Urine diminished, but concentrated, and no diminution of the salts, except uric acid, which after a time entirely disappeared from urine.
The inorganic salts increase in urine.
Sexual Organs.
Male.
Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce; at first their tips were cover with pus, but afterwards the ulcers became diffused through a pretty spacious depression, exhibiting the tallow-like coating of chancres (1st potency, on the ninth day).
Sensitiveness near the orifice of the urethra.
Painful coition; the urethra felt as if put upon the stretch; absence of pleasure (6th potency).
In from twenty-five to thirty seconds, terrible pains, continuing at the same intensity for five minutes, then gradually diminishing and becoming very endurable at the end of an hour, extending even into and along the course of the spermatic cords.
The right testicle is enlarged and hard (2d potency, third day).
Want of sexual desire, the genital organs having shrivelled (30th potency, fourth day).
Frequent nightly emissions, sometimes accompanied with lascivious dreams.
Three copious emissions in one night (1st potency).
Female.
Hemorrhages from the uterus.
Hemorrhages from the uterus (a fortnight before the menses), only a few hours (1st potency, fourth day).
Excites the capillaries of the uterus.
Congestions to the uterus.
Pain during coition and violent bleeding afterward (from injection of a weak solution for a profuse leucorrhoea).
She had two seminal emissions at night, which she had never had before (30th potency, fourth day).
Suppression of the mucous leucorrhoea; it reappears in a few weeks, but less and milder.
Suppression of the menses, miscarriage, and metrorrhagia.
The menses appear at the usual period, but they are much more copious than usual, and are accompanied with cutting pains in the small of the back and groin, and contractive sensation in the latter (30th potency, sixth day).
Respiratory Apparatus.
When lying down, after dinner, he perceives a whizzing and whistling in the larynx (in the throat and the bronchial tubes), occurring regularly as the pulse; the noise did not seem to be occasioned by accumulation of mucus, but by the movement of the blood; it was heard only when lying on the left ear (30th potency, second day).
Balls of soap like mucus accumulate in the larynx, occasioning slight turns of cough, by means of which they are expelled (6th potency).
Internal soreness of the larynx and pit of the throat; worse in the morning.
2 P.M., much tickling in the larynx, without cough (second day).
Scratchy sensation in larynx provokes hawking and cough. Irritation and titillation in the larynx, followed by accumulation of mucus in the larynx, occasioning a slight rattling and whizzing breathing, until the mucus is thrown off in small lumps (30th potency, fourth day).
Dry tickling in the larynx, occasioning a cough, in the daytime (1st potency).
3 P.M., continued tickling in larynx, rather lessened on inspiration, followed by short, dry, shaking cough, almost wholly ceasing on sitting (first day).
Hoarseness, with roughness in the throat (2d potency).
Nightly hoarseness, with turns of dry cough, after which she throws off blood-tinged mucus mixed with saliva (30th potency, seventh day).
Suddenly, while lying quietly in bed, at night, sense of pressure in throat, and violent, short, dry cough, without tickling in larynx (second day).
Night-cough, occasioned by a titillation in the larynx (2d potency).
Violent titillation in the throat, obliging him to cough, before dinner, recurring at the same hour for several days (2d potency).
Dry, fatiguing cough, occasioned by a violent, almost burning, titillation in the throat, before retiring in the evening (2d potency).
Dry and hacking cough, several times a day (1st potency).
Occasional cough in bed, at night (30th potency, third day).
Paroxysms of dry cough at night, sometimes so violent as to induce vomiting (1st potency).
Nightly cough and sweat (1st potency).
Evening, cough, which makes the accustomed tobacco-smoke intolerable to him (2d potency, fifth day).
Cough after dinner, impeding speech.
Suffocative cough, for several days, at noon.
Catarrh, which is at first slight and dry, and afterwards loose, changing in a few days to a rattling cough, with yellow expectoration, profuse sweat breaking out readily, bad look, hollow eyes, and disturbed nightly sleep; as the cough improved, the boy blew from his nose purulent mucus mixed with blood (30th potency, second to fourth day).
