Sleep
Yawning at 10 A.M. and in afternoon long and deep; Y. in forenoon, with sleepiness; Y. at 5 P.M., with drowsiness; Y., with chilliness. Sleepiness; in evening; while sitting in evening; in evening, but sleeplessness till midnight from thinking, then monstrous dreams, which seemed an extension of his mental condition when awake, for through the day he was disinclined to talk but took a morbid delight in building air castles; desire for sleep, in night, with tossing about, but no sleep; S. when sitting.
Sleeplessness from fancies before his imagination, then in the first part of the night fantastic half slumber, full of dreams; S., with tossing abut. Restless sleep; with talking; with dreams and frequent waking; with headache and stupefaction; and stupefied, with horrible dreams.
Dreams; of snakes; of putrid water, fishes and serpents, filling him with horror and waking him; that an insect burrowed deeply into his heel; in morning that he is hungry, which wakes him, when he has spasm of stomach, with hunger, nausea, pain in back and flatulence; lascivious; L. in morning, during which he would have had an emission of semen if he had not awakened; restless, in early part of night, of long dim passages, with a succession of strangely dressed figures, who retreated when approached but followed when he went on; fantastic; heavy; confused, of places where he had been and of persons he had seen.
Fever
Chilliness in forenoon, with headache, also loss of appetite at noon, nausea, and at 4 P.M. tumult and beating in head, heat in head, creeping chills, dry hot skin, nausea, desire for something salt, weakness, increase of the desire for something salt, weakness, increase of the desire for something acrid and sour, so that at 7 P.M. she ate pot-cheese, which improved the symptoms, but the febrile condition lasted all night. Chilliness in evening; every day at 6 P.M., then heat, the chill lasting longer and returning on uncovering, even during the heat, perceptible pulsation of l. temporal artery during the heat, both stages without thirst; after rising, with nausea; after eating, with weakness, nervousness and obtuse feeling in head. C., with pale, almost yellowish countenance, nausea and empty eructations.
Shuddering forenoons, at the same hour, passing into a chill, with gooseflesh and coldness, hot head, cold hands and nausea, (>) warm soup. Chill up back and across shoulders, (<) after eating and on coming in from open air; running along spine at noon, with heat and flushing of face and limbs; in spine close to occiput, extending to end of coccyx, from noon till 5 P.M., with heat and lethargy, heat of head, hands and feet, chill (>) by warmth, then sleepiness, but lack of sleep, caused by vivid imagination, till 10 P.M., then restlessness, heat, aching of legs and back, feeling as if brain were too large for skull, sweat in palms, on lower part of abdomen and inner sides of thighs, then sleep about midnight, afterwards recurrence of chills for eight days, beginning at noon and lasting four or five hours. Feet cold in afternoon and evening.
Heat. – Fever every day at 6 P.M.; feverish, sick feeling in afternoon, with weakness. Heat, with heaviness. Burning spot on one or other hand; on inner condyle of knee; on back of arms after dinner.
Sweat in morning; from 4 to 6 A.M., after a restless sleep disturbed by cough; at night; as soon as he got warm in bed, with chilliness; on chest at night. Profuse, 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.