Stitches; slow, hot, here and there. Pain; burning P. (<) walking, in the horny skin on toes, especially little toes. Pricking over whole body; after eating, with restlessness, oppression of chest and desire for fresh air. Tickling in l. palm. Sensibility or irritation, with vesicles, sometimes nettle-rash or the eruption of scarlet fever. Smarting and itching disturbing him at night, forcing him to apply cold water compresses, he got a little sleep about 4 A.M. Formication, with trembling (Phosphorus); F. on r. arm and forearm; hands and feet; hands at night; fingers and toes toward evening; in lower limbs. Habit of picking fingers and lips till they bled (Arum tri.).
Itching over whole body; with exhalation of black all night; with blotches and rawness; under r. ear, with pimples; on backs of fingers, with pointed papulae between fingers; at inner surface of thighs, after-wards becoming seated on l. side of scrotum, with redness of that side only and of posterior part of penis, and with heat. Tickling, I, in r. middle finger. Creeping I. in thighs as far as abdomen and in loins and nates; tickling creeping I. of r. big toe, as in a healing wound. Burning I.; with pain after scratching; around eyes and temples as if pricked with red-hot needles. Biting I. on forearm near wrist; of thighs; r. thigh near groin.
Clinical Eruption on face. The skin diseases requiring Arsenic are, as a rule, scaly, with soreness, intense itching and burning. In unhealthy states of the skin and in low fevers we may have ulcerations and even gangrenous sloughs. It is sometimes, but rarely, indicated in vesicular and even pustular eruptions, when the general symptoms of the patient correspond. It has cured a great number of indurations and tumors even after the ulcerative stage has been reached. In all these (numerous) diseases the general indications must be followed.
Sleep
Yawning; after eating, with weakness; with stretching. Sleepiness; in daytime when sitting; sleepiness, but no sleep. Sleepiness alternating with restlessness. Slumber and slight delirium. Sleep between acts of vomiting. Heavy sleep; with tendency to walk in sleep. Sleep at night alternates wit raving and different visions. Drowsiness interrupted by uneasy dreams and anxiety.
Sleeplessness; till 3 A.M.; with restlessness, and moaning; with creeping in abdomen; with fainting fits. Startings of various kinds in evening when falling asleep; tossing about; sleep only at times after 3 A.M. Restless; and disturbed by dreams; and disturbed till 1.30 A.M. attacks of cough, anxiety and heat; with feeling as if a chill were coming on; tries to uncover, jumps out of bed, with a fixed stare, and tears her clothes off. General sick feeling in sleep. He hears every sound during the morning slumber, yet dreams. Moaning in sleep in evening; M. (<) about 3 A.M., with tossing about. Talking and quarreling. Loud talking and indistinct murmuring with half-closed eyes. He complains in sleep of headaches, now in forehead, now in occiput. Light sleep, with muttering delirium. Feeling in morning as if she had not slept enough; with weary eyes and inability to get out of bed.
Dreams, uninterrupted, about thunderstorms, fire, black water and darkness; full of care, sorrow and fear, disturbing sleep; full of care and danger, he wakes with a cry and when asleep dreams of something else; full of care, he wakes and then continues his dream. Anxious; while falling asleep, he wants to cry out, but cannot, and is suddenly waked by that cry, which he hears yet. D. and nightmare, and the dreams hovered before his mind even during the day, disquieting him. Frightful. Full of threats, apprehension or repentance. Vivid, vexations. About death, catalepsy, did not know where she was on waking. Sexual, with emissions.
Fever
Chilliness; in daytime, then thirst, in evening heat in face; in afternoon, with shuddering abut heat, stretching and drawing in limbs, then chilliness about head, stretching and drawing in limbs, then chilliness and gooseflesh, from 8 till 9 P.M., heat over body, especially face, without sweat, cold hands and feet; towards evening; then heat; towards evening; then sweat without heat; towards evening, with drowsiness, general sick feeling, as after a paroxysm of fever, after midnight sweat on thighs, the attack returning at same hour two days afterwards; evening in bed; in evening and in morning on waking; every day at 3 P.M., with hunger; (>) after a meal; at night in bed; on waking, or fever; on entering house, then hiccough, then general sweat, then again hiccough; when talking or moving about, with ill humor and flushes of heat, then redness of face, with chilliness; before vomiting, then heat of skin, which is cold to touch; after the heat.
