The Therapeutics of Fevers

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Characteristic

Persons with light hair; skin and muscles lax.

Old people, with weak, indolent circulation.

Drunkards, especially for their headaches; bad effects after a debauch (Lob., Nux, Ran.).

Delirium: with constant raving; tries to get out of bed

(Bell., Hyos.); in typhoid or typhus.

Headaches: of those who readily become delirious in fever or with pain (Bell.); of persons subject to chorea, twitchings or grimaces; from spinal affections.

Chilblains that itch and burn intolerably; frostbite and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face.

Involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep; chorea, from simple motions and jerks of single muscles to dancing of whole body; trembling of whole body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.).

Sensation: as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were piercing the skin; as from hot needles.

Burning, itching, redness of various parts; ears, nose, face, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot.

Uncertainty in walking, stumbles over everything in the way; heels pain as if beaten when standing.

Spine sensitive to touch (Chin. s., Ther.); worse mornings.

Pain: sore, aching, in lumbar and sacral regions; during exertion in the day time; while sitting (Zinc.).

Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses.

Nervous prostration after sexual debauches.

Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.).

Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in spine. Single vertebræ sensitive to touch.

Prolapsus, post-climacteric; bearing-down pain almost intolerable (compare Lilium, Murex, Sepia).

Extremely sensitive to cold air (Cal., Kali c., Psor.).

Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant. t., Stram.), upper right, lower left (Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul. ac.).

Relations

Similar: to Act., Cal., Can. Ind., Hyos., Kali p., Lach., Nux, Op., Stram., in delirium of alcoholism; Myg., Tar., Zinc., in chorea.

Aggravation

After eating; after coitus; cold air; mental application; before a thunderstorm (Phos., Psor.**).

Time

**From 10–11 A. M.; from 12–1 P. M.

Chill

Shiverings, from above downwards (Ver.**); general, over the body; in the open air; on the slightest movement; from raising the bed clothes; shaking chill with gaping.

Chill in back as if cold water was running down, if he leans back in the chair.

Chilly feeling: with yawning; limbs cold and blue; weakness; ill-humor; no appetite.

Heat

**Almost wanting; chiefly on upper parts of body; in face and upper part of body.

Burning heat, has to uncover lower limbs; blood seems to run glowing through the vessels; turning in bed or lifting the covers produces chilliness.

Sweat

**Profuse; oily, but not offensive (Cinch.); all night; during sleep; from slight exertion or bodily effort; on front of body, especially about the legs. The face, neck and chest were wet with cold perspiration. The sweat, though profuse, is not debilitating. Viscid, and great prostration.