MERCURIUS VIVUS mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Royal ry2 Makeup: Unhealthy; syphilitic. Location: Lungs; heart; pleura. Sensation: Sharp; burning; sore; bruised. Modalities: Agg. at night. Our preceptor used Merc. in certain cases which he called "lobar pneumonia of infants." Our professor of materia medica, T.F.Allen, taught us to use the remedy for cases of pneumonia accompanied by hepatic disorders. Prof. Allen differentiated between Chel., Iod., Sang. and Merc. for the above form of pneumonia. We found that our preceptor and professor both gave the same indications for the remedy, viz., a loose cough, always worse at night; tenderness and enlargement of the liver shown by the agg. of lying on the right side; a profuse, oily perspiration, which greatly agg. the patient's discomfort; urine scanty, dark colored and albuminous; stools soft, containing mucus and accompanied by tenesmus and followed by straining. The physical signs were constriction of the chest, the moist rales and frequent complication of the pleura with tendency to purulent effusion into the pleura. The 6th. [Ed. C/D(???) potency] has been most frequently used. Give three or five grain doses of it every three hours.