====== MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Mercurius Corrosivus.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Bichloride of Mercury; Corrosive Sublimate. {{anchor:s3}}Hg CL.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Provings by Buchner upon himself, Forstner, Gerster, Held, Nusser and Pemerl (Allg. Zeit. fr Hom., 1849); Robinson (B. J. of Hom., vol. 25, p. 324); Haight (U. S. J. of Hom., vol. 1, p. 7); Brewer (Med. Inv., vol. 7, p. 160); and Berridge (Am. J. H. M. M., vol. 8, p. 126).

{{anchor:s5}}Toxicological reports are numerous; those mentioned by Hahnemann in his Materia Medica Pura are given prominence.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s7}}- <span grade2>Scrofulous ophthalmia</span> (68 cases), Bcker, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 273; Hirsch, Müller, Gerson, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 126; <span grade2>Rheumatic ophthalmia</span>, Bcker, B. J. H., vol. 6, p. 495; <span grade2>Syphilitic iritis</span>, Norton, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 81; Reil, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 108; <span grade2>Syndesmitis exanthematica</span>, pustular form, Payr, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 105; <span grade2>Phlyctenular ophthalmia</span> (5 cases), Harper, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 33; <span grade2>Conjunctivitis</span>, Norton, Oph. Therap., p. 114; <span grade2>Blepharitis</span>, Müller, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 39; <span grade2>Ophthalmia tarsi</span> (Blepharitis marginalis), Von Tagen, Raue's Rec., 1874, pp. 70, 71; <span grade2>Scrofulous ozaena</span>, Gerson, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 173; <span grade2>Eruption on face</span>, Snelling, N. A. J. H., vol. 9, p. 507; <span grade2>Facial neuralgia</span> (4 cases), Harper, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 32; <span grade2>Inflammatory swelling of uvula</span>, Goullon, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 141; 1871, p. 72; <span grade2>Sore throat</span>, Boole, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 143; Hawkes, Org., vol. 2, p. 233; <span grade2>Inflammation of fauces</span>, Dittrich, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 107; <span grade2>Condylomata and syphilitic ulcers in throat</span>, Welsch, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 171; <span grade2>Diphtheria</span>, Hofrichter, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 245; <span grade2>Chronic dyspepsia</span>, Dudley, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 139; <span grade2>Colic and ineffectual urging to stool</span>, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 113, p. 23; <span grade2>Diarrhea</span>, Ksemann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 840; <span grade2>Croupous enteritis</span>, Gerson, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 421; Dysenteric stools during attack of cholera, Lembke, Reubel, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 950; <span grade2>Autumnal dysentery</span>, Hahnemann, Mat. Med. Pura; Drysdale, B. J. H., vol. 25, p. 109; <span grade2>Dysentery</span>, Goullon, B. J. H., vol. 32, p. 685; Mhlenbein, Kopp, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 840; Hering, Hartmann, Henke, Diez, Tietze, Kidd, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, pp. 873-7; Gauwerky, Hirsch, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 445; Cushing, Org., vol. 1, p. 222; Taber, Org., vol. 1, p. 326; Dunham, Hom. Rev., vol. 3, p. 169; Crowell, Cin. Med. Adv., vol. 3, p. 84; Buchner, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 124; <span grade2>Chronic constipation</span>, Ussher, Bernard and Strong, p. 69; <span grade2>Prolapsus ani</span>, Haustein, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 992; <span grade2>Albuminuria</span>, Peters, N. A. J. H., vol. 4, p. 219; Hirsch, Quaglio, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 523; Schley, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 7, p. 411; Goodno, MSS.; <span grade2>Post-diphtheritic albuminuria</span>, Newton, Hom. Rev., vol. 14, p. 411; <span grade2>Balanitis</span>, Rosenberg, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 88; <span grade2>Gonorrhea</span>, Gollman, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 545; Gilchrist, Surg., p. 540; <span grade2>Cracked nipples</span>, Griesselich, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 418; <span grade2>Subacute laryngitis</span>, Nankvill, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 104; <span grade2>Condylomata in larynx</span>, Welsch, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 171; <span grade2>Phthisis florida</span>, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 386; <span grade2>Cough</span>, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf, vol. 4, p. 409; <span grade2>Necrosis metatarsi</span>, Hornby, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 282; <span grade2>Paralysis in young children</span>, Peters, N. A. J. H., vol. 4, p. 348; <span grade2>Gonorrheal rheumatism</span>, Rosenberg, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 89; <span grade2>Syphilis</span>, Haustein, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 144; Gerson, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 563; <span grade2>Chancre</span>, Schwab, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 144; <span grade2>Indurated chancre</span>, Reil, Bojanus, Gerson, Gollmann, Meyer, Stern, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 562; <span grade2>Secondary syphilis</span>, Lukens, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 162; <span grade2>Exostoses</span>, Hofrichter, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 143; <span grade2>Condylomata</span>, Hedges, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 222; <span grade2>Smallpox</span> (used as a gargle), Bolle, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 254.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s9}}Greatly depressed; very ill humored.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s10}}Stares at persons who talk to him and does not understand them.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s11}}Weakness of intellect.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Mind sluggish, with torpid digestion.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s13}}Anxiety preventing sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s14}}Stupor and delirium.</span>

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Vertigo: with coldness, cold perspiration; with deafness, when stooping.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s17}}Head much affected, with coma.</span>

