(Convulsive movements), (Case 10). Laxity of the otherwise firm muscles. Great weariness and prostration, could scarcely keep upright (several). Sleepy weariness, with confused pain in the forehead, as after a night’s debauch. (Weakness and anxiety), (Case 10). Weakness and vertigo (Cases 3 and 4 ).
Weakness and weariness (several). Weak and weary, even in the morning on rising, though the sleep had been good. Great weakness and trembling (Case 2). She was scarcely able to keep upon her feet on account of weakness, and was obliged to seek her bed, but even there was unable to fall asleep on account of weariness and heaviness of the limbs. Great prostration, with feeling of heat in the hands. (Lipothymia), (Case 12 ).
Weak, sick feeling. Dread of working, with headache. Great discomfort and nausea (several). He feels very sick, without fever or pain Case 8). All the symptoms better after dinner.
Skin.
Objective. Pimples on the forehead and left temple, with sore pain; they suppurate, and on drying leave nodules behind.
(Reappearance of facial erysipelas). Subjective. Itching in the skin in various places in the face and the whole body, as if pimples would break out; one was constantly obliged to scratch (several). Intolerable biting and itching in the palms of the hands (several). Itching biting on the balls of both thumbs, obliging him to rub them; the balls became bluish-mottled swelling, as if they had frozen. Itching biting between the middle and ring fingers, and between the ring and little fingers, with red, hot hands. Formication down the arms.
Itching on the forehead and eyebrow, obliging him to scratch. Violent itching on the backs of the hands, as if an eruption would break out (this occurred with the itching in the palms of the hands, and was repeated several times a day for five days, and was exceedingly annoying). Scraping itching on the cheeks.
Sleep and Dreams.
Sleepiness. Yawning and stretching. Yawning, with full filling of the eyes with water. Yawning, with qualmishness. Frequently repeated yawning. Violent, almost convulsive yawning, with stretching of the limbs, sleepiness, and creeping chills from the hips down the calves. Sleepy early in the evening.
(Unusually sleepy). Sleepiness. Falls asleep late. He only slumbers, cannot get sound asleep. Uneasy sleep, tossing about from one place to another. (Sudden waking from sleep), (Case 12). Dreams. If he only slumbers a little, he immediately has dreams, cries out, and wakes up. Numerous and varied dreams in the night, so that in the morning she cannot recollect them. Night full of dreams (several). She soon falls asleep and dreams the whole night. There is no minute in the night when he is not dreaming. Screaming in sleep at night.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness, especially in the forenoon, but heat in then evening. Shivering over the scalp; the hairs stand on end. Shivering over the scalp in the open air, and in the lower extremities, with paralytic drawing in the right thigh.
Shivering about the left side. Shivering over the back and gnashing of the teeth (Case 12). Shivering over the left hip and abdomen, with pain in the left side of the forehead. Heat.
Increased warmth and rapid pulse. Slight increase of warmth, with rapid, hard pulse. Heat, especially over the legs; she is obliged to keep them out of bed. In the evening, on getting into bed, glowing heat over the whole body, with dryness of the tongue, without thirst. Dry heat over the whole body.
Intolerance of warmth, desire for cold, in the evening. During diarrhoea, heat of the face. Heat, bluish redness, swelling, itching, tension, and crawling in the right cheek, as if frozen. Sweat. on the slightest motion. Sweat in the palms of the hands, at the same time with general chilliness, especially on the arms (second day).
Conditions.-
Aggravation. (Morning), Immediately on rising, vertigo; immediately on rising, toothache; early, in bed, hunger;fasting, cramp in stomach; tremulousness.
(Forenoon), Chilliness, etc.
(Evening), Heat in forehead; heat in face; thirst, etc.; stitches in anus; after lying down, cutting etc., in urethra; pain in ankle; on getting into bed, heat; intolerance of warmth.
(Night), Pain in ears; in bed, stitches in incisors; vomiting.
(Ascending steps), Oppression of chest, etc.
(Fat food), Offensive eructations. (After meals), Pain in abdomen.
(Mental labor), Vertigo.
(Motion), Sticking headache; sweat.
(Potatoes), Eructations.
(Reading), Vertigo.
(Reflecting), Vertigo.
(Sitting), Pain in small of back.
(After stool), Vertigo.
(Walking), Headache; sticking in chest; weakness of legs; stitches in hip.
Amelioration
(Drinking cold water), Pain in abdomen.
(After dinner), All symptoms.
(Lying down), Pain in abdomen.
(Sitting and resting legs on stool), Heaviness, etc.
(External warmth), Pain in abdomen; drawing 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.