- Merc-cy is a valuable remedy for toxemia of acute infectio ns, dis eases, especially diphtheria, when there is early rapid and extreme prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. with cyanosisBluish discoloration of the skinA bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to low oxygen levels in the blood., coldness and tremors.
- Its :ction is similar to that of toxins in infectious diseases.
- Acute infections.
- Great and rapid prostration.
- Livid states from great struggling, where suffocation is imminent and paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of lung threatening, great sweat.
- Rapid local destruction.
- Syphilitic ulcers when a perfora tion is threatening.
- Putridity.
- Hemorrhages of dark fluid blood.
- Twitching and jerking of muscles.
- Affects most prominently the mouth, throat and larynx.
- Typhoid pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection..
- Cyanosis, rapid respiration and heart action.
- Malignant diphtheria with prostration.
- Efficient prophylactic in diphtheria.
- Coldness and nausea.
- NephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling..
- Albuminuria.
- COMMENTS - When Dr.
- Alexander Villers was an infant, he had diphtheria.
- Known remedies had failed to arrest the disease.
- His father, Dr.
- Dominic von Villers, was in despair.
- Taking counsel with his friend, Dr.
- Beck (of Monthly in Switzerland), the latter was struck with the likeness of the case to the effects of Merc-cy in some poisoning cases, reports of which he had just been reading and he suggested the remedy.
- A small quantity of the salt was procured and a potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration. was rapidly made and ad ministered.
- Improvement soon set in and recovered followed.
- Alexander Villers, saved by Merc -cy., lived to do brilliant work with the same remedy when practicing in St.
- Petersburg.
- Merc-cy has taken a sure place at the head of remedies for diphtheria, and as an efficient prophylactic in diphtheria cases.
- Villers had better results with the 30c than with any lower potency.
- In the sensational New York poisoning case of February, 1899, Mr.
- Henry C.
- Bar nett, the victim, was treated for diphtheria by his doctors before the cause of the illness was discovered.
- Nash reported as particularly indicating it a chronic sore throat of public speakers with ra wness in spots and abroken-down appearance, as if about to ulcerate and the feeling that “it hurts the patient to speak.” Diphtheria membrane in throat, mouth and at anus.
- Swallowing is impossible or causes severe cutting pains.
- Thought of food causes retching.
- Beck noted the extreme feebleness, trembling, syncopeTemporary fainting or loss of consciousnessA sudden, temporary loss of consciousness and muscle strength, caused by a temporary drop in blood flow to the brain..
- Profound prostration.
- Icy coldness, general coldness with nausea.
- Dark and persistent hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
- Varicose veins with great tenderness on left leg.
- Cyanosis
