Fever Intermittent



Tarentula-hisp [Tarent]

Mostly quotidian; chill and heat alternating, followed by copious, sometimes cold and clammy sweat. Violent shaking chill, burning heat all over body, except the feet, which remain cold, considerable thirst, with repugnance to drink.

Thuja [Thuj]

Gonorrhoeal or sycotic contamination of the system; hydrogenoid constitution. Quotidian sometimes every day, especially 3 A.M. CHILL WITH THIRST, beginning in thighs, with blueness of nails, chattering of teeth, rapid and difficult respiration for half an hour, then thighs hot, like a glowing coal, with cold hands and feet, (<) motion. HEAT with thirst, neither preceded nor followed by chilliness; burning heat only in face and cheeks for whole day. SWEAT only on uncovered parts, or all over, except on head; sweat when he sleeps, stops when he awakes; sour-smelling of foetid sweat every night; scrotum, perineum and inner surface of thighs dripping with sweat. APYREXIA clear.

Valeriana [Valer]

Hysteria and neuralgia. CHILL short with thirst, begins in neck and runs downward, with fainting during chill. HEAT long-lasting, with thirst and headache, with restlessness and neuralgia of limbs. SWEAT profuse, especially at night, but not weakening, with violent thirst, (>) after sweating.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.