Mercurius praecipitatus albus

 White Precipitate. Mercurammonium chloride. NH2HgCl. Trituration.

 Dwarfism. Eczema faciei.

 The symptoms of Merc. praecip. alb. are taken entirely from poisonings. The most peculiar symptoms are: Green tongue; bilious stools scalding anus; and the old-mannish appearance of a child poisoned with it. Mossa (H. R., ix. 28) relates (1) a case of chronic eczema of the face in an elderly man, a moistening eruption.

 Compare: Dwarfish children, вar. c., Syph. Eczema, Mez., Aethiops. ant.

 Face: much flushed; greatly swollen. In one night a child (poisoned with 20 gr.) had undergone a remarkable change; had become in appearance quite an old man.

 Gums much swollen. Tongue: much coated; thick greenish fur.

 Thirst urgent. Nausea and vomiting. Vomits deeply blood-stained fluid. Much pain at stomach.
 After half an hour pain began in epigastrium, gradually spreading over whole abdomen. Great pain in abdomen; continuing after taking any, even liquid, food, for more than a week. - сonstant griping. Whole abdomen painful to pressure.
 One copious stool with mucous shreds in some quantities, much dark blood. Numerous scanty stools with much blood. Almost pure bile causing great scalding of anus.

 Slight subsultus. - сollapse. During the night the child shrieked as from great pain, in the morning it had changed to the appearance of an old man.

 Drowsy, semi-comatose.

 Cold, clammy skin, much congestion of cutaneous vessels. General perspiration.

• 24% — Boletus luridus
• 22% — Mercurius praecipitatus ruber
• 20% — Rumex acetosa
• 20% — Trichosanthes dioica
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