Mind
Great mental excitement. Over-sensibility. Unusual activity of mind and body. Excessive haste. Immoderate weeping and crying about trifles. Full of fancies and active flow of ideas. Memory becomes very acute. All the muscles seem very mobile. Twitching in the limbs. Increased sensitiveness to pain, driving one to despair. Immoderate activity and vigor; an unusually increased feeling of health. General aversion to open air, which seems to aggravate the symptoms. Mental and physical exhaustion.
Clinical Delirium tremens, with trembling of hands; fears; thinks that he is not at home, restlessness, etc. Extreme activity of mind; the patient is sleepless; great flow of thought, with great acuteness of all senses. Mental excitability resulting from pleasurable emotions. Recurring attacks of weeping, with hysterical excitability, tremulousness, etc.
Head
Headache, (<) eating, (>) open air, returning in the house. Rush of blood to the head, particularly after exhausting joy. Pain in one side of the head as if a nail were driven into it. A feeling of tearing in the brain.
Ears
Hearing very acute; sensitive, especially to music. Sounds seem shrill.
Nose
Nose-bleed in the morning, with heaviness of the head. Smell very sensitive.
Face
General dry heat of the face, with red cheeks.
Clinical. Prosopalgia, extending to molar teeth of right side; she is very irritable, sensitive and moaning from distressing pain; painful teeth, ameliorated by contact with ice.
Mouth
Jerking and tearing toothache, with restlessness, anxiety and weeping; intolerant of the pain; (>) only by holding ice water in the mouth.
Stomach
Excessive hunger; eats hastily and greedily. Thirst increased, especially at night. Cramp in the stomach as from overloading it, with intolerance of tight clothing.
Clinical. Sometimes required after the bad effects of wine and liquor. Neuralgic headache, with nausea and vomiting.
Abdomen
Colic, which seems to be unendurable; intestines feel cut to pieces; abdomen painful; cannot tolerate the clothes.
Urinary Organs
Urine usually greatly increased, especially at night.
Sexual Organs, Male
Greatly excited sexual desire, with dry heat of the body.
Sexual Organs Female
Clinical. Uterine haemorrhage; extreme sensitiveness of genitals, flow dark, clotted (Platina). Useful in after-pains, which are extremely difficult to tolerate.
Respiratory Organs
Roughness in the larynx in the morning on waking, with hoarseness. Larynx seems covered with dry mucus. Short, dry, hacking cough, as from constriction of the larynx. An irritable, nervous cough at night, with anxiety and sleeplessness. Oppressed breathing, short, with great motion of the chest.
Heart and Pulse
Palpitation, violent, irregular.
Neck and Back
Pain, like a lameness in the back.
Extremities
Pains extend through the arms to the ends of the fingers. Trembling of the hands on trying to hold anything. Neuralgic-like pains in the lower extremities, (>) pressure on the nerve, (<) motion and at night.
Skin
Skin very sensitive; eruptions become extremely irritable.
Sleep
Sleeplessness from over-excitement of mind and body, during which all the senses are extremely acute.
Fever
Internal chilliness with external heat. In the evening after lying down, general sensation of heat, without sweat, with shivering in the back. Internal shivering and heat of the head and sweat of the face.
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.