Fever
Characteristic – Loquacious delirium, brilliant eyes, circumscribed red cheeks, aggravated from 1 to 2 A.M. (Arsenicum).
Torticollis: neck stiff, head drawn to one side, pain in the nape as if dislocated, when turning the neck or bending the head backward.
Sensation: as if a piece of ice was lying on the back between the shoulders, of burning, in sacrum, in spine four inches above the small of back, or palms of hands and soles of feet.
Time: Evening fever, aggravated from 6 – 12 p.m.
Chill: With thirst, body icy cold, relieved by hot flatirons, but not by external covering (Caps.), head burns like fire (Arnica). Flushes alternate with chilliness. Feels hot, but chills run all over her before heat can develop.
Sensation as if a piece of ice were lying on back between scapulae, then a shock followed by coldness over whole body with goose flesh, recur on moving.
Heat: Dry, feet burn, restless tossing about with rumbling in abdomen. Burning heat, red face, worse on right side, after heat, circumscribed dark redness of face, also worse on right side (Chelidonium, Sanguinaria). Flushes of heat alternating with chilliness. Evening fever without chill, worse from 6 to 12 p.m., with red cheeks and red face (worse on upper part of face.). Fever with somnolency (Apis).
Sweat: After 12 p.m., after a restless sleep. Morning sweat. Skin cold, damp, clammy and sticky. Sweat with vertigo, boiling and bubbling in chest and region of heart. Icy cold, chiefly on forehead.
