Plantago Major plan.
Characteristic
Suitable to chronic cases with regular type, which Quinine will neither change nor suppress.
Persons of irritable, morose disposition ; impatient, restless mood, with dull stupid feeling in the brain.
Great mental prostration, increased by mental exertion, which also causes rapid respiration and a feeling of great anxiety.
Teeth (left side) elongated, sore ; pain unbearably severe, boring, digging in sound teeth ; worse from contact and extremes of heat and cold.
Bad effects of excessive use of tobacco, especially the mental anxiety ; digging toothache and frequent attacks of sudden sneezing with profuse, watery, bland coryza.
Nocturnal enuresis ; profuse colorless urine, depositing a white sediment ; occurs from midnight to morning.
Type
Every type. Quotidian, tertian, quartan. Every two, three, four, seven, or fourteen days. Remittent; continued.
Time
2 P. M. Any time during the day.
Cause
Abuse of Quinine.
Prodrome
Erratic pains in chest, dulness in head and stretching of limbs.
Chill
Without thirst. Cold chills with goose-flesh at 2 P. M., running over the body, worse when moving about; fingers cold. Coldness of body with shivering; head feels irritable; feet and legs cold; hands cold even in a warm room.
Heat
With thirst; great excitability, anxiety, mental agony, restlessness; room seems hot and close; oppression of chest, rapid respiration; breathing difficult, as if there was no air in the the room (anxious, oppressed breathing, Ipec.—air of room in- tolerable, Apis). Burning heat of head, face, hands and feet; head feels hot, painful, dull and stupid. Hands hot and clammy.
Sweat
Cold over lumbar and sacral region. Heat of room was unbearable, producing perspiration.
Tongue
White coated; breath putrid, offensive. Taste dirty, putrid. Food tasteless. Eructations tasting of sulphur, last all day.