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Violent headache in forehead; stitches.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s20}}Violent rush of blood to head, with severe pain in forehead and temples; burning in cheeks.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Pain in head, like drawing in pericranium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Tearing as if in bone above left eye, near root of nose, and in other parts of bone.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s23}}Heaviness of head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Syphilitic tumors in brain; vertigo.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s26}}Profuse perspiration on forehead.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s27}}Swelling of head and neck.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Falling out of hair.</span>

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Objects appear smaller; or double vision.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Pupils contracted and insensible.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s33}}Eyes painful.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Pain behind eyeballs, as if they would be forced out.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Retinitis hemorrhagica, or apoplexia retina.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Retinitis albuminurica; also with tearing at eyebrow, bones tender.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s37}}Nephritic retinitis during pregnancy; lids edematous, edges swollen, burning, smarting; albumen in urine.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Cyclitis; choroiditis; irido-cyclitis or irido-choroiditis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Episcleritis, with much pain in and around eye at night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}Severe, burning, cramping pains.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s41}}~</span> <span grade2>Syphilitis iritis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s42}}Iritis, especially if syphilitic; pains severe over eyes and through them, through head and in temples; agg. at night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Kerato-iritis; posterior synechia; causes them to soften.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Hypopion occurring in abscess of cornea or iritis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s45}}Small, unclean, red ulcer at edge of cornea, with much itching and burning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Ulcers on cornea of scrofulous children; ulcer rapidly affects surrounding parts; ichorous discharge; intense pain and photophobia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Phlyctenulae, deep ulcers on cornea; discharge ichorous, acrid, making surrounding parts sore; pimples around eyes like small boils.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}Cannot look up and resists any attempt to open eyes; eyelids externally tumid; photophobia intense, when eyelids are separated, profuse lachrymation; conjunctival membrane red and injected, small ulcers on cornea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}~</span> <span grade2>Phlyctenular ophthalmia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s50}}Photophobia and lachrymation; conjunctiva inflamed, bunches of vessels coming towards cornea and terminating in vesicles.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}Photophobia, general injection of conjunctiva, pinkish zone around cornea, with small vesicles at its margin; child turns from light and keeps head down, resisting all attempts to examine.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}Eye is very red, bunches of injected vessels terminating in vesicles; constant escape of scalding tears, intolerance of light, with spasmodic closure of orbicularis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s53}}Chronic ulceration of cornea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Pustular form of syndesmitis exanthematica.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}Ophthalmia neonatorum, with acrid discharges; caused by syphilitic or gonorrheal leucorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Scrofulous inflammation of eyes, erysipelatous in character, with great edema; discharges thin; skin of surrounding parts excoriated; intense pain; spasm of lids; agg. at night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Numerous, bright red, rather fine, injected bloodvessels, proceeding from larger trunks in conjunctiva sclerotica, run from conjunctiva bulbi over edge of cornea, in a very slightly tortuous course, and there divide into numerous branches, without forming many anastomoses, their disposition is arborescent; the finer vessels, without communicating much with each other, gradually decrease in calibre and are lost imperceptibly almost in centre of cornea, or in vicinity of small ulcers that are generally seated about centre of cornea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}~</span> <span grade3>Erithistic scrofulous ophthalmia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Scrofulous inflammation of eyes, erethistic form; lids red, greatly swollen and spasmodically closed; great photophobia, child sits in a dark corner of room, or covers eyes tightly with hand or walks about with eyes closed and head sunk upon breast; on attempting to open eyes hot tears gush from them, causing redness, rawness and a pustular eruption on surrounding parts; intense redness of conjunctiva, palpebral and bulbar; on latter bundles of vessels run towards cornea and pass over edge which looks dim.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Burning in eyes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Chronic catarrhal conjunctivitis, tending towards trachoma, with redness and excoriation of lids and a dull feeling, with itching in eyes in evening.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Blepharitis scrofulosa; margins of lids red and raw, with crusts and ulcers upon lids; tendency towards formation of ecor entropium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Indurated lids; secretion thin and excoriating; nocturnal aggravation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Lids: edematous or erysipelatous; red, excoriated; edges swollen, burning, smarting; edges covered with thick crusts or pustules; spasmodically closed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Since childhood, twenty years ago, after abuse of calomel, highly inflamed lids, very much thickened and infiltrated; ciliae matted in bunches along upper and lower margins; profuse lachrymation of a muco-purulent nature; surrounding integument excoriated, presenting appearance as if burned; intolerable burning, conjunctivae, both palpebral and ocular portion, much injected, the former presenting a rough, granular appearance; vision more or less impaired, objects look dim, as if enveloped in a halo or mist, eyeballs feel tense, sensitive to both light and pressure; yearly attacks.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}~</span> <span grade3>Ophthalmia tarsi.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Tearing as if in bone above left eye, near root of nose, and in other parts of bone.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Violent pulsation in ears, especially in left.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Inflammation, with stitches in ear.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Discharge of fetid pus from ear.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Frequent nosebleed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Swelling and redness of nose; frequently sore nostrils.