Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Very much inclined to yawn; frequent yawning the whole day. Yawning. Yawning almost all day. Frequent yawning. Frequent yawning towards noon (second day). Frequent yawning, sneezing. Sudden yawning before dinner, with much thirst. continual inclination to sleep for three days. Sleepiness. Sleepiness, immediately after eating. Sleepiness on waking was almost irresistible (second morning). Great sleepiness, even in the daytime, for several days in succession. Great sleepiness during the day, with great inclination to a middy sleep; on waking, all the limbs were asleep. Great sleepiness and constant yawning, though he had slept well the previous night. Great sleepiness in the afternoon. Much sleepiness during the day when alone. So sleepy that he wishes to sleep the whole day, for thirteen days in succession. She slept the whole day, with excessively dry heat, without eating or drinking, with twitching in the face; she let the stool pass six times involuntarily, which was brown and very offensive. Very sound sleep during the night (perhaps owing to sitting up late for two or more nights), (second day). He slept soundly the whole night, and continued sleepy through the whole day; the next night he slept uneasily, and the day after was lively. Difficult to wake from sleep in the morning. In the morning he cannot rise from bed, and wishes to lie a long time (without being weak). Three hours’ sleep after eating (contrary to custom), an very vivid dreams; after waking dull stitches and pressure in the chest near the sternum, in the region of the fifth rib. In former years, when young, a sensation of invigoration, not only after awaking, but even during sleep; a certain feeling of comfort; this sensation had disappeared during my residence in Vienna (for three years), but it returned again very marked for six nights, from massive doses of Bryonia. Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness on account of uneasiness in the blood and anxiety (was obliged to rise from bed); the thoughts crowded upon one another without heat, sweat, or thirst. (Tired, and yet cannot sleep; when he tries to sleep he loses his breath). Loss of sleep at night, on account of uneasiness in th blood; tossed about the bed. Loss of sleep, before midnight. Restless sleep, full of thoughts. Loss of sleep before midnight, with frequent urinating (second day). Restless sleep, with confused dreams; tossed from side to side. Night restless; he could scarcely sleep for half an hour, and during his slumbering was continually busy with what he had read the evening previous (first night). Night very restless. The night was very restless; anxious dreams; about three o’clock she cried out in her sleep. Night very restless, disturbed by frightful dreams; frequent waking and falling asleep (second and third day). Very restless sleep at night, with much sweat. The night’s rest disturbed; she only slept towards morning. Uneasy sleep and frequent waking, in consequence of troublesome dreams (third night). At night uneasiness in the blood; he slept late and not soundly. He was unable to sleep several nights on account of heat; the bed covers seemed too hot, and on uncovering he felt too cool; still without thirst and almost without sweat. He could not sleep well; a warmth and anxiety in the blood prevented it until 12 o’clock. The child was unable to sleep in the evening; could not get quiet; it rose again from bed. He could not sleep before midnight on account of a frequent shivering sensation, which crept over one arm or foot, followed by some sweat. He was unable to sleep before 2 o’clock; he was obliged to turn back an forth in the bed like a child that had been deprived of its rest; in the morning after waking he was still very sleepy. He slept only before midnight, then not again; remained quite wide awake; felt great weariness when lying, which increased in the legs on rising, but soon afterwards disappeared. She only slept at four in the morning, and then dreamed of dead persons. She tosses about the bed until 1 o’clock; she cannot sleep on account of anxious heat, yet has no perceptible external heat. Waking early in the night. She woke every hour all night and remembered her dreams, an when she fell asleep again she dreamed again just as vivid, and remembered it just as well after waking. In the evening, in bed, she awoke after a short sleep with a twisting sensation in the pit of the stomach, which caused nausea, threatened to suffocate her, so that she was obliged to sit up in bed. He woke suddenly before 3 A.M., and broke out into a slight perspiration, which lasted till morning, wherewith he lay most comfortably on the back, and only slumbered a little, with dryness of the forepart of the mouth and lips, without thirst (after eight hours). He started from an anxious dream and screamed out. Sleep did not refresh him; in the morning on waking he was still very tried; the weariness disappeared on rising and dressing. Startings in sleep, which wake her. In the evening, before falling asleep, she starts up in fright. Startings on falling asleep every evening in bed. He talked irrationally when waking form sleep. Moaning in the sleep, about 3 A.M. (He makes motions with his mouth in his sleep as if he were chewing). Towards evening while asleep she drew her mouth back and forth, opened the eyes, distorted them, and talked irrationally, as if she were awake; she spoke distinctly, but hastily, as if she fancied that many other persons were about her; looked freely about, talked with absent children, and desired to go home. the sleep was very remarkable; he seemed conscious that he was sleeping; consciousness was apparently emancipated from the realm of sleeping; consciousness was apparently emancipated from the realm of sleep, which overpowered the other senses (analogous to somnambulism?)’ this condition caused him the more anguish, since consciousness became weaker, and at last was entirely lost an is faintness; from this anguish arose an internal cramp, which caused a return to complete consciousness, which had the effect of making him wide awake; after waking, the arm upon which he was lying was senseless and stiff, which, however, soon disappeared (second night)(1810). Somnambulistic condition. She rose at night from her bed in her dream, and went to the door as if she would go out. Awakened in the night by shouts and laughter of students living with me; I found myself out of my bed, in the opposite corner of the room, lying upon the bed covers spread upon he floor, without knowing how I got there; it must have happened in deep sleep, from which i was only aroused sufficiently to get back to bed without being able to give connected answer to questions put to me. In the morning I ascertained that for several nights while asleep I had disturbed others by cries and groans without being able myself to remember more than heavy dreams. My sleep for about three weeks had been unusually sound; though I had always enjoyed sound sleep, yet I was usually awakened by every slight noise in my room, while lately I had not been conscious of persons entering my room, and could be aroused from sleep only by shaking. I only knew that during this time I tossed about restlessly in my sleep, because I had been conscious of knocking against the wall several times in a not very gentle manner (thirty-third night). Dreams. During sleep much dreaming. Sleep disturbed by dreams for several days. Frequently awakened from sleep by dreams. Pleasant dreams during the night (second day). Very vivid dreams, so that he remembered everything after waking (sixth and seventh nights). Very vivid remembered dreams after midnight. Night disturbed by vivid dreams; awakened frequently, and every time had a feeling of chilliness in the toes. In his dreams he was busy about his household affairs. The night was disturbed by restless dreams (first night). Frequently awakened by restless dreams, or by involuntary motion of the legs, which caused immediately great pain (second night). Many confused and indistinct dreams, in which he was very active. Night disturbed by confused and anxious dreams. Anxious dreams. Very vivid dreams the whole night of anxiety and care about his business. Frequently awakened by unpleasant dreams and obliged to urinate (second and third night). Dreams of dispute and vexation. He dreamed while awake that he tried to toss some one of the window. Numerous indistinct dreams of battles in which the prover took part, during the night (from 3d dil). On waking he could not free himself from his dream; he still continued to dream waking.
Fever
Chilliness. Continued chilliness (after two hours). Chilliness, the whole of the first day, all over. Chilliness toward evening. Chilliness in the evening before lying down. Chilliness in bed in the evening after lying down. Chilliness while walking up a steep mountain, followed by unusual sweating and weariness. Paroxysms of fever; lying down, chilliness, yawning, nausea; then sweat without thirst, from 10 P.M. till 10 A.M. Chilly in the open air. After the midday nap he was chilly; the head confused. After a walk in the open air, she gets chilly in the room; she was not chilly in the open air. Chilly over the whole skin. Creeping chill (after two and a half hours). Chills towards evening. Frequent chills while walking on a hot day. Violent chill, with such great prostration that she could not leave the bed for three hours; this unusual weakness lasted three days. Violent shaking chill, through the whole body, as in an ague, which compelled her to lie down, with sticking pain in the left side above the hips, as if an abscess would break there, though without thirst and without subsequent heat (after forty- eight hours). Cold sensation and discomfort through the whole body. Shivering. Shivering over the whole body, especially over the back. Violent shivering was suddenly caused by a draft of air from turning in bed; he wrapped himself closely in the bed; the dorsal, pectoral, and abdominal muscles twitched convulsively; the extremities trembled; the chill seemed especially to concentrate itself in the interior of the chest; it lasted ten minutes, gradually diminishing, but immediately reappeared on moving the body or putting a limb out of bed (first night). A peculiar shivering sensation while washing (after tenth night). Excessive shivering, and nausea; aversion to tobacco- smoking. Slight chilliness, followed by heat. Chilly sensation, with sudden general heat (after half an hour). Chilliness, with great heat, in the afternoon while walking. In the afternoon shivering, then heat, together with chill; the chill was on the chest and arms (but the arms and hands were warmer than usual); the heat was in the head, with throbbing pulse-like pain in the temples, much aggravated in the evening; the shivering, heat, and chill were without thirst. Partial. Chilliness in the face. Chilliness on the arms. Creeping chilliness in back, from above downward (after half an hour to two hours). Creeping chills in the lower extremities in the evening, in bed, especially on the thighs; even the skin felt cool. Creeping chills in the left thigh in the evening. Creeping chills over the left leg (second day). He felt coldness down the whole right side. A cold sensation over the back, which extends forward, together with severe pressure in the pit of the stomach, soon after eating; afterwards this cold sensation extends over the shoulders and forearms. Cold sensation along the whole spine, with drawing pressure in the back and lumbar muscles, and a necessity to suddenly straighten up, lasting the whole day, an only relieved by motion. Shivering, which started in the neck and extended down the spinal column, but lasted only a short time. Frequent, violent shivering in the