LACHESIS



CHEST.

Whizzing breathing, with nightly asthma. Frequent urging to take deep breath, particularly when sitting. Shortness of breath, accompanying other affections. Shortness of breath after every exertion. particularly manual, with great weariness. Difficulty of breathing, with cough. Tightness of breathing asthma, with anguish in the chest and great inclination to vomit; in the evening on lying down, unto suffocation. Oppression of the chest, sudden; accompanied with cough and a felling of soreness; with violent pains in the back and side, violent palpitation of the heart, inability to move or talk, with swelling of the feet. Suffocative fits, with other affections. Contraction of the chest, waking after midnight, with slow, heavy, wheezing breath- ing. Frequent pains in the chest, with languor, palpitation of the heart, and headache, after gastric fever. Pain in the chest in typhus. Dull, oppressive heaviness on the chest. Stitch in the chest: with difficult breathing, or worse when coughing or taking an inspiration. Pain as from soreness in the chest, as in violent catarrh. Pneumonia particularly neglected. Inexpressible anguish about the heart, with heaviness on the chest, in rheumatism. Constrictive sensation in the region of the heart. Irregularity of the beats of the heart. Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety. Chronic palpitation of the heart; a number of other affections.

Threatening rheumatism of the heart. Aneurism of the right carotid. Cyanosis, particularly cyanosis-cardiaca. Sensation on the chest as if swollen.

BACK,.

Pain in the small of the back, with great uneasiness. Violent pains as if bruised, at times in the small of the back, at times in the abdomen or hips, during the menses. Rheumatic pains afterwards extending to the limbs. Lacerating. Stitches, some times extending to the liver or kidneys. Pains in the back, with constipation, or palpitation of the heart and oppression of the chest. Rheumatic pains. Lacerating. during typhus fever. Sinking sensation in the back, with weakness in the knees. Stitches during every deep inspiration, in asthmatic complaints. Soreness, proceeding from the chest. Great painfulness of the neck, and sensitiveness to contact and pressure, even of the linen, Burning in the throat pit, or pain as from a blow. Several tubercles in the neck. Red, suppurating blotches under the jaw. Swelling of the cervical glands. Ulcers on the neck. Drawing, lacerating, and tension of the shoulder.

ARMS.

Pains apparently in the bones of the arms, also in paroxysms. Creeping and pulling in the muscles. Lacerating, also proceeding from the jaw and ear. Jerking and lacerating with headache. Burning-beating. as if the flesh would be torn off the bones, with eruption on the hand. Weakness of the arms. Scrofulous ulcer on the arm, malignant ulcer after vaccination. Lacerating in the elbow, with pain on contact. Itch, with swelling. Swelling of the muscles. painful when touched, going off in the night. Pain of the wrist-joints as if sprained. Rheumatic pain, particularly in the left hand, or in both joints. Trembling of the hands, in drunkards. Frequent swelling, with itching and tingling. Vesicles, with itching and burning, on the hands and fingers. Chapped skin of the hands. Stinging in the tips of the fingers, also with burning. Tingling in the fingers. Small itch-vesicles. Gangrenous ulcer on the finger. Glanders. Malignant carbuncle. Panaritia. Disappearance of the proud flesh in the panaritia.

LEGS.

Lacerating in the hip. Bruised feeling during the catamenia. Numb pain with stitches. proceeding from the knee. Rheumatic pain in the right hip. extending to the back, small of the back, and knee, only at night. Lacerating in the lower limbs. Drawing in the lower limbs. Weakness or weariness in the lower limbs. Itching in the lower limbs. Lacerating in the bones, down to the knees. Rheumatic pains in the posterior surface. Stinging in the knees. Rheumatic pains in the knees. Lacerating in the knees. Pain and tension, as if too short. Weakness in the knees, with pressure at the stomach, particularly after a meal. Stiffness and weakness of the knees, particularly on rising from a seat. Swelling of the knees. Swelling of the legs, during the day and evening. Blue-red large swelling of the leg and foot, with short- lasting white spot on pressing with the finger, deep ulcers on the enlarged tibia. Elephantiasis in leprous patients. Itching of the legs. Ulcers on the legs, also black, gangrenous, in many cases. Both legs are covered with impure ichorous ulcers. Deep holes in the enlarged tibia, with impure whitish edges. Lacerating in the feet. Coldness of the feet, particularly when accompanying other complaints, or succeeded by heat. Swelling of the feet, particularly of the right foot. Swelling of the feet accompanying other complaints, also in pregnant women. Small, hard, white, deep vesicles preceded by violent itching. Ulcers on the feet. Cracked skin between and on the toes, also deep rhagades, or like cuts across the toes. Inflammation and suppuration of an chilblain, after which tertian fever sets in.

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.