AMMONIUM CAUSTICUM



PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.

IN MEN.

Considerable redness of the Schneiderian membrane, which is covered with an albuminous membrane. Considerable redness of the mucous membrane of the posterior wall of the buccal cavity. The uvula is drawn up, and covered with a mucous layer. The posterior surface of the epiglottis, and the entrance of the rima-glottis, are very red and covered with a pseudo-membrane. Considerable redness of the whole of the trachea and of the bronchi, covered here and there with membranous layers. A few intensely red streaks in the mucous membrane of the oesophagus and stomach. The ileum exhibits red spots here and there.

AMMONIAE SPIRITUS AROMATICUS

INTRODUCTION

(Aromatic Spirits of Ammonia).

INFORMATION

This preparation is often used as a palliative in sick-headache, with acidity of the stomach, faintness. Also in hysteric paroxysms, syncope. It relieves the flatulent colic of children, given in a few drops in milk.

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.