MERCURIUS mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Pulfords Remarks: Merc. naturally calls to mind a weak, trembling, restless, apprehensive individual who talks hurriedly and who is extremely sensitive to the extremes of either heat or cold and agg. from the heat of the bed and esp. at night, who is always sweating and is agg. thereby, who is agg. lying on the right side, has fetid breath, offensive ["filthy" wrx] saliva, offensive sweat having a rather sweetish, penetrating odor, his cough is agg. lying on the right side, skin is sallow and he recovers slowly, cough usually at night and is loose. Infantile labor cases. It elects esp. the right lower lobe. Useful in bilious and broncho forms. The expectoration is blood-streaked; tongue yellow, soon becoming dry. Is the ONLY known remedy for: Photophobia from light of fire; emptiness of and sinking at stomach from pressure; sweat day time with nausea and languor, or cold sweat with anxiety while eating, or warm sweat becoming cold and sticky after stool. Is THE leading remedy for: Restlessness 20h; photophobia from gaslight; epistaxis during sleep; heat of face with chilliness; swelling of cheeks; black tongue, edges red; pale tongue; desires bread and butter; stitches in anterior part of chest, also on coughing; chill as of water poured over one; fever paroxysmal nights; sweat nights only; agg. lying on right side; gnawing pains. Merc.: THERAPEUTIC HINTS - The nightly agg. with inability to lie on right side. Borland bl4 (Ed.: Is one of Borland's "complicated Pneumonia / mixed infection or alcoholic patient" - remedies. (Bapt., Hep., Lach., Merc., Pyrog., Rhus-t.) · I think you are liable to meet with Merc. pneumonias about the the same time of the year as Lach. ones, that is in the later part of the winter. In their pneumonias at first sight it is awfully difficult to distinguish your Merc. mentality from the Lach. mentality, but in appearance I think there is a certain amount of difference. · Like the Lach. patient, the Merc. patient tends to have a very puffy face, but it is rather more livid in colour and gives you the impression of being more sickly looking, the patient looks more ill somehow. I think the Merc. patient is a little more sweaty, and the skin looks a little more greasy. · As regards mentality, you get very much the same sort of D.T.'s (delirium tremens?) developing in the Merc. patients as in the Lach., and they become just about as suspicious. Their speech is almost as difficult, it is rather hurried, and they tend to fall over their words; but it is much more a case of stammering than of failing to finish a sentence in the way Lach. patients do. I think the Merc. patients are rather more irritable, and they are definitely more anxious and more restless. · The next thing which helps you is that in the Merc. patients there is very marked, generalized tremor, tremor of the hands, tremor of the tongue, tremor of the facial muscles. · Then in Merc. there is much more commonly a tendency to ulceration of the corners of the mouth, and a much more profuse, watery salivation; it is not so stringy as in Lach. · Quite often you will find definite aphthous patches in the mouth, on the insides of the cheek, or on the tongue, and these usually sting and burn on touch. · The appearance of the two tongues is dissimilar. In Merc. it is a rather swollen, flabby, pale, greasy looking tongue. But if the patient has developed definite D.T.'s you will find it becoming more coated and tending to be rather drier. The patients usually complain of an unpleasant, sweetish, offensive taste. · In these Merc. patients there is always a pretty profuse, generalized sweat. As a rule there is a swinging temperature, and you can link on to that the general Merc. instability to heat, they are either far too hot or far too cold. The Lach. patients, of course, are always hot, they cannot stand heat. And incidentally your Lach. patients are thirsty, they want cold drinks, and they very often get a horrible choking sensation if they attempt to take anything hot; it very much aggravates their distress and aggravates their embarrassment in breathing. The Merc. patients tend to be much more thirsty than the Lach. ones, and they have an incessant desire for ice-cold drinks. · The cough in Merc. tends to be rather different. It is usually a dry, racking cough. And here you will very frequently get a typical Merc. indication, which is that the cough tends to come in double paroxysms. The patient has a violent paroxysm, then