Itching all over body; now here, now there; in brows and tip of nose; chest; axillae and hollows of knees; palms; fingers; between fingers; forehead; above l. brow; externally in ears; about chin; r. concha; neck; back and l. hand; back of hands; about knees; toes; lower third of l. forearm and on l. thigh; external aspect of fingers; legs; outer side of thigh small of back; expect on inside of limbs. Itching in morning; of r. hand, (<) between fingers; on back of hand near wrist; (<) above crest of l. os ilii; after waking, (<) eyelids, foreskin, glans and feet, with smarting. I. in afternoon on outside of thigh; of l. hand from wrist little finger, (<) scratching (Pulsatilla) which causes burning. I. in evening between finger-joints; on legs; legs, (<) l.; general, (<) on and between fingers, with smarting and formication parts not sensitive itched on touch; on forehead, with burning; over r. ankle, with burning; various parts, face, chest and hands, and after scratching redness; on back, then pimples; l. whisker, after scratching soreness; in bed, (<) arms and legs; on dorsum of r. hand in bed, with burning, it became covered with elevated, red and itching pustules, which went off during the night. I. at night over whole body; on upper and lower abdomen; thighs and legs; here and there, (<) scrotum; wrists and inside of l. fingers, (<) scratching; legs, and after scratching sore feeling; in spots, with frequent waking; general, before falling asleep; general, in bed; in heat of bed, now in one place, now in another, (<) nape; in warmth in bed, on back and sides of trunk; when he got warm in bed, from hips to toes, (<) hollows of knees, after rubbing pimples discharging a fluid, when the itching ceased, but it returned the next night. I. of r. leg on waking; on several parts of l. hand after rising, after scratching red spots on which were papules close together and itching periodically; on forehead after dinner; about abdomen after dinner, and on rubbing griping in intestines and tenesmus, (<) groins, as if towards the middle, (<) stooping and deep breathing, (>) walking; externally on nose after menses; of toes that had once been frozen; I. (<) night and morning on waking; on elbows and wrists, (<) hands, (<) evening, then vesicles full of yellow water; in spots, mostly (>) scratching, sometimes followed by sticking or burning; obliged to scratch old tetters till they bleed; I. on scrotum and thighs, with sweat on those parts; in places, with redness; in spots below r. knee, with redness; of fingers, with redness, which was (>) pressure, but returned immediately, next day white vesicles on inside of r. ring and little fingers, third day vesicles on inside of second phalanx of r. middle finger; on dorsum of r. hand, (<) heat of bed, with redness and roughness, and red, roughness between pustules; on l. wrist, with burning, then pimples, with red areola and a white spot at their apex; in bend of elbow, with smarting, when pimples on a red spot; between r. fingers with smarting with a scabious looking pimple on back of hand; in spots that bleed and bite after scratching; in spots that are painful after scratching; in bend of r. elbow, exudation of moisture after scratching; on legs, and after scratching. burning pain; in a spot on l. lower jaw towards cheek, rubbing caused redness and elevations; in a white spot on cheek; crawling I., with pain after scratching; crawling, on inner side of thigh; sticking, (<) walking in open air; sudden, on r. hand in evening, (<) palm and between fingers.
Clinical Intertrigo, acne, eczema, herpes, in short, all forms of skin eruptions, generally (<) bathing, associated with burning itching, temporarily relieved by scratching, with the peculiar characteristics of the drug.
Sleep
Yawning; during the day, with sleepiness; and stretching without sleepiness; spasmodic, in evening before going to bed. Sleepiness; in daytime during menses; at 8 A.M., with disinclination to work; in morning; at noon; in afternoon; towards evening; at night, but inability to sleep; after dinner; after two glasses of beer; after a glass of beer, with ebullition of blood. Irresistible sleepiness during the day, she fell asleep when sitting at work; he fell asleep as soon as he sat down during the day; I. in evening. Sleeps with arms over head. Sleeps with half open eyes. Disinclination to rise in morning. Waking difficult.
Sleeplessness all night; till midnight; before midnight, then frequent waking and tossing about; till midnight, then disagreeable dreams, only tranquil towards morning; for a long time after midnight; from 12 till 3 O’clock; from 1 till 2 A.M.; every night after 3 A.M.; every morning after 4; every morning after 5; on account of irritability and uneasiness; with weariness; with mounting of blood to head. Late falling asleep; often not till 1 or 2 A.M.; on account of flow of thoughts; and waking every hour; with inclination to sweat; then dreams of fire and death. Frequent waking; with beating of blood in head, them also in chest; with nausea; every half hour, could only sleep a few hours towards morning; partly, and coldness. Waking early. Waking in anxiety, heat and sweat.
