Pustules; on cheek and nose, rapidly filling with pus, becoming covered with a crust, also on nape and arms; between lips and chin, with burning smarting, pain (<) night; white-tipped, under I. wing of nose; red, on back, especially in scapular region, with whole skin is red and smarts when touched, but in tips of pustules there is shooting. Erysipelatous fever with inflamed swellings passing into gangrene. Gangrene, hot and cold. Ulcers; exude only bloody matter; (become covered with black scabs_; cutting in U. during rest, and tearing on moving the part; sore pain around U.; painful. on aside of nostrils where they unite with lip; become painful to touch, almost a burning pain; pain in U. almost only at night ( from 6 P.M. to 6 A.M.)_, burning as if something would press outward, and the part seems paralyzed and stiff; itching of U.
Sensitiveness to touch; S. to the free air. Pleasant prickling as of warmth out of all pores Creeping upwards on I. arm. Itching pricking here and there in evening in bed. Itching stinging on r. scapula. Scratching of various parts, especially of neck and chest. Itching; of feet; shooting, on scapulae (>) scratching; tearing, here and there, (<) night in bed, after rubbing only tearing pain remains; scraping, on forehead; biting, on feet and their dorsa; crawling, now here, now there; creeping, on legs and back; (titillating, on I. scapula).
Clinical Early stage of erysipelas. Early stage of boils.
Sleep
Yawning; frequent, in afternoon, with stretching and filling of eyes with water; frequent, in evening, then chills along skin; like that of an intoxicated person. Sleepiness; on waking; in morning after rising; from 5 to 9 P.M., with desire to stretch; towards evening, with yawning, but in morning feeling as if he had not slept enough; with dullness of intellect; with inability to sleep because of itching, scratching causes erythema; full of inquietude. sleep in afternoon. Somnolence, with subsultus tendinum, pale cold face and hard, small, rapid pulse. Deep sleep. Heavy disturbed sleep, with stertor. Profound, late S., with headache and languor on waking and no appetite for breakfast. Inability to rouse himself in morning, and on waking ill humor. Stupefied sleep; with opening of eyes, looking about him wildly, then stertorous slumber. Soporous condition, with convulsions of face and limbs. Sopor, coma or lethargy after the delirium, and sometimes the delirium returns as the sopor goes off.
Ineffectual efforts to obtain sleep. Sleeplessness; after midnight, with sweat; except from 1 to 6.30, then unrefreshed on rising; from anguish. also with drawing pains in all limbs; from a fancy that he was some pressing business; with relief of pains at night. Restless sleep; before midnight, the child tosses about, kicks and quarrels in sleep (Hyosc); with irrational talking and difficulty in keeping them in bed; with active dreams. Starting in otherwise quiet sleep, feeling as if falling deep down, which caused shuddering. Starting and waking when falling asleep; in evening, the feet are jerked upward and the head forward. suffocative snoring only on inspiration. Croaking and moaning. singing and loud talking.
A woke from noon sleep with restlessness, screamed and stamped. Waking three times about midnight, with ineffectual retching and cold sweat as from anguish. Frequent waking with restless; f. waking as if he had slept enough. Waked constantly by fearful dreams and twitchings. Waking in night full of fear, if appeared as if there were something under her bed which made a noise dry heat on waking. Sleep intolerable on account of increased pains and frightful dreams.
Dreams immediately on falling asleep. Frightful D. Wakened by D. of danger from fire. Anxious D. about murderers and street- robbers, he heard himself shouting, but did not come to his senses Fatiguing D. Vivid but unremembered. Unremembered. About household affairs. That she was occupied with many people, and she wished to get away, but did not go so far as that. Pleasant; provoking laughter, after the delirium.
Clinical In children a kind of restless sleep, with sudden starting, twitching of arms, with half-closed eyes, hot head, fright, dilated pupils, etc.
Fever
Chill over body in evening on undressing, then heat in Whole. side of body; C. after bathing; after eating; after dinner, with chattering of teeth, and when lying trembling of limbs as in cold stage of intermittent fever; on undressing, especially in arms, with gooseflesh and with redness and heat of ears and nose; with shuddering and goose skin. (Chill, then felt quite well, then sweat on face, hands (?) and feet (?) before the heat, no sleep during the heat, scarcely and thirst during the chill, none during the heat and sweat, headache during the sweat on face, none during the chill or heat).
Chilliness internal and external in sleep and on waking. External C., with internal heat. Shivering; during stool; as soon as cold air blows on her, in other respects better in open air; then in afternoon flushes of heat; convulsive, towards evening, then heat and general sweat. Thrills of chill running over whole body, then internal and external heat, especially in face. Chill alternating with heat; without thirst, and mostly with confusion of head; suddenly, with sleepiness in the daytime.
Shivering over abdomen intermittent, down back. Chill in back, or pit of stomach, or in arms, spreading hence all over body; in sacrum in evening in bed, spreading over back and lower limbs, then heat. shivering over one arm. Coldness of hands; in morning, with dullness of head and weeping; of lower limbs, with rigidity; in r. hip-joint; c. of legs; of feet; of feet in evening, with heat; within ear; of feet, with bloated red face and flow of blood to head. Everything he touched seemed very cold, (<) the longer he held it.
Heat; in morning; at night, (<) towards morning, yet the does not dare to uncover, for the uncovered apart is painful as from a chill; on slight motion; after attack of cough, with distention of superficial veins, insatiable thirst, anxiety and trembling; with furious delirium; with bluish redness of skin;; with phantasies, the body talked of animals which he seemed to see, and hearing seemed dull; with palpitation with general sweat when hands are in bed, but general chill when they are put out of bed; from below upward, breaking out of sweat and of anguish, then nausea, with anxiety, the nausea descending lower and lower.
Heat internal or external. Internal H. after beer. Internal and external and external, especially in face, which was red and covered with sweat, with confusion of heat. Hot and scarlet skin, especially on face and interior half of trunk. Dry, hot and scarlet skin, especially on face and ears. Hot and dry skin, with small, thirst, hard and rapid pulse. Dry heat in attacks. Heat and redness of heat; H. of head with coldness of rest of body; internal and external H. of head Hot and puffy face; H. sensation in face, with cold feet. Internal heat in face, without redness; afterwards redness and swelling. Creeping H. under skin or face. Heat in evening on hands and feet. Dry H. in extremities of hands and feet, with thirstlessness and pallor of face. Heat of feet. Warm feeling along back of r. forearm as of approaching numbness, with paralytic feeling along anterior tibial nerve.
Sweat; in sleep during the day; about 2 or 3 A.M., after waking, on covering arms, (>) uncovering them; in evening in bed uncover parts,; at night; after midnight in sleep; as soon as he covers himself in bed, especially on upper parts; on least exertion, mostly on face, down nose; when walking in wind, with colic, as if he had got cold; suddenly occurring and as quickly disappearing; on upper parts; on face only; on forehead and at pit of stomach, on waking from frightful dreams;l intermittent, in morning rising from feet into face, which especially sweats, then coldness; S. on feet when sitting, without warmth. Cold sweat on forehead; on limbs; on hands; on feet. Dryness of skin; and insensibility.
Clinical Scarlet fever, throat red, hot and dry, nausea and vomiting, with hot head or delirium, etc. typhoid fever rarely. Occasionally indicted in typhus. Worm fever. Fever of dentition, etc.
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.