Definition:

    It is a condition that an elevation of the body temperature accompanying all infections diseases or presence of some poisons in the blood . There is much waste of body substance and the power of the digestion is impaired. The following are the various kinds of fever.

1.      Acclimation fever - due to change of weather condition

2.      Amative fever

3.      Aphthous fever - fever with inflammation of the mouth.

4.      Bilious fever - it is due to excess of  bile secretion from liver complications and with vomiting

5.      Brain fever

6.      Burning fever

7.      Child bed fever            

8.      Cold fever

9.      Congenital fever - In children

10.  Continuous fever - fever neither remittent nor intermittent 

11.  Dengue fever - affecting the muscles and joins of the limbs, rendering the patients unable to walk

12.  Dyspeptic fever - due to indigestion

13.  Epidemic fever

14.  Fever affecting the bones 

15.  Fever developing Jaundice

16.  Fever due to boils

17.  Fever due to excessive chillness

18.  Fever due to excessive heat

19.  Fever due to fear

20.  Fever due to lose of appetite

21.  Fever marked by aversion to food

22.  Fever which parches the tongue and induces thirst

23.  Filarial fever

24.  Herpetic fever -

25.  High fever - Hyper-pyrexia

26.  Infectious fever

27.  Inflammatory fever

28.  Intermittent fever - coming in succession or by turns

29.  Internal fever.

30.  Jungle fever - malarial fever occurring in mountainous parts

31.  Malarial fever

32.  Menstrual fever - occurring during menses

33.  Mid day fever

34.  Midnight fever

35.  Midnight fever 

36.  Milk fever

37.  Mosquito fever

38.  Osteomyelitic fever - fever affecting the marrow of the bones

39.  Phlegmatic fever

40.  Quartan fever - fever coming on every fourth day

41.  Quotidian fever - fever occurring daily

42.  Rat bite fever

43.  Remittent fever - fever temporarily  ceasing from time to time

44.  Rheumatic fever

45.  Septic fever - caused by micro organisms such as malarial fever

46.  Shivering fever

47.  Symptomatic fever

48.  Syphilitic fever - due to Syphilitic poison

49.  Thermic fever - due to excessive heat

50.  Thyroid fever

51.  Typhoid fever

52.  Variolous fever 

53.  Venereal fever 

54.  Wound fever

Causes and Risk Factors:

        It is due to errors in diet especially tainted food , internal heat  sudden change of weather or other atmospheric disturbances, emotional feelings.