AURUM THE COMMON METAL



STOOL

Constipation. Diarrhoea; nightly diarrhoea, with much burning in the rectum. The external border of the rectum is painful and swollen.

URINE

Frequent emission of watery urine. Painful retention of urine, with pressure on the bladder. Turbid urine, like buttermilk, with a deep sediment of mucus. Dull lancinations in the urethra.

GENITAL ORGANS

Nightly erections and pollutions. Itching of the scrotum. Swelling of the right testicle, with aching pain when touching or rubbing it. *Chronic induration of the testes. Pains in the abdomen, as from labor, as if the menses would make their appearance. *Prolapsus and induration of the uterus.

LARYNX

Cough, at night, from want of breath. Nasal tone of voice.

CHEST

Oppression of the chest and abdomen when coughing. Intensely painful stitches under the ribs, when taking a deep breath and yawning. Difficulty of breathing; severe dyspnoea; asthma, when walking in the open air; excessive dyspnoea, with difficulty of breathing at night; dyspnoea with dull stitches in the chest, when drawing breath. Tightness of the thoracic cavity, with anxiety. *Suffocative fit, with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling down without consciousness, and blueness of countenance. *Violent congestion of blood to the chest. Pressure on the right side of the chest, with extreme anguish. Cutting pain on the left side near the sternum, more violent during an inspiration. Stitches, with heat and dyspnoea; when walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose; sometimes a single very violent beat of the heart. *Palpitation of the heart, *with anguish and oppression of the chest. *Organic affections of the heart, with hydrothorax. *Aneurisms.

BACK

Pain in the small of the back. Tension in the neck, as if a muscle were too short, even when at rest, but more violent when stooping.

ARMS

Fine stitches in the shoulder. Soreness of the shoulders, even without touching or moving them. Lacerating in the arms, wrists, and hands. The fore-arms feel heavy when at rest.

LEGS

Lameness and pain in the hip-joint, only when rising from a seat and walking. The thigh feels paralyzed. Weakness of the thigh when walking. Painful stiffness and lameness of the knees, both when at rest and in motion; pain in the knees, as if tightly bandaged, when sitting and walking. Vacillation of the knees. The heels are painful as from subcutaneous ulceration.

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.