Generalities
Objective. On walking, he was obliged to bend considerably forward (second day). When the pain disappears, the part trembles and the face becomes cold. When walking, especially after rising from sitting, and when beginning to walk, unsteadiness of all parts of the body, as if all the muscles has lost their power; on continuing to walk it became better (after forty-eight hours). Restlessness. Nervous excitement in the middle of the day. At night she tosses the hands and feet about until 10 o’clock, as in anxiety; she lies, as in consequence, with cold sweat on the forehead, an sighs; followed by weakness. Fatigue. Feels lazy an indisposed to work (sixth and seventh days). Indolence and general discomfort (after one hour). Very tired and prostrated. He became fatigued very soon on walking in the open air; especially troublesome was ascending steps; he was obliged to rest frequently (second day). On walking in the open air she was not tired, but when she walked in the room she became so tired that she was obliged to sit or lie down. Weariness. Great weariness in the morning. Great weariness in the afternoon. Great weariness and sweat over the whole body after a slight exertion (after three hours). Weariness in the afternoon, followed by two liquid stools without tenesmus. Weariness when sitting, less when walking. Great weariness, when waking from sleep. Weariness, prostration, in the whole body. Uncommonly wearied and prostrated (after four hours). After a heated walk and rapid cooling, the same weariness, chilliness, bruised sensation, and wandering pains in the whole body that are felt after taking cold. General weakness. Weak, indolent, weary, and sleepy. She is weak; the arms and feet ache; if she does any work the arms sink down; if she goes upstairs she can scarcely get along. Great weakness and exhaustion. Weakness very great. The feeling of weakness become very great, especially great fatigue after a long walk. She feels weakest when walking in the open air. Great weakness when walking (eleventh day). Unusual weakness and prostration towards evening. Unusually weak and heavy in the morning, after rising (second day). The symptoms disappeared after a short rest while quiet in bed, except the weakness an the very depressed mood, which continued the whole day. Loss of strength on the slightest exertion. On rising, great exhausting and weakness, which increased during the forenoon while walking, so that he had to drag himself about; on going upstairs there was excessive weakness in the knees and legs (second day). General prostration (forenoon of second day). General prostration (after half an hour). The general prostration was relieved after a short rest. Great prostration an uneasiness. Great prostration and weariness, with slight feeling of anxiety. On rising from bed, he was attacked by faintness, with cold sweat and rumbling in the abdomen. Sensibility, Acute. Painful sensitiveness here and there in body, in the left knee, in the left hip, in the loins, though only noticed when walking. Sensation of the skin. Sensations. Always after taking the medicine, I would feel light, vigorous, and active, or I might say taking the medicine, I would feel light, vigorous, and active or I might say supple. General discomfort, weariness, so that even the clothes feel oppressive (soon after taking). General sick feeling. Soon after waking from the midday sleep, he felt sicker, all the symptoms were increased, and he was out of humor. Every spot in the body is painful when taken hold of, as if bruised, or as if suppurating, especially in the pit of the stomach, and especially in the morning. Pain all over the body, as if the flesh were too loose (for sixteen days). The pain affected every portion of the body, even to the feet, especially on the right side. Transient pain in several parts of the body, in the metacarpus, metatarsus, the ribs, and clavicles. Pain in the joints, especially worse after walking. Painless drawing back an forth in the affected parts. Slight drawing pains here and there in the body. Drawing pains at 10 P.M., while at rest in bed, wandering through all the limbs and joints of the body, most violent and continued in the middle of the left side, where it caused stitches, impeding respiration. Drawing rheumatic pains in various parts of the body, especially in the insertion of the left ligamentum patellae, on the anterior portion of the right leg, and in the nape of the neck, at different times during the day (fourth day). Transient drawing and tension in almost all the limbs and joints; the pains were most sensitive in the left wrist; they were only transient, and soon moderated in the knees, ankles, and neck, but remained longest in the left shoulder-joint; they appeared equally during rest and motion; during the latter a sensation of chilliness was felt. Same pains as before described, not only in the joints, but also in the forearms, upper arms, thighs, and legs, along the course of the long bones, in the phalanges of the fingers and toes, an in the neck; the drawing-scraping pain in the long bones was combined with transient fine stitches. Pressive-drawing pain in the periosteum of all the bones, causing apprehension, as in the onset of ague, in the afternoon (after twenty-four hours). A pressing in the whole body, especially on the chest. Stitches over the whole body, as with needles. Stitches in the affected parts. Stitches, which cause her to start, in the affected parts. Some stitches here and there, especially in the right eye and left arm. Two stitches in various parts of the body, at different times (third and following days). Stitches in the joints, on motion and on touch. In the affected parts, stitches if one press upon them. In the evening, dull stitches from before backward, and also a similar sensation in the abdomen, a hand’s breadth above the navel. Jerking stitches here and there, on the vertex, on the wrists and elbows, especially frequent and violent in several places on the forehead, with sensitiveness of the teeth. Frequent tearings in various part of th body, especially in the toes an in the right shoulder, with a feeling as if motion was difficult. In the morning, unable to lie in bed; every part on which she lay was sore. In the morning, feels bruised and lame, particularly in right hip (fourth day). (Painful throbbing in the vessels of the whole body). Pains arise urging rest, disappear after motion; others, however, during motion, and disappearing during rest.
