Cadmium sulphuricum Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Cadmium Sulphuricum in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – symptoms chiefly clinical, but have been verified in cholera infantum and malignant yellow fever.

Traumatic opacity of cornea, bluish maculae, after a slow conjunctivitis and keratitis with blennorrhoea.

Cicatrix on cornea.

Craves cold water which is immediately vomited (Arsenicum).

Belching: salty, rancid. Nausea: in mouth, throat, chest, abdomen, intense gagging and retching of tough mucus, deathly, must lie quiet to ward off black vomit, so sensitive that the least touch of the lips will bring on vomiting.

Nausea or black vomit when other medicines though well selected fail.

Vomiting: of black, sour or yellow matter, of all food taken, bile and stringy mucus, with cold sweat on face and griping pains in stomach and umbilical region and great prostration.

Intense burning, cutting pains in stomach and esophagus.

Stool: Yellowish – green, semi – fluid, almost gelatinous.

Aggravation: Cool or cold air, draft of air, cold land wind (Aconite, Bryonia, Hep), checked perspiration, in the sunshine.

Gastric symptoms: in drunkards, after drinking beer, during pregnancy, after cramps in stomach.

Type: Malarial, yellow.

Dr. Hardenstein, of Vicksburg, used this remedy with great success in the malignant epidemic of yellow fever in 1878.

Time: Fever, before midnight.

Cause: Fevers prevailing during epidemic yellow fever.

Chill: Icy coldness. Blueness of skin.

Coldness: even when near the fire, after drinking, after sleep, after walking, with hot hands. Horripilation.

Sweat: Profuse and exhausting, while sleeping, in axillae, staining yellow, acrid.

When sweat is checked and grave symptoms appear, after exposure to a draft of air during fever or convalescence.

Falls asleep during evening fever and wakes when it stops.

Analysis – Yellow and malarial fevers with deathly nausea, intense gagging and retching, and vomiting of black, sour or yellow matter.

When the best selected remedies fail.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.