Materia Medica
Mercurius Cyanatus
Cyanide of Mercury
Acute infections, pneumonia, nephritis. Its action is similar to that of the toxines of infectious diseases. Great and rapid prostration, tendency toward hamorrhages, from the different orifices, of dark fluid blood, cyanosis, rapid respiration and heart action, albuminuria and twitching and jerking of muscles. Typhoid pneumonia. Livid states from great struggling, where suffocation : t格 imminent and paralysis of lung threatening; great 'sweat. 499 Affects most prominently the buccal cavity. This, together with marked prostration, gives it a place in the treatment of diphtheria, where it has a
Head
Great excitement, fits of passion; iury; talkativeness. Atrocious headache. Eyes sunken; face pale.
Nose
[Kali bich.]
Mouth
Covered with ulcerations. Tongue pale. Free salivation. Fetor of breath. Pain and swelling of salivary glands. Astringent taste. Ulcerations of mouth have a gray membrane.
Throat
Feels raw and sore. Mucous membranes broken down, ulcerated. Looks raw in spots, especially in public speakers. Hoarseness, and talking is painful. Necrotic destruction of soft parts of palate and fauces. Intense redness of fauces. Swallowing very difficult. Dark blood from nose. Diphtheria of the larynx and
Stomach
Nausea, vomiting, bilious, bloody; hic- cough; abdomen painful, tender to pressure.
Rectum
Intolerable pain. Redness around anus. Frequent hamorrhage; stoois with tenesmus. Dis- charge of fetid liquid with gangrenous odor. Black stools.
Urinary
Suppression of urine. Amber color, painful. Nephritis with great debility and chilliness, albuminous, scanty.
Skin
Moisture, with icy coldness.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Aggravation is apt to occur from potencies below the sixth.