Coldness, with chattering of teeth, distortion of facial muscles and trembling; of body and dryness of skin alternating with cold sweat; general C., with profuse sweat; with cold feet, yet he began to sweat; with dryness of whole body, especially hands and feet; with chattering teeth, but red and hot forehead; with internal heat like fulness or fire in vessels; then dry heat of skin; alternating with heat; with alternating burning pain in stomach and anxiety. Internal C. in afternoon, with external heat and red cheeks. Internal C., but not external, or else heat internal, but not external, except perhaps in palm.
Shivering; in morning, alternating with heat; in forenoon without thirst, with spasms in chest, pain in whole body and a kind of inability to use one’s senses, then heat, with thirst, then sweat and roaring in ears; every day at 5 P.M.; every evening before retiring; When walking in open air; after dinner; after drinking; from slightest chill from dampness or sitting in a cold church, with abdominal pain, diarrhoea, rapid loss of strength and distressed countenance; during the pains, then thirst; (>) after dinner (rare alternate effect); without thirst; with shaking of heat; with heat of external ear, anguish and gnawing in pit of stomach and nausea; general, with hot forehead, warm face and cold hands, or with warm forehead, hot cheeks and cold hands; is apt to be accompanied with other ailments; after drinking, as from disgust. Feverish S.; every evening.
Ague, quotidian, sometimes tertian. Chilliness every other day at 6 P.M. with weariness of thighs and bruised feeling, on third day at 5 P.M. inclination to lie down, the chilliness over whole body without thirst, then heat without thirst, and oppressive aching in forehead. Intermittent fever, chilly between 8.30 and 9 A.M., after getting out of bed, till 1 P.M. with chattering of teeth, nails and lips blue, sometimes sickness on waking, bad taste, desire for much cold drink, pulse feeble, wants to lie down, be quiet and wrapped up, breath offensive, tongue brown, then fever till 4 to 5 P.M., with full pulse, frontal pain, not much thirst, especially hot to touch on abdomen, with pain there, feet and hands cold objectively, cannot bear draught of air, breath offensive, tongue brown, then well till 6 P.M., when there is slight chill lasting till 8 P.M., then heat again, bad dreams, sleeplessness after 3 A.M. Coldness and numbness of sleeplessness after 3 A.M. Coldness and numbness of whole r. side, especially of arm and hand, with frequent exhaustion. Coldness of nose and ears; tip of nose, and pinched; face; face in afternoon, face, with blue nose and lips; face and hands, with cold sweat on them; l. side of face colder than r.; sensation as if cold water were poured down back; of trunk and limbs. Cold limbs, with the diarrhoea, limbs in afternoon; and pulseless; limbs cold, with pain in abdomen; C. limbs C. forearms. Cold hands and feet; in evening, and about abdomen. Coldness-of lower limbs (Secale c.); with stiffness and without power of motion; especially of knees and feet, covered with cold sweat; from calves to feet in evening. Cold feet; wit fever; with contracted pulse; soles cold.
Heat; at 2 A.M., warmth over whole body, sweat on face and feet, tension in hypochondria and epigastrium, causing colic and anxiety; heat at sunrise, in bed, with sweat on face and dryness of forepart of mouth, without thirst; in afternoon with thirst; every evening; from 4 to 6 O’clock, with sweat; at 10 P.M. with redness of whole body, ten sweat; at night, without thirst or sweat; II, at night, with restlessness and with pulsations an limbs, hindering sleep; (<) evening; (>) morning and (<) night, Heat, with thirst; H. with delirium; with rapid, hard puls;e with restlessness; with sore with rapid, hard pulse; with restlessness; with sore throat and rash; with headache and sensitiveness in region of stomach; with pain in shoulders and nape; with vertigo, flashes of light and apparent motion of stationary object, twitching of limbs and intermittent pulse; with diarrhoea, slight hypertrophy of spleen, spasm at glottis, anorexia, nausea and headache, after three weeks the fever and intestinal symptoms ceased, but appetite did not return, tongue furred, blepharitis, after some days seized every evening by chills followed by heat.
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.