Introduction
Cold springs in Upper Hungary; temperature from 45o to 50o F.
Analysis (Schultes), 16 ounces furnished 11.59 grains of residue, containing sodium carbonate, 6.07 grains; sodium chloride, 3.03; potassium carbonate, 0.75; potassium chloride, 0.62; ferrum carbonate, 0.40; silica, 0.35; extractive, 0.37.
Mind
During the whole time there is kind of slight intoxication, though no special exhilaration; nor is he less active; especially he sees indistinctly, particularly when walking.
Lively and contended.
Disposition rather earnest than lively.
More fretful and sensitive; every trifle vexes him; he is morose, reflective; will not speak nor answer.
Head
Confusion of the head after drinking, as after intoxication.
With this she is not lively, but rather indifferent and in an earnest mood.
Confusion of the whole head, burning and drying sensation of the eyes, and qualmishness in the stomach.
Headache as if stupefied with pressive heaviness in the brain.
Heaviness in the whole head, especially in the occiput; it draws the head backwards.
Pressive heaviness of the head with drawing in the neck. Heaviness in the head immediately on waking.
Plethoric persons suffer on drinking the water with severe congestion of the head.
Boring headache, which concentrates itself in the right eye, at evening in the open air.
Constrictive sensation in the forehead, extending down to the root of the nose, in the evening after smoking.
Drawing tearing headache in the occiput, extending down to the neck, with a waving sensation in the brain after one-half hour.
Drawing tearing headache in the occiput, extending into the neck, even while in the bath.
After the bath when he lies in bed to rest, the drawing in the occiput and in the neck repeats itself, with throbbing and pulsation in the occipital vessels.
Pulsating in the occiput and neck, with sticking pains therein.
Throughout the whole time scruff on the occiput; it itches and, after scratching, becomes covered with a yellowish amber-like scruff, and at the same time exudes a moisture.
Eyes and Ears
Burning and dryness of the eyes, with confusion of the head, and qualmishness in the stomach.
After coition, pressive pain over the left eye and in the eyeball itself.
In plethoric persons the eye becomes agglutinated at night from using the water. In plethoric persons agglutination of the eyes at night, and a violent congestion of the head is caused by the use of the water.
Especially on walking he does not see distinctly, throughout the whole time as if he were slightly intoxicated.
Sticking in the ears.
Nose and Mouth
The corners of the nose become eroded, as in severe coryza.
Constrictive sensation in the upper incisors, as if they were firmly pressed together, and became asleep, a kind of numb sensation.
A hollow tooth becomes ulcerated, with swelling of the cheek.
After becoming chilled in the night she is attacked with a raging toothache.
Toothache in a hollow tooth, a kind of tearing-drawing, aggravated by cold water and by touch of the finger.
Grumbling in a hollow tooth.
Throbbing pain in a hollow tooth.
Inky taste on the tongue, at night on waking.
He is obliged to expectorate much frothy saliva.
Throat
Much hawking and raising of mucus.
Dryness in the throat.
Scratching in the throat, causing a dry cough.
Stomach
Appetite increased, especially in the evening.
Sensation of hunger soon after breakfast, which disappeared after eructations.
Eructations after the acid water.
Eructations soon after drinking the acid water in large quantities.
Empty eructations in the evening.
Eructations, as of bad eggs, in the morning.
Eructations with a crawling passage of air through the nose several times (after six minutes).
Qualmishness in the stomach, with confusion of the head, and a sensation of dryness of the eyes.
Nausea.
Vomiting at breakfast.
Abdomen
Distention of the abdomen.
Abdomen distended like a drum.
Distention of the abdomen with passage of flatulence.
Passage of flatulence.
A kind of colic, pinching drawing pain in the abdomen, in the morning on waking, immediately after a glass of the water.
Stool and Anus
Crawling in the rectum.
The hemorrhoids protrude very much, and pain when walking.
(The hemorrhoids protrude with the stool).
Burning in the hemorrhoids during the sitz bath.
Desire for stool (after ten minutes).
Desire for stool, which is more firm, though normal in form.
At night desire for stool, but with much pressure; no stool follows.
