Dr. M. excreted, during four days prior to his taking quina, 0.662, 0.774, 0.585, and again 0.585 grammes of uric acid. Then he took 10 grains of quina, and on that day excreted 0.358, and on the next 0.387 grammes of uric acid. On the third day after he had taken quina the uric acid rose again to 0.670 grammes, and remained there stationary, amounting to 0.671 and 0.668 grammes on the two following days. After taking 6 grammes of Chinin, over 4 grammes were found in the urine within forty- eight hours. (Binz).
Sexual Organs.– Male.
Decided depression of the sexual sphere during the proving.
Disappearance of the sexual function through the proving. Sexual function completely lost during the proving. Relaxation and aching of right testis, in the evening (thirtieth day).
Slight aching in right spermatic cord, with relaxed scrotum (this side has usually tenderness of the globus major), in the afternoon (twenty-fifty day). Have had, since taking Chininum sulph., several times renewal of an old symptom, i. e. relaxed spermatic cord, right side, with dragging aching, requiring support; to-day (after sitting with some compression of it by the pants, and with suppressed sexual feeling), 10.30 A.M., aching constriction, worse when taking certain positions; better by the little jar of going downstairs; extends to epididymis, but worse at external inguinal ring; better by careful friction; testes full and firm (seventh day). An emission during the night, without waking (seventh day). Normal seminal discharge, without sensation, in the morning (twenty-fifth day).
Female.
The leucorrhoea reappeared after 2 grains; (*She frequently suffered from leucorrhoea. *) on the first day it was mixed with blood; examination showed heat and turgescence of the inner labia (fifth and sixth days) Uterine epistaxis, coming on generally a few hours after the first dose, and lasting continuously, though moderately, for about sixteen hours (1 grammes daily). Moderate uterine epistaxis, lasting two days (8 decigrams daily for two days). After the last dose, menstruation reappeared in a moderate degree, and afterwards returned regularly at the usual time.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi. A contractive feeling, hardly a pain, in a weak spot the left side of hyolaryngeal space, in the early morning (twenty- sixth day). On rising this morning, scraping soreness of larynx and trachea when swallowing, with raising and coughing of considerable mucus, accumulated during the night, relieving the laryngeal scraping by degrees, but causing rawness in bronchus and lung of left side; later in the day, the cough affected rather the fauces, with rending sensation (eleventh day).
Tickling in larynx, cough, and raising of mucus (as usual), in the evening (twenty-fifth day). Decided laryngeal tickling, after midnight (seventeenth day). Considerable tickling at bifurcation of trachea (behind upper end of sternum), cough, and raising and swallowing of phlegm, in the evening (nineteenth day).
Tickling in left bronchus and trachea (site of my usual irritation); cough scarcely detaches anything, but is painful to the palate and fauces; phlegm seems as usual to come from the lower lobe, in front of the heart, detached and swallowed after awhile, in morning (twelfth day). Voice. Hoarseness at 4 P.M., with a deep tone to the voice (twentieth day). The daily hoarseness reappeared about 4 P.M., and reached such a degree that the voice was like a bass voice, and the throat seemed constricted (twenty-fourth and subsequent days). The attack of hoarseness, without anginose symptoms, recurred every afternoon for a long time. All day, rough hoarse tone of voice, diminishing with the expectoration; this always swallowed (eleventh day). Voice lost (after eight hours).
Cough and Expectoration. The cough became worse towards morning, and was accompanied by the previous anginose condition (twenty-seventh night). While dressing, cough, with stitch in upper left lung, and simultaneous slight rheumatic pain in left trapezius, near posterior edge of scapula, in the evening (ninth day). Sitting in street-car, cough, with cramp to left and above umbilicus; standing in street (wearing no overcoat, being averse to it), coughing, with crampy lumbago, left side, better by external support and adjusting position (cough aggravated when without overcoat to-day in open air, constantly, also after every powder), (after one hour and a half, tenth day). Cough and tickling in windpipe at 12.30 A.M., less at 1 A.M. (eleventh day). Frequent cough towards morning; the cough is caused by a small painful spot in throat (seventeenth night). Loose cough (twentieth day). Cough continued during the whole of six days, loose, but very severe, and whilst yesterday the mucus seemed to come from the throat, today it seemed as though he was obliged to cough deeply in order to raise the mucus from the lowest portion of the bronchi; expectoration was of a gelatinous nature (twenty-third day). Cough and raising of phlegm, in the forenoon (twenty-eighth day). Cough, raising and swallowing mucus, after midnight (seventeenth day). Standing in open air, cough, with raising, and threatened irritability in left bronchi, in the evening (twenty- fifth day). Cough, which must be continued until expectoration is raised from very low down (twenty-fourth day). Frequent cough and need to raise in the night, so that he was obliged to sit up in bed to get his breath (twenty-sixth and other nights).
