Sleepiness from thoughts of the business of the day for an hour and sleepless after 1 A.M. Waking as if he feared ghosts. Frequent waking; and starting up; with heat; as in fright. Night restless, with sticking and biting here and there. Cried out anxiously in sleep, called her mother and sisters, anxious rapid breathing, clutched about the bed, struck out with the hands, with open distorted eyes, without being awake, constant motion of head, (<) towards the left.
Dreams vivid, frightful; vivid, unremembered. That he had done something wrong. That his knees were swollen and painful. Of dying and death.
Fever
Coldness; in evening; in open air; with colic; general, with bluish hands; of whole body, with glowing of cheeks; (gradually increasing, with little or no thirst, with warm forehead, cold cheeks, cold nose and hands, then heat with anxiety as if he could not breathe, nausea and thirst, then cold sweat, (<) on head and hands, with continued anxiety). Internal, so that he trembled, but not external, in evening, with longing for stimulating nourishment. Shaking, at 8 A.M.; in afternoon. Creeping shivering; frequent shivering, then flushes of heat in head; S. over lower parts; recurrent S., (<) through lower limbs; S. across breasts; in back in evening. Chills alternating with heat; now in one hand, now in the other; the heat rising from feet through whole body, with sensation as if blood rushed into face, but she was pale, then coldness creeping from head to feet. Internal coldness in shoulders. C. of back; here and there as if touched with ice; creeping over back. Hands seem cold when held to the face, but seem warm to each other. Cold feet, but hot cheeks. Intolerance of both cold and warm air; of open air, with heat and redness of cheeks.
Heat; in flashes; internal, with rapid pulse; (external, without internal, and without thirst). H. in forehead; and sticky sweat on it. H. of face, with redness of it and thirst; of cheeks, with redness of them, but intolerance of open air; in cheeks, in flushes; in face, in flushes after drinking. Of hands at 6 P.M., with sensation of general dry heat and sleeplessness till 4 A.M., then shivering and cold hands all day. Of feet, with swelling and corrosive itching. Frequent thrill as when one warms himself by a fire in cold weather, then heat and weakness so that he must lie down, all without thirst or sweat.
Sweat; on body from evening till morning, with cold sweat on face; in morning, (<) on chest and affected parts; on hands. Cold, on forehead and hands; now on one hand, now on the other; on feet. Dry skin.
Clinical Intermittent fever, chill associated with flatulent, colic, nausea, disgust at the smell of food, vertigo, etc.; chill, frequently partial, with coldness of lower extremities and heat of head, the chill mingles with the heat and the febrile stage seems to be imperfectly developed; the sweat is general, cold only on the face; the attack followed by extreme debility and by numerous Cocculus symptoms. Low types of malarial fevers, typhoid, rheumatic, relapsing, etc., with intense headache at base of occiput, vertigo, nausea, extreme faintness, numbness, great difficulty in collecting ideas.
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.