Symptoms.
Paroxysm commenced 8 A.M., hard and shaking chills, lasting one hour, after which great thirst, followed by fever with no thirst; headaches; flushed face; dry, red eyes, and, after the fever, sweating, with thirst; but very profuse perspiration at night; particularly upon the parts on which he lies. Great debility after perspiration. China 200, ten powders, one every three hours. Speedy recovery followed. (T. D. Stowe.)
I cannot take more time with this great remedy, although I could multiply many cases of intermittents cured with it in the potencies. J. C. Roberts gives seven cases cured with it in the 87m in the Organon (Journal), Vol. III, page 236. Dr. Roberts comments thus: “I think that these few cases should convince those gentlemen of the errors of their ways who insist upon it that the giving of Quinine is necessary in order ” to break the chills.”
“These cases were considered incurable, but they were cured in the malarial region in which they took the fever, and in which they continued to reside after having been cured without having a return of the fever.”
The Cinchona, as well as its alkaloid, has been well proved and can be applied in potency with great success in the cure of intermittents if the symptoms indicate if it is not indicated it will, like other not indicated remedies, not cure and the Quinine in massive doses will only suppress temporarily and establish a Quinine cachexia often more difficult to cure than the original disease.
Ipecac, Arsenicum, Natrum mur., Pulsatilla, Ignatia, Eupatorium and many other remedies can each cure cases that Quinine cannot touch in the way of a permanent cure. I have written more at length upon this drug here, in hopes that some allopath, or only – in – name homoeopath, may profit thereby. The treatment of intermittents is a good field in which to demonstrate the power and truth of the single remedy, the similimum and the minimum dose. And intermittents is only a small part of the field of operation where this valuable drug in its two forms is wonderfully efficacious. (N.) Resume
1. Debility and other complaints after excessive loss of fluids; blood – letting, leucorrhoeas, etc.
2. Haemorrhages profuse with fainting, loss of sight and ringing in the ears.
3. Great flatulence, with sensation as if abdomen were packed full, not (<) by passing flatus up or down.
4. Painfulness diarrhoea; stools yellow, watery, brownish, undigested.
5. Periodical affections; especially every other day.
6. Excessive sensitiveness, especially to light touch; draft of air; pain; special senses too acute.
7. Modalities; (>) by hard pressure.
