Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Frequent yawning. Continued yawning, with sleepiness (after four days). Long-continued, almost endless yawning, followed by shattering throbbing in the head, abdomen, and chest, with great heat of the face. During the day, sleepiness and weariness; he fell asleep several times in the forenoon (ninth day). Sleepy and weary through the day, with chilliness and headache. Sleepiness in the morning. In the morning, when he should rise, he was still sleepy and weary; could hardly get awake. Sleepy very early in the evening (after three hours). Weary sleepiness in all the limbs in the evening, with chilliness; he was unable to escape sleep; he did not, however, sleep soundly, but continually awoke (for sixteen hours); in the morning much sweat and dryness in the throat, without thirst (after four days). Sleepiness, with nodding, after dinner. Great inclination to sleep after supper. Very long sleep at noon. He seemed to fall suddenly four times into a sweet sleep, with nausea, in the evening, from 7 to 9, with blackness before the eyes, which still continued while lying down, without vomiting. Overpowering sleep, after eating, followed by chill and tickling cough. Difficult to arouse himself, in the morning, on waking. Sleeplessness. When she went to bed late she could not get to sleep; she felt as though she could not get rested. Frequently very late falling asleep in the evening. Cannot get to sleep at night, and when asleep soon wakes again. Difficult to get asleep on account of many involuntary thoughts. Was unable to sleep before midnight, on account of mental activity. Was unable to get to sleep at night before 2 or 3 o’clock. She was unable to sleep before 12 o’clock, but tossed restlessly about. He was unable to get to sleep for a long time in the evening, and could not free himself from lascivious or vexatious thoughts; they followed him even in the morning after waking. Night restless, full of dreams. Restless sleep, with sweat. Restless sleep towards morning (after fifteen days). Restless, half asleep at night, with dry heat and confusion in the head and constant waking, as in fever. He tossed about the bed the whole night. At night, soon after falling asleep, he rose out of bed and worked with the hands, with open eyes, without consciousness. The child rises up in bed after midnight and calls “father;” begins to cry and tries to spring up; the more one talks to him the worse become his cries and resistance; he rolls upon the floor and will not be touched. Frequent waking from sleep. Anxious waking at night; frequent anxious dreams (after thirty-six hours). Anxious waking after midnight and difficult breathing (twelfth day). Uneasy waking, in the evening, in bed, full of frightful fantasies (sixth night). He could not sleep long in the evening, because he was too hot, although only lightly covered in a cold room (after eleven days). Sleep only from 1 to 2 or 3 o’clock, then she could sleep on more, and was wide awake. Unrefreshed, after waking in the morning. In sleep she laid the arms above the head. Starting up in the evening, soon after falling asleep, till she was wide awake. Jerking of the upper part of the body on going to sleep in the evening, with jerking extending into the head, followed by roaring and hissing in the ears. In sleep he often chews and then swallows. Snoring the whole night in a stupid-like sleep, from which he could not be wakened, with constant tossing about; profuse sweat in the face before falling asleep. Screaming at night, with restless sleep. Crying out and starting from anxious dreams. Talking during a dreamy sleep (after ten days). Confused talking in the sleep, with restlessness from dreams and heat. Dreams. Sleep at night full of dreams. Half waking dreams in the evening, soon after falling asleep, with great anxiety. Vivid dreams all night. Amorous dreams at night (first day). A voluptuous dream the night before menstruation. Confused, anxious dreams. Several anxious dreams in each night, for seven nights in succession. An anxious dream, toward morning, of fire and death. Anxious dream that he would be bitten by a dog, which awoke him, after which he fell asleep again, and was again awakened by the same anxious dream, and several times every night. Anxious and frightful dreams, from which he was unable to free himself on waking. Frightful dream, as though he would fall or be thrown down. Frightful dreams the whole night, and at last a sensual dream with an (extremely seldom) emission (after ten days). At night frightful things present themselves to her, and she is unable to keep them off. Dreams of dead people and smell of corpses.
