Sleep.
Sleepiness. Violent yawning that forces tears from the eyes (after a quarter, and a half an hour). Frequent yawning as though he had not slept enough (after two hours). Great inclination to yawn and stretch; she cannot stretch enough. Sleepiness in the afternoon, the eyes close. Great sleepiness in the afternoon, from 2 to 4. Sleepiness during the day; wherever he sat down he fell asleep. In the evening he cannot reach the bed before he falls asleep, and he also falls asleep as soon as he gets into bed. Sleeplessness. He did not sleep the whole night, yet the eyes closed. He cannot fall asleep before midnight on account of wakefulness; scarcely had he fallen asleep when he had vivid dreams of strife and quarrels. She was unable to fall asleep before 11 P.M., and then woke about 4 A.M., several nights. Night restless; every hour he was half awake, and if he got into a slumber did not sleep soundly not really awaken. At night the child is very restless and calls its mother every moment.
Restlessness, for several nights, he could lie on neither side; before midnight he was full of various thoughts. Uneasy sleep and tossing about. He fell asleep, but was awakened immediately by a dream, in which he struggled with an animal, so that he started up greatly frightened (after thirty hours). He wakes towards morning as though he had slept enough, but falls asleep again immediately (after forty-six hours). He wakes at 2 A.M., and so from hour to hour, without cause. In the morning wide awake, afterwards sleepy, with chilly shivering in the back. Dreams.
Vivid disagreeable dreams, towards morning. Vivid unremembered dreams, at night. Very vivid connected dreams. Restless dreams, busy now with one, now with another subject, at one time he started up and woke, but could not perfectly collect himself.
Anxious restless dreams. Dreams full of bitterness. Dreams of murder; (second night). He dreamed as soon as he feel asleep; at another time he had anxious visions, when he woke, and then dreamed again. He dreamed of the business of the day, immediately on falling asleep. Amorous dream at night, with two emissions. Amorous dreams, with emissions Voluptuous dreams, without emission.
Fever.
Chilliness. Chilliness, without subsequent heat, in the morning in bed. Chilliness, followed by heat, in the morning in bed; she did not wish to rise, in the morning. He woke frequently at night with chilliness, could not fully collect his senses. The whole body is shaken by a chill, with warm forehead, hot cheeks, cold hands, without subsequent heat and without thirst (after one hour and a half). Shaking chill, in the evening before falling asleep, so violent that it shook him in the bed and he was unable to get warm (after twenty hours). Crouching up with shivering, with sleepiness and dryness of the mouth (after three hours).
Shivering over the whole body, without thirst, and without immediate subsequent heat (after thirty hours). Shivering and sensation of chilliness, while eating, without thirst, two hours before the head. Internal shivering, with great thirst, without subsequent heat, about 3 P.M., for several days. Shivering the whole night, without thirst and without subsequent heat.
Shivering, with gooseflesh, about 3 P.M., for several days, which ceased in the open air, and was without thirst. Evening fever, consisting of coldness. Chilliness in the back, even by a hot stove (after a quarter of an hour). Transient shivering chill running down the back, after eating. He could not get warm in the back and arms, though they were close to the stove; with frequent shivering over the back and arms, towards the nape of the neck over the head and face, in the morning after rising. Cold feet, only in the evening in bed. Heat. Sensation of great heat, as if externally she were burning hot, with thirst (great orgasm of blood), without previous chill. Slight heat after the shivering.
Some heat and some headache, in the open air towards evening.
Heat about the head, with sweat on the forehead, in the morning in bed. At night, heat, especially about the forehead, so that she was unable to sleep after 3 o’clock, followed by shaking chill about 9 A.M. Sensation of heat, and heat in the face, without thirst, an hour after the chill. Sensation of warmth on the forehead, as from a constant warm breath against it, at times also a cold breath, with redness of the cheeks and external warmth of the body (after four days). A not disagreeable sensation of warmth over the back, three hours after eating. Heat creeps over the lower portion of the back paroxysmally with otherwise only warm body, without subsequent sweat. At night, sensation of great heat in the hands and feet, she was obliged to keep them uncovered. Sensation of heat rather than heat in the right hand, which was also redder than the other hand, with violent tearing in the middle joints of its four fingers. Sweat.
