Pure cyanide of Mercury is dissolved in distilled water (1 to 99) for use. Ally. Kali chloricum.
Generalities
Appearance as in first stage of cholera. Lying on r. side, supported on arm. Weakness; so that he cannot stand up; from frequent nosebleed; during diarrhoea, and at last he fell to the floor in a swoon. Frequent fainting..
Mind
Excitement at night; with incessant talking, anger at the attendant and raving.
Head
Tearing, (<) forepart of night. Aching; at night. Vertigo; on sitting up in bed, with loud ringing in ears.
Eyes
Fixed. Sunken. Conjunctiva injected. Pupils dilated.
Ears and Nose
Ringing in ears. Frequent and profuse epistaxis.
Face
Pale and wan. Cyanotic. Flushed. Serious expression. Lips, tongue and inside of cheeks covered with grayish-white pulp.
Mouth
Toothache. Gums swollen and covered with adhesive, whitish coat, above which is a border of bluish red. Tongue coated grayish. Tongue pale, afterwards with yellow coat at base, next morning edges redder, and a gray, metallic-looking coat at base, third day swollen, red on edges and covered with adhesive gray coat. Blisters on l. margin of tongue and on soft palate, developing into irregular ulcers, these ulcers afterwards appeared on r. margin of tongue. On inside of r. cheek a round ulcer, with grayish base and upright edges, encircled by bright red, the ulcer afterwards covered by a gray leathery coat. Inflammation. Redness. Salivation smelling as from Mercury. Taste metallic. Taste bitter. Taste styptic.
Throat
Swelling of salivary glands. White opalescent coat resembling superficial mucous patches of syphilis, on pillars of velum palati and on tonsils. Redness of fauces and difficult swallowing; R. of pharynx; R. at base of pharynx. Roughness. Swallowing difficult. Necrotic destruction of soft parts of palate and fauces.
Clinical A valuable remedy for the form of diphtheria characterized by the Mercurial symptoms and aggravations, with extreme prostration; the disease invades the nostrils and there is threatening collapse, with very small, rapid or intermittent pulse. It follows Apis well.
Stomach
Aversion to food. Thirst; burning; but drinks are speedily vomited; but he cannot bear soups or hot drinks, which seem too salt. Hiccough. Nausea. Violent retching from merely thinking of sugared water. Vomiting; frequent, after drinking; repeated of bloody matter; bilious, scanty, twice, with much retching; greenish-yellow, scanty, after soup. Epigastrium sensitive to pressure. Burning. Irritation.
Abdomen
Pain; on pressure; (<) every evacuation.
Rectum and Anus
Small haemorrhoidal tumors around anus, with knobby swellings of mucous membrane. Pain in rectum and around anus when siting, then sensitive, light red swelling around anus, afterwards no stool, but on straining discharge of clear black blood, next day grayish diphtheritic-looking deposit around anus similar to that on inside of cheeks, and the part is eroded, third day fetid, liquid discharge, of gangrenous odor, leaving black stains, fourth day discharge more purulent looking, afterwards serous and almost odorless. Frequent tenesmus. Urging, with diarrhoea and vomiting.
Stool
Diarrhoea; frequent, offensive; frequent, preceded by colic. Liquid, copious, black, offensive, frequent. Slimy at night, and frequent, offensive, green. Thin, bloody. Mixed with blood for five days, then mostly pasty, dark and flocculent, then normal, then constipation. Bloody. Scanty and mixed with blood. Constipation. Hard, then soft the same day, and that night two liquid stools preceded by griping. Yellow, frequent. Frequent and copious.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Painful micturition. Urine amber-colored. Urine albuminous. U. suppressed. U. retained. Scrotum and penis dark blue. Semi- erection of penis.
Respiratory Organs
Cough.
Clinical Chronic ulceration of the larynx, with swelling of tonsils, offensive breath, etc.
Heart and Pulse
Violent and abrupt beating of heart. Palpitation lifting up hand applied to it. Heart’s impulse and sound weak. Pulse rapid; and weak. Pulse slow, afterwards rapid; S., full and hard; S. small and contracted. P. small, compressible. P. irregular and intermittent.
Extremities
Spasms. Pain in l. calf, the veins form two hard cords, which meet above popliteal space, with pain on touch, afterwards with swelling when standing.
Sleep
Drowsiness, with easy waking. Sleeplessness, with restlessness.
Fever
Coldness; of limbs;. of limbs in evening of skin; cold and moist skin. Fever at night, with sleeplessness and headache.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.