Itching on finger-joints; on leg at some distance from an ulcer; in hollows of knees in morning; on perineum after midday nap; thighs when walking (scalp and nape, (<) forenoon, with gnawing, as if an ulcer were healing; l. thigh and foot, (<) evening on getting into bed; on face, (>) scratching, but returning, with crawling; on toes, as after freezing; biting, here and there, (<) outer parts of body, on limbs and joints, in evening after lying down. Burning itching over whole body; in evening in bed; on upper arms thighs, abdomen and back in morning when dressing and in evening on undressing, and even in night.
Clinical Acne of the face, the skin is red and blotchy. (K-bi.).
Sleep. Yawning during the day, with sleepiness morning after rising; in morning, with stretching, then spasmodic pain, (<) knees; in afternoon, with stretching; then weakness; that causes cough. Sleepiness during the day, as from stupefaction of head; late in morning; at 11 A.M., before dinner; in evening, with yawning, in bed immediately falling asleep, sleepless for a long time after midnight, then sleep late in morning, with vivid dreams of the events of the previous day, in morning he did not wish to rise; after eating; when walking in open air, then palpitation and anxiety, with swelling of veins of hands. Aversion to rising in morning. Inclination to lie down again in morning; in forenoon. Difficult waking in morning. Lies mostly on back, with one or both arms under head; on back, with one or both arms stretched above head, talks in sleep, and wakes between 2 and 3 A.M.; on back, with head bent backward, arms above head, so that hands lie on nape, on back, with head low. Stupid slumber (coma), with dreams of strife and excitement, and the night seemed too long and wearisome.
Sleepless till midnight, with heat without thirst; except from 11 till 1, and necessity to rise at 3 A.M.; S or frightful dreams. Sleepiness only after daybreak. Late falling asleep; on account of many conflicting ideas. Sleep restless and full of care; R., with convulsive movements at times; and little; and broken by flatulent colic, sour eructations and sexual excitement, next night heavy S. Snoring before midnight; before midnight as if posterior nares and palate were constricted; with whistling expiration through nose. Groaning moaning. Ravings at night. Anxiety, he threw off the covering. Unintelligible morose prattling before midnight; anxious whining prattling about 4 A.M., then emission of flatus. Jerking in afternoon nap, with fright; J. of limbs, on falling asleep, causing palpitation. Starting from sleep; on falling asleep; starting from sleep at night and during the day when awake. (Sprang from bed delirious during evening nap.) Waking in fright at slightest noise. Waking early at night, with apprehension. Frequent waking, with difficult falling asleep again, then vivid dreams.
Dreams. In midday nap, and talking aloud. Frightful; as, for example, of wild beasts; waking him. Anxious, with weeping. Disagreeable, of things that happened or were talked about the previous day. Of lice and vermin. That the teeth fell out. Of sick or mutilated people. Of indifference at horrible mutilations and lacerations. That he is engaged in an absorbing occupation. Delightful. Half-waking, with fatiguing though; H., sad, as, for example, of the heads of deceased acquaintances without bodies.
Fever
Chilliness; mornings after rising; at 3 A.M., preceded by drawing pain through thighs and legs obliging him to draw them up and stretch them out; in afternoon, with blue nails, then general heat, with burning of hands, with thirst for water, then for beer, without sweat; towards 6 A.M., with at times general heat and drops of sweat on forehead and again chilliness to wards 6 P.M.; towards 6 A.M., with intercurrent attacks of heat, recurring at same hour next day; in evening before sleep, and if she wakes; in evening before lying down, in bed heat of head and face; in evening after lying down, sleep for an hour, then heat, with headache, roaring in ears and nausea; in evening after lying down, with trembling, then heat of face; at night in bed; at night, with tossing about; in bed, but towards morning sweat preceded by crawling; after dinner; after supper; on slightest motion; from slightest contact of open air, with shivering and pain in back; (<) afternoon, with weakness, heat and necessity to lie down or to be warmly covered; with blue hands; with blue skin; with chattering of teeth; with yawning; without thirst.
Shaking chill; then head and moist skin; in morning in bed, without external coldness, then cramplike contraction of toes and soles. shivering in morning, with horripilation; S. in evening, with coldness of limbs, redness of face and thirst for beer; after drinking; when lying down after dinner, with drawing pain in limbs, as if caused by pain in small of back; on slightest motion; with yawning; then anxious heat, then thirst for beer; then sleep, then shivering again, with coldness of toes. Rigors, then warm sweat.