back. Shivering through the back and coldness over the whole body. The shivering in the back became very violent and intense; with it the eyelids involuntarily closed (after 50 drops). Heat. Sensation of heat through the whole body. Immediately after lying down in bed in the evening, sensation of heat, with external heat over him, without thirst, through the whole night; he turned form on side to the other; did not dare to uncover any part, because it immediately caused violent pain the abdomen, a painful griping- sticking or a sticking-griping, as if flatus moved spasmodically here and there with loss of sleep from a multitude of crowding thoughts; in the morning this condition disappeared, without his noticing any flatulence. Flushes of heat. Heat, without thirst. Heat of the body, without thirst. In the morning, repeated dry heat all over. Dry heat at night. Sudden dry heat, on every motion, and every noise. Dry heat spread over the whole body; especially the hands, feet, an face burned; the circulation was very much excited, over one hundred pulsations to the minute; confusion of the head, pressing-out pain in the occiput and neck, roaring in the left ear, violent coryza, the left nostril stopped, and from the right a discharge of a thin watery substance; slight angina tonsillaris; loss of thirst an appetite; transient stitches below the left nipple, as if in the pleura costalis; pressive pain in the loins; continued erection of the penis without desire; single fine stitches in the left testicle; burning pain in the region of the lower third of the right ulna; during this heat-stage he slept quietly, and awoke about midnight quite bright and active, with copious sweat over the whole body, after which all symptoms disappeared (first night), (after 70 drops). (*I hesitated to ascribe this catarrhal fever to the action of Bryonia, because sometimes after taking cold I was subject to a catarrhal angina, especially in cold, wet weather; in this case I had, however, taken no cold, the weather was fine and warm I had been busy in the house, so I was forced to ascribe this fever to Bryonia, especially as the accompanying symptoms were for the most part the same as those observed from repeated provings of Bryonia. I should also note that this was the third time during this short provings that I was feverish, and each time had nightly aggravation*). Only internal heat, with unquenchable thirst. Internal dry, burning heat, without previous coldness, extending over the whole body, with dryness of the tongue, lips, and palate; loss of thirst, prostration, and extraordinary weakness in the whole body, especially in the extremities, the pulse full, accelerated, the skin as dry as parchment and rough. Partial. Internally great warmth; the blood seems to burn in the veins. Heat in the interior of the body (especially in the abdomen). Heat in the head in the morning; it seems warm before the head. Heat in the head in the forenoon; feels as though it would come out at the forehead. Heat in the head at 3 P.M., with pressure in the frontal eminence. Heat in the head and face. Flushes of heat over the face. Heat in the face, toward evening. Heat of the face, and, after light work, profuse sweat of the face. A feeling of heat in the face, with redness and thirst (after three hours). Extraordinary warmth in the region of the pit of the stomach caused excessive thirst, but not dryness in the throat. Heat in the abdomen (and over the whole inside of the body). Heat in the chest and face. Along the spine, where there was yesterday a cold sensation, appeared to- day increased warmth; the skin was hot to the touch and somewhat sensitive and even transpiring on slightest motion (second day). Sensation of heat in the palms and in the forearms; she was obliged to put them out of bed in the morning; after some hours a cold sensation in them. Heat only in the lower limbs, and frequent attacks; it seems as if she steeped into hot water. Heat of the knee, perceptible externally. In the evening, hot and red cheeks, with chill all over, with goose-flesh and thirst. Heat in the evening, in the external ear, followed by shivering and shaking in the thighs (after four hours). Paroxysm of fever; in the forenoon heat (with thirst); after a few hours (in the afternoon) chilliness without thirst, with redness of the face and some headache. Sweat. Profuse sweat six nights in succession. Profuse sweat while walking, which runs in streams form the face. Profuse sweat after moderate exercise in the open air; it continued afterwards while at rest, and after changing the linen the sweat flowed in streams from the face and the whole body; together with so great acceleration of respiration that he could only speak in broken and jerk like words. Profuse sweat of the whole body, also of the head, while lying in bed. Profuse night- sweat after 3 A.M., for twenty nights in succession. He is obliged to go to bed early (by 9 A.M).; after a time a copious sweat breaks out, after which the previous symptoms disappear in the same order in which they appeared, only vertigo continued somewhat longer, lasting half an hour. Sweat in the morning. Sweat towards morning, especially in the feet. Some sweat towards morning after waking. General sweat on waking. He sweats while eating. He sweats on the slightest exertion. Sweat breaks out easily on the slightest exertion, also at night. He sweats all over when walking in the cold air. An anxious sweat prevents sleep. Slight perspiration in bed from evening till morning, with which he only slept from 12 till 3. Transpiration suppressed. Very profuse warm sweat over the whole body, even dropping from the hair. Sweat which seems like oil when washing, day and night. Sweat sour (sometimes towards midnight). Sour-smelling, profuse sweat, during a good night’s sleep. Sweat in the axillae. Warm sweat in the palms.
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.