Sleep and Dreams.
Sleepiness.
Frequent yawning. Frequent yawning, without weariness, the whole forenoon (after 40 drops, eighth day). Frequent yawning and sleepiness while sitting (first day). Repeated yawning after supper (one hundred and fifty-third day). Transient sleepiness, followed by wakefulness, lasting till 4 A.M. (fifth day after 10 drops of the tincture). Unusual sleepiness after twelve hours dispensary work.
Extreme sleepiness at 5.30 P.M., could scarcely keep the eyes open long enough to write a few words, relieved for an hour and a half after coffee (third day). Inveterate sleepiness. Sleepy at 4 P.M. (third day). Sleepy very early in the evening, was, however, unable to sleep, for in bed he became wide awake, with heat, violent throbbing of the temporal arteries until midnight (fourth night). More sleepy than usual, and tired at night (twenty-second day). More sleepy than usual, nevertheless can do with but four hours sleep in the twenty-four without feeling over-fatigued.
More sleepy than usual after dinner, and late at night, when reading or writing. Great drowsiness, overslept about two hours beyond the usual time after inhalations. Much more drowsy, apt to doze when sitting, and reading, or studying the Materia Medica at night, which is always a delightful occupation, keeping him awake generally till after 2 A.M. (twelfth day). After dinner, at 1 P.M., slept, and felt very sleepy till about 4 P.M. (one hundred and second day). Overpowered by sleep after dinner, for an hour (fourth day). Very quiet sleep (first night).
Deep sound sleep from evening till 7 P.M. (fourth night).
Slept sounder and later than usual (eleventh day); sleep the same up to fifth day. Slept later than usual in the morning (fifty- sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and sixty-second days). Can sleep better; is more ready to get up in the morning.
Sleeplessness.
It takes away the desire for sleep and the cravings of hunger; a person using it may go forty-eight hours without sleeping or eating. Sleeplessness, even with such as do not take Coca in excess, but a chronic sleeplessness with old chewers, and a leaden skin. Sleeplessness, but with desire for work the whole night (sixth night). Loss of sleep in the evening (nineteenth day). Loss of sleep, with flow of ideas at night in bed. After going to bed he became quite wide awake, but had chilliness and vertigo, with fever, rush of ideas, with grief; loss of sleep till 2 A.M., followed by sweat and quiet sleep (eighteenth night). Restless sleep the whole night, being awake off and on, but without any other symptom (first day). Slept all night, but very restless and dreaming, and was in all her dreams hurried.
During the proving, sleep somewhat disturbed.
Disturbed sleep, with frequent waking, unpleasant dreams, and constant perspiration. Woke on back, in the midst of a dream (forty-eighth day); had many dreams, and woke once or twice on back (seventh, fourteenth, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and fifty-second days); not more dreams than usual, not so many as before (ninth and fifty-eighth days). Woke on back in morning (fifth day); and many dreams (sixth and eleventh days); twice (fifty-eighth day); woke in morning partly on back, after not so many dreams as before (tenth day). Second day, woke once in night and once in the morning, lying on the back (fifty-second and sixtieth days). Woke three times on back, or somewhat inclined to left side (one hundred and forty-fifth day). Woke two or three times at night, or in morning on back after many dreams; tired on rising, not refreshed; this went away after breakfast, during a walk (third day). Woke once or twice in night lying on back; from the second day, almost every night during second, third, seventh, eighth, twelfth, thirteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth weeks, and during fifth and sixth months of the proving. Woke partly on back, many dreams, a slight pain in left deltoid (twenty-fourth day). Rising from bed at 11 P.M. (being unable to sleep) and going to work, being quite awoke; only now and then disturbed by pressive pain in the eyes; this lasted till 2 A.M., and was followed by quiet sleep (third night). Rose more than an hour before the usual time, read, then fell asleep in chair (one hundred and second day). A sleep of three hours restored him fully from this Coca intoxication, and he could then attend to his daily business without the least feeling of indisposition, but on the contrary with an uncommon ease.
Dreams.
Many dreams (first night). Night dreamy, though he slept well and awoke fresh. Night dreamy and restless. All night through, incoherent dreams, not remembered. Dreams more than usual, vivid, and partly suggested by what he had read lately (ninety-seventh and one hundred and seventeenth days). Dreams of great activity.
