Shaking chill from 4 till 8 P.M.; in evening, also on taking hold of anything cold, (>) lying down; with pale, sunken face, weak, rapid and irregular pulse, often with nausea and vomiting, at last pulse large and full, with heat, red face, skin swollen, then restless sleep with distressing dreams and exhaustion, at last sweat, the attacks usually begin at the end of a day’s work, last eight to ten hours and cease in morning. Shivering; in evening in bed; in evening in open air; in evening, then sometimes indistinct cold stage, but always sweat; from a penetrating wind, not from cold; with headache; with shuddering nausea; with trembling of limbs; with general indisposition; for two or three hours, then cold sweats, or more frequently the sweat is preceded by flushes of heat and violent febrile reaction; down back. Shivering discomfort like the premonition of a storm.
Cold body in forenoon, with heat of face; cold nose; face; limbs; hands; hands and feet; feet in evening in bed; feet, waking him at night; forehead in evening, with feeling of heat; skin over most of body in evening, with thirst and heat. External parts (lobules of ears; tip of nose, etc.) are easily frozen.
Heat; in evening after lying down, with anxiety all night; all night, with sweat; in company; (<) back, not in feet; with sweat in axillae; then cold sweat; agreeable, in afternoon, with slight sweat; in flushes; in flushes, then cold sweat; internal, after 6 P.M.; internal, (<) head, with redness of cheeks; flushing, with sudden crying out to be fanned, and thirst; of whole body except feet, as if sweat would break out, in afternoon; of whole body in evening, except coldness in abdomen.
Burning on skin of r. scapula; in l. axilla; in hands, with sweat in palms; in a spot in l. hand; in skin on margin of r. hand; on flexor surface of fingers; l. side and l. scapula; in skin on lower part of r. calf; beneath r. inner malleolus; of head, with redness of face; fingers, then about throat and in face, with redness of face, then coldness in nape. Evening, heat in head and eyes; in soles; head and cheeks, with redness of cheeks; in head, after two hours chilliness; beneath r. heel, worse when walking than when sitting. Burning on l. forearm at night; above r. wrist on moving arm; in spots when sitting; biting, posteriorly in upper part of skin on l. upper arm; itching, on outer side above r. knee.
Sweat; towards morning; towards morning, then gradual disappearance of symptoms; at night; at night, (<) lower limbs; when walking in open air; on hands; easy, on head and hands; offensive, on feet, he walked the feet sore; sour-smelling; sour, with sticking itching over whole body; cold, often preceded by heat; on neck and head, (<) behind ears, around nose and in folds of 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.