On waking at night, he is covered with warm perspiration, without thirst, on the abdomen, feet, and genitals, although moderately covered; but on uncovering he becomes so cold that the perspiration disappears, and he thinks he had taken cold (after seventy-two hours). Extraordinary perspiration, in the afternoon, with heat over the whole body, without thirst, although he sits very quietly. Profuse nightsweat (after ten days). Perspiration after midnight, for several nights. Nightsweat of a bad odor (after eight days). Sweat of the odor of bad eggs, towards midnight (after four, and six days). Inclined to sweat.
Conditions.-Aggravation.
(Morning), Peevish; confusion of head; on waking, headache; dryness of eyes; canthi agglutinated; nausea; in bed, tension through upper abdomen; mucus in chest; in bed, pain in pectoral muscles; pain in nape of neck; pain in small of back; stiffness of joints; weakness of knee-joints; on waking, weariness; tearing and jerking about ulcer; chilliness.
(Forenoon), 9 to 12, cough and expectoration.
(Afternoon), Sleepiness; 3 P.M. internal shivering.
(Evening), In bed, vertigo; pressure in brain; dryness of eyes; on falling asleep, sticking in throat; in bed, cutting in umbilical region; stitch on side of neck; drawing in joints of extremities; tearing and jerking about the ulcers; cold feet.
(Night), Towards morning, toothache in anterior teeth; pain in four lower front teeth; emission; 4 A.M., pressure in small of back; itching of tetter; sweat.
(Open air), Pressure above right orbit; itching in canthus; pain in hollow tooth; tearing in roots of hollow teeth.
(Bending forward), Pain in neck.
(Chewing), Toothache.
(Closing eyes), Pressure in upper lid.
(Coughing), Pain behind sternum.
(Eating), Tearing in gum and lower back teeth.
(After eating), Eructations of tasteless liquid; hiccough; cough and accumulation of water in mouth.
(After eating and drinking), Cutting in intestines.
(Expiration), Stitch in region of navel; stitch in left side of chest.
(In the house), Vertigo.
(Leaning backward), Pain in costal cartilages.
(Lying down), Pain across thigh; drawings in hollows of knees.
(After micturition), Cutting pain.
(Motion), Headache; pressure in forehead; cutting in abdomen; palpitation; tearing in head of left scapula; pain in bones of arms; drawing in shoulder-joints; pain in right shoulder; pressure in upper and forearm; pressure across wrist; pain through back of hand; pain in fingers; pressure on metacarpal bone of left index finger; stitch in knee-joint; pressure across ankle.
(Motion in open air), Toothache.
(Motion sideways), Pain in small of back. (Moving head), Headache in forehead; drawing in occiput.
(Music), Palpitation.
(Pressure), Stitch in region of navel; stitch in left groin.
(During rest), Stitches in small of back.
(Rubbing), Biting on scalp.
(Sitting), Vertigo; pain in rectum; stitches in sacrum; stitches in side of chest; pressing downward in shoulder; pain in left upper arm; pain about hip joint; tension in muscles of thighs.
(Smoking), Heartburn.
(Standing), Headache in forehead; dulness of head.
(Stepping), Pain in knee.
(Stooping), Vertigo; pain in head; sticking in head; sticking in forehead; stitch in right abdominal ring; pain in loins; oppression of chest; pain in small of back.
(Stretching out body), Pain in sternum.
(Stretching out finger), Pain about right wrist.
(Touch), Stitches in temples; drawing in head; drawing from hyoid bone into neck; drawing in upper limbs; pain in shoulder; pressure in upper and forearm; pressure on metatarsal bone of left index finger; pressure on muscles of right calf.
(Walking), Tingling and sticking in head; palpitation; pressure on shoulder; pain about hip-joint; pain in thigh; weakness of thighs; pain in right knee; drawing in knee-joint; weakness of body; general bruised sensation.
(Walking in open air), Pressing asunder pain in occiput; stitch like pain in abdomen.
Amelioration.
(Eating), Sticking in margin of tongue.
(Inspiration and expiration), Stitch in left groin.
(Lying bent up), Desire for stool.
(Motion), Pain in left upper arm.
(Rest), Ringing in ear. (Resting head on hand), Heaviness of head.
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.