Rhus Venenata

Sleep

Restlessness with dry, hot skin. Sleep disturbed by many dreams: of death and near future, lascivious, with wild fancies. Bad dreams, which impress her much next day (B). Sleep bad till after midnight on account of nausea and pressure in stomach and chest, restless, tossing (B). Starts on falling asleep (B).

Fever

Chills: over whole body, run up back even when warm and in a warm room. Feeling of coldness when moving (B). Shivering down the back. Skin hot, dry, burning, at night with restlessness. Intermittents without sweat. Frequent attacks of ague (B). Dry, burning. Flashes of heat as though a stream of hot air was passing over body, with throbbing and tearing pains from each temple back to occiput and down neck to each shoulder. Hands constantly very dry and hot. Slight moisture behind right ear.

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