ALUMINA OXYDE OF ALUMINUM



MORAL SYMPTOMS.

Sullen, joyless, and desponding mood, especially early in the morning on waking; weeping, groaning, and desire to be alone; disposition to look at everything unfavorably. Anxiety, anguish, oppressive and vague, fearfulness, or uneasiness as if he had committed a crime. Anxiety, with fear of an epileptic attack or loss reason. Despondency and fear of death. *Apprehensiveness. Nervousness; tendency to start. Thoughts of suicide on seeing blood or knife. Fitful mood; at times full of confidence, at times desponding. Dissatisfied; despairing; lowness of spirits ill humor, vexed, grumbling; peevish, obstinate; quarrelsome, repulsive. Smiles at everything contemptuously. Serious; reflecting on himself; anxious or ill- humored. Ennui, no desire to do anything, especially anything serious. Listless. Absence of mind; want of attention when reading, and unsteadiness of ideas.

SENSORIUM.

Inability to recollect things or follow up a train of thoughts. Stupid dullness and numbness of the head, sometimes with heat in it, particularly in the morning of the head, sometimes with heat in it, particularly in the morning. Stupefaction, with dread of falling forward. Vertigo, particularly in the morning, increased by stooping; reeling vertigo, as if he could fall over when walking (during which he staggers); vertigo as if everything were turning in a circle.

HEAD.

Headache, sometimes on the left side, aggravated by walking in the open air. The head feels heavy; with paleness of countenance and languor; the vertex feels painful to the touch. Pressure in the forehead from without inward; or within outward; or over the eyes in the evening, sometimes with a chill, or followed by nocturnal head and seat; sensation in the head as if its contents were in a vice with a weight on the top. Feeling as if the brain were dashed to pieces or bruised; with redness of the cheeks. Stupefying tightness in the right temple, relieved by pressing upon it; tightness, with drawing and beating in the right side of the occiput. *Drawing as if the hairs were pulled at, with inclination to vomit. Lacerating pain in the head. Stitches in the brain, sometimes with inclination to vomit. Boring in the temples, sometimes with tearing, in the evening. Throbbing in the head, sometimes with stitches, pressure, or lacerating. *Congestion of blood to the head, with pressure in the forehead, and bleeding of the nose. Heat in the head. The headache abates when it is rested quietly upon a cushion.

SCALP.

Falling off and dryness of the hair: soreness to touch creeping and titillation of hairy scalp, *itching of the forehead. Itching scales on the hairy scalp. *Humid scurf on the temples.

EYES.

Pressure on the eyes, with inability to open them; great photophobia; *pressure in the canthi, in the evening, as from a grain of sand. Lacerating in the upper margin of the orbits. Prickling, smarting, and violent itching of the canthi, eyes, and lids, *Feeling of coldness in the eyes, when walking in the open air. Burning in the eyes. Redness of the eyes, especially of the right, with feeling of soreness, smarting, and dimness of sight. Inflammation of the conjunctiva. Stinging pimple on the lower lid; stye on the upper lid. Falling off of the eye-lashes. Weakness of the upper lids. Spasmodic closing of the lids, at night, with great pain when opening them. Copious lachrymation, especially in the open air. Profuse secretion of mucus, with nightly agglutination. Dim-sightedness, as if seeing through mist, obliging one to wipe his eyes constantly. Everything has a yellow tinge. Squinting of either eye. Twitchings and luminous vibrations and stars before the yes, as in vertigo. Light before the eyes when closing them.

EARS.

Lacerating, boring, or pulsation in the ears. Stitches in the ears, especially in the evening. Itching in the ears, increased by rubbing. Heat and redness of the ear. Discharge of pus from the right ear. Sensation as if something were before the eras. Humming in the ears, or vibrations as from the tolling of bells when rising from bed; hissing in the ears; whistling; crepitation; snapping as if from electric sparks, especially when chewing or swallowing. One’s own voice appears altered to the right ear.

NOSE.

