Chilliness in the back and arms, followed by chilliness in the head (second day). Chilliness and shivering, with loss of appetite, and without subsequent heat. Creeping chill up the back during the day. Chilly, several evenings, after lying down in bed. Violent shaking chill; cold creeping over the back; was obliged to lie down and cover himself, when he became warm only slowly, and on putting the hands out of bed there was immediately renewed shivering, with stiffness of the hands from cold and painful dulness of the head, without subsequent heat (after twenty-six hours). Violent shaking chill, at night, with looseness of the bowels four times, followed by great heat and perspiration all over, and preceded by perspiration before midnight, for several nights. Violent shaking chill, followed by sweat, at night; on the days previously, great restlessness for two days together (ninth day). Shivering chill over the back.
Shaking chills. Constantly more shivering, then warmth, lasting only a short time; the shivering was not relieved by the warmth of the stove (after three hours). Frequent shivering, with yawning, and with at times gooseflesh on the arms. Shivering over the whole body, without chilliness. Shivering, with pain in the head and stomach (after three hours). Slight shivering, alternating with heat of the head and hands (after three hours).
Slight shivering at 7 P.M. Great coldness. General coldness (after three weeks). Coldness of the whole body, especially of the extremities (second day). Complained of being very cold (fifth day). Long-continued coldness, without thirst, then thirst, at night; after the fever, diarrhoea. Coldness every afternoon, and weakness for several days. Coldness; lack of warmth in the whole body. Cool feeling over the whole body. Skin cold (after three days and a half); (second day). Skin dry and cold (second day). Coldness in the head and body, frequently alternating with heat (after two hours). Body cold (fifth day).
Face and hands cool. The extremities became cold, covered with clammy sweat, shortly before death. Extremities cold, bluish (seventh day). Coldness of the limbs. Extremities cold, etc. Cold hands. Icy coldness of the hands and feet all day, even in bed.
Sensation of coldness in the lower extremities (second day).
Coldness in the knees constantly, at night, in bed. Cold feel in the insteps of both feet. Feet icy cold; he could not get them warm even in bed (in June). Heat. Violent fever, with red, hot face (fourth day). Of one hundred and seventy workers in match factories (mostly boys), one hundred and twenty were attacked with typhus, often complicated with pneumonia and bronchitis, that often developed into consumption. Woke, at night, in fever, alternations of heat and chill, with violent pains in the head, abdomen, and lower extremities, afterwards vomiting, before midnight, lasting more than twenty-four hours, with disappearance of appetite and sleep (after fourteen days). Sudden fever, with great restlessness, colicky pain in the epigastric region, with retention of stool and urine (third day). Fever, two days in succession, during the menses; in the first afternoon chilliness, then heat and headache, without thirst; the second day chilliness, for an hour, at noon, then spasmodic shaking of the whole body, with chattering of the teeth, followed by heat, especially in the head, and headache (after ten days). Fever from 5 to 6 P.M.; first violent chill, so that he could not get warm, followed by heat, with thirst, and internal chilliness, and after the latter had passed off, heat and perspiration all night, in bed, till morning (after eight hours). Fever, with very quick pulse. (* Original revised by Hughes. *) Fever, during the night, and vomiting (after twelve hours). Fever, with thickly coated tongue. Well-marked fever. The greater number suffer from fever.
Fever, in the afternoon, for many days; heat, with or without previous chill. Fever, with tossing, about the bed. Inflammatory fever. Feverish (sixth day); more feverish (seventh and eighth days). Moderate fever at first, afterwards sinking of the temperature. Feverish excitement. During the first five days the patient had a moderate but regular elevation of temperature, in the evening; in the morning it was nearly normal, or even lower, with a relatively given frequency of the pulse (from 104 to 120).
On the sixth day there was a constant fever of the remittent type, continuing and reaching its highest point in the evening of the eighth day, when the pulse was exceedingly small and soft.
