Tetter on forearms and chest, extending over whole body except face and posterior part of limbs, beginning as small scattered red spots, gradually enlarging in a circular form, the spots gradually run together, light red, then scarlet or bluish-red, darker on margin, as spots enlarge the skin in centre becomes healthy, they are elevated, rough, dry, covered with whitish scales, in evening the clothes look as if sprinkled with meal, tetter (<) axillae, bends of elbows, groins, hollows of knees, burning and pain, when at its height fever, the affected parts of skin swollen, red, sensitive to touch of clothes, use of arms impeded, sleep wanting or restless, itching from cold air on undressing, burning after contact, rubbing, washing or taking wine, axillary and inguinal glands swollen and painful, and in some places, for example, groins, superficial ulcers on the tetter, which become covered with yellow scabs and heal, tearing in joints, (<) elbows and knees, in evening, and on palms transparent vesicles without sensation.
Eruption appearing suddenly and returning, maculous, papulous or squamous, the latter (<) old people (on chest, back and scalp). Itching rash on forearms. Nettle-rash becoming a red spot; N. on genitals and thighs and in spots on chest and abdomen. Itching eruption on thighs, (<) their inner surface. Itchlike eruption on abdomen and thighs. Psoriasis in spots over whole body, except palms and soles. Swelling, hard, smooth, painful, of the size of a hen’s egg in l. mamma; S. in spots, upon which gray flat scabs develop without previous moisture, then relief of S. and pain. Red elevations, with itching sticking; hot red E. on l. elbow, extending to hand, with burning, tearing and formication; red E., the tips becoming white, scaly and itching, burning after scratching, on l. arm, (<) elbow; and hard, shiny, on r. tibia, with tensive pain in it; and sore, moist, itching, on lower limbs, genitals, hollows of knees, throat, abdomen, in several places looking like pustular itch.
Swelling, with itching, heat and inflammation, (<) face and lids, preceded and accompanied by alternate cold and hot fits, languor, loss of appetite, thirst and watchfulness, after this condition had lasted fourteen days, scarlet eruption over whole body, (<) inside of arms, thighs and legs, with offensive exudation, (<) from groins and thighs, in a few days the eruption became white and dry, later cuticle peeled off and left cutis tender and itching, and new cutis affected in the same way as the former.
Pimples; on inner side of thigh; on scapulae and abdomen, with boils; over whole body, with nightly bone-pain; round, (<) thighs and legs, becoming round ulcers, at last scurfy; red, with white tip and sticking, on nates; on lobule of ear, from which it was immovable, at first painful; red, on back of hand, burning at first; itching, on l. leg, then suppurating sores, then desquamation of surrounding skin; itching, changing to ulcers, then desquamation of surrounding skin; burning, corroding, itching, moist, scaly, on lobule of r. ear. Node beneath skin of l. cheek.
Pustule on chin; painful, on nose; itching, on limbs. Pocklike eruption above anus, with pain, (<) sitting. Boils in l. groin, with burning during micturition; B. on upper part of l. thigh, painful on walking and on touch. Soreness between thighs and genitals. Eczema on back of foot. Cracks on hands; on fingers, (<) inner side; on fingers, the bases of which are sore and bleeding; bleeding and painful between thumb and index; ulcerating, on finger-joints. Eruption below skin, with yellow scab. Eruption on thighs, itching in evening, oozing burning water after scratching (after heat of head and on back of foot), about midnight sweat on abdomen and thigh.
Erysipelas of forearm and legs; of lips, and gangrene, with fever and coated tongue, the gangrene destroyed a part of r. cheek, also gangrenous spot on r. temple, which on opening discharged gas and pus (death after three weeks, with hepatization of upper part of l. lung). Gangrene of feet.
Eruption on thighs, with itching and pain in thighs and groins, then rough elevated erythema over limbs with red eruption, in some places vesicles, eruption over greater part of body, exudation of a serous, yellowish fluid, (<) inside of thighs, groins and contiguous parts, stiffening the linen, in a few days the erythema was over the whole skin, which was painful, swollen and itching, with desquamation, exudation became general and offensive, swelling,(<) feet, lips and eyelids swollen, tarsi and eyes inflamed, later desquamation extended to scalp, afterwards swelling in many places where skin had peeled off, the new cuticle cracked, then exudation, later pain in skin (<) moving, with feeling as if his flesh were cracking, restless night, later flushing of face and increased redness of trunk and limbs, discharge of purulent matter from hand, exudation even from occiput, from which the hair fell, then a tumor on l. breast towards sternum, and one on l. loin, darker than the rest of the skin, containing a fluid, soles so tender that he could not put them to the ground.
