Magnesia sulphurica

Skin

Itching blotches, either hard or as from nettles, with burning, after scratching. Small red tetter (on arms), with violent itching. Stinging itching spots on skin with tendency to boils, worse when undressing. Warts.

Sleep

Sleep, early in evening. Sleeplessness at night, caused by violent pains in head, abdomen, and loins (which do not allow him to lie on his back). Many dreams, sometimes disagreeable and anxious (with starting).

Fever

Shivering and shuddering (in back from below upwards), especially in evening, disappearing in bed. Chilliness with thirst, early in morning after waking. Shaking chill with violent headache in evening, 9 p.m., going off in bed, succeeded by thirst. Cold feet all day, although otherwise he feels hot. Shivering at night, with thirst until noon, perspiration in afternoon, or after lying down. Heat on sitting up in bed, with vertigo, perspiration on forehead, and redness of face. Heat of head, with coldness of rest of body. Alternation of heat and shuddering, redness and paleness of face. Perspiration at night or in morning, often accompanied by thirst.

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