Argentum metallicum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Silver
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Keynotes
Argentum metallicum
The Metal. Pure Silver.
Tall, thin, irritable persons.
Ailments from abuse of Mercury.
Constitutional effects of onanism.
Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, Eustachian ; the structures entering into joints.
Seminal emissions : after onanism ; almost every night ; without erection ; with atrophy of penis.
Crushed pain in the ;testicles (Rhod.).
Prolapsus; with pain in left ovary and back, extending forward and downward (right ovary, Pal.) ; climacteric haemorrhage.
Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing.
Hoarseness ; of professional singers, public speakers (Alum., Arum t.).
Total loss of voice with professional singers.
Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing.
Laughing excites cough (Bros., Phos., Stan.) and produces profuse mucus in larynx.
When reading aloud has to hem and hawk ; cough with easy expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucus, looking like boiled starch.
Great weakness of the chest (Stan.) ; worse left side.
Alteration in timbre of voice with singers and public speakers (Arum t. ).
Raw spot over bifurcation of the trachea; worse when using voice, talking or singing.
Relation.. — Follows well : after. Alum.
Similar : to, Stan, in cough excited by laughing.
Aggravation. — Riding in a carriage (Coc.) ; when touched or pressed upon; talking, singing, reading aloud.
What the other books say about Argentum metallicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Argentum metallicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Argentum metallicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Argentum metallicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Argentum metallicum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Argentum metallicum — Keynotes, pp. 40–41. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/argentum-metallicum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.