Sleep
Sleepiness all day; in morning, with yawning; in afternoon; when at work. Sleeplessness before midnight; after midnight; after 4 A.M.; with restlessness, and in morning sleepiness. Difficult falling asleep, light sleep and difficult waking. Wakes always on his back. Slides down in bed and groans and moans in sleep. Starting up after falling asleep on account of uneasiness, (<) legs. Raving soon after falling asleep. Loud incoherent talking in sleep before midnight, she knows nothing of it in the morning. Snoring, occasionally a stridulous noise, as from an obstruction in larynx; snoring before midnight and tossing about, but easily awakened. Restless sleep before midnight, often talks aloud in a joyous tone, but frequently groans; R. sleep, often interrupted by vivid, anxious dreams, and copious sweat in sleep, except on head. Frequent waking; with tossing about; every quarter of an hour, with pain, now here, now there, with restlessness.
Dreams. Anxious; and vivid; and frightful, vivid; or sorrowful or joyful. Unremembered. Happy, of home. Of the death of her mother. That she had lice, which made her much ashamed. Voluptuous. Restless, vivid, full of solicitude and frights, with erections, without emissions.
Fever
Chilliness; all day, not (>) walking; in morning and forenoon; from 6 to 7 P.M., with coldness on back; at 8 P.M., with external warmth; in evening, with burning in face and dryness of mouth; in evening, with thirst, and after lying down sweat, and necessity to drink at night; at night, with tossing about; waking him before midnight, less in parts on which he lies, then heat and sweat; with gooseflesh; with thirst. Shivering; with hot cheeks and cold hands, without thirst; with shaking chill, yawning and stretching, without thirst or subsequent heat; with slight fluent coryza, yawning, cold, dead tips of fingers, blue nails, weak, slow pulse. Cold skin. Cold limbs; lower; internally; feet soon after lying down (on account of sleepiness during the day), with heat of head and hands.
Slow fever. Heat at night, with orgasm of blood and sweat, preventing sleep. Burning beneath skin from coccyx up back; in posterior muscles of l. upper arm close to elbow; in head, (<) forehead, in morning on stooping; in soles when sitting, (<) putting them to the ground; (<) palms and soles, without redness of face, sweat or dryness of mouth, with some inclination to uncover himself; in l., then r. ear, as if a vapor would issue from them, then redness and swelling of backs of hands, with wrinkling like a smarting, lachrymation, diminished smell and hearing, then redness and burning of face.
Sweat in morning; in evening on falling asleep; at night; before midnight, with dry cough; before midnight, during dreams full of difficulties, then good sleep till morning without sweat; clammy; on head and back every second or fourth evening; cold, on feet in evening after lying one or two hours.
Clinical Malignant scarlet fever, profound prostration, mouth full of ulcers, intermittent pulse, involuntary discharges. Typhoid fever of a low, stupid type, haemorrhages, dry tongue, sometimes spasms, involuntary discharges, restlessness, or sometimes in typhoid fever, when the patient is very quiet, has involuntary discharges, bed sores, aphthae in mouth and sinking down in bed. Low types of remittent fever.
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.