Digitalis



Fever

Chilliness. Skin cold. Skin very cold, with palpitation. Coldness of the body, with clammy sweat. Great coldness of skin (soon). Cold, pale, covered with a copious perspiration. Excessive sensitiveness to the cold. Chilliness; (after eight hours). Chilliness before the stool. Chilliness over the whole body, with heat and redness of the face. Constant chilliness, mostly in the back. Internal chilliness of the whole body, with externally perceptible warmth, which is increased. Internal chilliness during the day; he was unable to get warm on walking in the open air. Coldness and chilliness, internally and externally, of the whole body. Coldness of the whole body, perceptible externally, with warm face. Internal coldness of the whole body. Felt cold all over (after three hours). Very cold. After the last vomiting, a chill, which was followed by considerable heat and dryness of the surface of the body, to which succeed slight pain in the inferior extremities, especially in the calves and knees (second day). I shivered at a temperature of 15 (Reaum)., (twenty-second day). Shivering three or four times in the afternoon, followed by sweat at night, even of the head and in the hair. Frequent shiverings (fourth day). Slight shiverings, which were followed by increase of the heat of the skin (sixteenth day). Frequent shudderings. Slight rigor, followed by increased heat (after ten hours). Chilliness in the back. Chilliness in the back, cold hands, lasting several minutes. Cold extremities. Coldness of the limbs. Coldness, first of the arms and hands, then of the whole body. Coldness, first of the fingers, then of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, then of the whole body, especially of the limbs. Coldness of one hand, with warmth of the other. Shivering over the back. Heat. Slight heat of the skin (after twelve hours). Skin was a little hot, dry, and rough (third day). Slight increase of heat at the surface of the body (eighth and ninth days). Considerable degree of heat on the surface of the body, especially towards the head (first evening). The surface of the body was alternately hot and cold (nineteenth and twentieth days). Frequent warmth over the whole body, with cold sweat on the forehead, thirteen to fourteen hours after the coldness. Sudden warmth over the whole body, speedily disappearing, followed by weakness of all parts. Restless night, being hot and feverish (fourth night). General violent heat, with swollen veins and rapid pulse. Febrile condition. (* Not found.-HUGHES. *) Febrile paroxysm, first shivering, then heat, then profuse perspiration. (* Accompanying purulent expectoration.-HUGHES. *) The disease did not differ essentially from what is usually called typhoid fever, with particular affection of the gastric viscera. Heat in the head and face. In the beginning, heat in the back, then creeping coldness, with cold hands, shuddering through the back, lasting several minutes. Burning heat in the hands. Burning of the head, face, and ears, with redness of the cheeks and slight chilliness in the back; the left eye is also much smaller than the other (after eating in the room). Sweat. Skin inclined to be moist (eighth and ninth days); moisture increased (fourteenth and fifteenth days). Night sweat during sleep. General slight sweat in the morning on waking. Covered with a copious perspiration. Cold sweat, continuing six days. Body covered with cold sweat (seventh day). Warm perspiration in the palms of the hands.

Aggravation

(Morning), On stooping, immediately after rising, headache; on waking, headache; on waking, all objects seem covered with snow; coryza; vomiting; pain about umbilicus; in bed, pain in abdomen, etc.; in bed, colic; hoarseness; after rising, dry cough; on rising from bed, indolence, etc.; on waking, general sweat. (Afternoon), About six o’clock, anxiety, etc.; towards evening, heartburn; about five or six o’clock, vomiting, etc.; towards evening, colicky pains, etc. (Evening), Dulness of mind, etc.; pressure in head; headache; frontal headache; heaviness of lids; in bed, on closing eyes, pain in margin of lids; in bed, toothache; especially on rising from sitting, tearing in abdomen; desire to take deep breath; especially while writing, pain in chest. (Night), Delirium; irrational talking, etc.; sneezing; nausea, etc.; vomiting; urging to urinate; pain in left shoulder, etc.; swelling of hand, etc.; biting, etc., on cheeks, etc.; itching on hand; itching on foot; sweat. (Midnight), Cough. (Bending backwards), Headache. (Bending forwards), Pain in sternum. (After dinner), Pain, etc., of stomach; bruised pain in epigastrium; sensation in heart, etc.; yawning. (Drinking), Vomiting. (While eating), Stitches in side.

(After eating), Nausea; fullness of stomach, etc.; while sitting, not while standing, food presses in stomach; cough; sleepiness. (Excitement), Feeling in ears, etc.

(Expiration), Stitches in side of abdomen. (Heat), Headache. (On lying one leg over the other), Cutting in thigh. (Movement), Headache; pain in abdomen; tearing, etc., in back; pain in small of back; aching in thighs, etc. (Music), Apprehensiveness, etc.

(Pressure), Stitches in thumb.

(Rising from sitting), Vertigo, etc.; difficult respiration. (In room), Lachrymation. (Sitting), Contraction in abdomen; dyspnoea; drawing in side of thigh. (Long sitting), Cough, etc. (Standing), Headache. (Before stool), Chilliness.

(After stool), Pressure on both sides of spine. (Stooping), Headache; tension on parietal portion of brain; pain in small of back. (On straightening up body), Pressure in stomach. (Thought), Pressure in forehead. (Touch), Only when standing, not when sitting, stitches in pit of stomach. (Walking), Headache; tearing in umbilical region; pain in middle of sternum; stitches in upper arm; sticking in bend of thigh; pain in tibiae. (Warm room), The symptoms.

Amelioration

(Beating on chest), Pressure in chest, etc.

(Lying), Undulating headache.

(Pressure), Pain behind mastoid process; pressure in zygoma; pain in pit of stomach; pain in side of back.

(Stooping), Undulating headache.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.