Chionanthus Virginica

Skin

Yellow all over body. Jaundice of years’ standing recurring annually. Jaundice caused by drinking too much cider, cured in three days.

Sleep

Could not go to sleep before midnight. Nervous and restless after going to bed, woke up many times before daylight. Woke many times with pains in head, abdomen, and back. Feels very badly and sick all over on waking in the morning. Sleepy during the day, could hardly keep awake. Perspiration on head and face during sleep. Great emaciation.

Fever

Chill at 12 noon. Chilly sensations darting through body from front to back, causing a short of shivering or involuntary jerking. Aching in back or limbs before and during fever. Head feels like a ball of fire to prover’s hand, cheeks very hot and dry. Wants to be covered during chill and fever, becomes chilly if clothing is removed during fever. No thirst during chill or fever. Slept during the fever, profuse perspiration on head and face while asleep during the fever, Throbbing of temporal and carotid arteries during fever. Headache and backache during fever, eyeballs very sore.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica