Characteristics Mercurius Corrosivus – Nitricum Acidum

MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.

Mind.—Great agitation with anxiety, inquietude and continued jactitation. Anxiety, during sleep. Low spirited. Ill humor. Weak intellect. Indecent exposure. Delirium and stupor. Disconnected speech.

Vertigo.—On lifting head.

Head.—Confusion, > emission of flatus. Congestion to, and to face, with burning cheeks. Pains: Violent; causing screaming; as if on fire; sticking; tearing in occiput; aching, drawing in pericranium; undulating, in brain. Falling of hair.

Eyes.—Protruding. Glistening. Inflamed. Bloodshot. Burning in. Dry. As if forced out from behind. Tearing in bones above. Squint. Lachrymation in, open air. Objects seem smaller and more distant. Worse: Light.

Ears.—Violent pulsation in. Whirring, rythmical with the pulse.

Nose.—Coryza. Frequent nosebleed. Perforation of cartilage. Discharge like isinglass. Dryness, in back of, < in open air.

Face.—Swollen, worse lower part; tense shining cheeks; and red. Pale, anxious and pinched. Frowning. Hippocratic, with sunken eyes. Convulsive motions of. Tearing in malar bones. Necrosis of upper jaw. Painfully swollen glands.

Lips.—Black; excessively swollen and tender. Blue. Dry and cracked. Convulsive motions at corners of.

Teeth.—Loose; and feel blunt. Sordes on. Prickling at roots of. Gums: Purple. Swollen, spongy and tender, bleeding easily. Inflamed, with burning pains. Ulcerated. Worse: Night.

Tongue.—Inflamed, swollen, preventing protrusion.

Mouth.—Inflammation, swelling, ulceration and burning heat, extending into stomach. Great dryness of, and of throat, with intolerable thirst for cold water. Rawness of and of throat. Fissured. False membrane in, and in throat. Fetor. Salivation: Bloody; yellowish; difficult to expectorate. Better: Cold water.

Taste.—Bitter; salt; astringent; metallic; fatty.

Throat.—Excessively violent burning pain in fauces, pharynx and œsophagus. Swelling: Threatening suffocation; of pillars and tonsils; of uvula with elongation; of glands; externally, with heat. Extremely painful soreness of, and of mouth and tongue. Constriction with dysphagia. Spasm of glottis, œsophagus and stomach. Dark, or fiery redness of. Scraping roughness, causing hawking. Filled with a glairy, sticky or bloody mucus. As if something stuck in lower œsophagus. Better: Cold water. Worse: Slightest external pressure.

Stomach.—Painful inflammation and contraction of gastro-intestinal tract. Hiccup, with every motion of body. Regurgitation thro' nose. Vomiting: Violent, with constriction of throat; incessant; after least quantity of water, with nausea, painful retching and insatiable thirst; spasmodic; profuse; at night; with frightful pains in pit and umbilical regions; with bilious diarrhœa; green; stringy; sticky; bloody, in streaks or like coffee grounds; blue. Pains: Pricking; griping; pinching. Swelling of. Ulcers and ecchymoses in. Worse: Slight pressure.

Abdomen.—Swollen, tympanitic and exquisitely sensitive. Pains: Cutting; griping; pinching; sticking; bruised, worse in coccal region and transverse colon; colicky at umbilicus; in epigastrium, with cramps in pelvic and genital organs. Coldness of skin all over. Apprehension in lower, and in bladder region. Swollen sensation in inguinal and axillary glands. Worse: Sensitive to touch, pressure and the air. Better: Passing flatus. Bending double.

Stool.—Bloody: Frequent, at night, with great tenesmus and colic; scanty, of blood and mucus, with constant desire; dysenteric, of scanty bloody mucus with cutting in abdomen, excessively painful tenesmus and almost ineffectual urging; dark green; blackish; streaked; bluish; grumous; pasty; of membranous shreds; involuntary, of pure blood; very offensive; purulent.

Rectum.—Oozing corrosive ichor. Violent burning in, and in anus. Distressing tenesmus, getting worse and worse, passes nothing but blood-tinged mucus. Inflammation and ulceration of.

Urinary Organs.—Suppression of urine and stool. Urination frequent, scanty; urine passed drop by drop with great pain, burning and tenesmus. Urine: Albuminous; thick; blackish; bloody; containing mucus; scalding. Pyelitis. Bladder: Feels full, even after micturition; inflamed; contracted. Gonorrhœa, discharge thick, with smarting urination and shooting pains along urethra. Sticking, burning, itching, shooting and inflammation in urethra and meatus.

Sexual Organs.—Inflamed and enormously swollen. Violent erections and sexual desire; burning in urethra after coition. Shooting or painful griping in testicles. Leucorrhœa of a nauseating sweetish odor. Suppressed menses, with headache and trembling of hands, legs and neck. Menses excessive, like a flooding. Pressive pain on touching os uteri during coition. Painful swelling of glands around nipples.

Respiratory Organs.—Paroxysmal tickling in throat, with convulsive, suffocative cough and anxiety. Coughs up blood-tinged mucus. Dryness of larynx. Frequent stitches shoot through thorax. Chronic pleuro-pneumonia, especially of left side. Cramp from right breast to back, just below scapula. Milk suppressed.

Heart.—Beat: Tumultuous; intermittent. Pulse uneven.

Neck and Back.—Tonic cramps during which respiration stops. Lumbar pains which spread into hypogastrium and groins, alternating with convulsions and contraction of muscles.

