During all this time there was pure memory and happy mood. A small and painful callous tumor at the end of the right thumb, that fell off the seventh day. A small, hard, and shining callosity, or wart-like tumor on the left index finger, with increased and shooting pain in it; worse by pressure; dry cough; sexual excitement, and poor memory. After two days the tumor fell out, but the cough remained for eight days longer. Slight inflammation of the ball of the right thumb, which is hard and shiny, with lancinating pains. The inflammation lasted eight days, extending to the hand, with shooting and smarting pain all the time, and passed to suppuration. During these eight days there were observed as concomitant, a right-sided headache; itching and smarting of the eyelids; swell-ing of the right axillary glands, chills, etc. The suppuration lasted about fifteen days, and the ulceration healed. He felt a prick, similar to that of an ant or fly, and at the same time experienced pain in the joint of the left ring finger. The next day the affected part became red and surrounded by a livid areola of a golden color; on the third day the golden areola was swollen, with continuance of the pain; on the fourth day the swelling disappeared, the bitten part remained suffused with a red and livid color, but in the meantime the pain was hardly felt no new symptoms appeared for fifteen days. A black scab, which covered the spot, was removed, formed again and again, until on the fifteenth day the former yellow circle appeared. Each year there was the most intense pain in the toes from the reopened wound; they were inflamed and during the course of the inflammation a thin and very acrid ichor exuded from the nails, deeply corroding the neighboring parts. An indolent boil between the scapulae, which disappeared without any inconvenience on the second day. An indolent boil, the size of a large pea, in the superior part of the left breast, lasted two days, and disappeared without giving any trouble. Painful conical boils on the posterior and upper part of the right thigh, interfering with a free movement of the limbs. Subjective. General formication on the whole body, with yawning, colic, and sexual excitement.
Formication and slight burning over the whole surface of the body. Burning and scarlet color of the whole body, with sweat on the head and face during coughing. Pricking and burning sensation in the whole body, towards midnight; the skin becomes of a scarlet color during half an hour, followed by a bitter taste in the mouth, and bloating of the abdomen, which is painful to touch. Pricking in different parts of the body, repeated for two nights. Pricking in the whole body during the night, as if caused by a great number of fleas. Pricking along the sagittal suture, with a yellow, crusty eruption. Great pricking and itching over the whole body, particularly in the head, face, eyelids, and temples. Slight pricking and itching in the anterior part of the trunk, in the arms, and in the legs. Great itching; pruritus on the whole body, particularly on the head, face, eyelids, and temples. General itching, like the itch.
Itching sensation over the whole body, with burning pain in the sacral region and left half of the scrotum. Cold produces itching in the feet.
Sleep
Sleepiness. Yawning, with uneasiness in the legs, need of moving them constantly, with dryness and bitterness in the mouth and throat. Yawning, with need of moving the legs. Yawning, with transient stinging pains in the region of false ribs, alternating with gayety and crossness. Yawning, with tears, and goneness at the pit of the stomach. Yawning, spasms, nervous excitement, aggravated by trifles; particularly with women.
Yawning as a forerunner of the evening quotidian fever (relieved by alum). Frequent yawning, stretching, with desire of crying, in the morning. Yawning and stretching, with muscular debility and malaise, sadness, bad taste in the mouth, coated tongue, heaviness of the head, and inclination to sleep without feeling like it. Spasmodic yawning, the jaw feels tired, spasms, need for stretching, cramps in the stomach followed by nausea, general malaise, cold, paleness, chills, and violent fever. Irresistible yawning, followed by spasms, hiccough, regurgitation, moaning and crying, restlessness, chill and fever. Excessive yawning, shaking chill, horripilation and thirst, worse by drinking; severe pressive or squeezing pain in the heart; the chill is short; general heat felt more internally than externally; tearing pain in the stomach, uterus, and abdomen, with borborygmus; sweat and absence of mind. Great drowsiness and heaviness of the body, in the evening and night, as during the severe hot days of summer. Irresistible tendency to sleep. Quiet sleep until 2 A.M.; then sad dreams, followed by gay ones; when waking up is in good mood, full of fun, and with a better disposition to work.
Quiet sleep, during which he talks for three hours. Quiet sleep for intervals, with sad dreams of insult and con-tempt.
Prolonged sleep, with gloomy dreams. For three months after the proving the sleep continued to improve. After four days of taking the medicine, better sleep, particularly in the morning; happy feeling on waking, does not like to leave the bed; about the eighth day of taking the medicine, and the six following, this happy feeling was accompanied with drowsiness, which lasted more or less until the thirty-first day. Irresistible sleep, with squeezing pain in the abdomen, hips and uterus.