Internal chilliness, with hot cheeks; I. at night, with internal heat, dryness of mouth, but dread of drinking; l., and it seemed as if she steamed from the throat, and much drinking. Chill alternating with heat at 8.45 A.M., especially heat in head.
Cold skin. Chilliness of face and head; intermittent, about head; externally on head, with internal heat in it. C. of back and limbs in morning, with pain of skin as from freezing cold, and falling asleep of limbs; in back and arms in evening after lying down; in back after a vexation, with heaviness of lower limbs; creepings, in back, with restlessness and occasional griping in bowels. C. in arms after eating, with gooseflesh, photophobia, heat of cheeks and easy dilatation of pupils; sudden C. of either arms and hands, or of legs and feet in afternoon. Cold hands; and moist, with cold tip of nose; hands, soles and scalp, with external heat of rest of body, redness of cheek and recurring chilliness, without thirst. Of lower part of body, with heat of face. Cold feet; in morning; in evening, with red cheeks, hot hands and recurring shivering; and damp; and stiff, then cold and stiff toes; as if dashed with cold water, with trembling then dry heat of face. Cold thighs at night. Creeping coldness over face; in hepatic region; over chest, with tensive pain. Shivering across breasts.
Heat; at 2 A.M., with thirst and drawing pain through thighs and legs; in morning, with thirst for water; in morning on walking in open air, also with full pulse, without thirst, then sleeplessness; in morning in bed, (<) cheeks, hands and feet, particularly in palms and soles, but cool on uncovering, cool places in bed caused general distress, partly griping or cutting colic; in afternoon or evening, then chilliness; at night, with thirst and almost without sweat; after dinner, (<) face, that rises from abdomen, with sweat, (<) back; in bed, with sweat, but shivering on slightest uncovering, after the sweat chilliness, then again sweat; with full, rapid pulse, desire for the bed and thirst.
Dry heat about midnight in bed, without thirst; D., that does not tolerate uncovering, after coition, with dryness of mouth, without thirst. Flushing H. on moving about; F., with irritability and rheumatic pains in shoulders and hips. Anxious H., with red cheeks, lips dry, though mouth is full of saliva, desire to drink, but does not relish it, sleeplessness, lying with arms under head, after the heat thirst for beer; paroxysm of heat, with sweat on forehead and anxiety, without redness of cheeks. Internal H.; with full pulse, without thirst, then sleeplessness; and it seemed as if she steamed from the throat, during which she drank much. Heat running through all veins, (>) vomiting.
Heat of skin; with clammy sweat. Heat of head in evening; during dinner; in brain beneath frontal bone; with redness of cheeks and chilliness over rest of body; as in coryza, with one red cheek and discharge of mucus from nose. Heat of face in morning after rising, with constipation and flatulent rumbling in abdomen; face in evening in bed, and restless sleep before midnight; in evening after lying down, and in soles inside of hands; cheeks after eating, with redness of them and Dullness of head without redness; with shivering over red of body; internal; in F. and head in morning on waking, with general sweat, without thirst; flushing, in cheeks on slightest exertion; flushing, towards evening flushing, when walking. Heat here and there on top of shoulder and arm. Burning on back of hand; in hands in morning, but need to cover them because coolness causes pain. Burning in ball of thumb on lying down after dinner; heat in soles in morning, he tries to cover them because cold causes pain.
Sweat; in morning; in morning, (<) upper parts, then drawing pain in l. side; after 2 A.M., in sleep; at 3 A.M., (<) below nose, on forehead (scalp), nape, throat, pit of stomach and between thighs, with anxious heat and dryness of tip of tongue, anterior part of palate and lips, without desire to drink; every day about 5 A.M. after waking; after midnight; on moving about the room; during and after anxiety; between the spasms; (in bed and on rapid walking); ( (>) open air); in attacks, followed by dry heat; offensive; offensive, and night; sour, at night; cold; warm, except of lower limbs, which were moist, cold and rigid; of the odor of musty straw (except on face), at night and in morning. Sweat except on head and face, in morning after waking. On one side of head and face; on forehead and scalp when eating; clammy, on forehead when walking in open air. On face; and hands; diseased side of face, with one-sided headache. On inside of hands; on walking in open air; cool. On thighs and calves after midnight. Offensive, on side.
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.