Vivus or Solubilis.
Symptoms
1. Light-haired subjects of lax fibre; earth or dirty-yellow, rough complexion. Anti-syphilitic, second stage.
2. Mental slowness but states changeable; (a) memory and will power deficient; answers (questions slowly; despondency; (b) hurry and anxiety; loquacity, esp. in delirium; time passes slowly.
3. Weakness and weariness in all the limbs with pronounced tremor, esp. of hands; goes on to paresis and paralysis; with great restlessness.
4. Suppurative conditions; low potencies hasten, high potencies abort suppuration; of glands; eruptions of many kinds.
5. Superficial ulcerations; spreading, everted edges, cheesy base, readily bleed, discharge excoriating; esp. about the mouth and throat.
6. Ptyalism; profuse, soapy, stringy saliva; foetid metallic taste. Tongue swollen, flabby, showing teeth imprints, coated gen. moist yet intense thirst present
7. All mucous membranes have free secretion of slimy muco-pus, often with ulceration; discharge first thin, excoriating then thicker and more bland; gen. greenish; naso-pharyngeal region and colon esp. affected; dysenteric stools with much blood and tenesmus, not (>) stool.
8. Profuse sweating without (>) esp. in fevers.
9. Bone diseases with boring pains (<) night; exostosis.
10. Patient (<) both heat and cold; at every change esp. to damp weather; all night, warmth of bed; lying right side; joints also (<) touch, pressure and movement.
Notes. In skin affections Mercurius Soluble is to be preferred. Mercurius Cyan. invaluable in diphtheria. Mercurius Biniod. in left sided-Mercurius Protiod. in right-sided throat conditions. Incompatible with Silica.