INTRODUCTION
(Virginia Snake-root).
INFORMATION
A good proving of this drug may be found in Hempel’s Materia Medica. A warm infusion of the root has been used in the obstinate sick headache of debilitated females. It is employed as a gentle stimulant in low typhoid fevers, or to promote the appearance of an exanthem like measles, scarlatina.
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.