FEVER


Symptoms and hints related to Fever from the Hahnemann’s therapeutic hints by R.E. Dudgeon, originally published in 1894. …


With colic-VER.

With predominant chilliness-BRY.

With night-sweats (mercurial)- HEP.

Inflammatory-ACO.

Gastric-BRY.

Bilious-COL Acute bilious after anger, with heat of face, unquenchable thirst, taste of bile, nausea, anxiety, restlessness-CHA.

Dysenteric-NX-V.

Worm, in scrofulous subjects-SIL.

Hectic-STN.

Puerperal-VER.

Milk, after confinement-CAL.

Epidemic-STB.

Some epidemic-DUL.

Measles-ACO.

Scarlet-BEL., IPE.

-burning heat, drowsy stupefaction, agonizing tossing about, with vomiting, diarrhoea, convulsions-OPI.

-prophylactic-BEL.

Rotheln.-ACO., COF.

– with great restlessness, anxiety and heat-ACO.

-with pains in head and throat and lachrymose disposition-COF.

In afternoon, chill or heat-NI-X.

Intermittent-ACO., AM-M., ANT., ARN (alone or alternately with IPE.), ARS., BEL., CAL., CAP. (alone or alternately with CIN.), CB-A., CB-V., CHI. CIN., (alone or alternately with CAP.), GEU., HEP., IPE., alternately with ARN., NX-V.), MEN., NA-M., NX-V. alternately with IPE.), OPI., PUL., SPI., SUL.

Intermittent, endemic in marshy localities-CHI.

-quotidian-ARS., IGN.

– – with drawing pains in legs -NIT.

-tertian, first heat of face, then chilliness-CAL.

-tertian, with sour vomiting after chill and bloated face and hands-LYC.

-quartan-CHI., HEL.

-hebdomadal-CHI.

Intermittent, consisting of only outward coldness or only of inward heat with dark urine, cold sweat of body or of fore head- VER.

-chill commences immediately after taking hot soup- ALM.

– evening, first chill, then heat of face with cold feet-PET.

-heat before chill-NX-V.

-with long duration of heat-IGN.

– with thirst during chill, not during heat-IGN.

– with great sensitiveness and irritability-IGN.

– with vomiting, and bulimy-CIN.

– with too great contractility of muscular fibre-LAU.

Intermittent, with immobile pupils, pressive tensive pain in scrobiculus and umbilicus, tension throughout body, sopor, occasional sweat with relief, amelioration by eating pork, aggravation by east wind-OPI.

Commencing afternoon, with tension of stomach, vertigo, confusion of mind, hypochondriacal ideas, anxiety and exhaustion-NX-V.

-Pains after-LED.

-aggravated by cinchona -NA-M.

Continued-ARS., CAM., NX-V.

Low nervous-(typhoid?)-CAM.

Typhoid-BRY., COC.

– sees people and faces not present-ARS.

– with extreme anxiety-ARS.

Typhoid, with pusillanimity, weeping, timidity, fear of death- ARS.

– with thirst, but only wets lips, cannot drink much, cold feet and hands-ARS.

_ with nausea and sinking in stomach-ARS.

– with sudden fits of suffocation-ARS.

-always wants to change his bed-ARS.

– patient attempts to rise but falls from extreme weakness-ARS.

Typhoid, after cholera-BRY.

(alternately with RHS.)

Typhus-BRY. (alternately with RHS.).

– with delirium and mania-HYO.

– with lethargy-AETH-NITR.

– with shooting pains in head, throat, chest, abdomen, worse on movement, heat, restlessness-BRY.

-with shooting pain in various parts when at rest, prostration, harassing cough-RHS.

-malignant-CAM.

R.E. Dudgeon
Robert Ellis Dudgeon 1820 – 1904 Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1839, Robert Ellis Dudgeon studied in Paris and Vienna before graduating as a doctor. Robert Ellis Dudgeon then became the editor of the British Journal of Homeopathy and he held this post for forty years.
Robert Ellis Dudgeon practiced at the London Homeopathic Hospital and specialised in Optics.
Robert Ellis Dudgeon wrote Pathogenetic Cyclopaedia 1839, Cure of Pannus by Innoculation, London and Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science 1844, Hahnemann’s Organon, 1849, Lectures on the Theory & Practice of Homeopathy, 1853, Homeopathic Treatment and Prevention of Asiatic Cholera 1847, Hahnemann’s Therapeutic Hints 1847, On Subaqueous Vision, Philosophical Magazine, 1871, The Influence of Homeopathy on General Medical Practice Since the Death of Hahnemann 1874, Repertory of the Homeopathic Materia Medica, 2 vols 1878-81, The Human Eye Its Optical Construction, 1878, Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura, 1880, The Sphygmograph, 1882, Materia Medica: Physiological and Applied 1884, Hahnemann the Founder of Scientific Therapeutics 1882, Hahnemann’s Organon 1893 5th Edition, Prolongation of Life 1900, Hahnemann’s Lesser Writing.