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s75}}Excessive fluent coryza; loss of smell.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Nose feels stopped up, at same time runs; rawness, smarting in nostrils.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Nose sore and stuffed up with gluey secretion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Ozaena, discharge from nose like glue, drying up in posterior nares; perforation of septum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Scrofulous ozaena; poorly nourished subjects.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Yellow color of face; countenance denoting exhaustion; paleness of distorted face.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Face: flushed and puffy, or pale and anxious, with pinched features; much swollen; puffy and bright red.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Swelling and turning up of upper lip; dark red.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Face and cheeks swollen, hard, red, bloated.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Edematous swelling of face, paleness; albuminuria.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s86}}Pain in side of face, darting along upper jaw, gums and roots of teeth; so intense as to impair general health and to compel her to remain in bed; face somewhat swollen; considerable tenderness on pressure over superior maxilla.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s87}}~</span> <span grade2>Prosopalgia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Severe pain in left side of face, darting along both jaws and upward to temple; pain remits during day, agg. about 9 P. M.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s89}}Severe pain in face and side of neck, commencing at 4 P. M. and continuing all night until daybreak; pain gradually agg. until intolerable, her night's rest is completely destroyed, has to get out of bed and walk about in agony; pain shoots over face, is intense below malar bone and zygomatic arch, darts along gums and down neck from ear; some swelling of face.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s90}}For three weeks almost constant pain in right side of face, affecting chiefly upper and lower jaw, extending forward to middle line; pain abates, never entirely subsides, agg. from 4 till 10 P. M., after which it gradually amel.; pulse 80, weak; tongue coated with a creamy fur; breath very offensive.</span>

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Stiffness of jaws, and soreness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s93}}Lips: dry, cracked, black; swollen and incrusted with a dry secretion; excessively swollen and tender.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s94}}Lower lip considerably swollen and a small blister inside of it.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Submaxillary glands enlarged; tender.</span>

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Looseness of teeth; they pain and drop out.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}Sleep at night disturbed by toothache with anxious sensation.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s99}}Toothache with swelling of gums.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Much sordes about teeth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s101}}Gums red and tender, with some swelling of glands beneath jaw.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s102}}Gums: swollen, pale and spongy; ulcerated; bleed easily; covered with false membrane; gangrenous; purple; red and detached from teeth.</span>

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s104}}Taste: bitter; slimy; salty; putrid in morning; astringent metallic.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Tongue: could not be protruded; red, with blackish coat; coated, moist, edges red; posteriorly pale, dirty yellow, rather thick, coating extending forward along sides; covered with a greyish white crust; white and so much swollen that he could not protrude it; white in forepart, posteriorly yellow; swollen, pale yellow, protruding from lips, which are swollen; very much swollen and extremely inflamed; coated with thick white mucus, or dry and red; papillae elevated, strawberry-like; stiff; and lips whitish, contracted.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s107}}Sensation as if mouth was scalded; burning extending to stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s108}}Mouth dry, with unquenchable thirst.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Salivary glands very much swollen.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s110}}Ptyalism, with salty taste; saliva bloody, yellowish, tough, acrid.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}Discharge of albuminous mucus from mouth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Soreness of mouth and fauces.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Inflammation of mouth and gums, with constant discharge of clear water.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s114}}Buccal cavity and lips covered with aphthae; on lips they are surrounded by vesicles which burn.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Mouth terribly swollen; lips swollen and everted; ptyalism.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s116}}~</span> <span grade3>Aphthae.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Ulcers (phagedenic) in mouth, throat or on gums, with fetid breath.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s118}}Exudations on mucous membranes, extending to tonsils.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s120}}Pillars of velum palati swollen and dark red.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s121}}Uvula swollen, elongated and dark red.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s122}}Inflammatory swelling of uvula to size of half a finger, lying upon tongue and making swallowing very painful and difficult.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s123}}In tonsillary folds, on edges of pillars, soft greyish excrescences like sloughs or false membranes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s124}}Tonsils swollen and covered with ulcers.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s125}}Greyish yellow ulcers as large as a pea on left nostril, sensitive to touch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s126}}Sense of dryness in fauces.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s127}}Inflammation of fauces from taking cold after a bath; uvula much enlarged; entire fauces dark red, agg. on right side; no swelling of tonsils.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Swallowing attended with a violent spasm of glottis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s129}}Act of swallowing even fluids produces great pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s130}}Retching and vomiting on attempting to swallow.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s131}}Throat intensely inflamed, preventing swallowing and causing suffocation.