Toes. Involuntarily stretched, then drawn together. Sticking in great, then in soles; in r. great, in evening; in r. little, which looks red and as if frozen, (<) morning; sudden tearing, in second joint of r. great in evening when descending stairs. Tearing in first three r.; in second joint of great, in afternoon, then in r. knee; in a corn on little, with drawing and pain on touch; sudden paroxysmal, in l. great, as if it would be torn out, at 11 A.M. on walking in the room. Pain in r. great at 6 A.M.; P., as from inflammation in nail of great; sudden sprained, in r. great, making it difficult to step. Sore pain, (<) walking; in ball of great, when walking, with feeling of abrasion; smarting sore pain between toes (compare Silicea); burning S., with feeling as if sand were about them; burning sticking, sore sensation. Drawing pain in r. at times during rest. Pressure on ball of great. Dead feeling in r., with formication, when walking. Asleep in morning, and insensible.
Skin
Freckles on face; F. more on i. side of face and across nose. Itching “liver” spots. Red spots legs; like gnat-bites, coming and going on legs; on upper abdomen, about pit of stomach and thumb-joint, with itching and burning; redness of finger-joints, with swelling; R. of joints of middle fingers, with swelling and with swelling of hands. Browns spots on inner side of thighs, close to scrotum, extending from inguinal canal to perineum, next day spots inflamed, with burning pain, so that walking was painful, next dye red, swollen, burning pain, (<) touch and walking.
Swelling in lumbar muscles, painful on moving body ( (>) Silicea); inflamed S., like erysipelas, below elbow, suppurating like a boil. Inflammation of a scratch on finger, l. of r. middle finger from a hang-nail, with pain. Chilblain on little finger. Warts on hands. Eruption on face; about mouth; fine, on face; fine about mouth; itching, on upper part of back. Itching teeter on side of nose near eye; on sides of neck and back; on back; tibia; scaly, bleeding, on face and corner of mouth. Urticaria; on legs in evening.
Pimples on face; and thigh and l. corner of mouth; on forehead and behind l. ear; on r. thumb; knee; beneath skin of forehead, without change of color; on leg, with here and there sticking obliging scratching; wartlike, on index; burning, between scapulae and on nape; red, on r. upper lid, which contract to a scurf; red, itching around neck. Itching pimples; on hands; about chin; between finger; on forehead, temples and chin; P. partly itching, partly burning, on occiput, small of back and about nates.
Red pustules on wrists and l. thigh; biting itching P. on forearms. Boil on nates; on hip; above knee; in l. axilla; on l. nates and one on l. forearm, making whole arm stiff; on hands, with sticking on touch; on l. scapula, with inflammation about it, and burning sticking, and alternation of chill and heat in body; on lower jaw, filled with clear lymph, afterward discharging and drink to a yellowish crust, which left a coppery brown spot. Skin unhealthy, corrosive vesicles. Painful ulcer on l. index, preventing sleep; painless U., bleeding on binding up and then sticking pain.
Smarting of thigh after walking, with feeling as if rubbed sore, causing jerking in leg. Sticking in whole skin in forenoon, worse now in one place, now in another, so that he must rub himself with his clothes, with general heat; S. all over l. foot as if asleep at 5 A.M., (>) rubbing. Sticking sore pain on hypogastrium on touch even of clothes. Prickling on soles on rising from bed. Tickling on l. heel. Itching biting on knees.
Itching of whole skin; I. on head and face and in nose; about eye; behind ears; face, (<) forehead and cheeks; of nose; about anus; on chest; back; loins; groin and scrotum; upper arms; fingers; fingers that head been frozen, also with sticking; hollow of r. knee; about ankle; on head and back in morning; in evening, on forepart of chin; on back in evening; ( (<)things, in evening); on legs, back and nates in evening in bed, with hives after scratching; on calves as far as ankles, and ankles pain at night; of face, with pustules on cheek, forehead and (<) temples; ( on lower limbs, (<) legs), with hives or papules over whole body, with formication and burning; of cheeks, with burning and redness; on backs of legs, with; or head, back and leg, with biting and shivering; on things, and often during the day, after rubbing, sudden red swelling, with burning pain as in a boil; of r. temple, and after rubbing burning-sticking tearing, then pinching headache; on back extending to neck; of limbs and (<) scrotum, preventing sleep all night, with sweat; peculiar, at times (sometimes with sticking) transversely across chasten region of fourth to seventh ribs; of face as if the beard were ticking it; as from suppuration of a wound, on two last phalanges of r. index, not (>) scratching, with redness; burning biting, over whole skin; as from flea-bites in various parts and in tatters; sudden prickling, in hollow of l. knee. Sticking pinching, (<) scrotum; on r. nates; here and there.
