MERCURIUS IODATUS RUBER

Diphtheria and ulcerated sore throats, especially on left side, with much glandular swelling. Chronic suppurating buboes. Hard chancres. Old cases of syphilis in scrofulous patients. Early stages of cold, especially in children.

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 .

Nose

Coryza and dull hearing; right side of nose hot. Hawks mucus from posterior nares. Turbinated bones swollen. Boggy mucus membrane of nose and throat; closure of Eustachian tube, opening with a pop.

Mouth

Gums swollen; toothache; glands swollen. Scalded feeling on tongue. Aphthæ. Profuse saliva. Tongue feels stiff at base, and pains on moving.

Throat

Diphtheria; submaxillary glands painfully engorged, fauces dark red; worse on left tonsil . Parenchymatous tonsillitis. Will often abort peritonsillitis if given frequently. Cough form 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.