Skin
Objective.
Reddish spots above the eyebrows. Desquamation on the eyebrows.
(On the second top of the left foot, a painful excoriation, which apparently bleeds), (after three hours). Roughness on the forehead, like a rough line with its convexity upward (fourth and fifth days, and seventh week). Eruptions, Dry. Elevated red blotches over the eyebrows, most abundant on the left side, but of longer continuance on the right (third and following days).
Elevated red blotches (above the eyebrows, most abundant on the left side, but longer-lasting on the right) still continue, whilst the other symptoms disappears, in the evening (fourth day). Scaly eruptions, with pricking sensation in the eyebrows (third day). Pimples on the nose. Pimples on the abdomen, but principally on the thighs and legs, the points of which scaled off the seventeenth day after first dose, and the eighth day after fourth dose. In the morning, there appears a pimple of the size of a hemp seed towards the right, between the root of the nose and the eye (sixteenth day); several similar pimples in the right side of the face (after five weeks). In the afternoon, violent itching on the back, more towards the left (eleventh and following days). Violent itching, worse on warm days, and small pimples here and there (twelfth day). A group of small red pimples on the left hip, in the back, and lower portion of the region of the joint, and below on a spot half as the palm of the hand; which have opened during the night after scratching (fourth and following day). Itching pimples on the back (part of S.375).
Eruptions, Moist. The parts around the spot touched by it become white and painful, forming a dense vesicle filled with matter.
There yet arise large and smaller vesicles, in groups, with very sensitive itching on the ulnar side of the right thumb and the radial side of the index finger, leaving behind them dry scurfy spots (during sixth week). All his cicatrices, dating from thirty-two to two years, are red around the edges, and covered here and there with itching vesicles (fourth morning); those of more ancient date have larger vesicles; those of recent date are filled with very small pimples, but only on the tissue of the cicatrix, and not on the surrounding skin. Several small light carmine-red, round, elevated, blood-vesicles, resembling little flesh-warts; they are very soft and compressible, and by a strong and steady pressure the blood disappears, but immediately returns again; the largest is the size of a hemp seed, the smaller ones like millet-seeds; some are still smaller, but they are very perceptible as light red enlargements of the capillaries, raising up the cuticle; the largest is an inch below the right nipple, and the same distance towards the right of it, a smaller one, one inch below the same nipple; two on the right side of the median line of the abdomen above the navel; a still smaller one on the right side of the chest; five very small ones of light color on the inside of the right upper and lower arm; he noticed them for the first time about the thirteenth day; three weeks later, some of the smaller ones had disappeared; the larger had become darker, somewhat resembling naevi materni; those above the navel are also larger; after three months they are paler; they made their appearance and remained without any itching. On the right index finger, violent itching and small vesicles, in the evening (fifth day). Eruptions, Pustular. The smallest quantity applied to the hand excites violent itching, and pustules filled with matter are formed (Liebig). The itching on the chest, which causes scratching till it is sore, with small, soft pustules and pimples, which he had had every summer, was much increased on the fourth day; during the fourth week there was suddenly a sensation as if the skin were exceedingly smooth, wherewith all inclination to scratch disappeared, lasting one day, then the itching returned, but was diminished and gradually disappeared earlier in the season than usual. Subjective. Some pain, redness, and heat; the epidermis came off in scales after a few days. It acts most powerfully on the animal tissues; on coming in contact with the skin, there ensues a violent pain. Itching all over in the different places, but for the most part only in the posterior portions; for five weeks. Itching the whole day in different spots, particularly on the back (fourth day). Slight itching (part of S.551). The itching of the skin is a fine crawling on a small spots, and so penetrating and sticking that he is obliged to scratch several times, when he is relieved; it was somewhat pricking, acute, very circumscribed, and scratching was quite irresistible; usually there were several of these itching points in one group, though they could not always be recognized. (The itching of the skin habitual to him in the month of March disappears). Burning pains on small spots of the skin on the back of the right hand, angle of the index finger, and here and there on the left hand. Itching-burning on a small spot near the right eye, externally (after severe hours). Creeping and severe itching on the right shoulder in the evening (after five or six hours). Itching in the brows. Itching in the right eyebrow.
Itching in the upper eyelids and the inner canthi. Itching, inducing him to scratch on both upper eyelids (first evening).
Itching on the right side of the face. Itching on the left breast and right side of the nose (after smelling). In the evening, itching on the right nipple and around it, the nipple is the next morning much larger, more red, and the areola darker; a thin, brownish crust is formed, as if caused by perspiration and dust, with uncleanliness, on the areola; on the left side there is no trace of it, and it must have formed very rapidly, because of daily washing (twelfth and thirteenth days). Itching on the left side of the nape of the neck, on top and below the shoulder, and on the back, every morning and evening (fourth and following days). Itching on the left shin, on the left glutei muscles, and forehead, which compels rubbing. Itching in the small of the back. Itching in the left heel (from smelling). Itching of all cicatrices in the evening; they are all on the left side; on the thigh, upper arm, and the most recent on the left hand, cut by glass; this last itches most severely (third day). In the evening, changing from the top of one shoulder to the other, severe itching, with now and then a single stitch in the skin (first day). A very severe itching on the throat and chest, in the forepart, so that he was obliged to scratch it during his walk in the evening (tenth day). Violent itching, which distresses him particularly in the evening, on a small spot in the center of the perineum (from the second week, increasing until the sixth and seventh). Violent itching on the cicatrize of an old abscess on the inside of the left thigh (third day).
Violent itching in the scars on the ball of the left thumb and joint of the index finger, in the afternoon (eighth day).
Itching above the anus, suddenly and most violent, often returning (thirteenth and following days). Irresistible violent itching in a spot as large as a pea in the middle of the left scapula (sixth and seventh weeks). A really tormenting itching in the forenoon, almost only on the back, though sometimes on the throat, extending to the chest; he was obliged to undress and rub with a brush, when it disappeared (twelfth and thirteenth days).
Burning itching in the right eyebrow, disappears after scratching (one hour after fifth dose). Pricking burning-itching in the face. Sticking itching on the inner side of the left little finger. Slight itching like fine prickings, on the right side of the face (after one hour). Violent pricking itching on detached spots, mostly on the left side, particularly on the side of the chest towards the back, and on the thigh, in the evening, about 10 to 11 o’clock (third and following days). The itching is most violent and lasts longest on the back. The itching is always worse in the evening. Soreness of warts on the left hand.
Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Drowsiness. Drowsiness, constant sleepiness, for the first five days after the acid. Periodical attacks of sleepiness, in the afternoon. Sleepiness by paroxysms, in the afternoon (second day). Unconquerable sleepiness in the morning soon after taking the acid; after a short and refreshing sleep, it nevertheless returns every two hours until evening. Sleepy earlier in the evening (during the first two weeks). He is sleepy unusually early in the evening, with sound sleep and early waking (eighth day). Sleepy early in the evening; lies down on the bed undressed, and sleeps the whole night; although the window and door were wide open, and the night was very cold, yet he had taken no cold in the morning, but had had a very good sleep (seventh day). Sudden sleepiness, in the evening (fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth, and twelfth days). Sudden sleep in the evening; he sleeps straight through till morning (tenth day).
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.