NITRIC ACID



CHEST

Feeble and slow breathing, with wheezing and rattling, or soreness in the chest. Want of breath, palpitation of the heart, and anguish, when going up-stairs. Sudden want of breath and palpitation of the heart, when walking slowly. Shortness of breath. Panting, during work. Asthma, as from congestion of blood to the chest. Pain in the chest, as if sore, at every inspiration. Oppression on the chest. Congestion of blood to the upper part of the chest. Congestion of blood to the heart, with anguish. Seething of the blood in the heart. Palpitation of the heart, in paroxysms, with anxiety and subsequent oppression of breathing. Momentary violent palpitation of the heart, with diarrhoea. Palpitation of the heart from some light emotion. Tremor of the heart, in paroxysms.

BACK.

In the small of the back: pain, as if stiff. Aching pain. Pulsations. Stiffness of the spinal column. Violent burning pain in the back. Painful tension of the muscles. Glandular swelling of the right side of the neck.

ARMS.

Glandular nodosity in the axilla. Painful swelling and inflammation of the axillary glands. Pressure on the right shoulder. Aching pain on the shoulder. Violent tension and contraction in the shoulders and arms. Drawing pain in both arms. Paralytic feeling in the arm. Languor of the arms, as after fever. Jerking and drawing in the arms and fingers. The upper arm is painful, as if bruised. Paralytic, drawing pain in the fore-arm. Lacerating around the wrist-joint. Trembling of the hand. Rough skin. Rhagades. Copper-colored spots in syphilitico- mercurial patients. Itching of the hands, also with chilblains and swelling of the hands. Swelling of the fingers. Herpes between the fingers.

LEGS.

Drawing pain around the hips. Soreness between the upper parts of the lower limbs, when walking. Drawing with pressure, in both lower limbs. Pain as from bruises in the limbs. Heaviness of the lower limbs. Uneasiness of the lower limbs, in the evening. Feeling of heat, with lassitude, in the joints of the limbs. Coldness in the right limb. Pain of the thighs on rising from a seat. Drawing in the thighs, and itching of the skin. Throbbing and beating in the thighs, as if ulcerated within. Pain in both thighs, as if broken. Painful stiffness of the bend of the knee. Painful contractive sensation in the knee. Pain in the knees, as if sprained. Giving way of the knees, when walking. Feeling as if the bends of the knees were swollen. Weakness of the knees. Cold knees. Cramp in the calf, towards morning. Paralytic drawing along the bones of the legs. Jerking in the calves. Paralytic pain in the leg, with excessive heaviness and lassitude during rest. The feet are painful. Stitches in the heel on stepping. Considerable swelling of the feet. Fetid sweat of the feet. Painful sensitiveness of the toes, soles and corns, as if inflamed. Redness, inflammation, and swelling of one toe. Chilblains. Spreading vesicles.

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.