Stool.
Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea, at times. Two diarrhoea-like stools (fifteenth day) Very pasty diarrhoea-like stool (third day).
Two stools (first day). Two soft stools (first day). Copious stool, dark greenish-brown color, very large and thick, so that the anus pains after the passage (first day). Stool copious, at first of the usual consistence, afterwards like diarrhoea (first day). Soft stool (second day).
Constipation.
Constipation (second and sixth day). Stool more sluggish than usual (second day). Hard scanty stool, towards evening (second day). Hard stools, with tenesmus. Stool thick, pasty, thin formed, and passed slowly and with much pressing; the sphincter is very much relaxed, as if paralyzed; the rectum on the contrary is more contracted than usual, which the prover recognizes not only from the thin-formed faeces, but also from a sensation difficult to describe, felt during the passage of the stool (fourth day).
Urinary Organs.
Urethra.
Burning sensation in the urethra, after passage of urine (sixth day). Excessive urging to urinate, with pain in the sides of the abdomen towards the genitals, with frequent evacuation of large quantity of urine, which gradually relieved the pain (second day).
Cinchonine produces opposite effects on the urine, according as it is given in larger or smaller doses. After 20, 30, and even 40 centigrammes, the prover had frequent urging to urinate; 70 centigrammes, on the contrary, caused a sort of retention, so that he had to make prolonged efforts to expel the contents of the bladder; the larger the dose, the less the urging, and the smaller the quantity passed.
Micturition.
Increased secretion of urine (third day). Frequent discharge of copious clear urine (second day). Evacuation of urine three times (first day); four times (second day); seven times (third day); three times (fourth day); three or four times (fifth day), etc.
41 ounces of urine in four times (first day); 39 ounces in four times (second day); 74.1/2 in seven times (third day); 97 ounces in eight times (fourth day); 62 ounces in seven times (fifth day); 31 ounces in three times (sixth day). 53 ounces of urine in five times; in the morning, very light-colored, in the afternoon less so; an acid reaction; nitrate of silver causes a profuse whitish-green sediment “consisting of much free phosphates” (first day). Retention of urine (Berandi, from 1 gramme). Urine first day 35 ounces, in four times, acid; second day, 43 ounces in four times; third day, 35 ounces in five times; fourth day, 56 ounces in five times; fifth day, 59 ounces in six times; sixth day (after 8 grains), 45 ounces in four times; seventh day, 30 ounces in four times (always with some sediment); eighth day, 56 ounces in five times; ninth day, 49 ounces in six times; tenth day, 56 ounces in four times; eleventh day, 45 ounces in four times.
Urine.
Urine pale in the morning, depositing (after twenty-four hours) a slimy brownish-green sediment, of an offensive odor (urine passed on other days was high-colored, had a dark-red deposit; secretion of urine diminished; at most only three times a day), (second and third days). Urine acid, deposits soon a sediment, and is covered with an iridescent film (third day). Turbid urine. Urine deposits a reddish-yellow sediment (fourth day). Urine deposits a white sediment (seventh day). Urine deposits a profuse, white, flocculent sediment.
Sexual Organs.
Male.
Great sexual excitement and erections (eighth day).
Female.
Menstruation a week too soon, much worse than usual.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx and Bronchi.
Scraping in the larynx, lasting half an hour (soon). Much mucus, which collects in the bronchial tubes, must be hawked up with considerable exertion (first day).
Voice.
Hoarseness (sixth day). Hoarseness continues after sixth day of the first proving.
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough loose, racking, shaking the head, with pressive pain in the stomach (fifth day). Loose cough, with slimy expectoration from deep in the chest.
Respiration.
Whistling respiration (sixth day). Respiration slow and impeded.
Loss of breath on walking rapidly.
Chest.
The chest seems to be hollow and distended, so that breathing seems to be especially easy (first day). Sensation as if the chest were quite hollow (sixth day). Painful tension across the chest (eighth day). Constriction of the chest, as though the lips were pressed together in front (fourth day). Oppression of the chest (sixth day). Oppression of the chest, with rapid respiration (sixth day).
Stitches in the chest, mostly extending from the right side to the pit of the stomach, at the insertion of the diaphragm (second day).
Front.
Pressive pain beneath the sternum (tenth day). Waking in the night with pains in the sternum; it seems as though the lower portion of the sternum were pressed inward (third day).
