The body, the face, and especially the conjunctivae, have a decidedly jaundiced tinge. Jaundice over the whole body. Jaundice. Skin all over the body of a peculiar dead waxy hue, known among workmen as lead skin. Whole surface of body had a considerably jaundice tint. Skin pale, with a somewhat jaundiced hue. Skin and adnexa of the eyes tinged with bile. Yellowish color of the skin and of the white of the eye. Yellow or leaden color of the body. Skin of a yellowish hue, not like jaundice, but like that which obtains among workers in red or white lead.
Yellow skin. Skin had a yellowish tint. General surface rather yellow. Skin of a faint yellow hue. Skin sallow and clammy. Skin had a sallow dingy appearance. Slight livid yellowness of the whole skin, especially of the face. The skin, when most affected, is of a dirty-yellow or earthy color; when less so, of a pale-yellow or light-ashen hue. The discoloration is most marked on the face, though it is spread uniformly, but less deeply, over the body and limbs. Dirty-yellow color of the skin, with yellow discoloration of the albuginea oculi, simulating jaundice. Dirty-yellowish color of skin and eye. Dirty earthy-yellow tint of the skin, at first of a pale-yellow hue (occurring in workmen exposed to the emanations of lead). Skin assumed a yellowish-dingy aspect. Skin dingy, yellow, flabby, with desquamation. Very distinct dingy-yellow color of the skin (where it is not hidden by a powdering deposit of white lead). Skin dingy yellow (lead jaundice). Skin pale yellow, cachectic. His whole color is that of marked cachexia or anaemia.
The skin assumed a well-marked cachectic color. Skin pale gray, very dry, in folds. Leaden color of the body. General paleness of the whole body, even of the lips. Surface pale, anaemic-looking, General surface pale. Surface pale. Surface pale and discolored. Eruptions. Body spotted with petechiae (fourth day).
Dark-brown spots over the whole body. Swollen red spots, without special sensation, in the fingers, disappearing after a few days. Hard movable elevations, six or seven lines broad, on the middle of the metacarpus, at the point where the tendon of the external radial muscles attaches to the metacarpal bone. Numerous small reddish and bluish veins on the calves. Erythematous rash spread over the whole breast, and he died. Cutaneous eruptions. Two itching pimples on the back of the index finger, and another on the outer portion of the condyle of the left wrist, containing clear water, with simple pain after scratching (second day). Small red pimples on the chest, that desquamate after twenty-four hours.
Slowly progressive painless red pimples on the chest. The difficulty he experiences in moving obliges him to keep lying in the same position, which gives rise to bedsores on the sacrum and thighs. Disgusting eruption on the skin. Vesicles on the forehead and nose. Cutaneous eruptions made their appearance on the legs, arms, and face, of a vesicular character. Excessive inflammation, swelling; eruption of itching vesicles, that contain a yellow liquid; formation of scabs, beneath which an offensive ichor exudes, and gangrene, with delirium and constipation. Suppuration comes to a stop and disappears. A small prick inflames rapidly, suppurates rapidly, and then heals rapidly. Pustules with thick pus in the angles of the nose, that is red; pus exudes after slight pressure (first day). Thick ecthymatous pustules over the whole surface of the body, with yellow color of the skin.
In one year had thirty or forty sores, something like boils, on the back of thigh and above; “push boils” in the commencement, but they enlarged and discharged very much. Small boil on the outer side of the right thigh. Sensations. Skin of the whole right lower extremity insensible; the strongest stimuli produce not the slightest impression. Pain is caused in the subcutaneous tissues by strong pressure, twitching the muscles, or electropuncture. Sensitiveness of the skin to the air (first and second days). General sensitiveness of the skin. Every part of the skin, especially the arms and lids, became exceedingly sensitive to touch. Burning like fire in ulcers. Skin burning. Formication. Formication on the extremities (first night). Severe formication in the forearms and fingers. Formication on the soles of the feet and insteps, especially on the right side, when standing up. Sensation of formication in the soles of the feet; it seems to him as though he were walking on nutshells. Formication on the feet.
