THE THERAPEUTICS

OF FEVERS

Dr. V. SATHISH KUMAR, M.D (Hom)

HOD and Professor, Department of Repertory
Sarada Krishna Homoeopathic Medical College
Kulasekharam
• Henry C. Allen was born October 2, 1836 in the village of Nilestown,
near London Ontario. He was a descendant of the Revolutionary War
hero, Ethan Allen.

• He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in

Ontario, Canada and received his homeopathic training at Western
Homeopathic College (AKA Cleveland Homeopathic College) in
Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated in 1861. After his graduation, he
entered the Union Army, serving as a surgeon under General Ulysses S.
Grant.

• After the Civil War Allen accepted the professorship of Anatomy at

Cleveland and first started the practice of medicine. He later resigned
this post to accept the same chair at theHahnemann Medical College
of Chicago. In 1875 he moved to Detroit and was appointed Professor
of Materia Medica at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1880.
• In 1892 Allen helped found the Hering Medical College and was
Dean and Professor of Materia Medica until his death. During his
tenure, he was respected and loved as few men are during their
lives.

• This is some of what the International Hahnemannian Association

(IHA) 'In Memoriam' had to say about Henry C. Allen:

...he was one who truly gave, not only of his love and sympathy,
but of his time and effort, and money, to all who needed his aid.
No one will ever know how many poor and suffering he helped,
nor how many needy, struggling young students and physicians
he aided with advice, and money and encouragement. To the
young, and especially women in the profession, he was a tower
of strength.
• His disagreement with Kent over the publication
of unproven remedies in the Denver
Critique illustrates this unwavering commitment
to Hahnemann's principles. Kent had promised
to publish one remedy a month, but since this
proved to be impossible, he described remedies
for which there were no provings or clinical
experience. Instead he would combine the
qualities of Alumina and Silica and speculate on
the symptoms that would exist in Alumina
silicata.
• At the Homeopathic Congress of June 1908, Allen accused
Kent of publishing unreliable materia medica. Kent retracted
his position and never published a "synthetic" remedy again
and actually removed them from the 2nd edition of
his Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica. Allen was
probably the only homeopath of his time who could stand up
to Kent.

• Allen was a member of several homeopathic societies

including the AIH, IHA, and ones in England and India. In fact,
Allen remained a member of the AIH to the end, where he
upheld Hahnemannian principles, particularly in materia
medica at their meetings and discussions. He was owner and
editor of the Medical Advance for many years.
 HENRY ALLEN'S WELL-KNOWN WORKS

• Keynotes of the Materia Medica with Nosodes

• The Materia Medica of the Nosodes
• The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Intermittent
Fever
• The Homeopathic Therapeutics of Fever
• Therapeutics of Tuberculous Affections
He also revised Boenninghausen's Slip
Repertory, which he updated and arranged for
rapid and practical homeopathic work.
• Diagnostic symptoms are those of the
disease, and the therapeutic symptoms go
down to the patient himself. Now, the more
valuable symptoms are for diagnosis the less
valuable they are for the selection of the
remedy. The practice of homoeopathy is just
as simple as ' rolling off a log.‘ - ( H.C
Allen)
 The following passage from the IHA describes this quality in him:

• But in reality his life and motives were beyond reproach, and in
his standards he conformed to the highest standards of
Homoeopathy. He was as absolutely unselfish as it is possible for
a man to be. He stood always for Homoeopathy, pure and
undefiled, and its interests were always paramount with him.

• No labor was too severe, no demand too exacting, no sacrifice

too great when the welfare of Homoeopathy and its institutions
were concerned. He longed for harmony and union in our
school, as he longed for friends, and labored for it incessantly,
but it must be peace with honor and friends without
capitulation.
• He was ready to make any sacrifice of
personal ends and desires, but in principles
he would not compromise. No man ever took
misunderstanding and criticism of himself
more sweetly and patiently. He refused
personalities, and kept the cause, the
principle, always in the foreground.
• Dr. Allen passed away on January 22, 1909
after working all day and seeing patients in the
evening. Until his last days he was constantly
working for the benefit of homeopathy.
 INTRODUCTION
• The book contains the experience of his professional
colleagues, especially in India.
• First edition : 1879

This volume includes :

The therapeutis of typhoid, typhus & fever of everygrade and
name, from acute sporadic and epidemic intermittent to the
malignant type of malarial fever of the tropics.

