Materia Medica
Argentum Metallicum
Silver
The chief action is centered qn the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and liga- ments. The larynx is also a special center for this drug. Mental.-Hurried feeling; time passes 6 slowly; melancholy.
Head
Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water. Head feeis empiy, hollow. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting coryza, with sneez- ing. Pain in facial bones.
Throat
Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore' on coughing. Profuse and easy morning expectoration.
Respiratory
Hoarseness Aphonia. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. Fasy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra 'ternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On reading loud, must hem and hawk. Great weakness of chest : worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice
Back
Severe backache; must walk bent, with op- pression of chest. Urine. — Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria. &3