Materia Medica
Mercurius Iodatus Ruber
Bin-iodide of Mercury
Diphtheria and ulcerated sore throats, especially on left side, with much glandular swelling. Chronic sup- purating buboes. Hard chancres. Old cases of syphilis in scrofulous patients. Early stages of cold, especially in children.
Nose
Coryza and dull hearing; right side of nose hot. Hawks mucus from posterior nares. Turbinated bones swollen. Boggy mucous membrane of nose and throat; closure of Eustachian tube, opening with a pop.
Mouth
Gums swollen; toothache; glands swollen. Scalded feeling on tongue. Aphtha. Profuse saliva. Tongue feels stiff at base, and pains on moving.
Throat
Fauces dark red; swallowing painful. Phlegm in nose and throat. Disposition to hawk, with sensation of a lump in throat. Stiffness of muscles of throat and neck. Diphtheria; submaxillary glands painfully engorged, fauces dark red; worse on left tonsil. Parenchymatous tonsillitis. Will often abort peritonsil- litis if given frequently. Cough from elongated uvula, with sore throat. Laryngeal troubles with aphonia.
Skin
Small fissures and cracks; hard papules; Hunterian chancre; syphilitic ulcers. Bubo. Sarcocele.
Dose
Third trituration. Mercuric iodide is far more active as a bactericide than the other mercurials, including the chloride.