General Symptoms
Objective. Remarkable unsteadiness in her actions (fourth day).
Convulsions, spasms. Horrible convulsions, accompanied with extreme coldness. Cramps and convulsive motions, together with shooting in the brain, as with an arrow. As soon as he opens his eyes in the morning in bed, he is obliged to stretch, after which he becomes weary and the eyes close again. Constant relaxation of all the muscles; he suddenly falls to the ground, with coldness of the body, cold sweat on the forehead, and stammers, but is conscious; the pulse is very slow, and the pupils very much contracted (after one hour). He could neither sit, stand, nor lie, and constantly pointed towards his heart. Weariness. Weariness and sleepiness in the forenoon, with yawning (after two hours). Weakness (fifth day). Prostration, (fifth day). Faintness. Restless and anxious, apprehending misfortune (after five days). Subjective. General discomfort. In the open air, he feels as though he had been long sick; all objects seem changed and new to him. Feeling as after a fever, as if he had been long sick in bed. An agreeable warmth, extending from the pharynx to the stomach and over the whole body, as after spirituous drinks. (A sensation in swollen parts as if they would burst and were too heavy). Sticking-boring pains in the coverings of the bones. Sticking-boring pains in various parts of the body, aggravated by cold or by physical exertion, and after eating and drinking. Sharp tearing stitches in several places over the whole body, sometimes on the thighs, upper arms, chest, back, etc. (after eight hours). In persons who took increasing doses of the drug, very few symptoms appeared after the first dose, but after several doses, they rapidly assumed great violence, so that the drug had to be discontinued; a large number of cases exhibited a very marked cumulative action. Most of the symptoms seemed to appear in the evening.
Skin
Objective. Sudden dropsical swelling of the skin. (* This symptom combined with 358, 395, 401, seems to correspond closely to many diseases accompanied by swelling; such are certainly cured rapidly and permanently by Hellebore, when the other symptoms are homoeopathic to it, that is, have the same peculiarity as those which this powerful vegetable specially causes in healthy people; hereupon also depend the occasional curative effects of Bacher’s pills, which seem to have been simply an accidental discovery in domestic practice, for medical art knew nothing hitherto of the homoeopathic application of Hellebore to certain dropsical diseases, for the pathogenetic action of this plant was unknown: medical art also had no intimation of the curative action that could be developed from it.-HAHNEMANN. *) The skin of the body desquamates. The hairs of the whole body fall out; the nails fall off. A small swelling in the skin of the forehead, which is painful, as if bruised or as if caused by a blow. Eruptions. A pimple on the left side of the forehead that pains on hard touch, as if beaten. Several small vesicles between the first joints of the fourth and fifth fingers, smarting when touched, moist for some time, and then covered with scabs for a long time. Small, moist, painless vesicles on the middle joint of the right fourth finger; on severe pressure, the bone seemed to be sore. Yellowish roundish tetter on both arms, exuding water on scratching. Subjective. Prickling in the left foot, soon. Corrosive itching on both arms, and biting, as from salt water, after scratching, after going to sleep in the evening and morning.
Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Frequent yawning (fifth day). Sleepiness, followed by either uneasy sleep disturbed by dreams, or by coma vigil, followed by deep sleep. Great sleepiness in the evening (second and third days). Sleeplessness. Uneasy sleep towards morning, he turns himself from side to side; in this slumber there are dark, floating visions. Uneasy slumber, filled with historical fancies towards morning, during which he changes his position from side to side. Dreams. Confused dreams at night, which are not remembered. Incessant, confused, frequently very anxious dreams at night, which he is unable to recollect. Anxious dreams (first night).
Fever
Chilliness. Skin cool (fourth day). Chilliness always on lying down in the evening; perspiration every morning (after ten days).
General shaking chill, with gooseflesh; painful sensitiveness of the external head to touch and motion; drawing- tearing in the limbs, and frequent sticking in the joints, especially of the elbows and shoulders; without thirst, for several days together, commencing in the morning (after twenty- five hours).
