Toes. Swelling of great, with redness -and pain; S. now of one, now of another joint, with pains and sleeplessness, finally extending to ankles, heels, etc.; articular, in great at the same time as the tendinous tumefaction, with redness, heat and pain. Great joints enlarged by tophacaeous deposits. Strongly flexed upon soles, can be slightly separated in way of flexion, extending impossible; bent upon soles, can neither be separated nor approximated; r. great strongly flexed upon sole; r. strongly bent upon metatarsus, they cannot be flexed upon foot nor separated in this way, foot strongly bent upon leg, incapable of flexion, can be abducted and adducted by extending it and causing the leg to move the whole foot at once. Painful drawing inward of two larger r. when standing and sitting, then drawing in hollow of r. knee, then also in hollow of l. knee, where there was sticking afterwards numbness of toes, (>) afternoon when sitting. Cramp. Gout in four attacks, first in metatarso-phalangeal joint of l. great, afterwards in corresponding joint of r. great toe, then in l. knee, then in r. knee. Tearing in two first l., (>) walking. Pain in great at night; P. in tips. Drawing by nail of l. great on walking this extending into ball of foot, (>) continued walking. Falling asleep of l. extending into instep, with crawling. Cannot extend T. not flex foot upon leg. Extensors paralyzed, abduction prevented by want of power in interosseous muscles.
Skin.-
Yellow with thick ecthymatous pustules over whole body; livid, (<) face. Dirty yellow, and eye; and albuginea oculi; and flabby, with desquamation; (<) face, or earthy color. Sallow, dingy; S., clammy; dry, traversed by larger veins. Pale. Cachectic color. Peculiar dead, waxy hue. Light ashen color. Lead color; dingy. Bluish; dusky. Pale gray in folds, and dry. Livid, and lips and gums. Dark brown spots over whole body. Discolored. Face and most of limbs and body covered with white-lead deposit. Flabby.
Red, swollen spots on fingers. Hard, movable elevations where external radial muscle attaches to metacarpal bone. Phlegmonous swelling of back of hand and forearm, then abscess. Eruptions; disgusting. Scorbutic symptoms, with ulcer in lungs. Serous infiltration. Erythematous rash over whole breast. Inflammation, swelling, with itching vesicles that contain a yellow liquid, scabs, beneath which an offensive ichor exudes, and gangrene, with delirium and constipation; rapid I. from a small prick, rapid suppuration and rapid healing. Erysipelas in a wound on face (received in falling in epilepsy) spread rapidly over face and head, with nausea, vomiting, delirium, pulse 52, tongue coated white, headache, stitches. Petechiae. Eczema in patches about face, neck and under arms. Red pimples on chest; that desquamate after twenty-four hours; itching P. containing clear water, on back of index and one on external condyle of l. wrist, with pain after scratching. Boil on outer side of r. thing; sores somewhat like B. on back of thigh and somewhat above it. Suppuration comes to stop and disappears. Pustules, with thick pus in angles of nose, that is red. Vesicles on legs, arms and face; forehead and nose. Gangrene. Bed-sores on sacrum and thighs.
Sticking; here and there on face; on soles. Burning in ulcers. Formication, on forearms and fingers; lower limbs; feet; r. great toe; soles; limbs at night; lower limbs; feet; r. great toe; soles; limbs at night; soles and instep, (<) r., when standing; soles, it feels as if he were walking on nutshells. Sensitiveness; to air; to touch, (<) arms and lids. Itching; over. whole body; on face; between r. thumb and index; on thighs; of a dry tetter on r. tibia that usually had no sensation; in evening; (<) night; in a spot on inner side of r. wrist, with burning, (<) scratching, and after long scratching numbness; between l. thumb and index, (>) scratching; on coccyx above anus, (>) scratching; sticking between l. middle and ring fingers. Insensibility of skin of r. lower limb, but not of subcutaneous tissues.
Sleep
Yawning; an hour after dinner, with sleepiness; and stretching; constant short. Sleepiness; early in evening, and sound sleep; (>) open air; with heat over abdomen and redness of face. Easy falling asleep when talking and knitting. Sopor. Sleeplessness; from acute pain; from nightly aggravation of spasmodic pains in abdomen. Sleep restless. Talking in sleep. Starting up on falling asleep. Waking with a start and wakened he stirs by the acuteness of the pain. Nightmare. Dreams; in evening, with talking; distressing; confused anxious; frightful, of falling; pleasant; lovely, after midnight, of a distant beloved person; of stealing fruit in a garden; voluptuous, afternoon, with erections, without emissions.
Fever
Chilliness; from morning till afternoon; towards evening, then fever; in open air; before the colic; during the colic, with fever; at the end of the crisis; when walking in the house; (<) towards evening, head dull, dizzy, with thirst, redness of face, soft, rapid pulse, but in bed external heat, with internal chilliness, at last skin hot, dry, pulse frequent, without thirst, after midnight sweat on chest, abdomen and head, after 2 A.M. sleep with confused dreams, next morning tongue coated, head dull, face pale, and on stepping sticking upward through head; as if liquid ice ran through his veins. Shivering; in limbs. Cold limbs; and face; nose; arms; hands and feet; hands, which are cyanotic; hands and forearms, with an asleep sensation; fingers; lower limbs; skin; as far as abdomen as if seated in cold water, alternating with heat in abdomen; internal and external in paralyzed parts, (<) ends of affected limbs, (<) least draught of air.
Heat
after breakfast, with weakness of upper part of body, then weakness of hands and feet; in evening, with hot skin, rapid pulse and red face; with unquenchable thirst; with copious sweat; then sweat on knees; dry; internal, towards evening and at night. Flushes of heat; in afternoon, with redness of face and sweat on upper part on body; anxious, in afternoon, with sweat. Hectic fever. Inflammatory fever, with jaundice. Typhoid fever, with bilious vomiting, delirium and restlessness, afterwards epileptiform convulsion, then coma and death. Hot skin. Hot head, with coolness of rest of body, (<) hands; heat mounting to head, also with redness of face. Flashes of heat and sweat mounting to face; sudden heat in face and scalp, with redness of them while rest of body was cold and covered with cold sweat. Burning in tip of l. scapula; in limbs; in region of kidneys, diffused engorgement in l. loin, apparently perinephritis from calculus, with urinary fistula, but urine scanty and high-colored.
Sweat; during the colicky paroxysms; easy on exerting and at night, but afterwards dry skin; on face; contained urea; sticky; viscous, on paralyzed parts in morning; offensive, on soles; cold; cold, on forehead, hands and feet. Dry skin.
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.