Unconquerable sleepiness while working; goes to sleep sitting on the floor. A repetition of the unconquerable sleep, but lasts only a while. Unconquerable sleep at the same hour; music causes sadness. Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness (after three hours).
Complete sleeplessness, with great nervousness; restlessness and inability to go to sleep. Complete sleeplessness all night, and stinging pain in the temples. Did not retire to bed nor sleep for four nights. Wakefulness till 5 A.M.; goes to sleep about half an hour, with tedious and disagreeable dreams; wakes up trembling, with sadness and headache, as if blows had been received on the head. Wakefulness till 4 A.M., followed by sleep, and dreams that he feel off a horse; dreams about a person, and worries about it until he is entirely awake, then seeing that person, his mind becomes quiet. Wakefulness, with great uneasiness, nervous excitement, and continued restlessness till 5 A.M., when he sleeps one hour, with gloomy dreams; starts out of sleep panting, gasping for breath, and frightened as if waking up from nightmare. Restless sleep, with dreams of corpses; pollutions. Light sleep, with dreams; when waking up stupefaction, with giddiness and headache; a feeling as if something was moving in the head. Restless sleep in the afternoon; dreams of wild animals that were going to devour him; wakes up frightened and shaking, remembering the dream. Dreams.
Dreams of his business, of great dangers, of poisonous animals etc. Dreams that several bulls ran after him, and he was obliged to jump into the water and get drowned; wakes up frightened and shaking, with headache. Prolonged dreams, which waken, followed by headache. Pleasant and delightful dreams, with a feeling of happiness; when waking up, crossness, which lasts several hours.
Pleasant dreams of amusements and games, followed by gloomy ones, until 3 A.M., then wakens with giddiness and headache; cannot remember the dreams. During several hours, dreams of death, impending misfortune etc.; wakes up with a pressive headache (relieved by Baryta mur.). Sad dreams, with a disagreeable impression and weeping.
Fever
Chilliness. After an access of insanity, general chill, severe shaking, horripilation, chattering of the teeth, compressive headache, burning thirst, with fear of drinking water, which he craves afterwards. After a new attack of insanity, the chill and yawning of the preceding fevers repeated (checked by Alumina).
Chills and shivering during several hours; gnawing stinging pains in the kidneys; lancinating pains in the limbs; headache, with buzzing in the ears; at 7 P.M., severe chill, compelling to lie down, to get warm, getting warm with difficulty at the end of two hours; fever during all night, and the next day feels chilly; easy vomiting of bile, in the morning. This fever also appeared at the end of the proving. Constant chill and coldness during four days, except in the nights, when she sleeps; feels broken down, as if bruised all over, particularly when moving; the first two days, pains in the legs and head; the second, bilious vomiting, in the morning; the fourth day, at the same hour and lying down, slight sweat. This fever was complicated besides with coryza and cough, and repeated at the end of the proving; after this fever, the woman felt heavy and dejected for eight days, during which time she had the eyes inflamed and the eyelids agglutinated, in the morning. When waking up, severe chill and general shaking, chattering of the teeth, bruised feeling all over, particularly in left side of chest, followed by a burning heat and sour perspiration after-wards, then sleeps, and dreams he was at a river border looking at the flowing water, but when looking up to the sky he became sad; seminal emissions. Rigors were among the first symptoms noticed; chills began in the lumbar region and spread over the whole body, aggravated by the slightest draft of cold air; coldness of the whole body; increase of artificial heat produced chilliness; could not keep warm, though sitting beside a hot stove or over a register almost constantly. Shivering, increased heat, frequent pulse, stupefaction and headache, smarting in the eyes, thirst for cold water, but the stomach refuses it; anorexia and heat in the abdomen. Shivering, horripilation and general shaking, icy coldness, yawning, violent thirst, with need of stretching; compressive headache; symptoms like the first stage of intermittent, lasting one hour, followed by pain in the heart, as if it would jump out of its place; pain in the left arm, followed by muscular weakness, heat, and cough; fever, with a scorching heat, intense thirst, pain in the left arm, dryness of the mouth, oppression, panting, and dyspnoea. Alternating cold and heat, with some acute pain in the region of the liver. (This state was preceded by headache and increased heat). Great coldness and shaking, very marked in the inferior extremities; it seems as if the ligaments of the hip and knee-joints contract and relax rapidly; producing a cracking noise, together with a very profuse sweat. (These symptoms were relieved with Arsenicum 8000th).
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.