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FEBRIS INFANTUM; INFANTILE REMITTENT FEVER

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aconite Acon

Hot, dry skin; thirst; sleeplessness or restless sleep; child starts up from sleep with anguish and cries.

Ammonium mur Am-m

Much gastric disturbance with red tongue; frequent slight chills and flashes of heat, alternating or continuous heat with diarrhoea or dysentery; free and easy perspiration; (<) mornings, from cold or motion, (>) from warmth.

Antimonium crud Ant-c

Child delirious, drowsy with nausea, hot and red face, irregular pulse, tongue very white, great thirst, especially at night; does not like bathing in cold water; fretful and peevish, don't want to be touched or looked at; feels better after warm washing.

Apis mel Apis

Slight rigors followed by flushes of heat over entire body, with headache, weariness in back and limbs; heat in some parts, coldness in others; dry, hot skin, or alternate dry and moist skin; red points scattered over the body here and there; absence of thirst.

Arsenicum Ars

Much restlessness and tossing about after midnight; putrid, undigested, stools; nervous exhaustion with unquenchable thirst; great heat in bowels; aphthae.

Belladonna Bell

Much moaning, staring and jumping; flushed face; red eyes; great heat of face and cerebral congestion.

Borax Bor

Child dreads downward motion; hot head, hot mouth, hot palm; sweat during the morning sleep; chilliness when taken up.

Bryonia Bry

Parched lips; dry mouth; dry and burnt-looking stools, which are passed rarely; wants to be kept very still, cries if moved, gets dizzy and sick when raised up; (<) at night.

Chamomilla Cham

Burning heat and redness of skin, with frequent desire to drink; great restlessness, especially at night; with moaning, anxiety and head, even in hairs; short, anxious breathing, mucous rattling; short, dry and painting cough; convulsive twitching twitching of limbs.

Cina Cina

Picks its nose; desires many things which it refuses when offered, urine after, standing awhile turns milky-white; cerebral symptoms with dilated pupils; shrieking out during sleep; squinting; alternate paleness and redness of face; colic, constipation and vomiting; helminthiasis.

Coffea Coff

Fever not very violent, but nerves are irritated, with sleeplessness, restless sleep, frequent sudden starting and waking from sleep; fretful mood, alternately merry or whining.

Ferrum phos Ferr-p

Hyperaemia of the brain; high fever, quick pulse and increased temperature, sometimes with little thirst; during teething when convulsions threaten.

Gelsemium Gels

Excessive irritability and restlessness; sleepiness from mere nervousness; great prostration; (>) at night from sensitiveness of senses and feat of falling; every part of body sore so that child hates to be moved; dusky face; vertigo; no thirst.

Ignatia Ign

Great nervousness and chilliness of child, it awakens from sleep with piercing cries trembles all over; spasms of children, preceded by hasty drinking; convulsive jerking of limbs.

Kali brom Kali-br

Child awakes screaming, unconscious, recognizes nobody, followed by squinting.

Mercurius Merc

Tenderness of pit of stomach and abdomen; green, slimy stools, with tenesmus; yellowish tinge of countenance; urine dark and offensive; sore mouth; sweating does not relieve.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Child cross and irritable; flatulence and pain in stomach; constipation or difficult stool; (<) morning.

Podophyllum Podo

REMITTENT FEVER FROM EXCESSIVE HEPATIC ACTION; diarrhoea during dentition, with green, sour stools in the morning; thirst, but no appetite; everything the child takes turns sour, with belching of hot flatus, which is very sour.

Pulsatilla Puls

Vomiting of mucus; stools variable in color; no thirst; the child refuses the breast; chilliness, (<) evenings.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Tongue dry and brown, child weak and restless during the night; trembling of hands; pains in back and limbs.

Sulphur Sulph

Alternate flushes and paleness; weak spells; skin scaly, intertrigo.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Dewey’s Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics and Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics are readable here. The other books keep their chapter lists so you can see what each volume covers. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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