Sleep
Yawning; with stretching; with pain in joints of jaws as if they would break. Sleepiness; all day; at 8 A.M.; after eating; when writing at a table; with the headache; with inability to sleep, also with slow pulse; but during the night restless sleep, with much sweat; with desire to be let alone. Sleep; sudden; instantly on lying down; when sitting, with startings and a strange chaos of happy and disagreeable visions; irresistible; from which it could not be aroused; could not arouse himself in morning; deep, sounds, with rattling respiration, as after apoplexy; deep, with frequent sighs and at times jerkings; ending in coma or apoplectic death, with convulsions; constant, with half-open eyes, carphologia and picking all about; quiet, from which he was constantly awakened by jerking of limbs; intoxicated, with unintelligible prattling. Stupid sleep; with half-open eyes; with half-open eyes, eyeballs turned upward, mouth open, with stertorous inspiration; with rattling in chest.
Sleeplessness; at night, in the daytime only a little confused sleep, easily ended; from heat and headache; with unwelcome fancies that were distinct from surrounding objects, as in delirium; with restlessness; with restlessness and delirious talking. Snoring; on expiration. Whining in sleep; moaning cries; sudden jerking over whole body, waking him. Starting in S.; with incoherency in language and action; and after waking he seemed intoxicated and half delirious. Sleep unsound. He heard everything in sleep, but could not rouse himself. Unrefreshing sleep; with sweat. Restless sleep; forepart of the night, sound and refreshing the latter part; often interrupted and only partial, conscious of every noise, dreams varied, unable to rise as early as usual, weaker than on going to bed, head heavy and dull, after a glass of water became fully awake; from which he woke stupid; night restless, slumber alternating with waking, with irrational talking, hot skin, stupefaction, during which he lies coiled in a heap. Frequent waking and inability to sleep again for a long time, one night arose at 3 A.M. Sopor at night, alternating with delirium; waking sopor.
Dreams; with grimaces; joyous; agreeable; delicious, on waking prostration of mind and body; restless; lascivious, with emission; sad; anxious; busy, with numerous fancies all night; vivid, wonderful, during which he spoke aloud; vivid, fretful, he always fails; wild; wild, with waking once after midnight; frightful; she had scarcely closed her eyes when she was aroused by frightful images, she spoke disconnectedly and did not recognize bystanders; sleep full of horrors, whenever he closed his eyes it seemed as if he had lost his reason; of falling from heights; of humming-birds, continued after repeated waking; (in a condition between waking and sleep) of dragons, skeletons, frightful ghosts and grinning spectres.
Fever
Coldness; in evening in bed, but on falling asleep sweat, (<) about head; (>) supper, with discomfort; with insensibility of limbs; with weakness; with discomfort; with stupefaction; with pulselessness; with lifelessness; with sleep, without thirst, during the heat thirst and sweat; then heat of face (with white tongue and sweat before midnight), alternating with moderate warmth; sensation at one time as if in ice-water, at another as if flashes of fire were running through veins; shivering; shaking, then heat with sleep and sweat; (trembling, with thirst, then heat, inclination to uncover, strong, full pulse, dryness of fauces, without thirst, with vivid ideas and vivid memory).
Cold skin; and pale; and bluish; and purplish; and livid; and dry. Cold body; and head somewhat warmer. Face cold and exsanguine; C. and livid; and livid, afterwards flushed. Chilliness in back; with scarcely perceptible pulse. Cold limbs; and clammy; with tetanus; and livid, and rigid, with cold nose; externally; with sweat on the moderately warm face; lower; feet; arms hands and feet. Shivering anteriorly on r. thigh, down to knee, at 6.30 P.M., afterwards extending from nape down to small of back.
Heat; with sweat; with thirst; with anxiety; with redness of cheeks, with rapid, full, hard pulse; with fantasies, which come after a short sleep and last twelve hours, then weakness, nausea and weak pulse, three hours afterwards again fantasies that last forty-eight hours, with full, hard pulse, then sleep for eight hours; when applied as a plaster, with pain, blisters, irritation and mortification; (<) head, then sudden sweat; sudden, then sweat and increased vigor.
Heat of head; extending to r. forearm. Heat of face, with drops of sweat; of cheeks, with redness; with flushes in it; and scalp, with headache; evenings, (<) about eyes, without thirst. Hot body, with sweat, thirst, full, hard pulse, bright eyes and mental activity. Heat in r. half of body. Hot skin; on face; with clammy sweat; with roughness and dryness; with dryness and injection of bloodvessels. Heat creeping through limbs, (<) palms, then exhaustion.
Sweat; in morning during sleep, with inclination to uncover; in afternoon; about midnight, an hour after falling asleep; at night; at night, and towards morning chills; in sleep; on physical exertion; on rapid walking; with red rash and itching; when S. is more profuse then there is more itching, with eruption, while all senses vanish; (<) upper parts, while lower are hot and dry; colliquative. On forehead. Cold sweat; except on feet, (<) head; on forehead; on limbs. Cold, clammy; on forehead; on body and hands. Strong sweat. Thick sweat on head, then over whole body like drops of dew, and sleep. Dry skin.
Clinical General low temperature, with inclination to stupefaction. Occasionally called for in puerperal fever, with approaching
stupor. A valuable remedy in intermittent fever, too often overlooked; the cold stage predominates; the chill is very violent, with weak pulse, which may be followed by diarrhoea and stupefaction; as a rule the patient sleeps through the fever and even through the sweat; hot sweat over the whole body, which does not relieve the stupor. Congestive chills; great heat of the head, with stupor, stertorous respiration, then profuse hot perspiration over the whole body. Congestive chill, with stupor throughout the paroxysm, snoring, with wipe-open mouth, twitchings of the limbs, followed by profuse hot sweat, with no relief of the stupor. Intermittent fever, chill the latter part of the night, with thirst, heat of the head and sleepiness; during the fever sleepiness, vomiting; after the fever sweat, mostly on the lower extremities.
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.