Fever
Chilliness. Great sensitiveness to the cold air; the feet seem dead, in the evening. Goose-flesh in the thighs and legs, on the slightest contact of cold air, so great that it was painful. Shivering, at first over the face, with which the hairs stood on end, then over the whole body, with chilliness. Very chilly in the evening. She became chilly if she got out of bed. Frequent external chilliness, on the ears. Great internal chilliness; she was obliged to wrap up the cold hands, but the feet were warm. Continued severe chilliness, the whole day (second day). Constant chilliness and coldness, with pale sickly look. Great constant chilliness, with much thirst. Chill in the evening, for several hours (after ten hours, thirteenth day). Chill for a quarter of an hour, two evenings, without subsequent heat or sweat. Chill, in the evening, in bed. Chill in the evening, in bed, so that he was unable to get warm, though covered with a feather bed, as though he had no warmth in his body (after thirty days). Shaking chill at night. The evening before menstruation, after supper, a severe chill, followed by colic, lasting the whole night. Internal chill, with restlessness and trembling anguish. Coldness and numb sensation on the side of the back on which he had lain, during the midday sleep. He felt very feverish, and was obliged to stay at home for three days; his teeth chattered, and though he sat over the fire, he was quite cold. Cold feet, after eating. Paroxysm of fever, in the forenoon; chill and heat alternating. Paroxysm of fever; now chilliness, now heat; she was obliged to lie down. Paroxysm of fever, in the evening; chill externally, with internal heat and great thirst; even in bed he was chilly, and sweating at the same time; he could not get warm; at last profuse sweat (after ten hours). Heat. Orgasm of blood, in the morning, on waking, after a restless sleep, for several mornings (first day). Much orgasm of blood, at night, with many dreams. At night, orgasm of blood, with restless sleep, especially during menstruation. In the evening, in bed, he became immediately warm, and sweat the whole night. Frequent transient heat. Transient heat, two or three times a day, general, though most in the face and hands; it attacked her while sitting, as from anxiety, with sweating of the face and hands, for ten minutes. Almost constant heat, which at first caused weariness and anxiety, lasting until sweat broke out. Severe heat in the head, and great orgasm of blood. Very much heated, in the morning, after rising. Heat for several evenings, from 6 to 7 o’clock. Dry heat, towards morning (after six days). Dry heat, at night (after twelve hours). Fever, from morning till noon or afternoon; first, tearing in the joints and heaviness in the head, then weariness, which scarcely allowed her to rise from bed; with heaviness of the limbs, stretching, heat, and sensation as if she would sweat, with trembling and uneasiness in all the limbs. Paroxysm of fever, every forenoon, at 11 o’clock, without thirst, and without previous chill, lasting one hour; she felt hot, and was hot to touch, with red face; followed by anxiety and slight sweat, especially on the hands and feet, and in the face; for four days in succession (previous to menstruation)(1600). A feeling of heat in the interior of the body. Internal heat at night, especially in the hands and feet, with dry tongue, in the morning, without thirst, with external heat in the head (sixth and seventh days). Heat in the chest and head, with chilliness of the rest of the body, the whole day (after twenty-four days). Fever-head, with burning first, then alternating with chill. Unaccountably feverish; first hot, then cold. Sweat. Profuse sweat during the day, in the cold air. Sweat breaks out frequently through the day. Almost constant sweat. Sweat during the day, on the slightest exertion. Sweat in the morning (the next morning). Sweat in the morning, for three mornings in succession. Profuse sweat in the morning, for several mornings in succession. Night-sweat, especially before midnight, with cold limbs. Much sweat through the day, when walking, and also at night. A kind of anxious sweat, with some nausea. Sweat of the whole face, at supper. Night-sweat, on the back. Night- sweat, only on the limbs, which feel clammy (after a few days). Sweat of the palms, on the slightest exertion. Sweat on the knees. Sweat of the feet.
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.