Weakness of the reason. [Swedjaur, Traité des malad. vener., tom. ii, p.368.]
Self deception; he considers himself well. [Jac. Hill, in Edinb. Essays, iv.]

From mercurial vapour. From the vapour of a drachm of cinnabar.

Insanity. [Larrey, in Description de l'Egypte, tom. i, Memoires et Obs.]
Complaining: she is deranged and knows not what she is doing. [Degner, in Acta Nat. Cur., vi, Obs. 600.]
Great want of memory; he often forgot the first part of a sentence before he could say the last part of it. [Hufeland's Journal d. pr. A., x., I, p.62.]
Headache in the temples. [Degner, l.c.]
Attacks of intractable headache, which required external compression of the head in order to alleviate it. [Pet. Schenk, vii, Obs.213.]
Swelling of the head, the cervical glands, the gums. [Schlegel, in Hufel. Jour., vii, 4.]
Great swelling of head and neck. [Degner, l.c.]
The hair falls out. [Heuermann, Bemerk. und Untersuch., ii, pp.29, 30.]
Altered features. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
The face becomes of a leaden hue. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Swelling of face, neck, and all internal parts of the mouth. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Over-sensitiveness of the auditory organ; he starts at the least noise. [Fourcroy, in the translation of Ramazzini, Maladies des artisans, p. 42.]
Epistaxis. [Pet. Schenk, l.c.]
Violent epistaxis. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Necrosis of the bone of the upper jaw. [Michaelis, in Hufel. Jour. xxviii, 4, p.57.]
Spasmodic movement of the lips. [Louvrier, in Annalen der Heilkunde, 1810, December, pp.1123, 1126.]
The tendons of the masseter muscles are affected, and, owing to their soreness, render the opening of the mouth painful. [Heuermann, l.c.]
The gums are swollen and bleed on the slightest touch. [Heuermann, l.c.]

From the internal employment of various mercurials in Egypt. From the external employment of corrosive sublimate in a plaster. From the use of oxide of mercury, using at the same time a gargle of walnut shells.

From cinnabar vapour. From various mercurial substances, especially calomel. From the internal employment of oxides and salts of mercury.

From the vapour of mercury. From rubbing in mercurial ointment.

Swelling of gums and fauces. [Misc. Nat. Cur., Dec., iii, ann.5, 6.]
In the nerves of the teeth a violent burning pain. [Heuermann, l.c.]
The teeth rise up, become loose, and fall out. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Loose teeth. [Degner, l.c.]
The teeth become black, loose, and at last fall out. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Trembling of the tongue and consequent stammering, which was not removable by electricity. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
Swelling of the tongue. [Schlegel, l.c.]
Stiff, swollen tongue. [Degner, l.c.]
Swelling of the tongue, so that there is scarcely room for it in the mouth. [Engel, Specimina med., Berol., 1781, p.99.]
Swollen, very sensitive tongue, projecting a hand's breadth out of the mouth, and as it were pinched betwixt the teeth. [Friese, in Geschichte und Versuche einer chirurg. Gesellschaft, Kopenh, 1774.]
Tongue white furred, swollen, almost immovable, eroded on the borders by ulceration. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Aphthae on the tongue. [Thom. Acrey, in Lond. Med. Journ., 1788.]
Aphthae in the mouth. [Schlegel, l.c.]
Many eroding ulcers in the mouth. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
Very painful spreading ulcers in the mouth. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
The ulcers in the mouth bleed, especially at night. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Fetor of the mouth. [Degner, l.c.]
Carrion-like fetor of the mouth. [Schlegel, l.c.]
Great fetor of the mouth. [Jac. Hill, -Fourcroy, l.c.]
The palate bones or the jaw-bones are often destroyed. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Commencing salivation. [Oettinger, Diss. Cinnabris exul. redux, Tubing., 1760, p.22.]
Immediately the most profuse salivation. [Jac. Hill, l.c.]
Salivation. [Wedel, Amoenit. Mat. Med., p.153.]
Profuse salivation. [Schlegel, l.c.]
Bloody salivation. [Degner, l.c.]
Hemorrhage with the salivation. [Heuermann, l.c.]
The orifices of the salivary ducts of the parotids are eroded. [Heuermann, l.c.]
The intolerable fetid saliva erodes the lips and cheeks, even eats them away. [Heuermann, l.c.]
The Eustachian tubes in the fauces are often compressed by swelling, hence deafness. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Fauces inflamed, so that she can scarcely swallow. [Degner, l.c.]
Burning pain in the fauces, as from live coals. [Degner, l.c.]
Trembling of the pharynx and esophagus; he only swallowed spasmodically, often with danger of suffocation. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
Want of appetite. [Huber, in Nov. Acta Nat. Cur., iii, Obs.100.]
Inclination to vomit. [Misc. Nat. Cur., l.c.]
Vomiting with convulsive movements. [Hoffmann, in Baldinger's Magaz., p.963.]

From rubbing in much mercurial ointment. Internally calomel; externally rubbing in of mercurial ointment. From the internal use of artificial cinnabar.

