Fever Chapter of BTBP

1. FEVER CHAPTER
BOENNINGHAUSENS
THERAPEUTIC POCKET BOOK
BY :
DR. DEEPTI DEWAN
DEPT OF CASE TAKING & REPERTORY
UGO : DR. ANUSUYA

2. In old edition there were 07 sub-
sections in this part of the book.
In this edition the sub-heads have
have been removed but the general
outline is followed.

3. The original outline is given as follow :
 Circulation of the Blood
 Cold Stage
 Coldness
 Heat
 Perspiration
 Compound Fevers
 Concomitant Complaints

4. This chapter has :
Number of rubrics – 37
Number of pages covered – 250 – 268 (18 pages)
Arrangement of rubrics – Alphabetical

5. ARRANGEMENT OF FEVER CHAPTER IS
AS FOLLOWS :
In the Allen edition :
• First division has conditions of the blood as : Anaemia,
Congestion, etc. also pulse characters.
• Second division, formerly called Cold Stage, now termed as chilly
stage.
• Third and fourth divisions have been reversed, and we find the
variations of the symptoms of the fever following immediately after
the chilly stage.
• The cold symptoms follow the heat, and the symptoms covering
shivering follow the coldness rather than the cold stage (chilliness).

6. The rubrics devoted to perspiration follow in the old order,
with their modifications.
Compound Fever covers certain variations in the onset of chill,
chill, heat and sweat, and their alternations.
The old seventh division, Concomitant Complaints, are
scattered more or less throughout the part, immediately
following the old divisions.
Heat with Associated Symptoms, 259 ; Sweat with Associated
Associated Symptoms, 265 ;
Page no. : 268
• Before Fever
• During Fever
• After Fever

7. CIRCULATION
• Blood Anaemia
congestion
internally
orgasm
• Blood, Plethora
sensation as if Blood stagnated
• Blood Vessels, Burning
cold feeling
distension
Inflammation
like a network etc.

8. • Pulse Abnormal in General
• Pulse, Full
hard
imperceptible
intermittent
irregular
rapid
• Pulse more rapid than the beat of the heart
slow
slower than the beat of the heart
small
soft
tremulous
unchanged

9. CHILLINESS IN
GENERAL• In certain parts
• Internally
• Chilliness one sided
becomes chilled easily
• Chilliness with gooseflesh
with shivering
with thirst
without thirst
• Chilliness with trembling
symptoms during chill

10. HEAT
• Externally
• Heat internally
in special parts
externally
• Heat special internally
one sided
anxious
dry
in flushes
• Heat with thirst
without thirst
with inclination to uncover
with dread of uncovering
• Associated symptoms

11. COLDNESS IN GENERAL
• Of special parts
• Externally
• Coldness internally
one sided
shivering in general
of special parts
of one sided

12. SWEAT
• Sweat in general
• Sweat, special parts
on one side
anterior parts
posterior parts
on upper parts
• Sweat lower parts
with thirst
without thirst
with inclination to uncover
with dread of uncovering
anxious
bloody

13. • Sweat, cold
easy
exhausting
greasy
hot
odorous
acrid, bitter, bloody, burnt, of camphor,
of cheese, elderberries, of honey, of
mush etc… uruinous
• Staining
in spots
red
yellow
• Lack of
• Sweat with associated symptoms

14. COMPOUND FEVER IN
GENERAL• Chill then Heat
then sweat
then heat then chill
then heat then sweat
then heat with sweat
and heat at the same time
with sweat
with heat and sweat
externally with heat internally
• Chill internally and heat externally
alternating with heat
alternating with sweat

15. COMPOUND FEVER IN
GENERAL• Heat then chill
then chill then heat
then chill then heat then sweat
then shivering
then sweat
• Heat then chill
then chill then heat
then chill then heat then sweat
then shivering
then sweat
then sweat then chill
with shivering
with sweat
with sweat then chilliness
alternating with shivering

16. COMPOUND FEVER IN
GENERAL• Heat alternating with sweat
• Shivering then chill
then heat
then sweat
with sweat
• Sweat then chill
then chill then sweat
then heat
• Before fever
• During fever
• After fever
• Febrile symptoms
left side
right side