three times per day on empty stomach.)
Morbid sensibility of the stomach. Chronic inflammation. Neuralgia. Chronic ulcer.3.
Nervous dyspepsia and chronic catarrh of stomach.
The digestion is good, though slow. Pain after taking food lasts for an hour or more. Gastralgia.3.
Jaundice dependent upon catarrh of the biliary ducts accompanied by considerable pain and stomach with violent belching of gas.3
Great distention of the stomach with violent belching of gas.3.
Diarrhoea dependent upon debility of the intestine or ulceration due to tuberculosis. Prolonged typhoid fever.3.
Dysentery subacute stage. 3 (Rectal tube, twenty grains in two or three pints of water)
Vesical catarrh. 3. (One to two grains per ounce)
Posterior urethritis. (Five to ten drops of a one to four grains solution Use deep urethral syringe)
Bed sore. (Twenty grains to ounce of distilled water on unbroken skin)
Ulcers of mouth 3. (From ten grains to ounce of distilled water to lunar caustic)
Chronic ulceration and simple inflammation of larynx and trachea 3. (One -half to five grains or more per ounce, with atomizer)
Simple chronic laryngitis. 3.
Clergymen’s sore throat.3.
Purulent conjunctivitis (From one grain per ounce with usual precautions).
