Generalities
Quinine sulphate acts on the NERVES causing great sensitiveness to external influences and periodical neuralgia. In BLOOD it causes rapid decrease of red blood cells and reduction of haemoglobin; with tendency to leucocytosis. Weak and nervous, little exertion causes palpitation. Retro-bulbar neuritis, with sudden loss of sight. Inability to remain standing. Falling in street. Wants to lie down. Deathly sick and faint; felt as if she would sink through bed.
Mind
Nervous. Lost power of naming objects.
Better
Yawning. Pressure. Bending forwards.
Worse
EXACT PERIODICITY. Cold 10- 11 a.m. Touch.
Head
Pain of malarial origin increasing gradually at noon worse at left side. Vertigo with tinnitus; with twitching of the eyelids; with throbbing headache. Orbital neuralgia.
Eyes
A net, fog or mote before the eyes. Can see objects only when looking sideways. Squint on alternating days (children).
Ears
Tinnitus. Deafness. Meniere’s disease.
Face
Neuralgia pains return with great regularity better by pressure. Brow ague. Pale anxious face.
Urinary organs
Deposit of straw yellow, granular or brick red sediment. Urine bloody.
Back
Cervico-dorsal spine aches or very tender; with oppression of breath.
Extremities
Acute articular rheumatism. Joints very sensitive.
Skin
Itching. Petechiae. Urticaria.
Fever
Anticipating chills. Thirst in all stages. Delirium during heat. Increasing fever and prostration, with profuse night sweats. Profuse sweat amel. but exhausts. Clear apyrexia. Typical malaria. Subnormal temperature.
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