The Therapeutics of Fevers

Argentum Nitricum arg-n.

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General

Acute or chronic diseases from unusual or long-continued mental exertion.

Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried- up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec.).

Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremities (Am. m.); marasmus.

Apprehension when ready for church or opera; diarrhœa sets in (Gels.).

Time passes slowly (Can.); impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nervous (Aur., Lil.).

Great longing for fresh air (Amyl, Puls., Sulph.).

Headache: congestive, with fulness and heaviness; with sense of expansion; habitual, gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence or temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging (Apis, Puls.).

Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal; stomach, as if it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence.

Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.

Diarrhœa: green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar; masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps (Asar.); with much noisy flatus (Aloe).

Diarrhœa as soon as he drinks (Ars., Crot. t., Throm.).

Urine passes

Type

Continued, remittent, typhus, yellow fever, especially the second stage.

Chill

Without thirst. Chilliness with nausea; constant, up the back and over the shoulders; < after meals (Nux); coming into the room from the open air; with cold extremities. General chill followed in a short time by general heat; chill returns on uncovering, even during heat; no thirst.

Evening chill followed by sweat.

Temperature, subnormal.

Chill from being uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.

Heat

Without thirst, with aversion to uncover (Arn., Nux).

Always kept covered because easily chilled.

General heat following general chill with perceptible pulsations in the left temporal artery.

Sweat

Sweat and chilliness, as soon as he gets warm in bed.

Profuse sweat, it stands out on the face in beads.

Night sweats.

Had to leave a window open day and night, for when it was shut patient became restless.

Septic fever following scarlatina.

Pulse

Dicrotic; finally feeble, small, could not be counted.