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s132}}Burning in fauces, throat and esophagus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s133}}Raw, stinging, smarting pain on swallowing even fluids, which return through nose; sense of smell and taste impaired; thick yellow discharge from nostrils; nasal voice; much saliva in mouth, sometimes running out at night; pains along tibia agg. at night; uvula and nearly all of soft palate eaten away; pharynx and fauces ulcerated, covered with dirty looking pus and emitting very disagreeable odor.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s134}}~</span> <span grade3>Sore throat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s135}}Constriction in throat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Throat enormously swollen, threatening suffocation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Pricking in throat as from needles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Pain in throat on swallowing, and beneath larynx she experiences a quick pain from outward pressure.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s139}}Pharynx dark red, pressure externally excites pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Exudation covers entire fauces and extends into nose, from which profuse discharge; rapid destruction of parts.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s141}}~</span> <span grade3>Diphtheria.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s142}}Inflammation of throat; on second day diphtheritic exudation covered tonsils, uvula, velum palati and posterior wall of pharynx; high fever; delirium at night; burning thirst; deglutition almost impossible; can hardly open mouth; salivary glands swollen; lips dry, brown, cracked, bleeding; discharge of offensive smelling saliva from mouth, occasionally mixed with blood; very offensive smelling breath; offensive smelling acrid discharge from stuffed up nose; lachrymation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s143}}~</span> <span grade3>Diphtheria.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s146}}Attacks of violent hunger.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s147}}~</span> <span grade3>Cancer of stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s148}}No appetite.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s149}}Thirst: urgent; great; excessive; extreme; tense; violent; unquenchable; insatiable; burning; for cold water in large quantities.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s150}}Repugnance to hot food and great desire for cold food.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s152}}Spasmodic and very painful retching.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s153}}Vomiting: of green, bilious matter; incessant; streaks of blood in matter vomited; of albuminous matter; of tough or stringy mucus; of green, bitter substances; of bile; of blood; like coffee grounds with coagulated blood; of pus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s154}}Drink regurgitates through nose.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}Distension and soreness of pit of stomach, not permitting least touch, even of clothing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s157}}Burning gnawing, darting pains in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s158}}Cramp in stomach and vomiting, after eating rye bread.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s159}}Distension and soreness of epigastrium, after eating rye bread.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s160}}Distension and soreness of epigastrium, cannot bear clothing tight or even close around waist, because it causes both oppression of breathing and pain; constipation; pain and distension in colon, especially transverse portion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s161}}~</span> <span grade3>Chronic dyspepsia.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s163}}Pain in liver and right shoulder, with frequent nausea and obstinate chronic constipation; jaundiced.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Stitches: in hepatic region; as if in middle of liver.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Abdomen swollen, hard and sensitive to pressure, especially about umbilicus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s167}}Cutting below navel.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s168}}Bloated abdomen, very painful to least touch.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s169}}Peculiar bruised sensation in abdomen, especially in cecal region and following course of transverse colon; painful to moderate pressure, as though bruised.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s170}}Intolerable cutting pains in abdomen and constant urging to stool, followed by slight discharge of blood and mucus; despondent, walks up and down.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s172}}Stools: hot, scanty, frequent; bloody; slimy; containing shreds of mucous membrane; offensive; yellow, green bilious followed by slime and blood; with tenesmus and insupportable cutting colicky pains; pasty, dark green, blackish, offensive; tenacious; agg. in Fall; agg. after midnight.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s173}}Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, violent pain.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s174}}Painful bloody discharges with vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s175}}During stool: burning in anus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s176}}Before, during and after stool: urging and tenesmus; cutting colic.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s177}}Tenesmus, persistent, incessant.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s178}}After catching cold, lassitude in limbs, pains in abdomen in evening, continuing throughout night; thin, watery discharges of red color, as if purely of blood; stools especially copious at night and accompanied by pain, preventing sleep; very slight fever; no thirst; must lie in bed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s179}}~</span> <span grade3>Diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s180}}Diarrhea, with pain in abdomen and prolapsus ani; evacuations of mucus and undigested food; bleeding from prolapsed anus, blood escaping in drops; itching of skin with bleeding after scratching; eruption of vesicles and pustules.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s181}}Croupous enteritis; severe, burning, corrosive pain in circumscribed spots in abdomen; discharge of exudation and bloody mucus, accompanied by intolerable tenesmus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s182}}After Acon. when urging and bloody discharges continue.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s183}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysentery.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s184}}Very much pure blood is passed with stool; much tenesmus.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s185}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysentery.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s186}}Stool yellow green; tenesmus; vomiting bile; cramps in calves; stitches in side; painful bloody stool with vomiting.