General Symptoms.
Objective. Nervous shuddering through upper and back part of body. Very trembling. Tremors all over (after third dose). After going to bed, jerking commenced on the side on which he was lying, obliging him to change his position; it began by a perceptible twitching in the left foot. Easily fatigued, as after great exertion. Weak, trembling, exhausted, sinking feeling, with slight nausea. Nervous weakness, afternoon. Prostration (during the first twelve hours). Restlessness. Restlessness.
Restlessness, afternoon, moving about not knowing what to do. Continual restlessness during the forenoon; desire to move about, not knowing where to go, or what to do. Restless the latter part of the night. During night, very restless. Nervous uneasiness, during the afternoon (second day). The general uneasiness and disturbance in the whole system was such that it was difficult to fix the attention on any subject of business or study. Uneasy feeling, hardly amounting to pain, in all parts, principally the right side. All day nervous, full of work, and doing it fast. Sensibility. Sensitiveness to cold air. Great sensitiveness to cold air, which seemed to penetrate the system (second day). Subjective. Desire to lie down and close the yes. General feeling of weariness, weakness, and prostration, as if from over-exercise. Feels tired. Feels very tired. Feels very tired and worn out (fourth day). Feeling of exhaustion, as from over-exercise. Sensation as if from severe muscular exercise, especially in the small of the back.
Feeling, which only those know who “spree” “court” or watch all night with the sick. Feels bad generally (third day). General feeling of illness. In morning, general feeling of lameness, and many unenviable feelings, which he thinks the feeling on getting over a “spree” would hardly express, unless it was a pretty hard case. Sick all over; so weak and trembling as not to be able to go out or study; believes the condition to be but one remove from mania-a-potu; next morning weak and trembling (after fourth dose. Soreness and stiffness of whole body, as after hard labor. General bruised feeling, as if sore. Peculiar tingling in the muscles, followed by an aching pain in the limbs, from above downward. Affects the left side most.
Skin.
Eruptions, Dry. Small red papillae first appeared, becoming a diffused redness. Eruptions, Pustular. Single pimples on the back of the hand, with a little pus at the apex. In morning, soon after rising, observed a single pimple on dorsal surface of left hand; it was larger, but similar in appearance to those produced two months since; a little pus secreted at its apex; after three or four days it disappeared (second day). Ulcers. Ulcer on inner surface of lower lip. Small ulcer on inner surface of lower lip. Subjective. Itching of the back of the hand and wrist. Itching and redness of the back of the hand. Itching and redness of the dorsal surface of the right hand, in the afternoon, and especially in the evening.
Itching of the dorsal surface of the left hand and wrist, particularly on the dorsal surface of the thumb, in the evening; small red papulae first appeared, becoming, after slight irritation, a diffused redness, which disappeared in a few hours, but could be reproduced at any time by slightly irritating the surface; this symptom gradually disappeared in a few days.
Sleep and Dreams.
Sleepiness. Very sleepy (second day). In afternoon, felt as if he could not keep awake, but must lie down and go to sleep. Drowsiness, with creeping chills upon the back, during the evening, followed by frequent wakings during the night, and desire to throw off the bedclothes, although the thermometer was below zero. So drowsy that he laid down and soon fell asleep, and remained in this state an hour (after two hours). Sleeplessness. During the night, slept well for three or four hours, then restless. Sleep very restless. Disturbed, restless, unrefreshing sleep from 3 to 5 A.M. with disposition to fold the arms over the head (second day). Frequent wakings during the night, and a copious, papescent stool in the morning. Frequent wakings during the night, during some of which there were flushes of heat, and desire to throw off the bedclothes, when the thermometer was below zero. Cannot sleep at night (fourth day). Dreams. Troublesome dreams. Unpleasant dreams of being in trouble, of being in a sad plight.
Fever.
