The Therapeutics of Fevers

Tuberculinum tub.

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Characteristic

Adapted to persons of light complexion ; blue eyes, blonde in preference to brunette ; tall, slim ; flat, narrow chest ; active and precocious mentally, weak physically ; the tubercular diathesis.

When with a family history of tubercular affections the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, without reference to name of disease.

Symptoms ever changing ; ailments affecting one organ, then another—the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, stomach, nervous system—beginning suddenly, ceasing suddenly.

Takes cold easily without knowing how or where ; seems to take cold "every time he takes a breath of fresh air" (Hep.).

Emaciation rapid and pronounced ; losing flesh while eating well (Abrot., Cal., Con., Iod., Nat.).

Melancholy, despondent ; morose, irritable, fretful, peevish ; taciturn, sulky ; naturally of a sweet disposition, now on the borderland of insanity.

Everything in the room seemed strange as though in a strange place.

Headache : chronic, tubercular ; pain intense, sharp, cutting, from above right eye to occiput ; as of an iron hoop around the head (Anac., Cac.) ; when the best selected remedy only palliates.

School-girl's headache ; < by study or even slight mental exertion; when using eyes in close work and glasses fail to >; with a tubercular history.

Acute cerebral or basilar meningitis, with threatened effusion; nocturnal hallucinations; wakes from sleep frightened, screams; when Apis, Hell., or Sulph., though well selected, fail to improve.

Crops of small boils, intensely painful, successively appear in the nose; green, fetid pus (Sec.).

Plica polonica; several bad cases permanently cured after Bor. and Psor. failed.

Diarrhœa: early morning, sudden, imperative (S