PLUMBUM



URINE.

Suppression of urine. Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder, with a burning sensation in the urethra. Ischuria. The urine looks saturated, brown, mixed with blood. Copious red or yellow urine, without albumen.

GENITAL ORGANS.

Pulling, lacerating and contractive pains in the testicles, spermatic chords, penis, uterus, vagina, breast. Weakness of the sexual powers. Impotence and sterility. Swelling of the testicles. Nocturnal emissions. Spermatorrhoea (gonorrhoea). Mucous discharge from the vagina. Labor-like pains in the uterus and vagina.

LARYNX.

Fetid breath. Rough and afterwards stuttering speech. Short, dry, fatiguing cough. Dry cough with frequent vomiting. Cough, with discharge of blood.

CHEST.

Oppression of the chest. The breathing is interrupted by moaning. Excessive dyspnoea, only 35 to 40 inspirations a minute. Anguish and suffocative oppression unable to breathe except when sitting. Sort of angina-pectoris. Suppuration of the lungs. Pain in the region of the heart and violent spasmodic palpitation of the heart. Violent palpitation of the heart. Violent pulsations of the aorta in the epigastrium. as far as the umbilicus. Itching and darting pains in both breasts. Pressure on the chest.

NECK.

Stiff neck. Paralysis of the cervical muscles.

ARMS AND LEGS.

Excessive pains in the limbs, increased by contact. Drawing pains in the limbs, accompanied with spasmodic movement. Exhaustion and languor of the extremities. Coldness of the limbs. Trembling of the limbs. Convulsions of the limbs. Pains in the joints of the arm and head, with convulsive movements. Paralysis of the arms. Great languor and weariness of the lower limbs. Paralysis of the lower limbs.

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.