Shuddering at night on lying down. Shaking chill at night, then hot dry skin, then sweat. Sensitiveness to cold draught. Feeling as if he would take cold. Symptoms of having caught cold, violent coryza, shivering over back, (<) towards evening, difficult breathing, pressure beneath sternum, at times flushes of heat, pulse full, accelerated. Chilliness alternating with heat; at night, also with spots of gooseflesh, which disappear on breaking out of sweat; after coldness; with tingling and nervousness, then dry heat, soreness on touch and anxiety. Sudden chilliness, by eating External, with pallor and internal heat; with dryness, and with rustling of skin; with sweat. Long-lasting then transient heat and copious sweat, with waving and swaying of head.
Scalp sensitive to cold air; cold sensation in scalp; forehead cold; rigor from vertex down to coccyx, then agreeable warmth in skin; feeling as if a cool air were spreading over vertex and occiput from a ball which seemed to rise from umbilical region. In face, internally, with external heat. Shivers upward towards chest.
Chills over back; shivering over back; chilliness in back and limbs; and arms; and upper arms; down back, (<) evening; in afternoon and towards evening, and in feet, with heaviness in forehead and vertex; along spine, also with gooseflesh creeping along galea aponeurotica; with a feeling of numbness in small of back, extending into lower limbs, and while sitting or standing it seems as if the lower limbs went to sleep, (>) walking; when in open air after breakfast, and in chest, then heat (with frontal headache), which motion renewed; creeping over back and thighs; extending over legs, with cold sweat and cold feeling in face then heat and rapid pulse and symptoms of coryza; from middle of spine to lumbar muscles of both sides, with flushes of heat in head; between shoulders and down back, with formication, (<) motion, with cold tips of fingers and toes; internal, extending from back over lower limbs, while upper limbs are warm, with cold sweat and face icy -cold to touch.
From praecordia to limbs after midnight, then dry heat, with febrile pulse, which he could hear in his head, then sweat in morning. In limbs; creeping; in lower, then upper, as often as he moved, extending to whole body, between skin and muscle, with gooseflesh., violent exercise in open air, returning when standing or lying; especially in limbs, with blueness of hands, fingers, chin and jaw.
Coldness of arms; (<) arms; (<) 1.; shuddering, (<) upper arms and thighs; and legs, with shivering, even in face. Hands; of one, with insensibility; and feet, while face is hot; and feet, evenings, also with flushing of face, (<) evening; and feet, with shuddering over back, while head and body are warm; at noon, and in feet, with heat of head, cheeks and hands in afternoon, and with frequent alternations of temperature; towards evening, and in feet, then nausea about middle of sternum nausea (>) eating, then heat of face. Fingers with blue nails; tips of fingers and toes.
Spreads over all lower limbs, fingers are deathly pale; down inside of lower limb from middle of thigh, (<) on knee and sole. Down fore part of thighs, as from trickling of water. Legs, (<) warm room and walking; creeping, on inside of leg. Knee, in evening, with flying shootings. Feet (China), (<) toes; feet, with sweat of toes and soles; soles. Under skin; shivering as if between skin and flesh, (<) back and abdomen, even during sweat.
Heat; in afternoon, with weakness, (<) limbs; evening, with rapid pulse and symptoms of coryza; towards evening, continuing next day and for a week, with difficult breathing, distress in region of heart and intermittent pulse, five beats were full hard and rapid and the sixth intermittent, with pallor, emaciation and sickly look (at night, with dyspnoea, restlessness and pain); waking at night, with dryness of mouth and throat and confusion of head and vertex. Aggravation in evening, with swollen veins; after getting into bed; on going to bed, (<) lower limbs; indoors. Amelioration in morning. With thirst. Drinks but little during the heat, yet has dry lips. Feeling all day of impending fever, with nausea, want of appetite, and aching pains in whole body, especially in limbs. With throwing off of clothes. (China, Opium, Veratrum)
Hot sensation over the whole body, with red cheeks, rigor, weeping and headache. Internal heat; at night; with thirst; with moderate thirst for beer; with chilliness and nausea, fever., going into open air and walking; with prostration. Flushing heat; in evening; (<) entering house. Dry heat; with tightness of skin, also with numbness and tingling spreading from feet. Heat extending over whole body, especially stomach and abdomen, with sweat.
Hot feeling in upper part of body, especially face, as if sweat would break out. In head; with forehead hot to touch, and with rigor over rest of body on motion; externally on vertex; suddenly in head and face. Face; (<) evening; cheeks; cheeks, with redness and feeling as if face were growing larger; heat in cheeks and palms in evening; l. cheeks seemed swollen and hot, but was cool to touch; heat alternately in face and throat; dry, in face towards evening, with anxiety; flushing, especially of face and ears, with pressing pain in region of l. frontal eminence, extending towards upper orbital margin. In region of coccyx with sticking burning. Pleasant, from back over whole body, especially in back, with sweat; creeping, over back; flushing in back. Hot sensation in hands, then over whole body, even in chest, without external heat; heat in palms evenings; burning along dorsum of index. Heat of skin; then coldness. Burning through all mucous membranes.
Sweat; at night; after midnight, relieving all symptoms; (<) after stool. Profuse; in morning (after nightly delirium); after convulsions. Exhausting. Sour Steaming. Cold; on head; forehead; on brow, with almost imperceptible pulse and sparkling eyes; back; hands; palms; feet. Cold and clammy; on face; forehead; hands and feet. Gushing cold sweat, with nausea, vertigo and headache. On forehead and praecordia. Under nose; on face; abdomen after stool; around waist and lower limbs; chest; hands; on whichever cheek he lies on; l. wrist; inside of thighs and on scrotum, in bed, with itching, (>) cold water.
Clinical The Aconite fever is sthenic in type and for the most part not remittent, though the aggravation towards evening is decided. It is not useful in fever as a symptom of any form of malarial or septic poisoning, nor of a localized inflammatory process, but is adapted to a general febrile state without a pathological lesion (in this respect differing from Iodine, Bryonia, Gelsemium, etc.) The never-failing characteristic is the mental anguish, without which Aconite is useless; if the patient be quiet and apathetic Aconite is not the remedy, no matter how high the temperature; thirst and restlessness are present. Frequently there are alternations of chill and fever, but the sweat is usually critical and terminates the attack. It is valuable in the chilly as well as the febrile stage preceding the development of many eruptions and lesions, but when the preliminary storm has passed and the lesion has become established, the picture change from Aconite to some other remedy.
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.