• The second edition was published in 1884

 PHILOSOPHIC CONCEPT
“It is the patient not the fever that is chiefly and especially to be
considered. It is the individual with his or her peculiar
idiosyncrasies and constitutional inheritance with which we have
to deal’’ - H.C .Allen

• Though the author deals with conditions of different types of

fevers,

• He conclusively verified the teaching of hahnemann that the same

law of cure,

• The same rule of practice applies to each patient.

• He also emphasized the need of family
history as he announces,

“The family history is much more

suggestive of the curative remedy than the
rapid pulse and high temperature, and
should be carefully studied”
• The author’s experience reveals that if the
remedy were selected from the totality of the
objective, subjective and miasmatic
symptoms, the patient may be cured in any
stage of the fever.
 PLAN & CONSTRUCTION
• The book can be divided into three sections.

• Section – 1 ( Deals with principles)

• Section – 2 ( Indication of remedies)
• Section – 3 ( Repertory)
 SECTION – 1 ( DEALS WITH PRINCIPLES)

• It highlights the authors concept on the

following topics in relation to the various
types of fevers:
1- The cause
2- The malarial theory (Marsh miasm)
3- The psoric diathesis
4- Similia is a never failing guide
4- Examination of the patient
5- The genus epidemicus
6- When to administer the remedy
7- The similimum
8- Analysis of a case
9- The potency
10- Characteristic
11- The clinical cases
12- Typhoid, typhus, continued fevers
13- The anamnesis
14- The name : it’s use and abuse
15- The true cause of typhoid
16- The tendency to relapse
17- Sanitation – the sick room
The diet of the typhoid
 SECTION – 2 ( INDICATION OF REMEDIES)
• It deals with medicines (147 medicines)under the following
heads:

• Characteristic
• Aggravation
• Amelioration
• Relation
• Type
• Time
• Cause
• Chill
• Heat
• Sweat
• Concomotants in relation to tongue,
pulse, etc
• Apyrexia
• Analysis
• Chill
• Heat
• sweat
 SECTION – 3 ( REPERTORY)
• It has the following main rubrics:

• Type
• Time
• Cause
• Predrome
• Commencement of chill
• Chill – location of
• Chill – ameliorated
• Symptoms during the chill
• Chill, character of
• Chill, symptom during
• Chill followed by
• Heat aggravate by
• Heat ameliorated by
• Heat absent
• Heat in general
• Heat symptoms during
• Heat followed by
• Heat characteristics of
• Sweat aggravated
• Sweat ameliorated
• Sweat followed by
• Aggravated while sweating
• Ameliorated while sweating
• Sweat absent
• Sweat in general
• Sweat predominates
• Sweat produced by
• Sweat character of
• Sweat time of
• Sweat location of
• Sweat symptoms during
• Sweat suppressed
• Aggravation after sweat
• Amelioration after sweat
• Appetite, taste,tongue, etc – symptoms of
• Apyrexia ; symptoms during
• Typhoid, typhus, prodromic stage
• Symptoms of the mind
• Sensorium
• Head internal,external
• Eye and sight
• Hearing and ears
• Smell and nose
• Face
• Gastric
 GRADES
• The medicines are used in the following three
grades:

Bold –3
Italics – 2
Romen - 1
 WORKING OUT A CASE
• After taking a case of fever, the symptoms should be arranged to from
the totality as mentioned below which can be refferred to in this
repertory:

• Type
• Time
• Prodrome
• Chill
• Heat
• Sweat
• Symptoms during apyrexia
• concomitants
 SOME EXAMPLES
• Type - Congestive: Apis. Arn. Bell. Cac. Camph. Elat. Hyos.
Nux v. Op. Verat.

• Type - Menses, after the: Nux v. Sep.

• Time - Midnight: Ars. Canth. Caust. Sulf.

• Cause - Weather, cold, damp, rainy: Aran. Dul. Rhus.

• Cause - Worms, or intestinal irritation: Cina. Spig. Sil.

• PRODROME- Conditions, occurring- during-
Anguish : Cinch.

• CHILL - AGGRAVATED- Uncovered : Acon.

Agar. Amm. m. Arn. Bell. Carb. an. Cham.
Clem. Cycl. Mercurialis. Nitr. ac. Nux m. Nux v.
Stram. Thuja.
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