Sleep
Yawning and stretching of the limbs. Repeated yawning with chilliness, soon. Drowsiness, soon. Great tendency to sleep. Tendency to sleep and irresistible sleepiness. She and her baby sleep more quietly than before, without any anxious or confused dreams (curative effect). Sleepiness followed by profound sleep for two hours; on walking the headache had disappeared. Somnolence. Sleeplessness. Unusually wide awake in the evening and restless at night, could fall asleep only towards morning, when he had vivid dreams. Sleep restless (third and fourth nights), (first night). Sleep very restless, disturbed by pain in the stomach. Tossing about in sleep. Sleep disturbed by dreams. In the second night the sleep is disturbed by anxious and partly voluptuous dreams; for instance, that he is driving in a carriage through deep water. Much dreaming during sleep.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness at intervals during the evening (second day). Thrills of chilliness creep over the whole body from above downward. Tremulous, chilly feeling, at 11 A.M. (after two hours). Sensation of icy coldness in the upper half of the head, when pressing the hat firmly on the head; 5 P.M. (third day). Paroxysms of shuddering from the nape of the neck downward. Heat. Synochus. Constant heat in the whole body, and uneasiness (first four hours). Heat the whole forenoon, and sweat during the slightest motion (third day). Heat and sweat over the whole body, especially in the face, as soon as he begins to walk (first day). During dinner he feels heat in the whole body and face, with sweat in the hair on the forehead (after three hours). Heat of the skin. Feeling of heat in the whole body and face, with sweat in the hair on the forehead, during dinner (after three hours). Increased heat of the skin. Increased warmth of the body the whole day, especially during motion, with sweat breaking (first day). She feels warm all over except in the region of the hip, where she feels as if cold water were poured over he. Sensation of increased warmth spreading over the whole body, lasting a quarter of an hour, passing off without perspiration. Increased warmth the whole day, with quick and frequent pulse (second day). Increased warmth. General warmth. Agreeable increase of internal and external warmth (first two hours). Transient feeling of heat in the head when stooping (after a quarter of an hour). Dry heat in the face and the whole body, In the evening when sitting, at 9 A.M. (second day). Flushes of heat over the cheeks for two hours, several times in the evening, the pulse being 60; with feeling of dryness on the tongue, without thirst and without previous chilliness (second day). In the open air the cheeks become hot and red, without sweat; a quarter of an hour afterwards sweat breaks out over the whole body, and especially in the face; at noon (after three hours). Sweat. Frequent sweat. Marked perspiration. Perspiration at night. Much perspiration during the night. Slight perspiration of the odor of Valerian (after three hours). The hair of the forehead sweats about noon, with stiffness of the loins, the pulse being 90 (third day). Sweat on the forehead about noon; after dinner the eyes feel weak as after revelry (second day).
Skin
Eruption, first red and confluent, afterwards numerous small, white, hard, elevated pimples, on the arm and chest. Painfully disagreeable itching in the axilla, at 3 P.M. (third day). Smarting as if excoriated, in various places that could be covered with the tip of the finger. Smarting in the outer side of the left knee, as if excoriated.
Aggravation
Aggravation, (morning), Pressure in eyes. Aggravation, (Night), Headache; sweat. Aggravation, (Inspiration), Aching pain in abdominal muscles; stitch in left side of chest; stitches in region of heart. Aggravation, (Sitting), Pain in left lumbar region. Aggravation, (Standing), Pain in left lumbar region; pain in ankle. Aggravation, (Stooping), Feeling of intoxication and vertigo; stupid feeling in head; drawing in orbits.
Heart and Pulse
Sudden stitches in the region of the heart, when sitting erect or standing, abating when stooping, only during an inspiration (after two hours). Palpitation of the heart. Increased pulse. Pulse 90, in the first quarter of an hour the beats are full and vigorous, in the second the diastole is shorter, the whole body being agreeably warm, and a tremulous anxious sensation being experienced, which seems to come out of the abdomen (after two hours). The pulse is somewhat accelerated and irregular, two or three beats being occasionally quicker than the others; at the same time it is more tense. Pulse 85, at 10 A.M. (third day). Pulse 78, the beats of the heart being weak and scarcely felt (after three-quarters of an hour). Increase of 4 or 5 beats of the pulse (after a quarter of an hour). Pulse somewhat diminished, subsequently (after three hours) rose by 20 beats. The pulse at first fell 10 beats, but subsequently rose higher than the normal. Pulse 80 before taking, fell to 62 and afterwards rose to 96. Pulse 64 before taking, fell to 56, afterwards rose to 78. Pulse 80 before taking, fell to 64, and afterwards rose to 90. Pulse 68 (before taking), 56 (after one hour), 78 (subsequently). Pulse 72 before taking, fell to 60, afterwards rose to 74. Pulse 70 before taking, fell to 52, then rose to 72. Pulse 69 (before the experiment); rose to 75, where it remained for some hours (after two hours); associated with rush of blood to the head, feeling of fullness and increased warmth of the face. Pulse frequent, tremulous, and irregular. Pulse unequal, in one minute 60, and in the next 90; weak and small, in the forenoon (after two hours). Pulse small.
Sexual organs
Creeping and drawing in the penis, as if it had gone to sleep; frequent erections the day previous, early in the morning (third day). Tensive gurgling pain in the right testicle, when sitting, at 5 P.M. (second day).
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.