Upper Extremities
Convulsive shocks in various muscles from shoulder to fingers. Twitchings everywhere. Tearings. Pain; bruised, drawing, tensive, sprained, as from splinters, as if burnt on surface. Tremblings. Weakness. Lameness. Numbness and sensitiveness to cold, especially in fingers. Asleep feeling. General aggravation to touch.
Lower Limbs
The symptoms fall into the following groups, not characterized by locality, and they affect every part, from hip to toes. Twitchings and convulsive shocks. Tearings. Stitches. Tremblings, with unsteady muscles and weakness, heaviness and giving way. Pains, cramplike, burning, bruised, boring and piercing. Tension and stiffness. Pains usually (<) when walking and ascending, (>) sitting. In the heel soreness and feeling of splinters. Joints feel dislocated. Corns become sore. Feet feel frost-bitten.
Skin
Smooth and oily, especially on face. Pallor. Redness of face, with itching and burning, as after freezing, redness of face without heat; of l. side of scrotum, with swelling, itching and tingling; of fingers, with burning itching as if frozen. Icterus, especially of neck, face and chest, after the convulsions. Twitching above r. eye. Itching eruption, spreading to abdomen and thighs. Desquamation. Pimples; on forehead; painful on vertex; itching and sore to touch, in and between brows; inflamed pimples on r. cheek; itching on side of mouth; whitish, itching and burning, on lower abdomen, about umbilicus, pubis and inner thighs, the itching and burning (<) scratching; inflamed, on back, discharging bloody matter or arms, with burning itching; inflamed, on dorsum of l. hand; biting, above l. knee, with burning after scratching. Pustule in beard; itching and burning in breast, with red areola; between l. index and thumb and on r. side of neck, with itching. Boil on r. natis; painful, on front side of l. thigh and on the natis, the one on natis discharging blood without matter. Suppurating, painful abscess in middle of r. deltoid. Vesicles on forehead; in r. wing of nose; on chin; white vesicles on chin.
Stitches here and there; near umbilicus; r. side of neck; r. calf; electric stitches on anterior surface of r. thigh; itching stitches in various parts. Soreness of r. hand from wrist to thumb and forefinger, with burning. Formication on various parts of body and extremities; with burning; with itching; with pricking. Biting inducing scratching, on legs during the day when walking; corrosive biting and burning on various parts during the day. Itching of every part of the body, of large and small areas, mostly shifting from place to place; voluptuous; corrosive; burning, especially after scratching; often coming on in evening, growing worse in the night and relieved towards morning, with sweat; with burning redness and swelling as after a frost-bite (fingers, toes, ears).
Clinical The sensations in the skin are due apparently to a pure neurosis and not to any tissue change in the skin itself. The burning itching and redness as after a frost-bite are the chief characteristic indications.
Sleep
Sleepiness at any and all times. Yawning. Violent, convulsive, (<) walking in open air. Sleeplessness from 1.30 to 2.30 P.M. Sleep light, with many dreams. Restless drowsiness in evening. Restlessness at intervals during a bad dream. Restless sleep; at night; at night, with constant tossing about, owing to shuddering in whole body, in head as well as chest, abdomen and feet; restlessness at night from itching on abdomen, thighs, arms and scalp. Electric shocks on falling asleep, with twitchings through legs, (<) l. and complete waking. Sleep unrefreshing. Sleep bad, with headache and depression bordering on melancholy.
Dreams, anxious; frightful, with outcries as if some one were murdering him; bad; disconnected; unremembered; vivid; vivid, partly agreeable, partly disagreeable.