Dyspnoea,.
Difficulty of breathing,.
Excessive suffocative oppression of breathing.
Chest.
Accumulation of mucus in the chest (1st potency).
Nightly pain in the chest (2d potency, first day).
Burning in the chest.
Sensation of warmth between the scapulae and the sternum, which, after awhile, changed to a pressure in the epigastric region (1/2 grain).
Warmth between shoulder-blades and sternum, afterwards changing to a slight pressure in epigastric region, with frequent tasteless eructations.
A violent pain in the middle of the upper part of the chest, as if it would burst, after going upstairs; she must hold the chest with both hands.
Aching tensive pain in the chest, in various places of the chest, of the size of half a dollar (2d potency).
Sense of pressure on the chest, without palpitation of the heart, with need of deep inspiration, lasting half an hour; disappears on walking; returns in an hour, also when walking, but lasts only a short time (after six and a half hours).
Sighting, owing to oppression of the chest (30th potency, first day).
Fullness and anxiousness in the chest, with disposition to sigh (1st potency, first day.
Heaviness in the cavity of the chest, with desire to sigh.
Oppression of the chest, accompanied with a clawing sensation moving through the chest (6th potency).
Stitches in the chest (2d potency).
Stitches in the breasts (1st potency fifth day).
The outer chest is painful to the touch (1st potency).
Itching of the chest and axilla (30th potency, third day).
A violent pain in the left external breast (in the evening, when drawing on the boots), followed by a persistent severe sore pain in both pectoral muscles, which are very sensitive if the arms are stretched to draw on to the chest; worse near the left nipple.
Sticking in the left side of the chest (1st potency, fifth day).
The mammary glands of the right side are painful, as if ulcerated, towards the axilla, especially when touching the part; when stretching the arm and turning the trunk speedily to one side, an oblong rounded protrusion is distinctly felt (30th potency, fifth day).
Pressure and weight, as of a stone, in the middle of the sternum, in a spot of the size of a hand (30th potency, fifth day).
Anxiety in the precordia, after dinner (30th potency, second day).
Pain in the praecordia (30th potency, second day).
Constant sensation of fullness in the precordial region.
Heart and Pulse.
When walking, sensation of pressure in the region of the heart, without palpitation or cough; was not forced to stop walking, but only to breathe deeper; the feeling lasted some time after keeping quiet in the room (after seven hours).
Heart’s action irregular, sometimes intermitting, with an unpleasant sensation in the chest.
Action of heart irregular, sometimes intermits, with a plainly unpleasant sensation in chest; on attention to it, the irregularity is more severe; almost disappears on motion in open air.
On walking, a sensation, several times, as if the heart were beating once or twice stronger, but without impediment from walking, and without oppression of breath.
Palpitation.
Palpitation of the heart, and sensation of restlessness in it, several times (first day).
Sensitive palpitation, like a sudden falling from above towards the middle; goes away just as quickly, with pain in the middle of the upper part of the chest, as if it would burst.
Palpitation of the heart, at night (1st potency).
Violent palpitation of the heart, accompanied with a faintish nausea, of which she had three paroxysms in one afternoon (1st potency, third day).
Throbbing of the heart. Frequent palpitation of the heart on slight excitement, and also from rapid movement (first day).
Palpitation, caused by any sudden muscular exertion or emotional excitement.
Towards evening, twice, palpitation of the heart on motion of the body (first day).
Palpitation caused by sudden violent exertion or mental excitement; and in horizontal position, especially evenings, in bed, the unpleasant sensation in chest are worse.
The irregular action of the heart was worse when noticing it; better when moving freely about.
Pulse 70; full and natural.
Neck and Back.
Bounding pulsations of the left carotid at regular intervals, distinctly seen by the naked eye (30th potency, third day).
Clawing in the right anterior cervical muscle, resembling a cramp (6th potency).
Drawing, with pressure in the top of the left shoulder, as of a load (6th potency).
Violent pressure between the shoulders, penetrating deeply, especially at the angle of the right shoulder, early in the morning, on waking (6th potency).
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.