RHODODENDRON



Pain in the hip, as if sprained. Quickly-passing pains in the lower limbs. Occasional contusive pain in some of the muscles of the lower limbs. Lacerating in the lower limbs, also particularly in the hip-joints, worse during rest and in stormy weather, also at night. Lacerating from the thigh to the foot, worse during rest. Heaviness in the thighs. Feeling of a burning soreness between the thighs and the perinaeum. Fine lacerating, deep in the knee-joints. Drawing in the bend of the knees, when walking. Cold swelling of the right knee, with raging pain extending to the leg, in bed and during rest. White swelling of the knee. Boring, beating pain in the tibia. Constant sensation as if gone to sleep, also in the feet, with sticking in the knees and tarsal-joints, tension in the limbs when walking, and aggravation of the pains when sitting still. OEdematous swelling of the legs and feet. Sharp crampy pains in the tarsal-joints. Drawing, digging-up pain in the joints of the upper limbs, especially the left, when at rest. Heaviness, and tremulous, paralytic weakness of the arm, when at rest, diminished by motion. Weakness in both arms, with tingling as if gone to sleep. Pain in the muscles of the upper arm, as after an excessive exertion. Pulsation in the upper arm. Violent aching pain, as if seated in the periosteum. Drawing in the elbow-joints. Pain in the wrist-joints, as if sprained, with increase of warmth. Digging-up, a drawing pain in the wrist-joints. Swelling, with drawing lacerating, first in the joint, afterwards in the dorsum of the hand. Tremor of the hands, during rest and motion. Sensation of loss of strength, and heaviness in the hands.

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.