Weakness and indolence of the limbs. Weakness and loss of power in thighs (after 3 hours). Weakness and prostration of the whole body. Great weakness, exhausted, by slight exertion (6th day).
Loss of power, while walking (after half an hour). Great exhaustion; she was unable to move (after 10 hours). Was obliged to eat a more hearty breakfast than usual in order to relieve the sensation of exhaustion, and great hunger through the whole provings. On rising from bed, faintness, so that she was obliged to lie down again (after 7 hours). Long-continued faintness (after 7 hours). Attacks of faintness, with sensation of anxiety in the chest, trembling, and short cough, on undressing in the evening; she was obliged to lie down in bed when she soon fell asleep (14th day). Restlessness in bed in the forepart of the night. Very restless in bed the forepart of the night, good sleep the latter part. Constant restlessness in all the limbs, which compelled her to move, she endeavored to stand still, but she was obliged to keep stepping and moving the arms.; The sensation that impels her to this is indescribable; she is obliged to walk back and forth for several minutes, after which she could again stand quietly; she had a similar attack 5 days before (after taking the tincture while sewing, which she had been unable to describe clearly; she was obliged to rise constantly and walk about, after which the uneasiness in the limbs soon disappeared. Uneasiness, and a certain anxiety, as if she had committed a great crime, on account of which she must run away. And could nowhere find rest (after 3 hours). Internal uneasiness. Constant internal uneasiness. Continual inclination to move about from place to place (4th day). In the evening while sitting upon the sofa, although she had pains in the head and chest, she was constantly obliged to rise and walk about; she could not for the world remain sitting; she grasped the forearm with the hand, and clasped her hands together; during this attack she could not think or speak of her condition; after a few minutes, during which she walked about the room, she was obliged to sit down again; during this muscular restlessness she felt no pains in the chest or head; afterwards the pains returned; at first she attempted to remain sitting, but was obliged to rise to her feet (5th day). Sensations. (Insensibility and numbness of the hole body, as from apoplexy, with trembling and unaltered pulse). A kind of general numbness, with drowsiness (after 6 hours). Feels extraordinarily well, with lively mood (5th day).
General sick feeling, (4th day),; (10th day). Discomfort of the whole body (after 1 hour and a half) Great discomfort; he feels unwell, without knowing what is really the matter’ he is obliged to lie down, without being able to sleep, and is discontented with everything. General sensation as of influenza, from which had formerly suffered (4th day).
Wandering pains in all parts of the body. Wandering pains in the upper extremities, in the forehead in the sides of the nose and in the superior maxillary bones (1 hour after 30 drops).
Rheumatic pains, now in the right, now in the left side of the body, Rheumatic symptoms in all parts of the body (to which he had formerly been subject). Drawing throughout the whole body.
Drawings in the whole body, lasting three hours, and gradually disappearing towards noon. Drawings in the head, teeth, toes, and shoulders. Rheumatic drawings in the right upper half of the body, shoulders, upper and forearms, wrists. Drawing pains in the whole body, with fluent coryza. Drawing pain in the left upper jaw, left nostril, left eye, left meatus, left temple, left half of the neck, left scapula, and left ankle (5th day). Drawing rheumatic pains here and there the whole day, bit worse in the right leg, extending from above downward, Some transient needle like stitches alternately in various places, now in one hand or one arm, now in one foot, now the knee, in the abdomen, etc.
Bruised feeling over the whole body, as after a long march. Feels as if bruised, on moving about (after 1 hour and a half). The pains are not severe, last only a short time. change their locality, and return to the 1st place by noon (2nd day). Pains remained the whole day (3rd day). If the pain attacks any new part it leaves the previous one (after 10 minutes). The symptoms disappear very soon. The symptoms disappear during the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th days but return on the (14th day). The symptoms generally returned at noon after eating (except the chill, instead of which there was internal heat, with internal burning between the chest and shoulders) In the afternoon the pain is more continuous and spasmodic.
Skin.
