Sleeplessness. Waking in night; before midnight in semi- consciousness, with inability to move, palpitation, breathing slow, deep, labored and intermittent and feeling as if dying; before midnight, imagines that he is going to be choked, cries and groans, for some time, when objects appear their respective sizes, then sleep; after midnight, with thirst; at 6 A.M., with fulness of head and heaviness of body; frequent, with mild, pleasant dreams. Talking in sleep. Starting of limbs in sleep, which woke him, when he feared that he would have a fit. Screaming in sleep.
Nightmare every night as soon as he fell asleep. Dreams, with open eyes; D. of danger; vexations; prophetic; voluptuous, with erections and emissions; vivid, sometimes ecstatic; ugly; of dead bodies; wild, shapeless, waking him in agitation and perspiration; various, delightful. Dreamy attacks periodically in the daytime. Dreamless sleep.
Fever
Coldness; and shivering, with external heat. Shuddering. Shaking chill, with chattering of teeth, coldness of body and limbs, cold sweat, tired feeling in limbs, aching in joints, dry with thick, white, sticky saliva, thirst, drinking of large quantities of water, staggering and falling on attempting to walk, thumping in head and heart, inability to rise from stooping on account of weight on cerebellum, neck and shoulder, blindness, except at a small point immediately where he looks, pulse very slow and full, seeming descent of the ceiling to crush him, belief that he is dying, but inability to cry for help, falling to the floor, and lying unconscious, then sleep for three nights and three days afterwards.
Coldness of surface. Coldness of face, nose and hands after dinner; hands and feet after dinner, (<) nose, with shivering; across root of nose at 9 A.M. when leaning forward writing, (>) moving; in small of back and between shoulders; limbs, with at times trembling; r. hand, with stiffness and numbness of r. thumb.
Heat; when lying. Fever boiled in my blood and every heart-beat was like the stroke of a colossal engine. Burning in skin; and dryness. Heat in forehead; over front of body and arms; face; in a line from l. side of lip to chin; in soles; moist, in palms. Cool burning in l. side of border of lip and point of nose. Pleasant warmth beginning in spine and extending through body.
Sweat; (<) on front of body; sticky, in drops on forehead; none.
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.