Heel. Sticking in morning, (>) rising; burning, in ball, with itching, as if frozen; boring. Boring towards evening. Cutting in evening in warmth of bed. Pain.
Sole. Sticking during rest, and in tips of toes; crawling, as if asleep, when standing. Tearing, and above knee; extending above knees and into back. Pain as if beaten; burning P.; in hollow, as from swelling or internal suppuration, on stepping, with stitches extending into calves; as if congested or ulcerated, on stepping; numb, in S. and balls of great toes, as after a great jump and as if deadened, on standing after long sitting, (>) walking, a pain in periosteum on pressure, with insensibility of skin and muscles.
Toes. Tearing jerks in great. Sticking in r.; S., (<) great; in tips of r. in evening; burning, in balls of second and fifth in evening on becoming warm in bed, with itching, as if frozen. Cutting; in r. Pain in great, (<) evening, (>) lying down to sleep; P. as if pinched by a shoe; numb, in ball of great; (burning, extending to groins, in a paralyzed leg, coincident with improvement in power).
Skin
Reddish spots on different parts; the redness about an ulcer becomes hard and glistening. Swellings painful to touch beneath skin above elbow; hard red S. in front of r. ear, with burning constriction, red, painful S. on back of foot with prickling sticking as if an ulcer would form. Scurfy eruption on tragus, with burning biting pain, watery exudation and glandular swelling farther down neck, which is painful to touch. Pimples on forehead, face, shoulders, chest, and lastly on back; (in hollow of knee); painful to touch, below chin; red, in region of zygoma; (red, as from burning nettles, with itching biting pain); itching, (<) evening on undressing, on scapulae and as far as middle of back; itching, on side of neck, the I. not (>) scratching; containing water, between fingers, with sticking when touched or moved; oozing moisture, on legs, with burning pain.
Pustules in groins, with burning sticking. Abscess at root of nose, near inner canthus, as if a lachrymal fistula would form. Ulceration externally of wings of nose, and oozing of watery moisture; ulcer that had existed is inclined to bleed. Boils here and there. (Blisters on paralyzed arm that filled with matter and desquamated).
Sticking upward in an ulcer on one feet, and burning in an ulcer on other foot; S. in an ulcer, that causes shuddering through whole body, with sticking that often changes to burning about ulcer. Itching sticking; in feet and toes, that seem inflamed, (<) close to nails, as if limbs had been frozen, penetrating whole body, before midnight. Pain in ulcer is aggravated when about to eat; P. on touch on face and lips; on touch in a place that had been burned but was now healed. Biting in an ulcer on foot morning and evening just before dressing it; sticking, in an ulcer, with itching about it; burning, in region of a scab of an ulcer in morning in bed, ( with dry cough). Itching crawling in toes as if frozen, in evening.
Itching in evening in bed; on back and across loins; on forearm, (<) back of hand and between fingers; on backs of feet and between breasts in morning in bed; (in the paralyzed arm at night); in region of chin, (<) evening; of r. nipple, not (>) scratching; on neck and cheeks, on scratching pimples appear; burning, over whole body before midnight, on becoming warm in bed, (<) scratching, preventing sleep, less during the day and only after becoming heated from walking or after rubbing; about an ulcer, as if it would heal; crawling, in and above umbilicus, painful after scratching; tickling, under an ulcer on foot. Biting itching here and there; on tip of elbow; on upper part of sternum in evening, not, (>) scratching; on side of neck after shaving off beard, not (>) scratching, but it pains.
Clinical Measles, dry cough at night, must sit up in bed, with earache, usually indicated after the fever has subsided. Occasionally indicated in erysipelas, which changes its location.
Sleep
Yawning. Sleepiness; late, in morning or early in evening; can scarcely keep awake in evening, but not weary; during dinner; constant, dreamy. Irresistible sleep in afternoon; at noon, in the middle of a meal. Sleep too long, at first it is only a nap full of dreams. Stupefied slumber full of visions and thirst for beer and sweat all night..
