Sleep
Yawning, with sleepiness, followed by creeping chills over the whole body, without subsequent heat. Yawning, with sleepiness, in the afternoon, while sitting (second day). Frequent yawning and sleepiness, and also otherwise uncomfortable (fourth day). Sleepiness, even in the forenoon, while sitting; was obliged to rise and move about (first day). Night restless, frequent waking on account of uneasiness and heat (second day). Sleep restless, on account of painfulness of the throat (tenth night). Night restless, could not fall asleep on account of sticking pains in the left side; was obliged to rest on the other side; the pain was aggravated by stooping (first and second nights). Night restless, could not fall asleep on account of pains in the head (first night). Frequent waking at night, and only quiet and sound sleep about 4 A.M. (sixth night). Frequent waking at night, with general discomfort (third night). Frequent waking at night, on account of uneasiness; then she could not fall asleep again for a long time (eighth day). Night restless; she woke often, without cause (first night). Sleep always good, but with frequent though unremembered dreams. Constant, confused, visionary dreams while half awake (second night). Voluptuous dream (eighth night). Dream that she saw a man coming with whom she was acquainted, but whom she took for the devil, but afterward recognized, at which she was happy as she had previously been frightened (second night). Dream that she had lost a tooth, which caused her very great unhappiness (eighth night). Frightful dreams; she seemed to see the head of an acquaintance cut off, whereupon she woke in perspiration and anxiety (fourth night). Dream that she had pains in the right arm; she tried to rub it but could not; tried to move it but could not, whereupon she was very much distressed (twentieth night). Dream that she almost fell from the loft, and could with difficulty hold on, whereupon she woke in fright (second night). Dream that her mother fell into a cistern and was drowned whereupon she woke trembling and weeping (sixth night). Dream that he ran after men, bruised and very much injured himself (first night). Dream that her brother, living at a distance, visited her, and she was very happy (first night). A dream of tombs, which he himself inhabited; afterwards a voluptuous dream (fifth night). Dream that persons she knew were dead; she wept. Dream of quarreling with a view to death and murder; she tried to cut off the finger of an acquaintance, but could not accomplish it in spite of every effort (seventh night). Dream that she had quarreled with an acquaintance (sixth night). Dream of quarreling and struggling with her husband, who lived at a distance, and who had just arrived, whereupon she woke (third night).
Fever
Chilliness and shivering from 6 to 7 P.M. followed by good sleep and agglutination of the eyes (tenth day). Chilliness in the afternoon, disappearing in the evening (thirteenth day). Chilliness for an hour, in the morning, without subsequent heat or sweat or thirst (second day). Chilliness and shivering over the whole body at 6 P.M. and the whole following night till morning (twelfth day). More chilliness that heat, though transient shivering, alternating with heat, from the morning on, without thirst (fourth day). Slight shivering frequently creeping over the nape of the neck, before and after midnight (second day). Shivering, commencing at 8 A.M. with yawning, lasting all day (seventh day). Shivering on the back, at 6 P.M., lasting half an hour relieved by the warmth of the stove (twenty-sixth day). Shivering on the back, hands, and feet, from 6 to 6.30 P.M. (twenty-ninth day). Heat, mingled with chilliness and thirst, during the inflammation of the throat (tenth day). At one time chilliness, at another heat, without thirst; she did not dare to put the hands put of bed. At first heat for an hour, in the evening, after lying down, followed by chilliness, lasting a quarter of an hour (second day). He was constantly more warm than cold (first days). Sensation of heat over the whole body, with anxiety, great prostration, and weakness (fourth day). Constant heat without thirst in the afternoon; shivering at 8 P.M., with warmth of the hands and feet, alternating with heat; at night, heat with much thirst (fourth day). Heat at night, with violent thirst; was obliged to put the hands and feet out of bed, which he did without injury (first night). A painful boring and gnawing in the occiput, more in the left side, in the afternoon (third day). Heat over the whole body, as if sweat would break out (first day). Heat and sweat, with thirst, and then chilliness (first night). Sweat in the afternoon (first day). Sweat over the whole body, without profuse heat, in the morning in bed, with an unpleasant sensation of warmth (twelfth day). Sweat, after midnight, without thirst (sixth day).
Aggravation
(Morning), Head dull; agglutination of eyes; vision dim; mouth dry; sticking in throat. (5 A.M.), Biting about navel. (Morning in bed), Head heavy; cramp in toes. (Morning on rising), Nausea; vertigo; burning in eyes. (Morning on waking), Burning in eyes; bitter, disagreeable taste. (Forenoon), Apprehensive, fullness of head; sneezing; nausea; erections. (9 to 10 A.M.), Stitches in left flank. (Noon), Burning in stomach. (afternoon), Apprehensive; burning in eyes; teeth painful; heaviness or pressure on chest; pain in chest; stitches i chest; stitches beneath shoulders, in small of back; in patella; tearing in legs, in right side of head, shoulders, in forearms, in knees; chilliness; heat; sweat. (Afternoon and night), Constriction of throat; thirst; stitches in side of stomach. (1 to 3 P.M.), Cutting in abdomen. (3 P.M.), Uneasiness. (4 P.M.), Cutting in hypochondria; griping in groin. (7 P.M.), Biting about navel. (6 to 7 P.M.), Chilliness. (Evening), Quarrelsome; tearing in side of head; burning in eyes; eyes watery, weak; sneezing; pain and gnawing in teeth; soreness, tickling in throat; thirst; hiccough; pinching in flanks; cutting in abdomen, in chest; itching in chest; twitching on left scapula. (Night), Nose stopped; toothache; tearing in back of legs; heat. (Before midnight), Pinching in right flank. (After midnight), Sweat. (Open air), Vertigo. (After dinner), Pinching in stomach; erections. (After eating), Flatulent distension of abdomen. (House), Headache. (Lying down), Stitches here and there. (After moderate meal), Fullness of stomach. (Motion), Beating in head; stitches in nape; pain in margin of hand. (Rising from bed), Sticking in heel. (Rising from stooping), Vertigo. (Sitting), Stitches in left ribs; extremities fall asleep; tearing in left arm. (Sitting, in afternoon), Pain in thighs; tearing in thighs. (Standing), Stitches in knees; cramp in side of foot. (Writing), Tearing in margin of hand.
Amelioration
(Towards evening), Quarrelsome mood. (Open air), General symptoms; vertigo; heaviness of head. (Bed), Toothache. (Cold), Pain in cheek. (Eructations), Pressure in stomach. (Lying on painful side), Stitches in left flank; tearing in left scapula. (Motion), Stitches between shoulders; pain in left shoulder; heaviness of hands and feet. (Rubbing), Itching on pudenda; sticking in left shoulder; burning in fingers. (Walking), Short breath.
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.