Clinical Nervous cough, with anxiety, sleeplessness.
Chest
Pain in side on coughing, almost like sticking. Oppression; (after disappearance of heat of face), with necessity to take short breaths, the chest raised visibly by respiration. Warmth, and in abdomen.
Heart
Clinical – Palpitation caused by excitement, surprise, etc.
Back
Trembling, with warmth in back and between shoulders. Pain in small of; when walking; paralytic, in small of, when sitting and standing.
Extremities
Lightness. Sticking-jerking through one or another. Bruised pain in all joints in morning in bed, (>) rising, (<) those that had been bent. Weakness after 4 P.M., the knees knock together, warmth internally and externally, with chilliness. Tearing in l. arm, (<) motion. Spasmodic drawing up arms after holding them bent, almost twitches. Weakness of arms and of whole body. Rheumatic bruised pain in l. upper arm. Trembling of hands if he tries to hold anything (Zincum met.). Cramplike contraction of one or another finger, in the morning he cannot straighten the little finger. Drawing in soft parts of fingers or tearing downward. Pain in a burnt finger that had been painless before the drug was taken. Numbness of fingers.
Lower Extremities
Bruised pain in nates, from ischium to thigh, when sitting and walking, obliging him to limp. Sore feeling on inner side of thigh from slightest rubbing of woolen clothes. Knees tremble when descending steps. Cramp of calf on drawing up knee. Jerking on r. tibia, with corroding and smarting and with bruised sensation and heat of femur. Pain in legs after every walk, obliging her to lie down. Drawing pain beneath r. knee. Jerking sticking beneath r. inner malleolus on stepping upon heel or bending foot backward or touching part. Feet tremble. Cramp of sole on putting out the foot. Weariness of feet after walking in open air, extending half way up thighs. Sticking in balls of great toes at 4 P.M.
Skin
Eruption and itching over the whole body The itching of the eruption changed into burning.
Sleep
Yawning. Weary with sleep. Overpowered with sleep, he directed apoplexy. Sound sleep Sleepless on account of mental and physical excitement (Hyosc.). Sleep till 3 A.M., then only dozing and on waking he did not come to his senses (Nux-v.). Sleepless from 2 to 7 A.M., with colic-like incarceration of flatus under ribs, which causes anxiety and heat over whole body and sweat under nose. Little sleep. Uneasy; so that he was lying turned about in bed. Talking immediately on falling asleep. Waking with a start. Frequent waking towards morning; frequent W. as from fright. Dreams long, vivid. Light D. His fancy is occupied with one thought when slumbering, from which he cannot free himself and which prevents sound sleep.
Clinical A most valuable remedy for sleeplessness with nervous excitability, extreme sensitiveness to external impressions and flow of ideas, the patient cannot sleep on account of mental activity.
Fever
Chilliness; in bed at 5 A.M. and at 1 P.M. (<) motion; (<) moving body, with warm skin, and on rising from the chair creeping chill with pale face.; over whole body, cold creepings down back, then redness and heat of face, with cold hands, which are hot on inner surface while externally they are cold; then heat. Sensitiveness to cold. Open air seemed very cutting. Shivering, with redness and heat of one cheek; internal S., even in chest, with chilliness and with heat in head and sweat in face, without thirst Chill, with heat, on both cheeks. C. in back with shivering, but usual warmth of rest of body; C. in back with sensation of heat, especially warmth in middle of back and across lower abdomen, as if sweat would break out. Cold hands, then C feet; C feet after 4 P.M., with headache and rush of blood to head, (>) in open air.
Heat in morning in bed, but dislike to being uncovered; general H. at 3 P.M., with redness of face and thirst, then general sweat, thirst during the first hours of the sweat; general, at 8 P.M., externally perceptible, with dryness of mouth, shivering in back and down posterior part of body, the hands and feet cold, then in bed at one time heat, then coldness till after midnight, in morning headache as if beaten, so that every step is painful; H. in evening after lying down, every thing seems too close, and at night sweat, (<) back; H with red face. General dry heat waking at night and obliging her to turn around, with hot breath, but without thirst or dryness of mouth. H. in face, with red cheeks; after eating; dry H. of face. Hot feet.
Sweat towards morning; S. of hands when writing; of feet, with soreness of 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.