Sleep Sleepiness.
Constant yawning. Frequent yawning, all day (first day). Much and frequent yawning, with and without sleepiness, even in the morning or evening. Yawning and constant inclination to yawn, in the forenoon, after a good night’s sleep. Feel drowsy most of the time. Sleepiness. Sleepy, in the morning. Sleepy and indolent, immediately after dinner. Sleepiness, with spasmodic dulness of the head, without being able to sleep. Constant desire to sleep, even in the morning; he could scarcely keep awake. She is unable to keep awake about 2 P.M., and sleeps at her work; disappearing in the open air. Falls asleep late in the evening, but sleeps soundly. Much sleep. Deep, exhausting sleep, with many dreams. Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness, 15 33 40 58. Almost total sleeplessness, at night, followed by heaviness, in the morning. Falling asleep prevented by mental activity. Falling asleep late in the evening, but wide awake early in the morning. Frequent waking at night on account of anxiety. Woke on back (second night). Waking about midnight from vivid dreams, with a feeling of great heat over the whole body, without being warm, without sweat, With a feeling of dryness and without thirst, is obliged to uncover the arms and limbs. She frequently woke during the night, with anxious dreams of water and of drowning (first days). She woke frequently at night, could not sleep after 5 A.M., (first eight days). Frequently awakened by frightful dreams (first night), 19 In spite of great sleepiness he awoke frequently at night, with violent palpitation and screaming, from anxious dreams of thieves. Frequent waking at night, with difficult falling asleep again; anxious dreams towards morning. Frequent waking without apparent cause, at night (after five days). In the evening, mind very active, which prevents his falling asleep early (eighth day). Night restless, 26 27. Sleep very restless, full of dreams. Sleep restless, with dreams of fire, of fleeing, etc., followed by perspiration. Night restless, talking in sleep, waking after midnight and perspiring profusely. Restless night; he awoke screaming, as if delirious, as if geese were biting him. Restless sleep, she could sleep only a little at night, but slept long in the morning. Slept badly, and was often disturbed by violent headache and painful cramps in the calves of the legs. Sleep agitated and unrefreshing, with occasional nightly perspiration. Uneasy sleep, with anxious dreams (fourth and thirty-third nights). Uneasy sleep, with many vivid dreams; a feeling of weariness, in the morning on waking. Uneasiness during sleep, after midnight; he awoke much too early, with great weariness, and a feeling as though the eyes lay deep in the head. Sleep at night frequently interrupted; the night seems very long. Very uneasy sleep, with frightful dreams. Very restless sleep, full of fantasies and thoughts, upon which he was obliged to reflect (first night). Starting from the night’s sleep with involuntary jerking in the left lower extremity (fifth day). In the evening, immediately after lying down, she rises up in bed, talks unintelligibly, with short tremulous respiration. Unconscious starting during the night’s sleep, during the menses. Loud screaming out at night in sleep, without knowing it. Dreams. Sleep with many vivid dreams. Much dreaming, with mental excitement and talking about midnight about his dreams. He dreamed all night, woke many, times, and was very weary in the morning. Vivid dreams made the night’s sleep restless. Vivid dreams after midnight, so that even in the morning they were before his eyes. Sad dreams (second night). Anxious dreams. Heavy anxious dreams (after three days ). Anxious dreams, the anxiety of which continued after waking. Dream as though she were being strangled, and in the morning after waking fear lest a man who strangled her would return. Dreams of corpses and horses, which changed into dogs under him. Disgusting dream of being smeared with human excrement (after two days). Vexatious, or quarrelsome or sad dreams. Reveries during sleep. Nightmare.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness, with nausea. Febrile chill over the whole body. Chilliness and coldness of the whole body. Rigors, trembling of the limbs. During the menses chilliness all day. Chill after dinner, lasting till evening. Chilliness on waking, in the morning, in bed. Chilliness in the forenoon; frequent rising of heat, with redness of the face, in the afternoon. Shaking chill, from 4 to 8 P.M., on lying down, without subsequent heat, sweat, or thirst; even in bed she was unable to get warm for a long time; yet the sleep was sound. Chilliness for a quarter of an hour, while writing, with a sensation as though a foreign stony hard substance were in the throat, with constant yawning. Constant chilliness, with increased internal warmth. Chill, which disappears in the house, creeps over her immediately on going into the open air. Chilliness, followed by febrile symptoms, over the whole body, with chilly creeping and drawing through the whole back. Constant chilly feeling, with general sick feeling. Violent chill, lasting till evening (after one hour), followed by nausea, eructations, and accumulation of sour water. Shaking chill in the