Fever
Characteristic. – Adapted to the leucophlegmatic, blond hair, light complexion, fair skin and blue eyes.
Scrofulous constitutions, pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking, vertigo on ascending a height, going upstairs, is out of breath, has to sit down (vertigo on descending, Borax), disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldy.
Children: with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily and take cold readily in consequence, large heads and abdomens, fontanelles and sutures open, head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting pillow far around (San., Silicea), diseases of dentition, during sickness or convalescence great longing for eggs.
Acidity of digestive tract, sour eructation, sour vomiting, sour stool, sour odor of the whole body (Hepar, Rheum).
Girls who are fleshy, plethoric, grow too rapidly, who begin with early, profuse, protracted menstruation, subsequently have amenorrhea and chlorosis with menses scanty or suppressed.
Women: with menses too early and too profuse, feet constantly cold and damp, feels as if she had on cold, damp stockings, difficult to stop menstruating, the least mental excitement causes profuse return (Sul, Tuberculinum).
Fears she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her mental confusion (Actea).
Aversion to cold air, least cold air seems to go through and through, very sensitive to damp cold air.
Lung diseases of tall, slender, rapidly growing youth, upper third of right lung (Arsenicum Upper third of left, Myr., Sul., Tuberculinum). Oftener the guide to the true remedy than Phosphorus.
Disorders arising from defective assimilation, imperfect ossification, difficulty in learning to walk, have no disposition, will not try.
Longing for fresh air, which inspires, benefits, strengthens (Sul.).
Coldness: general, of single parts (Benz., Kali bichromicum), head, stomach, abdomen, feet and legs.
Sweat: of single parts, head, scalp wet, cold, nape of neck, chest, axillae, sexual organs, hands, knees, feet (Sepia, Tuberculinum).
Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and painful to pressure.
Uremic or other diseases brought on by standing on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing in cold water, modelers or workers in cold clay.
Constipation: inactivity of rectum, stool has to be removed mechanically (aloe, Sanicula, Selenium, Sepia, Silicea).
Painless hoarseness, aggravated in the morning.
Feels better in every way when constipated.
Desire to be magnetized (Phosphorus).
Complementary: Belladonna, which is the acute of Calcarea and Tuberculinum.
According to Hahnemann, calc. must not be used before Nit.ac. and Sulph., may produce unnecessary complications.
Aggravation: Cold air, damp winds, getting wet, ascending heights, exertion of mind or body, walking, talking, writing.
Amelioration: In dry, warm weather, lying on painful side.
Type: Tertian. Chronic intermittent or remittent fevers.
Time: 2 P.M. – Fever without chill at 11 A.M. and 6 to 7 p.m. (11 A.M. one day, 4 p.m. the next. – E.C. Price).
Cause: Working while standing in cold water. Potters, brick – makers who work in wet clay, gardeners and fruit growers, handling cold vegetables and fruit (Zincum met., Val.).
Prodrome: Drawing in all the joints, and great heaviness of head and body. Chill: With thirst. Begins in scrobiculus cordis, with spasms, or fixed, cold, agonizing weight, increasing with the chill and disappearing with it. External coldness and internal heat, or internal coldness and external heat, or chill and heat alternating (Arsenicum). Coldness of single parts, of face, of hands, of feet, of internal organs, icy coldness in and on heat, feels an inward coldness. Heat followed by chill and cold hands. Shaking chill at night. Chill in the evening in bed, was unable to get warm, though covered warmly, as though he had no warmth in his body. He was cold and his teeth chattered though he sat over the fire. Chill with headache and drowsy fatigue of all the limbs.
Heat: Without thirst, followed by chill and cold hands. Frequent flashes of heat. Severe heat in the head and great orgasm of blood. Nightly internal heat, especially in the feet and hands, anxiety and palpitation. Frequent attacks of sudden universal heat, as if she had been drenched with hot water, with despair of life.
Heat, with inclination to uncover (Aconite, Lycopodium, Secale, Sul.,).
Fever at 11 A.M. without thirst and without previous chill, she felt hot and was hot to the touch, with red face.
Sweat: No thirst. Hot sweat. Sweats during the day from the least exertion, even in the cold air (Am.m., Bryonia). Profuse sweat in the morning on moderate exertion. Sweat of palms of hands, of the feet, knees, over whole body, with severe cramp in stomach, chest, nape of neck, male organs. Clammy sweat only on the limbs. Often sleep after sweat.
Tongue: Dry in the morning on awaking, coated white. Taste: bitter, sour, foul, offensive, “too fresh,” like ink, like iron.
Apyrexia: Never clear. Intermittents with spasmodic symptoms, after abuse of quinine, chronic forms with scrofula, cachectic constitutions, suppressed eruptions, or sweat, desire for eggs.
Analysis. – The constitutional symptoms existing or aroused by the fever, form the chief guide in selection of remedy. The psoric cachexia of the patient is guiding, and is generally found in the apyrexia.
Chill, heat and sweat of single parts. The cause often indicative.
