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Argentum Nitricum.

The Silver Nitrate AgO,NO5

Acute or chronic diseases fro unusual or long-continued mental exertion.

Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried-up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec. ).

Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremities ( Am. m. ); marasmus.

Apprehension when ready for church or opera, diarrhoea sets in ( Gels. ).

Time passes slowly ( Can. I. ); impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nervous ( Aur. Lil. ).

Headache: congestive, with fullness and heaviness; with sense of expansion; habitual gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence or temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging ( Apis , Puls. ).

Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw beef; discharge profuse, muco-purulent.

Ophthalmia neonatorum: profuse, purulent discharge; cornea opaque, ulceration; lids sore, thick, swollen; agglutinated in morning ( Apis , Mer. s. , Rhus ).

Eye strain from sewing, < in warm room > in open air ( Nat. m. , Ruta ); diseases due to defective accommodation.

Craves sugar; child is fond of it, but diarrhoea results from eating (craves salt or smoked meat, Cal. p. ).

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.

Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal; stomach, as it it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence.

Diarrhoea: green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar; masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps ( Asar. ); with much noisy flatus ( Aloe. ).

Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks ( Ars. , Crot. t. , [Trom.]).

Urine passes unconsciously day and night ( Caust. ).

Impotence: erection fails when coition is attempted ( Agnus , Calad. , Selen. ).

Coition: painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from vagina ( Nit. ac. ).

Metrorrhagia: in young widows; in sterility; with nervous erethism at change of life ( Lach. ).

Great longing for fresh air ( Amyl. , Puls. , Sulph. ).

Chronic laryngitis of singers; the high notes cause cough ( Alum. , Arg. m. , Arum. ).

Great weakness of lower extremities, with trembling; cannot walk with the eyes closed ( Alum. ).

Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself unobserved.

Convulsions preceded by great restlessness.

Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing ([Dolich.], Hep. , Nit. ac. , Sil. ); in or about uterus when walking or riding.

Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up; craves fresh air.

Relation. - Natrum mur , for the bad effects of cauterizing with nitrate of silver.

Coffea increases nervous headache.

Boys' complaints after using tobacco ( Ars. , Ver. ).

Similar: to, Nat. m. , Nit. ac. , Lach. , Aur. , Cup.

After Ver. ; Lyc. follows well in flatulent dyspepsia.

Aggravation. - Cold food; cold air; eating sugar; ice cream; unusual mental exertion.

Amelioration. - Open air; craves the wind blowing in his face; bathing with cold water.

The 200 or 1000th potency in watery solution as a topical application in ophthalmia neonatorum has relieved when the crude Silver nitrate failed.