Clinical Paralysis of the lower extremities from getting cold; the paralyzed limbs feel icy-cold.
Skin
Nettle-rash over whole body (Rhus-t., Apis); without fever. Dark purplish color of face and hands, with languor of circulation. Blotches on forehead, with sticking when touched. Warts covering hands. Spots like scarlet rash over whole body. White wheals, with red areola on arms and thighs, with sticking and itching and after rubbing burning. Lepra. Pimples in angles of nose; red P. in bend of elbow, noticeable morning and evening in warmth of room, and after scratching, sticking itching and burning; P. and ulcers about mouth, with tearing on moving the parts; itching, on chin; itching, on chest and abdomen.
Pricking and itching. Agreeable tickling on outer margin of r. scapula. Itching of cheeks to wings of nose; I. on anterior part of body and thighs at night, with heat and offensive transpirations without moisture, preventing, sleep; soon returning after scratching, in middle of r. forearm, also on outer side of l. leg; on outer side of r. leg, ending with itching sticking; general, on nates, where skin was red, partly from rubbing, and where there were wheals, red spots on inner side of forearm, the swelling always renewed on going to bed, without regard to time, when there was general sweat, sleeplessness till 2 or 3 A.M., after the sixth day the eruption became general, on the tenth day shivering and heat with inclination to sweat, the eruption worse on back, back covered with red points, and sticking between and below scapulae, on arms the eruption was in spots, where there was desquamation in small scales the red points disappeared and there was biting itching, on legs red spots and sensation as if lying in burning nettles up to hips, with copious sweat, the eruption (<) warmth of bed, sweat, coffee and all food, heat of body after eating, then itching, symptoms (>) cold. Burning itching on thighs; externally on r. upper arm, with redness and a burning pimple; sudden creeping here and there, as from vermin, (<) night and mostly between 12 and 3 O’clock, waking him, at first (<), then (>) scratching.
Clinical Urticaria, with violent itching, especially when caused by sour stomach. Urticaria that comes on in cold weather; chronic cases always (<) begging of winter; itching always on exposure to cold air, for example, undressing. Sometimes also useful in eczema, with great itching and watery discharge; and it has even been found useful for colic and diarrhoea following suppression of an eruption in cold weather. Pemphigus. Warts, large smooth warts or fleshy warts on face and hands.
Sleep
Frequent, violent yawning. Sleepiness all day, with much yawning; S., with indolence and yawning. Snoring, with open mouth. Uneasy sleep after 4 A.M.; U. sleep, tossing about in discomfort; U. sleep, with profuse sweat and interrupted by confused dreams; tossing about all night, with Dullness of head. Starting as from fright, in evening on falling asleep. A kind of waking towards morning with closed eyes. Sleeplessness; towards morning, with weariness in all limbs and lameness, as after great heat. Inability to sleep again after being wakened early, with weariness, turning from one side to the other because the muscles of occiput were lame and he could not lie upon them. Confused dreams; frightful D., making him jump out of bed.
Fever
Chilliness, with discomfort in limbs; cool skin in evening; chill towards evening over back, nape and occiput, with feeling as if hair stood on end; C. in back in open air; (<) in a draught, without thirst, Shivering as from chilliness and nausea, with internal and external coldness.
Heat of body, with sweat and redness, itching, burning and pimples, (<) face, so that face seemed swollen; dry H.; dry, at night; internal and external, (<) hands, with thirst and slow, full pulse, then chilliness; of skin; burning of feet; B. in skin of back, with sweat of face and moderate heat; intermittent sticking B. in toes. Sweat; (<) back; on palms; cold; profuse, in morning, (<) head.
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.