AMMONIUM MURIATICUM



PATHOLOGY ANATOMY.

The vessels on the surface of the brain are turgid. Collapse of the brain. The volume of the liver is diminished; the surface of the edges of the liver exhibit a bright red color. The mucous membrane of the stomach is inflamed, and is sometimes detached from the muscular coat. The mucous membrane of the stomach, in the direction of the spleen, is covered with a large number of small gangrenous ulcers, penetrating the mucous membrane throughout; the mucous membrane of the stomach has become putrefied in the neighborhood of the spleen, and has separated into pieces floating in a quantity of slimy fluid. Blackish, fetid fluid in the stomach and ileum. Small red spots on the rectum. A few red spots on the anterior surface of the lungs.- Collapse of the lungs. The fat which separated the base of the right ventricle of the heart from the auricle externally, contains a good deal of extravasated blood, the extravasation extending into the muscular tissue. Aneurismal distention of the heart and the large vessels. A few small red spots in the left ventricle, extending to the depth of a line into the muscular tissue. Dark red blood, which soon turns bright red in the air. The blood is less coagulable, the fibrin is increased.

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.