Skin
Pimples on forehead and l. temple, with sore pain, they suppurate and leave nodules. Formication down arms. Itching biting between middle and ring fingers and between ring and little fingers, with red, hot hands; I. biting on balls of thumbs, they become bluish-red, hot and swollen, with distended veins, which form a bluish-mottled swelling, as after freezing. Itching on forehead and eyebrow; in palms, with biting, in various places on face and whole body, as if pimples would break out; on back of hands as if an eruption would break out; scraping I. on cheeks; burning I. about anus, on nates, perineum, scrotum and hairy parts of genitals, extending thence over almost the whole body, (<) thick parts of thighs.
Sleep
Yawning; with filling of eyes with water; with stretching; violent, with stretching, sleepiness and creeping chills from hips to calves. Sleepy early in evening. Falls asleep late. Screaming in sleep at night. Unsound S. Uneasy S. Night full of dreams. Numerous and varied dreams, so that she cannot remember them in the morning. Dreams immediately if he only slumbers, cries out and awakes.
Fever
Chilliness, (<) forenoon, but heat in evening; C., (<) arms, with sweat in palms,. Shivering; about l. side; over scalp, the hair stands on end; over scalp in open air, and in lower limbs, with paralytic drawing in r. thigh; over l. hip and abdomen, with pain in l. side of forehead.
Intolerance of warmth in evening, desire for cold. Heat, with rapid, hard pulse; H., (<) legs, she must keep them out of bed. General heat on getting into bed, with dry tongue, without thirst. General dry eat. H. in forehead in evening. H. of face; in evening; during diarrhoea; during stool; of r. cheek, with bluish redness; also with swelling, itching, tension and crawling as is frozen. Sweat on slightest motion.
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.