Skin burning hot and dry, red; child scratched it.
Skin feels hot and dry; lips covered with dry mucus.
Skin very dry and hot with a general feeling of biting and tickling as from vermin (forty minutes).
Skin hot and pungent.
Skin pungently hot and dry, and covered with a rash closely resembling that of scarlatina, which the child was frequently scratching. The skin of the whole body began to feel tinged (?) and swollen (after fifteen minutes).
In about an hour and a half it was covered with a rash precisely similar to that of scarlatina.
Sleep and Dreams.
Gaped very often and said he should soon be asleep if he were in bed.
Tendency to sleep (after one hour).
Somnolency. Somnolency and perversion of ideas.
Somnolency, with sometimes a little flushing of the face (from gr. 1/60).
Feels drowsy and not inclined to speak or move about (second day).
Felt sleepy and a little giddy.
Heaviness, drowsiness, or actual sleep, with a great tendency to dreamy delirium.
Had slept, and continued very drowsy.
Was restless and uneasy through the night, but slept considerable of the time (second day).
Was very restless through the night; dreamed of running horses; of playing baseball; of amputating a man’s leg; saw dim, shadowy forms sitting or standing by the beside or moving in the air (first night).
Arose feeling uneasy and unrefreshed (second day).
Arose, feeling weary and unrefreshed (second day).
Insomnia.
Insomnia (after eight hours).
Wakeful and delirious (after eight hours).
Sleeplessness till one at night and then frightful dreams.
He will have little or no inclination to sleep, but instead of this a little moderate delirium (from gr. 1/32).
Troubled by dreams, and at intervals disturbed by a start.
A fancied noise is a common cause of awakening, and at these times the patient generally manifests a little delirium.
Dreams pleasant, of flying in the air, etc., so that he woke in the morning happy and continued so the whole day.
Frightful dreams; wake from sleep three times in the night.
Dreams of being frightened, pursued, great exertion, etc., all of which fatigued him, some of which made him powerless, and he rejoiced, when wakened by a loud cry, to be rid of his unnatural state.
His wife said that he was restless and sighed during sleep.
Fever.
Skin rather cool than warm on forehead and head.
Chilliness and cramp, and tingling of the extremities (after one hour).
Internal coldness with external burning heat of the whole body; toward 6 P.M., it became so great that he was apprehensive, and so restless that he could not remain anywhere; he hurried home expecting misfortune; scarcely had he entered the house when he had to seek the open air, only to return again to the house; at 7 1/2 P.M., he lay down hoping that the restlessness would go away by sleep; could not sleep till toward eleven; he tossed about in bed, with audible and perceptible palpitation and anxiety as great as if he had committed a great crime.
General diffusion of warmth.
Skin hot (after forty-eight hours). the skin is hot and pungent, face flushed, veins of forehead tinged, and head burning.
Slight elevation of the temperature of the surface, rarely exceeding 1*, and a still slighter and less appreciable rise of the internal temperature of the body.
Temperature 100* (after twenty-four hours).
Temperature 102* (after fourteen hours).
Temperature frequently varied, now glowing heat, now cold over the back (cold predominated).
Alternate heat and chill, a violent tension of the chest, with Dyspnoea, and feebleness of the pulse (from tasting Atropia).
Atropia checks sweating, whether physiological or morbid.
Conditions.- Aggravation.
(Morning), Talked confusedly, etc.; on rising, vertigo; on waking, very dizzy; on waking, sticking in left temporal region; felt very weak.
(Night), Immediately upon closing eyes, after retiring, delirium; agitation, etc.; frequent micturition.
(Toward 6 P.M)., Internal coldness, etc., of the whole body.
(In open air), Very weak.
(Beer), Caused pain in stomach.
(Upon closing eyes), Mind becomes confused, etc. (After coughing), Burning in throat.
(After drinking milk), Vomiting.
(Every motion), Pains in base of skull, etc. (Periodic), Dry cough, etc. (Each pulsation of heart), Pain in eyes, etc.
(Rising), Vertigo, etc. (Stepping), Pains in base of skull, etc.
(Turning head quick), Vertigo.
(During the vomiting), Pain in umbilical region.
(On waking), Vertigo, etc. (Walking), Severe sticking pains; pain in stomach.
(Drinking warm fluids), Vomiting.
Amelioration.
(Evening), Pains in head disappear.
(Towards morning), Dryness in throat.
(Toward 11 A.M)., Pains in head.
(Going into open air), Confusion in head.
(After moving about in open air), Sticking in left temporal region.
(Sitting), Feels better.
(Standing), Feels better.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.