Formication on the soles of the feet. Violent sticking itching between the left middle and ring fingers (first day). Sticking and painful formication in the soles of the feet. Sticking in the skin (first day). Some pricking on the soles of the feet. Fine stitches here and there in the skin of the face (sixth and seventh days). Itching of the whole body. Itching in the evening, H. and T. Itching of the tetter, that was usually without sensation. Itching of the skin. Frequent itching on the face (first day). Itching on the skin between the right thumb and index finger (after one day). Itching between the left thumb and index finger, not at all relieved by scratching (after five hours).Itching with burning, especially after scratching, on a spot on the inner side of the right wrist; after scratching a long time a numb sensation, lasting several hours (first day). Itching, especially on the thigh. Itching of a dry tetter on the right tibia, that usually had no sensation.
Sleep
Sleepiness. Constant short yawnings (after one hour). Frequent yawning (after one hour). Yawning and stretching (after a quarter of an hour, and one hour and a quarter). Yawning, with sleepiness, an hour after dinner. Profound drowsiness. At times he closes his eyes as if in sleep, but this drowsiness is only momentary. Drowsiness. Sleepiness. Frequent inclination to sleep, with dulness of the dead. Sleepiness, with heat over the whole abdomen and redness of the face (after two hours and three-quarters). She could scarcely keep from sleeping, after an hour, disappearing in the open air. Sleepy early in the evening; very sound sleep. Easy falling asleep while talking and knitting (after two hours and three quarters). Some sleep immediately after a paroxysm, but he is soon aroused by a return of the pain. Talking during sleep, without knowing anything of it in the morning (second day).
Frightful starting up on falling asleep. Sleep is pretty good, but he sometimes wakes with a start; he is also awakened whenever he stirs by the acuteness of the pains; nightmare almost every night. The patient frequently fell into a soporous condition. Sopor. Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness, etc.
Entire sleeplessness, etc. Sleepiness at times. Sleeplessness, lasting for twenty days. Sleeplessness, caused by the nightly aggravation of the spasmodic pains in the abdomen.
Sleeplessness for eight days; for seven nights; for twenty days. Could not fall asleep for a long time, in the evening.
Restless night. Restless and dreamy sleep at night; was frequently obliged to turn over (first day). But little sleep, and this never quiet; always disturbed. Was unable to sleep on account of violent pains. Sleeps but little at a time on account of the great pain he suffers. Little sleep, which is disturbed by nightmare. Slept but little at first, afterwards it was impossible to sleep except from the effects of an anodyne.
Little sleep, interrupted by nightmare, which awakes her with a start. Unable to sleep for two nights on account of pain. Dreams. Sleep disturbed by dreams. Dreams and sub delirium. Sleep much disturbed by dreams, sometimes pleasant, sometimes anxious. Slumber often interrupted by dreams (first night).
Frequent dreaming, with sound sleep (first night). Sleep frequently interrupted by dreams (first night). Dreams of stealing fruit in a garden (first night). Talks with some one in a dream, in the evening. Lovely dreams of a distant beloved person, after midnight (first and second days). Many pleasant dreams, at night. Voluptuous dreams, with erections, without emission (sixth and seventh afternoons). Troublesome dreams, almost nightly. Confused anxious dreams (third day). Heavy frightful dreams falling (first night). Distressing dreams.
Fever
Chilliness. Frequent attacks of chilliness (first day). Cold chills. Chills several times during the day (first day). Chills and fever (with the colic). Chills, without heat or sweat before the colic. Chilliness, from morning till afternoon. Chilliness, always worse towards evening, even by a warm stove; head dull, dizzy, with thirst, redness of the face, and soft rapid pulse, over 100; while in bed, external heat with internal chilliness; at last the heat increased, the skin became hot and dry, pulse frequent, without thirst; after midnight, the skin became gradually moist until sweat broke out on the chest, abdomen, and head; after 2 o’clock, sleep with confused dreams; on the next morning, tongue coated, heat dull, face pale, and always on rising there is a stitch extending through the head from below upward; this attack was repeated after ten weeks.
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.