Small and large spots on face, with white skin between, resembling measles; spots grow red, and itch severely when body becomes warm. The eruption gradually changes into a kind of nettle rash; nodular, white, hard elevations on red base; nodules of irregular form, round, elongated, and angular; turn white after scratching, like mosquito-bites; lasted ten days, and was relieved by Antimonium crud. 200. Great itching over all parts of the body (after seven days); after another interval of eight days, incessant itching again in daytime, and mostly towards evening; itching worse at night before bedtime; continued also in the night; rubbing with flesh brush relieved it; most free from itching in the morning; riding in cold air increases the itching, which returned at longer intervals and in less degree all through the winter. In the evening itching over all parts of the body.
Sleep
Sleepiness; sleep not refreshing (fifth day). Very sleepy all the afternoon (eighth day). Want to sleep all the time (tenth day).
Slept soundly till 1 o’clock; had to arise to urinate (second night). Unusual wakefulness for an hour, at 4 A.M. (eighth day).
Very wakeful for two hours (first night); some wakefulness (third night). Very wakeful for a time (very unusual for me), with slight headache (first night ). Lay awake one night for several hours, waking up at intervals; restless, could not lie still; slept well on the following nights. Could not sleep on account of having eaten too much (bread, butter, and milk), (third day). Restless night, with severe frontal headache, caused by a sour stomach (third night). Sleep somewhat disturbed; slight seminal emission (first day). Restlessness (second night). Sleep restless all night; many dreams (first night); confused dreams all night (second night).
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness, with full and uncomfortable feeling in stomach (first night). For one hour after taking the medicine was very chilly, with a constant inclination to yawn (eighth day). A good deal of chilliness for an hour, with a loose papescent stool and some griping in the bowels (after three hours, second day).
In the evening felt very chilly, at times shaking as if with ague (ninth day). In the evening very cold feet, remaining until retiring (second day). Heat. Heat (second night). After sleep, feverish heat of the body (sixth day). Feeling feverish, with great debility, in the evening (first day). Skin hot flushed, at 2 A.M. (after four hours). Cool blustering wind is very refreshing to the hot face (sixth day). Face became red and hot, lasting till bedtime (six hours after first dose). Face hot and flushed (eighth day). Hot face and very cold feet, so that she had to put them into the oven to get them warm again (four hours after last dose). Hands hot, feeling feverish, but the pulse is not affected any (second day). Hands hot and dry, with stiffness of the fingers (first day). Hands hot and dry (fourth, eighth, and ninth days). Hands dry and hot all day (fifth day).
Conditions Aggravation
Aggravation, (Morning), Mucus in eyes; offensive breath; stiffness in right side of neck; languid; on waking, weakness.
(Afternoon), Depression of spirits; after eating a ripe pear, colicky pains. (Evening), Thirst; pain in left side; chilliness; cold feet; feverish. (Night), Woke with pain in lumbar region; nervous sensation in feet; the symptoms; on waking, general discomfort; itching; 2 A.M., skin hot. (12 o’clock), Desire to pass water. (After eating), Redness of tongue; offensive breath.
(Bending), Pain in left groin. (After dinner), Rumbling of wind.
(Entering house after being in open air), Dizziness; inclination to nausea. (Going down stairs), Soreness in calf of right leg.
(Heat), Itching blotches. (After meals), Pressure from food.
(Motion), Pain in abdomen; pain in left groin. (Reading), Twitching of eyelids. (While riding), Eructations; emptiness and coldness in stomach; pressure in stomach; in cold air, itching.
(White sitting), Emptiness and coldness in stomach. (On urinating), Pain in end of urethra; irritation in end of penis.
(Walking), Pains in eyeballs; pain in sartorius muscle; heaviness of legs; soreness in calf of right leg. (Warm room), Pain over right eye.
Amelioration
(Walking in open air), Pain over right eye. (Rubbing with flesh brush), Itching. (Scratching), Itching blotches.
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.