Fever
Characteristic – A product of Sepsis. A Nosode.
For sapremia or septicemia: puerperal or surgical, from ptomaine or sewer gas infection, during course of diphtheria, typhoid or typhus, when the best selected remedy fails to ameliorate or permanently improve.
The bed feels hard (Arnica), parts lain on feel sore and bruised (Baptisia, Nux moschata), rapid decubitus (Carb-ac.).
Great restlessness, must move constantly to ameliorated the soreness of parts (Arnica, Bellis, Eup.).
Taste: sweetish, terribly fetid, pus-like, as from an abscess.
Vomiting: persistent, brownish, coffee-ground, offensive, stercoraceous, with impacted or obstructed bowels (Opium, Plb.).
Diarrhea: horribly offensive (Psorinum), brown or black (Lep.), painless, involuntary, uncertain, when passing flatus (Aloe, Nat., Olean).
Constipation: with complete inertia (Opium, Sanicula), obstinate from impaction, in fevers, stool, large, black, carrion like, small, black balls, like olives (Opium, Plb.).
Menses: horribly offensive, carrion – like, a rotten odor, last but a day, then a bloody leucorrhea of the same horrible odor.
Fetus: or secundines retained, decomposed, dead for days, black, horribly offensive discharge, “never well since” septic fever, following abortion or confinement.
Lochia, thin, acrid, brown, very fetid (nitricum acidum), suppressed, followed by chills, fever and profuse fetid perspiration.
Distinct consciousness of a heart, it feels tired, as if enlarged, purring, throbbing, pulsating, constant in ears, preventing sleep, cardiac asthenia from septic conditions.
Pulse abnormally rapid, out of all proportion to temperature.
Skin, pale, cold, of an ashy hue (Secale), obstinate, varicose, offensive ulcers of old persons (Psorinum).
Relations – Compare: Arnica, Arsenicum, Baptisia, Carbo vegetabilis, Opium, Rhus, Secale, Verbascum
Latent pyogenic process, patient continually relapsing after apparent simillimum.
Type: Septic and zymotic, tends rapidly to malignancy. Puerperal and surgical fevers, with a rapid tendency to septic typhus.
Time: Forenoon, 10 or 11 A.M. most marked. When distinctly remittent, evening fever lasts all night. Every alternate day.
Cause: Sepsis intestinalis from eating ice cream, cheese, sausage, or canned meats undergoing the putrefactive process, sepsis following abortion, labor or surgical operations, septicemia. Sewer gas poisoning.
Prodrome: Bone pains: aching in the limbs, or over the entire body as from a severe cold, with great muscular soreness, the bed feels hard. Coldness and numbness of hands and feet, of arms and legs.
Chill: Begins in the back between scapulae (Caps., eup., Bol.).
Chilliness. Chilly all night, the bed feels hard.
Chilly when getting into bed, teeth chattered.
Chilly as soon as he touches the cold sheets (Aranea).
Coldness and chilliness all day that no fire would warm, sits by the fire and breathes the heat from the stove, chilly when leaving the fire, at night when fever came on had a sensation as if lungs were on fire, must have fresh air, which relieved.
Chilly, with increased action of the heart.
Intense restlessness, must move constantly to ameliorate the aching bones and sore muscles.
Heat: Feels hot, as if he had a fever, as if temperature was 105, but actually was only 99.
Frequent urging to urinate as soon as fever came on, urine profuse and clear as spring water, could tell when fever was coming on from frequent calls to urinate.
Great throbbing of temporal arteries, every pulsation felt through the head.
Circumscribed redness of the cheeks.
Sweat: Cold sweat over the entire body.
Perspiration horribly offensive, carrion – like (Psorinum).
Profuse, offensive, exhausting perspiration.
Sweat: of single parts, of chest and neck, of genital organs, of affected parts, during sleep, stops when he wakes, fetid, cold, viscid, musty.
Tongue: Large, flabby, leaves imprint of teeth, white, or yellowish – white, brown on base, heavy, yellowish – gray fur, tip and edges red, clean and smooth as if varnished, fiery red, then dark red and very dry, yellow – brown streak down center, dry in central third from base to apex, dry, cracked, articulation difficult (compare, Arnica, Arsenicum, Crot., Ter.).
Taste: bitter, fetid in mouth and throat as if full of pus, breath horribly offensive.
Analysis: For the first use of Pyrogen in typhoid and septic conditions we are indebted to our English homoeopathic brethren. It is adapted to the most malignant type, cases in which we formerly zig – zagged a cure with Arsenic, Carbo veg., Rhus or Terebinth are met directly by this powerful nosode. But it is in puerperalism that it bids fair to occupy a unique place in our therapeutics, here it is almost without a rival, in prompt and effective action, when the best selected remedy fails to ameliorate or improve.
Prodrome, aching and soreness of the limbs.
Chill, begins between scapulae, as soon as he touches the cold sheets, the bed feels hard.
Heat, frequent urging to urinate as soon as the chill comes on, circumscribed redness of the cheeks.
Sweat:profuse, exhausting, carrion – like, cold, musty, viscid, of single parts.
Chill: begins in the back, between scapulae, severe, general of bones and extremities, marking onset of septic fever, temperature 103 to 106, heat sudden, skin dry and burning, pulse rapid, small, wiry, 140 to 170, cold clammy sweat follows.
In septic fevers, especially puerperal, Pyrogen has demonstrated its great value as a homoeopathic dynamic antiseptic.
