A dirty, gray, dry, scurfy eruption appears beneath the malleoli, and on the backs of both feet. Dry tetter on the backs of both hands, with red cracked bases, with white desquamation, mostly on the knuckles (fifteenth month). On the dorsum of the right foot a small blotch, with a red areola, which rendered walking in boots difficult (fifth day); the blotch is diminishing, and nothing remains of it, except a dark-red, somewhat elevated spot, with a lighter areola, still impeding walking (seventh day); the efflorescence began to subside (ninth day); another little blotch makes its appearance in the still existing red spot on the dorsum of the right foot, impeding the walking very much (four- tenth day). An old chilblain, on the right heel, reappears, with a very painful red areola, which tolerates no touch (third month). On the left great toe are two dark-red, somewhat elevated itching-spots, near each other, like chilblains, which he has never had before in this place (fifth month). Itching pimples, which burn on touch, and after scratching, on both knees.
Papular eruption over the whole face (after seventeen hours). A red pimple, painfully sensitive to touch, on the left wing of the nose (fifty-ninth day). Small red pimples on the forehead.
Itching pimples on the margin of the upper lip, towards the middle (after six hours). Itching pimples on the chin (after five days). A red inflamed pimple, sore to touch and painful, on the back of the right hand, soon after another appeared between the right thumb and index finger, and afterwards a similar one on the back of the left hand (sixtieth day). In the middle of the palms of each hand a hard itching pimple developed, which at last discharged a stony hard concretion, which was larger in the right than in the left palm (after nine months). A streak of small red pimples, close together, extending from behind forward, on both side os the neck, with soreness on touch (after twenty-six hours). Papular eruption of the right natis, which itches and burns much on touch, and after scratching. Red pimples on the inner surfaces of both tibiae, so that he had to scratch, the right painfully sensitive to touch (after twelve months). Two red pimples, painful to touch, on the inner surface of the right tibia (sixty-ninth day). Eruptions. Moist. Small red suppurating spots from which a white skin desquamates in many parts of the body (sixth month). A red pimple full of serum, with some itching behind the left wing of the nose (after six hours). Red eruption on the nose, with more or less moisture. Scabby itching eruption on the cheek, not far from the corner of the mouth. An eruption upon an inflamed surface appeared on the left side of the chin (thirty-sixth day). Moist pimples on the scrotum. A moist tetter in the hollows of the knees. On the inner surface of the left forearm a red, round, itching spot, with white vesicles raised upon it, which burst, poured out a clear lymph, and left a yellowish crust behind (after twenty-five days). A pock like eruption over the whole body, with a febrile chill in the evening, perspiration at night, afterwards constant cough, burning in the eyes, vertigo and weakness, and relief of all troubles, in a patient suffering from gonorrhoeal cachexia (fourth week). Pocks, preceded by an inexplicable severe illness, with nausea, retching, vomiting, and diarrhoea, constant febrile shivering, followed by heat, causing restlessness, great thirst, and burning dryness of the tongue and throat; they broke out at first in the face and scalp, then in the nape of the neck and back, arms, throat, chest, abdomen, and lower extremities, just like small-pox, they became confluent, at the same time they appeared in the mouth, on the tongue, in the fauces, as far as can be seen, associated with burning-sticking rawness in the throat, hoarseness and racking dry tickling cough, with painful difficult swallowing, affecting the trachea and throat. In spite of the pernicious form, the fever remained moderate, the pocks reached their height between the sixth and seventh day, filled with lymph, after which the suppuration diminished, the fever disappeared, the pocks began to dry up, became covered with a dry scab, which soon scaled off, without leaving any mark. The immediate result of the eruption was an improvement and cure of the previous gonorrhoeal cachexia, resulting from an infection (sixth month). Varioloid; the pocks appeared in seventeen children and six adults of various ages, ran a light and short course, similar to varioloid; the more they assimilated the latter form, the less distinctly marked was the improvement of their previous illness. A pock like eruption behind the ears, on the chin and forehead, also on the neck, partly becoming small dark-brown warts. Two pock like pustules appear on both upper arms, close to vaccination scar, and within five days disappear with itching, without leaving a trace (eighth month). (Nettle rash eruption), (after twenty days). Large red nettle rash eruption, with itching and burning over the whole body, broke out in the morning after the fever at night, it disappeared again till evening; the next day a pock like eruption broke out, mostly in the elbow joints, and on the abdomen, and here and there in other places, and dried up again after seven days. Nettle rash eruption breaks out over the face and whole body (fourteenth night), afterwards it frequently appears and disappears. Nettle rash eruption, with burning and itching of the skin of the right arm and lower extremity, where for a long time there had been tearing pains; with the eruption, the latter disappeared. Nettle rash eruption on the backs of the hands and fingers whenever he became cold (after seventeen days). Nettle rash eruption on the back of the hand whenever the hand becomes cool, disappearing in the warmth (forty-second day). A kind nettle rash in the fingers, in he morning after washing (fourteenth day). Tetter like spots of various sizes, with white scabs, appear in various parts of the skin, with a reddish-brown base. Itching tetter on the right outer ear (sixtieth day). A brownish-red tetter appears in the nape of the neck and chest. Shingles; febrile chills with painful drawing in the right elbow, the lower portion of the left arm, and in the right side of the ribs, followed by breaking out in the right breast, on the pit of the stomach around to the spine, of a red pimply eruption, the pimples became confluent, developed into blisters as large as beans, filled with lymph, similar to those caused by Spanish flies; with redness, burning, stinging, and biting in the skin underneath; with swelling of the glands in the right axilla, and in the evening, heat, with uneasiness, sweat, palpitation, and oppression of the chest; after lasting fourteen days the eruption became covered with pock like scabs, which gradually dried and desquamated; after desquamation the scabs remained for a long time very sensitive to touch, and burning with stinging, and somewhat thicker, with shuddering in the back and about the waist, and every morning on rising heat in the face and eyes, with flickering and vertigo for two hours; finally light-brown spots, as large as peas, remained on the abdomen. An induration, four inches long, covered with a red itching crust, on the right natis, at times itching so violently that he could not refrain from scratching it (twenty- second week). The tetter on the right natis was painful, very sore and troublesome while sitting; he was usually obliged to sit upon the left natis; a hard seat was more comfortable than a soft or upholstered one, since the letter seemed to heat the part and aggravate the pain (twenty-third week). Tetter on the right natis, inflamed, painful, burning when touched, especially on pressure, so that he could sit only on the left natis (after six months). An induration forms in the tetter on the right natis, with griping pressive constrictive pain; this induration increases and forms an abscess of the size of an apple, which after a long times opens, and develops into a carbuncle, with seven openings (after six months). Numerous small blisters on the left arm, look like flea bites. Nodules in the flesh of the left thigh, which becomes blisters as large as half a dollar; then they become covered with thick white scabs, beneath which matter accumulates, gradually healing within fourteen days (tenth month). On a formerly ulcerated spot, on the inner portion of the leg, a thick scabby skin appeared, with blisters about, as if burnt, and underneath the black blisters begins to suppurate, with redness around it; towards morning sudden violent stitches in the heel, extending into the calf, with heat and burning in the foot, and a feeling as if swollen. Eruptions. Pustular.
Pustular eruption between the eyebrows, with some itching (after six hours). Red pustules above the lip, bleeding on scratching (after thirty-six hours). Swelling on the upper lip, as if stung by a bee, this suppurated after three days, and formed a scab (nineteenth day). A painful pustule with red areola appeared on the mons veneris, became larger and more painful daily, and developed into a small furuncle (after twenty-eight days).
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.