The Therapeutics of Fevers

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Characteristic

Head feels too large; as if distended; as if the walls were thin (as if elongated, Hyp.).

Headache of spinal origin, arises from nape and produces a sensation as if head were immensely large.

Eyes feel as if too large, they seem to have no room in sockets; as if lids could not close.

Aggravation

Thinking; mental exertion, excitement; using the eyes; motion; smoking tobacco.

Eyes feel as if projecting, with a sensation as if a thread was tightly drawn through the eyeball and backward into the middle of the brain; sight weak.

Dull pain in nape of neck; feels stiff and swollen on turning it; weary, as from a great weight lying upon it; worse from exertion, better from rest and in open air.

Chill

Mostly towards evening; in the chest, abdomen and lower limbs, with gooseflesh, yawning and icy cold feet; with internal trembling. Coldness of the whole right half of the body, from the head to the feet, while the other half was of natural warmth (see Rhus). Small icy cold spots here and there in the skin. The coldness produces a drawing, contracting sensation in skin and all parts of the body as if drawn together by the cold.

Heat

Starts from nape of neck and descends the back; in the face; with sweat of upper part of the body. The fingers are alternately hot and cold as if dead and of a dead color (Ced., Sep., Stann.).

Sweat

In the morning; when waking, with biting-itching that compels scratching; profuse; on waking, about 3 A. M.