Weakness in the morning, so that he cannot rise from bed. When the pain begins, it is accompanied by weakness, even to sinking down; he is obliged to lie down. Great weakness while at rest, as also in motion. Great weakness and weariness (45 minutes after 5 drops). Great weakness and weariness, especially in the limbs, and for the most part in the lower limbs. Great weakness and weariness, especially in the legs, with inclination to stretch them (forty five minutes after 5 drops) (* These symptoms of fatigue affected in part even the exertion needed for making these observations. *).
The greatest weakness and weariness, which border on faintness (after 4 hours). Paralytic- like weakness of the parts affected by the pains. After rising in the morning, weaker and more fatigued than on lying down (2nd morning). During motion he has considerable strength. Exhaustion of the whole body (30 minutes after 20 drops). Exhaustion of the whole body, especially of the limbs, and particularly of the knee-joints (15 minutes after 10 drops). Attacks of exhaustion of the whole body (soon). Short attacks of exhaustion, especially of the lower extremities. Great exhaustion, especially of the limbs.
Great exhaustion, complete inability for earnest thought, and a sensation as in the beginning of a severe illness. Sudden exhaustion, especially in the knees, while sitting and also while walking; slight giving way of the knees (30 minutes after 5 drops). A kind of faintness; he becomes sick and qualmish about the heart, the feet suddenly feel paralyzed, with heaviness of all the limbs, as if they were worn out. Attacks of faintness, which return sooner or later (after half an hour and three, four, and five hours). Attacks of fainting. Great uneasiness, with in ability to sit still (15 minutes after 5 drops). Weariness, with great fatigue, immediately after a little exertion (2nd day after 5 drops). Weariness and weakness. Weariness, with weakness in the knees. Great weariness of the body (4th day after 60 drops). Great general weariness, especially severe in the limbs, with frequent giving way of the knees, when walking at 7 A.M. (3rd day after 5 drops). Body and mind were weary and indolent (2nd morning). Sensation of paralytic weariness in the painful parts (after 60 drops). Very weary in the morning (3rd morning).
Sensation of weakness of the whole body, especially of the knees, and almost complete exhaustion (3rd day). Sensation of general weakness (20 minutes after 5 drops). Sensation of great weakness over the whole body. Excessive uneasiness, anxiety, agonizing tossing about, with tearing pains in the abdomen (after one hour); followed by dulness of the senses, and then intolerable headache. Tosses anxiously about the bed at night, full of fancies. He tosses about the bed, with febrile heat and redness of the cheeks, and talks confusedly, with open eyes. He cannot remain in bed.
Sensitiveness to change of weather was increased. Subjective. Unusual feeling of lightness the whole day (curative), (1st day). Sensation of paralysis in the parts where the pain had ceased. Sensation in indolence and lassitude (soon). Tired and weak in the morning (2nd day). Weariness. Weariness, especially of the feet (after 10 hours). Frequently returning sensation of weakness (which had been noticed since the first dose of Chamomilla, and even on the days of abstaining from it, but never formerly). He only feels well after breakfast, but after a few minutes faint-like sinking of strength (after 8 hours). Sensation of exhaustion especially in the legs (15 minutes after 40 drops).
Exhausted and wearied sensation and inclination to sleep (20 minutes after 40 drops). Sensation of great exhaustion and complete loss of mental power, though the head was free (second morning). Sensation of being generally unwell (4th day).