Sleep full of active trouble dreams, notwithstanding which awoke lively and vigorous every morning for ten days after leaving off medicine.
Vivid dreams of fighting, suggested by reading the “Fire Worshippers” a few days ago (seventy-third day). Dreamed vividly that the medicine had caused the teeth and a piece of the jaw to become quite loose, so that one tooth and a piece of the jaw easily came out; further dreaming connected with this (seventy- eighth day). Woke at 7 A.M., with a very vivid recollection of a dream, in which he held a beetle of the largest kind by the upper part of the body, in the agony of death firmly grasped between the index finger and thumb, so that it could not hurt him, and wondered at the great power it exercised to get loose and bite him (second day). Dreamed of fighting for a levy with six or seven black generals, who at last succeeded in garroting him, binding him round with ropes, preventing his further defense, causing him great agony of mind (twelfth day). Dreamed he saw a recently deceased friend hanging dead by his legs before his eyes for hours (eighth day).
Fever.
Chilliness.
A slight lowering of the bodily temperature.
Chilliness (third night). About 10 P.M., when sitting indoors with a window behind my back open, chilliness, and afterwards shivering; the shivering continued after the window was closed, and also in the open air, going off with rather quick motion in open air. (The weather felt cold to me, though I had on rather a thicker coat than usual; my companion felt rather cold, though others found the evening warm at that time), ninety-eighth day).
Chilly (fifth day). Felt very chilly all over, and inactive (second day). Felt quite cold the whole day (seventh day).
Chilliness in the head (seventh day).
Heat.
Fever in the afternoon, with great prostration, relieved by wine (the relief continued until evening), (fifth day). After three drachms of infusion, a feverish condition, with increased heat of skin. Occasional slight heat in right chest, about middle near sternum, indoors, 1 P.M., and afterwards (fifty-first day).
Flashes of heat up the back, and burning across abdomen in flashes. Warm feeling in front of left thigh, at 1 P.M. (ninth day).
Sweat.
Perspire freely and without exertion. Profuse sweat in the evening (ninth day). Extremely unpleasant perspiration, offensive breath.
Conditions.– Aggravation.
(Morning), Fear; confusion of head; after rising, dull headache; lachrymation, etc.; flow from nose; early, in bed, feeling in nostril; on waking, dryness of mouth; feeling in mouth; on waking, bitter taste; on rising, soreness at back of throat; tickling at back of throat; hawking of mucus; on waking, pain on swallowing; at 8 o’clock, flatus from bowels; during forcible expiration, when standing, pain in lumbar region; on waking, deadness of little finger (Forenoon), Pulsation, etc., in ears; yawning.
(Afternoon), About 5 or 6 o’clock, indoors, confusion of brain, etc.; headache, etc.; about 1 o’clock, indoors, slight headache; towards 4 o’clock, while reading, pains above eyes; bitter taste on tongue; fullness of chest, etc.; weakness; fever, etc.; at 10 o’clock, warm feeling in front of thigh (Evening), Depressed, etc.; towards 9 o’clock, fullness, etc., in forehead; flames before eyes; hearing too acute; abdomen distended; heaviness of chest, etc.; loss of sleep; sweat.
(Night), Itching of pimples on thigh; chilliness; at 10 o’clock, when sitting indoors, with window open behind back, chilliness.
(Walking in open air), Vertigo; during rain, pain in temple, etc.; paroxysms of cough.
(Ascending steps), Vertigo; blackness before eyes.
(Bending head forward), Giddy feeling.
(Blowing nose), Pain over side of head.
(After breakfast), Nausea.
(Chocolate), Colic.
(Coffee), Eructations; colic.
(Coughing), Pain in forehead.
(After dinner), Eructations; sleepiness.
(Eating), Spots before eyes; soreness in jaw.
(Elevating head and turning eyes up). Frontal headache.
(Walking quickly in hot sun), Pain in temples.
(Deep inspiration), Stitches in lung.
(Indoors), Headache; frontal headache.
(Looking up), Headache in temple.
(Lying down), Pain in top of head, etc.
(Pressing at stool), Pain in forehead.
(Raising or stretching out arm), Pain in forearm.
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.