Late falling asleep in evening and early waking in morning. Sleeplessness in evening; on account of anxious heat; before midnight, from a fixed idea, for example, a melody constantly recurred, but sleepiness prevented activity of memory and fantasies; before midnight, then sleep only when sitting with head bent forward or to one side; till 2 A.M.; all night, except the first hour and a half, obliged to turn over constantly; with restlessness; with rush of ideas; as from orgasm of blood. Restless sleep, necessity to throw off covers on account of heat, with internal warmth of hands, without sweat; R. and stupid sleep. Light sleep. Waking before midnight and dreaming much, quiet sleep only after 2 A.M., next forenoon weariness; W. at night as if frightened and dazed, did not know where he was and was unconscious; frequent, on account of vivid dreams, for example, that he was falling; frequent, at night, and sleepiness during the day; wide awake every three hours during the night; easy W. before midnight.
Jerking of limbs or whole body in sleep; of arms and starting up in fright; of one or another limb on touch when falling asleep; in head and whole body on falling asleep in afternoon. The child drew its mouth back and forth, opened its eyes, distorted them and closed them again and twitched fingers. Fright and starting. Screams and starts up frightened by a black dog, a cat, and tries to drive away bees. She frequently sprang out of bed because she felt better out of bed. She sat upright in sleep, with staring eyes, and said “Drive that man away.” Talking; about trifles that seemed to float before him after midnight when half awake. Snoring in afternoon nap while sitting.
Dreams. Confused. Of disconnected subjects, to each of which the dreamer attaches words in thought, though the names do not correspond to the subjects of the dream, hence disconnected loud talking. Vivid, of what had happened or been spoken of the previous day; V. after midnight, causing weariness, almost constant recurrence of same subject till he woke; V. after midnight, with stupefied slumber and sweat. Frightful, with starting up; F. and disgusting; for example, that he would be beaten and was unlucky, he sobbed and wept aloud and on waking the dream was so vivid that he was forced to sigh; and he was forced to get up. Anxious in morning, the anxiety continued after waking. Of quarrels. All about men, dread of men, she fancies that a naked man is wrapped in her bedclothes and rolled up under her bed, while she has only a sheet to cover her. Amorous, with emission; A. in evening and morning, almost without sexual excitement.
Fever. Chilliness; all day, and three times flushes of heat in face; in morning on rising; morning and evening; at noon, after dinner; every day about 2 P.M., at 4 P.M. chill without thirst, with coldness of face and hands, with anxiety and oppression of chest, later lying down, drawing pains in back, extending to occiput, thence into temples and vertex, three hours later heat of body without thirst, skin burning, sweat only on face, trickling down in great drops, sleepiness without sleep, restlessness, next morning sweat over whole body; in afternoon; in afternoon, then heaviness and heat of heat; towards evening; towards evening, without sensation of being cold, mingled with heat. C. in evening; all the E. before bedtime, even when walking; in E., with pain; with external coldness, without thirst, in morning heat as if sweat would break out (which does not), without thirst and without external heat, though with hot hands and with aversion to uncovering; after lying down, after lying heat; in evening, after a few hours heat rather external, with weakness, the heat during the night was internal, without sweat till 5 A.M., then confusion of head, in a few hours bloody expectoration, later it was of the color of the liver. C. before menses, with yawning and stretching; on going into cold air, on taking off her clothes, but she was too warm with them on; after stool, (<) sacrum (with pressure in region of stomach); during most of the pains; with trembling, returning after a few minutes, then heat without sweat; with pallor and general sweat; mingled with warmth, then heat in face and rest of body; without thirst, thirst during the heat; then heat in head and hands, with full, slow pulse; then internal heat with shivering, then heat with rapid pulse, rapid respiration and deathly anxiety.
Shaking chill, then general heat and sweat, with drawing jerking pains in shafts of bones of limbs. Shivering; in afternoon, in evening heat, thirst, starting up preventing sleep, labor-like pains, pain in whole body so that she could not turn over in bed, and watery diarrhoea; (<) open air, with redness and burning of r. cheek, heat of r. hand, confusion of head like intoxication and fretfulness; almost without chilliness, so that hair bristles, with anxiety and oppression; as if sweat would breakout.
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.