Sleep
Sleepiness in afternoon, with yawning, without inactivity. Talking in sleep. Frequent waking as from fright. Sleepless till midnight; almost all night, and frightful dreams of death and murder; and as soon as he fell asleep he was full of fancies, his forehead seemed thick and sore to touch, pain over eyes, (<) stooping as if everything would press out at forehead, with chilliness. Dreams interrupting sleep; fatiguing D.; sad; vexatious and lachrymose, anxious, many, before midnight, then sleeplessness on account of uneasiness, on closing his eyes while awake vivid images passed before him, (>) opening eyes, at one time it seemed as if a battery were discharged, at another everything was enveloped in flames, at another scientific subjects crowded upon him.
Fever
In morning pain in head and abdomen, then shaking chill, with cold blue hands and thirst, then when lying dry heat, with thirst and restless slumbering, for thirty-six hours, throughout the night on waking and moving nausea and vertigo, at intervals of twelve hours sweat, when from time to time the heat moderated, afterwards tearing and sticking in l. eye and l. cheek and eruption on lips. Coldness of hands; lower limbs; in back in region of last ribs; in back, not (>) warmth of stove. Shivering, (<) back, without thirst; on back in afternoon, alternating with heat on forehead, without thirst.
Heat with thirst; H. of whole body, with coldness, paleness and sweat of face; sudden apprehensive, over whole body, with heat and redness of face and sweat; in several attacks daily, with pain in praecordial region, anxiety, weeping and inconsolable, she longed to die on the spot; internal, in whole body in evening when sitting, with cold sweat on face. Burning in r. side of scalp; on l. shoulder; in arms and hands; feverish in limbs, with inclination to stretch; in one side of face, renewed by thinking of it; flushing, in face and blood, with nervous excitement; beneath r. corner of mouth, as if an eruption would appear, (<) making skin tense; internal, in forehead, with hard, rapid pulse.
Sweat in morning on waking.
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.