Restless sleep; with frequent waking; with frightful dreams; with dreams of highway men; with heat, he thought when half awake that he heard thieves breaking in; with open mouth. Starting up in sleep; and throwing up of arms; in fright, on falling asleep, which caused shooting in teeth and through knees, with shivering; in fright soon after falling asleep, and anxiety till he was awake. Delirious talking in sleep. Groaning, whining, talking, rapid respiration and coldness of hands, during sleep. Sleep interrupted by jerkings and disturbed by heavy dreams. Late falling asleep. Waking early; every night from 2 till 4; at 11 P.M., as from fright, and loud cries and tears before she could collect her senses; easy. Frequent waking; and stretching; with sleep only like a dazedness and tossing about as if the clothes were a burden; as if he had slept enough, with tossing about; as from fright; as from noise; every quarter of an hour.
Dreams. Many. Frightful; of shooting; that he fell from a height; in which he started up, thought that he was not in his own house, sat up in bed and talked about a distant village. On falling asleep he fancied that some one called him, started up in fright and became chilly. Anxious, for example, of swallowing a needle; A., after midnight, of being bitten by a dog, a rebellion. Nightmare and half-waking D. Heavy. Vivid, forgotten; V., agreeable and disagreeable; V., of the business of the day. Historic. Of a flood. Of people standing before the window, then waking, she could not persuade herself that they were not there. Amorous, with erections, without emissions. Unpleasant. Pleasant, after midnight (perhaps curative).
Fever
Chilliness; in morning on waking; in morning after rising, after nightly emission; in morning, heat towards noon; morning and evening in bed; till midnight, then heat and thirst; at 9 P.M., and all night, with micturition every hour, and jerking of head, arms and lower limbs when lying and slumbering; in forepart, of night, then alternations of chill and heat; on going into open air; on walking in open air; when not in bed, but heat in bed, with thirst for milk and night; during griping in abdomen; before stool; before diarrhoea, with dragging and flushes of heat; between diarrhoea-like stools, but during the stools flushing of heat, (<) face.
Internal chilliness in those suffering from tremor, without diminished temperature, one wore a heavy overcoat, even in the hot summer; I. chill in morning in bed; in forenoon; with heat of face; alternating with internal heat. Alternating with heat; with heat in head and face; with paroxysms of heat and anxiety, as from compression of chest, with prostration, without thirst. Quotidian ague in one who escaped salivation. C. as if dashed with cold water. Creeping C. during pinching in abdomen, with shivering; C.,, hands, with dry heat behind ears.
Shaking chill in evening in bed; and twitching in tendo-achillis and flexor communis digitorum pedis; morning and evening. Shivering; all day, with internal and external coldness; blueness of body and necessity to bend forward; mornings in bed; morning on rising; evening in bed; before stool; from above downward on motion, between the paroxysms of heat; with chattering of teeth; with frequent flushes of heat; ((<) face, back, chest and arms), with flushes of heat; alternating with heat of face; over the scalp, that makes the hair bristle or that makes the scalp contract and seem to tremble.
Cold hands and feet (Iodium, N-ac., etc.); feet in evening in bed; C. sweaty feet towards morning; sensation as if soles were put into cold water; with burning in them; thighs; chill extending from nose and ears to occiput, before midnight, in bed, with tearing externally; over back, with heat in lobules of eats; in limbs, like catarrhal fever, and necessity to lie down; of whole body, with heat of face. Skin cold and dry.
Heat; in cold, raw air; from slight effort, with ebullition of blood; with uneasiness; in attacks, (<) night. Hectic fever; and phthisis pulmonalis. Erethic fever, or fever, of salivation, with quick pulse, hot and dry skin, red gums, swollen tongue, salivation, loss of appetite, restlessness, headache, etc., another kind of the adynamic mercurial fever, with depression of strength, praecordial anxiety, frequent sighing, partial or universal trembling, small, quick pulse, pinched and cadaverous face, coldness, tongue seldom furred, a sudden and violent exertion may prove fatal. (Intermittent fever prevails among workers, but whether due to mercury of local causes is uncertain.)
Burning in head; l. temple; r. superciliary ridge; in r. ear; all over back; between shoulders, extending down back; in elbows; nates; ( in soles in evening); l. cheek after midnight, with redness of it and sweat on palms, then diarrhoea and aversion to food; cheeks and head, if he sits some time, with redness of face, without thirst; in face, with pallor; intermittent, in head and face; of face, with redness, then general internal heat, (<) palms, then alternations of internal chilliness, obliging him to lie down, a shaking chill lasting into the night, with heat in palms and coldness in finger-tips; on arms, so that everything falls from his hands, and he must let the arms sink down. Heat of skin; on l. side of forehead; on cheek, in front of chin; with dryness.
Sweat; during the day, with nausea; in morning; in morning, with thirst, nausea, vomiting and palpitation; in evening in bed, and he fell asleep while sweating; at night (Iodium, Lycopodium, N-ac.); at night, and easily chilled; on motion; on walking; on drinking anything warm; though in a state of collapse; causing burning; oily at night (Thuja, Magn.)., making linen stiff and yellowish. Offensive (Carbo-v.); at night; soaking the bed-clothes. Sour, making fingers look spongy and wrinkled, like a washerwoman’s; S., and if she puts a limb out of bed there is tearing. Linen stained saffron yellow (that washing will not remove) by imperceptible exhalations from body (Graphites, Lachesis, Selenium, Mag.). Sweat on palms and soles (Am-m); face and chest; in spots at night, but not on face and head; on legs at night, (>) uncovering legs; on forehead on walking in open air; on genitals and neighboring parts when walking; cold on face; cold, anxious, on face, with discomfort, then diarrhoea. Skin dry, easily desquamating.
Clinical General catarrhal fever from suppression of catarrhal discharges, always indicated by the tongue, nocturnal aggravation, etc. Hectic fever. The perspiration of Mercurius is sometimes oily. Patients are not relieved by perspiration, but rather get worse thereby. General tendency to free perspiration.
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.