ONISCUS ASELLUS

INTRODUCTION

ONIS. AS. Wood Louse, Milliped. “Archiv,” IV., 1. The symptoms marked (w) are from three of those Lice, taken in a glass of brandy previous to a paroxysm of fever.

SYMPTOMS

Dull heaviness of the head. Painful pressure above the eye-brows near the edge of the nose. Boring pain behind the right ear, in the region of the mastoid process, with stronger beating of the arteries. Pale, sunken, troubled countenance (w). Spasm in the back part of the palate, as if it would close. Thirst. Nausea, followed by constant pressure at the cardiac orifice. Incessant vomiting. Violent colic with distention of the abdomen (w). Sudden urging to stool, with thin stool (w). Painful urging to stool and urine, with retention of both (w). Burning cutting in the urethra, with unceasing tossing about (w). Burning pain at the anus. Erections and indisposition to work. Hawking up of mucus with blood.

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.