BOVISTA



STOOL AND ANUS.

Intermittent stool; hard, difficult stool. Urging to stool. Liquid, yellow stool, preceded by urging, and succeeded by burning. Diarrhoea: particularly early in the morning, in the evening, or at night; with cutting, lacerating, or ulcerative pain in the abdomen; generally water, liquid; fecal diarrhoea, early in the morning. Before stool: urging, also painful. After stool: tenesmus and burning at the anus, sometimes accompanied with languor of the whole set in. In the rectum: pressing after the diarrhoeic stool; itching as of worms, when riding in a carriage; dartings from the perineum to the rectum and the genital organs.

URINE.

Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urination, with emission of a few drops; with scanty emission. The urine is yellow-green, becomes turbid; bright-yellow, with slowly forming cloud; turbid like loam water, with violent sediment. Stinging in the urethra; itching, burning; the orifice is inflamed and as if glued up.

MALE GENITAL ORGANS.

Burning and voluptuous feeling in the parts. Red, hard, suppurating tubercle in the penis, with pain.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS.

Catamenia retarded by two or five days; too scanty; too short; flowing only at night; the blood is of a water consistence; too early by eight or nine days, and more profuse, particularly early in the morning, less at night, discharge of blood between the catamenia. Before the catamenia: Diarrhoea; during the catamenia: headache; toothache; soreness of the fold between the sexual organs and the thighs; colic; diarrhoea; languor, the blood being water. Leucorrhoea: after the catamenia; while walking, thick, slimy, tenacious, like the white of an egg; yellow-green, acrid, corrosive.

LARYNX.

Scraping in the throat, with desire to cough and burning, or with feeling of soreness extending into the chest. Cough from titillation in the throat. Dry cough, particularly in the morning after rising, and in the evening.

CHEST.

Oppressed breathing, with rising of heat to the head. Weight on the chest as of a load, with difficulty of taking deep breath; shortness of breath when making any manual exertion; constriction behind the sternum. Pressure below the sternum and in the stomach, as if occasioned by spasm or overloading of the stomach. Stitches in the chest. Palpitation of the heart: visible, with burning in the region of the sternum; with giddiness and headache; tremor and restlessness; with congestion of blood to the head, heat, thirst, and itching in the right eye. In the outer parts of the chest: visible pulsations near the clavicle; cutting burning in the middle of the chest; itching, with eruption and pimples after scratching; red, hard, lintel-shaped pimples, with itching and burning.

BACK,.

Chronic pain in the back, with stiffness after stooping; itching of the os-coccygis. Lancinations between the shoulders. Stiffness in the nape of the neck, early in the morning on rising; tension, with pain as if from a blow when pressing upon the parts. In the neck: lacerating. Glandular swelling on the neck, also with tension and drawing.

ARMS.

Difficulty of moving the arm, on account of weakness in the shoulder-joint; lameness of the left arm as if sprained, with difficulty of lifting it; languor of the arms; swelling of the right arm. with pain as if sore when touching it, and pressure in the shoulders; itching, particularly in the evening, with biting and burning. Lacerating in the upper arm, apparently in the humerus. Lacerating in the elbows, early in the morning. Boring in the fore-arm, extending into the finger; lacerating, as if the tendons were being torn off, accompanied with lancinations. Lacerating in the wrist-joint; pain as if ulcerated or sprained, at a small spot in the back of the wrist-joint, when bending the hand or pressing upon it. The hand feels stiff, with difficulty of opening or closing it, and feeling of weakness in the fingers; weakness of the hands, they let the least thing drop; tremor, with palpitation of the heart and oppressive anxiety; the tremor, with palpitation of the heart and oppressive anxiety; the hands are covered with dry, reddish pimples.

LEGS.

Pain when stooping, in the right hip. Lancinations in the thighs and legs, extending into the chest; going to sleep of the lower limbs. Burning above the knee, and itching pimple; reddish, hard swelling like a boil. Pain above the bend of the knee-joint, as if bruised. Painful weariness in the leg (during the catamenia). The feet are heavy; languid and debilitated; drawing and lacerating in the foot, with sensation as if the foot; red pimples on the foot.

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.