Long-continued sleep, in the morning (second day). Very long stupid sleep. Somnolence (fourth day); (after sixteen hours).
Increasing somnolence (eighth day). Somnolency and death on a sudden increase of all the symptoms (sixth day). The patient became somnolent, could not answer intelligibly, screamed from time to time; the screaming, became so incessant and terrible that she was removed to the delirium ward, after which she died (fifth day). Complete somnolence; when aroused the patient seemed to be in a raging delirium, and beat about him (fifth day). Very soporous. Sopor interrupted by screaming (eighth day). Starting up in fright on falling asleep. Crying out and talking in sleep, at night. Frightful starting up in sleep, towards morning. He lies at night on the back, with the left hand under the occiput.
Great inclination to sit sleeping, with the head bent forward (after five hours). Sleeplessness. Insomnia (fifth day).
Sleepiness, etc. Night sleepless (seventh night); (fifth day); (fifth to tenth day). Sleepless, from 1 to 4 A.M. Sleeplessness and uneasiness, in the evening, in bed (after thirty-six hours).
Sleepless, inclined to study much later than usual (second and third nights). Is not sleepy, in the evening in bed, followed by light sleep, so that every slight noise weakens him. Sleepy, but unable to sleep (second day). Night sleepless and restless, with delirium (second night). Very restless nights, constant dreaming.
Very restless sleep. Restless nights, on account of many dreams.
Night restless; (fourth day). Restless sleep, at night. Restless sleep, with tossing about and dreams, and while awake anxiety in the whole body. Sleep restless and full of dreams; headache in the morning, on waking. (Sleep restless). Restless, that prevents sleep, several nights. Restless sleep, at night, and lascivious dreams, with emissions, whereupon he became very wide awake, afterwards but little sleep, only confused in the morning hours, before 6 o’clock. Restless, dreamy sleep, at night, with much tossing about (third day). Restless night; waking frequently (third night). Night restless, woke towards 4 A.M., and could not fall asleep again (fifth day). Restless night; was a long time getting asleep. Was unable to sleep; the desire to sleep was very great, but I could not find a comfortable position (after five hours). Little sleep (third night). Somewhat restless, at night (second night). Restlessness (first night); much greater, the sufferer rolling from side to side in fitful slumbers, and getting up frequently for water (second day); very restless (fourth day). Sleep interrupted. Restless and no sleep, during the night (fourth night). Tossing about and weeping, all night, with anxious dreams. Little sleep, owing to restlessness (first night); with constant tossing from side to side; bemoaned his inability to sleep (sixth day). He was obliged to turn over constantly, at night. Great uneasiness, at night, with anxiety.
Uneasy sleep, with many dreams and frequent waking, for several nights. After waking, in the evening and night, he cannot fall asleep again for a long time. He cannot fall asleep before midnight, is obliged to get out of bed, and only after lying down can he fall asleep. She could not fall asleep, at night; on account of a feeling as if the eyes would not close, she was obliged to close them with the hands, with a whirling in the head (after six days). He cannot fall asleep until 1 o’clock on account of restlessness, also he cannot get the feet warm, four nights in succession. She is unable to fall asleep, in the evening, on account of uneasiness, and on waking she is immediately restless (after five days). Cannot fall asleep, at night, for two or even four hours. Difficult falling asleep, and frequent waking. Difficult falling asleep, in the evening, with restless tossing about. She could not fall asleep, at night, after going to bed, on account of numerous fancies; sleep throughout the night was partial, and associated with confused fancies. Lies a long time in bed, in the evening, before falling asleep. Frequent waking on account of heat, without sweat, at night. Frequent waking, at night, with chilliness. Waking after three hours’ sleep, tormented by heavy anxious dreams. After falling asleep, preceded by long-continued restlessness, she woke with oppression, as from a weight on the chest, and difficult respiration (after twenty-two days). Sleep disturbed by frequent waking. She woke towards morning, started up in fright. Frequent waking, at night, with boring in the teeth. Anxiety during unconscious sleep, ringing the hands as in despair, sobbing, lamenting, tossing about, short breath; in fear she grasps at bystanders, or deliriously grasps after them. Feeling in the morning as if he had not slept enough, weak and indolent. Even quiet sleep does not refresh her. Awoke at 7 A.M., feeling unrefreshed. Dreams. Distressing dreams of vermin. Unusually vivid and constant dreams, at night (eleventh day). Many dreams upon scientific and philosophical subjects (first night); many dreams, character unremembered (second night); erotic dreams (third night); a fearful dream of being bitten by a ferocious black horse, so vivid as to make a very painful impression on the mind (fourth day). The fitful slumbers were filled with dreams of fighting, or of violent physical exertion, accompanied by a running comment of incoherent talk (eighth day). Vivid dreams, at night (second day). Unusually vivid dreams remembered after waking, in the morning (quite unusual), (twenty-third day). Vivid dreams full of restless work and business, which he could not finish. Vivid dreams. Vivid, partly recollected dreams.