Extremities.—Hands and feet livid, shrunken and cold. Formication, numbness, heaviness, weakness and trembling of. Cramps, convulsions or stiffness of. Lax feeling in deltoid, calf and thigh muscles; in joints.

Lower Extremities.—Drawn up. Sticking, tearing or shooting pains in hip joint. Feet icy cold. Paralysis and complete insensibility of. Pricking in.

Generalities.—Violence characterizes its action. Intolerably violent pains. Osteocopic pains; painful drawing in periosteum. Acrid or corrosive discharges. Spasms and spasmodic motions. Tremblings. Lying on back with knees bent up. Great debility and inclination to lie down. Extreme sensitiveness of whole body. Paralytic stiffness and paralysis of extremities, with extreme sensitiveness to the slightest motion, headache at the root of the nose, eyes fixed and brilliant, and skin dry, sweating on forehead only. Violent swelling and burning of affected parts. Pains in body with general stiffness, more from movement. Worse: Walking in open air aggravates many symptoms. Acids. Fat foods. Motion. Night. Better: Rest.

Skin.—Formication in. Desquamative dermatitis. Shriveled. Dry, burning, hot and smarting. Great coldness of. Pustules. Itching, prickling, sticking in. Rapid ulcerations.

Sleep.—Continual insomnia. Somnolency, frequent yawning and stretching. Starting during or on falling to sleep. Frightful dreams. Coma.

Fever.—Pulse: Small, weak, often intermittent; sometimes tremulous. Chill: From the least movement and in open air; cutting in abdomen is an almost constant accompaniment. Chilliness in evening, especially on head. Chill at night in bed. Heat: External, with yellow skin. Burning and sticking heat in skin. Heat when stooping and coldness when raising up. Sweat: Night-sweat; towards morning it becomes offensive. Cold sweat often upon forehead only. Entire skin covered with a cold anxious sweat. Sticky sweat.

Allied Remedies.—Ars., Aur., Bell., Canth., Kali-bi., Kali-io., Kre., Lach., MERC., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Sul-ac.

MEZEREUM.

Mind.—Mental dulness. Frequent vanishing of thought. He seems intoxicated. Peevishness. Restlessness when alone, with desire for company. Hypochondriacal disposition, with low spirits and weeping.

Vertigo.—Dizzy, as tho' drunken, with pressure in temples and over eyes, and dulness in head, > eating.

Head.—Headache, with shivering and chilliness in open air. Unilateral, stupefying, pressive ache.

External Head.—Burning, biting, itching, most on vertex, < and changing its position from scratching, followed by smarting gatherings and a moist eruption. Bone pains on both sides of crown, often ending in swelling and caries with great sensitiveness to cold. Numbness of scalp, with drawing therein, in one, seldom both sides. Worse: Evening; cold; undressing; after lying down; touch; motion.

Eyes.—Pressure in, as tho' balls were too large. Twitching of muscles about.

Nose.—Excoriated nostrils. Diminished sense of smell. Fluent coryza, with burning and excoriation of nose and upper lip.

Face.—Pale. Squeezing, benumbing pressure in malar bones, extending into temples. Swollen, cracked lower lip.

Teeth.—Sticking ache, extending into malar bones and temples. Rapidly become hollow. Boring sticking in hollow t., extending up into zygoma. Dull.

Mouth.—Dry in back part, with saliva in anterior part. Salivation. Continuous burning, also in throat. Narrowing and constriction of pharynx. Difficult speech.

Appetite, etc.—Beer tastes bitter and causes vomiting. Great hunger at noon and in evening. Anorexia, with constant thirst.

Eructations.—Frequent, empty.

Qualmishness, etc.—With shivering and collection of water in mouth. Vomits blood; bitter, watery mucus. Retching.

Stomach.—Burning in. Intense pressure in.

Abdomen.—Burning in. Tense and hard. Tearing bellyache. Pains in spleen.

Flatulence.—Flatulent colic, with shortness of breath and chill.

Stool.—Frequent, small, diarrhœic, with unendurable pains in abdomen. Shaking chill before and after.

Anus.—Prolapsus recti during stool, which is difficult to replace on account of constriction of anus.

Urine.—Diminished discharge of. Bloody. Flocculent, with reddish sediment. Pale.

Sexual Organs.—Gonorrhœa of glans. Swelled testes.

Respiration.—Tightness of chest, as tho' it were too narrow, and with it a sensation as tho' lungs had become adherent.

Cough.—Dry, with retching and vomiting, in evening and at night. Violent, spasmodic, excited by irritation from larynx down into chest. In morning, with expectoration of a yellow or albuminous, tenacious mucus, tasting salty, or like an old catarrh. Intense c. when lying down. Hæmoptysis.

Trachea.—Hoarseness, with burning and dryness in.

Chest.—Stitches in, worse during inspiration. Painful tension of pectoral muscles. Sore pain and burning in bones of.

Lower Extremities.—Sciatica, with twitching pain and shortness of limbs.

Generalities.—Paralytic tension in limbs. Twitching and quivering in muscles. Burning of internal, with chill of external parts. Heaviness of limbs. Sensitive to cold air. The complaints are intensified by motion and touch. He feels worst in evening. Usually one-half of body only is entirely or partly affected.

Bones.—Exostoses. Caries.

Skin.—Nightly itching, with swelling after scratching, which is quickly followed by violent itching. Desquamation of, over entire body. Burning and sticking in inflamed ulcers. Ulcerations terminating in suppuration.

