Oleum Animale

Skin

Violent general itching, and sometimes smarting or burning in different parts of skin. Vesicles, resembling scabious pimples. Excoriation in bends of joints.

Sleep

Urgent inclination to sleep during day, with yawning and frequent stretching, especially after dinner. Prolonged sleep in morning. Retarded sleep in evening. Frequent or premature waking in morning, without power to go to sleep again. Very light sleep, disturbed by least noise.

Fever

Shivering, shuddering, and coldness, frequently accompanied by heat in other parts, or alternating with heat. Coldness after a walk in open air. Coldness of whole left lower limb. Shuddering from vertex to chest. Shuddering: in the house, after entering the house, by a stove, entering a warm room from the open air. Icy coldness creeps up back. Increase of natural heat, especially after walking in open air. Dry heat, in evening. Dry pricking heat, particularly in face. Transient heat, often with sweat in head, chest, and hands. Transient fits of sweating, especially during repose. Perspiration during a meal.

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