PETROLEUM



STOOL.

Difficult stools, with sore pain in the anus. Hard, knotty stools. Frequent desire for stool, with slight diarrhoea, followed by much pressing. Diarrhoea with colic. Diarrhoea, after deranging the stomach, especially in stormy weather. Yellowish watery stools. Diarrhoea, followed by excessive weakness. Yellowish watery stools. Diarrhoea, consisting of bloody mucus. Soft stool, with tenesmus. Diarrhoea of pregnant females. Ascarides are passed with the stool. Taenia. Weak and dizzy after stool, vanishing of sight. PRessure about the anus. Burning pain in the region of the anus. Fistula recti.

URINE.

Frequent micturition. Involuntary micturition. Constant dripping of the urine. Nocturnal enuresis. urine with white sediment. Dark-yellow urine, with a quantity of of red sediment. Urine turbid, and red as blood. Burning urine. Burning in the neck of the bladder. Burning in the neck of bladder when urinating. Violent contraction in the region of the bladder. Burning pain in the urethra. Mucous discharge from the urethra. Contraction of the urethra.

MALE GENITAL ORGANS

Tearing in the glans. Reddish eruption on the glans, with itching. Itching and moisture of the scrotum. Herpes between the scrotum and thigh. Discharge of prostatic fluid.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS.

Burning in the genital organs, with some discharge of blood. Premature and scanty menses. Menses delay. The menstrual blood causes an itching of the genitals organs. Languor and bruised feeling in the body. Leucorrhoea, like albumen. Profuse leucorrhoea every day, for several days, also with lascivious dreams. Itching and mealy covering of the nipples.

LARYNX

Hoarseness. Cough from dryness in the throat. Dry cough, with stinging under the sternum. Cough in the evening, immediately after lying down in bed. Night-cough. Inclination to vomit when coughing.

CHEST.

The breathing is labored. Wheezing in the trachea, during an inspiration. Asthma and suffocative huskiness, as if from constriction of the trachea, with titillation, inducing dry cough. Oppression of the chest in the night, and restless sleep. Pressure and tightness of the chest, in the afternoon. Stitching in the side of the chest, just below the arm. Stitching in the chest, and Contractive pain in the head when coughing. Violent pleuritic stitches. Violent stitch as far as the heart, arresting the breathing. Feeling of coldness in the chest in the region of the heart. Occasional momentary palpitation of the heart. Herpes on the chest.

BACK

Violent, but short pain in the small of the back, preventing one from standing. Pain as from a sprain in the small of the back. Great uneasiness and stiffness in the small of the back. Pressure, heaviness, and weariness in the back. Cramp in the back, extending as far as the ribs. Rigidity of the back. Aching pain in the nape of the neck, increased by the slightest motion. Herpes on the nape of the neck. Glandular swellings and eruption.

ARMS

Tumor in the axilla, threatening suppuration. Pain of the shoulder joint, when raising the arm. Tension and drawing in the shoulder. Twitchings in the muscles of the arms. Great weakness in the arms. Erysipelatous inflammation of the arms, with burning pain. Lameness around the elbow-joint, for two days. Itching in the bend of the elbow. Pain of the wrist-joint, as if sprained. Tearing in the hands. Burning of the palms of the hands. Brown spots on the wrist-joint. Chapped hands, covered with rhagades, particularly in the winter. Arthritic stiffness of the joints. Itching of the joints of the fingers. Rough chapped tips of the fingers, with stitching and cutting pain. Chilblains.

LEGS.

Pain in the hip, near the os-sacrum, as if sprained, during motion. Redness and humid soreness of the upper and inner surface of the lower limb. Heaviness of the lower limbs. Pain and stiffness in the lower limbs. Stiffness and heaviness of the thighs, when walking. Cramp-pain in the knee-joint. Rigidity and burning in the bends of the knees. Stiffness of the knees, legs, and tarsal-joints. Pulling pain, with itching of the knee- joints. Stitches in the knees. Pain in the knee and tibiae, as if bruised. Contusive pain in the region of the patella. Painful weakness in the knees, in the morning when rising. Herpes on the knee. The tibiae are painful when walking. Aching pain in the foot. Tension in the foot when walking. Violent drawing and twitching in the feet. Throbbing in the soles of the feet, worst during rest. Swelling of the foot. Cold feet. Blisters on the heel. Herpes on the malleolus. Eruption between the toes. Ulcers on the toes.

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.