Aurum Metallicum
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- MIND.
- Nerves.
- VASCULAR SYSTEM.
- Heart (R).
- Bones: NASAL. Skull. Patellæ. Joints.
- Glands.
- Liver.
- Kidneys.
WORSE
- Emotions: Depressing. Disordered affections.
- Mental exertion.
- Cold.
- Night: Sunset to sunrise.
- Abuse of Merc. or Kali-iod.
- Cloudy weather.
BETTER
- Cool; open air.
- Cold bathing.
- Becoming warm.
- Music.
- Walking.
- Vaso-motor mobility; erratic ebullitions
and venous congestion, more to head and chest. Vascularity. Weak, yet sensitive to pain. Pains wander, impel motion, finally attack heart (Benz-ac. Colch.); boring, cutting osteocopic. Indurations; glandular. Sclerosis; coronary. Necrosis. Chronicity. Mercurio-syphilitic dyscrasia. Extremely violent symptoms. Heart feels loose on walking. As of air blowing on part. .................... Intense, hopeless depression and suicidal anguish. Brooding melancholy; alternating with irritability or moroseness. Praying and self-reproaches; starting from heart. Weak memory. Vexed mood; enraged by least contradiction. Loquacity. Rapid questioning. Fears the least noise. Violent confusing headache; syphilitic. Hemiopia upper horizontal. Sore orbits. Congested, bluish-red face. Pains in zygomæ. Red knobby nose. Ozœna. Foul breath. Bulimy. Soreness over liver. Hepatitis. Ascites. Jaundice, of pregnancy. Liver, with heart symptoms. Chronic orchitis. Crushing weight under sternum < ascending. Dyspnœa; < laughing. Oppression at heart; as if to stop, then gives one hard thump. Violent palpitation; at puberty. Cardiac hypertrophy. Angina pectoris. Aortic disease. As if lower spine bulged backward. Pott's disease. Nightly leg pains. Painfully sensitive to cold. Sweat about genitals. Cold and damp all over.
Related: Merc.