Unable to fall asleep before midnight (seventh day). Unable to fall asleep for an hour and a half on account of rush of ideas, two evenings (after seven days). Inability to sleep in the afternoon, the nose was so much stopped, could not breathe (twelfth day). Inability to sleep till towards morning (eighth day). Extreme sleeplessness. Complete loss of sleep for eight or ten days, even she had no more pains (after two days). She lay wide awake all night; no sleep came to her eyes. She lay all night without sleep, only absorbed in wonderful fancies and reveries. Complete loss of sleep for eight to ten days. Loss of sleep at night. Dreams. Much dreaming at night and crying out in sleep. Restless dreams for several nights, even loud talking in sleep. She dreams about murders, and horrid things of that sort.
Dreams of earthquakes and frightful storms, of fire, etc. (tenth day). Dreams of a flood, with great anxiety. Frightful dreams during the first part of the night. Frightful dreams (twelfth day). Dream of a ghost that pursued him, after midnight (after thirteen days). Dream that he must die. Nightmare while half awake, with great anxiety, as if a smoky beast of a hundredweight were lying upon him, so that he could not stir nor utter a loud sound. A kind of somnambulistic dream; he saw very vividly far- distant regions which he had never seen, and objects which he had desired to have (after eight days). Confused dreams at night, and frequent uneasy waking. Confused dreams of everything that had happened, or that he had heard during the day. Numerous historical and amorous dreams at night. Dreams of robbers and murderers, during which he woke and said he would catch them.
Disgusting offensive dreams. Dreams full of quarrels and humiliation (after four days). Dreams, and raves much during the night, stands up and walks about the room without knowing where he is for a long time. Dreams full of reveries; he gets out of bed like a somnambulist. Dreams and reveries as soon as she falls asleep. A half-waking dream, as if numerous ghosts were about him; he woke and could not move limb, but lay in sweat, with great anxiety and palpitation, followed by great fearfulness (after twelve days). Dreams of the occurrences of his childhood.
Dreams of his youth, waking him from sleep, and so vivid that on waking he could, with difficulty, free himself from them. Vivid dreams of past events. Dreams of the occurrences of the day and of large dogs that followed him. Many dreams of distant journeys.
In a dream he seems to have an epileptic attack, and his head is drawn to one side (after thirteen days). Dreams full of cruelty, without anger. Vexatious dreams. Frightful fancies immediately after falling asleep; sleep full of fright, and crying aloud.
Bad dreams, with violent weeping. A dream of being murdered, from which he woke, with great anxiety, as if he would suffocate, without being able to speak (after fifteen days). Disconnected dreams at night (second night). Her head seemed excessively large during the nightly fantasies. Dream of being seized by a finger, so that he woke in fright. Anxious dream of being pursued.
Anxious dreams of snakes (after five days). Anxious dream that he had committed a murder and was apprehended. Anxious dreams of one choking her; she could not cry out, could only kick with the feet. Anxious dream, of drowning. Anxious dream of robbers, with whom he fought; he woke in head, anxious oppression, and sweat.
Amorous dreams of marriage. Lascivious dreams with great sexual desire (after thirteen days). Lascivious dreams, with emissions (second night). Lascivious dreams (fifth night). Lascivious dreams in the evening and in the morning, in bed with erections.
Lascivious dreams of being disturbed during coition, waking with erection and sexual fancy (after six hours). Lascivious dreams, very offensive to her. He dreams less than usual.
Fever
Chilliness. Violent chill, especially in the shoulders, in the evening. Very chilly all day. Very chilly in a hot room, without thirst, all the forenoon (third day). Chilliness after eating (twenty-fourth day). Constant chilliness in the evening, even noticed externally. Constant internal chilliness, with a loss of appetite. Constant chilliness, with occasional slight feverishness. Constant internal chilliness from taking cold at night, with loss of appetite and sticking-burning headache.
Chilliness on every movement all day; in the morning great weariness, even to falling asleep. Chilly at night while half awake, without waking. Febrile chill, lasting till 8.30 P.M.
