The Therapeutics of Fevers

Stannum Metallicum stann.

Allen (1879)In every bookSave

Characteristic

Extreme exhaustion of mind and body.

Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach (Chel., Phos., Sep.).

Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but crying makes her worse (Nat., Puls., Sep.); faint and weak, especially when going down stairs; can go up well enough (Bor.—rev. of Cal.).

Headache or neuralgia; pains begin lightly and increase gradually to the highest point and then gradually decline (Plat.).

Colic: > by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen across knee or on shoulder (Col.); lumbrici; passes worms.

Menses; too early, too profuse; sadness before; pain in malar bones, during.

Leucorrhœa; great debility; weakness seems to proceed from chest (from abdomen and pelvis, Phos., Sep.).

Prolapsus, worse during stool (worse with diarrhœa, Pod.); so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down.

While dressing in the morning has to sit down several times to rest.

Nausea and vomiting; in the morning; from the odor of cooking food (Ars., Colch., Sep.).

When singing or using the voice, aching and weakness in deltoid and arms.

Great weakness in chest; < from talking, laughing, reading aloud, singing; so weak, unable to talk.

Cough: deep, hollow, shattering, strangling; concussive, in paroxysms of three coughs (of two, Mer.); dry, while in bed, in evening; empty sensation in chest.

Expectoration: profuse, like the white of an egg; sweetish, salty (Kali i., Sep.); sour, putrid, musty; yellow-green pus (heavy, green, salty, Kali i.); during day.

Hoarseness: deep, husky, hollow voice; relieved for the time by coughing or expectorating mucus.

Sweat: mouldy, musty odor; after 4 A. M. every morning; on neck and forehead; very debilitating.

Relations

Complementary: Pulsatilla.

Aggravation

Laughing and singing, talking, using the voice; lying on right side; drinking anything warm (from cold drinks, Spong.).

Amelioration

Coughing or expectoration relieves hoarseness; hard pressure (Col.).

Type

Suppressed by quinine or some anti-periodic; low fever, with bronchial or pulmonary complications.

Time

10 A. M.; 4-5 P. M.

Chill

Over whole body at 10 A. M.; with coldness of the hands, deadness of the fingers, and numbness of the finger tips (Paris, Sep.); in the evening over the back; slight, but with chattering of the teeth, as from convulsion of the masseter muscles; only in left arm, or left leg (Carbo v.—right arm, Mercurialis); knees and feet very cold (Carbo v.).

Heat

From 4-5 P. M., with sweat; of single parts, of back, chest, abdomen, limbs.

Anxious heat, as if sweat would break out.

Burning heat in limbs. Hectic fever.

Sweat

Profuse after 4 A. M. every morning.

Morning sweat, chiefly on the neck, nape of the neck and forehead; mouldy, musty odor; debilitating from the least movement.

Tongue

Red; yellow; coated with yellow mucus.

Taste; sour; sweetish; offensive; everything bitter but water.

Fetid odor from mouth.