Restless sleep, with much turning. Sleep much interrupted (tenth day). Restless unrefreshing sleep. Restless sleep, with dreams of disaster. Restless sleep at night, with inclination to coitus; seminal emissions and twitching in both forearms. In the hours before midnight he cannot sleep, owing to restlessness in his whole body and soul, and an uncommon mobility in all the limbs.
Dreamed of urgent desire for stool, with severe aching in anus; woke and found it a reality, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day). Dreams.
Unpleasant dreams (twelfth night); amorous dreams, with erection and copious seminal emission; afterwards dream without emission (fourteenth night); amorous dreams when lying on right side, with emission (twenty-sixth night); amorous dream; always afterwards woke on back (thirty-fourth day). He dreams, towards morning, several white spectres came into his room and near his bed; he was at first shocked and very much frightened, but recovered himself, and struck them down with both his fists, so that they all fell to the ground; after which his nose bled, and it woke him, and he thought he had struck himself on his nose (third day). He saw in his dreams several long ago-deceased relations (twelfth day). Heavy dreams, full of frights, but cannot recollect what (fifth and sixth days). Dreams of the business of the day before (sixth day). Dreams she is sleigh-riding and the sleigh upsets; she starts violently and wakens up (eighth day).
Lascivious dreams, without erections (second and tenth days).
Dreams of horrible things, for instance, a big spider. Horrible dreams in a deep sleep. Dreams of vexation. Dreams of what was talked about the day before (second day).
Fever
Chilliness. Violent chill before dinner, with shaking and chattering of teeth, for one-quarter of an hour; abates after “wasser soup” (first day). Chilly rigor, evenings, on lying down, passing off in bed (second day). Gaping, chills, with shaking, inward coldness and external heat, or both mixed, thirst, coughing, and vomiting. Coldness on awaking, at night. Chilly, in afternoon (fifth day). Chill, at night, on waking (ninth day).
Shaking chill, at night, without subsequent heat (fifth day).
Chill, in the morning, in bed, for a quarter of an hour (eighth day). Chills and shaking without external coldness. Inclined to chills and rigors, a short time in the forenoon, then, till evening, warmth, with sweat, over whole body. Chill and coldness over whole body, even near the stove, with unusual warmth of the face and chest. Rigors, with burning itching. Feverish coldness, frequent in the day, with blue nails and loss of all vital warmth in arms and legs. Chilliness, even in the warm room (second day).
He can warm himself but with difficulty in the warm room, all the forenoon (second day). Rigor over the whole body, from below upwards. Overrun by transient chills, in the forenoon. Chill runs over her as soon as she gets into the open air (eighth day).
Internal chill and sleepiness. In the evening chill for one hour, without subsequent heat or sweat (seventh day). Frequently wakes up at night with coldness (second day). Severe chill at night in bed, with very cold feet, accompanied by heat of face and chest.
Shuddering, with gooseflesh, accompanied by continual eructation, in the forenoon (eighth day). He shudders from stitches in head.
Chills frequently on the arms, thighs, back, and on inside of abdomen. Cold hands, colder towards the tips of the fingers, for eight days. Coldness of the feet. Heat. Heat, evenings, in bed, an hour before falling asleep; the blood boils, the heart beats, and sweat stands on the forehead, for two successive evenings.
Heat in the whole body for a short time, 10 A.M. Increased warmth, merriment, and feeling of strength, in the evening (ninth day). Very warm in the whole body, as if sweat were to break out, after breakfast (eighth day). General warmth, with thirst, even in the morning, and continuing all day. The whole body seems to be in a constant febrile condition. Fever, in the evening, with rigors. Very warm in the head during dinner, with sweat on the forehead (second day). Heat of the face, of short duration, with frontal sweat, and with heat on the chest and back, combined with pricking from within outwards, most and strongest about the neck.
Heat in the face. Great warmth in face, scalp, neck, shoulders, with prickling. Unusual warmth of face. Unusual warmth of chest, heat. Sweat. Profuse perspiration. At night, on waking, much sweating on the joints. Severe night sweat after attack. Sweat on forehead; stands on forehead, evening, in bed. Frontal sweat.
