Leg – Twitchings, and around pelvis. Jerking upward; suddenly in r., form a stitching jerk. Cramp in r., with drawing inward and bending of foot; C. in muscles near tibia at night. Tearing in l.; in l; tibia; in r. tibia. Cuttings over tibia. Aching in muscles near tibiae when walking. Sprained pain in anterior tibial muscles when walking. Bruised pain in bones. Drawing pain in muscles in evening, and on back of thighs and in calves. Drawing and crushed pain in tibiae. Tension below knee on kneeling; T. from foot to knee, as if bone had gone to sleep, with pressive cramp is stomach. Uneasiness, with many eructations. Heaviness. Weariness, especially in joints, with bruised feeling. Numbness of l. Falling asleep in evening when sitting.
Calf – Twitching in muscles of r. Cramp at night; on stretching legs (when drawing on boot) and in hollows of knees, (>) bending leg, returning of stretching it again; if he moves much; with stitches, and in foot. Stitches, with weakness. Tearing; in l.; in muscles of r.; sticking, and in tibiae. Tearing drawing. Pain on stepping, on touch and on bending foot. Tension; in r.
Ankle – Tearing; in r.; in l.; (<) motion. Pain in l. as if tightly bound. Pain as if broken, when walking, (<) afternoon. Pain in r. malleolus when stepping, as if foot would be dislocated. Tension in inner malleoli. Weariness; (<) standing.
Foot – Swelling. Cramp in l. sole. Stitches in a corn. Tearing; in anterior part of l.; in soles; in r. sole; in tendo-achillis; in l. tendo-achillis; in r. metatarsal joints. Cutting on outer side of r. sole in evening and all night. Suppurative pain in soles. Sprained pain in l. Rheumatic pain in l. Drawing pain at night, waking her. Sore burning pain in corns. Sensitiveness of the soles, even in the room, as if softened by hot water, with pain when walking. Heaviness. Weariness, as if they could not bear the body and knees would bend; as if they would break to pieces, from 7 P.M. till going to bed.
Toes – Twitching of l. great, in evening in bed. Cramp. Stitches in great. Tearing; in great; in l. great. Pain on tip of r. great. Pain as from a tight boot. Burning pressure beneath nails.
Clinical Inflammation of hip-joint, the joint is painfully sore to pressure. Sciatica from working in water. White swelling of knee joint, of a sluggish character. Cramp in calves. Gout in knees.
Skin
Nose seems covered with oil. Hang-nails. White spots on face, with itching; W. spots on wrists, backs of hands, thighs, legs and ankles, with red patches and irritation. Red spots on tip of nose; on legs; with itching and swelling; elevated, mostly on cheeks and elbows, with heat, thirst and little appetite, leaving spots, as if congested with blood. Swelling under l. eye; in front of l. ear, which pains like a boil when touched; on l. side of neck, with pain on touch or on turning head with internal soreness of throat; inflammatory, on back of l. foot, with burning pain and itching all around.
Warts here and there; wart in bend of elbow inflames, pains like a boil, then drives up and disappears; wart-like growths (behind ears) inflame and ulcerate. Easy inflammation or suppuration from injuries. Scurfy spots on leg, with burning during the day. Rash in face, about eyes and on nose; on chin and neck; with itching. Nettle-rash, (>) in cold air, in red stripes on tibia, with itching and burning after rubbing. Eruption on nose; behind r. ear, which becomes moist; on feet; itching, biting, bleeding when scratched and changing to nettle-rash in its vicinity.
Erysipelas on cheeks (which become thick). Erysipelatous inflammation of leg, with swelling and with general chilliness. Pimples on forehead; all over face; around mouth and in its corners; beneath r. corner of mouth; in middle of chin; on small of back and on nates; open thighs; on lower part of chest, with smarting on rubbing; itching, on malar-bones; itching, over whole face; itching, on forehead, with itching all over face.
Pustules on back. Suppuration around nail of r. index; around nail or middle finger. Boil on margin of hair on forehead; on back of l. hand, with sticking on touch; painless, on last phalanx of fourth finger. Blisters on l. heel when walking, which became a kind of large boils, with sticking and itching pain. Itching vesicles, over whole body, especially over hips; filled with clear fluid, in a group on back of hand, a dark point forms at tip; they gradually dry and the skin desquamates, if the vesicles are scratched they enlarge and seem like nettle-rash, the itching (>) cold ( the prover had suffered for two years during great heat in summer from insignificant vesicular eruption on back of hand). Ulcers on legs. Skin unhealthy, ulcerating, even small wounds suppurate and do not heal again. Old ulcer on thigh becomes painful, throbbing, with tearing about it and begins to be offensive like bad eggs.
