Fever
Characteristic – Debility of old age, great failure of strength. Nervous debility from loss of fluids, or exhausting illness.
Spinal lesions, idiopathic or traumatic, sensation acute, motion paralyzed, painless paralysis.
Aggravation: Dampness, damp weather, change of weather, cold wind, or the least movement.
Amelioration: After the first mouthful of food. (Compare with Aranea ).
Type: Quotidian. Type not marked.
Time: 2 or 3 p.m., every day, and continuing well into the night.
Chill: Without thirst. Coldness commencing on the abdomen and spreading all over. Sensation of shivering, starting from the stomach and spreading over the whole body. Constant chilliness.
Heat: With thirst, especially in the head, on the back and legs, burning in the hips, great weakness and prostration, crampy pains on the least movement. Fever with thirst and great hunger, yawning and stretching, hot head and hands, convulsive paroxysms and fainting. Daily fever, commencing at 2 or 3 p.m., and continuing well into the night, burning heat, accompanied by partial and transient chills, incoherent speech, and often by paralysis of the extremities. Lips get blue and body purple, after fever very red face, hammering headache. Pernicious fever, with constant chilliness (Petroleum), heat increased at night or in the open air, less in the morning.
Sweat: Cold and bloody, especially at night.
Tongue: Deep red, cracked and bleeding.
Neither our provings nor clinical experience of Curara are sufficient to define many characteristics.
