Pimples (on scrotum); itching, on prepuce; on side of neck, with stinging and ulcerative pain on touch, itching between thumb and index, wit sticking when touched; painful on margin of beard. Pustules; on side of forehead; in and under nose, with biting pain; acne under r. labial commissure, with burning pain. Eruption like smallpox on cheeks, especially under eyes. (Abscess of psoas muscles.) Vesicles, with itching; V., with heat and irritation; then erysipelatous patch; acuminated, on an inflamed base; exuding.
Stitches; as from fleas, on chest and inner surfaces of arms after suddenly becoming heated; (burning and itching S. here and there when lying down for siesta, (>) scratching). Tearing at different times and on different parts. Pain, drawing on dorsum of l. little finger; tensive P. (at place of application), with burning, afterwards when washing, the hair-follicles look like prominent crimson grains, which later are red flat spots; burning, at times in this, at times in that part; cold, now here, now there.
Sensitiveness, and of all joints on motion. Formication over orbits; near nose; of forearms; of feet; itching F. on side of nose, (>) rubbing. Itching; in morning on waking; l. outer thigh and foot; of toes; of whole body, with stitching; red spot on glans; crawling I. in l. side of chest; stinging, in sides of chest and in back; pricking, on scapula; stinging, on inner side of thigh like soreness, (>) touch; pricking I. on proximal joints of fingers, (>) scratching.
Clinical Erysipelatous inflammation, with tendency to ecchymoses, great prostration, tendency to boils, especially in diabetes. Gangrenous appearance in contused wounds. Bed-sores.
Sleep
Yawning; frequent; frequent in evening, without sleepiness; with stretching, and with dilatation of pupils, without sleepiness. Sleepiness; in forenoon; in evening; after a long walk in open air, with disinclination to think or speak. Sleeps much. Sleeps two hours in evening, then sleepless till 5 A.M., then sleep till 9 A.M. Sleepless; till 2 to 3 A.M., with anguish as if owing to heat; till 2 or 3 A.M., with stinging, biting itching here and there. Falls asleep late in evening, but sleeps long in morning. Sleep restless; and diminished. Unrefreshing S. Disturbed sleep after going to bed exhausted, waking frequently, each time from a dream that he was dying and that his bed was surrounded by friends. Talking loud and unintelligibly. Lamenting in sleep. Starting up in fright; when falling asleep; starting and jerking backward of head. Waking early; frequently from dreams; frequently with emissions of semen.
Dreams. Of lightning striking, of graves, etc. Frightful with screams, which wake him; that men are flayed; of large black dogs and cats in evening immediately on falling asleep. Anxious; abut visions in previous dreams. That she is scolded and reproached (about immoral conduct). Vivid towards morning, and waked by his own talking; V. but unremembered. The dreamer showing much irresolution, while half asleep. Agreeable.
Fever
Chilliness; beginning in morning in bed, lasting the whole forenoon; in morning, then heat; C., (<) evening. External and internal C. Internal; waking by day or at night. Shaking C. without thirst. Shivering when gasping; when walking. Shivering C. over whole body and head, with heat in head, redness and heat in face, coolness of hands and bruised feeling in back, hips and anterior surface of arms. General shaking chill, with internal heat, hands and feet being cold. Cold spot on forehead as if touched with a cold thumb. Cold nose towards evening, with dry heat of face as far as behind ears, without thirst (Apis.); C. externally in nose, with internal heat. Chills in back, in morning, and in anterior part of thighs. Cold feeling in r. side when lying on it in morning. Cold dry skin. Shivering of limbs; over arms and thighs, with dry feeling in tip of tongue, in palate and lips.
Heat when lying quietly for some time, especially on head, which he must move constantly. Dry H. over whole body in morning after waking; in bed, with thirst, but chilliness on uncovering or making slightest motion. Flying H. over whole body, with anguish. Internal H., especially in head, with heaviness of head, without thirst. Itching burning of skin. Burning in brain while the rest of body is cool, or at least not hot; burning on top of head and neck externally; heat in head at night, waking him, then anxiety, with fears of apoplexy, in flushes over head, with sweat on face; internally and externally in head. Heat in lobule of ear; externally on l. ear and cheek; internally in ear, but not externally. (Burning about border of nostrils, with desire to sneeze.) Heat of one cheek, with redness, body otherwise cool, or at any rate not hot; (H. of one cheek at noon during dinner); in face, with itching; flushing over face, also in evening; of lips; in back, in paroxysmal flushes. Burning in feet; on external edge of l. foot, with biting; heat of feet, with twitching of limbs, especially feet and shoulders.
Sweat; at night, with anguish; on waking. Sour; at night. Cold. Intermittent at night, with anguish. On face; forehead; chest and inner surfaces of arms; on soles of feet and toes. Red, on chest.
Clinical Arnica is indicated in a low type of fever, generally of malarial nature (typhoid or typho-malaria), Bedsores develop, haemorrhages are frequent from internal parts, the lower extremities cold while the upper part of the body is hot. In fever stupid, secretions foul.
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.