Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Sleepiness for eight weeks. Sleepiness, with great anxiety. Great sleepiness, but sleep very much interrupted and disturbed by bad dreams. Drowsiness. Sleep, but half awake, with heavy dreams and fantasies. Sleeplessness. Sleep very imperfect; frequently awoke starting and frightened, and was troubled with incessant unpleasant dreams (one). Sleep bad, with frightful dreams. Disturbed sleep. Sleep greatly disturbed. Restless sleep, with frightful dreams. Loss of sleep. Very little sleep. which is disturbed by dreams and nightmares (after thirty- eight years). Sleeplessness, etc.; for months. Sleeplessness, with hallucinations, heavy dreams, nightmare. Sleeplessness; or the sleep was frequently interrupted by jerkings, and disturbed by heavy dreams. Sleeplessness; on falling asleep he fancied that some one called him, started up in fright and became chilly. Obstinate sleeplessness; nights disturbed by nightmare and half-waking dreams. Sleepless night. Night sleepless, especially after midnight. The patient had no rest at night, would stand up, wanted to walk about, saw ghosts, animals which were jumping at her, thought men were on the bed, thought living things were creeping into her mouth and vagina. Starting up in sleep. Dreams. Heavy dreams. Frightful dreams at night.
Fever
Chilliness. Skin cold and dry. Whole body cold. Constant chilliness, even in a heated room and in bed. Frequent chill and heat. Those suffering from tremor frequently complained of a sensation of coldness, though without diminished temperature; one person wore a heavy overcoat, even in the hot summer. Heat. Increased temperature. Heat of the skin above the natural standard. Skin hot and dry. Feverish and very uneasy (after twelve days). Fever. The common erethic fever, or fever of salivation, characterized by quick pulse, hot and dry skin, red gums, swollen, tongue salivation, loss of appetite, restlessness, headache, etc.; this may continue as long as the poisonous effects of mercury continue in the system, for weeks and even months. Another kind of fever is the adynamic mercurial fever, characterized by depression of strength, praecordial anxiety, frequent sighing, partial or universal trembling a small quick pulse, a pinched and cadaverous countenance, a sense of coldness; the tongue is seldom furred; a sudden and violent exertion may sometimes prove fatal. Hectic fever. Hectic fever and phthisis pulmonalis. (Intermittent fever seems very prevalent among the workers in nearly all the mines and factories, as reported by nearly all observers, but whether due to mercury or local causes is uncertain-T. F. A.). One of the men who escaped the salivation suffered from quotidian ague. Sweat. Sweats. Profuse sweats at night. Constantly bathed in sweat, though in a state of collapse. Very copious perspiration. Profuse perspiration, at night. Profuse offensive perspiration. Skin dry; easily desquamating.
Conditions Aggravation
(Morning), On rising headache; aching in left arm; tremors. (Evening), Vertigo; tremor. (Night), Hallucinations, etc.; falling asleep of arms, etc.; heaviness in extremities, etc.; tearings in hands, etc.; oppression of breath; Sweats. (In bed), Tearing in limbs. (beer), Headache, etc. (Closing eyes), Tremors. (eating), Eructations; hiccough; vomiting; pressure in stomach. (Emotional disturbance), All symptoms; tremor. (Exertion), Jerking of hands. (Change of weather), nervous feelings.
Amelioration
(Intoxication of wine), Tremor. (Rest), Tremor. (Ardent spirits), Loss of power in hands.
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.