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MERCURIUS
(Quicksilver, Argentum vivum.) In commerce this metal is often adulterated with an admixture of lead, sometimes also of bismuth. The best way to purify it is to put it in a porcelain saucer, pour over it a watery solution of nitrate of mercury, and let it boil for about an... -
MOSCHUS
(Musk.) (From vol. I, 3rd edit., 1830.) (The unctuous substance contained in the hairy bag situated behind the navel of the musk deer (Moschus moschiferus), inhabiting the mountainous parts of Asia, is dried to the greenish musk of commence.) The following symptoms, which it would be desirable to see increased... -
MURIATICUM ACIDUM
(Muriatic acid.) (From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1826.) (It should be carefully freed from the sulphuric acid often mixed with it, by means of re-distillation over the chloride of sodium, or (better) it may be precipitated by muriate of baryta, and, after being thus freed from the sulphuric acid, redistelled.)... -
OLEANDER
(Nerium Oleander.) (From vol. I, 3rd edit, 1830.) (The medicinal power of this vegetable does not seem to be very volatile, and we may therefore quite well employ for medicinal purposes the freshly dried and powdered leaves macerated in alcohol so as to form a tincture. But in order to... -
OPIUM
(From vol. I, 3rd edit., 1830.) (The dried milky juice of the green, half-ripe heads of the Papaver somniferum, especially of the large-headed white poppy, Papaver officinale, Gm.) In recent times many chemists have given themselves unspeakable trouble to analyze opium, and to dissociate its several sontituent parts; morphium (morphia),... -
PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM
(Phosphoric acid.) (From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1826.) (To prepare it, we take one pound of bones calcined white and broken into small pieces, place them in a porcelain jar, and pour over them one pound of the strongest sulphuric acid. The mixture is to be stirred with a glass... -
PULSATILLA
(From vol. ii, 3td edit. 1893.) (Anemone Pratensis) (The expressed juice of the whole green fresh plant mixed with equal parts of alcohol by shaking. After the cloudiness has settled down, the clear fluid is decanted off. Of this two drops are dropped into the first of 30 diluting-phials (each... -
RHEUM
(Rhuburb.) (From vol. ii, 3rd edit., 1833.) (A grain of fresh, good, pulverised rhuburb-root is, for homoeopathic use, to be brought to the thirtieth potency (X) in the same way as is taught in the preface to arsenic, viz, by three hours of triturition with milk-sugar and subsequent dilution and... -
RHUS
(Rhus radicans, also called Rhus toxicodendron) (From vol. ii, 3rd edit., 1833.) (The freshly expressed juice, mixed with equal parts of alcohol, and diluted and potentized up to the thirtieth development of power (x), as taught in the preface to pulsatilla.) Careful consideration and comparison of the symptoms of this...
