Generalities
Objective. Inclination to stretch, in the morning. Twitching of the muscles. Trembling in the body. Trembling of the body (second day). Trembling in the body, on walking, with spasmodic twitches of various muscles in the thigh and arm (second day). Trembling in the morning. Continual trembling of the whole body, which became worse when she went into the open air. Anxious trembling, with weariness. She started so much from the slight prick of a needle in the finger, that she became nauseated; the tongue, lips, and hands became very white and cold, with coldness of the forehead and face, with obscuration of sight, uneasiness, flushes of heat, and trembling; she was obliged to lie down (mesmerizing relieved her at once), (after eighteen days). Epileptic attacks; while standing at his work he fell suddenly to the ground sideways, without consciousness, and on returning to consciousness found himself lying with outstretched arms; this was followed by heat and some sweat (after nine days). Congestions of blood. He becomes tired very soon, from bodily exertion. After walking, he becomes fatigued, even to feverishness, and is attacked with chilliness and thirst. Easily strained; pain in the small of the back; he could not lift anything heavy. Such great weariness that the person is not able to walk (second day). Unusual weariness, which was better when walking. Very weary and sleepy the whole day (after eleven days). Weakness (first day). Great general weakness in the evening, lasting half an hour. Weakness and weariness, after dinner (after nine days). Very weak from speaking; she was obliged to cease. A feeling of weakness, after a stool. Very weak and sick, for several days after coition. Weakness during the day, so great that she scarcely knew how she could bear the oppressive anxious condition; breathing the fresh open air, only, refreshed and strengthened her (after twelve days). Weakness, with yawning (after four days). Great loss of strength. Great loss of power on walking, especially in the limbs, with exhausting sweat. Exhaustion and weariness in the limbs, especially in the knees. Great exhaustion on walking in the morning from a deep sleep, so that the confused and sleepy condition continues even after rising from the bed. She was unable to go upstairs, and became very much exhausted from it (after fourteen days). She lay for ten days in the greatest exhaustion, so that she could neither move about nor do any work; with most violent attacks of convulsive laughter. Attack of faintness in the evening, with blackness before the eyes when sitting. Attacks of faintness, with coldness and indistinct vision (after three days). Attacks of faintness, with great drops of sweat on the face. Much uneasiness, so that he was obliged to move the hands and feet. Great uneasiness in the evening, especially in the limbs; he was unable to lie still. Bodily restlessness does not permit her to lie long in one place. Restless motion of the whole body, on account of suppressed eructations. Extremely restless in the evening, after nausea in the afternoon, whereby she was very absent-minded. Restless, and orgasm of blood. He found it necessary to walk a great deal. The skin of the whole body is very sensitive to touch, mostly in the feet. Sensations. Takes cold very easily. Rushing of blood in all the veins, in the morning, on waking from a restless sleep; the veins are swollen, with a bruised sensation in the whole body. Uncomfortable feeling in the evening, such as on feels before an attack of ague. Very much indisposed; the hands and feet were frequently cold; paleness of the face and frequent palpitation; all of which was relieved by motion. Attack of general depression, with confusion of the head, vertigo, pain in the small of the back, and chilliness of the whole body, for six hours (after twenty-two days). Sick feeling in the whole body; she was obliged to spit a great deal, and dreaded the open air (after twenty-two days). A very sick feeling, the day before menstruation; a trifle caused the greatest fright. After a walk, sick, hoarse, with oppression of the chest. The parts on which he has lain during the afternoon nap go to sleep. Great heaviness of the body. A feeling of painful tension over the whole body. During a walk, a drawing sensation in the whole body, extending into the head, which obliged her to sit down (after thirty days). In various places of the joints and muscles, more or less severe sticking pains (second day). Severe pulsation of the vessels, especially in the chest, after dinner; pulse rapid (second day). The pain was very intense, but disappeared quickly. The chronic troubles were worse and better every other day.