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s187}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysentery.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s188}}Severe dysentery brought on by a draught of foul, cold water, when much heated; straining almost continuous, pain in bowels severe, evacuations of mucus and blood every quarter of an hour; extreme prostration, with clean tongue and some appetite.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s189}}Very frequent, small, bloody, slimy discharges, great pain, constant crying and rolling in bed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s190}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysentery.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}Constant heat of skin; quick, rather small pulse; tongue dry, with yellow coat; thirst not excessive; abdomen sore on pressure, somewhat distended; constant uninterrupted pressure to stool felt in sacral and hypogastric regions; this pressure though very distressing seems utterly ineffectual; stools of bloody slime in small masses; great tenesmus vesicae; urine scanty, hot and bloody; disposition quiet, slightly despondent.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s192}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysentery.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s193}}Cutting pains in rectum; twenty to thirty stools in twentyfour hours; greenish yellow masses mixed with bloody mucus; tenesmus, with constricting pain and prolapsus of rectum; tongue coated white; pulse weak, quick; great emaciation; dry, parchment-like skin.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s194}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysentery.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s195}}When discharges of cholera assume a dysenteric character and Phosphor. fails.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s196}}Constipation from pseudo-membranous inflammation of some portion of large intestines.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s197}}Hemorrhoidal colic with congestion of liver and abdominal venous stasis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s198}}Violent burning in rectum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s199}}Oozing of corrosive ichor from anus, excoriating external parts.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s201}}Tenesmus vesicae with intense burning in urethra, a discharge of mucus and blood with urine or after it.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}Tenesmus of bladder; urine suppressed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s203}}Burning in orifice of urethra.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s204}}Micturition frequent; urine in drops with much pain.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s205}}Urine: scanty or increased; hot; burning; bloody; passed in drops with great pain; scanty, brown, with brick dust sediment; pale and copious; containing filaments, flocks or flesh-like pieces of mucus; albuminous, abundantly coagulated by heat as well as by nitric acid; under microscope presented granular fatty tubuli in large numbers showing on their surface epithelial cells of tubuli uriniferi, also in a state of granular fatty degeneration; no longer limpid, rather thick, but acid as before, sp. gr. 1016; containing fibrin or fat globules.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Albuminuria; after diphtheria or in Morbus Brightii; acute early stages, particularly if caused by abuse of alcohol, cold or portal stasis; bilious diarrhea; collection of much mucus in mouth and throat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s207}}Pinched and shrivelled appearance of face; weariness and melancholy; uneasiness in lumbar region; urine dark and scanty, looks as if mixed with blood, shows a thick cloud of albumen to test.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s208}}~</span> <span grade3>Albuminuria.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s210}}Violent erections during sleep.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s211}}Fine, painful stinging in left testicle.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s212}}Penis and testes swollen enormously.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s213}}Paraphimosis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s214}}Chronic balanitis; greasy, fatty, offensive smelling discharge; several excoriated places on corona, repeatedly healing and then becoming sore again.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s215}}Gonorrhea: greenish, agg. at night; burning, smarting on urination; at first thin, afterwards thick; biting pain on urinating; stitches extending back through urethra; suppuration between glans and prepuce; glans feels hot, painful when touched; burning, itching, stinging and throbbing in urethra; urine passes in feeble stream; discharge acrid, excoriating; mild ulceration about glans, prepuce or within meatus; throbbing in urethra.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s216}}Chancre: on inner surface of preputium or on corona glandis; margin of soft chancre dark red, painful and easily bleeding; neighboring parts edematous, hot and painful; thin pus stains linen, like melted tallow; assumes a phagedenic appearance and secretes a thin ichorous pus; ichor adhering to bottom of ulcer; indurated Hunterian, with lardaceous bottom.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s218}}Fibroid tumors, with profuse, muco-purulent, excoriating leucorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s219}}Aching pain, succeeding pressing or touching os uteri during an embrace.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s220}}Abrasion, ulceration arising from overstimulated, then broken down glandular structure.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s221}}~</span> <span grade3>Disease of uterus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s222}}Menses too early and too profuse.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s223}}Leucorrhea: pale, yellow; smelling sweetish; tinged with blood; mucous discharge as thin as water.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s224}}Burning heat and pain in genitals.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s225}}Intense inflammation of vulva.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s226}}Primary, phagedenic syphilitic ulcers, with profuse and bad suppuration.</span>

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s230}}Nipples crack, bleed; severe pain when attempting to nurse.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s233}}Hoarseness quickly changing with normal voice.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s234}}Hoarseness or aphonia; burning and stinging in trachea; tightness across chest.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s235}}Larynx and epiglottis pain when swallowing food; pain agg. when depressing tongue; cutting in throat as from a knife.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s236}}Broad condylomata in larynx, nearly closing glottis; hoarseness and dyspnea (assisted by Nitr. ac.).</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s237}}~</span> <span grade2>Syphilis.</span>

