Heart
Slight throbbings in the region of the heart for five minutes (after ten minutes, seventh day).
Back
Peculiar seething sensation in the region of the spine, sometimes from the occiput to the loins, sometimes to a less extent. Prickings in the back during the act of stooping, and when rising from stooping (fifth day). When kneeling, a sudden pain in the lumber region, which seemed to stop the breath for a moment, at 8.20 A.M. (twenty-first day). Sharp pain in the right lumbar region, when stooping of taking a deep inspiration, at 10.35 P.M. (twenty-ninth day).
Superior Extremities
On becoming warm and perspiring, rheumatic pains came on in the right arm, just above the olecranon, in the tendons of the triceps, felt on bending the elbow (thirteenth day). Rheumatic pains in the right elbow-joint, just above the insertion of the triceps, worse on motion (eighth day); in both elbows, just above the insertion of the triceps, worse on motion (ninth day). Rheumatic pains in the lower third of the right radius, worse towards evening (ninth and tenth days); similar pain in the lower two-thirds of the right radius at 11 P.M. (twelfth day). Pain in the radius, heat of the urine, throbbing of the groins, and seething of the lymphatics gone (is this the effects of onions eaten the previous evening, or of the repetition of the dose?) (Eleventh day).
Inferior Extremities
Seething sensation in the lymphatics of the right leg, at times, from the foot to the groin, as if the circulation were felt; afterwards, to a less extent in the left leg, also; chiefly felt from the foot to the knee, only when sitting down, and worse in the evening (ninth and tenth days). Sudden sharp pain about the middle of the right tibia, which was afterwards tender to touch, at 5.15 P.M. (twenty-seventh day).
General Extremities
Felt tired when walking, though I could usually bear a great deal of exercise; at noon (fifteenth day). Unusually tired after walking in the afternoon (eighteenth day). Tired when walking, slightly so in the morning, more so in the afternoon; it disappeared after a meal (nineteenth day). Tired when walking in the morning and first part of afternoon; after sitting for a few minutes this feeling went of, but returned soon after I began to walk again; towards the end of the walk, the fatigue was felt chiefly in the thighs (twentieth day). After dinner (2 P.M). felt tired, and at first somewhat sleepy (twenty-first day). Great sense of fatigue, after walking a mile and a half, at 1 P.M. (seventeenth day); slightly tired when walking in the afternoon (nineteenth day). Great restlessness all night, tossing about half awake and half asleep (twenty-fifth night). General feeling of malaise all day (seventeenth day).
Skin
Too hard, white, itching, vesicular pimples, with a clear spot at the centre, as if from fluid, one on the internal malleolus of the right foot, and the other between the former and the metatarsal joint of the great toe; the itching was worse in the evening (ninth day). They are red; one has a red areola (twelfth day). Dying away (thirteenth day). Dying slowly, only itching when rubbed (fifteenth day). Often hurt by the boot when walking (sixteenth day). Gone (twenty-third day). A pimple just under the lobe of the right ear (thirteenth day); much smaller (twenty- third day).
Fever
Chilly and sensitive to cold at 10 P.M.; this feeling went off after going to bed, having lasted three-quarters of an hour (twenty-third day). General feeling of chilliness at 11 P.M.; when undressing (half an hour later), it was increased to a general violent ague shivering, with chattering of the teeth; it lasted more or less till the next morning, and was not followed by heat or sweat (twenty-fifth day). When walking, perspired much more than usual, in the evening (seventh day); in the morning (thirteenth day). On two occasions I did not perspire as much as usual when walking in the hot sun.
Aggravation
(Morning), Early, constriction of chest. (Forenoon), Heat of urine. (Afternoon), Towards evening pains in radius, (Evening), Fulness in chest; after lying down in bed, constriction in chest, sensation in lymphatics of leg. (Bending forward), Pain in right chest; pricking in back; pain in lumbar region. (Deep inspiration), Pain in lumbar region. (Motion), Pain in elbow-joint. (Rising from sitting), Stitch in region of spleen.
(Walking), Qualmishness; stitch in liver; feeling in chest.
Amelioration
(Breakfast), Burning in back of throat.
(Cold water), Burning in back of throat.
(Eating a plum), Qualmishness.
(Sitting still), Qualmishness.
(Supper), Qualmishness.
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.