Dreams; towards morning. Restless. Distressing. Sad; and fatiguing, with a hallucination that she was swollen. Unpleasant, with weeping; with loud shouting, starting up in terror and wild throwing about of arms. Horrid, that he was surrounded by cats and other animals. Of what he had read about in the evening.
Fever
Horripilation. Chilliness; at 7 P.M.; at night, then heat and sweat; with coldness from within outward; then weariness as if beaten or as from a forced march. Sensitiveness to cold. Cold trembling all over. Shivering with the nightly restlessness, then heat and sweat. Felt a cold band around head from forehead to occipital protuberance. Coldness in cheeks during complaints in abdomen; C. of limbs, with numbness; of hands, forearms, feet and legs, with numbness or tingling; fingers, with rigidity of them and little sensibility; lower limbs; feet; forepart of foot; skin, then burning pain; skin of legs from knee downward.
Heat towards 5 A.M., then prostration, then sleep; H. (<) night; with headache and full pulse; with dryness of skin, preventing sleep, then restless sleep, with heaviness of head. Orgasm of blood, with rapid pulse. Heat of skin, with burning like nettles in various parts; H. of upper part of body; head and face; fore- head; on forehead, with aching and desire to rub forehead; cheeks; face; face in afternoon, especially of cheeks; hands, especially of palms; hands and face, which are red and hot to touch, on putting hands into cold water they became livid, numb and cold and looked as if they had been frost-bitten, face less affected by cold water.
Sweat; on waking from frightful dreams; cold; checked.
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.