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s239}}Respiration very difficult; slow; interrupted, sighing; palpitation.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s241}}Emaciation with hectic fever, accompanied by a phthisical condition; severe, short cough, at times with expectoration and gagging; cough affects him very much and threatens to rob him of his remaining strength.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s242}}Coughs up considerable amount of mucus tinged with blood.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s244}}Shooting pains in chest.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s245}}Frequent stitches shoot through thorax.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s246}}Sticking in upper part of right side of chest deep internally, scarcely agg. by deep inspiration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s247}}Sticking pain in lower portion of right side of chest.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s248}}Great oppression of chest; attacks of dyspnea; difficult, sobbing, sighing respiration; hoarse voice; hollow; deep cough without expectoration, owing to weakness of lungs; cough asthmatic, agg. talking, with white, tough, occasionally greenish mucous expectoration, agg. at night; dryness in throat and trachea, causing constant desire to drink; transient stitches in various parts of chest; attacks of heat, with increased pulse, cold hands and feet and profuse sweat; great irritability of mind and frequent changing mood.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s249}}~</span> <span grade2>Phthisis florida.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s250}}Haemoptysis.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s252}}Pain in precordial region.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s253}}Heart sounds dull and intermittent; tremulous undulating motion of heart; precordial anxiety.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s254}}Palpitation of heart in sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s255}}Pulse: intermittent, 89; small, intermittent; irregular, intermittent; intermittent and uneven; small, weak, intermittent, sometimes trembling.</span>

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s257}}Painful glandular swellings about nipple.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s259}}Pains in head, back and limbs; kidneys affected.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s260}}Glands of neck hard and swollen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s261}}Dorsal decubitus.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s262}}Lies on back with knees drawn up; Pott's disease.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s264}}Arm much swollen up to shoulder, red and covered with vesicles.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s265}}Rheumatic pains in left shoulder and shoulder blade.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s266}}Deltoid muscle feels relaxed.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s268}}Lower extremities drawn up in bed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s269}}Sticking pains in hip joints during rest, amel. in motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s270}}Stitches in right hip joint.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s271}}Sensation as if legs had gone to sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s272}}Muscles of thigh and calf feel relaxed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s273}}Cramps in calves.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s274}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysentery.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s275}}Feet icy cold.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s277}}Rheumatic pains after suppression of gonorrheal discharge by large doses of Balsam copaiva; pains wandering from joint to joint, compelling him to stay in bed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s278}}Coldness in extremities, they look purple; small, spasmodic, frequent pulse.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s279}}Paralysis of upper and lower extremities.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s283}}Rest: sticking pains in hip joints.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Must lie in bed: diarrhea; rheumatic pains in joints.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Could not lie comfortably on either side.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s286}}Child sits in dark corner of room or covers eyes tightly with hands or walks about with eyes closed and head sunk upon breast.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s287}}~</span> <span grade3>Ophthalmia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s288}}Lower extremities drawn up in bed. <span sbita>{{anchor:s289}}~</span> Pott's disease.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Stooping: vertigo, with deafness; heat.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Standing: lassitude in limbs and trembling.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Motion: pain in hip joints amel.; least, causes chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Swallowing: painful, swelling of uvula; causes retching and vomiting; raw, smarting, stinging pain.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Rising: coldness.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Must get out of bed and walk about: pain in face.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Walks up and down room: cutting pains in abdomen.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s298}}Convulsive twitchings of muscles of face, arms and legs, and convulsions of limbs; convulsive contractions.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s299}}Trembling.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s300}}Great debility.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s301}}Lassitude in limbs and trembling when standing up and without moving.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s302}}Faintness, weakness and shuddering.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s304}}Somnolence; frequent yawning and stretching.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s305}}Night sleepless; could not lie comfortably on either side.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s306}}Sleepless on account of vertigo or anxiety.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s307}}Starting up suddenly when trying to go to sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s308}}During sleep, violent hiccough.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s310}}Toward morning: fetid sweat.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Morning: taste putrid.\\ {{anchor:s312}}During day: pain in face amel.\\ {{anchor:s313}}At 4 P. M.: pain in face and neck commences, continues all night until daybreak.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Evening: itching in eyes; pain in abdomen; chilliness; stitches in forehead agg.\\ {{anchor:s315}}At 9 P. M.: pain in face agg.