Fever
Characteristic – Fearful and apprehensive of some fatal disease.
Fear of being left alone, as if something horrible might happen.
Angry about one’s self, does not wish to be spoken to.
At the least contradiction, body shudders, blood boils (Aurum, Cocculus indicus, Conium, Ferrum).
Vertigo with tendency to fall forward.
Weight in the stomach after eating.
Fruits and drinks lie on the stomach like ice (see Arsenicum, Veratrum).
Type: Quotidian.
Time: 8 and 10 P.M., every day.
Chill: Without thirst, followed by dry heat and burning redness of the face. Chilliness and heat alternately ( Arsenicum, Calcarea ) at 8 P.M., chilly for a few minutes, then heat for a quarter of an hour. Shaking chill, felt internally as if in the bones, followed in half an hour by burning heat, the skin is hot, with thirst, the fever lasted whole night until 10 A.M. next day. Coldness aggravation by drinking cold water ( Caps. ), after a drink, shivering from head to foot with chattering of the teeth. Terrible coldness after drinking, and as if ice water were rising and falling through a cylindrical opening in left lung. Great sensitiveness to cold. Right leg up to knee, cold as ice. Arms cold by putting hand in cold water.
Heat: With thirst, alternating with chilliness. Dry heat from 7 to 9 P.M., followed by chill till 10 P.M. Fever at 7 P.M., with less chill, more violent heat, but little sweat, sleep interrupted by heavy dreams (of dead people), with difficult breathing the whole night. Flushes of heat, with redness of the face and ears.
Sweat: All over. Sweat cold and profuse. Sweat on forehead and nape of the neck.
Tongue: Deep red, clean, or swollen and black.