Ulcer on foot; on legs, then desquamation from the thickened epidermis in red scales, under them the skin had a dark red pigmented look; with whitish-gray bases, bleeding easily (Hepar, Phosphorus) and exuding thin matter; bleeding of U. that had previously existed; serpiginous; offensive, rapidly decomposing, on thighs, in dropsical patients, instead of the swelling which had rapidly disappeared; varicose, on limbs; red, on r. side of chin; red, suppurating, on l. side of chin; corrosive itching, externally on r. thigh.
Mercurial sores often have ragged, loose and undermined edges, often bordered by a cuticle like that of new cicatrix, giving them a silvery appearance, bases not hard nor surfaces covered with tenacious lymph, the ulcer may be sloughy in one spot, excavated and ulcerating in another, exuberant granulations at a third, and tendency to heal at a fourth, the ulcer spreads quickly and may attain any size. Mercurial ulceration often attacks the cicatrix of a recently healed chancre and forms a fresh sore.
Vesicles full of water on inner side of wrist; transparent, V. containing water, on various parts before day break; itching, on back. Erythema, upon which vesicles form and pour out a thinnish, clear liquid, V. quickly broken, the contents desiccate, then redness. Sudamina on abdomen, chest and upper limbs, appearing at first as round, transparent vesicles, with red areola, filled with clear liquid, except on abdomen, where it was turbid, under lower jaw were shreds of epidermis caused by desquamation of vesicles, on some parts of chest and abdomen desquamation in patches from coalescence of the swellings, afterwards new sudamina.
Drawing pain anteriorly on l. thigh. Formication; from r. knee up front to middle of thigh; at root of nose, with gnawing. Fuzzy feeling in arms and hands. Tickling in palm, compelling scratching. Diminished sense of touch; more in limbs than in trunk, and more in r. lower limb than in l.
Itching on forehead; on r. side of nose; l. elbow; r. scapula and back; on pubes and above penis; thighs; legs; on joints day and night, (<) evening; on lower limbs in evening; on back in evening in bed; on sacrum when walking; on all parts, (<) night, and face red and hot; between toes, (<) afternoon and evening; on thigh, waking him at 3 A.M., with sticking. I. that becomes pleasant on scratching; on inner side of thigh, then pimples. Sticking l. here and there in evening; in sacrum when walking; on abdomen, and in evening burning after scratching; tickling sticking I. on first phalanx of r. thumb. Corroding I. on backs of hands in evening in bed, returning after scratching. Tickling I. on l. side of back. (Burning I. over back, (<) walking in open air, with heat of back).
Clinical Moist intertrigo. Varicose ulcers, which bleed easily, generally with severe lancinating pains. Moist eczema. Herpes. Herpes zoster. The vesicular eruptions tend to ulcerate. General tendency to suppuration and ulcerations. Very valuable in measles, with coryza, cough and nocturnal aggravation.
Sleep
Yawning; before dinner and supper; with pain in small of back, then rigid extension of limbs, with clenched thumbs, then weakness. Sleepiness; during the day; when sitting, (>) walking; with anxiety; with weakness, but inability to sleep; then loss of sleep; but sleep interrupted and disturbed by bad dreams; interrupted by starting up in fright; palpitation and attacks of fantasies, for example, as if he dreaded epilepsy; irresistible, when standing. Sleep too long; and profound. Much sleep by day, but sleeplessness at night. Sleep from 3 till 5 or 6 P.M., against her will.
Sleeplessness; in evening on account of frightful fancies; before midnight, and early waking, with sweat; till 1 A.M.; till 1 A.M., with tossing about; till 3 A.M., with sweat from 2 till 3 A.M.; till towards morning; (<) after midnight; with tossing about, and in morning inability to rise on account of lassitude; with restlessness, anxiety and bad feeling; with hallucinations, heavy dreams, nightmare. Had no rest at night, stood up, wanted to walk about, saw ghosts, animals which were jumping at her, thought men were on the bed, thought living things were creeping into her mouth and vagina. Almost no sleep, dreaded to fall asleep. Constant dozing, but no real sound sleep. Unsound sleep after midnight and during the night tensive pain in l. leg. Half awake, with heavy dreams. Sleep every moment day and night, and waking every moment so that he had no natural sleep and no natural waking. Distressing sleep, if he woke everything in his head turned around.
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.