Hard stool in the morning.
Stool twice in the day, consisting of large cohesive masses.
Stool in the morning immediately on waking, and followed by a second, and in two hours by a third; the last is pasty, dark greenish-brown, with protrusion of the hemorrhoids.
Stool six times in the day, the first normal, the others liquid with mucus and bright-red blood, with great protrusion of the hemorrhoids; also, at other times, frequent desire for stool when only blood passes.
On walking, the hemorrhoids become strangulated and cause a constant desire, tenesmus, and pressure in the rectum.
Stool copious soft, normal in form and color.
One hard stool like nuts and sheep dung.
No stool during the day.
Secondary action.
Urinary Organs
Discharge of a little mucus from the orifice of the urethra which leaves a spot as of semen.
Burning in the orifices of the urethra during a cold bath.
Burning, twinging, sensation in the orifice of the urethra during a bath.
Burning when urinating, with a gnawing sensation along the urethra, even when not urinating.
Urging to urinate, with burning and cutting, which returns later, and even when walking.
Frequent urinating day and night.
Frequent urinating of clear white urine.
Frequent urinating, though little at a time.
On urinating in the morning the stream is always interrupted; is obliged to stop eight times and commence again before the bladder is emptied.
Sexual Organs
Male.
Throughout the whole proving, no erections and no sexual desire, though today when caressing sudden desire for coition, which was reciprocal; his wife had until this time complete want of sexual desire (seventh day).
Strong erections toward morning, and also in a warm bath; on coition, however, very little sensation, and none with the ejaculation; the semen is watery (seventeenth day).
Burning in the genitals and hemorrhoids during a sitz-bath.
The testicles are heavy, larger, and seem swollen in the evening.
Female.
Biting and burning internally in the female genitals.
Usually after menstruation there was desire for coition, but this time none, and on coition only transient enjoyment.
Menstruation appeared on the thirty-second day (the previous time on the fortieth day), the first day more profuse than usual, the blood passed in clotted masses like liver is very fetid; the second day no blood only at night; the third day almost none; formerly she had pains this time none.
Respiratory Apparatus and Chest
Hoarseness during the whole proving; most severe in the morning.
Hoarseness even in the bath, and also in the morning on waking.
Hoarseness and a scraping sensation in the throat.
Difficult breathing, and dryness in the throat in the afternoon.
Heart and Pulse
After drinking coffee, palpitation of the heart, anxiety, heat, congestion of blood in the head, with confusion, sleepiness, and restlessness in the whole body (after two hours) Cramp of the heart; it seems as if it were constricted, though only for a moment with a stitch.
Neck and Back
Oppressive pain in the neck, extending into the occiput.
He feels sore below the shoulder and in the lumbar region, especially on elevating and arms, and on walking.
He feels bruised and lame in the small of the back in the evening.
Upper Extremities
Trembling of the arms and hands, even when resting them upon anything; if he holds anything in the hands the trembling is worse.
The balls of the little finger of the left hand feel frozen, are red, itch, and burn for several days, most severely in the morning.
Lower Extremities
Bruised pain in the flesh of the nates and hip-joint.
While walking the knees knock together, and a sensation of fatigue and weakness in the thick flesh of the thigh.
Weakness of the knees, especially on walking; they knock together.
Throughout the whole proving, weakness of the knees and heaviness of the feet.
Weak in the knees, especially when walking, with yawning.
Spasmodic contraction in the left calf.
Throbbing and pulsating in the tendo Achillis of the left foot, as if something were in it, and then it goes to sleep as if it became numb; this disappears on walking, and returns on sitting still (noticed during a walk in the morning).
The right heel feels frozen; this extends as far as the toes.
At night, in bed, sticking in a corn, which wakes him.
The nails of the toes are colored bluish, as if from tan, especially in the corners where they are covered by the neighboring toe.
The skin between the toes is inky black.
Generalities
So weak that he can scarcely rise for sleepiness, in the forenoon.
General well feeling after a bath.
Transient swarming sensation in the face and on the body.
Skin
Nettle rash for several days, especially in the morning and evening, with sticking pains, which compel him to scratch, after which it burns.
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.