Coldness of the body, especially in the morning. Coldness over the whole body, with cold hands and feet, lasting several hours (first day). Shivering, commencing in the arms. Shivering, for five days, without thirst, followed by thirst. He desires to lie in bed on account of shivering, and looks yellow in the face. Fever; constant chilliness over the body, without thirst; heat in the head, and headache like a bruised pain in the occiput. Fever for several days, more constant when not in bed; chilliness over the whole body, without thirst (while sitting, standing, and walking), with cold hands, with internal burning heat and dulness of the head, and with great sleepiness, heaviness and weakness of the feet, and stiffness in the hollows of the knees; after lying down in bed, immediate heat and perspiration all over, also without thirst. Chilliness in the back. Chilliness in the left side of the back, near the spine, extending up and down, and for a moment across the left shoulder towards the front (seventh day). Feeling of coldness in the abdomen. Coldness of the hands, while the face and rest of the body were warm (after a quarter of an hour). Sensation of coldness and transient chilliness in the small of the back and loins during dinner; this sensation of coldness and chilliness was relieved by the warmth of the stove, but immediately returned (second day). (Cold feet in the evening, which do not get warm even in bed). Great coldness through the back (after a quarter of an hour). Internal coldness in the back (first day). Heat. Heat and perspiration (after thirty-six hours). Burning heat over the whole body, especially violent in the head, with internal shivering and chilliness, without thirst, in the evening between 5 and 6, and especially after lying down; when he desires to drink, it becomes repugnant to him, and he is able to drink only a little at a time. Frequent alternating attacks of general dry heat, followed by shivering and coldness, after which there is concealed colic. Fever, with violent internal heat of the head, coldness of the hands and feet, followed by slight perspiration over the whole body, lasting an hour (after four hours). Heat in the head, extending to the nape of the neck and down the back, with hot, red cheeks (eighth day). Heat in the head and face, lasting an hour (tenth day). Heat in the face. Heat and redness of the face, with rapid pulse (after one hour). Heat in the back (first day); till 12 o’clock (twentieth day). Heat in the back, extending to the sacrum. Much heat in the face, head, back, and whole body, with rapid pulse (after two hours). Much heat in the back. Great heat in the face and head (twentieth day). Frequent flushes of heat, extending from the head into the back and down the small of the back (eighth day). The head and face were at first hot and the extremities cold. Sweat. Inclined to perspire, in the afternoon, without cause, by an open window (eighth day). Perspiration at night more profuse than usual (fourth day).
General sweat towards morning for several nights in succession, with only the ordinary warmth of the body (after forty-eight hours). Cold sweat. The whole body was covered with a cold, clammy sweat (after two hours). Drops of perspiration on the forehead and back of the nose (fourth day). Sweat of the palms, with coldness of the backs of the hands (after two hours). Slight perspiration on the soles towards morning (first night).
Conditions.
Aggravation (Morning), On waking, vertigo, etc.; on waking, headache; in bed, headache in top of head; soreness in canthus, etc.; after waking, sticking in eyeball; immediately after rising, sneezing; after waking, vesicle on lip; on rising, tongue dry, etc.; early, colic; sensation in abdomen; at 5 o’clock, colic; stiffness of nape of neck; in bed, tearing in left fingers; perspiration; coldness of body.
(Afternoon), The symptoms; from 4 to 8 o’clock, pain in head; heaviness, etc., in forehead; pain in surface of os ilium.
(Evening), The symptoms; after lying down in bed, vivid fancies; headache in forehead; pressure, etc., in forehead; after lying down in bed, pain in back teeth; pain in stomach; distension of abdomen; when walking in open air, stitches in wrist on lying down, chilliness; cold feet; between 5 and 6 o’clock, and especially after lying down, heat all over, 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.