Fever
Chilliness; forenoon, with disagreeable sensation over back, especially spine; forenoon, with flushes of heat; evening, also with flushes of heat; evening alternating with heat; night on raising cover; going into open air; on slight motion, and in cooler air and if a cool finger touched a warm part; (<) morning. Sensitiveness to cool air; especially in hands and feet, with pale, wan face. Chill, with hot head, confusion and loss of ideas; with dull headache, stupefying vertigo and palpitation; chill, with thirst or subsequent heat, also every evening; with warm face, hands and feet; with yawning, also with frequent desire to urinate, weakness and disinclination to move, (<) internal. Shaking; in evening, also on undressing; on lifting bed-covers; over whole body, also afternoon and evening; over whole body, with gooseflesh, then heat of head, with painful beating in forehead and sweat on forehead; with doubling up on sofa, teeth chattered, pain in face, hands blue. no thirst, headache, groaned much in sleep, then towards morning general sweat, which relieved. Chilliness over whole body, especially in feet, then heat over whole body, especially lower limbs, which he must uncover, the blood seemed to stream glowing hot through veins, circulation excited, febrile, pulse hard and tense, and thirst at night. In region of coronal suture after scratching, spreading to forehead; internal chilliness in scalp on r. frontal bone, with external warmth; in head, especially occiput; creeping chill in scalp of vertex, with sensation as if scalp were drawn tightly over skull.
Chill through back and limbs, now and then; in spots on ribs, before l. scapula; close to coccyx; feeling in lumbar region as if spinal marrow or its membranes were touched by ice; feeling as if cold air were spreading over body from spine; when leaning against a chair, as if water were running down back; in spine and upper limbs, then shaking chill, with blue face and hands, which are icy cold, small, hard pulse and heavy head. Shivering in back; along spine and upper limbs. Coldness in r. axilla and inner condyle of foot, mornings in warmth of bed (familiar), in limbs, with blueness; of tip of r. elbow; over metacarpal joint of r. middle finger; hands; hands, with blue nails; lower limbs; l. natis; r. natis at every beat of pulse; in spots on nates and coldness extending to ankles, especially great toe (familiar); l. natis and region of trochanter (familiar); r. natis and below r scapula, also between skin and muscles. Quicksilver sensation in r. gluteal, also in a length-wise spot; in l. gluteal (familiar) after dinner; quicksilver sensation in r. popliteal space (familiar); Coldness in track of a nerve on posterior surface of thigh; on posterior side of l. thigh; in whole l. leg, rousing from sleep; thrill of C. down l. leg to foot; C. of ankles and toes; feet; of skin, with swollen veins. Gooseskin from slightest contact of cool air.
Heat; morning on waking, with heaviness; all afternoon in attacks, with sweat and dull headache without thirst, heat and sweat, (<) evening on putting on hat, with rapid breathing and weakness; in evening, with thirst and cold hands; H. at night, but chill if she turns or raises covers; at night, then sweat; at night, with glowing face, sweat towards morning. Radiating warmth from whole body. General organs of blood. Burning in different places. Heat of head; to touch; especially on vertex, partly also in eyes; burning in vertex; burning in 1. superciliary ridge, near temple, (<) pressure and pain on pressure. Heat in ears; with itching; in face in morning on waking, with bloated feeling, especially in cheeks, and with heat of head; in face at 4 P.M., and redness, with tension of cheeks; in face in evening, especially near malar-bone; in face on waking from deep sleep, especially in cheeks; in face after eating, with redness; in face, with anxiety, (>) sweat; burning of cheeks; in cheeks in flushes; in face in flushes, with sweat on forehead; in attacks in face and upper part of body. Burning of lips. Heat creeping through back on slow walking in open air, with twitching in l. side of face. Warmth in dorsal region, with a rough feeling. Biting burning in dorsal portion of spinal column. Burning above l. elbow; in r. thumb in afternoon; in gluteals; in r. tibia; legs in morning, (>) rising; in l. leg; r. leg; r. leg in morning; r. leg in evening; r. leg after dinner; in skin of. r. leg, in r. calf; skin about r. malleolus, as in incipient erysipelas in feet as if blood were glowing in veins in warm bed; warmth as from a hand at top of tibia and fibula; burning in a corn on r. little toe. Warm skin, with distended veins.
Sweat; after a quiet night; in forenoon; towards evening; evening in bed, especially on legs, with sensation as if they were fanned by a cool breeze; at night; at night after an embrace, with weakness; at night, especially about legs; on waking; on walking; on ascending a hill, with faintness; from anxiety. Cold and viscid sweat, with weakness; cold sweat on face, neck and chest. Sweat on hairy scalp; on chest at night; on upper part of chest and shoulder after an embrace, then on abdomen and at anus; on palms; about lower limbs at night; inner surfaces of legs evenings in bed; about legs, also in morning, with lassitude; on r. leg; on. legs i n morning; on legs at night.
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.