Ulceration of the nostrils, which are sore and scurfy; with discharge of a quantity of thick; yellowish mucus. *Ulceration of the Schneiderian membrane, with pains in the root of the nose and the frontal sinuses. Bleeding from the nose, which is painful to the touch, swollen and red. *Discharge of pieces of dry, hard, yellow-green mucus. The smell is weak; *wanting; or acute. Frequent sneezing, without catarrh; with singultus. Stoppage of the nose. Fluent coryza; in the left nostril, with stoppage of the right; followed by dry coryza and complete stoppage of both nostrils. Disposition to catarrh, continuing for many years *Coryza with cough.

FACE.

Gloomy and desponding expression of countenance. Paleness of countenance; alternate redness and paleness of the face; copper- colored cheeks, like those of drunkards. *lancinations in the malar bones, and in the right side of the face, with tearing in the teeth. Drawing in the jaws and cheeks; tension of the skin, with heat in the face, or as if the white of an egg were drying upon it. *The face feels heavy and swollen. Flushes of heat. Painful red spot on the left cheek. Roughness of the skin of the face, especially on the forehead. *Blotches on the face. Violent itching of the face, forehead, or cheeks, with small pimples, either sore or painless. Frequent boils on the left cheek. *Humid scurf on the temples. Bluish lips, during and after and attack of fever. The lips feel swollen, vesicles on the lips, and on the the inner side. Peeling off of the lips; dry, chapped lips.

TEETH AND JAWS.

Lock-jaw. Tension in the articulation of the jaw, with difficulty in opening the mouth, and stitches while opening it, which shoot up to the temples. Drawing, lacerating, boring, cutting pain in the teeth, sometimes extending to the larynx and temples. The pain is most violent when chewing and pressing the teeth against one another. Sensation as if the teeth were elongated. Ulcerated condition at the root of every tooth. Ulcers on the gums, discharging a king of blood, which tastes saltish. Drawing pain, with soreness of the gums. Bleeding of the gums. Swellings about the gums. Thick fetid mucus on the teeth. Toothache of pregnant females.

MOUTH.

Soreness of the mouth, about the palate, tongue, and gums, as if burnt. A number of little ulcers in the mouth. Dryness of the mouth, on waking; followed by increased secretion of saliva, with astringent sensation in the mouth, and a musty, putrid smell; ptyalism- Constant secretion of saliva in the mouth; even with dryness of the throat. Tongue feels rough, and is coated white, with good taste; or is yellowish-white, with bitter taste.

THROAT AND OESOPHAGUS.

Pain in the throat when swallowing. Pressure in the throat, or in the middle of the chest, when swallowing food or drink, as if the oesophagus were compressed. Constrictive pressure, tension, spasmodic drawing, or stinging in the throat during deglutition. Roughness and scraping in the throat, with hawking. Burning and soreness of the throat. Chronic inflammation of the fauces. Tedious swelling of the tonsils. The pain in the throat is most violent in the evening and at night, and is relieved by warm food or drinks. Great dryness of the throat and mouth, as if parched, with violent thirst; or rawness. Copious accumulation of a thick, tenacious mucus, particularly in the evening, and when waking; frequent hawking and difficult raising of phlegm.

TASTE AND APPETITE.

Taste as if from blood in the mouth; sweat taste in the throat, with giddiness and subsequent raising of bloody mucus. Astringent, bitter, and slimy taste; or flat, insipid metallic, sourish salt taste; or acid and rancid taste in the throat. Everything has a flat taste. Entire absence of hunger and appetite; nothing has a taste to it; *irregular appetite, at times excessive, at times deficient. Aversion to meat; hunger without appetite. Great desire for vegetables, fruit, and liquid food. After eating, and principally in the evening: hiccough, pressure in the stomach, pinching in the abdomen, violent nausea, tremor; or aversion to food, and languor. After eating potatoes: pain in the stomach, nausea, inclination to vomit, and colic. A good deal of thirst the whole day, also at dinner.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

Heartburn. Waterbrash. *Inclination to eructate, of many years’ standing; frequent eructations: empty; or bitter, with loathing; or rancid, burning, acrid, and corrosive; or soul, in the evening, in bed, with burning in the throat, and gulping up of a sour mucus. Frequent nausea: especially during the chilly paroxysms; with chilliness; after a walk, with headache paleness of countenance, want of appetite, with faint feeling at night. Qualmishness in the stomach, pharynx, and oesophagus. Nauseas with inclination to vomit when standing; with strangling sensation in the oesophagus; vomiting of mucus and water, preceded by retching.

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.