ASAFOETIDA



LEGS

Lacerating around the joint when walking. Coxagra. Restlessness, when sitting, as from a violent throbbing of the vessels; twitchings and jactitation of the muscles of both thighs. Burning, and burning throbbing in the upper part of the knee. The legs incline to go to sleep. Tension in the foot. Cold swelling around the malleoli.

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.