Sensation of oppression, with anxiety (30 minutes after 20 drops). General oppression and attacks of anxiety (20 minutes after 5 drops). Increased sensation of oppression (45 minutes after 10 drops). Sensation of great oppression, with great irritability, in the morning (after 5 drops). Feeling of great oppression on moving (20 minutes after 5 drops). Drawing pains appear in all the bones, even in the occiput. Sticking pain in various joints, especially in the shoulders and ankles (soon after 60 drops). Stitches jumping about from place to place, especially in the knees and ankles, disappearing on motion (2nd day). Dull stitches in various parts of the body, especially in the joints, lasting the whole day; they were very severe in different parts of the body, of longer or shorter duration, accompanied in the arms and lower legs by a kind of paralytic pain; these stitches follow the course of the nerves in the muscles of the arms and legs, and are accompanied by a sensation as from over-exertion. Paroxysmal dull stitches in various parts of the body, sometimes simultaneously in several places, sometimes jumping from one part to another, especially deep in the joints; these stitches are for the most part accompanied by a kind of paralytic sensation in the affected joints. (* Symptoms which this prover had never before experienced. *). Wandering stitches in the joints, extending thence down into the long bones, with a sensation as if pain in the bones would also appear (30 minutes after 20 drops).
Flying stitches in cardiac region, and extending, at one time of a shooting, at another of a drawing character, now right, now left, down the legs to the dorsum of the foot and ankle, then back to the right shoulder or hip, or left side of head (22 and 24 grains). Paralytic-like stitches extending into the bones, less on rising than while sitting (2nd day after 20 drops). Evening attacks of tearing pains. Bruised pains throughout the whole day (weather stormy), relieved after 4 P.M., when the wind subsided and the sky cleared, but the wandering tearing in the limbs continued (3rd day after 60 drops). Pains composed of itching and sticking, now in one, now in another part, on a small spot; after scratching, it hurts more (after 4 hours). All the pains, even if slight, became intolerable and unendurable, and he was very fretful. The most violent symptoms appear within twenty to thirty minutes after taking the drug, and each one in a diminished degree. The symptoms continued for some days after leaving off the medicine. The prover noted in his daybook that the headache was much more characteristically developed from the triturations, while from the tincture more stitches appeared in the joints, with pains in the bones, though the latter were mostly only in the region of the joints (35 minutes after 20 drops). The symptoms disappear almost wholly during the midday heat, only the nose remains stopped, with a sensation of fullness and dryness in it, while the pressing and sticking headache, especially noticed during the forenoon in the temples and vertex, with some stitches in the left temple, is relieved, and only the stitches below the head of the fibula remain (9th day after 60 drops).
Skin.
Objective.
The skin is unhealthy; every injury causes a sore and suppuration. The skin of the forehead is wrinkled above the nose. The lower lip is cracked in the middle (3 and 10 hours). Eruptions, Dry. Small red spots in the skin, which are covered with nettle- like rash. An eruption, only slightly elevated, on the nape of the neck, which causes a biting sensation, compelling her to scratch. Rash like eruption on the cheeks and forehead, without heat. Red rash upon the cheeks. Red rash, consisting of thick pimples, which are crowded into a red spot in the skin, on the lumbar vertebrae and on the side of the abdomen; they itch, especially at night, with some biting; shuddering is felt all about the spot from time to time. Many small red pimples on the back. Eruptions, Pustular. Pustule-like pimples here and there in the face, which are not sore, and only itch when touched. An inflamed pustule on the margin of the ala nasi (after 5 drops). Pimples appear, with itching around an ulcer, which is covered with a crust and which suppurates (the margin around the base of the ulcer is very red). Scabby ulceration on the borders of the lips (from one to four hours). (Redness around an ulcer on the foot, with swelling and bruised pain). A previously existing ulcer became painful (after three-quarters of an hour). Burning and biting pain in an ulcer at night, with crawling in it and painful hyperaesthesia to the touch. Jerking and sticking pain in an ulcer. Subjective. Frequent stitches and violent prickling in various parts of the skin, also sticking, as from a bundle of fine needle-points; this sticking and prickling have a varying duration, and are relieved by scratching. Much biting on various portions of the body. While sweating, severe itching of the sweating parts. A corrosive itching in the skin of the forehead.
Itching of the prepuce and glans (45 minutes after 10 drops).
Itching of the scrotum (after six hours). Itching of the nates. Itching on the sole.
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.