The Therapeutics of Fevers

Natrum Sulphuricum nat-s.

Allen (1879)In every bookSave

Characteristic

Ailments which are < by, or which depend upon, dampness of weather, damp houses or cellars (Ant. t.,

Aran., Ter.).

Patient feels every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water; a constitution in which the gon

Mental traumatism; mental effects from injuries to head; chronic effects of blows, falls.

Granular lids: like small blisters (Thuja); green pus and terrible photophobia; gonorrhœal or sycotic.

Nosebleed during menses (instead of menses, Bry., Phos., Puls.).

Toothache > by cold water, cool air (Coff., Puls.).

Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue.

Diarrhœa: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; on first rising and standing on the feet; after a spell of wet weather; living or working in basements.

Gonorrhœa; greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge (Puls.); chronic or suppressed (thick, green, Kali iod.).

Dyspnœa; desire to take a deep breath during damp, cloudy weather.

Humid asthma in children; with every change to wet weather; with every fresh cold; always worse in damp, rainy weather; sputa green, greenish, copious (greenish grey, Cop.).

Sycotic pneumonia; lower lobe of left lung; great soreness of chest, during cough, has to sit up in bed and hold the chest with both hands (Nic.—r. lung, Bry.).

Spinal meningitis: violent crushing gnawing pains at base of brain; head drawn back; spasms with mental irritability and delirium; violent congestion of blood to head; delirium; opisthotonos.

Aggravation

Damp basements or dwellings; damp weather (Aran., Ars. i., Dul.); rest; lying.

Amelioration

Dry weather; pressure; sitting up (cough); changing position (but > in wet weather, Caust.); open air.

Type

Remittent, bilious, malarial, yellow; or yellow assumes a remittent or low continued form, instead of recovering.

Time

4–8 P. M.

Cause

Exposure; living in damp houses, basements, cellars; wet weather; sea air; living near water; every change from dry to wet (Aran., Dul., Rhus).

Chill

Internal, with yawning and stretching. Chills; with icy coldness and goose-flesh, 4–8 P. M.; towards evening, without thirst; evening in bed, could not get warm all night; up the back, with shaking and chattering of the teeth, without internal coldness; waking at night with anguish and thirst.

Chilly in bed and shaking chills out of it, thirst, pulse very rapid. Chilly and feverish in evening.

Heat

Day in afternoon; in sudden flashes towards evening; hot sensation on vertex; general heat and restlessness in evening.

Sweat

Without thirst; on single parts, on face, on genitals; at night; in morning.

Tongue

Dirty, greenish-grey, or greenish-brown coating on base of tongue; covered with mucus, slimy; taste bitter or lost.

Analysis

Fevers, with icy coldness, no thirst in any stage; attacks come on suddenly; bilious vomiting; malarial, caused or < by wet weather or living near water or seashore, working in damp rooms or basements.