Clinical Sciatica recurring during cold weather, with intense coldness and shivering, (<) night, the pain is intermittent, sometimes throbbing. Violent attacks of sciatica, of a boring, tearing character, lasting about an hour, always preceded by coldness, (<) night, has to get up and walk about.
Skin
Pimples about inflamed eye; painful on touch, beneath lower lip. Boil on inner part of thigh. Burning in ulcer. Sticking here and there like flea-bites, (<) in bed; itching S. in thumb-joint. Outer skin and periosteum painful. Crawling in feet; sticking C. in feet (in calves) after midnight, preventing his remaining in bed. Itching; in umbilicus; wrist, elbow and neck; here and there at night, (>) scratching; here and there if heated from walking in open air.
Sleep
Yawning even when eating; frequent excessive Y.; frequent, after sleep; frequent, interrupted by rigidity of chest; as if jaw would be dislocated in morning and (<) after midday nap; convulsive, so that eyes overflow with water, in evening before sleep and in morning after rising. Sleepiness; after sad news; when sitting, but if he lies down he is half awake; so that he went to bed at 9 O’clock and slept soundly all night, yet next morning and all day tired and apathetic. Falls asleep when reading. Deep sleep. Mid-day nap sound, but not refreshing; sleep sound, but not refreshing, on waking he does not believe that he has slept.
Sleeplessness. Unable to fall asleep, then waking without cause. Light sleep, so that he hears everything. Twitching through whole body on falling asleep; of limbs (Chamomilla). Shuddering on falling asleep on account of monstrous fantasies, which are still present after waking. Restless sleep interrupted by dreams; R., with internal restlessness and heat. Moves his mouth in sleep as if eating; muscles of open mouth moved in all directions and hands jerked inward. Suddenly starts up in moans, with piteous expression of face, stamps, kicks, face and hands pale and cold. Whimpering, prattling and tossing about. Talking as if weeping and complaining, inspiration snoring, mouth wide open, sometimes one eye, sometimes the other partly open. Snoring inspiration. Short inspiration, with slow expiration. Alternations of all kinds of respiration, short and slow, deep and light, intermitting and snoring. Groaning, grunting and sighing. Sleeps upon back, with palm under occiput; in morning he is lying with the outspread hand under occiput or on neck. Wakes with a friendly expression; W. with a morose look; stands up suddenly on waking, and talks disconnectedly.
Dreams in slumber before midnight, with heat. D. all night of one thing; and the idea does not leave him on waking. Frightful; wakes from, in morning; as, for example, of drowning, waking from afternoon nap. Of being buried alive. That he had fallen into water and cried. Sad, he wakes weeping. Full of disappointments. With reflections and deliberations. Full of learned excitations and scientific discussions. D. towards morning, in which thought is exerted. (D. that she was not standing firmly, that she bent herself double in order not to fall, therewith general sweat).
Fever
Coldness; at sunset; with one-sided headache; (<) posterior parts, (>) immediately in warm room or by stove (Nux-mos., Sabad., Men.). Dread of open air. Shivering in morning on waking from light sleep; S. in afternoon, with colic, then weakness, sleep and heat of body; S. in evening, with red face (Ferrum, Chamomilla); (after eating, at night anxiety and sweat); over body, with heat of hands and anxiety developing into weeping; constant, during apyrexia; on thighs and forearms, with gooseflesh, then on cheeks; of face and arms, with chattering of teeth and gooseflesh. Skin sensitive to draughts, feeling in abdomen as if he would take cold. Cold nose, with hot knees (with tickling of one knee). Chill in back and over arms; in arms when lying on back, (<) upper arms, then heat and redness of cheeks, heat of hands and feet, without thirst; over upper arms, with heat of ears; of hands and feet, with heat of face; about knees, which are not cold externally; of feet; of feet and as far as above knees; of feet in evening when eating, with distention of abdomen and hoarseness.
Heat; in morning in bed, with thirst, but no wish to be uncovered; in morning in bed, with palpitation; from 2 till 5 A.M. when fully awake, (<) on hands and feet, without thirst, sweat or feeling of dryness; at 3 A.M. on waking, with vomiting of food that had been eaten in evening; in afternoon, without thirst (Asafoetida, Nux-mos., Nux-vom.), with dry sensation in skin, but sweat on face; at night; (<) during sleep. External H., with redness, without internal H.; external H., then rapid respiration; E., at 2 A.M. so that he sighs. Flushing. Feeling of orgasm of blood in evening, preventing sleep. Feeling as if sweat would break out; in forenoon, with partial sweat; suddenly, with partial sweat. Anxious H. at night, (<) lying on side, with sweat about nose, most heat in hands and feet, which he wishes to keep covered, with cold thighs, palpitation, short breath and lascivious dreams. External warmth is intolerable, then rapid respiration. Intermittent fever, with thirst during chill, but not during heat. H. in head; H. mounts to head, without thirst; external. H. in nape or one side of neck; of one ear and one cheek, with redness (Chamomilla, Mosch.); of feet.
Sweat; in morning if he falls asleep a second time, if he then rises he is so weary that he would rather lie down again; cold; on inner surface of hands; on inner surfaces of hands and fingers; profuse on hands in evening.
Clinical A valuable remedy for certain types of intermittent fever, with the peculiar contrary aspects of the case, namely, thirst during the chill, but not during the fever; during the fever the patient desires to be covered; frequently there are the peculiar mental symptoms of the drug, or the onset of the paroxysms is characterized by the neuralgias of the head or extremities, which may serve to indicate it (Cedron).
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.