Sleep disturbed; partly by indistinct stitches and partly by anxious dreams. Sleep restless; first half of night, with sighs; after midnight; after midnight, dreams that she was going to have a fever and woke in sweat, with heat, (<) face, thirst, shivering (<) motion, even to chattering of teeth; after 3 A.M., moaning, groaning and occasionally whistling respiration. Frequent turning over without waking. Starting up on falling asleep; S. in midday nap; S. up anxiously. Jerking in lower jaw on falling asleep; of feet in sleep. Moans and lamentations. Loud talking; of the conversation of the day; talking before midnight, as in anxious dreams. Unintelligible murmuring. Crying out that she was black, etc. Sleep unrefreshing; and too long; like a half slumber, disturbed by vivid dreams of the ordinary occupations. Sleep light.
Dreams.- Immediately on closing eyes. Vexatious. Vivid; out of which he often woke and could not fall asleep again for a long time; waking him frequent; but unremembered; so V. that she was sitting on the chamber that she urinated in the bed; of business transacted long ago. Frightful; of the fire; that he had been bitten by a dog; of the dead and dying, she wakes herself by weeping and shouting and then is confused; with palpitation, and on waking sometimes rigor, sometimes heat and fear of robbers; after midnight, waking him; waking him, and then anxious thoughts as of ghosts; of dangers of death and of dead people. Anxious; as if something oppressed him (nightmare); that fire came down from heaven; of danger from fire and water; as if pursued by wild beasts; and half remembered; partly A., partly indifferent; in which she rose from bed unconscious, then headache; before midnight, she walked about like a somnambulist, thought there was a fire, dressed herself, talked out of the window, was frightened when she was weak and felt bruised. Disagreeable. That he was falling from a height. Of horrible grimaces immediately on closing eyes. Of murders, from which he woke at 4 A.M., with fatigue. Of unfortunate and dishonorable events. Disturbing, with frequent waking and pain around navel. Of things she saw the next day. Confused. Disconnected. Comic, with loud laughter, which continued after waking. Laughable fancies in a half dream before falling asleep, many evenings, she laughed aloud. Lively. Amorous; with an emission. On waking a number (figure) appeared to her stretched out and the lines were a quarter of a yard long, (>) lying on other side. Rose from bed in a somnambulistic way, cried “My head, my head, I am crazy!” and grasped his forehead, after walking about a little he came to himself. She ran about the room for five minutes without knowing where she was, with open eyes.
Fever
Chilliness; in morning; in morning, head soon became hot and limbs cold, a few hours later chill, then fever and sweat, which lasted eight or ten hours, then chill more severe than before; after performing his ablutions till noon; in forenoon, sensation of heat in afternoon though she was cold to touch; from 9 A.M. till 5 P.M.; from 1o till 11 A.M., then rest till 3 P.M., then heat in head and hands for two hours, with thirst for beet; from 10 A.M. till 6 P.M., (>) in bed, then heat in palms, then general warmth except on head; till 11 A.M., then heat from 12 till 2 P.M., with glowing cheeks, then cold from 3 till 5 P.M. and then heat before bedtimes; at noon till midnight, with internal heat, redness of face, weariness of limbs as if bruised then sweat for three hours. H. in afternoon; with thirst; with heat and palpitation; (<) hands and feet, with horripilation; with sensitiveness to open air, hands rigid and reddish-brown; every afternoon, then heat with thirst cold feet, sweat on face and hands, and dry cough at night as soon as he got into bed. C. in evening, (>) lying down, with headache; in E., then sweat at night; every E., not warmth of stove, in bed heat, and sour sweat every morning; with burning in skin above forehead extending over forehead; then in bed heat; when writing; in bed, then swarming fancies, then heat and sweat. C. from 4 till 6 P.M., then shivering starting from toes; from 5 till 6 P.M.; at 5.30 P.M., then heat, then C., with thirst till 8 O’clock; from 7 P.M. through the night and next day at 8 P.M., then heat, with full and rapid pulse; every day at 8 P.M., then at night on waking heat without thirst; at 11 P.M. on going to bed, till sleep, with aching on r. side of vertex, it returned next morning on waking and next evening in bed, on third day C. not (>) the fire, with blue nails, face pale, head giddy and heavy, C. recurred on moving and after swallowing salvia, with sensation as if humeri were broken, coldness as from a draught of air diagonally across above navel. C. at night; in bed, (<) abdomen; in bed preceded by colic, together with heat without thirst, with sweat the next night; in bed, preceded by colic, with heat without thirst, with sweat, sweat next night. C. after dinner; from dinner till 4 P.M., with thirst; before going to sleep; after disagreeable news; in open air. C., with diarrhoea. C., then heat, with thirst, sweat, headache, hoarseness, weakness and loss of appetite; then burning in parts rubbed (thighs).
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.