Foot. Tearing on back of r. in afternoon; from r. instep to middle of thigh, with stitching. Ulcerative pain in soles, preventing stepping. Drawing on inner surface of r. Lassitude, so that she can scarcely go upstairs.
Toes. Tearing in r. towards tips, (>) rubbing, then in r. external malleolus, (>) rubbing; in second l., with stitches.
Skin
Pale. Yellow spot near umbilicus and another on inside of l. thigh. Brownish-yellow. Red, inflamed; red spots on first joint of l. thumb at 2 P.M., as if a pimple would form. Swelling on back of l. foot, with burning, the burning (>) rubbing; itching S. on last phalanx of finger. Eruption on knee, with pain, (<) touch and impeding motion; E. on breast bone paining on touch like an ulcer; burning, on l. buttock.
Pimple on r. upper eyelid; on backs of hands; on back of r. hand, between fourth and fifth fingers; on external surface of r. little finger, with sticking on pressure; between r. thumb and index, with red areola; on side of neck, with burning pain; on cheek near corner of mouth, feeling tense, but when touched causing burning pain; on nates, with burning pain on touch. Pimples burning on touch, on forehead and cheeks; on r. mastoid process; between r. thumb and index (preceded by tickling.) P. deep in check, itching when touched. Itching P., covering inner surface of arms and middle of chest, with burning after scratching. Pellucid P. between chin and lip, from one angle of mouth to the other in afternoon.
Pustule on chin, burning on touch. Psoriasis. Eczema. Vesicles; on r. palm; burning on touch, between chin and lips and on forehead; itching, on r. cheek in evening, with burning after scratching; itching-burning upon nose. Ulcers on lower limbs.
Twitching on inner surface of l. knee. Stitches on abdomen. Formication in r. foot, then dead feeling. Tickling on outer side of l. upper arm, (>) rubbing, with biting. Itching; with sticking; on forehead; on coccyx above anus; on chest under r. arm in afternoon; at night, now in hands, now in feet, with twitching; in an ulcer, with tearing; here and there as from lice; crawling in bends of elbows.
Clinical Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Effects of burns. Erysipelas, especially of the face, of a vesicular type, with great restlessness, burning pain, Eczema on backs of feet and hands or between fingers, (>) cold, (<) warmth.
Sleep
Yawning after dinner; Y., with stretching; without sleepiness. Sleepiness; in morning, with depression; in afternoon, with lassitude; after dinner; (<) eating. Fell asleep while spinning, her eyes closed involuntarily, then smarting in eyes. Sleeplessness; in evening from excitement, then vivid, confused dreams; after midnight, also with restlessness. Late falling asleep. Frequent waking. Little sleep. Half-sleep. Light sleep before midnight. Restlessness at night; with late falling asleep on account of anxiety, then nightmare after a short sleep. Starting in morning sleep.
Dreams. Anxious. Unremembered. Confused. Voluptuous. of business of cooking, etc. of quarrels. Vivid, of deer, of walks in woods. Visions at midnight when half-awake, she hears a soft steps in the room, then knocking under the bed, and the bed is raised. Visions at midnight while half-awake and lying with r. hand on l. shoulder, something took hold of her hand and bent it up and down, then it seemed as if icy hands took hold of her throat.
Fever
Gooseflesh during chill. Chill; waking at 2 A.M. and preventing further sleep; after rising at 3 A.M., (>) lying down; from 11 till 3 P.M., when she took camphor, with pains in knees and calves, which continued till lying down; at 1 P.M., somewhat later each day for three day; slight, till 1.30 P.M., then shaking C. till 11 A.M., (>) hot stove, with creeping in hands and feet; at 5 P.M.; from 5 to 7 P.M.; towards evening, after stool, with sensation as if dashed with ice-water and with internal warmth; for three hours in evening; in bed at 10 O’clock; at night, also preventing sleep; on putting a limb out of bed and on rising from, bed, then heat.
Chill, with external warmth of forehead; C. mixed with heat, with heaviness of feet, paralytic immobility of limbs, loss of appetite, pain in eyes and necessity to lie in bed; C. irregularly alternating with heat and sweat. Frequent creeping C. Shivering chill from 11 till 1 O’clock; from 3 to 4 P.M., (>) warming with cloths; from 3 P.M. till 3 A.M., then warmth without thirst; from 4 to 4.30 P.M.; about 6. 30 P.M., and tossing about, as from electricity, then sticking in scapula; with weakness; universal S., with chills down spine.
Coldness of skin; with imperceptible pulse. Cold face; cold sensation in a spot on l. side of lumbar vertebrae, (<) evening while sitting, as from getting cold or like gooseflesh, with formication. Shivering up back in afternoon; from 2 till 8 P.M., beginning in back, then heat, then shivering again. Cold limbs; and covered with cold sweat. Cold hands and feet, with pain in urethra; C. hands, which look yellowish; hands, with burning soles.
Heat; at night, especially in anus and genitals; after violent motion; after coldness; (<) afternoon; with rapid pulse; H.; with thirst, also with dryness in mouth, anxiety, restlessness and pain in limbs; with scanty and painful emission of blackish urine, then urine increased to four-fold the amount of liquids taken, with thirst and desire for meat, afterwards urine lost its blackish color and tasted rather like salt water. Heat in afternoon, as after much walking on a hot day, with red face and increased sweat; suddenly rising in evening, with redness of face and thirst. External heat; from 10 to 3 P.M. for three days; at night; at night, with thirst. Burning here and there in skin, with some itching-tearing; B. in the spot where he had bruised himself.
Hot head; anxious heat rising into head; H. rises into head after dinner, with burning, sweaty hands; in forehead in evening, with cold sensation in body. Glowing of ears and chin. Heat in face; internally, in afternoon. Hot abdomen. Burning of palms; of tips of fingers; in soles in bed; in all cavities of body, as if raw and sore.
Sweat; towards morning; before midnight; at night on waking; when walking; on violent motion while lying, but warmth relieved the pains; cold; cold and viscid; on external pelvic region in morning, and in groins; on chest at night on waking. Cold, on hands and feet; cold, on forehead.
Clinical During typhoid fever, with tympanitis, dysuria, etc. In a late stage of yellow fever, with suppression of urine, haemorrhage from the bowels, cold sweat.
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.