Clinical Eczema; herpes; psoriasis; naevus (compare Fl-ac.); lupus; phagedenic ulcers; impetigo. Varicose veins and ulcers, with oedema; carbuncles; intertrigo.
Sleep
Yawning; all day; all day, with shivering; in morning, with stretching; in morning, with lachrymation and heaviness of head; in forenoon; in evening after reading; after breakfast, with empty feeling; after dinner and supper; with sore pain at root of nose; with pressure and tension in temples; incomplete, often obliged to open mouth wide and then cannot yawn enough; child cries because it cannot yawn completely.
Sleepiness; during the day, with weakness; all day on attempting to read, and weakness from every other work, with apathy; in morning; in forenoon, with yawning, pressure upon eyes and internal chilliness; in afternoon; in afternoon in. carriage; 2 P.M., when riding horseback; in evening; after eating; soon after waking. Irresistible sleepiness at noon, then indolence and confusion of head; I., at I P.M.; in evening, but late falling asleep; in evening, but night restless, full of dreams; and went to bed at 8.30 and passed the night in anxious dreams; on waking; after eating; after dinner, then exhaustion. Falls asleep when sitting during the day. Sound sleep; in evening. Heavy sleep, with anxious dreams, and dreams of dead people. Stupefying sleep; and restless, with frequent waking; and late waking; and inability to arouse herself in morning, and weakness.
Sleep, with mouth open. Always gets upon his back at night in sleep. Laughs aloud in sleep. Anxious crying; weeping; with unintelligible words. Talking; loud. Moaning. Starting up on falling asleep; as if coming from feet. Starting up in bed at night; S. up from sleep; wishes to cry out, but, cannot. Twitchings, the legs are jerked forward; T. of fingers. Sleeplessness; till midnight; after midnight; first part of night, then uneasy sleep; on account of trembling and feeling as if everything in boy were swinging back and forth; because on closing eyes everything that had happened during the day passed vividly before her. Late falling asleep; with restless, heavy dreams. Waking with a scream; W. after midnight, with sensation of coition, without emission; at 2 A.M., with difficult, recollection heat of head and abdomen and coldness of feet; every morning at daybreak and then falling asleep again; wakened by dreams associated with noises that were going on at the same time in the street; anxious. Frequent waking; from frightful dreams; with tossing about, sound sleep only in morning; and remaining awake for hours, then sleepiness in morning. Sleep bad account of excitement. Sleep unrefreshing; and confusing.
Restless sleep; after midnight, and interrupted; when lying on l. side; with sobbing; with starting up and jerking in limbs; (in a child). with groans; (in a child), with frequent and violent talking; sound only towards morning; with rapid respiration; with rush of blood to heart; and light, and wandering in mind, as if now in one place, now in another; and short; and frequent waking awake at 4 A.M.; and waking at 5 A.M. from a dream, with nausea and salivation; full of dreams; confused dreams, in which he seemed to be now in one place, now in another, with frequent waking, and in morning on rising he is more weary than when he lay down; full of vexatious dreams; with disconnected D.; full of dreams without ability to wake; with dream, and awake from 12 till 2.30, with sweat, flow. flow of thought, then slumber till 6 A.M.; and dreams of encounters with wild animals or a giant, anxiety as in nightmare, and on waking general heat, with violent beating of pulse.
Dreams. Sleep full of D.; dreamy sleep, on waking dullness of head and irresolution. Confused. Nightmare. Of murder. Horrible, that some one wised to kill him. Of hateful omegas during midday nap. Frightful; and even fright after waking. Sad. Heavy. Bad. Anxious; in morning after vivid dreams, as if many young dogs in constant succession fastened themselves on various parts of body; with childish fantasies; in a fight he hid himself away from danger. Exhausting; with sweat on waking. Vivid; of business and studies; of the work of the day, whose execution, even after waking, she believed necessary; of business, with moist skin, sleep till 4 A.M. (formerly always awake at 2); and pleasant, then difficult waking in morning, then dreaming again as soon as he closed his eyes. Pleasant, so that she did not wish to wake. Voluptuous; with emission; with erection and emission. Of coition without emission; that she felt the irritation of coition.
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.