a pause, then another paroxysm, and then a period of peace. · Another distinction is that as a rule you get your main involvement on the right side in Merc., rather than on the left side as in Lach. · Very often it is the right lower lobe which is affected, and there are sharp stabbing pains going right through to the back. [DD Chel. fr3] · As far as the sensation in the chest is concerned, it is not unlike the Lach. feeling that the chest is full, and with their paroxysms of coughing the patients often tell you they feel as if their chest would simply burst. · Finally, the sputum in Merc. is, I think, rather more profuse than in Lach.; it is rather more liquid, it is usually pretty dark in colour, and it is always offensive. · In discussing these complicated pneumonias you will notice I have taken all the rather hot, congested, muttering types together. There are two other drugs which I ought to mention for the same conditions, and the distinguishing point about them is that they are both definitely chilly, in other words, the patients are sensitive to cold, which immediately differentiates them from the four drugs (Ed.: Bapt., Lach., Merc., Pyrog.) we have already taken. These two are Hep. and Rhus-t. Nash nh6 Pneumonie: Merc., Chel. and Kali-c. are a trio that go well in company. These remedies all suit cases of pneumonia with bilious complication. Merc., if there are with the oppressed breathing stitches in right chest through from scapulae; cough, first dry, afterward attended with bloody expectoration, great tenderness in region of stomach, and, especially, liver; mouth and tongue moist, but tongue large, flabby, showing imprint of the teeth, [tongue foul tl2] great thirst... Pleurisy: Merc. may follow well after, or even be preferred, if in syphilitic or rheumatic subjects we have the pain persisting after the fever is somewhat reduced, ... gums also swollen... It is especially useful when with the cough there are stitching pains through to the back in region of lower right lung. But if you do not have the Mercurial mouth and the point is in the same locality running through to the back, or it may be in the left side, and the cough is worse at 3 a.m., Kali-c. will outrank Merc. and is complementary to Bry. Hering hr1 ...bloody diarrhea; ...sweats on head (esp. towards mornings); sleeplessness; shivering of extremities; constant thirst and headache; .... much talking in sleep - during pneumonia. Lilienthal ll1 ...slimy stools, attended with great tenesmus before, during and after stool (Chel., free discharges). Asthenic pneumonia with feeling of weight in lungs, agg. walking or ascending, short cough...; epidemic broncho-penumonia, with deep irritation of the nervous system; nose, larynx and trachea become suddenly dry, dyspnea sets in with spasmodic cough, ...; skin burning hot, at times covered with copious sweat; tongue yellow, soon becomes dry; senses dull, violent headache, soporous condition, with light delirium; complains of little or no pain (influenza); infantile lobular pneumonia. Sime sime ... a continuous but not intense degree of fever; ...the urine is cloudy and scanty. In fact, the tendency is wholly in the direction of a typhoid condition. In children, when they have suffered from whooping-cough, bronchitis, or a severe influenza, and signs of pneumonic exudation set in, ... Hoyne hn1 Pleurisy of right side, when chilliness and heat alternate frequently, ...; gastric and intestinal catarrh; ... Bähr bhb2 After hepatisation from the lungs the expectoration is missing, ...cough exhausting, perpetual dyspnea, fever continuous, ... Jahr j2 Disposed to blenorrhea or have a profuse expectoration of viscid blood mucus. Tyler tl2 Tickling in chest, feels dry. Bloody, thick-green expectoration. Suppuration of lungs, large quantities of pus. Nichol nicx Merc. is one of the most frequently indicated remedies in the catarrhal [broncho- Ed.] pneumonia of children, especially when complicated, as it often is, with bronchitis. Lastly, it is a leading but much neglected remedy in the so-called cerebral pneumonia. In pneumonia complicated with bronchitis there is scarcely a better remedy after Merc. than Hep. Rehman rma1 Complementary: Kali-i. - Influenza, complements the action of Merc., when it stops to act. Lyc. - In pneumonia with liver complications to finish the cure. Followed by: Hep. - In hypostatic pneumonia. Compare with: Hep. bl4,nicx, Kali-c. nh6, Lach. bl4, Rhus-t. bl4 Complementary: Kali-i. rma1, Lyc. rma1 Followed by: Hep. nicx,sime