evening, on taking hold of anything cold; also shaking chill by itself, so that she was obliged to lie down, after which it disappeared. Shaking chill, with pale sunken face, weak, rapid, and irregular pulse, often with nausea and vomiting; at last the pulse became large and full, with general heat, red face, skin swollen, followed by very restless sleep, with distressing dreams and exhaustion, followed at last by copious sweat; the whole attack usually lasted from eight to ten hours, generally began at the end of a day’s work, continued through the night, and ceased in the morning, so that the man was able to return to work, 38. Creeping chills over the whole upper and lower part of the body. Great sensitiveness to cold, especially in the tips of the fingers and in the feet. Shivering, 37 39. Sensitiveness to the open air, in the afternoon and evening. Severe shivering. Violent shivering, with intense headache. Shivering, with shuddering nausea. Shivering, continuing for two or three hours, and followed by cold sweats, or more frequently the sweating is preceded by flushes of heat and violent febrile reaction. Shivering discomfort, like a premonition of a storm. Shivering from a penetrating wind, not from cold. In the evening shivering, sometimes succeeded by an indistinct hot stage, but always by profuse sweating. Shivering in the evening, so that he could not get warm in bed for a long time. Shivering in the open air, which disappears in the house, in the evening. Temperature in the morning 96.8 ‘0, in the evening 91.9’0. External parts are easily frozen in slight cold (lobules of the ears, tips of the nose, etc.). Cold nose. Frequent febrile shivering down the back, for five days (after three days). Creeping chills over the upper and lower abdomen. Shivering on the scrotum, with shivering of it. Shivering as in gooseflesh in the scrotum and neighboring parts. Coldness of the extremities, 32a 42. Hands and feet cold. Hands cool (after eight hours). Awakened at night by coldness of the feet (after thirty-six hours). Cold feet in the evening, lasting a long time, in bed (eleventh day). Heat. Fever. Febrile paroxysms several times a day, recurring in the forenoon and afterwards; chilliness and shivering, flushes of heat over the whole body, violent trembling of all the limbs, extreme sickness, even to faintness, qualmish taste, with loathing of the morsels of food in the mouth, feeling of emptiness in the stomach, violent throbbing through the whole body, with short, hot breath, with very dry mouth, hot, dry hands, 9. Fever, followed by perspiration. Febrile flushes, with sudden crying out to be fanned, and thirst. Heat. Flushes of heat (after half an hour). Feeling of heat in the whole body, especially in the back, where she thought that she would perspire; not of the feet. Heat of the whole body, especially of the head, with redness of the cheeks, without external heat. Feeling of heat, with coldness of the forehead, in the evening. Heat and thirst, with cold skin, over almost the whole body, in the evening. Almost burning heat in various small places, while sitting, for example, between the thigh and abdomen, on the sides of the lower abdomen, etc. Heat in the evening, after lying down, with anxiety all night. Increased warmth of the whole body, with sweat in the axillae. Increased internal warmth, not perceptible externally, in the evening after 6 o’clock. Increased warmth coming on soon in the company of others. Increased warmth of the whole body, only a feeling of coldness in the abdomen, in the evening. Agreeable warmth, with slight perspiration over the whole body, in the afternoon. Increased warmth of the whole body, except of the feet, as if sweat would break out, in the afternoon. Heat in the head, in the evening, and after two hours chilliness. Heat in the head in the evening, with redness and increased warmth in the cheeks. Feeling of that in the head, with redness of the face. Violent heat in the head, so that the eyes burned, three evenings in succession (after ten hours). Heat of the face, without headache, with cold body, all the forenoon. Heat of the fingers, immediately followed by heat about the throat and in the face, with redness of the face, soon followed by a sensation of coldness in the nape of the neck. Burning and heat in the soles, in the evening. Sweat. Moist surface. Very profuse sweat. Profuse perspiration, while waking, in the open air (after nineteen days). Perspiration towards morning, followed by gradual disappearance of the symptoms. Increased perspiration during sleep, towards morning (second day). General perspiration towards morning. General perspiration, with disappearance of all symptoms (fourth day)28. Cold sweat, often preceded by great heat, 37 41. Cold sweat, preceded by flushes of heat. Perspired easily on the head and hands. Night sweat. Profuse night sweat (after thirty-three days). Night sweat over the whole body, especially on the lower extremities, several nights in succession (after three days). Night sweat all night, with heat, cannot tolerate any covering. Sour sweat, with fine sticking itching over the whole body. Sour-smelling sweat. Hands very sweaty. Profuse sweat on the feet, of a bad odor; he walks the feet sore.
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.