ARGENTUM METALLICUM or ARG FOLIATUM



ARMS.

Tensive drawing in different pats of the arms, resembling stitches. Spasmodic drawing pain, with pressure in the bend or the elbow, as if the arm had been violently sprained by motion.

Continued pinching in the upper arm. Lancinating in the upper arm.

Burning, quickly:passing stitch in. the upper arm. Aching in the flesh of the upper arm, which increases by contact. Feeling of lameness in the marasmus during motion, especially in the elbow-joint. Tension, when bending the arm, at the upper extremity of the ulna. Lacerating, with pressure in the muscles. Stinging, itching burning under the skin of the wrist joint. Cramplike drawing in. the back of the hand and foot. Tearing, with pressure, in the bones of the curvature of the arm.

LEGS.

Tension and drawing in the groin. Violent pain behind the left hip. Lameness in the hip joint and thigh when walking, especially when morning the leg forward, with stitches when setting down the foot. Cramplike lacerating pain in the knee or its vicinity.The knee is painful, as if it had been bruised worse when sitting than when walking. The knees often bend when walking. In the evenings when in bed, m he experiences burning, corrosive stitches in the tibia. Cramps in. he calf, most violent when at rest Pain as from bruises, and throbbing in the joints of the feet, worst when sitting. Lancinations and lacerating in the feet and ankles Burning sensation in the heel and tendo Achillis; the pelvis felt as of they had gone to sleep.

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.