Sweat in morning; and at noon after eating; at night; every other night; at night immediately on covering himself; at night in sleep; at night, during which he woke with pleasant thoughts; on walking in open air, then headache and nausea; with cold hands and blue nails; inclined to sweat and take cold. Offensive, at night; O., during physical exertion; like horse’s urine. Sour, at night. Cold. Sweat on nape; head; forehead; forehead when eating; cold, on forehead. On hands; palms, with heat and redness of face; on chest at night; on parts on which she was lying at night; cold, on hands and feet. On soles, causing soreness of toes and balls of feet, with sticking as if he walked on pins. Feet; l.; at night; cold. Offensive, in axillae.
Clinical It has been prescribed occasionally in scarlet fever, with red tongue and foul discharges, also in typhoid fever, with offensive, purulent, bloody stools, great prostration, especially with sore tongue, intermittent pulse, herpetic eruptions between fingers. Foul-smelling perspiration of the feet (Silicea).
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.