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Night: pain in and around eye; iritis agg.; inflammation of eyes; indurated lids agg.; sleep disturbed by toothache and anxious sensation; saliva running out; pains along tibiae agg.; delirium; pains in abdomen; stools copious; gonorrhea agg.; expectoration agg.; in bed chilliness; cannot rest in any place from heat and anxiety; profuse sweat.\\ {{anchor:s317}}After midnight: burning and tenesmus of rectum and bladder after stool agg.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s319}}Open air: chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Hot food: repugnance.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Cold water: thirst, in large quantities; draught of foul, cold water, when much heated, caused dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Cold food: desire for.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Taking cold after a bath: inflammation of fauces.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s325}}Shivering during and after swallowing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s326}}Chilliness: from least movement and in open air, generally with colic; in evening; especially on head, at night in bed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s327}}Cold face and hands, with small, feeble pulse; extremities cold.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s328}}Cold skin, with very small, intermittent pulse.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s329}}Skin cold, pale, covered or dripping with sweat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s330}}Great heat of skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s331}}Unable to rest in any place at night, on account of a feeling of heat and anxiety.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s332}}External heat, with yellow skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s333}}Burning, stinging heat in skin.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s334}}Heat when stooping and coldness when rising.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s335}}Extremities clammy and cold.</span>\\ {{anchor:s336}}Sweat: profuse; at night or fetid toward morning; cold, often only on forehead, also general with anxiety.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s338}}Every quarter of an hour: stool of mucus and blood.\\ {{anchor:s339}}From 4 till 10 P. M.: pain in face agg.\\ {{anchor:s340}}In 24 hours: twenty to thirty stools.\\ {{anchor:s341}}For three weeks: almost constant pain in right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Fall: dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Yearly attacks: ophthalmia tarsi.\\ {{anchor:s344}}One year after appearance of chancre, which disappeared after local treatment; eruptions of red nodules over chest and upper abdomen.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s346}}Right: pain in side of face; fauces inflamed, agg. on side; pain in shoulder; sticking in upper and lower part of chest; sticking in hip joint.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Left: tearing above eye; violent pulsation in ear; severe pain in side of face; ulcers as large as a pea on tonsil; fine, painful, stinging in testicle; ulcer on inner surface of side of prepuce; rheumatic pains in shoulder and shoulder blade.\\ {{anchor:s348}}From within outward: stitches in forehead.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s350}}Tearing as if in bone above left eye; as if eyes would be forced out; as if mouth was scalded; pricking as from needles in throat; pain as if in middle of liver; abdomen as though bruised; cutting as from a knife in throat; as if legs had gone to sleep; tibiae as if broken.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Pain: in head; behind eyeballs; in and around eye; in side of face; in teeth; along tibia; in throat; in liver and right shoulder; in abdomen; in genitals; in larynx and epiglottis; in precordial region; in head, back and limbs; in tibiae.\\ {{anchor:s352}}Intense pain: in ulcers on cornea; in eyes; below malar bone and zygomatic arch.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Violent pain in forehead: caused by ineffectual urging to stool.\\ {{anchor:s354}}Severe pain: in forehead and temples, over and through eyes, through head and temples; in face and side of neck; in bowels; in nipples.\\ {{anchor:s355}}Much pain: during micturition.\\ {{anchor:s356}}Constant pain: in right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Tearing: above left eye, near root of nose and in other parts of bone; at eyebrow.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Insupportable, cutting, colicky pains: with stool.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Cutting pain: in throat; in abdomen; below navel; in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s360}}Shooting pain: over face; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s361}}Darting: along upper jaw; gums and roots of teeth; down neck from ear.\\ {{anchor:s362}}Stitches: in forehead; in ear; in hepatic region; in side; extending back through urethra; shoot through thorax; in various parts of chest; in right hip joint.\\ {{anchor:s363}}Sticking: in upper part of right side of chest; in lower portion of right side of chest; in hip joints.\\ {{anchor:s364}}Biting pain: on urinating.\\ {{anchor:s365}}Throbbing: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s366}}Severe, burning, corrosive pain: in spots in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s367}}Burning, gnawing, darting pains: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Constricting pain: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Aching pain: in womb during an embrace.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Drawing pain: in perineum.\\ {{anchor:s371}}Rheumatic pains: in left shoulder and shoulder blade; from joint to joint.\\ {{anchor:s372}}Aching: in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Cramp: in stomach; in calves.\\ {{anchor:s374}}Raw, stinging, smarting pain: on swallowing.\\ {{anchor:s375}}Intolerable burning: of lids.\\ {{anchor:s376}}Fine, painful stinging: in left testicle.\\ {{anchor:s377}}Burning: in cheeks; of eyelids; of ulcer at edge of cornea; in eyes; of mouth, extending to stomach; of vesicles on lips; in fauces; of rectum; in anus; in orifice of urethra; in genitals; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Burning, itching, stinging and throbbing; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Burning and stinging: in trachea; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s380}}Smarting: of eyelid; in nostrils.\\ {{anchor:s381}}Soreness: of nose; of jaws; of mouth and fauces; of pit of stomach; of epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Pricking: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Painfullness: of eyes; of swallowing on account of swollen uvula.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Violent pulsation: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Dull feeling: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Dryness: in fauces; in throat and trachea.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Great oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Tightness: across chest.\\ {{anchor:s389}}Peculiar bruised sensation: in abdomen; in cecal region and course of transverse colon.