(nineteenth day). Febrile chill. General feverish condition; chilliness in the evening (ninth day); during the day (tenth day); in the evening (eleventh day). Violent incessant internal chilliness for several days. Chilliness, with sleepiness, after eating (thirteenth day). Chilliness in the evening (ninth day); all day (tenth day). General feeling of chilliness. Chilliness with sticking pain. Distressing sensation of chilliness in the afternoon, especially on the arms, in a warm room. Chilliness, even while walking in a warm room, and in the open air so violent that he trembled (after thirty-two hours). He feels very chilly, even in a warm room. Cramp like chill, in the evening in bed, so that he shivered (fourteenth day). She did not dare to put her hand out of bed on account of consequent chilliness, at night and next day (after three days). Alternations of chill and heat frequently during the day. At one time very chilly, again exceedingly hot. Shaking chill, at 5 P.M., after some bread and beer (seventh day). Shaking chill; was obliged to lie down and could not get warm for a long time in bed, at 6 P.M. (third day).
Icy-cold shivering frequently creeps over the whole body.
Shivering for half an hour frequently during the day, followed by some heat, mostly in the head and face. Shivering all over; a cold, starved feel; if he sat ever so near the fire he could not get warm. Icy-cold feeling of the entire body, as though exposed to a cold climate suddenly. Coldness, with ravenous hunger, at night (fifteenth day). Strange coldness, about the breadth of two fingers, across the vertex, in a line with the forepart of both ears. The nose became as cold as ice. Chilliness all down the back. Chilliness in the back. Chilliness at first going down the back, with icy-cold hands, followed by violent heat, with tension of the abdomen. Shiverings in one shoulder (thirteenth day). Coldness of the knees and arms after walking in the open air; the finger-nails become white. The legs, as far as the knees and the feet, are icy cold in the evening, and he is obliged to lie in bed half an hour before they get warm, many days in succession. Coldness of the legs as far as the knees, in a warm room. Icy-cold feet during the day; but at night in burning heat of the feet and hands, with drawing pain in the feet as far as the knees. Icy-cold feet in the evening, even in bed.
Icy-cold feet during the menses. Icy-coldness of the feet. Cold feet all day. Cold feet in the evening in bed, preventing sleep.
Cold feet, that become warm at night, every day. The feet are cold when beginning to walk. Heat. Fever, with great chilliness, at 11 A.M. (fifteenth day). Fever lasting till 7.30 P.M., after which all the limbs seem paralyzed (twentieth day). Fever, with violent heat in the head, dark redness of the face, and thirst, four days in succession, from noon till evening; headache began half an hour before the heat. The intermittent fever of Silicea has little sweat, usually occurring from 10 A.M. to 8 P.M., or from midnight to 8 A.M. Fever in the evening after lying down, violent chill, so that she could not get warm in bed, and therefrom pain in the stomach (after sixteen hours). Febrile attack in the evening; heat all over without subsequent perspiration. Febrile paroxysms in the afternoon, consisting only of heat and frightful thirst, with short breath. Febrile heat all night, with violent thirst and catching respiration. Burning heat in the whole body, in a child, during the fever, with red, puffy face, glands hard, like peas, about the throat and down the shoulders, with distension of the abdomen and constant diarrhoea.
Dry heat and thirst for several evenings, followed by pain in the abdomen and heat. Heat without thirst (twenty-second day).
Frequent transient flushes of heat during the day. A not unpleasant warmth through the whole body for two days. Much heat. Heat in the head, as if flames of fire were coming our of the mouth, in the evening (twenty-sixth day). Heat of the head, with anxiety. Heat of the head; (fifth and sixth days). Heat in the face and lobules of the ears many evenings. Frequent flushes of heat in the face and whole body, followed by perspiration, even during rest; then on the slightest movement she is covered with perspiration. Great heat and redness of the face, with very cold hands and feet. Great heat in the face after eating. Heat and burning in the face after washing with cold water, for two hours. Heat of the cheeks and palms of the hands, in the morning.
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.