Much sweat of the hands.
Skin
Objective. Many little warts. Tetters appear on all parts of the body. Pale red, slightly elevated, rough spots upon the forehead, of the size of a split pea, without itching. Itching humor on forehead, burning and moist after rubbing it, three days before the menses. A scab on lobule of ear, first with burning pain, then itching. Itching eruption under the nose. Itching eruption under the nose, as if caused by an acrid discharge. Eruption in left nostril; sore nose. Tetter upon the upper lip, with pains, as of many pins. Nettle rash eruption like urticaria, itching intolerably, and stinging on the neck, chest, eyelids, hands, and the whole body, with violent burning after rubbing. Tetters on the hands. Herpes on prepuce. Red herpetic spots on the calves, with severe itching. Severe great cracks in the skin of the right thumb, “so that one can see the flesh,” with burning pain (sixth day). Rash like pimples, as soon as he comes into the cold air from the warm room. A child, twenty months old, had what appeared to be a simple case of herpes labialis, which had broken out six weeks before; it consisted of two small irregular shaped patches half an inch or more in diameter, commencing beneath the labial commissure, and extending towards the mesial line of the chin; the crusts were thick, of a dirty yellowish-brown color, surrounded by an inflamed areola and suppurating border; I prescribed for my patient; when she returned at the expiration of two weeks, the patches had united in the center, and extending downwards covered the entire chin, while surrounding its borders was an occasional pustule, denoting the invasion of the cheeks; the mother now informed me that the left hip was involved, and an examination of the part disclosed several patches and pustules extending from the anterior superior spine in an oblique direction, upwards and backwards towards the lumbar region; the characteristic crusts had become detached by contact with the clothing, and in consequence it presented an angry and inflamed appearance, not at all unlike a well-defined case of herpes zoster; the new crop which was being developed, began by small pustules on an inflamed base, some of the size of a pin- head, others as large as a common pea, single and discrete at first, but as they approached each other, or where they were more numerous, inclining to become confluent; the least abrasion of the cuticle was transformed into a suppurating pustule. I prescribed Graphites, Hepar, Arsenicum, Mercurius Sol., and Mezereum, in various dilutions, from the 3k to 30th, and 200th potencies, for about two months, without the least apparent benefit; the eruption had now covered both cheeks, and several pustules on the nose, forehead, and neck foreshadowed its onward march, while the patch on the hip had extended to the spinal column; the itching was very troublesome and persistent, and the child’s sleep much disturbed in consequence. The eldest boy (about twelve) had a well-defined case of herpes phlyctenoides, as large as the palm of the hand, on the left side of the neck, from the ear in front to the spine behind, and extending from the hairy scalp down the neck about three inches. The other two children had small irregular patches on the face and left arm; and wherever the skin was abraded on the hands suppurating pustules were to be seen. I gave the three youngest a few doses of Camphor, and in a week the whole trouble had disappeared. I allowed the oldest boy to recover by the natural process of the drug, and the neck is not yet clear of the crusts, but there has been no increase of the symptoms since discontinuing the Sarsaparilla. Larger and smaller pimples in face not painful. Itching pimples on the cheek, inflamed far around, with violent burning, resulting in a thick large scab, and causing a tearing-burning pain in the open air (after nineteen days). Smaller and large pimples or boils in the face, mostly on the cheeks. A suppurating pimple on right side of nose (eighth day). This morning found a pimple, painful to touch, on left zygoma (thirteenth day). Itching pimples on the chin (tenth day). Violent itching on chin; after it, several very small pimples (twenty-first day). Eruption of pimples on the sides of the chin, with itching, soon containing pus in their apices. Unbearable itching on scrotum and perinaeum; after scratching, little pimples rise, oozing a moisture, and keep the part sore (several cases). Red pimples of the size of a pin head, without moisture, on the back and thighs; only in warmth it is (corroding) itching, which vanishes only for a short time after scratching. On the ends of the fingers, running-around ulcerations, always after using Sarsaparilla in the autumn.
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.