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Constriction: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Stiffness: of jaws; of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Heaviness: of head.\\ {{anchor:s393}}Itching: of ulcer on edge of cornea; in eyes; of skin.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s395}}Swelling of glands; buboes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s396}}Necrosis of upper jaw.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s397}}Exostoses on shin, sternum, ribs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s398}}Drawing in periosteum, with heat in head; inflammation of periosteum; swelling and tenseness, rapid progress of disease.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s399}}~</span> <span grade3>Isteo-myelitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s400}}Ulcers or chancres with thin pus, leaving stains upon linen, as from melted tallow.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s401}}Morbus Brightii; general anasarca; face red and swollen, or sallow and puffed.</span>

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s405}}Touch: soreness of pit of stomach not permitting least, even of clothing; abdomen very painful; glans painful; on os uteri causes pain; stitches in forehead agg.; ulcers on tonsil sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s406}}Pressure: eyeballs sensitive; tenderness over superior maxilla; quick pain beneath larynx; pain in pharynx; abdomen sensitive; painfullness of cecal region and course of transverse colon; on os uteri causing pains.\\ {{anchor:s407}}Depressing tongue: pain in larynx agg.\\ {{anchor:s408}}Cannot bear tight or even close clothing around waist; soreness of epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s409}}Scratching: causes bleeding of skin.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s411}}Burning and redness of skin, with formation of small vesicles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s412}}Grey color of nails.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s413}}Severe and stubborn eczema of sweating parts of body, exposed to fumes of poison.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s414}}Condylomata.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s415}}Rash of secondary syphilis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s416}}Ulcers which perforate or become phagedenic.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s417}}Blisters on arms and abdomen.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s418}}Scorbutic spots over whole body, mingled with itch-like eruptions, herpes and boils.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s419}}One year after appearance of chancre, which disappeared after local treatment, eruptions of red nodules as large as lentils, over chest and upper abdomen; stitches in forehead from within outward, agg. evening and on touching hair; vomiting after eating; swelling of tibiae and pain in them as if broken, particularly at night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s420}}~</span> <span grade3>Syphilis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s421}}Smallpox, with intense inflammation of throat, which prevents swallowing and threatens suffocation (1/10 grammes to 120 grammes of water, used as a gargle).</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s423}}Child, aet. 18 months; phlyctenular ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s424}}Boy, aet. 2 1/2; scrofulous ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s425}}Boy, aet. 3, had eruption on head, cough and expectoration; prolapsus ani.\\ {{anchor:s426}}Boy, aet. 3; phlyctenular ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s427}}Child, aet. 4, suffering three weeks; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s428}}Boy, aet. 4, scrofulous, pale, thin, suffering from chronic nasal catarrh; diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s429}}Girl; aet. 5, suffering twenty-two months; syndesmitis exanthematica.\\ {{anchor:s430}}Boy, aet. 9, had eczema and itch, suffering three days; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s431}}Boy, aet. 9, after drinking cold, foul water while overheated; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s432}}Boy, aet. 9: phlyctenular ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s433}}Girl, condylomata and syphilitic ulcers in throat.\\ {{anchor:s434}}Girl, aet. 14; phlyctenular ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s435}}Boy, pale and feeble, suffering three months; sore throat.\\ {{anchor:s436}}Servant girl, aet. 16, sanguine temperament, slight build, suffering six days; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s437}}Young woman, aet. 20, nursing two months; cracked nipples.\\ {{anchor:s438}}Man, aet. 20, one year ago had chancre; syphilis.\\ {{anchor:s439}}Girl, aet. 20; subacute laryngitis.\\ {{anchor:s440}}Man, aet. 24, had been given calomel in large doses in early childhood for sore eyes, suffering eighteen years; ophthalmia tarsi.\\ {{anchor:s441}}Woman, aet. 25; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s442}}Woman, aet. 26; phlyctenular ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s443}}Coachman, had syphilis a number of years ago; condylomata in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s444}}Man, suffering six weeks; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s445}}Man, athletic build, five days after suppression of gonorrheal discharge by large doses of Balsam copaiva; rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s446}}Officer, lively, strong, black eyes and hair, had gonorrhea two years ago; ulcer on prepuce.\\ {{anchor:s447}}Woman, aet. 29, suffering three weeks; facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s448}}Woman, aet. 29; neuralgia of face.\\ {{anchor:s449}}Man, aet. 29, robust, suffering seven days; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s450}}Man, aet. 30, suffering two days; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s451}}Woman, aet. 30, weak constitution, suffering two days; dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s452}}Woman, aet. 33; facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s453}}Woman, aet. 38, pale, weak and ill from continued suffering; facial neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s454}}Woman, aet. 35, after catching cold; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s455}}Man, aet. 55, suffering four years; balanitis.\\ {{anchor:s456}}Woman, aet. 60, dark complexion, grey eyes, nervo-bilious temperament; albuminuria.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s458}}Antidoted by <span grade2>Silica.</span>\\ {{anchor:s459}}Compare: <span grade2>Canthar.</span> (throat); <span grade2>Canthar.</span> and <span grade2>Digit.</span> (gonorrhea); <span grade2>Aurum</span> and <span grade2>Kali hydr.</span> (syphilitic iritis); <span grade2>Laches.</span> (typhoid peritonitis).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 07, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r119|Mercurius corrosivus]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r119|Mercurius corrosivus]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}