Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness, great inclination to sleep, the whole day; in the morning sleepiness longer than usual. Very uneasy sleep at night. Sleep disturbed by anxious dreams. Vexations dreams, making him anxious. Dreams about dancing, lice, etc.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness the whole day, or only in the forenoon, two days in succession. Sensation of chilliness and elongation of all the anterior teeth, in the morning. The chilliness is accompanied by empty eructations and yawning, thirst, pain in the small of the back, and biting as of ants over the whole body (at night), or by excessive stitches in the ears, at the commencement. Internal and external coldness, appearing in evening about 6 to 8.15, and lasting from a quarter to two hours, or the whole night to 5 A.M., sometimes with thirst.
Chills for two hours, with chattering of the teeth, the skin feeling warm to the touch, with violent thirst, so that the lips stick together. Shaking chills proceeding from the back, with external coldness, even of the forehead; from 7 P.M., lasting the whole night till 4 A.M. Sudden shaking chill at night, waking him from sleep, and disappearing after five minutes. Heat. Warmth, with frequent flushes of heat. Increased warmth, with anxiety and sweat, in the afternoon. The fever is remittent or intermittent, quotidian or tertian, rather postponing than anticipating. Sweat. Sweat all over in the morning without known cause. Sweat over the whole body, on waking at 4 A.M. Slight nocturnal perspiration.
Conditions.-
Aggravation (Morning), On rising, ill-humor, etc.; on rising, vertigo; noises in ear; after rising, hiccough; on eating soup, qualmishness; chilliness, etc.; sweat. (Forenoon), Pain in head, etc.; heaviness, etc., in the forehead; drawing pain from ear to vertex; sneezing. (Afternoon), Feeling of coldness in temple; buzzing in ear; cough, etc.; stitches in forepart of chest; warmth, etc.
(Evening), Bleeding from nostril; thirst; emission of flatulence; digging in subcostal region; stitches in forepart of chest; the symptoms; biting over body; itching.
(Night), Itching in nostrils; thirst; emission of flatulence; scraping in larynx; after lying down, cough; weight on chest; sticking pains; the symptoms; biting over body; itching; chills.
(Cold air), Beating in molars.
(After dinner), Constriction of stomach.
(Leaning against anything), Beating in stomach.
(Sitting), Most symptoms.
(Spinning), Vertigo in forehead.
(Standing), Tension in groins.
(Walking), Constriction in region of malleolus.
Amelioration
(Open air), Headache, etc.; itching of inner canthi, etc.
(Walking in open air), Burning of eyes, etc.; most symptoms.
(Cold), Sensitiveness of palate.
(After dinner), Heaving.
(Eating), Sticking in throat; qualmishness; pain of stomach.
(Walking), Stitches in small of back.
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.