Lower Extremities
Gait insecure. Staggering. Weakness. Paralysis. Cramp in r. ischiatic nerve, with pain, muscles cramped if put on the stretch. Sticking in region of l. hip, S. in l. gluteal muscles, with cramplike pain. Sticking drawing in thighs, (<) rest. Paralytic drawing in thighs, (<) walking. Tensive pain transversely across middle of thighs on ascending steps, as if too short. Bruised pain in knee and ankle, with warmth. Weariness of knees on ascending steps; W., (<) l. when walking; W., with paralyzed feeling in lower limbs; when walking in open air, with stiffness.
Pinching in calves; sticking P. on tibiae. Cramplike pain in calves in afternoon on moving. (Bruised pain in l. tibia when walking, (<) evening, and the side of calf is hot, swollen and covered with red miliary rash.) Uneasiness of legs. Weariness of legs; (<) eating. Cutting in tarsal joints when walking. Bruised pain in ankles in afternoon. Stamps one foot after the other on the ground in the convulsions. Drawing tearing in soles, (<) rest, (>) walking, returning when sitting. Pain in feet. Sensitiveness of r. metatarsus, (<) walking over an uneven pavement, tension and pressure as if too full of blood, (<) walking in street, often making him lame, like gout. Toes spasmodically flexed as from cramp, when walking or carrying foot forward and on ascending. Pain in a corn on r. little toe.
Skin
Rattling like parchment. On palm seemed like stiff leather, then benumbed. Redness; of nates and feet; reddish cinnabar color after the heat, and as if inflamed. Pimples on elbow externally and sore pain when touched. Swelling of lips, then of nose, then over face and whole body, less about waist, with prickling and itching, skin of face red, shining and hard, eyes shut no interval seen till below middle of body, where irregular patches appeared, some smaller ones looked like enlarged papillae, with stiffness of lips and tongue so that he spoke in a thick blundering way.
Purplish rash over whole body, (<) about neck and face, face swollen so that she thought it would burst, scarlet, (<) l. cheek. Red papillary eruption covering body, (>) firm pressure, but returning immediately, then vesicles on various parts, resembling varicella, they dried, leaving scales, which peeled off with portions of surrounding cuticle, no desquamation of thick epidermis of hands and feet, the mucous membrane appeared somewhat as in scarlatina, but the strawberry tongue was not so well marked. Boils; small, here and there on face. Gangrenous spots,(<) lower limbs, with blisters. Ulcers became bloody and painful; bruised pain in ulcers on moving the part. Itching; here and there.
Sleep
Yawning; on reading aloud; and stretching; frequent in forenoon; frequent and deep, (>) after sleepiness came on, then long sleep. Sleepiness; during the day, but restless, unrefreshing sleep at night, interrupted by dreams; from noon till 3 P.M., with inability to study and weariness; at 5 P.M., with yawning; during an interesting lecture; but wide awake after a short nap; with inability to think; with restlessness; with dreaming and occasional muttering, when aroused he rubbed his hands, gaped, answered questions readily, but dozed off with a half-finished sentence on his lips. Deep sleep; and long; interrupted by frightful dreams. Sleep for three days.
Sleeplessness; on account of exhilaration (Coffea); long- continued; all night, he tried lying on one side and the other but could not get quiet, only towards daybreak short naps and general sweat, (<) about neck; anxious S.; S., with alternate tremors and convulsive startings; S. alternates with sleepiness and sleep. Hyperaesthesia in morning like exhausted wakefulness, in afternoon sleepiness, prostration and irresolution. Starting out of sleep. Woke himself with a cry. Laughing expression during sleep. Talks of war in sleep. Suffocative snoring on inspiration. In sleep at 9 P.M. he began to weep, raised his sound arm, suddenly let it fall, then jerked the shoulder upward, then tossed head back and forth, then raised the diseases leg, then jerked the sound leg, often the sound hand was affected, when the fingers suddenly stretched out and again closed tightly, with these symptoms occasional moans. Restless sleep; with frequent waking, also with thoughts of business of the preceding day. Frequent waking as if disturbed or as if he had slept enough. Sleep disturbed, wakened by fluttering and agitation about centre of body. Great flow of ideas during partial sleep. Late falling asleep; and many dreams; long after midnight, yet woke early and felt lively and inclined to fantasies, active and strong.
Dreams; frightful; anxious; anxious, of furious cats springing at him, soon after falling asleep; heavy; lascivious, without emissions, but with excitement of genitals.
Clinical Sleeplessness, with uneasiness, cannot keep the bed-clothes on, difficult swallowing. Very useful in the sleeplessness of children, when they twitch, cry out, tremble and wake in fright.
Fever
In afternoon, coldness and pain, for example, in back. (Could not get warm in bed at night.) Sudden chill in the house, (<) bright and warm open air. General shivering, with hot face and cold hands, without thirst. Face cold and pale. Coldness along spine; in open air; C. in back, (<) in house; C. runs from small of back to nape; C. in back on walking around the room, then when visiting patients heat in back, (<) loins. Cold limbs; hands; hands and feet. Temperature of skin diminished.
Heat; general, with distended veins; general, internal; general, external, without redness; hot and dry skin; (burning of blood in vessels); H. on walking in open air, with weakness; general, in evening, with thirst, putrid taste, much mucus in mouth and lips stick together; in flushes, with warmth of face. Prolonged burning in any place on which he has laid his warm hands for a moment. Hot head; H. deep ion head; with crawling; and he often put his hands to his head with loud cries. Heat of face; with redness; (<) lobules of ears, with redness of face and dilated pupils. Along back; then sweat, (<) small of back and in axillae; H. rises into back; rush of H. at spine, (<) loins. H. in loins; when sitting in the room; when walking in the room; in cold open air. H. in articular end of last phalanx of l. little finger, the condyle swollen, with pain, (<) motion, which is difficult. Feeling as if warm air were breathed on arms.
Sweat; general, (<) thighs and legs; on back and pit of stomach; profuse; general, profuse, clammy; cold, clammy, on palms; viscid, on arms.
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.