By Y.O. Mueller, m.d.
From the Austrian periodical for homoeopathy
General characteristics of the symptoms
The pathogenetic effects of the nitrate of silver upon the healthy organism, as well as the morbid phenomena which the nitrate of silver is capable of curing, are characterized by a few peculiarities, which we will try to indicate in a few broad traits:-
Scarcely any of the pathogenetic symptoms of the nitrate of silver are as well marked as the head-symptoms: in almost all morbid effects of the nitrate the head is involved; many of those effects, especially the disturbances produced in the abdominal organs, coexist with vertigo, dizziness or cloudiness of the head, as if from intoxication.
Nervous irritations (erethism of the nervous system, neuralgia, etc.), are never characterized by acuteness, but by being deep-seated and spreading over a large portion of the ramifications of the affected nerve.
The moral and nervous disturbances (especially chorea and epilepsy, which occur generally at night, or in the morning upon rising), are characterized by a sort of type: the paroxysms are apt to recur in the night, early in the morning, or about noon (especially shortly after dinner), and generally come on every day.
The debility caused by the nitrate of silver, especially that of the lower extremities, is very striking, and is excessive, even when the other symptoms are less marked.
Among the febrile symptoms, chilliness (shifting chills or constant chilliness) and nausea are the most troublesome and lasting.