The Therapeutics of Fevers

Eupatorium Purpureum eup-pur.

Allen (1879)In every bookSave

Characteristic

Has been praised as a preventive.

All symptoms worse on left side.

Sensation as if falling to the left; persistent, cannot get rid of it.

Weak, tired feeling in every organ of the body; cannot move without making a desperate effort.

Rheumatic pains go from below upward (Ledum—shoot downward, Kalmia); change places frequently (Kali bi., Lac c., Puls.).

Sleep, restless, disturbed with frightful dreams.

Mechanical dysuria; from displaced uterus; jolting ride during pregnancy.

Constant desire to urinate; no matter how often he voids urine, bladder still feels full.

Incontinence of urine in children.

Chronic cystitis: uneasy; deep aching; dull pain and soreness in bladder; smarting and burning in bladder, in urethra, on urinating.

Aggravation

Motion; changing position; draft of air.

Type

Double tertian; double quartan; malarial.

Double tertian.

Tertian.

Time

Different times of the day; hour not marked (3 to 5 P. M.). No regularity.

Prodrome:—Bone pains in arms and legs (bone pains with intense thirst, Eup. perf.). Dry, hacking cough in spells.

Different times of day; 10

A. M. Every other day.

7 A. M., or 7 to 9 A. M. one day; 12 M. next day.

Chill

With thirst; begins in small of back—lumbar region (interscapular region, Caps., Polyp.), passing up and down, thence extends over the body.

Chill begins between scapulæ, thence spreading over body like waves; craves heat to back, yet heat does not relieve (heat >, Caps.).

Longing for lemonade, cold acid drinks, with violent bone pains, blue lips and nails (Nat., Nux), extremities cold, and frontal headache. Violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness (Eup. perf.). Nausea, but no vomiting, as the chill is leaving (vomiting at close of chill, Eup., Lyc.). Nervous, restless, hysterical mood. Numbness of the legs after or in conjunction with the severe bone pains.

Slight movement while covered or draft of air produces a return of chill.

No thirst, or thirst for lemonade and acid drinks. Chill begins in lumbar region, thence ex- tends over body. Nausea as the chill is leaving, but no vomiting.

Great thirst for cold water.

Chill, with bone pains, pains in back, gaping, stretching, throbbing head- ache. Bitter vomiting at close of chill. Drinking hastens chill and causes vomiting.

Heat

With thirst. Long-lasting heat, with bone pains, nausea and vomiting. Hunger, with desire to eat immediately after the fever (hunger before chill and during sweat, Cinch.).

Frightful dreams. Longing for hot drinks (Ars., Casc., Ced.).

Long-lasting; thirst, bone pains, and hunger as the heat is passing off (Cina, Cinch.).

With sleep; moaning, in- creased headache. "A swallow of water will make him shiver" (Caps.).

Sweat

Without thirst; slight, mostly about forehead and head; of upper parts of body. Chilly down the back, when chang- ing position ever so little. Very rarely, sweat is profuse (same as its congener, Eup.).

Chilly when changing position ever so little during sweat.

Bone pains disappear with disappearance of sweat. Light chill and profuse sweat, or shaking chill, and light or wanting sweat.

Tongue

Heavily furred, brown along the centre; bitter, pappy taste with the chill.

Apyrexia

Passes more urine than normal, with frequent desire; scalding on urinating. Profuse flow of clear, limpid urine; weak, tired and faint after urinary symptoms. Vertigo, with "a dizzy feeling" all over, and a persistent sensation of falling to the left (Col.—of falling, Gels.).

Eup. purp.

Vertigo, with falling to the left.

Urine, profuse, urging, scalding.

Eup. perf.

Jaundiced hue; great weakness; anæmia.

Prodrome

Bone pains in arms and legs. Dry, hacking cough in spells.

Thirst several hours before, with bone pains and pains in back.