Historical dreams, every night. Nightmare, so that he cried out, from a dream of imminent danger. Uninterrupted remembered dream of the business of the day, at night. Vexatious dream. Dreams of dead people, of fights, etc. Sleep full of dreams, interrupted, exhausting. Dream of robbers. Dream of a hemorrhage. Sad dreams.
Fretful dreams. Hideous dreams. Immediately on falling asleep, he dreams of thighs that made him anxious, and he wakes. Dreams of fire, with crying out and beating about her. Heavy anxious dreams, towards morning. Frightful and anxious dream (first night). Confused dreams, at night. Anxious phantasm, on falling asleep, as if a bad man grasped him by the throat and tried to choke him (after four days). Anxious dream, as if an insect were stinging behind the ear. Anxious dreams (after forty-eight hours). Very anxious dreams. Anxious dreams of biting animals; she cried out and woke in great anxiety. Dream that she was pinched on the back and breast, and tickled on the soles.
Solicitous dreams of necessary business, for attention to which he frequently rose and made preparations. Frequent lascivious dreams, with emissions. Lascivious dreams and emissions. Frequent lascivious dreams, with erections. Ludicrous dreams.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness (fourth day); (third night). Severe chill, followed by a fever, flushed cheeks, the left one much more than the right (after two hours); fever, with headache, but no chill (second day); considerable fever, in the evening, with a whitish discharge from the vagina (fifth day); fever, with headache, in the afternoon (sixth day). Chilliness and trembling of the whole body, especially of the abdomen, at night, on waking from anxious dreams; great orgasm of blood and oppression of the chest, so that he could not get a breath and could scarcely rise (after ten days). Constant chilliness towards evening (first day); (third day). The patient complained of constant chilliness (third day).
Frequent chilliness (first day); (second day). Feeling of chilliness, alternating with heat (second day); fever increased (after three days). Chilliness, with increased temperature and pulse (third day). Chills, accompanied with ringing in the ears, most in the right. Chilliness on rising. Chilliness, even in a warm room (second morning). Chills at 1 P.M., lasting till 5 P.M.
(this symptom came three days in succession). Chilliness over the whole trunk, as if it were in cold water, without thirst, not relieved by an overcoat and a glass of beer. Chilliness over the whole body, lasting half an hour, aster every dose. Internal chilliness several afternoons, for half an hour or an hour, and at times with a sensation as of hot water in the pit of the stomach and in the back. Chilliness, in the evening, on falling asleep. Chilliness, with cold hands and pale face, frequent nausea, empty eructations, while walking in the open air, at 7 P.M. Chilliness while sitting, not while walking. Chilliness and symptoms of fever (third day). Chilliness for two hours, in the morning, with yawning, without subsequent heat. Much chilliness, with cold hands and feet, during the menses. Chilliness in the hands, though they were warm, red, and the veins distended.
Chilliness towards 6 P.M., and falling asleep from weakness; towards midnight, waking from heavy dreams, with profuse general perspiration. Chilliness, every evening, with shivering, without thirst, though with dryness of the throat. Chilliness, with anxiety, in the evening. He was so chilly that he trembled all over, even by a warm stove. Violent chill before the stool.
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.