Great difficulty in walking, form weakness (fifteenth day).
Numbness of the whole body (second day).
Sensation of intoxication, after a few puffs at a cigar; obliged to stop smoking, as it caused vertigo, dimness of sight, and general debility (thirty-eighth day).
Distress and general weakness after walking a short distance and smoking a cigar; aversion to all movement (ninth day).
Very great oppression from after dinner till evening (third day).
Sharp bone-pains from time to time in different parts of the body (twenty-eighth day).
Continued pains in the joints (thirty-eighth day).
Palpitation in the muscles, in the arms and in the back, and in the course of the proving, frequent palpitations of the flesh and muscles in various parts of the body (forty-second day).
Skin.
Pimple on the left temporal region and on the back (thirty- second day).
Pimple on the nasal septum in the right nostril, and another at the root of the nose, on the same side, with constant itching (tenth day).
The pimple on the lip disappears, but is succeeded by another below the angle of the mouth, and one on the eyebrow, which is very painful (right side), (twenty-fifth day).
Since yesterday, appearance of a pimple below the upper lip, on the right side (twenty-first day).
Sensation of herpes beneath the left labial commissure, with stinging and gnawing itching, and composed of small pimples very thickly clustered (fortieth day).
Pimple on the nape of the neck (thirty-first day).
A pimple on the left wrist, which disappeared by morning (seventeenth day).
Pimple on the left middle finger (twenty-eighth day).
Pimples on the thighs for some days (sixteenth day).
Red pimples on the right thigh (fortieth day).
Appearance of a very red erythematous tetter (an hour after dinner) on the right thigh below the ilium; it is three centimeters in length, and one centimetere in breadth; is painful and itches.
In the evening it is less inflamed; but at a distance of three centimeters behind it, in the same direction, there appears another, of lighter color, but sore to touch.
(The first lost its dark color several months ago), (twenty- third day).
The pimple on the eyebrow is larger, and feels uncomfortable when the eyelid moves; that below the corner of the mouth is small and pustular (twenty-sixth day).
Pimple on the left side of the nose filled with sacrum (seventeenth day).
The pimples below the under lip exude a white limpid humor (forty-first day).
Appearance of two itch pustules on the left hand, accompanied with itching. (The prover had itch ten years ago), (eighteenth day).
Some red pimples on the stomach and one on the bend of the left arm, which is pustular and like a variolous pustule (twenty-sixth day).
Blister as from a bug-bite between the sacrum and ilium (right side), (tenth day).
Warmth of the skin (after forty-five minutes).
Itching all around the body (like a girdle), in the evening when lying down (sixteenth day).
Itching of the waist and at the top of the left thigh (thirtieth day).
Itching of the lobe of the right ear, of the face, the nose, and especially of the lips (one hour and a quarter).
Very smart itching of the pimples on the nose, of the thighs, and of the back (twenty-ninth day).
At night and towards morning, intolerable itching with an eruption of pimples on the back (sixteenth day).
Itching in the sides, and on the left thigh (sixth day).
At night, itching in the forearm (twenty-third day).
At night, violent itching of the wrists (seventeenth day).
At night, itching in the arms (twenty-fourth day).
Itching in the left hand and right side (twenty-third day).
Intolerable itching in the last two fingers of the left hand, then the same in the right fingers (fifteenth day).
Itching in the left ham, (seventeen minutes).
Itching of the skin of the thighs, though no eruption is visible.
Continued itching of the thighs and nates.
Sleep and Dreams.
Drowsiness (sixteenth day).
Irresistible drowsiness (eighteenth day).
Great drowsiness; somnolence until evening (ninth day).
Drowsiness (ceasing entirely in the open air), (thirty- eighth day).
Tardy slumbers (twenty-third day).
Tardy slumbers, with great drowsiness in the morning (ninth day).
Very restless night (thirty-fourth day).
Uneasy sleep during first part of the night, with frightful dreams (first day).
Sleeplessness (thirty-fourth day).
Dreams of the country, and other dreams (second day).
Explanation of a dream, as it had come to him when awake; this dream was very complicated, and it was clearly explained in the same dream (forty-first day).
Extraordinary dreams of political affairs (fortieth day).
Fatiguing dreams of reckless boasting, of trying to sing political songs in a very loud voice, in spite of spies being present (forty-first day).
Dreams of churches, of horses, and of troublesome things (third day).
Tiresome dreams of duels, flight, etc. (thirty-eighth day).
Dreams about supernatural things (fourth day).
Slept all night till 5 A.M., when he was awakened by frightful dreams, which had haunted him all nights (second day).
Fever.
Chilly, with cold feet, though the room was warm (after five and a half hours).
Fever; pulse 70 (eight and three-quarter hours).
Fever; decided adipsia; pulse 92 (eighth day).
Conditions.- Aggravation.
(Morning), When getting up, heaviness, etc., of head; when getting up, headache; in open air, coryza; anorexia; on getting up, desire to vomit; prolonged erections; on waking, torticollis; after getting up, pain in left shoulder; when getting up, pain in left knee; general debility.
(Forenoon), Colic.
(Noon), Headache; hunger.
(Afternoon), Great oppression.
(Evening), After supper, gastralgia;while lying down, after being magnetized, grumblings in right hypochondrium; when lying down, itching all around body.
(Night), Colic; itching, etc.; itching in forearm; itching of wrists.
(Towards morning), Itching, etc. (3 P.M)., Rumbling in bowels, etc. (6 A.M)., On waking, rumbling in bowels, etc.
(After breakfast), Wind-colic.
(Drawing deep breath), Pain in left lung; pain behind sternum.
(Coughing), Pain in left lung.
(After dinner), Colic; pulse disturbed; pain in right shoulder.
(After forcible inspiration), Oppression of chest.
(Motion), Headache in forehead, etc.; left shoulder painful.
(Motion of hands), Pain in left knee.
(Loud speaking), Thoracic pain.
(Walking), Wind colic; pain in right knee; pain in left knee; pain in hip-joint.
(Walking upstairs), Colic.
(After walking a short distance and smoking a cigar), Distress, etc.
Amelioration.
(Morning), Weakness.
(Toward evening), Elevation of spirits.
(Open air), Drowsiness.
(After foot-bath), Headache ceases.
(Bending forwards), Pain in lungs.
(Lying down), Headache in forehead.
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.