Lascivious dreams, at night, with a pollution (thirty-sixth night). Lascivious dreams of coition, but without emission; on waking a painful erection. Sleep-waking, in which she seemed to see passing before her eyes, most of the time, different animals; sometimes, also, she sees building-stones. Nightmare, at night, passing off on turning from the left to the right side, which was accomplished with difficulty (seventh month). Startled from sleep, at night, by an apparition, the upper part of whose body frequently rose in bed. When asleep, dead persons appear to her; she can distinctly see and feel them, and she thinks that she is talking with them.
Fever
Chilliness. Always very chilly. General chilliness, at 3 P.M.
(fifth day). Chilliness every evening from 6 to 7.30, with excessive heat of the body, dryness of the mouth, and thirst.
Chilliness without thirst, every morning. Chilliness and febrile symptoms, so that he was inclined to lie in bed (twenty- first day). Chilliness, discomfort, weakness, with drawing and weakness of the calves, so that he was obliged to go to bed (thirty-eighth day). Chilliness towards 7 P.M., with weakness, so that he was obliged to go to bed; he had scarcely lain down when he was seized with a shaking chill, beginning in the thighs, with blueness of the nails, afterwards with chattering of the teeth, and difficult respiration, as if he had been running; this coldness lasted more than half an hour, when the thighs began to be hot, so that they burnt the hands through the clothing, like a glowing coal, while at the same time the hands and feet were cold; then he was seized with fatiguing cough, with efforts to vomit, ending at first in actual vomiting of mucus and some food, and at last of a bitter substance, which, however, soon disappeared, after which he had a natural taste, but nausea on every thought of food; with these febrile attacks he had yawning and stretching of the limbs; gradually he became warm, though whenever he moved he had a shaking chill; the most distressing symptoms was the hawking of mucus, because he was always obliged to rise, which caused return of the shaking chill; there were associated with these symptoms sticking pains in the metacarpal bones and falling asleep of the right hand; as the coldness disappeared he became thirsty, the head was very dull and heavy, with pressure in the forehead and eyes, especially in the right eyeball; after two hours he became sleepy and fell asleep, but woke every half or three-quarters of an hour bathed in perspiration, so that he changed his shirt eight times up to 3 A.M.; he was obliged to put on a fresh shirt always on waking, also to urinate, with evacuation of much clear urine, was also obliged to drink, after this he was always chilly, the head became very painful, and on waking it always seemed as though he were very sick, and were divided into two parts and was not conscious of which part he seemed to have possession (a kind of delirium); on standing up he was dizzy and was obliged to steady himself (forty-eighth day). Chilliness in the evening, with flushes of heat, perspiration, and weakness, so that he was obliged to go to bed, with dulness of the head, followed by sleeplessness till after midnight (forty-ninth day). Chilliness, with yawning, recurring daily in the forenoon, with violent one- sided pains in the head, extending thence to the pit of the stomach, with nausea, without being able to vomit, with loss of appetite and constipation (third month). After waking in the morning with headache, chill at 10 A.M., lasting till noon, followed by heat and nausea, with repeated bilious vomiting in the evening, and diarrhoea, with constant one-sided headache (fourth month). Chilliness frequently in the daytime (thirty- first to thirty-eighth day); chilliness continues (fifty-fourth day). Chills over the whole body (first day). Frequent chills over the whole body (fifth day). General chilliness, without thirst, in the evening; pulse 100, full and hard (eighteenth day). Sudden violent chill towards evening, followed by heat, with palpitation so violent that it seemed as though the bones of the chest would fly apart, then arrest of breath, with sleeplessness, frightful images before the eyes on falling asleep, with anxious oppression of the heart, fear of death, and cold feet (seventh week). Felt chilly all over, especially on the extremities, at noon (seventeenth day). Chills, even in a warm room (seventh and ninth days). In the evening, chilliness for several hours, passing into heat on lying down (fourth day).
Chills, want of appetite, peevishness, and a small weak pulse again made their appearance; she now took Nux vomica; an hour after shaking chill, lasting half an hour; heat came on over the whole body, preceded by a gradually increasing warmth (forty-sixth day). Chilliness without thirst, in the forenoon. Chilliness in bed, cannot get warm. Chill and inclination to yawn (fourth day).
Chills in the evening in bed (first day). Internal chills, with a general feeling of malaise (fifth day). Slight chill, with dryness of he throat, painful deglutition, vomiturition, and such a feeling of illness that he was obliged to go to bed before the time (sixth day). Frequent creeping chills. Creeping chilliness, with icy-cold hands, in the evening, preceded by slight heat (after five and six hours). Transitory chill over the whole body, with cold hands in a heated room (within two hours). Slight chill (thirty-first day). Slight chills in a warm room all day.