Skin
Yellow skin of the whole body, even of the face (after twelve days). Small red spots in the skin of the arms and feet, which pain like burning nettles; on pressure they momentarily disappear. A red, round, hot spot on the cheek on the malar bone. Round red spots, as large as peas and larger, in the skin of the arm, without sensation; they do not disappear by pressing upon them. Cracking of the skin and formation of thin crusts. Eruption, Dry. Eruption over the whole body, especially on the back as far as the neck, which itched so violently that he was obliged to scratch it. Eruption on the lower lip outside the border, with itching- biting pain as from salt. Eruption below the left corner of the mouth, with smarting pain. A biting- itching eruption around the throat, especially after sweating. Eruption on the abdomen, and on the back as far as the neck, and on the forearms, in the forepart of the night and in the morning, causing a burning and biting pain. Dry eruption on and in the hollow of the knee, which itches at evening; seems red; scratching causes a biting pain. A Red, elevated, rash like eruption over the whole body, in a mother and her infant; it appeared after two days, in the mother after three days. Rash on the arms, on the front of the chest, and above the knees; it becomes red in the evening, itches, and burns before she lies in bed, but when in bed, after she becomes warm, the rash and itching disappear. Red nettle rash on the throat. The glans is covered with a red pimply rash, which itches. Red rash on the upper portion of the forearm. Eruption of small red pimples. A pimple as large as a pea in the left lower lid, painful to touch for sixteen days (after twenty-four hours). (A pimple on the chin, with sticking pain on touch). A small pimple in the right corner of the mouth, or rather on the lower lip, which bleeds profusely from time to time, for six days. Pimples appear on the abdomen and on the hips, which burn and itch, and when she scratches smarting results. Several inflamed pimples on the back an face, especially on the forehead; they do not pain, but itch on strong pressure, and leave a sore sensation for some time. Pimples between the right thumb and index finger; every touch causes a fine stinging pain. Pimples, which are somewhat painful, on the thigh (fourth day). The aphthae on the inner surface of the lip bled somewhat. A small tetter on the right cheek (after fourth day). Moist. Vesicular eruption, with burning in the middle of the upper lip; it was nearly round and of the size of a penny, and looked like a hydroa. An eruption began upon the sacral region, extended over the back, chest, and forearm, consisting of more or less diffused groups of rash like pimples, as large as the head of a pin, pointed with white semi- transparent vesicles; these gradually dried, the spots desquamated, an left a red color for a long time; there was no pain, only sometimes, on especially active motion, a slight itching, easily relieved (the last weeks of the proving). (Moist, exuding eruption on the legs). Pustular. (Itch like eruption only on the joints, on the inner surface of the wrists, in the bends of the elbows, and externally on the condyles of the knee). A soft boil in the inner canthus of the left eye; matter flows from it form time, for ten days (after six days). Hard boil behind the ear, which frequently changes its size (after twenty-four hours). Small suppurating spot on the lower lip, with burning pain on touch. A pustule under the knee, which pains and sticks when touched. (White pustules on the sole of the foot, with a pain like a bad ulcer; the foot was red, and he could not walk on account of pain). Ulcers. (The discharge from an ulcer colors the linen blackish). Chilliness in an ulcer, with pain as if it had been affected by too great cold. Tearing pain in an ulcer. (Ulcerated cartilage of ears). Sensations. During a slight mental excitement (in laughing), a sudden sticking (itching) burning over the whole body, as if he had been stung with nettles, or had a nettle rash, though nothing could be seen upon the skin; this burning appeared even when merely thinking of it, or if he became heated. A sore painful spots begin to burn violent. A burning pain in the skin on the right side of the first dorsal vertebra, an a place as large as quarter of a dollar, as if this part had been touched by nettles, for half an hour (eleventh day). Burning pain in the skin on the outer margin of the left knee-cap, lasting several seconds, and frequently returning. A tension of the skin of the face on moving the facial muscles. Paroxysmal drawing in the skin under the lower jaw on the right side, and the inner side of the left leg, and groin, and knee. In the morning, after rising, a biting pain in the region of the scab of an ulcer, which increases on standing, is relieved on sitting, and disappears on moderate motion. Itching-biting in the left inner canthus, as from sand, at 3 P.M. (first day). A throbbing in the vicinity of the crust of an ulcer, which resembles a sticking (after dinner). (Crawling in the hands, as if asleep). A crawling-creeping, as from a mouse, from the axillae to the hip. Itching on the scalp and about the anus. Itching on the border of the left upper lid, mingled with burning and tearing. Itching at the union of the first and second phalanges of the fingers of the left hand without any apparent cause (fourth day). Itching in the hips and thighs (after forty-eight hours). An itching, as if something was healing, in the hollow of the knee, with sweat in this place, at night. Burning-itching and continued stitches in various parts, in the evening after lying down in bed (after two hours). Sticking-itching here and there over the body. A sticking-itching below the right upper lid, as from a stiff hair, relieved by rubbing. Immediately before going to sleep, during the day or in the evening, tearing-itching in various places on the soft parts of the body, or digging burning-itching stitches. Tickling-itching (during the day) on the arms, hands, and feet, with rash like pimples.
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.