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CHEST.

Fit of asthma, short breathing, and anguish. Asthma at night, when lying on the back, and from exercise in the daytime. Asthma and want of breathing, when going up-stairs or performing the least motion. Asthma, as if the clothes were too tight. Wheezing and rattling in the chest. Oppressive weight in he upper part of the chest. Oppression of the chest, as if something were rising into the throat arresting the breathing. Short troublesome breathing, from weakness f the respiratory organs, with great emptiness of the chest. Pressure deep in the chest, as from a load. Constriction of the chest, in the evening, with anguish. Tension across the chest. Stitches in the chest and shoulder- joint when taking breath. Sharp, piercing prickings on the clavicle. Frequent cuttings through the chest, from the elbow upward. Aching in the whole chest, especially above the pit of the stomach, worse during an inspiration. Bruised pain in the chest, when at rest and in motion. Sore pain the whole chest, commencing in the throat. Feeling of weakness chest as if deprived of its contents, particularly after expectorating or talking. Digging-up pain in the chest, and thence descending into the abdomen, exciting a desire for stool.

BACK.

Violent creeping in the small of the back. Burning pressure in the small of the back. Stitching pinching in the back, in the region of the false ribs. Violent lacerating in the lumbar vertebrae. Fine pricking through the back, from within outward. Drawing pressure in the spine, below and between the scapulae, more violent during motion, especially when turning the body. Slow, intermittent, dull stitches between the scapulae, more violent during motion, especially when turning the body. Slow, intermittent, dull stitches between the scapulae.

NECK.

Itching prickings in the nape of the neck. Drawing in the nape of the neck. Pain in the nape of the neck when bending the head forward. Weakness of the muscles of the nape of the neck.

ARMS.

Compressive sensation in the shoulder. Paralytic lacerating in and below the shoulder-joint, more violent during motion. Paralytic pain, as if sprained, close below the shoulder-joint, only when at rest. Weariness in the arms and legs. Pain in the arm-joints as if sprained. Arms and fingers are almost entirely immovable. Paralytic weakness and oppressive heaviness of the arms, aggravated by every motion, and sometimes with want of breath. Transitory drawing from the elbow towards the upper arm. Lacerating, with pressure in both upper arms, in paroxysms. Tension and sore feeling in the tip of the elbow. Pain, as if sprained, in the wrist-joint. Jerking lacerating in the hand, proceeding from the fingers. Lacerating with pressure, at intervals, in the metacarpal and carpal bones. Weakness and trembling of the hands. Swelling of the hands, in the evening. Burning itching in the dorsum of the hand. Small, red, painless spots on the dorsa of both hands. Chilblains on the hand. Lacerating, with pressure in the posterior joints of the fingers. Cramp in the fingers. Pricking in the tips of all the fingers. Painful hang-nails.

LEGS.

Violent pain in the muscles around the hip-joint, when raising the thigh. Drawing in the hip. Pain as if sprained close below the hip-joint, in the thigh, only when walking. Uneasiness in the limbs. Paralytic heaviness and weakness in the limbs, especially in the thighs and knee-joints. Painful weariness of the lower limbs when standing. Bruised pain of the lower limbs. Itching pricking in the upper and inner side of the thigh. Pulsative dull pressure in the middle of the inner side of the thigh. Pain, as if sprained, in the thigh, below the hip-joint, when walking. Sudden stiffness of the knee. Drawing lacerating in the bone, from the knee to the middle of the thigh. Languor in the knee- joint, with drowsiness. Bruised pain in the bends of the knees and in the calves. Cold knees and feet. Drawing lacerating in the leg. Violent cramp in the calf, almost the whole night. Pulsative pressure in the tibia. Small swelling on the tibia, with a red point on it. Disagreeable heat in the feet, which can scarcely be felt the hand. Violent burning in the feet and hand. Reddish swelling of the feet, especially around the ankles. Sudden swelling around the ankles, in the evening. Creeping in the feet, as after a long walk.

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.