After the eighth day the temperature fell. On the thirteenth day there began a more regular intermittent form of fever, with a decided shaking chill; on the thirteenth day a shaking chill at 8.15 A.M., lasting twenty minutes, with a temperature of 41.8* C.; pulse 140; the temperature fell, during the copious perspiration, to 40.1*, in the evening rising 41*. On the fourteenth day chill in the morning, temperature 40.6*; temperature in the evening, during the copious perspiration, 37.9* On the seventeenth day a third chill, in the evening, lasting twenty-five minutes. On the eighteenth day the fourth chill, beginning in the morning, lasting half an hour; temperature 41*, falling in the evening to 38.8*. The next morning 38.2*, after which there was almost a regular diminution of temperature, without a regular type till the twenty-eighth day. There was, on the average, the normal temperature until the thirty-second day, when there was a fifth chill, beginning in the morning, with sweat in the evening; also a chill on the thirty sixth day, in the morning, after which there followed a remarkably low temperature for a long time, 36.4*, and even 36.1*, in the morning, and 36.8* to 36.9* in the evening, then the patient had no chill nor fever for nearly four weeks. On the sixty-third day there was a seventh chill, lasting twenty minutes, temperature 37.4*. On the sixty-fifth day a chill, temperature 38.3*. Seventy-first day a chill. Seventy-ninth day two chills, the first 8 A.M., the second about 10 A.M.; temperature fell in the afternoon to 36.7*, next morning 36.2*; after this there were three additional chills, during which the temperature did not rise above 38*. On the one hundred and twenty-ninth day the sixteenth chill, temperature 38.8*. On the one hundred and thirtieth day the seventeenth chill. On the one hundred and forty-third, one hundred and forty- fourth, one hundred and forty-sixth, and one hundred and forty- ninth days, chills, after which there was no chill for more than three weeks.
Temperature exceedingly high. Temperature very much increased (eighth day). Increased heat of the whole body. Febrile heat from 2 to 3 and from 6 to 7 P.M., especially in the face (after fourteen days). Dry heat, at night, without thirst, with pain in the part upon which she lies, as from a hard bed. General heat towards 8 P.M., with loss of thirst, not preceded by shivering.
General heat, with sweat, without thirst, from 7 to 12 A.M.
General, not disagreeable, increased warmth of the body. Great heat in the body (second day). Great heat from 1 to 4 A.M., with short breath, without thirst, with general transient perspiration, dry lips, and dry top of the tongue; the posterior portion of the mouth is moist. Paroxysms of anxious heat at times (after six days). Sensation of heat, and heat. Heat through the whole body, with a sense of internal pruritus, with rush of blood to the head. Anxious heat over the whole body, after breakfast (after half an hours). Heat over the whole body, especially in the head and hands, with bitterness in the mouth and nausea in the stomach (after two hours and a half). Heat, in the forenoon, lasting two hours, with thirst for beer, and preceded by shaking chill, and followed by chilliness; all this transpired in a dreamy slumber, with much motion of the hands. Heat, at night, without thirst, and sweat, from which he frequently woke. Febrile heat and sweat, at night, with ravenous hunger, that could not be appeased, followed by chilliness, with chattering of the teeth, and external coldness; after the chill internal heat, especially in the hands, with constant external coldness. Some heat of the body preceding the stool. Attacks of flushes of heat, especially in the evening, with slight febrile restlessness and burning heat in the palms. Flashes of heat and cold across the shoulders (after six hours). On thinking very intently she is attacked with heat, as if dashed with hot water. Constant heat, sweat, and thirst. Internal warmth through the whole body, with dulness in the head. Frequently increased warmth of the whole body at times, while sitting, disappearing in the open air or after dinner, at times also with anxiety, as if sweat would break out. Warmth of the whole body, with itching internally. The warmth of the room seemed intolerable, and account of dry heat in the face, head, and feet. Warmth over the whole body. Warmth and sweat over the body, especially on the shoulders, lasting a long time; only the feet the dry; an hour after dinner. Heat first in the hands, then in the head, then in the nape of the neck, with a feeling as if sweat would break out (after three hours). Mounting of heat from the chest into the head and whole abdomen, while eating soup, with a feeling as if sweat would break out. Frequent rising of heat from the back into the head, with redness of the face, in the afternoon, while sitting. Increased sensation of warmth in paralyzed parts. Skin very hot (tenth and eleventh days). Skin hot and dry; (second day). Skin dry, not very hot (third day).
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.