Sleep.—Great day sleepiness. Awakened by nightmare after midnight.

Fever.—Pulse: Full and hard, sometimes intermittent; accelerated in evening. Chill: Predominates, even in a warm room. With external coldness and thirst for cold water, but without desire for warmth. Constant thirst during, with dryness of back part of mouth and increased collection of saliva in forepart, but without desire for drink. Chilliness and shivering with most complaints. Great sensitiveness to cold air. Which runs from upper arms down back to feet. Heat: In bed; most on head. Internal, with external coldness. Sweat: With sleep, immediately after the chill, without previous heat. Cold sweats.

Allied Remedies.—Arg-n., Bry., Euphor., Kali-bi., Merc., Mur-ac., Nit-ac., Phyt., Rhus-t., Sil., Verbas.

MOSCHUS.

Mind.—Stupefying confusion of head. Hypochondriacal peevishness and anxiety. Anxiety and dread of death.

Vertigo.—From slightest motion of head. With loss of speech, yet sees and hears everything.

Head.—Violent congestion to. Stupefying compressive ache, especially in forehead, with qualmishness. Heaviness of. Tension in occiput extending into nape. Worse: Evening; moving head; in room; becoming cold. Better: Walking in open air; becoming warm.

Nose.—Crawling in tip of. Nosebleed. Stuffed coryza.

Eructation.—Frequent, forcible e. of air.

Stomach.—Fulness and oppression in region. Pressure in pit extending thro' to back.

Abdomen.—Anxious fulness and oppression in, with restlessness. Tension and pressure in, coming from stomach. Hysterical spasms in, and in uterus.

Flatulence.—Shifting; becomes incarcerated

Stool.—Constipated for many days. Faint, sweetish smelling stools. Unconscious, diarrhœic s., at night.

Urine.—Pungent, ammoniacal smelling.

Genitals.—Sexual desire violently excited.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse.

Respiration.—Oppression of, from suffocative constriction of chest, as soon as he becomes cold.

Cough.—Spasmodic, as if from constriction of chest and trachea, excited by sulphur vapor. Expectoration absent, or has absolutely ceased.

Larynx.—Speechlessness.

Chest.—Spasmodic constriction of, without cough, especially when becoming cold. Painful under arms when pressed upon. Anxious palpitation.

Upper Extremities.—One hand is hot, the other cold.

Lower Extremities.—Cold feeling in shin-bone. Restlessness in legs with a sensation as tho' becoming stiff, necessitating moving limbs.

Generalities.—Cramp-like pains in limbs. Prickling in limbs, with heaviness therein. Shaking and trembling throughout entire body. Weakness, which is more evident during rest than motion. Fainting followed by pains in head. Tetanic spasms. Tonic spasms of hypochondriacs. The part upon which he lies pains as tho' it would be dislocated or broken. Symptoms, especially those of respiration, are < on becoming cold. Extreme sensitiveness, the open air seems exquisitely cold to him.

Skin.—Herpes, with unbearable burning.

Sleep.—Comatose sleepiness especially in forenoon. Sleeplessness of hysterical persons. Somnolency.

Fever.—Pulse: Very full and accelerated, with strong ebullition of blood. Great anemia with weak pulse and faintings. Chill: With shuddering spreading from scalp over entire body. Sensation as of cold air blowing on uncovered parts. External coldness with internal heat. Shuddering alternating with heat. One cheek hot without redness, the other red without heat. Heat: Burning, in evening in bed, often only on right side, with restless and inclination to uncover. One hand burning hot (and pale), the other cold (and red). Sweat: Smelling like musk. Clammy, in morning.

Allied Remedies.—BELL., Coccl., Coff., Nux-v., Op., Phos.

MURIATICUM ACIDUM.

Mind.—Introverted and silent with anxious solicitude. Sadness. Inclined to anger.

Head.—Heaviness in occiput, with darkness before eyes. Aches, as tho' brain were torn and shattered. Sticking ache. Headache from raising up in bed or moving eyes.

Eyes.—Swelling and redness of lids. Vertical hemiopia.

Ears.—Cramp-like tearing in. Insensibility of inner auditory canal. Difficult hearing. Sensitive to noises.

Nose.—Epistaxis. Dry nasal catarrh.

Face.—Glowing red cheeks when walking in open air, without thirst. Scurfy, pimply eruption, especially about mouth. Freckles. Thick, swollen lower lip.

Teeth.—Crawling in (lower). Throbbing ache, < cold drinks, > warmth. Swollen, ulcerated gums which bleed easily.

Mouth.—Great dryness of entire buccal cavity. Burning, rawness and soreness in fauces. Heaviness of tongue when speaking, as tho' it contained lead. Deep ulcers on tongue. Difficult speech and paralysis of tongue.

Appetite.—Gluttony and constant desire to drink.

Eructations.—Putrid (or bitter).

Stomach.—Empty sensation, also in œsophagus. Disagreeably sick sensation in.

Hypochondriæ.—Tensive, squeezing (or empty sensation) in.

Abdomen.—Distension of. Spasms in, with pinching in navicular region, which extends to sides. Disagreeable sensation of emptiness and discomfort in.

Stool.—Fecal diarrhœa, with smarting and burning in anus. Involuntary discharge of watery s. when urinating. Too slender in form. With blood.

Anus.—Moist hemorrhoids. Inflamed, thickly swollen, external hemorrhoids with excoriative, burning pain. Prolapsus recti when urinating.

