The Therapeutics of Fevers

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Characteristic

Anxious, indifferent, melancholic, taci- turn.

Sensation as if a heavy black cloud had settled all over her and enveloped her head so that all is darkness and confusion.

Delirium: with nausea, retching, dilated pupils; incessant talking, changing from one subject to another; saw wires en- caging him; visions of rats and animals; dreams of negroes, devils, etc.; waking from sleep frightened; fear of death.

Head and neck retracted.

Nervous, intense restlessness.

Menses: irregular; exhausting (Alum., Coc.); delayed or suppressed by mental emotion, from cold, from fever; with chorea, hysteria or mania; increase of mental symptoms during; severe left-sided infra-mammary pains (Ust.).

Spasms: hysterical or epileptic; reflex from uterine disease; worse during menses; chorea < left side.

Violent pains in muscles of neck and back; feel stiff, lame, contracted; spine sensitive, from using arms in sewing, type writing, piano playing (Agar., Ran. b.).

Rheumatism affecting the bellies of the muscles; pains stitching, cramping. Excessive muscular soreness.

Rheumatic dysmenorrhœa.

Sharp, lancinating, electric-like pains in various parts, sympathetic with ovarian or uterine irritation; in uterine region, dart from side to side.

Aggravation

During menstruation: the more profuse the flow the greater the suffering.

Type

Yellow fever; cerebro-spinal fever.

Chill

Down the back from 11-12 M. Chill, then heat, then sweat, alternating with dryness of skin, 5 P. M. Chill, cold tremors from the back; hot flushes, then sweat on the abdomen.