Mercurius Praecipitatus Ruber

The well-known scientific toy called "Pharaoh's serpents" is composed of the

sulphocyanide of mercury. A boy ate one "serpent," and a man took one in water. The symptoms

were observed on these two.

Severe pain and soreness of r. orbit (on rising in morning); of superior arch; of inferior

arch; of |. orbit (< by stooping).—Black clouds float before his eyes, when lying on his 1.

side.—Excessive photophobia.—(Corneal ulcers which look as if they had been chipped out by a

finger-nail.

Sharp, throbbing, boring pain, from within outward, deep in |. ear.—Sudden sharp pain

in (r.) external meatus; in internal meatus; < by touch.

Pain at root of nose (shooting pain).—A great deal of mucus in nose, must constantly

• ▸clear it.
• ▸—A great deal of mucus descends through posterior nares into throat.
• ▸—The r.
• ▸side of

• ▸septum and r.
• ▸nostril are very sore and much swollen.
• ▸—Sharp pain in septum.
• ▸—Painful spot on I.

ala.

Teeth feel too long; cannot eat.—Sensation of dryness in teeth—Pain in molars <

bringing them together; with feeling as if too long —Sensation: as if pressed tightly together; as if

very tight in their sockets; fulness, grinding, and drawing in teeth with constant desire to press

them together —Grinding at roots of teeth with occasional pain in abdomen; with soreness deep

behind umbilicus at 12 midnight.—Pressed teeth together so hard during sleep the muscles were

lame and tired on waking.—Jaws stiff.—Toothache after filling.

Extreme redness of throat, with white membrane on tonsils.—Most violent burning

in fauces.—Heat and constriction in cesophagus, with difficulty in swallowing and burning in

epigastric region and nausea.

Hardness of abdomen.—Heat at umbilicus, as from a hot coal, < when

• ▸inspiring —Aching in region of liver, pain going from r.
• ▸to 1.
• ▸and causing giddiness.
• ▸—Stitching

pain in region of liver > by pressing hand upon it——Pain in |. hypochondrium, with dizziness on

awakening in morning.—Faint, sick feeling in hypogastrium before stool—Indolent buboes.

Constant urging; gradually became <, and spread over whole intestinal

canal, with constant sensation in anus as of a glowing hot iron moving up and down.—Most

excessive tenesmus, with scanty discharge of blood, with cutting, burning pains.—Diarrhcea:

excessively violent; with violent cramps.—Stools: mainly blood; involuntary, greenish, and

offensive.

Menses slight at onset, with pain—Copious muco-purulent

discharge from vagina the entire month —Yellow leucorrheea, esp. of young girls and

children.—Morning sickness of pregnancy; vomit, greenish yellow, bitter fluid, with burning and

sinking at stomach.—Breast, tumour of.)

Sharp shooting stitches in end of penis, through glans.—Copious

seminal emissions, preceded by lewd dreams.—Dreams that he must urinate; this was followed

by an emission.—Seminal emission, of which he knew nothing till morning.

Sharp pain in chest, behind sternum.—Throbbing pain behind sternum.—Stitches

• ▸through (r.
• ▸side of) chest.
• ▸—The pains in the chest appear |.
• ▸side; those which appear r.
• ▸side

always proceed to 1—Sensation in |. breast above nipple as if wind was in cellular tissue;

frequent palpitation, a single kick and jump (> by Lyc).

Neck stiff, soreness in occiput, < when lying; < when turning

• ▸head.
• ▸—Soreness and numbness between scapulze.
• ▸—Throbbing pain between shoulders.
• ▸—Severe

• ▸pain as if bruised over entire scapular region.
• ▸—Throbbing pain in r.
• ▸scapula.
• ▸—Excruciating,

sharp, sticking pain in back.

Weariness in the legs, with dull pains and tingling —Heavy laming pains in

the calves of both legs, with pain in |. knee-joint—Pain in sole of 1. foot, with feeling of faintness

through the whole body.—Sharp pain in r. big toe.

Troublesome itching over whole body, not > by scratching; < at night, esp. in

bed.—Persistent itching spots over whole body, following each other in rapid

succession.—Itching of scalp.

Sleeplessness without restlessness; before 1 a.m.—Frightful dreams; of coffins and

drowning; nightmare.

Pulse weak, irregular, and labouring.—Chills with trembling all over body.

Mercurius Sulphocyanatus.

Sulphocyanide of Mercury. (Pharaoh's Serpents.) Hg(SCN)2.

• ▸Antidoted by: Hep.
• ▸; palpitation, Lyc.
• ▸Follows well: Lach.
• ▸(scarlatina).
• ▸Compare:

• ▸Right to left, Lyc.
• ▸(Merc.
• ▸bin.
• ▸left to right).
• ▸Nausea in hypogastrium, Puls.
• ▸Black stools, Lept.

• ▸Cough < laughing, Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸Pains all round orbit, Cinnab.
• ▸(Farrington says the characteristic of

Cinnab. is that "the pain shoots across the eye from canthus to canthus and seems to go around

• ▸the eye.
• ▸" Merc.
• ▸iod.
• ▸somewhat approaches this.
• ▸) < Warm drinks and empty swallowing, Lach.

• ▸Thick yellow coating at base of tongue, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸(Nat.
• ▸p.
• ▸golden yellow; Nat.
• ▸s.
• ▸dirty or greenish

• ▸grey).
• ▸< Lying left side, Phos.
• ▸, Arn.
• ▸, Spig.
• ▸(opp.
• ▸Merc.
• ▸, which has < lying right side).

• ▸Bone pains.
• ▸—Tired feeling in all limbs, < lying 1.
• ▸side, > lying r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Pain in r.

forearm and I. hip simultaneously.