Urine.—Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge. Excessive discharge of watery urine. Weakness of bladder and of neck thereof.

Sexual Organs.—Impotency and dormant sexual instinct.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse.

Respiration.—Deep, groaning.

Cough.—Violent, panting c., followed by downward rumbling and gurgling in chest. Excited by tickling in chest; dry in afternoon and evening; in morning, there is a slight loosening of yellow or watery uncoagulated mucus, of a fatty taste, which must be swallowed. Hæmoptysis of dark blood.

Larynx.—Persistent hoarseness.

Chest.—Dyspnœa, and constriction of. Bursting pain in, also pain as if beaten; soreness and stitches. Sticking in, and in cardiac region when breathing and after violent exertion. Cutting thrusts in centre of, with a dull pressure in posterior part of thorax. The heart beat is so violent at night that it is felt in face.

Back.—Violent, pressing backache, as if from overlifting.

Upper Extremities.—Heaviness of arms, especially forearms. Drawing in upper arm. Scurfy eruption on back of hands and fingers. Nightly numbness of fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Spasmodic tearing in thighs. Tottering gait from weakness of thighs. Fetid ulcers on lower legs. Burning, swollen tips of toes.

Generalities.—Drawing tearing in extremities during rest, > motion. Bruised pain in all joints. Debility so extraordinary, that upon sitting down the eyes immediately close. Great sensitiveness to wet weather.

Bones.—Periosteum of all bones is painful, as in intermittent fever.

Skin.—Scurfy eruptions, itching, particularly when getting warm in bed. Painful, putrid ulcers which burn at their circumference. Boils, sticking when touched. Black small-pox.

Sleep.—Great day sleepiness quickly disappearing during motion. Continual snoring, groaning, tossing about and talking, with sliding down in bed, especially before midnight. Frequently wakened by a chill early in morning in bed.

Fever.—Pulse: Weak and slow, intermits every third beat. Chill: Predominates. In evening, with cold feeling in back, with external warmth and burning of face. Shuddering over whole body with hot cheeks and cold hands. Shaking chill without thirst, with stretching and yawning. Chill and heat without thirst. Heat: Internal, with inclination to uncover and general physical restlessness. Burning, especially on palms and soles. Sweat: In first sleep until midnight, especially on head and back. Night and early morning sweat. A cold sweat on feet, first on lying down in evening.

Allied Remedies.—Ars., BRY., Lyc., Mez.

NATRUM CARBONICUM.

Mind.—Gloominess of head, with incapacity for thinking or any mental exertion, especially in room and when at rest. Great mental impressionability, everything (for instance music) excites trembling. Restlessness with attacks of anxiety, especially from the heavy air preceding a thunderstorm Aversion to mankind and society. Hypochondriacal mood.

Vertigo.—From small quantities of liquor or mental or physical exertion, < in a room or walking in the sun.

Head.—Stupefying pressure in forehead followed by heat in head. Sticking ache in forehead and out thro' eyes, with heat in forehead and anxious sweat. Tearing in external forehead, recurring at certain hours of the day. Worse: Rest; in the sun; mental exertion. Better: Motion, in open air.

External Head.—Crampy tearing in cranial muscles, especially of forehead, with trembling and cold sweat. Worse: Rest; stormy weather Better: Motion; rubbing; pressure.

Eyes.—Black spots or dazzling flashes before. Inflammatory swelling of lids. Ulcers on cornea. Inability to read small print. Photophobia.

Ears.—Difficult hearing. Sensitive to noises.

Nose.—Sensitive. Exfoliation of skin of. Stopped by hard, foul-smelling mucus. Coryza, with hoarseness from the least draft or cold, > from sweating only.

Face.—Heat with redness of. Yellow spots on forehead and upper lip. Numerous freckles. Humid, herpetic eruption on nose and about mouth.

Teeth.—Excessive sensitiveness of lower (incisors). Ache when eating fruit or sweet things.

Mouth.—Burning, flat ulcers or blisters in. Stuttering, from heaviness of tongue.

Appetite.—Ravenous hunger in forenoon. Inclined to nibble dainties. Violent, continuous thirst. Effects of cold drinks.

Taste.—Bitter or sour, in mouth.

Nausea.—Continuous, and sick stomach.

Stomach.—Extraordinary weakness of digestion, which causes ill-humor and general discomfort after the slightest dietetic errors or even after every meal. Pressure in, after every meal. Sensitiveness of pit to touch.

Hypochondriæ.—Stitches in splenic or hepatic region.

Abdomen.—Distension of. Colic, with retracted navel.

Flatulence.—Excessive generation of f., with painful movements in abdomen. Discharge of sour or fetid-smelling f.

Stool.—Frequent, ineffectual urging. Unsatisfactory. Bloody. Soft, with tenesmus.

Urine.—Stinking, with mucus deposit. Frequent, violent urging to urinate with excessive discharge. Burning in urethra during and after urination.

Sexual Organs.—Greatly intensified sexual desire, like a sort of priapism. Crushing pain in testes. Excoriated scrotum. Pressure and urging toward female s. o., as tho' everything would be forced out.

Menses.—Too early, with lumbar and abdominal pains. Profuse leucorrhœal discharge preceded by colicky pains.

Respiration.—Short and tight from tightness of chest.

Cough.—With purulent, salty expectoration. Violent, dry c., when passing from a cold into a warm place.

Neck.—Swelling of glands of. Hard swelling of thyroid gland.

Chest.—Constant chilliness in left side. Nightly, anxious palpitation when lying upon left side.