Surface of the body, together with that of the face and hands, became cool and dry (after six hours). Chilliness in the forenoon. Afternoon chilliness (second day). Cold chilliness, with cold hands and feet. Chilly, in bed before rising (third day). General, internal nervous, chilly feeling all over, but less over the back. Cold chills, with prickling sensations in the breasts. Cold chills and prickings in the female mammae. Occasional cold chill. Coldness and chills, especially of the arms and feet. Soon after waking, in morning, whose surface became cold. Soon after waking, at 3 A.M., the whole surface became cold; slight cold perspiration, and sensation as if it would become profuse, continuing for an hour, accompanied by lancinating pain along the cartilages of the false ribs left side, increased by taking a long inspiration (second day). During afternoon, chilliness in back. Heat. Heat in front part of head. Heat in left side of face, with lassitude all over. Increased heat of face; slight inclination to sweat; pulse rather full, and 90 in the minute, it being nearly 80 before taking the drug (after three-quarters of an hour).
Flashes of heat in cheeks. Heat, pain, and weariness in the region of the kidneys (second day). Sweat. Disposition to perspire at night, for three weeks. Perspiration, headache, similar to morning sickness during pregnancy, etc. Slight cold perspiration, with lancing pain along cartilages of false ribs, increased by inspiration. Skin dry and hot. Cold sweat on hands and feet (third day).
Conditions.– Aggravation.
(Morning) On waking, pain in head; on getting up, dull headache; before breakfast, pain in forehead; on waking at 2 o’clock, pain in forehead, etc.; after rising, pains in vertex, etc.; on rising, pain in eyeballs, etc.; after rising, coryza; dry mouth; before eating, faintness at epigastrium; before breakfast, pain in epigastrium, etc.; after breakfast, sense of tremor in stomach; after rising, disposition to diarrhoea; papescent stools; stitches in urethra; on waking, quickened respiration; on bending neck forwards, pain at points of spinous process of vertebrae; early, pain in small of back; feeling in joints; from 3 to 5 o’clock, disturbed sleep, etc.; in bed, before rising, chilly; soon after waking, surface cold.
(Forenoon). At 9 o’clock, headache; at 10 o’clock, aching of eyes; eyeballs painful; coryza; at 10 o’clock, feeling in malar bones, etc.;sense of aching along oesophagus; faintness in epigastrium; at 10 o’clock, rumbling in abdomen; restlessness; chilliness.
(Afternoon), Depression, etc.; pain in head; dull pain in forehead; pain in eyelid; at 4 o’clock, sneezing; inclination to sneeze; uneasiness in teeth; at 4 o’clock, dryness of pharynx; sensation in stomach; towards evening, soreness, etc.; in region of tendo Achillis; stinging of great toe; nervous weakness; itching on hand; chilliness; chilliness in back.
(During forenoon and part of afternoon). Dull pain in head.
(Evening), Pain head; at 10 o’clock pain in forehead, etc.; fullness in vertex; after retiring for the night, pain in eyeball; obstruction of nostril; stinging in nose; sore throat; towards night, hoarseness; at supper, no appetite; at 10 o’clock, rumbling of flatus; at 10 o’clock, flatulence; disposition to diarrhoea; dry cough; stiffness of neck; from 8 to 9 o’clock, pain in great toe; after going to bed, jerking; feeling of lameness, etc.; itching, etc. on hands; drowsiness.
(Afternoon and evening), Pain in vertex.
(Night), Pain from eyeball through occiput; dryness of pharynx, etc.; restlessness; disposition to perspire.
(Bending forward), Lameness in leg.
(After hearty dinner), Frontal headache.
(Inspiration), Pain along cartilages of ribs; pain in lung; pain in hypochondriac region.
(During menses), Forcing pains.
(Motion), All symptoms; soreness in occipital region; pain in hypochondriac region; lame etc. feeling in back.
(Outdoors), Frontal headache; while walking, aching, etc. in tendo Achillis.
(Speaking), Inclination to cough.
(After supper), Pain in epigastrium.
(Walking), Soreness, etc., in region of tendo Achillis.
Amelioration.
(Open air), Pain in head; pain over eye.
(Eating), For a time, seemed to relieve all symptoms.
(Pressure), Backache.
(Rest), Lame, etc., feeling in back.
(In room), Headache in frontal region.
(After stool), Colic.
(Supper), Nausea, etc.
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.