Sighing. Deep stitches in lower part of chest on inspiring deeply, mostly on l. side.
Back
Pain white sitting, (>) walking or lying; on sitting down after rising; (<) all the morning; (<) sitting; with seminal emissions; as if he could not straighten himself; on either side of dorsal spine similar to that felt in chest when it is said “the food has lodged,” between scapulae and in lumbar region. Pain in small of B.: at 6 P.M., with headache; in evening; after dinner, with pain in and below knees; always while sitting; while sitting, (<) rising, walking or lying; partially (>) lying, not by standing.
Clinical Backache in lumbar region following seminal emissions, with weakness in legs, etc.
Extremities
Trembling; especially legs. Jerks when falling asleep. Stitches here and there in arms, legs, etc. Bruised pain in morning, especially in joints; B. pain in all, afternoon. Weakness; from walking. Aching in wrists, with occasional stitches. Bruised pain in l. hip, in region of trochanter, in morning, (<) motion, (>) rest. Aching anteriorly in middle of thighs (in muscles); in knees and lower limbs; in knees, with itching on external side. Weakness of knees; after exercise. tried feeling in legs.
Skin
Yellow-brown spots on abdomen, about genitals. Pimples on back of l. ear, near top; painless, on nose; on shoulders, pit of stomach and buttocks, bleeding easily when scratched. Vesicles on r. side of neck, containing watery lymph, sore to touch, with inflamed base, leaving tenderness. Itching on l. side of nose; on shoulders; general I. when getting warm in bed.
Sleep
Yawning; after dinner, with languor. Distressing drowsiness in evening. Can do with less sleep. Difficult falling asleep; disturbed by lewd dreams and frequent copious emissions, with partial erections. Frequent walking with fright. Waking with a wide-awake feeling; at 6.30 A.M., earlier than usual. Sleep unrefreshing. Falls into a light sleep about 1 A.M., with tossing about. Sleep disturbed; by dreams. Dreams of having the back part of the hair cut. lewd dreams, with pollutions, waking at 6 A.M., with pain in end of urethra.
Fever
Chilliness from 11 to 12 A.M.; general C., with yawning. General warm sensation, with flushes of heat and sweat; fever from 12 to 2 P.M.., with sweat. Sour sweat of feet, with an odor like sole leather, like what he had years before, reappears and is most between toes.
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.