Fever
Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity, acts better in children than in adults.
Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire body, staggering, uncertain gait, feels as if legs were all over side – walk.
Nervous, restless, cannot sit still, must move about or keep occupied, hands and fingers in constant motion, fidgety hands (fidgety feet, Zincum met.), twitching o fingers.
Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions.
Loss of memory, forgets how to talk, absent – minded, had to be told the word before he could speak it (Anacardium).
Depressed, low – spirited, anxious, “feel as if they would lose their minds. ”
Incoordination of muscles (Gelsemium), nervous weakness or paralysis of motion and numbness.
Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or reputation, from business embarrassments (Hyoscyamus).
Night terrors of children (Kali phos.), grinding teeth in sleep, screams, moans, cries, horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Silicea).
Spasms: from fright, anger or emotional causes in nervous plethoric persons, during parturition, teething, whooping cough, Bright’s disease.
Epilepsy: congenital, syphilitic, tubercular, usually a day or two before menses, at new moon, headache follows attack. Cholera infantum, with reflex irritation of brain, before effusion, first stage of hydrocephaloid.
Daily colic in infants about 5 A.M. (at 4 P.M., Colocynthis, Lycopodium).
Nervous cough during pregnancy, dry, hard, almost incessant, threatening abortion (Conium).
Stammering, slow, difficult speech (Bovista, Stramonium).
Acne: simplex, indurata, rosacea, bluish – red, pustular, on face, chest, shoulders, leaves unsightly scars (Carbo animalis), in young fleshy persons of gross habits.
Type: Intermittent, quotidian, continued typhoid.
Chill: Body cold, skin corrugated and mottled. Chilliness and general coldness, aggravation especially about extremities, shivering with external coldness.
Heat: In face with fugitive flushes here and there.
Head hot, feels as if in a furnace, with coldness and chills.
Sweat: Profuse and viscid, all over body, long – lasting and exhausting.