Sides.
Sticking in the side, alternating in one and the other, especially aggravated by motion; these pains last during the second day, omit on the third and fourth days; reappear on the fifth; after the fifth day they extend more towards the back, affecting the whole length of the back, and especially seat themselves between the shoulder-blades. Stitches in the cartilages of the fourth and fifth ribs of the left side, in the morning (seventh day).
Heart and Pulse.
Precordium.
Precordial pain, which seems to compress the whole left side of the chest. The precordial pains and slow respiration were constant symptoms, in a series of provings; and after 70 centigrammes the precordial pain became so severe that the prover had to stop; it extended to the summit of the chest.
Heart’s Action.
Startings of the heart (0.70 grm)..
Pulse.
Frequent pulse (Berandi, from 20 grains). Accelerated pulse.
Heightened pulse (0.70 grm).. The Quinia, while it increased the volume of the pulse, did not appear to influence its rapidity, while the Cinchonia decidedly accelerated it.
5 grains Cinchonia pr. 1/2 hr. till 11 doses. Average 76.10/11 10 grains Cinchonia pr. 1/2 hr. till 12 doses. Average 78.1/6 20 grains Cinchonia pr. 1/2 hr. till 11 doses. Average 94.8/10.14 Pulse before taking 56, after two hours 70, after six hours 84, and in the evening 45; second day, in the morning 54, at noon 82, in the evening 62; third day in the morning 56, in the afternoon 75, in the evening 64; fourth day in the morning 52, noon 78, in the afternoon 54; sixth day (after 8 grains) in the morning 55, after two hours 68, after dinner 88, in the evening 68; seventh day in the morning 56, noon 80, evening 72; eighth day in the morning 54, at noon 78, in the evening 58 (rather irregular); ninth day in the morning 54, noon 76, evening 54; tenth day, morning 53, noon 72, evening 54; eleventh day, morning 54, noon 76, evening 57. Pulse 65, small, weak, slow, regular.
Pulse before taking, 85; 75 (after three-quarters of an hour); 65 in the evening (after eleven hours); 66 at 5 A.M. (second day); 70 at 10 A.M. (second day); 60 at 9 P.M. (second day). Pulse quiet, soft, regular (third day). Pulse generally weak and small (second day), Pulse small in the morning, weak and compressible; in the afternoon fuller and almost bounding; at 7 A.M. 66; at 10 A.M. 86; 3 P.M., 75; 9 P.M., 75.
Neck and Back.
Neck.
Painful stiffness of the neck (first day). Pains and tension in the neck, on moving it (fourth day).
Back. Tearing in the back, extending to the right shoulder (fourth day). Pain as if bruised in the back, especially between the shoulders, in the ribs, arms and legs (first day).
Dorsal.
The first dorsal vertebrae are painful to pressure with the fingers (fourth day). Pain in the back, between the shoulders, during the forenoon (fourth day).
Lumbar.
Pain in the small of the back (sixth day). Bruised sensation in the small of the back (sixth day).
Extremities in General.
Objective.
Trembling of the limbs (seventh day). Trembling of the limbs, and weakness. Trembling of the limbs, with great muscular weakness (seventh day).
Subjective.
Limbs go to sleep in every position (sixth day). Great weariness and bruised sensation in all the limbs (fourth day).
Sensation of internal lightness of the limbs (first day).
Pains and drawings in the limbs. Drawings in the arms and in the bones of the extremities generally for two months).
Superior Extremities.
Objective.
Involuntary twitching motion of the second and third fingers of the left hand (ninth day). The arms become heavy.
Subjective.
Spasmodic pain in the right hand, here and there, felt on moving the fingers or hands (ninth day). Bruised pain in the arms, at the insertion of the deltoid muscle; the coats could scarcely be borne on the shoulders (ninth day). The arms at the region of the insertion of the deltoid muscles pain as if bruised (fourth day).
Inferior Extremities.
Objective.
When standing, the legs give way.
Subjective.
Great lassitude in the thighs, in the evening (first day). Great weakness of the feet (third day).
General Symptoms.
Objective.
Trembling (third day). Weakness (third day). Great weakness; (third day). (seventh day). Great weakness, all day (seventh day). Great weakness obliged him to go to bed early (sixth 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.