ARSENICUM ALBUM

The rapid decay after death has been found accompanied with the following phenomena: Intolerable smell of the body, especially when opening the abdominal cavity; the epidermis had disappeared entirely in every part of the body. Dissolution of the whole body into a kind of ichor. Papescent softening of the muscles of the thigh. Green, yellow, or black coloration of single parts, of the whole or of only a part of the face, and also more particularly of the genital organs. Extensive thick, white, or gray musty covering of the whole body, or only of the face, hands, and feet, with a black and putrefied integument underneath. Fluidization of the lungs, with many air-vesicles on their surface. Transformation of the substance of the heart into a kind of pap. Dark-brown spleen and liver. Dissolution of the pancreas. Putrid kidneys. Putrid uterus. Separation of organic parts when touching them ever so slightly. The vertebrae and pelvic bones separated from one another. Gangrene of the genital organs.

ARSENICUM CITRINUM. (See ARSENICUM TETRASULPHURATUM).

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.