From the internal use of mineral cinnabar. From the internal employment of solution of corrosive sublimate for several weeks. From rubbing in mercurial ointment.

Precordial anxiety. [Misc. Nat. Cur., l.c.]
Great distension of the abdomen. [Riverius, Obs. Med., p.92.]
Horrible pinching in the abdomen. [Jac. Hill, l.c.]
Intolerable shooting pain in the abdomen. [Misc. Nat. Cur., l.c.]
Liver diseases. [Larrey, l.c.]
Complete jaundice. [J. Cheyne, in Dublin Hospital Reports and Communications in Medicine and Surgery, Dublin, 1816, vol. i.]
Dangerous diarrheas. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Green stools. [Michaelis, in Hufel. Journ., vi, pp.22, 24.]
Stools passed with burning and smarting in the anus. [Felix Plater, Obs. i.]
Frequent stools with the smell of the fetor of the mouth. [Degner, l.c.]
Constant tenesmus, with very frequent discharge of blood by stool. [Misc. Nat. Cur., l.c.]
The urine passes only by drops, with scalding. [Fel. Plater, Obs. i, Basil, 1614.]
When urinating, scalding acridity. [Plater, l.c.]
Enormous flow of urine (diabetes) with extreme emaciation. [Schlichting, in Acta Nat. Cur., viii.]
Inflammation of the orifice of the urethra. [Hufel. Journ., xxvi, 4.]
Urethral blennorrhea. [Hufel. Journ., l.c.]
Constant hoarseness. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
Cough. [Jac. Hill, l.c.]
Hemoptysis. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Violent hemoptysis. [A. Gottl. Richter, Chirurg. Bibliot., vi, p.277.]
Violent oppression in the chest and about the heart. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Great tightness of the chest, recurring in fits; on account of the fear of suffocation he can neither walk nor stoop. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
Suffocation. [Riverius, l.c.]
Trembling. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
The most violent trembling, at first of the hands, then of the whole body. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
Attacks of spasmodic contraction of the arms and legs. [Riverius, l.c.]
Local or general tetanus. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
First flying, then fixed, extremely penetrating pains in the loins and knees, then also in the rest of the limbs. [Huber, l.c.]
The most violent pains in the muscles, tendons or joints, similar to rheumatic or arthritic pains. [Swedjaur, l.c.]

From crude mercury triturated with liquorice powder. From the internal use of corrosive sublimate.

From corrosive sublimate internally.

Easy frangibility of the bones, after previous rheumatic pains. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
Eroding ulcers. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Spongy looking, bluish ulcers, which bleed easily. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Ulcers, extremely painful at the slightest touch, which excrete an acrid corrosive ichor, rapidly increase in size and form irregular elevations and depressions, as if eaten out by insects, with irregular rapid pulse; the patient loses sleep, cannot rest, breaks out into profuse perspiration at night; the least thing irritates him and makes him impatient. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
A sort of miliary eruption on the skin, somewhat resembling measles, accompanied by burning and itching. [Bell, On Malignant Gonorrhea and Venereal Disease, Leipzig, 1794, ii, p.236.]
All the skin, especially on the chest, thighs, and lower parts of the back, covered with miliary rash. [Engel, l.c.]
Spots all over the body, resembling scorbutus, and between them itch-like eruption, tetters and boils. [Huber, l.c.]
The epidermis desquamates, particularly in the hands and feet. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Erysipelas. [Clare.]
Thickening of the periosteum. [J. Hunter, Treatise on Venereal Disease, p.632.]
Swelling of the bones. [Louvrier, l.c.]
Caries of the bones and abscesses in the joints. [Bethke, Schlagfluss, p.406.]
Extreme emaciation. [Fourcroy, l.c.]
Desiccation of the whole body. [Richter, l.c.-Louis in Pibrac, Memoires de l'Acad. royale de Chirurgie, t. iv.]
General emaciation and prostration of strength. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Extreme sensitiveness to electricity. [Hunter, l.c.]
General immobility; a kind of cataleptic state. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Paralysis of various limbs. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Apoplexy. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Syncopes. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Internal repeated syncopes. [Misc. Nat. Cur., l.c.]
Loss of strength. [Huber, l.c.]
Continued sleeplessness. [Degner, l.c.]
First quick, intermittent, strong pulse, then trembling weak pulse. [Jac. Hill, l.c.]
Fever; general irritability of the nervous system. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Fever, with very painful local inflammations, ending in gangrene. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Slow fever. [Swedjaur, l.c.]
Slow fever, with perceptible emaciation of the body. [Richter, l.c.]
Hectic fever. [Richter, l.c., i, I, p.40.]
Acute, putrid fever. [Heuermann, l.c.]
Exhausting perspirations. [Wedel, l.c.]
Very oppressed respiration, great dislike to fluids, then a kind of mania, in which he tried to tear to pieces everything he could lay hands on. [Remarks of the French translator of Cullen's First Lines.]

* From rubbing in mercurial ointment.
† From external employment of mercurial ointment.
‡ From mercurial vapour.
§ Removed by seltzer water and milk. ‖ Nine days after inunction of mercurial ointment for supposed syphilis in a young man.

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