Involuntary excretion of stool and urine.
Urinary Organs.
Frequent need to urinate; finally incontinence.
Involuntary excretion of urine and stool.
Increased quantity of urine.
Lessened secretion of urine.
Retention of urine.
Urine scanty at first, yellowish or deep red, then more copious, with sediment.
High-colored urine.
Albuminous urine.
Urine acid, contains serum and bile.
Bloody urine.
Discharge of blood.
Sexual Organs.
Want of sexual desire.
Sexual powers at first increased, then diminished.
Impotence; want of sexual power.
Intoxicated persons beget drunkards.
The children of drunkards grow up dull, indolent, and stupid, and become intemperate.
Irregular menstruation.
Abortion in the first months.
Respiratory Apparatus.
Sensation of heat in the larynx.
Catarrhal bronchitis.
Accumulation of mucus in the air-passages.
Frequent disposition to clear the throat.
Hoarseness.
Sobbing.
Cough.
Hacking, dry cough.
Coughing blood.
The respiratory muscles acted in a gasping manner, so that there was a jumping, quick, inspiratory effort, and a lazy, feeble expiratory effort in the later stage.
Accelerated breathing.
Respiration quickened, and then retarded.
At all periods, there was a sense of impediment to respiration.
Heavy, labored breathing.
Snoring respiration.
Asthma.
Asphyxia.
Heart and Pulse.
Organic difficulties of the heart and the large vessels.
Hypertrophy of the left side of the heart.
Valvular insufficiency.
Increased action of heart set in so soon as three minutes, and continued from thirty to fifty minutes.
Increased activity of the heart and arteries.
Pulsation of the heart and arteries violently increased, hard and full.
Increased heat and rapidity of action in the heart.
Very excited action, violent throbbing of the heart.
Palpitation of the heart.
He grinds his teeth with anxiety, and presses his hand on the region of the heart.
Pulse nearly always accelerated, sometimes small and empty, sometimes full and even rather hard.
Small, usually frequent pulse.
Chest.
Hydrothorax.
Emphysema.
Congestion of lungs.
Sensation of warmth in chest.
Tension of chest.
Neck and Back.
Veins of neck swollen.
Temporal and throat arteries throb; jugular veins turgescent or protruding.
Weakness, finally, in muscles of back; cannot even sit erect.
Sensitiveness, aching, and pain in the region of the kidneys.
Extremities in General.
Sudden startings of the limbs, as from electrical shocks.
Trembling of extremities.
The muscles of the limbs were inactive.
Increased warmth; then coldness.
Creeping sensation (formication) under the skin of the hands and feet.
Uneasy, restless feeling in the extremities.
At first, a feeling of increased strength, and then of debility and weight.
Weakness and relaxation of the muscles of locomotion, first in fingers and hands, especially in thumb and index-finger, extending all over both extremities, which become heavy and difficult to move.
Limbs numb, as if paralyzed, and again extremely sensitive to touch and motion; more sensitive to a light touch than to a firm grasp.
Upper Extremities.
Trembling in arms and hands.
Sometimes, when lying, a peculiar persistent trembling in muscles under the skin in loins or upper arms, most marked if one suddenly presses on any place.
Trembling of the hands, with constant working of the tendons of the wrist, with the hands turned in.
Trembling of hands.
Mornings on waking, trembling in fingers and hands, aggravated by stimulants; or sometimes, after rising; later, continues all day, painless, worse after keeping still.
Tearing in fingers, often with a benumbed sensation and convulsive attacks.
Lower Extremities.
Relaxation and exhaustion in general locomotion.
Weakness in lower extremities, beginning in knees; gait becomes stumbling, unsteady.
Spasmodic drawings, especially on bending joints, feet, and knees; very painful.
Pains in the legs, going to the nates.
Indescribable aching and pains in the legs, below the knees, and in the feet.
The flesh feels as if torn from the legs, or cut with knives.
Twitchings in muscles of calves and flexors of the feet; become painful and prevent falling asleep.
Numb pain in the marrow of the bones of the legs.
Varicose condition of the veins of the legs.
Tearings in soles of feet.
Formication in the soles.
Inflammation and acute pain in the toes.
Scaly patches, very itchy.
Ulcers.
Bunions.
Generalities.
Convulsions, sometimes like chorea.