Skin
Skin inflames or suppurates easily from injuries. Eruptions. Dry. Eruption of red elevated spots of the size of a pea and larger, mostly on the cheeks and elbows, with great heat, much thirst, and little appetite; they disappeared the third day and left a dark spot, as if congested with blood; in an infant whose mother had taken Calcarea. Nettle-rash, which always disappears in the cold air. Many very small warts appear here and there. White spots on the face, with itching. Eruption of white spots and some scattered red patches, on wrists, backs of hands, thighs, legs, and ankles, with violent irritation. Eruption on the nose. On left ala nasi (externally) a red, swollen spot, tender on touch, and on moving muscles of nose. Large dark-red itching spots on the lower legs, with some swelling in them. Scurfy spots on the lower leg, with burning during the day (after twenty-four hours). Rash like eruption in the face, about the eyes and on the nose. Violent irritation about the chest, back, neck, and shoulders, and in the calves of the legs; a reddish rash was partly developed all over the back and chest. Red stripes on the tibia, consisting of nettle-rash elevations, with severe itching and burning after rubbing (after seven days). Fine rash on the skin and neck, with itching. Eruption on the feet, itching, violent biting, causing scratching, bleeding when scratched, and changing to a nettle- rash-like eruption. Itching pimples on the forehead, with itching in the whole of the face. Eruption of small painless pimples over the whole face (after five days). Many pimples in the whole of the face, with severe itching. Itching pimples on both cheeks, on the malar bones, for several weeks. Pimples beneath the right corner of the mouth. Pimples on the upper lip. Scurfy pimples on the border of the red portion of the lower lip. Stinging-burning pimple on the border of the labia (after eight days). Pimples on the lower part of the chest, with smarting on rubbing. Papulous eruption on the forehead. Papulous eruption around the mouth and in the corners of the mouth. Papulous eruption in the middle of the chin. Papulous eruption on the small of the back and on the nates. Papulous eruption on the thighs (after eleven days). A wart in the bend of the elbow inflames, pains like a boil, then dries up and disappears Moist. Itching vesicular eruption over the whole body, especially over the hips. Eruption behind the right ear, which becomes moist. Erysipelas on the cheeks (which are thick). A tetter speedily reappears. An old tetter beneath the axillae, in the bend of the left elbow, and in the hollow of the knee, reappears (after twenty days). Vesicular eruption grouped on the back of the hand, with severe itching; it obliges scratching involuntarily; the vesicles are clear, without areola, filled with clear fluid; a dark point forms at the tip; they gradually dry and the skin desquamates; if the vesicles are scratched, they become enlarged and seem like nettle-rash; cold relieves the itching (the prover had suffered for two years, during great heat in the summer, from an insignificant vesicular eruption on the back of the hand), (seventh day). Pustules and Ulcers. Boil on the margin of the hair on the forehead (first day). A boil on the back of the left hand, with sticking pain on touch. A painful boil on the last phalanx of the fourth finger (twice from different doses). A pustule on the back. Unhealthy ulcerating skin; even small wounds suppurate and do not heat again. Wart-like growths (behind the ears) become inflamed and ulcerate. The corner of the mouth ulcerated, for fourteen days. The right corner of the mouth is ulcerated and pains as if sore. A smarting, oblong, transverse ulcer on the lower surface of the penis, which burns severely, with profuse hemorrhoidal sweat on the scrotum and peritoneum (second day). An old ulcer on the thigh becomes painful, with throbbing, with drawing about it, and begins to be offensive like bad eggs (after seven days). Several ulcers on the lower legs (after seven days). Sensations. The damp open air does not agree with her; the skin is immediately affected by it. Burning in the skin, with itching over half the back, on the nates and posterior surface of the thighs (after ten days). Stitching in the skin, as from needles. Itching on the skin. Itching over the whole body (after twenty-three days). Violent itching over whole body. Itching of the dry, hot skin, as if it had been sprinkled with salt and ashes. Severe itching of the sweating parts, especially between the shoulder-blades. Itching in the concha. Itching behind the ear, with dizziness in the head, after scratching. Itching about the mouth, on the nose and on the nates. Itching externally on the chest (after ten days). Itching and itching pimples on the back. Itching on the thighs (after twelve days). Itching on the right thigh (first day). Itching on the malleolus of the diseased foot. Much itching on the lower leg and foot. Itching about the ankle and below the calves (after thirteen days). Severe itching in the whole face; She was obliged to scratch it constantly (first seven days). Severe itching on the back, on the pit of the stomach, the neck, chin, the left eye, the scalp, the mons veneris, and the scrotum, in the evening, in bed. Severe itching in the lower part of the thighs, at night. Burning-itching on the left arm, from morning till evening. Burning-itching on the fingers of the left hand (after thirteen days). Burning-itching on the nates. Burning-itching on the left thigh, from morning till evening. A burning-itching on the right tibia. Violent burning-itching on the malleoli of the right foot, from morning till evening (after fifteen days). Fine sticking- itching on the thighs. Sticking-itching in a small spot on the left thigh (after twenty days). Tickling-itching on the margin of the right lower jaw, with desire to scratch.
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.