Toes – Cracking of great toe, at every motion requiring effort. Tearing and drawing through r. great. Rhythmical cutting under l. great. Burning pain in ball of r. great. A corn on l. little toe became painful as if pressed upon.
Clinical Useful in soreness of the heels.
Skin
Bluish spots on thighs; on tibiae. Liver-colored spots on shoulders; liver-colored spots and dots here and there, especially on arms. Red points on chest, with itching, not (>) by rubbing. Red points, with white dots in centre; on front of neck, with stinging on moving hand over beard; red points, with white tips, below l. corner of mouth. Rash; behind ears, as far as nape and over scapulae; on middle of upper arms. Nettle-rash in face, especially on cheeks; on face and limbs, as far as the swollen fingers, with thirst and nausea.
Pimples coming on at night; on styloid process of l. radius; on r. natis; as from mosquito bites on face, also on r. cheek, also on r. knee; that itch on getting warm in bed and prevent sleep; itching at bend of elbow, also in ball of hand, on muscle of thumb. Pimples and vesicles as from stings of insects, beginning with itching, in many parts, especially on face and joints of limbs. P: painful to touch, on neck and under chin; red, hard, painful to touch, on l. temple, where cartilage of ear begins. Red, on top of r. shoulder, passing off for a short time on pressure. Red, hard elevation on each site of forehead, with itching, coming and going. Hard pea-shaped body under skin on l.side on nape, felt on stretching skin when bending head. Flat pimples, itching when touched, on cheeks, with yellowish scurf. Red,. itchlike P., stinging on touch, on carpal; joint of r. thumb, with brown scurf.
Eruption on l.cheek towards chin, with yellow crust painful to touch, and which may be knocked off easily. Red, burning, suppurating eruption on face, Pustules here and thee, with brown scurf; painful to pressure, on both sides of nose; hard, long- continuing, like pocks, below neck; hard, on l. natis, with itching and tensive pain. Boil on perineum, with burning and pain far around. White tubercle, painful on touch, above eyebrows. White, hard tubercles, with red areola, on leg, after itching. Vesicle on styloid process of r. ulna; on outer border of l.hard; itching, on l.hand. Like varioloid, with stinging on pressure, in several places; on face and nose; on knee. Red heat V., with yellow dots over r shoulder, afterwards they look like gooseflesh and scale off.
Stitches here and there on neck; in r. sole, evening in bed after a walk, (>) rubbing. tickling and itching stitches from within outward here and there, especially in upper arm and under r. natis. Sensitiveness of neck, sore feeling when rubbed hard on account of itching, also upon chest. Crawling along l.calf. Itching, especially on neck and limbs; on back; on chest; here and there, waking him, with blisters; waking him, with pimples at several places; on chest, then sore feeling after rubbing, skin sensitive as after blisters; of arm, and after rubbing reddish blisters like mosquito bites; on inside of r. knee, and after rubbing a painful blisters; on chest, as if blisters were healing, Stinging itching of R. thigh not (>) by scratching, then a flat, yellowish pimple.
Sleep
Sleepiness during the day and in morning after waking; in forenoon; in afternoon when sitting; overwhelmed with sleep every day at 7 P.M., and she continues to sleep during the night; at 6 P.M., and peevish, at 8 he cannot refrain from sleeping, sleeps soundly all night and in the morning is so tired that he can scarcely open his eyes. Sleepless till midnight; every evening, with shivering, especially over whole. l.side, upon which he does not lie, or with sexual desire when getting warm, and erections making him more awake. Waking frequently at night, a s from fright waking frequently at night, and on falling sleep dreams about solemnities.
Fanciful delusions in sleep: she hears a knocking outside or is called. Horrible dreams about the mutilation of men. Anxious D., as if he were to be hurt and feet. Sleep interrupted by disagreeable dreams about quarrels with his relatives. Pleasant d. of seeing an old schoolmate. Voluptuous, at night, with pollutions
Fever
Chilliness; internal. Cold feet; till 1 A.M. Shivering over whole back, without thirst; S. over whole body in morning, with heat in forehead, without thirst, Chills towards noon, with thirst for beer, then sleep, then heat and thirst. Ho feeling from slightest exercise, especially from heat of sun, with heat in throat. Warmth all over body on waking at 2 A.M., with burning itching and excoriated feeling in anus. Heat at night in bed, with sweat. Sweat during sleep; general in morning on waking; general, making finger-tips soft and wrinkled; returning at the same hour on three days in succession.
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.