This remedy is also very unique in its fever symptoms. There is no disease in which we are better able to show the power of the potentized remedy to cure, than intermittent fever. Chronic cases that have resisted the Quinine treatment for years are often quickly and permanently cured by the 200th and upwards. The following symptoms indicate IGNATIA: 1st. THIRST DURING CHILL and in no other stage. 2nd. Chill relieved by EXTERNAL HEAT. 3rd. Heat worse by EXTERNAL COVERING. 4th. RED FACE DURING THE CHILL. Here are four legs to the stool, and we may sit upon it in perfect confidence. No other remedy has thirst during chill and in no other stage. In NUX VOMICA, you will remember, the chill is not relieved by the heat of the stove, or the bed, and during the heat NUX VOMICA must be covered, as the least uncovering brings back the chill. So we see that notwithstanding the alkaloid of both drugs is strychnia they differ widely when we come to apply them to the cure of the sick. The red face during chill led me to the cure of an obstinate case, and after I noticed the red face I also noticed that the boy was behind the stove in the warmest place he could find. The 200th promptly cured. Two other cases in the same family, at the same time, and from the same malarious district, were cured, one by CAPSICUM, 200th, the other by EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM, same potency. The former had chill beginning between shoulders, in the latter the chill in the A.M., great pains in bones before, and vomiting of bile at the end of chill. I do not know but I have mentioned these three cases before; but it will bear repeating, for it illustrates the EFFICACY OF POTENCIES in obedience to our great law of cure. Can any reasonable man doubt such evidence?.
