Fever
Chilliness. The temperature of the body was far below the normal. Rather cool than warm (after one hour and a half). Chilliness (after taking the drug). Chilliness in the house at 9 P. M. (second day). Chilliness in the afternoon; shivering through the skin several times. Chilliness after rising, about midnight, so that she was unable to get warm in bed for a long time. Chilliness for two hours with a flat taste in the mouth. Chilliness all over, the whole forenoon, with a feverish taste in the mouth. Chilliness all over with pains in the back. Coldness internally and external with warmth of the feet from 2 to 4 P. M. (second day). Coldness in the open air, disappearing in the room (after two hours). Coldness and shaking chill in the house not relieved by the warmth of the stove; lasting several minutes, without subsequent heat or thirst, in the evening, after walking in the open air. Internal coldness. A internal coldness extending over the whole body. Great coldness, from 6.30 to 8.30 P. M. without subsequent heat or thirst. Feeling of coldness in the open air, at 2 P. M. Feeling of coldness in a warm room; the nose is icy cold, at 3 P. M. Slight feeling of coldness over the whole body in the house (after one hour and a half). Almost always chilly (after half an hour). Chill immediately on going out of the house in the afternoon. Shaking chill in the house (after two hours and a half). Shaking chill once during the coldness. Violent shaking chill not relieved by the warmth of the stove; relieved only by the application of warm clothes to the abdomen; it lasts for two hours after going to bed, when she fell asleep at 6 P. M. (sixth evening). Shivering with gooseflesh (after five minutes); on going out of doors (after two hours and a half). Agreeable coolness in the head after the perspiration (after a quarter of an hour). Coldness of the feet and much thirst at 7 P. M. Coolness on the sole of the left foot, soon disappearing (after two hours). Feeling of coldness in the soles of both feet in the open air, disappearing in the room (after one hour). Violent shivering in the face and hands, in the open air, going off in the house (after a quarter of an hour). Heat. Warmth over the whole body, with a feeling as if it spread from the shoulders (after one hour and a quarter and one hour and half). increased warmth of the skin before midnight which she herself does not feel. Increased warmth over the whole body; the palms of the hands are hot and dry without thirst. Increased warmth all over in the afternoon; the palms of the hands are burning hot, with some thirst. Heat with thirst disappearing in bed (first evening). Heat with thirst without previous coldness even in bed, disappearing after falling asleep (second evening at eight o’clock). Heat and perspiration all over from 2.30 to 3 P. M. Flushes of heat, with thirst at 2 P. M. Flushes of heat; anxiety rising from the abdomen into the head with redness of the face and warmth of the forehead (after one hour and a quarter). Warmth of the upper part of the body, with cold feet (after three hours). Warmth about the forehead at 1 P. M. afterwards all over, disappearing in the open air. Warmth and perspiration on the forehead and hands, frequently (after a quarter of an hour). Warmth in the whole abdomen; perspiration stands in large drops on the nose after dinner. Warmth extending from the abdomen into the shoulders, with perspiration on the back and in the axillae (after quarter of an hour). Transient warmth and perspiration on the head and hands at 4.30 P. M. Great warmth under both axillae (after half an hour). A sudden sensation of warmth on the outer margin of the left hand, as if it had been held by a warm stove. Sensation as if a pleasant warmth were creeping up the back (after one hour). Heat in the head, without sweat (after half an hour). Heat in the head, with perspiration on the forehead while the feet were cold; relieved in the open air; frequently. Heat in the head with indolence and ill-humor (after three-quarters of an hour). Heat and perspiration on the forehead (after one hour). Heat with perspiration on the forehead and warmth in the hands (after a quarter of an hour). Heat of the face, with redness; also warmth in the body (after two hours and a half). Heat and burning in the face, with redness and warmth of the forehead; dull headache; the heat extended down the back (after one hour). Heat with perspiration on the face, at 6.30 P. M. Heat in the whole abdomen in the evening lasting till 1 o’clock with loss of sleep without thirst; she was obliged to keep her hands out of bed, where even she could not bear to have them a long time (third night). Transient heat in the face, without thirst during the coldness. Transient but frequently renewed heat and sweat of the head and hands, always followed by coolness (after three quarters of an hour). Sudden flushes of heat in the head, without perspiration at 2 P. M. Orgasm and stupefaction in the head (after three-quarters of an hour). Orgasm of blood extending up the abdomen and back, with heat and anxiety (in the head), after breakfast. Sweat. Perspiration over the whole body, from 10 P. M. till morning, with weakness. Perspiration and heat of the face, during dinner (second day, also about 1 P. M).
Conditions.
Aggravation (Morning), In bed, pressive headache; lachrymation; after beer, burning in stomach etc.; in bed pain in thumb joint; in bed jerking in calf; sick feeling. (afternoon) While walking cutting in abdomen; chilliness. (evening) In bed tearing headache; by the light dryness etc. of eyes burning etc. in eyes in bed pain in left chest; pain in shoulder-joint; after walking in open air, coldness etc.; heat in abdomen. (Night) From 10 o’clock till morning perspiration. (Open air) Vertigo; pain in throat. (Walking in open air), Heaviness in head; sticking in forehead; stitch in jaw; pressure upon chest. (after dinner), Warmth in abdomen. (After eating), Weary etc. (In hot room), Headache, etc. (Laughing), Stitches in breast. (Motion), Pain in leg. (Rest), boring etc. between shoulders; pains in metacarpal ligaments. (In room), Head heavy etc.; pressure in temple. (Sitting), Pressure in chest. (Spinning), Heaviness in leg. (Stooping), Pain in forehead. (Walking), Vertigo. (Writing), Pain in small of back.
Amelioration
(Open air), Anxiety in head etc.; tension in knee bones; symptoms in general. (Cold water), Tearing in teeth. (After dinner), The symptoms. (After eating), Gnawing etc. in lower teeth; drawing downward in throat. (Rest), Pressure in forehead. (Stooping), Stitches in vertex. (Walking), Weakness of feet; stiffness in 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.