Upper Extremities.—Tearing in shoulders with weakness of arms Herpes or warts upon backs of hands. Burning blisters on fingers.

Lower Extremities.—Heaviness in legs and feet. Uncertain gait. Shortened ham strings. Herpes in popliteal spaces. Easy turning (wrenching) and dislocation of ankle. Cold feet. Chronic heel ulcers arising from spreading blisters. Excoriation between and blisters on tips of toes.

Generalities.—Involuntary twitching in muscles and limbs. Parts are easily sprained and dislocated. Relaxation and prostration of entire body. Great weakness and debility in all limbs, especially early in morning. Exhausted and ready to drop after a short walk. Easily takes cold. Aversion to open air. Great physical restlessness in evening unless he exerts himself mentally. Most complaints appear when sitting and disappear during motion, from pressure or rubbing. Anxiety, trembling and cold sweat during pain. The heavy air preceding a thunderstorm < the symptoms.

Glands.—Swelling and induration of.

Skin.—Dry, but on the slightest exertion it immediately sweats profusely. Herpes which enlarge and suppurate; in yellow rings. Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of affected parts.

Sleep.—Irresistible day sleepiness, but late falling to sleep in evening. Nightly restlessness. Twitching and jerking during. Many vivid dreams.

Fever.—Pulse: Excited, mostly at night, with ebullition of blood in body. Chill: And internal chilliness, with shuddering the whole day, most in forenoon, with cold hands and feet and hot head, or the reverse, with warm hands and cold cheeks. In evening, shivering, with

dull confusion of head then heat with sleep. Heat: With weariness and sleep (without headache, which is very severe in Nat-m.). Running from neck down back, with great ill-humor. With concomitant sweat over entire body. Sweat: Profuse, anxious, from least exertion. Burning on forehead where the hat touches. Profuse at night. Nightsweat alternating with a dry skin. Cold, anxious s., with trembling during pain.

Allied Remedies.—CALC-C., Caust., Graph., Kali-c., LYC., Nat-m., Nat-s., PULS., Sep., Sil., Spig., Sul.

NATRUM MURIATICUM.

Mind.—Weakness of understanding and memory. Distraction and absence of ideas. Melancholic sadness, with aversion to exertion. Melancholy, with much weeping, aggravated into violent outbursts of anger by consolation. Awkwardness. Angry irritability, easily flies into a passion. Anxiousness; frightened easily. Hatred toward those that have injured him. Haste and impatience. Concern for the future.

Vertigo.—With jerks in head and want of recollection. Painful dizziness in head.

Head.—Many kinds of headache. Throbbing and hammering, most in forehead, with nausea and vomiting. Heaviness of, every day, especially in occiput; it draws the eyes shut. Violent ache, as tho' it would burst. Tearing from root of nose into forehead, with darkness of vision. Attacks of gout in, with nausea and vomiting. Painful stitches, which go through head like a jerk. Pain, as if compressed in a vise. Headache, often of an extraordinarily violent sort accompanies most other complaints. Worse: Awaking from sleep; early in morning; motion; cold air; anger; reading; writing; looking fixedly; mental exertion; talking. Better: Sitting or lying quietly, especially with head high; open air; after sweat.

External Head.—Hair falls out when merely grasped, most on bregma and temples, but also on beard and genitals; especially frequent in child bed. Scalp smarts when touched, especially at edge of hair, on temples and forehead. Scalp feels contracted as if in a snare. Takes cold in. Worse: Night and morning; warmth of bed. Better: Sitting up.

Eyes.—Inflamed, with ulcerated lids and glutinous mucus in (external) canthi. Acrid tears. Spasmodic closure of lids in evening. Letters run together when reading. Progressive paralysis of optic nerve. Weak vision.

Ears.—Swelling and heat of external. Purulent discharge from. Roaring in. Difficult hearing.

Nose.—Dryness of internal. Numbness of one side. Painful swelling of one side. Lost smell. Early in morning stuffed (or fluent) coryza, with loss of smell and taste. Ineffectual attempts to sneeze.

Face.—Glistens as if greasy. Yellowish, earthy complexion. Sweat on, when eating. Lips are cracked and ulcerated. Herpetic eruption about mouth. Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Very sensitive to air and touch. Drawing ache extending into ears and throat. Swollen gums, with sensitiveness to warmth or cold. Putrescent, easily bleeding gums. Dental fistula.

Mouth.—Burning blisters in mouth and on tongue. Chronic sore throat, with sensation of being compelled to swallow over a lump. Gurgling in throat. Inflamed throat with sticking pains. Hawks up mucus, early in the morning. Numbness of half of tongue. Dry tongue, with constant thirst. Difficult speech from heaviness of tongue. Sense of a hair on tongue. Salivation.

Appetite.—Extraordinary, at noon and in evening. Aversion to bread and fatty food. Desire for bitter food. After effects of sour food or bread. Continuous thirst. Complaints appear after drinking.

Taste.—Lost. Putrid or sour, in mouth. Persistent after taste of sour food.

Eructation.—Sour, after eating. After eating, heartburn and many empty eructations. Water collects in mouth.

Nausea.—Qualmishness early in morning. Vomiting, at first food, then bile.

Stomach.—Pressure, as of a stone in, with qualmishness. Contractive spasm in, with qualmishness. Griping in pit. Sensitiveness of pit, which is swollen. Red spots on pit. Jerks and thrusts in pit.

Hypochondria.—Chronic inflammation of liver, with sticking pains.

