Fever
Chilliness; at 5 A.M., with weakness of feet; after dinner, then heat; (<) drinking; with pressure in abdomen. Alternating with heat all the forenoon; in afternoon, together with weakness of lower limbs, all (<) walking in open air; with some thirst for cold water during the heat; C. and sweat all day, A. with heat and redness of face, with thirst. Intermittent all day, (<) forehead, where there is cold sweat, thirst after the first chill; I., with weakness of knees and tibiae when walking and standing, (>) sitting. Internal; without external; without external, then cutting in head extending into orbits; periodically, with shivering; and external, (<) at times in marrow of bones of feet, which are colder than hands. As form a cold wind, (<) walking, seldom with shivering, it only comes when sitting, over arms, loins and thighs.
Shivering in morning; in morning and forenoon, with cold hands, nausea and rapid pulse; at 5 P.M. when walking in open air, (>) in room, with coldness, then heat, (<) face, (<) motion and walking, then thirst; (in evening on lying down); after every swallow of drink, or chilliness, with gooseflesh (Caps.); on entering warm room from open air; in open, not cold air, (>) in room; in open air with gooseflesh; with gooseflesh; with cold hands and Dullness of mind; general; general, without thirst (Arsenicum, Phosphorus), also with internal chill (Arsenicum); general, less on limbs.
Coldness, except of face, which was red, with sometimes internal coldness on the warm forehead; C. except of face, which is warm, then coldness of forehead with internal warmth in rest of body. Cold cheeks and feet, with cold sweat on forehead, internal heat of face, trunk and thighs. Cold nose. Back; when walking in open air, then heat in back with sweat, then again chill. Limbs internally and externally, with general internal and external heat and slight thirst for cold water. Arms and abdomen, with redness and heat of cheeks and lobules of ears; arms, with nausea, then cold limbs, with shivering and recurrent nausea. Hands, (<) r.; (<) l.; in morning, and feet, with shivering over thighs, (<) walking; in evening, with hot cheeks; in open air, with external chilliness as if dashed with cold water, and chattering of teeth, (>) in room except the coldness of hands; alternately, with warm; internally, and in arms; internally in l., though not externally colder than r. Lower limbs. Knees; form l. knee to sole. Feet; in evening; (<) l.; with general internal heat and distended veins; with redness and internal heat of cheeks.
Shivering above elbows and knees; over chest and arms when walking in open air.
Heat in forenoon before a meal, then when walking in open air cold sensation on ankles and coldness of rest of body; in afternoon, with redness and heat of face, great hunger, burning of lips if they touch each other and burning sticking in skin about lips; towards evening, with rapid pulse; after midnight, with dry lips but no thirst; with distended veins and easily dilating pupils, without thirst; almost with inability to uncover hands without difficulty. General, with sticking in skin (Merc- cor.), (<) on neck, with thirst for cold water; with swelling of veins of arms and hands, without sweat or thirst; form 5 to 7 P.M., (<) walking in open air, which caused sweat on forehead, with hunger preceding and lasting into beginning of heat and returning after the fever, and on walking sensation of hot water running down (a creeping of heat over abdomen and down thighs), with red cheeks, without thirst. Dry, all day. In flashes, with thirst for cold water. Internal, with red cheeks, heat of trunk and arms and moisture of forehead. Internal and external, with sticking in several places in skin and thirst for cold water; I. and E., as from wine, with redness of face.
Burning in various parts during the day, with crawling and itching. Heat of head towards morning, with oppression of chest; of head, with swollen veins of hands; of head and face, with congestion, swelling of veins. External ear. Face; at 3.P.M., with red cheeks and dry sticky lips, without thirst; on coming from open air into a room that was not warm; and chest; then shivering and chilliness and general coldness; one or other cheek and lobule of ear, with redness, and before this disappears chill over body, then over lower limbs. (Anteriorly on upper part of thigh.) Skin not sensitive to air in morning after night-sweat.
Sweat; in morning sleep; at night; in sleep (Ferrum); general, as son as he is covered, with such sleepiness that he cannot get up; general, when walking in open air. Cold. Oily in morning. Of body after waking at 3 A.M., with thirst, without sweat on feet or head, except where he lies upon cheek. In hair of head, when walking in open air. On face and hands; on face in morning on rising; cold, on face, with thirst. On nape and back on slightest motion.
Clinical Intermittent fever, without constitutional cachexia, except general weakness and anaemia; the paroxysm is fully developed, the three stages of chill, fever and sweat are fully marked; preceding the chill there is violent thirst, often violent temporal headache; there is an interval between the chill and fever, but rarely any gastric disturbance; during the fever there is generally thirst, sometimes unnatural hunger; an interval between the fever and sweat; the sweat is profuse, debilitating, with thirst; during the apyrexia great debility, ringing in the ears, feeling of emptiness in stomach, soreness over the spleen and liver, with many symptoms characteristic of the drug.
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.