Mercurius solubilis
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Mercurius solubilis Hahnemanni
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Keynotes
Mercurius solubilis
Hahnemann's Soluble Mercury. Black Oxide.
Nervous affections after suppressed discharges especially in psoric patients (Asaf.).
Glandular and scrofulous affections of children. Otorrhoea: bloody, offensive discharge, with stabbing tearing pain; < r. side, at night and lying on affected side.
Furuncles and boils in external meatus (Pic. ac.).
Polypi and fungous excrescences in external meatus (Mar. V., Thuja).
Acrid nasal secretion, having odor of old cheese; nostrils, red, raw, ulcerated.
Epistaxis : when coughing; at night during sleep; hangs in a dark clotted string from the nose, like an icicle.
Gonorrhoea: with phymosis or chancroids; green discharge, < at night; urging to urinate; intolerable burning in forepart of urethra when passing last few drops; prepuce hot, swollen, oedematous and sensitive to touch; of a torpid character, with threatening or suppurating bubo.
Chancre : primary ; regular indurated Hunterian, with lardaceous base ; with cheesy bottom and inverted red edges ; with phymosis or paraphymosis ; deep, round, penetrating, eating through frsenum and prepuce; bleeding, painful, yellowish fetid discharge.
Hahnemann’s remedy for syphilis and diseases of the genito-urinary tract. Is rarely indicated if the tongue is dry.
Diseases of the skin; intolerable biting, itching, over body, as from insect bites, < in evening and from warmth of bed; becomes pleasant on scratching.
Weakness and weariness of limbs; sore, bruised.
What the other books say about Mercurius solubilis
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Mercurius solubilis in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Mercurius solubilis in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Mercurius solubilis in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Mercurius solubilis 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. Mercurius solubilis — Keynotes, pp. 189–190. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/mercurius-solubilis. 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.