ALUMEN



BOWELS.

Distention of the bowels. Burning pains in the small intestines. Copious solid stools. The walls of the small intestines are somewhat thickened, and lined with a light yellowish substance.

RECTUM.

Smarting and burning at the rectum, after a solid stool; haemorrhoidal tumors after a hard stool.

KIDNEYS AND BLADDER.

When Alum has been absorbed into the system, it has been found shortly afterwards in the urine. But, in its passage through the kidneys and bladder, we are not aware of any peculiar sensations it produces.

WINDPIPE.

Sense of constriction in the windpipe. Heat and burning in the throat and larynx.

CHEST.

Oppression of the chest. Tightness across the upper part of the chest. Sense of heat and burning in the chest.

SKIN.

Creeping and coldness of the skin, soon after large doses, followed by heat and tingling of the same parts.

FEVER.

Fever, accompanied by intense thirst, continued nausea and vomiting, sleeplessness, agitation, animated expression of the face, pain and distention of epigastric region, frequent pulse, and burning pains in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.