Fever
Characteristic – For debilitated persons, with viscid mucous discharges.
Cachectic or malignant dyscrasia, with marked derangement of gastric and hepatic functions, broken down by excessive use of alcohol.
Cancer: hard, adherent, skin mottled, puckered, pains knife – like, sharp cutting, nipple retracted.
Nursing sore mouth, tongue large, shows imprint of teeth.
Leucorrhea: ropy, thick, viscid, yellow, hanging from os in long strings (Bovista, Kali bichromicum), pruritus.
Profuse discharge of thick, yellow, stringy mucus from nasal passages (Cor.r.).
Hawks yellow, viscid mucus from posterior nares and fauces, ulceration, after mercury or chlorate of potash, syphilitic angina.
Type: Intermittent, tertian, quotidian, bilious, typhoid, yellow.
Time: 11 A.M., 10 p.m. fever without chill.
Cause: Often depends upon organic disease.
Chill: Morning or evening, in back or thighs with aching, around shoulders and chest, pulse slow.
Heat: In flushes, over face, neck, hand. Great heat of whole body followed by great debility.
Sweat: Profuse, offensive of genitals (Petroleum).
Tongue: Large, flabby, thickly coated white, shows imprint of teeth.
Apyrexia: Cachectic, gastric or hepatic symptoms with jaundice, and bilious disturbances, bad effects of Mercury or Quinine.
For days before an attack sensation of entire goneness at epigastrium, with loss of appetite.
Vertex headaches in paroxysms every other day at 11 A.M. with excessive nausea, anguish and retching.
Typhoid, atony, torpor and retarded convalescence, insomnia, copious sweats, debility.
