Sloughs on fingers and glans. If there be the smallest wound (when applied to the skin) it acts as a caustic and destroys all tissues down to bone, with sharp pains, (<) winter. Pustules on hands; at roots of finger-nails, (<) l., extending over back of hand to wrist, and on palm; on arms, with a hair in centre; P., then deep sloughs under them; P. over whole body, with a black slough in centre on an inflamed base; filled with lymph, in r. brow; painful, on back, also with bloody discharges. Pustules like smallpox on face; on calf; covering body, disappearing without bursting.
Suppuration of axillary glans, but they did not break. Boil on r. thigh; painful B. on back near last r. true rib. Ulcers on face; hands; hands and body; index; on l. scapula, with a scab; U., then elevated painless induration; deep, on wrists and arms; painful in cold weather; painful on touch; painful, under thumb- nail. Vesicles on a red and elevated base (itching and burning, (<) exposure to steam). becoming pustular and in some presenting a dark point in centre, invading hands, arms, face, back and abdomen; V filled with serum on r. sole; abraded V. near umbilicus, with hollowed appearance, which remained after they healed.
Stinging. Itching in beard; I. on r. cheek; in various parts, lasting into night, with burning in skin; in forehead, with burning; of forearms and hands after lying down, with burning in skin; in nape, with burning in skin, then on l. shoulder, then l. upper arm and l. chest, then on back, lasting from 6 to 10 A.M., in afternoon a sudden similar I. on loins; at night in bed, with heat, then hard, reddish knots on thighs and legs, with depressed scurf in centre surrounded by an inflamed base; I., then suppuration and ulceration of moist surface of penis; I. all over body, then pustules forming scabs, most on arms and legs, the scabs painful, smarting and burning; I. of leg, then red eruption, which ran together and formed scabs, discharging, with smarting pain, pustules on front of leg, eruption better in cold weather; I. of forearms and hands, then pain and ulcers, from which nearly solid masses of matter fell on striking arms firmly, the ulcers left clean dry cavities, then white cicatrices.
Clinical The ulcers are generally circumscribed, penetrating, with tenacious exudation. It has been found extremely useful in lupus of the sluggish, painless type. Lupus, with burning pains (Mezer.). It is not infrequently indicated in measles when there is little or no fever but a tendency to ulceration of the eyes, with the characteristic discharge from the nose, diarrhoea, etc. Also in measles a hoarse, croupy cough, with tenacious expectoration. A great variety of skin diseases, with the general characteristics of deep ulceration and adherent secretions.
Sleep
Yawning; with stretching; constant, then pain in stomach, nausea and efforts to vomit. Sleepiness; towards noon, with closure of lids, nodding, yawning and weariness of feet; in afternoon; in evening; in evening, with weariness; after dinner, with yawning; with headache. Irresistible sleepiness; after dinner; in evening, then waked by twitchings, now in upper part of body, now in single parts of muscles. Difficult waking in morning. Feeling in morning as if he had not slept enough. Sleeplessness. Difficult falling asleep. Groaning and tossing about at night. On falling asleep starting, tossing about of arms, incoherent talking and then snoring. Restless sleep; towards morning, after subsidence of headache and nausea; and interrupted by dreams, unrefreshing. Waking early; then restless sleep; then confused, heavy half sleep, in morning weariness. Waking at 1.30 A.M.; then falling asleep again. Suddenly wakened from quiet sleep by fright.
Dreams vivid; (<) towards morning of various dangers and misfortunes. Disagreeable D. Frightful D. Nightmare at 4 A.M., D. that some one was lying across chest and abdomen, so that I was in danger of suffocation, groans, on waking covered with sweat, blood in a tumult, after rising weakness.
Fever
Chilliness; in evening; when vomiting; after vomiting, with general heat; in open air, temperature 99; with nausea. External C., but not internal. Internal C. through afternoon nap, with burning in eyes, face and upper part of body; I. with cold arms, but hot face and hands. Shivering; in afternoon, (<) arms and shoulders; alternating with flushes of heat, sweat on back and inside of thighs; in attacks; paroxysmal S. extending from legs over whole body, with sensation as if pericranium were constricted, then heat with dry mouth and lips, next morning thirst, but no sweat. Cold skin, (<) limbs. Cold limbs; r. thigh; hands and feet; hands and feet, with flushed face; feet, with shivering over thighs and back.
Heat in first part of night. Febrile paroxysms night and morning. General heat; at night, with disordered stomach; with thirst; then cold sweat. then rigors, with general coldness, especially cold limbs. Heat of forehead. H. of face; with at 4 P.M., without redness; in flushes at 4 P.M.; sudden, at 5 P.M. during rest. Burning of feet, (<) soles; on inner surface of r., on outer surface of l. leg in forenoon. Hot and dry skin. Burning in skin of forehead; in evening, with itching; in morning, (<) glabella; in middle of F., in nose and r. leg, in evening after entering house. B. in skin of face and head, without redness; in skin of face, (<) eyes; in skin of face beneath eyes, in forenoon in open air, with feeling in sides of nose as if he would have erysipelas. B. in skin of nose near lower margins of orbits. B. in skin on inner surface of r. leg; in skin of outer part of l. leg. External B. over r. trochanter major, with smarting.
Sweat; in evening when sitting quietly; on hands. Anxious, when vomiting. Cold, clammy. Cold, on forehead; on hands; on hands during vomiting.
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.