Abdomen.—Distension of. Hypochondriacal discomfort in. Daily cutting and pinching in. Pressure in. Jerks and thrusts in. Disagreeable feeling in.

Flatulence.—Incarcerated, with cutting and pinching. Loud grumbling and rumbling in abdomen.

Stool.—Ineffectual urging to. Involuntary. Difficult, with stitches in rectum. Constipation.

Anus.—Burning in, and in rectum during and after stool. Sticking anal hemorrhoids. Herpes at.

Urine.—Violent urging to urinate (day and night), with profuse discharge of urine. Involuntary discharge of, when coughing, sneezing and walking.

Sexual Organs.—Gonorrhœa of glans. Gleet. Itching in pudendum. Excessive sexual desire with impotency.

Menses.—Too early and too profuse (or too late and too scanty) with sterility. Irregular. Suppressed. Delayed appearance of first, in young women. Headache before, during and after. Acrid leucorrhœa with a yellow face.

Respiration.—Tightness of chest when walking rapidly and during manual labor. Suffocative attacks. His breath seems hot to himself.

Larynx.—Soreness and dry feeling in, and in trachea.

Cough.—Long continued, dry c., with rattling in chest. Early in morning. From tickling in throat and epigastrium during day and night. Dry in evening; in morning expectoration of yellow, often blood streaked mucus, generally of a flat,

sometimes sourish or more rarely a salty taste. With retching up of bloody mucus. During cough, sticking in chest and headache which threatens to burst forehead.

Chest.—Tension and cutting in. Stitches in, and in sides thereof. Violent anxious palpitation, most violent when lying upon left side. Snoring and rattling in. Heart beat irregular or frequently intermittent. Fluttering feeling at heart.

Neck.—Pains in cervical glands.

Back.—Lame, bruised feeling in and in sacral region. Drawing in.

Upper Extremities.—Weakness and paralytic heaviness of arms. Warts on palms of hands. Sweaty hands. Asleep sensation and crawling in fingers. Numerous hangnails.

Lower Extremities.—Dislocative pain in hip joint. Drawing pain in legs. Painful shortening of hamstrings. Heaviness of lower leg and foot. Stitches in corns.

Generalities.—Great relaxation of all mental and physical powers after exertion. 'Every movement excites the circulation exceedingly. Early in morning the limbs feel very weak and as if severely bruised. Extraordinary emaciation. Easily takes cold. Complaints from too much speaking. Bad effects of anger. Shortened tendons. Twitching of muscles and limbs. Paralyses. Hysterical complaints. The nightly pains take away the breath and cause a sort of unilateral paralysis. He is weakest early in the morning when in bed.

Skin.—Hives after violent exertion. Boils. Warts. Panaritia and hang-nails.

Sleep.—Insufficient and unrefreshing in morning. Full of vivid fancies. Day sleepiness. Nightly sleeplessness, with ineffectual desire for. Anxious dreams.

Fever.—Pulse: Extremely irregular, often intermittent, especially when lying on left side, with throbbing and distension of blood vessels. Now quick and weak, then full and slow. Pulse-beat shakes the entire body perceptibly. Chill: Predominating, mostly internal, as if from

want of natural vital heat, with icy-cold hands and feet, most in evening. Long continued, from morning to noon. Heat: Overrunning, with the most intolerably violent head pains, often with shuddering over the back, and sweat in arm-pits and on soles of feet. Long continued, in afternoon, with the most extraordinary head pains and insensibility, which gradually disappear during the subsequent sweat. Mostly with violent thirst. Intermittent fever with violent headache, especially during the heat. Sweat: Profuse, wherein the symptoms cease which appeared during the fever. Much during day, and great inclination thereto from every movement. Night and early morning s. Debilitating, somewhat sour smelling s.

Allied Remedies.—Ag-c., Alum, Anac., Ars., Bro., Cann., Carb-v., Chin., Gel., Kali-c., Kre., Nat-c., Nat-s., Nux-v., Petr., PULS., Ruta., Spig.

NATRUM SULFURICUM.

Mind.—Depressed, irritable and taciturn. Despair: Of recovery. Passionate. Sensitive. Music causes sadness.

Vertigo.—On rising, then ascending heat till sweat breaks out on forehead, with buzzing in head. Then vomits sour mucus. Inclines to fall to the right.

Head.—Dull, muddled feeling in, with darkness before eyes. Brain feels loose. Pain: As if to burst; as if top would split; like a hard substance in forehead; must hold it; like electric shocks; breaking in forehead, followed by sleepiness; grasping in forehead, > cold foot bath; tearing from r. temple to vertex, with shaking chill, or towards facial bones, or in occiput; boring, in bones; burning, with excessive feebleness; violent beating in temples; aching, when reading, which causes heat and sweat; pressive squeezing in occiput. Suddenly jerked to one side. Worse: Walking; during menses; exerting arms; periodically; after vomiting.

Scalp.—Sensitive; every hair pains when combed. Sensitive bunches of hair.

Eyes.—Rough, dry, red and burning. Balls feel as if they gave out heat. Lachrymation, running burning water. Itching, crawling as of a bug. Sticking. Piercing in, with nausea. Lids: Heavy; agglutinated, with photophobia, < lamplight. Vision: Bleared, > bathing them; glittering bodies before, after blowing nose. Worse: Near fire. Better: Rubbing.

Ears.—Boring behind. Outward forcing pressure in. Stitches: Like lightning fly out of; sudden, violent, causing starting. Tinkling, as of distant bells in.

