KREOSOTUM



LARYNX AND TRACHEA.

Scraping and roughness in the throat, also with rough, hoarse tone of voice. Grippe. Chronic catarrh, particularly in old people. Cough: in the evening in bed. Cough excited by a crawling below the larynx. Dry cough, with scraping in the throat and pain in the chest. Cough with asthma. Cough, with emissions of urine, and concussion of the abdomen. Constant cough, with a good deal of drowsiness. Whooping cough. Wheezing, dry cough. Dry and spasmodic cough early in the morning, unto retching, occasioned by constant crawling and ticking in the throat. Cough, with retching, only saliva being thrown off cough with Expectoration. Scraping cough, with copious expectoration of thick, yellowish, or whitish mucus.

CHEST.

Difficult and sometimes anxious breathing, or as if the chest were compressed. Frequent desire to take deep breath. Shortness of breath, with pain as if bruised in the chest on taking an inspiration. Oppression of the chest, coming on suddenly, with stitches in the left side of the chest. Heaviness in the chest, also with anxiety. Pain as if the chest or the sternum would be crushed in Painful feeling of rawness in the lower part of the chest. Burning from the middle of the chest to the throat. Stitches in the chest. Frequent lancinations in the right side of the chest. Stitches in the heart.

BACK.

Digging in the small of the back, as if something would come out. Pains as if the small of the back would break, extending to between the shoulders. Labor-like pains in the small of the back, with ineffectual urging to stool and distention of the abdomen. Ulcerative pains in the lumbar vertebra, or as if the flesh were beaten off the bones. Frequent pains in the small of the back and lumbar vertebra, resembling acute labor-pains, with strong urging to urinate. Pains in the back, and night worse during rest. Drawing tension between the scapula. Swelling of the cervical glands, with humid herpes on the ears, and gray livid complexion.

ARMS.

pains in the shoulders as if they had been bare. Stitches in the arm, from the shoulder-joint though the fingers. Deadness of the fingers, which grow pale and insensible.

LEGS.

Humming and buzzing sensation in the lower limbs. Languor and weariness in the lower limbs. Drawing pain, with stitches form the thighs to the soles of the feet. Drawing pain above the knee. Weakness of the joints, during motion, as if they would give way. Red scaly skin, like herpes, in thee bends of the knees. Throbbing as form a boil in the legs, form the knees through the toes, worse in the soles of the feet. Tensive pain from the knees to the tarsal joints. Pain of the soles, as form subcutaneous suppuration. Oedematous with swelling of both feet. Coldness of the feet. Burning itching of the soles.

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.