Mercurius Precipitatus Albus

▲   GENERAL

General

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Slight subsultus,

Almost in a state of collapse (after ten hours),

▲   FACE

Face

Face much flushed,

Great swelling of face (second day),

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Great swelling of gums (second day),

Saliva

Salivation (second day),

Tongue

Tongue much coated,

Tongue covered with thick greenish fur (after ten hours),

▲   CHEST

Pulse

PULSE.

Pulse 88, moderately full,

Respiration

Breath very offensive (after ten hours),

Respiration 24,

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

After half an hour began to feel pain in the epigastrium, which gradually spread over the whole abdomen,

Constant griping (first and second days),

Whole abdomen painful on pressure,

Eating

Great pain in abdomen (soon); continuing after taking any even liquid food, for more than a week,

Nausea

Considerable nausea,

Vomiting

Vomited violently (after half an hour),

Vomited much; the last matter vomited consisted of clear deeply blood-stained fluid (first day); frequent slight vomiting (second day),

Stomach

Thirst urgent,

Became very sick, and continued so (immediately),

Much pain at stomach,

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

One copious evacuation from bowels, containing mucous shreds in some quantities, and a good deal of dark blood (first day), Numerous scanty evacuations with a very large intermixture of blood. This continued until sixty hours after taking the poison. One very copious motion, consisting apparently of almost pure bile, the passage of which caused a great scalding of the anus (second day). This occurred again after the lapse of another forty-eight hours, the evacuations in the interim containing bile, and apparently scarcely any blood,

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever

Cold, clammy skin, and much congestion of the cutaneous vessels (after ten hours),

General surface of the body perspiring,

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep

Lies in a drowsy, semi-comatose state,

▲   APPENDIX

Authorities

1, Giles, poisoning of a young woman by about 1/2 a drachm, Lancet, July, 1857; 2, Greenhow, a woman, aged thirty, took a "penny-worth," Med. Times and Gaz., 1863; 3, Graham, a man, aged thirty-five, took more than 2 drachms, Brit. Med. J., April, 1869.

Preparation

Hydrargyrum amido-bichloratum.

H. ammonio-muriaticum.

Ammonium cloride of Merc Viv ^mercury.

Formula (variable) HgCl + HgNH2 or 2NH4ClHgCl2

Preparation for use, Triturations.

Supplement

Merc Viv ^MERCURIUS PRECIPITATUS ALBUS.

Authority.4, Pharm. Journ., 2d Ser., vol. i, 1859-60, p. 532, Harriet Moore murdered her child with 20 grains.

Immediately after some arrowroot the child was violently sick, and during the night shrieked as though in great pain. On the following morning he was found to have undergone a remarkable change, and in the language of one of the witnesses, had become quite an "old man,"