Nose.—Wandering boring, in bones of root. Itching of wings. Much sneezing. Crawling, as of an insect on back of. Stuffed coryza. Bleeds during menses.

Face.—Looks pale, wan and cross. Skin of cheek feels drawn up. Tearing in cheeks bones, < cold air, > hard rubbing. Itching. Painfully stiff maxillary joint. Lips: Dry, peeling. Burn as from pepper. Vesicles on.

Teeth.—Jerking, tearing, pulsating in, with heavy head, warm body and restlessness, then nose-bleed. Grasping, raging in. Better: Cold air; tobacco smoke. Movable, painless swelling on gums.

Tongue.—Covered with mucus. Grayish or brownish coat, at root. Boring in. Shooting in tip. Stitches thro' root of.

Mouth.—Rough and almost insensible in A. M. Burning: On palate; like pepper on tip of tongue; like fire on gums, which are red. Blisters: On tip of tongue; sensitive, on palate; > cold things; on gums, which suppurate. Sour water collects in. Salivation.

Throat.—And mouth very dry, without thirst. Sore. Glands, uvula and tonsils swell, swallowing difficult. Hawks up much, salty mucus in A. M.; tenacious mucus. Constriction.

Appetite.—Feeling of voracious hunger, with boring pain in stomach, > eating. Thirst for very cold things in evening.

Taste.—Slimy.

Eructation.—Disagreeable, with incarcerated flatus, nausea and flow of saliva.

Nausea.—With sticking in r. flank. And vomiting salty, sour water. On descending.

Stomach.—Pressive pain in pit. Trembling in pit, with want of breath, feels faint. Burning and pinching in. Fulness, extending into chest, with difficult breathing. Beating pain in. Better: Eating.

Hypochondria.—Sticking, bursting or pulsating pain in r. Worse: Lying on l. side; walking; touch; deep breathing.

Abdomen.—Bellyache: With bruised pain in small of back, > lying on l. side. Grumbling and rolling, with sudden pinches, as after a purgative, then diarrhœa. Painful contraction extending into chest, oppressing the breathing, then diarrhœa. Pinching: As if bowels were stretched; extending into genitals, then diarrhœa. Digging, during menses. Fulness, as if to burst, in r. groin. Pains: Flatulent; now here, now there, more about navel; Worse: Walking; during menses.

Stool.—Diarrhœic: Forcibly expelled, with much flatus, in morning after rising, preceded by bellyache. Copious, watery, preceded by colicky pains and gurgling. Difficult, altho' soft. Knotty. Worse: Pastry; cold food and drink.

Anus.—Itching. Burning during and after stool (Iris).

Urine.—Copious. Cutting in meatus or burning in urethra during and after urination. Urging to urinate, with sticking in groins. Violent pinching around navel and pain in small of back when he retains urine because it is so burning. Sediment brick red, yellowish-red or yellowish-white.

Sexual Organs.—Itching: On scrotum, scratching causes burning.

Menses.—Late. Of acrid lumpy blood, excoriating thighs. Of white, bloody mucus. More when walking. With pinching bellyache. Chilly during.

Respiration.—Short: When walking; with a sharp stitch in l. chest, if standing.

Cough.—With many pains. Excited by tickling scraping in throat. Dry, with soreness or sticking in chest, must sit

up and hold chest with both hands, for relief. Expectorates much mucus in on awaking in morning.

Neck.—Tearing and tension in tendons of. Throbbing. Nape: Stiff; burning in, later coldness and prickling there; pains from nape, into occiput, extorting screams, > rubbing; piercing pain in; drawing in. Worse: Motion.

Chest.—Trembling in, making her irritable. Pressure as of a load on. Sticking; as of a dull instrument. Itching about nipple. Heart: Anxiety at, with rapid beats, and dim vision, > in open air.

Back.—Piercing, like knives between shoulders. Gnawing in bones. Suppurative or bruised pain in small of. Distensive pain as of a soft body in r. flank.

Extremities.—Many pains in joints of toes and fingers. Twitching: Here and there; of hands and feet after midnight. Hands and feet, weary and sore; pain in borders of. Compression, especially about joints. Feel too full. Pains: Sticking or ulcerative under nails; boring, in joints. Worse: Walking. Better: Open air; motion > temporarily only.

Upper Extremities.—Heaviness of r. Stiff. Ulcerative pain in tendons of elbow. Transient burning above and below elbow; asleep feeling in. Hands: Weak, drops things; pain in flexors when grasping things; tremble on waking, when writing; burn like nettles, with red backs; pain deep in palm. Fingers: Itching between; tearing and numbness from elbows into. Tips of: Pulsation in; stitches; fine piercing as if veins were pulled out; crawling as if becoming numb; boring in. Better: Out of doors.

Lower Extremities.—Piercing as with knives, or breaking, rending, excoriating hip joint pains, on motion, stooping or rising from sitting; piercing rending from coccyx to middle of thigh. Bruised pain in anterior thigh. Burning in bend of thighs. Digging in hollow of knee, > motion. Leg: Swollen feeling, deep in; hot, up to knee. Cramp-like contraction in calves. Tearing, breaking pain in shin. Feet: Weary, she often changes their position; itching, on dorsa, < undressing and scratching; alternating between soles; of balls of toes, they feel drawn together. Ankles feel sprained, > continued motion. Sensitive. Burning in soles at night. Piercing rending in heels, extorting screams; ulcerative pain in. Shooting, stitches or burning in tips of toes. Numbness in toes. Better: Stretching; rubbing.