Chilliness and headache (twenty-fifth day). Shaking chill only on the left side of the body, which also feels cold, in the evening in bed. Shaking chill in the evening on lying down, followed by some heat (after eleven months). After a night passed with right-sided pain in the head and teeth, and sleepless tossing about, there commenced in the morning a shaking chill, alternating with flushing heat and fluent coryza; this increased during the day; unusual suffering continued through the next night, with sleeplessness and tossing about, and tearing pain in the arms and pelvic region, head and jaws, also the two following days and nights, with increased eructations of air, tense distension of the hypochondriac region, and desire to breath deeply, till on the fifth day it began to diminish, and on the seventh day ended with clearness of the head, with more difficult and more scanty evacuation of the bowels, and uneasy sleep, with tossing about (fifth day). Shaking chill over the whole body, without externally perceptible coldness (after two hours).
Violent shaking chill for a quarter of an hour, about 3 A.M., followed by thirst, then profuse perspiration all over, except on the head, which was only warm. Shaking chill, with much yawning; the warm air seems cold, and the sun seems to have no power to warm him (after three hours). An internal shaking cold.
Shivering through and through from the slightest uncovering of the body in warm air, with or without gooseflesh, while the hands and face were warm (after one hour and three-quarters). When dressed, he frequently shivers over the whole body, without gooseflesh (after two hours and a quarter). Shivering (tenth day). Febrile shivering in bed several nights in succession, during which the skin was moist, but cold. Repeated shuddering, beginning at the head (fifth day). Internal shuddering and feeling of cold the whole forenoon, with dull confusion of the head (fifty-sixth day). Slight shiverings, which spread themselves little by little over the whole body; afterwards a general sweat broke out, so that in the course of a minute the whole body was wet (seventh night). Transitory coldness over the whole body, after dinner (third day); coldness all day (twelfth day); frequent creeping coldness, as during a fever, came on during dinner (twenty-first day); feeling of coldness in the forenoon; frequent feverish alternations of cold and heat, in the afternoon (twenty-fourth day). During the whole forenoon a very unpleasant sensation of cold, the external temperature being 34 o F.; the hands and feet icy cold, and the skin of the hands purple (seventeenth day); could not get warm the whole forenoon (fifty- fifth day); feeling of coldness over the whole body in a warm room, especially in the hands (seventh-second day); the temperature of the open air, F., affected him so unpleasantly that he trembled from head to foot with cold (seventy-second day). Feeling of coldness over the whole body soon. Feeling of coldness with numbness of the left foot (fifth day). Cold over the whole body, with the thirst (twelfth day). Coldness and sleepiness followed by heat, in the evening; with the coldness, thirst (eighth day). Seeming constantly to be taking cold; inclined to coryza, sore throat, swelling of the face, toothache, and ulcerated teeth. Coldness, as if dead, over the whole body, with anxiety (seventh month). Icy coldness all over, with cramp in the chest, lasting two or three minutes after being vexed. Severe coldness on the appearance of the catamenia, in the night (eighteenth day); alternations of heat and cold, with weakness to the extent of falling; she has observed for several days past that she becomes hot at dinner, and her body is covered with perspiration (nineteenth day); could not sleep after 3 A.M. on account of heat; cool over the whole body before dinner (twentieth day); great heat when walking, in the afternoon; coldness in the back, with heat in the head, great drowsiness and thirst, in the evening (twenty-first day). He wishes to keep the head and face wrapped up warmly. The cheeks and nose feel cold as from a draught of cold air. Shivering in the back (soon, after second dose, second day). Shivering runs over the back from time to time (after thirty-two hours). Creeping coldness over the whole back, worse at night in bed. Coldness in the back, with alternations of heat, in the evening (fourteenth day). All day coldness, especially in the back, with general weakness and sensation of weariness; in the evening, manifest fever symptoms, as headache, heat of the skin, full, accelerated pulse, besides sticking, in the right hypochondrium (especially during respiration), which extended into the sacral region; she went to bed on this account, the general heat came on, succeeded by quiet sleep (fifteenth day). Coolness and flying shudderings over the back (seventieth day). Feeling of coldness through the back, with debility and stiffness in all the limbs, in the afternoon and evening (sixteenth day). Creeping shudderings, particularly in the back, with hot face (seventy-second day). Coldness in the back not relieved by the warmth of the stove. On lying down, painful cold running from the nape over the back, down to the sacral region, which was increased by every movement of the body, and soon disappeared after rising (third day). Cool extremities, with redness of the face, in the afternoon; copious general perspiration, with diminution of all the morbid symptoms, in the evening, after Cocc. 30th, one drop (twenty-sixth day). Feeling of coldness, especially in the hands