Objective. A red spot on the right cheek (after half an hour); this red spot gradually involved the whole cheek. The last phalanx of the fingers of the right hand become yellow, cold, and as if dead, the nails blue (after 1 hour). A red spot, not raised, hardly visible, with burning-itching between the breasts (3rd day). About midday, a red spot as of herpes, on the sternal region, where the day before there was only a burning pain which now becomes more intense, without altering its character; a little later the same kind of feeling, but still without redness is experienced in various very circumscribed portions of the shoulders, trunk, and arms (these annoying symptoms last all through the proving (3rd day). Red circular spots on left cheek (2nd day). Round red spots the size of a half dollar, and accompanied with burning pain in the palmar surface of the forearms (6th day). Burning, dark-red, circular spot on the left cheek, gradually becoming larger 2 to 6 P.M. (2nd day). A burning, dark-red circular spot on the right cheek gradually becoming larger from 2 to 3 P.M. (after 4 hours). A red areola around a small scab on the nates reappears, and becomes dark red.
A crack behind the right ear (after 1 hour and a quarter). A crack below the left lobule (after half an hour). Eruptions, Dry. Red hot, round., somewhat elevated spot on the left cheek, lasting 2 hours, after the relief of the pains in the cervical vertebrae. At 2 P.M. (2nd day). Many red spots, with somewhat elevated points in the center, which feel rough in the upper part of the right cheek; on the left cheek a circumscribed red spot as large as a ten-cent piece (after 1 hour). Bright red spots as large as peas mostly confluent, with a pimple in the middle of the whole face, excepting the forehead, severely burning when touched, in the morning, disappearing in the evening (2nd day). Small, circumscribed, red spot on the left cheek, which within a quarter of an hour reaches the size of a half dollar, is circular, dark red, and some what elevated (after 4 hours). The scrotum was covered with dry, red, cracked, thin scurf; the next day it was perfectly normal (3rd day). Papular exanthema, with red base, on upper lid and right cheek (70 to 140 drops). Tetter on the back of the left hand which he had 16 years previous, and which manifested itself every year by a slight roughness of the skin, returned in an aggravated form; the back of the hand was much swollen; red radiating spots appeared, with itching, without becoming moist. followed by desquamation. Red, elevated, inflamed pimples, with a spot in the center as if a small boil would form; disappeared after a few hours, in the middle of the forehead (2nd morning). Small pimples on the left margin of the upper lid, where a white vesicle forms, which after opening has a burning pain. Eruption of red pimples here and there on the wings of the nose. Eruption of pimples on face (in one prover). Pimples and pustules on face especially in frontal and temporal regions, on cheek ala nasi, and upper lip, chiefly of left side, they came in groups of 3 or 4; 16 were present at the same time. Whilst the pustules in face dried up fresh ones appeared., which, after leaving off the medicine, disappeared in a few days (70 to 100 grains). Red pimples here and there on the cheeks (3rd day). A pimple on the right cheek near the angle of the mouth, somewhat sensitive only to pressure at 3.30 P.M. Red round spots close together, with painful pimples in the middle, around the right cheek (4th day). A small, indolent pimple on the thick portion of the lower lip (3rd day). Small pimples near the right corner of the mouth with red areola, as in the former proving, Red pimples on the chin (4th day). External pimples on the rectum four millimeters in diameter (3rd day). Small pimples on the back and loins. Red, indolent pimples here and there on the shoulders and arms (3rd day). Red, indolent pimples here and there on the thighs and nates (7th day). Pimples, like chicken pox, with red areola, on the right nates (3rd day). Some red pimples with white tips on both thighs with biting, corrosive itching. Eruptions, Moist. Small. yellow, burning blisters on the right wing of the nose and on the left side of the lower lip, the next day there is a fine yellow scurf in place of the blisters (13th day). Vesicles on the lips and wings of the nose, followed by scabs (2nd day). In the mucous membrane of the lower lip a vesicle filled with limpid serum appeared, which, after bursting, grew flat and disappeared (20 to 50 drops). Small blisters, with red areola, near the corner of the mouth (3rd day). The blisters on the scrotum become flattened toward evening, and deprived of their epidermis; the skin is raw, red, and somewhat swollen, and secretes moisture in the evening (2nd day). Eruptions, Pustular. Several small stinging pustules in various places. Large pustules on the forehead. An eruption of pimples on the cartilage of the left upper lid, with pus with pressive pain in them when touched, or when closing the eyes. Pustules on the right cheek similar to chicken-pox (8th day). Pustules upon the breast (13th day). Small pustules with red areola, on the left side of the neck, on the left scapula, and on the left hand (5th day). Small furunculus about middle of right under jaw (70 to 100 grains). Subjective. Skin dry, and as if contused, on the entire chest and on the neck (3rd day).
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.