Extremely restless; not at all disposed to sleep. Constant restless movements of the limbs and of the whole body. Tossing about complaining to be hot. Restlessness, with moaning, tossing about the bed, throwing about the arms and legs, but most the arms, with frequent opening and shutting of the hands, and many motions of the fingers. Great desire to lie down. Feel weak, at 5.30 P.M. (second day). Weak when walking. Weakness of the body; weariness of the feet. Great loss of power and prostration. Felt languid, in the afternoon (first day).
Languor. Languor, loss of sensation (touch, taste, etc.), and palpable diminution of sensorial power (after three hours).
Complained of general lassitude and great weariness. Lassitude and weakness of the limbs. The boy complained of being tired on waking up, in the morning (second day). When rising, he threatens to fall (first eight hours). Tottered so as almost to fall from its chair (in five minutes). Symptoms of exhaustion, gradually becoming weaker and weaker (after twenty hours).
Prostration of strength (after second dose); the dejection and debility increased, and the patient feeling herself so much weakened thought she would certainly die (after third dose).
Fainting, etc. Fainted twice. Fainting, with great dryness in the mouth. Fainting, in the forenoon, with great paleness of the face, and afterwards loss of appetite. Faint feeling with trembling (two hours after third dose, third day). Collapse.
General hyperaesthesia. A boy being whipped for his foolish conduct did not feel it at all. She had great dread of cold water, but warm water seemed to relieve the symptoms; upon placing the hands in cold water she would scream out, as if it caused her great pain or frightened her, but on placing her hands in warm water she seemed to enjoy it. Cramps. Unusual pain and anxiety. It is cooling, anodyne, and sedative. When in a sitting position she would fall over, principally towards the right side, making a circular sweep. Several times when walking along the street, I experienced a sort of aura or wave of sensation running swiftly up the body from the right heel to the occiput, i. e., all along the posterior right side of the body.
Occasionally I would feel suddenly arrested, as if tripped by a backward thrust in the popliteal space, causing the knees to give way under me; several times I came to a dead stop through this sensation (ninth day). Creeping extending from the left side into the thigh, or into the toes of the same side, thence into the abdomen, whence the creeping descends again into the right thigh and foot. I was always relieved for a few seconds by imbibing any liquid. Worse in the forenoon.
Skin.
Objective. Skin a leaden hue, cold and clammy. Surface pale and cold. Turned red; reddish brown, like some cherries; all over, even the buttocks down to the knees, not further. Turning dark red-brown, like Indians, all over, the one suddenly; two boys of three and four years. Face and front of his chest of a coppery red color, somewhat mottled, similar to the color of the skin of the North American Indians (half an hour after eating some seeds). When the (copper colored) eruptions began to decline, the alae nasi and space around the mouth, and a spot on each temple were white. Copper color visible on the left knee, not on the right, at 9 P.M. (after two hours). Skin of the whole body red. Scarlatinous redness of the skin. Whole cutaneous surface of his body intensely red, as crimson. The whole surface became fiery red, and remained so for eight hours. red appearance of skin. Skin had the peculiar “boiled lobster” hue of scarlatina.
Color of skin a bright scarlet, extending over the face, body, and limbs. Skin scarlet, and burning hot. Scarlet red spots over the whole body. Skin very red, very hot, and moist. Body covered with an erythematous, or rather scarlatiniform blush.
Whole surface of a bright crimson; but the skin was not dry, and the redness disappeared on pressure, returning very rapidly. All had roughness and redness of skin, especially on face and trunk.
Intensely red rash in the skin, resembling the rash of scarlet fever, but having a more shining appearance, disappearing on the third day. Body covered with an eruption resembling rubeola, except that it was more prominent; this eruption lasted about twelve hours (after third day). Red rash breaks out. The face, neck, and breast were covered with hundreds of small brilliant petechia, many of which had stellated form. Chest and back covered with red rash, pale in the morning, redder, and out more, in the afternoon; more visible in warmth, for eleven days, followed by desquamation. The redness of the skin did not appear markedly on the lower extremities until it began to subside on the superior portions of the body. General suffusion. Very marked flushing of the hands, arms, face, neck, and back. This rash resembled that of scarlatina simplex, the bright red disappearing under pressure, and immediately returning after the removal of the pressure (after three hours). Lower extremities flushed and very warm (after one hour); this redness was more marked in the anterior region of the thighs (after one hour).
