General Symptoms
Objective. Lassitude of the whole body, as if she had walked a long distance, sitting down feels pleasant, commencing in the morning and lasting all day. Feeble and tired all over, as from bruises (after a few days). In the evening, in bed, a great internal restlessness through the whole body; every particle trembles, and is in a vibratory motion. Subjective. In the morning she feels well and easy all over; she hardly feels her body. The whole upper part of the body, especially the arms, pain as if tired. Drawing pains, either in the fingers, or in the left posterior apex of the scapula, or in the left shoulder and left elbow-joint, or in the left leg; they continued twenty-four hours (after two hours). An electric stitch shot through the whole body, so that she became frightened and could not understand where it came from, while sitting (after sixth day). Tearing and stitching in all the muscles of the whole body, worse in the muscles of the arms and thighs, with great sleepiness and hot flashes; in bed, a great deal of the heat in the lower extremities, and many painful glandular swellings in the inguinal region (after several days). She feels pulsations all over her body while sitting quietly (after forty-five hours). When turning the upper part of the body from right to left, it became black before her eyes, and she could see hardly anything; what she hear seemed to come from a distance, lasting five minutes; she also seemed to feel a kind of spasm through her whole body, and, when she became fully conscious, the right cheek was cold; she felt coldness in her mouth, especially the right tip of the tongue felt cold, as well as the whole right side of the body, all of which passed off gradually (after eight hours).
Skin
Objective. On the left forearm a small nodule of the size of a white bean, which gradually grows to the size of a hen’s egg, becomes red, hot, and inflamed, as if it would break, but this does not happen; the node moves up to the elbow-joint, where it finally disappears. A yellow streak, as from Nitric acid, on the back of the left index finger. Subjective. Itching-biting in the skin of the whole body, as from fleas, relieved by scratching, but returning, in the forenoon. The itching of the genitals penetrates the whole body; at night she cannot remain in bed, and must get up; worse when lying or sitting than motion. Itching- biting on the external genitals, as if the urine were acrid, continuing several hours (after one hour and a half). Itching, beginning on the back of the right hand and spreading to different parts of the body, especially on the upper eyelids and forehead, where the hair begins, commencing a quarter of an hour after taking the drug and continuing the whole day. Repeated itching on the female sexual parts, frequently ceasing and returning the whole day. Frequent itching in the centre of the lumbar vertebra, so that she has to scratch (after thirty hours).
Sleep
Sleepiness. Frequent yawning, with internal shiverings, as if fever would set in. Much yawning, with chilliness. Great sleepiness towards noon. Sleeplessness. In the first two nights of her courses, sleeplessness without cause. Restless sleep at night; she threw herself about in bed the whole night, and does not know why (after sixty hours). Dreams. She dreams of disgusting things; naked men and old women are around her. Anxious dream, her child seemed to have fallen into the water, which made her very anxious. Anxious dreams; she passes a bridge with her child, and is in danger of falling into the water with it; a man comes and leads her over the bridge; when she awakes in the morning, she is bathed in perspiration. Anxious dreams the whole night; she awakes from a dream, and when she falls asleep, she dreams the same frightful thing again (the whole night). The whole night anxious dreams; she falls from one dream into another, and still has sleep enough in the morning. She dreams of falling into an abyss, and feels anxious about it. Screams out in her sleep, with anxious dreams, and when she awakes, her throat feel perfectly dry, and she has to moisten it. In her dreams three oxen run after her, so that she awakes with severe palpitations. He dreams, two nights in succession, that he suffers from a chronic, dry, fatiguing, consumptive cough, which he cured in twenty-four hours with one dose of Eupion.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness, with headache; fullness in forehead, and a drawing pain towards the temples (after four hours). At 4 P.M. chilliness over the whole body, with tearing in the head and stitches in both temples, jumping hither and thither, so that she has to lie down; after a quarter of an hour’s rest, and having taken some warm drink, chilliness and stitches ceased, without being followed by heat or thirst. The whole day chilliness, worse in the morning than in the afternoon, with stitching pains in the head and chest. Inward chilliness, with headache, more on the right side, and with thirst (after four hours). Shaking chill, without subsequent heat or thirst, with foul taste in the mouth. Shivering the whole afternoon, without consequent heat; at night many confused dreams, with throwing herself about in bed; when she awakes, she does not recollect her dreams, but has some headache. Heat. Towards noon (five hours after taking the drug), dry heat, without chill, and drawing pains in the small of the back; the heat continued for five hours, but the pains in the back for twenty-four hours, and were worse at night than in the daytime; she could scarcely lie on account of them; the pains in the back intermitted for twenty-four hours, and returned again at 4 A.M., in bed, in connection with a periodically returning pulling pain around the navel; no stool for twenty-four hours at that time, but regular the next time; during the pain in the back she had, every twenty-four hours, inclination to urinate, with pressing on the bladder, and passed copiously a pale urine. Dry heat in bed, at 9 P.M., without thirst, with continual headache, with which she falls asleep, but wakes up with the same headache. Burning heat in the face, toward evening, for several days. When standing, hot flashes in the face, with anxious sweat, so that she is obliged to sit down. Sweat. Perspiration of a foul odor, even at the slightest motion. At 3.30 A.M. she is perspiring, and awakes with nausea and inclination to vomit, but she only throws up clear water; after rising, the nausea continues until she has taken something warm; she feels very weak at the same time, would like to go to bed again (after two days). When awaking, at 5 A.M., she was in a perspiration, which is unusual with her. Copious night sweat towards morning.
Conditions.-
Aggravation (Morning), Heaviness, etc., of head; in bed, stitches in occiput; itching under eyelids; sneezing, etc.; sensation in teeth; an hour after rising, tearing in teeth, etc.; pappy mouth; mucus in throat; pain in humerus, etc.; chilliness.
(Afternoon), Towards evening, heat in face. (Evening), Sneezing, etc.; pruritus pudendi; in bed, restlessness. (Night), Up to 3 P.M., nausea, etc.; towards morning, sweat. (Fresh air), Oedema of eyelids; lachrymation. (Ascending), Sensation in thigh. (Blowing nose), Pains in abdomen. (Breathing), Pains under breast; pains in chest; pains under mamma. (Coughing), Pains in abdomen. (After eating), Sour taste.
(On becoming erect), Nausea, etc. (Hot soup), Toothache. (Inspiration), Sticking in shoulder-blade; stitches in side. (Light of day), Lachrymation.
(Lying), Toothache; pains under mamma; itching. (During menstruation), Jerking headache. (Motion), Pains in back. (Rest), Pains in temples; pain in inguinal region; stitching under arm; trembling of body. (Sitting), Sensation in thigh; itching. (Sitting up in bed), Vertigo. (Sneezing), Pains in abdomen. (Standing), Inclination to urinate; hot flashes in face, etc. (During stool), Tearing in rectum. (Stooping), Oppression in chest; sensation in thigh. (Walking), Stitches on crest of ilium; pains under mamma. (Washing), Tearing in teeth, etc. (Writing), Stitches in chest.
Amelioration
(Bending backward), Backache.
(Bending over), Pains in abdomen.
(Compression), Confusion of head.
(Leaning against something), Backache.
(Pressure), Pains in calves.
(Rest), Headache, etc.; pains in abdomen.
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.