Mercurius Precipitates Albus


Mercurius Precipitates Albus signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Mercurius Precipitates Albus is used…


      White Precipitate. Mercuro ammonium chloride. NH2HgCl. Trituration.

Clinical

Dwarfism. Eczema faciei.

Characteristics

The symptoms of Mercurius precip. alb. are taken entirely from poisonings. The most peculiar symptoms are: Green tongue, bilious stools scalding anus, and the old-mannish appearance of a child poisoned with it. Mossa (***H. R., ix. 28) relates (1) a case of chronic eczema of the face in an elderly man, a moistening eruption worse in winter and from exposure to cold, vesicles on a reddened, swollen skin dry into scales which exfoliate, eyelids, especially lower, oedematous, corners reddened, lachrymation, ear involved, itching and burning on head preventing sleep. *Mercurius precip. alb. 3 gr.i. every third day. First the burning itching ceased. Then formation of blisters abated. Exfoliation continued a long time, but the skin finally became normal. (2) Girl, 2, eruption on face and large part of scalp, covered with thick yellow crust, matter exuding from cracks. Offensive odour, swollen cervical glands. *Mercurius precip. alb. 3 gr. i once in three days cured in four weeks.

Relations

*Compare: Dwarfish children, Barayta carbonica, Syphilinum Eczema, Mez., Aethiops. ant.

SYMPTOMS.

Face

Face: much flushed, greatly swollen. In one night a child (poisoned with 20 gr.) has undergone a remarkable change, had become in appearance “quite and old man.”.

Mouth

Gums much swollen. Tongue: much coated, thick greenish fur.

Stomach

Thirst urgent. Nausea and vomiting. Vomits deeply blood-stained fluid. Much pain at stomach.

Abdomen

After half an hour pain began in epigastrium, gradually spreading over whole abdomen. Great pain in abdomen, continuing after taking any, even liquid, food, for more than a week. Constant griping. Whole abdomen painful to pressure.

Stool & Anus

One copious stool with mucous shreds in some quantities, much dark blood. Numerous scanty stools with much blood. Almost pure bile causing great scalding of anus.

Generalities

Slight subsultus. Collapse. During the night the child shrieked as from great pain. in the morning it has changed to the appearance of an old man.

Sleep

Drowsy, semi-comatose.

Fever

Cold, clammy skin, much congestion of cutaneous vessels. General perspiration.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica