The Therapeutics of Fevers

Terebinthina ter.

Allen (1879)In every bookSave

Characteristic

For the hemorrhagic diathesis; "bleeders."

Complaints of old people; sedentary habit; from living in basements and damp dwellings.

Abdomen: extremely sensitive to touch; distension, flatulence, excessive tympanitis; meteorism (Colch.).

Diarrhœa: stool, watery, greenish, mucous; lungs, intestines, uterus; with hemorrhage, and malignant tendency.

Purpura hemorrhagica; fresh ecchymoses in great numbers from day to day (Sulph. ac.).

Hemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark with epithelial degeneration.

Ascites anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys; dropsy after scarlatina (Apis, Hell., Lach.).

The urine has the odor of violets.

Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra (Berb., Can., Canth.).

Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensi- tive hypogastrium; cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.

Albuminuria: acute, in early stages, when blood and al- bumin abound more than casts and epithelium; after diph- theria, scarlatina, typhoid.

Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; $<$ from living in damp dwellings.

Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.

Relations

Compare: Alumen, Arn., Ars., Canth., Lach.,

Nit. ac.

Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.

Type

Malarial; tropical; African fevers; toxæmic; septic; typhoid; typhus; yellow; tend to a low malignant type, with hemorrhage.

Chill

Violent, cold limbs, body hot; great coldness with rest- less tossing about; rigors, followed by heat through whole body.

Coldness and chill in abdomen.

Irregular chills and flushes of heat.

Heat

With great thirst; red face; skin and mucous membranes hot and dry; pulse hard and frequent.

Stupor, muttering delirium; subsultus tendinum; pupils contracted; meteorisms and excessive tympanitis; copious hemorrhage, black, fluid, from nose, stomach, kidneys, lungs, bowels, with ulceration of Peyer's patches; great prostration and emaciation.

Sweat

Profuse, with great prostration; cold, clammy, over whole body.

Tongue

Smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillæ, or as if glazed (Pyr.); elevated papillæ; coating peels off in patches, leaving bright red spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata); dry and red; burning in tip (compare, Mur. ac.).

Pulse

Irregular, intermitting, with great weakness; small, wiry, thready, scarcely perceptible; feeble and slow in diarrhœa.