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Sleep

Excessive sleepiness, day and night, deep and prolonged sleep. Great sleepiness during day. Inclination to sleep without the power to do so. Sleep retarded in evening, and too early awakening in morning. Falling asleep late, complaints preventing sleep (as toothache, or any severe pain or trouble, etc.), sleeplessness in general before midnight. Very light and unquiet sleep, with frequent awaking, starts, and fright. Sleeplessness from nervous excitability. Frequent, anxious, horrible, fantastic, historical, vivid and voluptuous dreams, dreams of robbers, of dogs that bite, of rebellion, of floods, of discharges of firearms, etc. At night, restlessness, anxiety, agitation and tossing, uneasiness, pains, heat or sweat, ebullition of blood, cries, tears, palpitation of the heart, vertigo, and many other affections. On going to sleep: worse of the pains, starts, and frightful spectres before the sight. During sleep: talking, groans, sighs, short respiration, with mouth open and hands cold, on waking, sweat, cries, tears, and incoherent expressions.

Fever

Chilliness early in morning, when rising, but more so in evening after lying down, as if cold water had been thrown over him, and not better by heat of stove. Chilliness at night with frequent micturition. Chilliness between the diarrhoeic stools. Internal chilliness with heat of face. Heat while in bed, as soon as one rises chilliness. Heat after midnight with violent thirst for cold drinks. Heat with anxiety and constriction of chest alternating with chilliness. Perspiration towards morning, with thirst and palpitation of heart, from least exertion even when eating. Perspiration in evening before going to sleep. Very debilitating night-sweat. Perspiration gives no relief, and accompanies all ailments. Intermittent fever. Chilliness in evening in bed, afterwards heat with violent thirst. Chilliness and heat without thirst, towards morning thirst, during perspiration, palpitation of heart and nausea, the perspiration smells sour or fetid. Coldness, shivering, and shuddering over whole body, principally after having slept, either by day and night, or only at night, or in evening, and in morning in bed, and sometimes with bluish colour of skin, icy coldness in hands and feet, muscular palpitations, convulsive movements of head, arms, and legs, contusive pain in limbs, and inclination to lie down, trembling in limbs, sharp pains in head, want to urinate, somnolence, etc. Ebullitions with trembling from slight exertion. Heat in face and head, with redness and burning of cheeks, and coldness, or shivering, or shuddering over whole body, or heat, mingled with shiverings or sweats. During the heat, insatiable thirst, great desire for milk, and worse of pains when uncovered. Febrile attacks at night, or in evening, fever, with inflammatory symptoms, or with putridity, slow and hectic fever. Pulse, irregular, or quick, strong, and intermittent, or weak, slow and trembling (generally full and fast, with violent beating in arteries). Copious, excessive, and colliquative sweats, both day and night, in morning, in evening after lying down, and when eating, and sometimes fetid, clammy, sour, or oily giving linen a yellow colour, and burning the skin. Sweat, with nausea and inclination to vomit, great fatigue, thirst, anxiety, obstructed respiration, stitches in side, etc.

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