Damp open air does not agree with her, the skin is immediately affected by it. Stitches. Sensitiveness to touch, mostly in feet. Stitching crawling on leg.
Itching; over whole body; all over face; on chin; about mouth, on nose and nates; in concha; on chest; on thighs; r. thigh; on leg and foot; about ankle and below calf; on malleolus of disease foot; on sweating parts; especially between scapulae; on back in evening in bed, and on pit of stomach, neck chin, l. eye, scalp, mons veneris and scrotum; on lower part of thighs at night; behind ear, with vertigo after scratching; on back, with itching pimples; about chest, back, neck, shoulders and calves, with reddish rash all over back and chest. Sticking itching on thighs; in a pot on l. thigh. Itching of the dry, hot skin as if sprinkled with salt and ashes. Burning itching on l. fingers; on nates; on r. tibia; from morning till evening on l. arm; on thigh; on r. malleoli. Tickling itching on margin of r. lower jaw.
Clinical Warts, rhagades, eczema, offensive scabby eruptions, urticaria.
Sleep
Yawning; almost endless, then shattering throbbing in head, abdomen and chest, with heat of face. Sleepiness; in morning; in morning, with weariness; during the day, with weariness, and with sleep several times in forenoon; during the day, with weariness, chilliness and headache, early in evening; after dinner, with nodding, after supper. Difficulty in arousing himself in morning. Weary sleepiness in all limbs in evening, with chilliness and continual waking, next morning sweat, with dryness throat without thirst. Long sleep at noon. Overpowering sleep after eating, then chill and tickling cough. Frequent sudden falling into sweet sleep from 7 till 9 P.M. with nausea and blackness before eyes, which continue while lying.
Difficult falling asleep on account of many involuntary thoughts. Late falling asleep in evening; with inability to free himself from lascivious or vexatious thoughts, which followed him in the morning after waking. Sleeplessness when she went to bed late, with feeling as if her rest were disturbed. Sleeplessness before midnight on account of mental activity; after midnight, with tossing about; till 2 or 3 A.M., except from 11 till 2 or 3 O’clock. Sleep short in evening on account of heat. Frequent waking; and anxious, caused by anxious dreams. Anxious waking after midnight, with difficulty in breathing. Uneasy waking in evening, full of frightful fantasies. Restless sleep; with screaming; with sweat; towards morning; restless, half-asleep at night, with dry heat and confusion in head and constant waking, as in fever. Unrefreshing sleep.
Snoring all night in a stupid sleep, from which he could not be wakened, with tossing about, sweat on face before sleep. In sleep she laid the arms above the head. Starting up in evening till she was wide awake. Jerking of upper part of body on going to sleep in evening, with jerking extending into head, then roaring and hissing in ears. He often chews in sleep and then swallows. The child rises in bed after midnight, calls out, begins to cry and tries to spring up, the more one talks to him the worse his cries and resistance, he rolls upon the floor and will not be touched. Soon after falling asleep at night he rose up in bed and worked with the hands, with open eyes, without consciousness.
Dreams; with talking; with confused talking, restlessness and heat. Vivid. Anxious; and frightful, from which he could not free himself on waking; and confused; half-walking in evening, soon after falling asleep; with crying out and starting; towards morning of fire and murder; that he would be bitten by a dog, which woke him, then several equally anxious dreams. Frightful; as if he would fall or be thrown down. Voluptuous; with an (extremely rare) emission; the night before menstruation. Of dream people and smell of corpses. Illusions when going to sleep as if she heard noises and clattering about her bed, which caused shuddering.
Clinical Insomnia, Starts at every noise, fear that she will go crazy.
Fever
Gooseflesh on thighs and legs from slightest contact of cold air. Sensitiveness to cold air, with deadness of feet in evening. Chill in forenoon, alternating with heat; C. in evening; in evening in bed; on getting out of bed; after supper; before menstruation, then colic all night; with thirst; with pale, sickly look, alternating with heat, obliging her to lie down. Shaking chill at night. Internal chill, with cold hands but warm feet; I., with restlessness and trembling anguish. External C. in evening, with internal heat and thirst, even in bed. Chill, with sweat, at last profuse sweat. Chill in and on head; frequent external, on ears; on side of back on which he had lain in midday sleep, with numbness; cold feet after eating. Shivering over face, with bristling of hair, then general S. with chilliness.
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.