DAPHNE MEZEREUM



URINE.

Dark urine, becoming turbid after an hour. Hot urine, with a reddish sediment. After micturition a few drops of blood. Haematuria. Crampy sensation in the bladder. Soreness of the urethra when touching it. Discharge of mucus from the urethra.

GENITAL ORGANS.

Fine prickling stitches stitches in the glans. Blenorrhoea, with dark red inflammation of the internal surface of the prepuce, without swelling, with violent itching and soreness in the evening, lacerating and drawing in the glands. Painless swelling of the left scrotum. Leucorrhoea resembling albumen, malignant, chronic. Discharge of mucus from the vagina. Suppression of the menses. Burning pain in the mammae.

LARYNX.

Hoarseness, extending down to the pit of the throat. Burning in the throat, with irritation in the larynx, exciting a short and hacking cough, as if the larynx were too dry. with anxious op. Pressed breathing and discharge of a small quantity of mucus when coughing. Cough, deep in the chest, which does not abate until vomiting and a discharge of watery mucus ensue. Dry cough with retching. Nightly cough, especially after midnight. Bloody discharge, afternoon and night, with moderate cough and restless sleep, with heavy. frightful dreams. Violent cough in a recumbent posture (from the abuse of Nitric acid).

CHEST.

Oppressed breathing, the chest felling contracted from both sides. Slow, difficult breathing with anxiety. While talking, he looses his breath. Asthma, suddenly coming and going, as if the chest were oppressed with something very heavy. Pain in the side of the chest, during a deep inspiration, as if the lungs were adhering. The breath from the lungs smells like rotten cheese. Pressure on the chest. with palpitation of the heart. Oppressive aching pain il the posterior part of the chest, in an erect posture, increased by deep breathing and afterwards extending through the whole lower chest it becomes a sort of rheumatic pain when moving the arms. Tensive pressure in different parts of the chest. Cramp like contractive pain above the lower muscles of the chest, the lower portion of the back, and the upper arms, when walking in the open air. Violent stitches in the chest. Dull stitch under the heart, during a deep inspiration. Violent intermittent stitches in the right of the chest, preventing breathing. Soreness, with burning on the sternum. Red spots on the chest, resembling flea bites, with violent burning.

BACK.

Pain in the small of the back, spreading over every part of the body. Pain in the small of the back, more when walking than when at rest. Violent drawing aching pain, on the left side the small of the back. Cutting lacerating in both sides in the small of the back. Dull, pulsative pain in the back, near the middle of the spine. Tensive, contractive pain on the back, down to the small of the back. Aching pain near the lumbar vertebrae, increased by motion. Violently itching rash on the nape of the neck. Rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck, and occiput. Painful stiffness in the nape of the neck and the external cervical muscles.

ARMS.

Pain in the shoulder joint, as if it would tear, with throbbing digging, and lacerating in the evening, increased by motion. Dull pain and darting in the shoulder, as if he had been carrying a heavy burden. Tension in the shoulder. Aching pain in the border of the shoulder joints. Painful weariness of the arms, especially in the shoulder joint. Bruised feeling of the arms. Weakness, lassitude of the arms when writing. Pain in the upper arm as if beaten, with heaviness. and drawing from above downwards in the long bones. Bruised pain of both upper arms and shoulders. Tensive lameness of the elbow joint on raising the arm. Drawing in the elbow, with pressure extending into the fingers. Contractive pain in the muscles of the fore arm, during and after walk in the open air. Paralytic pain as from a sprain in the muscles of the wrist joint. Tremor of the hands. Great heat and warmth of the whole hand and arm, perceptible to the touch. Swelling of the hand, with tingling, as if it had gone to sleep. painful darting and grumbling in the phalangeal bones, in paroxysms.

LEGS.

Darting pain in the hip joint, down to the knee. Bone pain of the thighs and legs. Long continued, bruised pain in the inner side of the things, when walking fast. Paralytic lacerating in the right, when standing. Undulating drawing pain, along the whole thing, leaving a painful weakness behind, hindering walking. A sudden, intense pain in the knee, as after a blow or contusion. Rheumatic tension and drawing above the knee and in the legs. Dull pain in the tibia would break, at every step. Violent pain in the tibia, after midnight, as if bruised, with chilliness and continued, violent thirst. Aching in the region of the right tibia frequently recurring. Darting drawing in the calf. Violent itching of the calf. Hard swelling of the calf, when walking in the open air, with burning pain. Lacerating or spraining sensation in the feet and ankles. Tingling in the foot. Hot, or burning pains, as of red hot coal, in the foot. Cold, damp feet, when sitting in a warm room.

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.