Mercurius Corrosivus

Corrosive Sublimate

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

Bruised sensation: caical region and transverse colon painful. Bloated ; very painful to least touch. Stool. — Dysentery; tenesmus, not relieved by stool; incessant. Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane.

Chest

William Boericke 1922

Urine. — Intense burning in urethra. Urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. [Helon.; Tereb.; Uran. n.; Ammon, bens.; Ars.] Tenesmus of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder. Perspiration after urinating.

Compare

William Boericke 1922

Ars.; Lack.; Lconurus — Motherwort (Influences pelvic organs, allays spasm and nervous irritability, promotes secretion and reduces febrile excitement. Valuable in suppressed menses and lochia; (dysentery; vomiting, frightful pains in abdomen, violent thirst. Tongue dry and cracked). Antidote: Calcium sulphide is antidotal to Bichloride poisoning. Use intravenous injection of 7^ grains in 7^ ozs. boiled water. Silicea.

Dose

William Boericke 1922

Sixth potency. In solution 1 : 1000, hypodermically injected under conjunctiva in choroditis with progressive myopia. Stops immediately the severe aching pain behind eyeballs. (Dr. G. D. Hal let.)

Ears

William Boericke 1922

Burning pain, zmth great swelling; worse, slight external pressure. All glands about thorax swollen.

William Boericke 1922

Violent pulsations. Fetid pus.

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

Pain behind eyeballs, as if forced out. Phlyctenulae; deep ulcers on cornea. Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation. Iritis. Pain severe at night; burning, shooting, tearing. Little tendency to pus formation. Iris muddy in color, thick, and neither contracts nor dilates. Retinitis albuminuric, ophthalmia neonatorum. Lids aedematous, red, excoriated. Severe burning. Soreness of the

Face

William Boericke 1922

Swollen. Red, puffy. Lips black, swollen. Sordes. Facial neuralgia within the bones.

Fever

William Boericke 1922

Chilly from slightest exposure. Profuse perspiration ; surfaces cold. 504 MERICURIUS COR. — METHYLENE BLUE — MEZEREUM

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

This salt leads all other remedies in tenesmus of the rectum, which is incessant, and is not relieved by the stool. The tenesmus often involves the bladder as well. Bright’s disease. Gonorrhoea; second stage, with continuous tenesmus. Destroys the secreting portions of the

Head

William Boericke 1922

Delirium, stupor. Frontal pain, congestion of head, with burning in cheeks. Drawing pain in periosteum of skull.

Kidneys

William Boericke 1922

This process is slow, but sure. Albuminuria in early pregnancy. (Phosph. later and at full term.)

Male

William Boericke 1922

Penis and testes enormously swollen. Chancres assume phagedaenic appearance. Gonorrhoea; urethral orifice red, swollen; glans sore and hot. Discharge greenish, thick.

Modalities

William Boericke 1922

Worse, evening, night, acids. Better, while at rest.

Mouth

William Boericke 1922

Teeth loose. Gums purple, swollen, and spongy. Tongue swollen and inflamed. Salivation. Pyorrhoea. Ptyalism. Taste salty and bitter.

Nose

William Boericke 1922

Excessive coryza. Ozaena, with perforation ol septum nasi. [Kali bkh.] Rawness and smarting jjyjjj^ilostrils. Post-nasal swelling, mucous membrane dry, and covered with bloody mucus.

Respiratory

William Boericke 1922

Pain in larynx as cut with knife. Aphonia. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Pulse rapid and intermittent. Stitches through side of

Stomach

William Boericke 1922

Incessant, green, bilious vomiting. Epigastrium very sensitive.

Throat

William Boericke 1922

Red, szcollctt, painful, intensely inflamed. Uvula swollen. SzL'ulloztnny painful. Most pain is po.^inasal zxnth sharp pains io

References

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