Frequent cough, with raising of mucus; once this struck the roof of my mouth (several times, also before in the morning), (twenty-fourth day). Short cough, with expectoration, swallowed, in the afternoon (fourteenth day). Walking in the open air, noticed that the raising of mucus by cough was renewed, and that I kept my teeth involuntarily pressed together, as has been the case frequently during the proving, but having had the same formerly at times, overlooked it, in the afternoon (fifteenth day). I noticed this morning that the phlegm came up the right side of the glottis, afterwards, the posterior (twenty fourth day). The expectorated mucus, when examined, consisted of a basis of an opaque, white, globose little mass, say one-eighth of an inch in size; another, smaller, as of slower formation, with exfoliated epithelium; these, surrounded by about three times their quantity of fresh transparent secretion, stretching out between the fingers to more than an inch, in the forenoon (twenty-fourth day). Respiration. Expired air cool. Breath offensive (after eight hours). Repeated loud expirations from time to time, like interrupted sighing (thirty-ninth day). Superficial and irregular respiration. Repeatedly, whilst eating, took a long inspiration wearily, followed by loud sighing, heaving, groaning expiration, in the evening (seventeenth day). Respiration increased, 4 (after one hour). Respiration rose from 18 to 20 (after four hours); was 20 next morning; 24 next evening; 18 third morning (first proving); rose from 18 to 20 (second day), (second proving). Respiration rose from 16 to 20 (after one hour); 20 (after four hours); 20, next morning; 22 (second evening); 18 (third morning). Respiration increased from 16 to 24 (after four hours); 22 the next morning; 20 next morning; 20, next evening; 20, third morning; 16 (normal), third evening. Respiration rose from 22 to 26 (after one hour and forty- five minutes); was 24 (after two hours and forty-five minutes); 24 (next morning), (first proving); respiration 24 before taking; 22 (after one hour); 22 (after four hours); 26 second morning); 25 (second evening); 20 (third morning), (second proving); respiration 20 before taking; 22 (after one hour); 24 (second morning); 22 (third morning), (third proving). Respiration slow and easy (after eight hours). Slow and irregular breathing (68 grains). Respiration slow, interrupted by sighs. Dyspnoea.
Respiration oppressed, as from a pain about the chest (tenth day). This warm weather, averse to close air in street-cars; it is oppressive (sixteenth day). In a close steam-car, felt oppressed; had to open the window (twenty-second day). Rising suddenly from my seat, on attempting to swallow at the same moment, arrest of breath by a contraction of the throat, in the evening (twenty-eighth day).
Chest.
Haemorrhage from lungs (probably) and eruption on skin. Chest seemed completely dry; all provocation to cough had disappeared; he could breathe freely from the bottom of the lung; towards evening, however, the cough returned (twenty-seventh day). Some pain transversely through the chest, as it seemed, in consequence of the racking night-cough (twenty-sixth day).
Pressive pain in the chest, on rising (twenty-first day). Oppression of the chest (twentieth day); (third day).
Front. Pain in the sternum, almost sticking, especially noticed on deep breathing or a sudden movement (twenty-first day). In a few minutes a feeling behind mid-sternum (oesophagus?) as if food had failed to go down (first day). Feeling as if something indigestible had been eaten, behind lower sternum; better, temporarily, from slight eructations, in the evening (nineteenth day)). Slight sensation in breast, left of sternum, as if spasmodic state of oesophagus from indigestion, in the morning (fifteenth day). Craved and chewed some fresh orange-peel, then ate some white sugar, and drank some cold water after it; immediately, as repeatedly heretofore has happened, dull but smart pressure in sub ensiform space, preceded by salivary tension and flow; afterwards, repeated shuddering of the head; no chilliness; this attack differs from others in being more instantaneous; relief after a few minutes by eructations, in the evening (seventeenth day). Sides. Pain in the right side of the chest, on rising in the morning, lasting till noon, when it disappeared (thirty-second day). Pains in the left clavicle (thirtieth day). In street-car, crampy feeling in right side of chest, four inches outside of and below nipple (twenty-first day). Crampy feeling at ends of right false ribs, when bending forward to urinate, in the morning (twenty-third day). Slight crampy feeling at angles of last true ribs, right side, in the afternoon (nineteenth day). Pressive pain in the left half of the chest, which was very sensitive to deep inspiration, most sensitive when the left arm was thrown forcibly backward; It seemed to extend through the middle of the chest to the back, and was relieved by leaning upon the left forearm, with the body bent forward (position as when writing), at 7 P.M. (seventeenth day). Sticking in right thorax; (* By “sticking,” I mean a short stitch of indistinguishable course. *) also round lower angle of right scapula (twenty-ninth 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.