MERCURIUS ACETICUS

INTRODUCTION

MERC ACET.

See Hahnemann’s “Materia Medica,” 111.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Drawing pain in the limbs in the forenoon, with shouldering, not succeeded by heat.

SKIN.

The edges of the ulcer become very painful. Itching, bursting pimples, burning like fire when scratched.

SLEEP.

Heavy dreams after midnight.

EYES.

(Inflammation of the canthi, with burning-itching pain morning and evening.).

THROAT.

Dryness of the throat, hindering speech, and accompanied with a cough which seizes the throat.

URINE AND GENERAL ORGANS.

Burning in the urethra, during and between the acts of micturition. Swelling and inflammation of the fore part of the urethra; the pains are increased by cold, and diminished by tepid water. Contractive pain in the testicle.

CHEST.

Pain in the chest as from subcutaneous ulceration, or as if raw and sore. Pressure and tightness of breathing in the outer region of the sternum.

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.