Mercurius Corrosivus

► Stares at persons who talk to him, and dose not understand them. ► Weakness of the intellect. ► Mind sluggish, with torpid digestion. ► Anxiety, preventing sleep.

► Vertigo, with coldness, cold perspiration ; with deafness, when stooping.

► Violent temporal headache. ► Heaviness of head. ► Stitches in the forehead.

► Swelling of the head and neck.

► Objects appear smaller ; or, double vision. ► Pupils contracted and insensible. ► Excessive photophobia and acrid lachrymation. ► Phlyctenulae, deep ulcers on the cornea ; discharges ichorous, acrid, making the surrounding parts sore ; pimples around the eyes like small boils. ► Iritis, especially if syphilitic, pains severe, worse at night. ► Retinitis albuminuria, also with tearing at the eyebrow, bones tender. ► Hypopyon occurring in abscess of the cornea or iritis. ► Ophthalmia neonatorum, with acrid discharges ; caused by syphilitic leucorrhoea. ► Posterior synechiae ; causes them to soften. ► Lids : oedematous, or erysipelatous ; red excoriated ; edges swollen, burning, smarting ; edges covered with thick crusts or pustules ; spasmodically closed.

► Inflammation, with stitches in the ear. ► Discharge of fetid pus from the ear.

► Swelling and redness of the nose. ► Fluent coryza ; loss of smell. ► Ozaena, discharge from the nose like glue, drying up in the posterior nares ; perforation of the septum. ► Nose stopped up and at the same time runs ; rawness, smarting in the nostrils.

► Swelling and turning up of the upper lip ; dark red, swollen lip. ► Face and cheeks swollen, hard, red ; bloated. ► Paleness of the distorted face. ► Oedematous swelling of the face, paleness ; albuminuria. ► Yellow color of the face.

► Looseness of the teeth, they pain and fall out. ► Gums swell ; covered with a false membrane ; gangrenous ; bleed freely.

► Lips and tongue, whitish and contracted. ► Tongue coated with thick white mucus, or dry and red ; papillae, elevated, strawberry-like ; coated white, swollen and stiff. ► Swelling of the tongue, with ptyalism.

► Sensation as if the mouth was scalded. ► Taste in the mouth, metallic or salty. ► Mouth dry, with unquenchable thirst. ► Exudations on mucous membranes, extending to tonsils. ► Ulcers (phagedenic) in mouth, throat, or on gums, with fetid breath. ► Ptyalism, with salty taste ; saliva bloody, yellowish tough, acrid. ► Painful burning in the mouth, extending to the stomach. ► Discharge of albuminous mucus from the mouth. ► Buccal cavity and lips covered with aphthae ; on the lips they are surrounded by vesicles, which burn.

► Uvula swollen elongated, dark-red. ► Throat intensely inflamed, preventing swallowing and causing suffocation. ► Tonsils swollen and covered with ulcers. ► Pricking in the throat as from needles. ► Retching and vomiting on attempting to swallow.

► No appetite.

► Vomiting : of albuminous matter ; of tough, or stringy mucus ; of green, bitter substances ; of bile ; of blood ; like coffee-grounds, with coagulated blood ; of pus.

► Distension and soreness of the pit of stomach, not permitting the least touch, even of clothes. ► Burning, gnawing, darting pains in the stomach.

► Stitches as if in the middle of liver.

► Bloated abdomen, very painful to least touch. ► Cutting below the navel. ► Bruised pain in the abdomen. ► Pain and distention in colon, especially transverse portion.

► Stools : yellow, green, bilious, followed by slime and blood ; with tenesmus and insupportable cutting colicky pains ; after stool, burning and tenesmus of rectum and bladder ; worse in fall ; worse after midnight. ► Painful bloody discharges, with vomiting. ► Constipation.

► Tenesmus of the bladder ; urine suppressed. ► Urine : increased ; scanty, hot, bloody ; passed in drops with great pain ; scanty, brown, with brick-dust sediment. ► Filaments, flocks or dark flesh-like piece of mucus in urine. ► Albumen in urine ; after diphtheria or in Morbus Brightii. ► Gonorrhoea greenish, worse night ; burning, smarting urination. ► Paraphimosis.

► Violent erections during sleep. ► Fine painful stinging in left testicle. ► When the chancre assumes a phagedenic appearance and secrets a thin, ichorous pus.

► Menses too early and too profuse. ► Leucorrhoea, pale yellow ; smelling sweetish.

► Hoarseness or aphonia ; burning and stinging in the trachea, tightness across the chest. ► Larynx and epiglottis pain when swallowing food ; pain worse when depressing tongue ; cutting in throat, as from a knife.

► Respiration slow ; interrupted, sighing. ► Excessive dyspnoea ; palpitation.

► Haemoptysis. ► Stitches in chest, through the thorax (right, lower side).

► Palpitation of the heart in sleep. ► Pain in the precordial region. ► Pulse small, weak, intermitting, sometimes trembling.

► Glands of neck hard and swollen. ► Pains in head, back and limbs ; kidneys affected. ► Lies on the back with knees up ; Pott's disease.

► Arm up to the shoulder much swollen, red and covered with vesicles. ► Rheumatic pains in left shoulder and shoulder-blade. ► The deltoid muscle feels relaxed.

► Stitches in the right hip-joint. ► Sensation as if the legs had "gone to sleep". ► The muscles of the thigh and calf feel relaxed. ► Cramps in the calves. θ Dysentery. ► The feet are icy-cold.

► Coldness in the extremities, they look purple ; with small spasmodic, frequent pulse. ► Paralysis of the upper and lower extremities.

► Convulsive twitching of muscles of face, arms and legs, and convulsions of limbs ; convulsive contractions. ► Trembling.

► During sleep, violent hiccough. ► Somnolence. ► When trying to go to sleep, violent starts. ► Sleeplessness on account of vertigo ; on account of anxiety.

► Worse in the open air : 40.

► Chilliness ; from the least movement and in the open air, generally with colic ; in the evening ; especially on the head, at night in bed. ► External heat, with yellow skin. ► Burning, stinging heat in the skin. ► Heat when stooping, and coldness when rising. ► Sweat night, or fetid toward morning. ► Cold sweat, often only on the forehead ; or, general cold sweat ; with anxiety.

► Autumn : 40.

► Buboes. ► Swelling of glands. ► Necrosis of the upper jaw. ► Drawing in the periosteum, with heat in the head ; inflammation of the periosteum. ► Swelling and tenseness, rapid progress of disease. θ In osteo-myelitis. ► General anasarca ; face red and swollen. θ Morbus Brightii.

► Worse from touch : 17, 19.

► Burning and redness of the skin with the formation of small vesicles. ► Grey color of the nails. ► Severe and stubborn eczema of the sweating parts of the body exposed to the fumes of the poison. ► Condylomata. ► Rash of secondary syphilis. ► Ulcers which perforate or become phagedenic.

► Merc. subl. antidoted by Silic.