Sticking on calves; on dorsum of hand. Prickling on different parts, with crawling. Crawling on l. side of chest and abdomen. Itching on various parts; causing restlessness; on various spots, (<) l. side of body, which smart like burning points; I. of face; in umbilical region in evening; in hollow of l. knee, then biting after scratching; biting I. here and there in evening in bed, only transiently (>) scratching, then uneasiness so that the limbs must be moved constantly and sleeplessness; (I. of whole body, (<) chest and abdomen in morning, as after profuse sweat). Tickling itching in l. gluteal muscles when sitting; tickling I. on r. arm, (>) scratching; on thigh, face, shoulders, flanks and on tip of glans penis, with urging to urinate.
Sleep
Yawning; spasmodic. Sleepiness at noon; early when reading an interesting work; with disinclination to mental labor; with inclination to lie down and during sleep uneasiness of limbs, (<) legs. Sleeps on his back, with one hand under the occiput and the other arm over the head. Sleeplessness; all night, thoughts and plans about his occupation keep him quiet and dispassionate. Restless at night. Restless sleep; before midnight, with voluptuous dream and a pollution, during which he awoke; after midnight, with vivid, troublesome dreams; with horrible, exciting dreams; with vivid, senseless dreams; with vivid dreams, frequent waking from pain in umbilical region; interrupted by vivid dreams, sweat every time on waking. Frequent waking. Interrupted by vivid dreams and frequent calls to urinate. Heavy, full of dreams. Many and various dreams. Dreams full of difficult thought. Vivid, anxious D.; vivid, with frequent waking, always on his back. Voluptuous dreams; when lying on back, with emissions without erections; with intractable erections without emissions; with emissions.
Fever
Chilliness; in whole body; in whole body, then heat. Shivering through whole body in morning after rising, with cold hands, heat of face and rest of body, without thirst; S. after eating, (<) upper arms. Cold limbs; knees; hands and tips of fingers in morning after rising, with warm face; hands in evening, with warm feet; upper arms in evening. Internal coldness, but not external, in knees; in soles. C. alternating with heat and intermittent sweat.
Heat; (<) upper part of body; on waking in night, (<) lower limbs. Internal and external. In flushes, without thirst; F. (<) in face, with sweat on forehead. In head; in r. ear; nape; in l. foot and along tibia when walking; in skin of calves, (<) r.; in pin- scratches on fingers, also in face and head.
Sweat over whole body towards morning; S. at night; general S. on walking, with weakness; over face; on legs in morning on waking; greasy, on forehead and chest; of urinous odor on head, hands, legs and feet, at night.
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.