Respiratory Apparatus
Larynx and Trachea. Inclination to cough. Accumulation of easily detached portions of mucus in the trachea (seventh to twelfth day). Violent heat in the trachea (seventh to tenth day). Voice. Hoarseness. Voice hoarse and hollow. Hoarseness and roughness (seventh to tenth day). Hoarseness, vomiturition, and colic ceased after the occurrence of diarrhoea (after thirty hours). Aphonia (eighth to ninth day). Cough. Tickling cough, with tough greenish-gray expectoration, waking him at 3 A.M. (twelfth to eighteenth day).
Chest
Constriction of the chest. Constriction of chest (after four hours). Constriction and pressure on chest. Peculiar shooting and beating pain over the trunk. Sides. Piercing pain in middle part of right side of chest. Dartings in middle third of right side of thorax. Pricking pain in lower third of right side of chest, with feeling of weight there (after five hours).
Heart and Pulse
Tension in the precordia, which did not prevent him, however, from moving about. Pulse accelerated during the whole day, especially after the siesta. The pulse, though increased in frequency to 55, was quite uniform (second day). Pulse full, rather than accelerated. Pulse 54 (after a few minutes). Pulse became small, and sank to 50 (second day).
Superior Extremities
Pricking pain in left hand.
Inferior Limbs
Stretching of lower limbs. Heaviness of the lower limbs. Feet and Toes. Feeling of lassitude in soles of feet. Constant pressure in the lower third of the under part of right foot. Acute pricking under nail of great toe.
Generalities
Slight uneasiness (after a few minutes). Weakness. After dinner, weakness so as to make him lie down.
Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Yawning. Yawning; stretching of limbs, with cramp like feeling of the lower extremities. Sleepiness in morning. Somnolence. Yielded to his desire to sleep (after eight hours). Sleeplessness. Sleepless during the whole night. Sleep very restless, with lascivious dreams.
Fever
Heat. Heightened temperature of the body. Warmth all over the body. Sweat. Moist skin; sweating even when at rest (second and third days). He perspired more easily than usual with him. In the evening, he sweated all over on moving in the least, and in the cold.
Conditions Aggravations
(In daytime), Catarrh. (Morning), Difficulty in making water, etc. (Afternoon), 4 to 6 o’clock, symptoms in general. (Toward evening), Passage of wind. (Evening), Pains in upper teeth; on lying down to sleep, tickling in anus; sweat. (Ascending stairs), Giddiness. (After breakfast), Abdominal pains. (Clearing throat), Turgescence of upper abdomen. (After dinner), Mucus on teeth; abdominal pains; drawing in testicles, etc.; weakness. (After siesta), Pulse accelerated. (On waking), From afternoon sleep, mist before eyes.
Amelioration
(Evening), Appetite good. (After diarrhoea), Hoarseness, etc., ceased.
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.