Ipecacuanha Fever Symptoms



Chill not marked and distinct, being either a chilliness up and down the back or a mingling of chills and heat, half an hour the longest. If thirst in chill, may continue during chill and heat, although rely so severe in heat. Great lassitude and weariness during chill. Chill usually followed by nausea and vomiting, first of contents of stomach, afterwards of bile. Hot stage lasts four or five hours, and even all night. Sweat light, partial, on single parts ( Bry ), sour. If mixed with Quinine cachexia, profuse, sour, and soaking the bed through.

In the irregularity of the different stages of the paroxysm, as well as the universality of its indication, Ipecacuanha resembles Arsenic, and should always be thought of where indiscretions in diet may have been the cause of original attack, or have produced a relapse. The greatest prostration occurs during chill(the prostration of Arsenic is greatest after heat).

Always (<) during sweat.

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.