Scarlet efflorescence over the whole body, which was much more bright and lively than that which characterizes scarlatina.
Signs of congestion, with redness and pain. An old cicatrix on his forehead was very red. Generally congested state of the skin, without any eruption, resembling that of scarlatina. Face and upper part of the body universally covered with a vivid erysipelatous redness, which gradually disappeared after venesection (after five hours). Erysipelas on the right side of the cheek, nose, and face. Erysipelas of the left cheek immediately after the menses. His face was covered with patches of an irregular shape, not elevated above the rest of the skin, and of a brilliant fiery red color. A general eruption on her skin, accompanied with considerable swelling, itching, and inflammation. Itching eruption. On the morning of the third day, the body of the younger child became covered with a small papular eruption, which continued for several days, accompanied with fever. Many pimples, like blotches, on several parts of the body, also in the palms of the hands, with a stinging itching, like nettles, increased by rubbing. A pimple on right side of nose, rather painful to touch, and occasionally a stinging pain in it (fourth day); pimple full of pus (fifth day); pimple almost gone (seventh day). Vesications on the skin after the violent symptoms had subsided. (Spots on the arms like flea-bites), (after three hours). Inflamed, painful pustules on the left leg, exuding an acrid water (after a few weeks). (* For right, read left.-HUGHES. *) The local application to an abraded portion of the skin may give rise to all the effects of poisoning. On the left leg near the calf, an eruption of small blisters spreading over the whole leg; blisters very painful, with much heat and redness, and oozing a hot sharp, acrid fluid. A boil in the groin. Several boils on the feet. Subjective. Skin burning.
A burning above the knee when walking, and heat through the whole body, with violent thirst, in the evening (after twelve hours).
Creeping under the skin. Itching of the skin, with a great deal of restlessness (after a few hours). General itching of the whole surface of the body, but more especially of the face (after half an hour). Itching over the whole body, early in the morning after waking.
Sleep.
Sleepiness. Frequent yawning, with inclination to sleep, with great restlessness (after 200 drops). Drowsy and staggering.
Drowsiness in daytime. Drowsiness succeeded by coma (immediately). After a deep sleep, full of dreams, during which he has an emission, he feels quite dizzy, and he sees as through a gauze (after twenty-four hours). Sleepiness, but scarcely had she fallen asleep when she woke, and began to prattle and laugh in a senseless manner. Unusually sleepy on waking (eighteenth day). Sleepiness, in the evening (seventh day). Sleepiness all evening, on and off (after fifteen minutes); (after five minutes). Sleepy in the evening, after dark (first day).
Excessive sleepiness, at 9.30 P.M. (sixteenth day). Complained of being tired on waking up, in the morning; got up and went to bed again two or three times (next morning). Great desire to lie down and sleep. In half an hour felt sleepy, ate a part of a sour apple and slept a short time, but soon started up in a fright, with flushed face and mild delirium. Sleep. He often falls asleep, and when waking, assumes a comically majestic appearance. Sleeping in the daytime; he wakes with an important and solemn look. Slept later than usual (seventeenth day).
Quiet sleep. (* Curative effect.-HUGHES. *) Sleeps a few hours (after some minutes), Sleeps twentyfour hours, Awakes with difficulty, in the morning. Deep sleep, with snoring. Deep sleep and various dreams; one full of different apparitions.
Some fall into a deep sleep, even twenty-four hours long; they lie as if dead. Deep, snoring sleep, sometimes drawing up the leg. Stupefied half slumber. Deep sound sleep; during it, very deep breathing, with the greatest exertion, and snorting during the inspiration and expiration. Slumber, with rattling breath, and bloody froth at the mouth; dark-brown face; death.
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.