Convulsions, with a peculiar sensation in head, as of wind, or a painful drawing, as if something twisted and turned in the head.
Convulsions often begin in one extremity; are often confined to one side; sometimes the head is drawn backward, the back bent, the teeth clenched, and eyes distorted.
Convulsions and hysterical paroxysms break out in intemperate women.
Epileptic attacks, generally coming on while standing; sometimes while sitting or lying.
Epilepsy returns after every excess in drinking.
Convulsive-like epileptic attacks.
The whole body trembles, commonly after exertion.
Tottering and shaking.
Trembling of the whole body, especially of the upper extremities, so that he cannot take hold of any object, cannot walk without stumbling, and only with difficulty control the lower jaw when speaking, etc.
Subsultus tendinum, especially evenings, before going to sleep.
Twitchings or jerkings in muscles on sitting or lying, not in standing, especially on changing position; almost always in lower extremities.
Persistent muscular tremor; first developed in the extremities.
Muscular inquietude; inability to keep the limbs or the body still without a special effort of attention.
The twitches and spasms often appear periodically, and associated with hallucinations.
Drawings in muscles, like electric shocks.
When at rest, carphologia.
Trembling and paralysis as usual consequences of apoplexy.
General paralysis after delirium tremens.
Marked sensory paralysis (chronic).
(Muscular power increased).
Muscles flabby, pale.
Power of directing and coordinating the muscles lessened.
The muscular system was influenced in a marked and definite manner.
The thin layers of voluntary muscles found about the body showed great relaxation.
Muscular tone and power greatly lessened; this effect not being identical upon voluntary and involuntary muscles, and not often identical upon the inspiratory and expiratory sets of muscles.
The body loses its mobility, and becomes more and more destitute of muscular power.
Emaciation, want of strength, with continued want of appetite.
Prostration of the whole body.
Premature old age; face becomes pale and wrinkled, features relaxed, eyes dim, lips pale; the hands and the rest of the limbs tremble; gait unsteady.
Indolence of body and mind.
Frequent swoons.
Hyperaesthesia.
Sensation benumbed; anaesthesia; first in tips;of fingers or toes; often spreads to the back of feet or shin, or back of hands.
This numbness is usually superficial; sensitive to deep pressure; sometimes sensitiveness of whole body blunted.
Pain and neuralgic tearings.
Painful tearing cuttings.
Tearing, cutting sensations extend from the sensitive parts, up and down; cause one to cry out; are very exhausting.
Very marked, peculiar, continuous buzzing or thrilling and not unpleasant sensation, passing from above downwards, and through the whole system (most prominent in from fifteen to forty minutes, and continued without much variation during twenty to thirty minutes).
Atheromatous deposits in arteries.
Dropsy.
(Edema of the legs; later, general anasarca).
Inclination to obesity.
Spontaneous combustion.
All drunkards (exclusively, according to Trotter), especially old women, exhale so much spirituous vapor from their bodies that it takes fire when brought in contact with a lighted candle, and causes the burning of the body.
Skin.
Skin smutty or yellowish-gray.
Jaundice.
Icteric conditions.
Skin soft and flabby.
Skin becomes dry and hard.
Skin soft and pliant, inclined to sweat.
Sense of dryness, heat, and evident fullness of swelling of the exposed parts of the skin, as the hands and face, with general sensation of heat.
This increase for a time, and so much so that, with rum especially, the skin was as harsh and dry as if exposed to an easterly wind.
Tormenting eruption, exceedingly itching (psora ebriosum), spreading over the body the more it is scratched, and presenting rough, scaly patches.
Skin became raw and dry, and lastly covered with an indefinite chronic exanthema.
Eczema and prurigo.
Acne rosacea.
Large, indolent, blue-looking boils or carbuncles.
Skin does not heal readily.
The least injury to the skin, the prick of a lancet, an inflamed spot, especially eruptions and burnt places, suppurate with inconceivable rapidity, and degenerate into ulcers, which not only affect the soft parts, but the bones as well, and smell offensively.
Varicose ulcers.
Some sensitiveness of the skin, especially in shin-bones, extending up to the loins.
A disagreeable burning, biting prickling of the skin, after sleeping of intoxication.
Formication, beginning especially in feet and legs, extending to loins or hands and arms, seldom to the nates, worse mornings and evenings, especially when one gets into bed, so that sometimes one cannot go to sleep and must get up.
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.