- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Quicksilver. (The Element.) Best adapted for light-haired persons; skin and muscles lax. In bone diseases, pains worse at night ; glandular swellings with or without suppuration, but especially if suppuration be too profuse (Hep., Sil.). Cold swellings; abscesses, slow to suppurate. Profuse perspiration attends nearly…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Mercurius solubilis, Hahnemanni. Hydrargyrum oxydulatum nigrum (Ammonio-nitricum) N2O5 3Hg2 O + 2NH3. Precipitated black oxide of Mercury, with varying (according to temperature) amounts of Nitric acid and Ammonia. Preparation for use , Triturations. Authorities. ( Nos. 1 to 9, from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L ., 1).”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Quicksilver (MERCURIUS - HYDRARGYRUM) Every organ and tissue of the body is more or less affected by this powerful drug; it transforms healthy cells into decrepit, inflamed and necrotic wrecks, decomposes the blood, producing a profound anæmia. This malignant medicinal force is converted into useful life saving and…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACRIDITY, EXCORIATIONS, ETC. ASSOCIATED effects. BLACK, dark, etc. BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. BONES. BORING, grinding, etc. BREAKING, broken, brittle, etc. BURSTING, splitting, etc.(Comp. Shattered) CALCULI, atheroma, etc. CHEST, backward in CHEST, right CHILLY, cold COATED FEELING COLD AND HEAT, AGG. COMPRESSION, squeezing…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“BLOOD. Mucous membranes. GLANDS: Buccal. SALIVARY. TONSILS. THROAT. LYMPHATICS. Liver. Kidneys. MUCOUS. GENITALS. Cellular tissues. Joints. Right side. Bones. Skin. NIGHT. Night air. SWEATING. LYING ON RIGHT SIDE. HEATED, IF; < bed or fire. SENSITIVE TO: DRAFTS, to head. Changing, cloudy or cold damp weather. Taking…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“( 1 ) MERCURIUS OXYDULATUS NIGER. Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni. Dimercuros ammonium nitrate. 2 (NH 2 Hg 2 ) NO 3 H 2 O. [A mercurial preparation devised by Hahnemann as a substitute for the corrosive mercurial salts in use at the time, and at once adopted in all countries on account of its much milder and more…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Mental.--Very restless, is constantly changing from place to place; great anxiety of mind, and dread; indifference to everything, does not even care to eat. Dissatisfied; ill-humored. Head.--Troubles occurring in or on margin of the eyelids; forehead; scalp; bones of the head; external top of the head; glands about…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Quicksilver, Argentum vivum.) From vol. i, 3rd edit., 1830. In commerce this metal is often adulterated with an admixture of lead, sometimes also of bismuth. The best way to purify it is to put it in a porcelain saucer, pour over it a watery solution of nitrate of mercury, and let it boil for about an hour over a…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Mercurius Solubilis et Vivus. The Black Oxide and the Element. Mercurius solubilis was introduced by Hahnemann and proved upon himself, Gross, Gutmann, Fr. Hahnemann, Hartmann, Hornburg, Langhammer, Rummel and Stapf (Mat. Med. Pura), also in a fragmentary way by Knorre (Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 6, p. 35) Robinson (Br…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“General features: The pathogenesis of Mercury is found in the provings of Merc. viv. and Merc. sol., two slightly different preparations, but not different enough to make any distinction in practice. Mercury is used in testing the temperature, and a Merc. constitution is just as changeable and sensitive to heat and…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: black oxide; hahnemann's soluble mercury. Nervous affections after suppressed discharges, especially in psoric patients (Asaf.) (A.). Trembling of all the limbs, especially of hands and feet (N.). Stinging pain in the limbs (Apis). Rheumatism of the joints, with swelling and sensation of coldness. NIGHTLY…”