Generalities.—Symptoms in other parts cause oppression of breathing (Puls.). Weariness of whole body, must lie down; in knees, > walking. General trembling, with visible spasmodic muscular motions, anxiety and fear of misfortune. Pressure, as of a dull instrument (or plug) forcing or boring into part. Wandering pains. Piercing, compressive, needle-like, boring or tearing pain in almost any part. Worse: Wet weather and dampness; morning and evening; during menses; lying on l. side; walking; motion; pressure of clothes; rest; touch. Better: Dry, open air; cloudy weather; momentarily, on changing position; after breakfast.

Skin.—Vesicles on, during menses. Itching: On undressing; now here, now there. Gnawing and tearing in bones.

Sleep.—Restless at night, violent headache awakes her. Starting up on falling to. Dreams: Of falling; terrifying; fighting; of flying; beautiful; heavy. Lazy and sleepy after breakfast.

Fever.—Chill: In evening, without heat or sweat. Up back, with shaking and chattering of teeth. With anxiety, followed by sleep, > lying down. With internal heat in head and a pale face. With icy coldness and gooseflesh. Then sweat without thirst. At 4 P. M. > in bed, then sweat at 4 A. M. Internal coldness, with stretching and yawning. Coldness not > heat. Heat: Dry in flashes, toward evening. Sweat: Profuse, followed by dry mouth. On scrotum. No thirst in any stage.

Allied Remedies.—Alo., Arg-n., Asclep., Bell., Bry., Coloc., Dros., Dulc., Gamb., Lyc., Nat-c., NAT-M., Pod., Puls., Rhod., Rhus-t., Rum., Scill., Sul.

NITRICUM ACIDUM.

Mind.—Anxious about his illness, with fear of death. Sadness and despondency. Excessive excitability (after abuse of Mercury). Angry willfulness. Long continued animosity toward those who have offended him. Attacks of rage, with imprecation and swearing.

Head.—Headache pressing inward, with tension extending into eyes, nausea and vomiting. Congestion to, with much heat therein. Throbbing ache. Stitches in, compel lying down. Attacks of gouty headache; excessively sensitive to the rattle of vehicles. Bone pains in skull. Dark brown or black, stiff, fibrous hair. Worse: Evening; noise. Better: Riding in a carriage; lying.

External Head.—Moist, sticking, itching eruption from vertex down over temples into beard, bleeding easily when scratched, from which as well as on the side whereon he lies a smarting pain results. Exostoses. Cephalic bone pains as tho' skull were constricted by a band, readily passing into inflammation and necrosis. Painfully sensitive to touch and pressure even of hat, with anxiety. Falling of hair, with a moist eruption which sticks like painfully penetrating splinters when touched; also from genitals, especially after a nervous headache or abuse of Mercury. Worse: Evening and night; external pressure; lying thereon. Better: Cool air; during a carriage ride.

Eyes.—Pressure and sticking in. Inflamed (after suppressed syphilis or abuse of Mercury). Spots on cornea. Lachrymal fistula. Myopia. Black spots before.

Ears.—Sticking in. Suppurating. Difficult hearing (after abuse of Mercury). Pounding and roaring in.

Nose.—Tip red and scurfy. Sticking, as of a splinter in. Scurfs in. Nosebleed of dark, clotted blood early in morning. Offensive smell from. Stuffed coryza, with obstructed nostrils. Fluent coryza after taking cold. The nasal mucus flows only thro' the choanæ. Sneezing.

Face.—Yellow. Sunken eyes encircled by yellow. Dark yellow, almost brownish, complexion. Eruption, on forehead and temples; pimply on. Swollen lips. Ulcers on red part of lips. Painfully swelled submaxillary glands.

Teeth.—Loose and turn yellow. White gums.

Mouth.—Foul, cadaverous smell from. (Syphilitic and mercurial) ulcers in, and on fauces. Inflammation of throat with burning and painful soreness. Painful excoriation of palate, tongue and inner gums. Sticking in pharynx. Salivation. Salivary fistula. Hoarseness.

Appetite, etc.—Desire for earth, chalk, lime, etc. Milk disagrees. Violent thirst.

Taste.—Bitter, in mouth. Sour, with burning in throat.

Stomach.—Pain in cardiac orifice when swallowing solid food. Stitches in pit.

Hypochondria.—Pressure and sticking in splenic region.

Abdomen.—Pinching, cutting and sticking in. Ulcerative pain in. Colic from taking cold. Inguinal hernia. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.

Flatulence.—Obstructed f., early in morning and in evening. Accumulation of flatus in abdomen.

Stool.—Diarrhœic, often of mucus or foul-smelling s. Dysenteric, bloody, with tenesmus. Constipation and dry stool. Nervousness and relaxation after.

Anus.—Itching and burning of. Swollen hemorrhoids, which bleed with every stool. Stitches in rectum.

Urine.—Discharge of scanty, dark, stinking u. Feels cold when passed. Incontinence.

Sexual Organs.—Figwarts and sycotic gonorrhœa. Chancre-like ulcers on foreskin and glans. Inflamed and swelled testes, from whence pain ascends through spermatic cord. Falling of hair from pudendum. Want of or intensified sexual desire, with painful erections at night.

Menses.—Too early. Suppressed. Cramps in abdomen, with urging toward sexual organs during.

Respiration.—Panting. Tightness of chest and want of breath when walking or ascending steps. Wheezing.