The Therapeutics of Fevers

Lachnanthes Tinctoria lachn.

Allen (1879)In every bookSave

Characteristic

Loquacious delirium, brilliant eyes, circumscribed red cheeks, < from 1 to 2 A. M. (Ars.).

Torticollis: neck stiff, head drawn to one side; pain in the nape as if dislocated, when turning the neck or bending the head backward.

Sensation: as if a piece of ice was lying on the back between the shoulders; of burning, in sacrum, in spine four inches above the small of back, of palms of hands and soles of feet.

Time

Evening fever; < from 6–12 P. M.

Chill

With thirst; body icy cold, relieved by hot flatirons, but not by external covering (Caps.); head burns like fire (Arn.).

Flushes alternate with chilliness. Feels hot, but chills run all over her before heat can develop.

Sensation as if a piece of ice were lying on back between scapulæ, then a shock followed by coldness over whole body with goose flesh; recur on moving.

Heat

Dry, feet burn; restless tossing about with rumbling in abdomen. Burning heat, red face, worse on right side; after heat, circumscribed dark redness of face, also worse on right side

(Chel., Sang.). Flushes of heat alternating with chilliness.

Evening fever without chill, worse from 6 to 12 P. M., with red cheeks and red face (worse on upper part of face). Fever with somnolency (Apis).

Sweat

After 12 P. M.; after a restless sleep. Morning sweat.

Skin cold, damp, clammy and sticky. Sweat with vertigo, boil- ing and bubbling in chest and region of heart. Icy cold, chiefly on forehead.