and feet, and on the anterior surface of the thigh down to the knee, when seated in a warm room (seventy-fourth day). Coldness in the hands and feet (fifty-seventh day). The hands are constantly cold and wet with cold perspiration. The hands are cold, red, and dry. The tips of the fingers are icy cold, as if dead, while the rest of the hands, face, and rest of the body are hot to touch, with-out thirst (after a quarter of an hour). A persistent coldness of the lower extremities increases at night to general febrile chill, with simultaneous heat, with sleeplessness. A stiffening coldness of the thighs, extending down to the feet, mostly in the knees, very persistent, even in bed. Feeling of coldness, especially in the feet (sixty-first day). Cannot get he feet warm (thirty-ninth day). Chilly feeling in the feet, which were externally warm to touch, with the feeling of stoppage in the right nostril (fourth night). A quarter of an hour after going to bed the feet again began to become cold, anxiety came on, and in an instant, in place of the regular beat, he felt a trembling of the heart; a sweat then broke out (eighth night); the coldness of the feet, anxiety, and palpitation were less in amount, and of shorter duration (ninth night). Feet became as cold as ice, some minutes after going to bed (seventh night). Feet icy cold and wet, with perspiration. Heat. Febrile excitement, with great weakness, with constant lying down and sleeping, violent barking cough, worse at night, less of appetite and constipation (first days). In the evening she suddenly became feverish, with stiffness in the chest; afterwards a restless night, the fever gradually increased, with general dry heat and sleeplessness, slight perspiration only on the upper part of the body, painful lips, as if burnt, great weakness, coryza, and cough, with much expectoration and short difficult breath, slimy-coated tongue, sour taste in the mouth, always after eating, loss of appetite, gnawing in the stomach, at night, which obliges him to eat at once; rawness in the throat, tickling and provoking constant cough; violent palpitation over the whole chest, leucorrhoea, and rapid emaciation; the fever reappeared first on the third day, then every day, in the morning, and only gradually disappeared (after thirty days). Fever, with pain in the head, chest, and throat, chilliness, hot lips, bitter taste, twice vomiting; in the morning, constipation, with frequent ineffectual desire for stool, very slimy-coated tongue, loss of appetite, palpitation, sleeplessness, alternating with partial slumber, during which she talked aloud much, and even heard and understood what was said to her (fourth month). Violent catarrhal fever, with hoarseness and pain in the eyes, whereby the face became dark red, and the eruption of the face and neck became worse, like tetter and raw, and after a few days desquamated and disappeared. Fever; cold feet, with diarrhoea, tension of the abdomen, with aching in both sides beneath the ribs, red lids and headache, as precursors; after wards feverish shivering, with thirst and dry lips, constant diarrhoea, consisting of dark green and white mucus, with colic, slimy-coated tongue, loss of appetite, pulse full and 104 to the minute, attacks of faintness, constant great weakness, the tongue is everywhere sore, and covered with thick, very offensive matter. Fever, like typhus; sudden attack of shaking chill, with faint like loss of all strength, followed by a complete loss of consciousness, then burning heat, with dry skin, cold hands and feet, with alternating coldness even to other parts of the skin, constant delirium, day and night, distortion of the whole body, and tossing from place to place, with constantly recurring convulsions, during which the eyes seem at times widely open and staring, at other times affected by spasmodic movements and especially by amblyopic expression and look, dry cracked lips and tongue, with sore white superficial ulcerations, tympanitic distension of the stomach and intestines, sensitiveness of the whole abdomen, pressure especially in the coecal region, constipation, alternating with diarrhoea scanty reddish-brown turbid urine, inflammatory redness of the glans penis and orifice of the urethra, respiration alternating with some paroxysms of cough, irregular variable beating of the heat and pulse; here and there, especially in the arm, chest and scrotum, there were white mottled spots. These symptoms lasted two weeks, followed by pock like eruption on the chest, with general perspiration and itching of the skin, constant roaring in the ears, after which recovery commenced and progressed, with only the occurrence of several boils, which partly looked like condylomata. After this indubitable, characteristic, pronounced febrile intermezzo, there was a decided improvement of the gonorrhoeal taint, which had hitherto existed in consequence of vaccination, especially the onanism, emissions, and pressive paralysis approaching insanity, in a young man, and a complete cure followed. Feverish all day, especially in the afternoon, with stretching of the limbs, chilliness, with subsequent flushes of heat and some perspiration (twenty-second day). Paroxysm of fever; towards noon he became weak, slightly chilly, and was obliged to go to bed, followed by flushes of heat, heaviness and dulness of the head and some perspiration; relief after lying down for awhile (fiftieth day). Much stretching, as if a febrile paroxysm were coming on. Fever, cold and heat alternating.
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.