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Mercurius Vivus, Head feels as if in a vice or bound with 

 a hoop, worse at night. Foetid, sour-smelling oily sweat on the 

 head. Purulent discharge, green from the ears. Coryza, nose 

 red shining swollen, worse at night. Teeth loose, toothache 

 from caries; gums painful, swollen, bleeding, receding from 

 the teeth. Ozaena, offensive, sore bones. Erysipelatous inflam- 

 mation of the throat, rawness, roughness, mouth full of saliva ; 

 tonsils dark red, ulcerous, but rarely diphtheritic. Constipa- 

 tion, stools tenacious or crumbling, violent straining, sometimes 

 with blood. Cough, violent racking, worse at night as if head 

 and chest would burst, short breath and sometimes bloody 

 sputum. Scrofulous catarrh . Aching in the bones. Paralysis 

 agitans. Chronic inflammation of the liver with jaundice. 

 Syphilitic conditions generally. Venereal ulcers. 



Natrum Mur. Intermittent fever, chill beginning in the 

 morning, backache. Profuse sweat having a sour smell. Ma- 

 larial poisoning. Headache, as if bursting ; beating or stitches 

 through neck and chest. Excessively sore, red eyelids. Heart- 

 burn always after eating. Constipation ; difficult stool with 

 fissures at the anus. Chronic catarrh of the ear. Greasy slcin. 



Nitric Acid. Useful in inflammation and ulceration of the 

 bones ; syphilis and sycosis ; tedious suppuration and glandular 

 diseases ; sore throat, from syphilis on abuse of mercury ; prick- 

 ing pains as from splinters; carious ulcers ; pain in old sores on 

 change of the weather ; brown-red spots on the skin and boils. 

 Is often required in secondary syphilis and mercurial ailments, 

 small-pox. Pneumonia in old people. Bleeding warts. Bad 

 freckles|of the skin. (Resembles Mercurius in many respects. ) 



Nux Vomica, Hypochondriac mood of persons of sed- 



