Fever
Characteristic – Persons of a choleric, melancholy temperament, dark eyes and a disposition to low spirits and indolence.Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair.
Better adapted to thin and emaciated than to fleshy persons, to those who have been changed both mentally and physically by their illness.
Climacteric ailments: hemorrhoids, hemorrhages, hot flushes, hot sweats, burning vertex headaches, especially at or after the menopause (Sanguinaria).
Ailments from long – lasting grief, sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy or disappointed love (Aurum, Ignatia, Phosphorusac.).
Women who have not recovered from the change of life, ” have never felt well since that time. ”
Headache: pressing or bursting pain in temple aggravation from motion, pressure, stooping, lying, after sleep, dreads to go to sleep because she wakens with such a headache.
Rush of blood to head: after alcohol, mental emotions, suppressed or irregular menses, at climaxis, left – sided apoplexy.
Weight and pressure on vertex (Sepia), like lead, in occiput (Petroleum).
Drunkards: with congestive headaches or hemorrhoids, prone to erysipelas or apoplexy.
Life side principally affected, diseases begin on the left and go to the right side ovary, testicle, chest, face, throat.
Great sensitiveness to touch, throat, stomach, abdomen, can bear nothing tight around the neck or waist, cannot bear bed – clothes or night – dress to touch throat or abdomen, not because sore or tender as in Apis or Belladonna, but the clothes cause an uneasiness (Agaricus).
Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility.
All symptoms, especially the mental worse after sleep, or the aggravation wakes him from sleep, sleeps into the aggravation, unhappy, distressed, anxious, sad, aggravation in morning on waking.
Mental excitability: ecstasy, with almost prophetic perceptions, with a vivid imagination, great loquacity (Agaricus, Stramonium), wants to talk all the time, jumps from one idea to another, one word often leads into another story.
Constipation: inactivity, stool lies in rectum, without urging, sensation of constriction of sphincter (Causticum, Nit.ac.).
Menses at regular time, too short, scanty, feeble, pains all relieved by the flow, always better during menses (Zincum met.).
Piles: with scanty menses, at climaxis, strangulated, with stitches shooting upward (Nit.ac.). The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing, wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance (rapidly, Carbo vegetabilis).
As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops (Am-c., Grindelia, Lac caninum, Opium).
Great physical and mental exhaustion, trembling in whole body, would constantly sink from weakness, worse in the morning (Sulphur, Tuberculinum).
Epilepsy: comes on during sleep (Bufo), from loss of vital fluids, onanism, jealousy, during menses (Ced.).
Hemorrhagic diathesis, small wounds bleed easily and profusely (Crot., Kreosotum, Phosphorus), blood dark, non – coagulable (Crot., Secale), typhoid, yellow fever, great prostration (Kreosotum).
Boils, carbuncles, ulcers with intense pain (Tar.), malignant pustules, decubitus, dark, bluish, purple appearance, tend to malignancy.
Bad effects of poison wounds, post – mortem (Pyrogen). Relations – Complementary: Lycopodium, Nitric acid, Natrum mur. follows well when type of fever changes.
Aggravation: After sleeping, from acids, alcohol, cinchona, mercury, contact, morning and evening, extremes of temperature, in the sun, spring, summer.
Amelioration: Warmth.
Time: Periodicity strongly marked. 12 M. to 2 P.M. Afternoon or evening chill, fever lasting all night.
Type: Quotidian, tertian, quartan, malarial, typhoid, typhus, septic, yellow fever. Every fourteen days.
Annually returning paroxysm every spring (Carbo vegetabilis, Ignatia, Sul.) after suppression by Quinine the previous autumn. This is guiding.
Cause: Especially useful when paroxysms of fever are sure to return after taking acids, or in the spring after Quinine.
Prodrome: Thirst, then shuddering (shuddering after drinking, Caps.).
Chill: Without thirst, commencing in the small of the back (Eup-purp.) runs up the back to the head (Gelsemium ), lessened in a warm room. Violent chill in the evening, with chattering of the teeth, soreness of chest, and longing for the fire. Wants to be near the fire and lie down, heat makes him feel better, but his chill continues as long as if he were in bed (heat of stove ameliorated the chill. Chill does not amount to much, if he can sit near a hot stove he gets warm, Ignatia ). Pain in the limbs, pleuritic stitches, oppression of the chest, convulsive movements, and in children, convulsions. Child must be held firm to relieve the pain in the head and chest, and prevent shaking (Gelsemium) If held firm or pressed down, feels relieved. ” A lady wanted her daughter to lie with her full weight across her during chill, a boy wanted a sack of flour put on him to keep him from shaking.” Chill and heat alternating and changing from place to place Nausea and vomiting accompany paroxysm when severe, with some thirst. Coldness in one side of the head. Icy cold feet, with oppression of the chest. After icy cold calves, shaking chill with warm sweat, then strumming through the limbs, intermingled with flushes of heat.
Heat: With thirst, violent headache, livid complexion, oppression of the chest, back, deep breathing and sleep, or great loquacity (Mar.v. during chill and heat, Podophyllum ). Violent fever every evening, with loss of appetite and headache, internal chill, external heat, in the evening great febrile heat which lasted all night. Heat in the evening, with red spots on the cheeks. Internal sensation of heat with cold feet. Burning in the palms and soles, evening and night, must be uncovered (Aconite, Secale). Heat in ears, face, abdomen, pit of stomach, alternating with coldness, with shivering when lifting the bedclothes (Nux.). Flushes of heat as from orgasm of the blood, with great sensitiveness of throat at night.
Sweat: Profuse sweat, which affords relief, or light, warm, transient sweat. Perspiration between the paroxysms of fever, on the back which stains sulphur – yellow. Strong – smelling perspiration in axilla, smelling like garlic (sweat in axilla, like onions, Bovista ). Sweat cold, stains yellow, or bloody, staining red.
Tongue: Trembles when protruded, or catches behind the teeth, mapped, coated white, or dry, red tip and brown center. Sour taste, everything turns sour (everything bitter, Ipecac. ).
Pulse: Palpitation, can bear no pressure on throat or chest. Pulse weak and small, or full and small alternately, but accelerated, intermittent, unequal. The least movement caused feeling of suffocation around the heart.
Apyrexia: Complete remission of all the symptoms, complexion livid, yellow, or ashy, often with vermillion redness of the cheeks, great weakness of the whole body in the morning on rising, especially of the extremities.
“Intermittent fever: the paroxysms come on every spring, or after the suppression of the fever in the previous fall by Quinine, occur in the afternoon, are accompanied by violent pain in the small of the back and limbs, oppression of the chest, violent headache, with a red face and cold feet, during the hot stage continuous talking, face yellow or ash – colored.” – Lippe.
Analysis. – Chill, commencing in the small of the back, longing for the fire, heat ameliorated, wants to be held firmly to ameliorate chill and prevent shaking.
Heat, headache, face livid, or vermillion red cheeks, oppressed breathing, great loquacity or sleep.
Sweat: profuse which ameliorated, cold, stains yellow, bloody.
Fever: septic, typhoid, typhus, yellow, stupor or muttering delirium, sunken countenance, falling of lower jaw, tongue dry, black, trembles, is protruded with difficulty or catches on the teeth when protruding, conjunctiva yellow or orange color, perspiration cold, stains yellow, bloody (Crot., Lycopodium).
