Compression in the left calf, as before cramp (after 35 drops).
Crawling in the left calf (after 50 drops). Pulling pains in the calves (twenty-third day). Swelling of the foot (fifty-second day). Tearing on the back of the left foot (after 50 drops).
Generalities
Coma, convulsive agitation, plaintive cries (third day). A singular proceeding is observed in the midst of their convulsions; they frequently stretch out their little hands, as if to grasp something, then carry them eagerly to their mouths, and go through the motions of mastication and swallowing (in three hours). The most violent general convulsive agitation (in three hours). Convulsions and spasms; they stretched their hands during the spasms, as if they would grasp something, carrying their hands to their mouths, chewing and swallowing, etc. Spasms, with twitching, followed by tetanic rigidity of the body, and death. Trembling, violent starting (in three hours). Tetanic rigidity of the whole body. He lies on his back in a state of entire prostration, disturbed, at intervals, by spasmodic movements (second day). (Increased distension and prominence of the varicose veins). Restlessness. After the attack the patient was extremely weak. Lassitude of the whole body, without inclination to sleep. All the muscles relaxed. General heaviness (after 5 drops). Bruised feeling all over body, at 9 P.M.
(twenty-third day). Violent pain in every muscle and joint, on waking in the morning (twenty-fourth day). All the muscles of his body feel sore to the touch (twenty-fifth day). From bodily exertion, great tiredness and vertigo. Great sensitiveness to cold air (for several weeks after being cured). Great sensitiveness to cold air.
Skin
Red blotches, like scarlatina, irregularly dispersed over almost the whole cutaneous surface (in three hours). The palms of their hands are of a greenish blue color (in three hours). The face, eyelids, lips, hands and feet are greatly swollen, with intolerable itching of those parts (first day, in the evening).
The hands, feet, and nose are greatly swollen, very painful, and black (second and third days). The hands and feet are swollen, and covered with black spots (second and third days). The swelling is very painful, it enlarges, becomes shiny, hard, and deep red; and, in several places, quite black (second and third days). The black hue of the swollen parts grows deeper, the fingers are stiffened, and on the upper part of the sternum appears a large round blotch of a deep-red color (fourth day).
The tip of the nose, the hands, from the tips of the fingers to the knuckles, and the toes to the tarsal joints, become quite black as if regularly dyed (fourth day). A few vesicles appear on the back of the hand, which break, and discharge a yellowish and very acrid fluid (seventh day). The swelling diminishes, as also the black discoloration; desquamation commences (seventh day).
Eruption like confluent small-pox; sloughs are formed on the fingers; the eyelids are agglutinated so as to exclude the light; the patient is tormented by an itching burning at the extremities (twelfth to fourteen days). The sloughs are detached from the face, and the right hand swells up again (eighteenth day),. The face cleans off, but the hands are again covered with hard and very painful crusts, which fall off and are soon replaced by new ones (twenty-first day),. Swelling of the face, arms, abdomen, scrotum, and penis (fifty-fourth day),. A few small pimples on the back of the hand, which itched violently (twenty-fourth day),. Violent itching of both arms, not relieved by scratching (first day),. Painful and itching sensation in chronic ulcers on the feet.
Sleep
Sleepiness. Very sleepy during the whole forenoon (twenty-third and twenty-fifth days). Very sleepy all day (twenty-fourth day).
Deep sleep. Night very restless, sleepless, with hallucinations and carphologia. In the middle of the night he wakes up uttering groans, which wrung from him by a violent headache. Feeling, on waking in the morning, as if he had lost several nights’ sleep (sixth day). Feeling, on waking in the morning, as if he had not had enough sleep (twenty-first day). Passed a very uneasy night (twenty-second night). Sleep disturbed by dreams, which caused him to awake several times in terror, with a sensation of falling from a great height (third night). Sleep disturbed by dreams of snakes, which caused him to awake several times in fright (fifth night). Sleep disturbed by dreams (twenty-second night).
Fever
Alternation of coldness and heat (fifty-first day). Slightly feverish; flushes of heat across the face, at 3 P.M. (sixth day).
Fever all afternoon (twenty-third day). High fever on going to bed, which continued for about half an hour, when a profuse perspiration broke out and lasted about half an hour, thoroughly saturating his shirt, and the sheet he was lying on (twenty-third day). High fever at 2 P.M., with great pain in the back of the neck, and shoulders, and lower extremities (twenty-fourth day).
Slight fever; heat and redness of the face (twenty-sixth day).
Some fever, at 8 P.M. (twenty-fourth day). Fever during the forenoon (twenty-fifth day). The child at first had fever, and afterwards was in a comatose condition without fever, had dilated pupils, coated tongue, painfulness in the precordia, distension of the abdomen, with, at times, screaming and grasping at the abdomen, and constipation. Fever attended the stupor and coma.
Burning dry heat (in three hours). Burning skin covered with sweat (second day). Hot skin covered with sweat. Hot skin sweaty.
Heat or warmth diffused in a few hours over the body; a plentiful sweat succeeding this heat, and a purging the next day. Heat in the head and back (after 50 drops). Increased heat of the head (twentieth day). Heat in the face, hands, and along the back (after 50 drops). Increased heat and redness of the face, at 11 A.M. (twenty-third day). Flashes of heat running up and down the back, at 8 P.M. (twenty-fifth day). Profuse perspiration (after fever, on going to bed), (twenty-third day). Profuse sweat over the whole body. Frequent sweats over the whole body. The whole body is bathed in perspiration.
Conditions.
(Morning), On rising, vertigo; on waking, pain over eyes; insipid taste in the mouth.
(Light), Pain over eyes. (Motion), Vertigo; headache.
(Misstep), Pain in temples. (Close room), Headache.
(Stooping), Pain over eyes; pain in the left temple.
(Sun light), Weakness of sight. (Swallowing), Pain in throat; soreness of left tonsil. (Walking), Cramp in pit of stomach.
Amelioration
(Walking in open air), Headache.
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.