Fever
Cold hand and feet. Burning in red apart of upper lip. Heat of skin on going to bed (Silicea) Flashes of heat; in face; in different parts, with nausea, Sweat; cold on face (Digitalis, Colchicum, Veratrum; copious, also at night.
Clinical It has been used chiefly for dropsical effusions dependent upon diseases of the liver; it has not been so useful in albuminuria. Cases of hydrocephalus have been cured; patients thorax with scanty urine; ascites; general anasarca; in all these cases there is generally great thirst, but drinking causes distress or nausea and vomiting; the stomach is very irritable and there is great distention on taking anything into it. For neuralgia of the great distention on taking anything into it. For neuralgia of the sciatic and lumbar nerves in r. groin and trochanter extending up into lumbar region, pain very severe. Excessive haemorrhage from the uterus, vomiting. It has arrested post- partum haemorrhage. Purpura, with suppression of urine, has been cured. The general; indications in dropsies of various sorts seem to be the presence of great thirst and the extreme irritability of the stomach; in this respect it resembles Arsenicum. It is supposed that the aqueous infusion is more efficacious than the tincture.
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.