Aurum muriaticum natronatum

Volume I — Appendix

(Chloro-aurate of Sodium.)

Description. — Crystals are long four-sided prisms, permanent in air. Preparation. — Aqueous solutions, and triturations with granular sugar of milk.

Violent gastro-enteritis, accompanied by cramps, convulsive trembling, insomnia, priaprism, insensibility.

Epigastric pains; nausea; loss of appetite; constipation; increased secretion of mucus from the intestinal glands.

° Constipation, with intestinal catarrh.

0 Nervous dyspepsia, with melancholy, desire for death, with red glazed tongue. Pain in the stomach (left side), of a burning, drawing, pressing character, after eating, with tendency

to diarrhoea after eating. ° Gastric and duodenal catarrh, and in some cases of jaundice

from catarrh of the gall-ducts, when the peculiar suicidal

melancholy is present. ° Syphilis, after abuse of mercury, or when, during secondary or

tertiary stages, the bones of the nose are affected or the

throat is ulcerated.

Sexual Organs.

• Congestive irritation of the uterus and. ovaries, resulting in subacute metritis, ovaritis, profuse and premature menses, habitual abortion, nymphomania, and even ulceration of the uterus, and endo-cervicitis. (p.)

° Puerperal mania, with sexual excitement, ovaritis, gastrointestinal irritation, suicidal impulses ? (p.)

° Atonic amenorrhoea; scanty and delayed menses; deficient sexual desire; sterility from ovarian torpor ; ovarian dropsy, (s.)

° Sexual erethism from plethora; seminal emissions with vivid dreams; strong erections, (p.)

° Decline of sexual power; diurnal seminal losses, or nightly emissions, with feeble erections and no dreams; impotence from weak, inefficient erections, irritability of the sexual organs, and premature emission of semen, (s.)

° Melancholy, suicidal mania, and hypochondria.

° Cerebral anaemia; vertigo.

° Dropsy, from chronic Bright's disease.

° Cardiac diseases, from sexual disorders.

Volume II — Special Therapeutics

The proving of the Chloride of Gold and Sodium by Lembke, in Allen’s “ Encyclopedia,” is very incomplete and unsatisfactory. It is the most active of all the preparations of Gold. In toxic doses it causes violent gastro-enteritis , accompanied by cramps , convulsive trembling , insomnia, priapism, insensibility, and other serious symptoms. In pathogenetic doses it causes epigastric pain, nausea, loss of appetite, and constipation. The constipation is peculiar, in that it is accompanied by an increased secretion of mucus from the intestinal glands. It is, therefore, homoeopathic to constipation with intestinal catarrh, resembling in this respect Hydrastia.

I have found this preparation useful in the following:

Nervous dyspepsia, with melancholy, desire for death, a red, glazed tongue, pain in the stomach (left side) of a burning, drawing, pressing character, after eating, with tendency to diarrhoea after eating.

Gastric and duodenal catarrh, and in some cases of jaundice from catarrh of the gall-ducts, when the peculiar suicidal melancholy is present.

Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury, or when, during secondary or tertiary stages, the bones of the nose are affected, or the throat is ulcerated.

The action of Gold on the organs of generation is deepseated and prolonged. Its primary effect is to cause congestive irritation of the uterus and ovaries, resulting in subacute metritis, ovaritis, profuse and premature menses, habitual abortion, nymphomania, and even ulceration of the uterus and endo-cervicitis. It is, therefore, indicated in those affections in the sixth trituration and upward.

The secondary effects of Gold are to cause atonic amenorrhoea , scanty and delaying menses, deficient sexual desire, sterility from ovarian torpor, ovarian dropsy, etc. In ray practice it has been successful in removing these conditions when given in the lowest triturations, lc to 3C. I would recommend a trial of it in cases of puerperal mania with sexual excitement, ovaritis, g astro-intestinal irritation, and suicidal impulses.

In men Gold causes corresponding conditions, and is useful primarily (in the smallest doses) in sexual erethism from plethora, seminal emissions with vivid dreams, strong erections, etc. ; and, secondarily, in larger doses (2X to 3X, three times a day), in decline of the sexual power, diurnal seminal losses or nightly emissions with feeble erections and no dreams, impotence from weak, inefficient erections, irritability of the sexual organs, and premature emission of semen.

Its action is just the opposite of Bromide of potassium, and it is useful in minute doses when the former is indicated in large, and vice versa. An efficient formula for its administration is gr. j of the Gold to §j aqua dest. Dose 5 drops.

The melancholy, suicidal mania and hypochondria of Gold is probably due to cerebral ancemia, as the vertigo, and should be treated with low triturations, for they are secondary effects. Gold causes primarily excessive intracranial blood-pressure (hyperaeraia), and aggravation will follow the use of any potency below the third.

In some cases of dropsy from chronic Bright’s disease Muriate of gold will act promptly in removing the oedema, by causing profuse flow of urine. (See Burnett’s recent Monograph on Gold, Horn. Pub. Co., London, 1879.)