Sexual Organs
Great uterine hemorrhage came during the proving, and continued until the medicine was discontinued. (An intense irritation of the external labia and pudendum, which were puffed, hot, red, and burned and itched terribly; so intense was this irritation, that she could not prevent herself from scratching with her nails until the surface bled; every morning the cutaneous surface would fall off in thin, transparent exfoliations; the mucous membrane of the labia was red, swollen, and covered with a white, curdy deposit, like aphthae; the speculum showed the inflammation to reach one-third the length of the vagina).
Respiratory Organs
A feeling as if respiration were about to cease.
Chest
My chest seems to be unusually sensitive to the air; it was a fine, sunshiny day (March 29th), but I felt the cold very sensibly down the front of my chest, the whole length of the sternum, and in a space as wide apart as the nipples (I wore at the time a vest which buttoned up to the throat, but I still felt what seemed to be cold air penetrating even through the turned-in front of my overcoat), (sixth day). Aching pain in my chest, as if all my strength had left me from excessively hard work; it is a tired aching, as if the whole front of the chest, and especially a strip some four inches wide down the whole front of the sternum, had been compressed in a vice (I have felt similarly when overworked in the army, but I have done no work now to account for this) (fifth day); felt while walking nearly a mile (sixth day). Breasts swollen, nipples tender, and will not bear the pressure of even an ordinary dress; nipples very sensitive and painful.
Pulse
The pulse ranges at 84, full and a little irregular, in the evening (second day). Pulse at the wrist weak, hardly perceptible, and about 60 beats in a minute (after two hours and a half). Pulse weak and quite infrequent. Pulse small, weak, and sometimes as infrequent as 40 beats in a minute. Pulse very small, and only about 40 beats in a minute (after four hours).
Back
Back very lame and aching (ninth day). Pain and feeling of lameness in the whole back (after second dose, seventh day). Sharp, spasmodic pain in the back, running to the chest of the left ilium (after second dose, fifth day). Dorsal. Burning in the spine (upper dorsal), (fourth day). Burning in the back between the shoulder-blades, and a tired aching in lower lumbar and sacral regions (tenth day). Great heat and burning in the dorsal region, especially marked in the space between the lower half of the scapula, when sitting reading at night (fifth day). Lumbar. A tired ache in the spine (lower lumbar and sacral regions), (fifth day). Back across lower lumbar region feels very tired and weak (eighth day). After resting in my office an hour, I notice a very tired feeling in the lower lumbar and sacral region (fifth day). Back lame, and fairly aches (lower lumbar and sacral regions), (ninth day). Pain in the lumbar region, about the upper part of the sacrum and pelvis; these pains during the last twenty-four hours have been more constant and severe than at any other time; the pain in the back seems more troublesome at night than during the day (twelfth day). Burning and aching in spine (lumbar and dorsal regions), (after two hours and a half, sixth day). Slight aching in back (lower lumbar and sacral regions), (fourteenth day). Tired ache in back (lumbar and sacral regions), (after dose, seventh day). Tired aching sensation, and a burning in the spine (lower lumbar and sacral regions), on sitting down, at 3.30 P.M. (eighth day). Feeling of weariness and weight in the region of the kidneys (after fourth dose, second day). Dull heat, hardly a burning, in the renal region (two hours and a half after first dose, second day). Sudden and momentary but very acute pang of pain in the region of the kidneys, as if I had been shot there, when undressing (first night). Pain in the lower part of the back through to the uterus, like inflammation, piercing, drawing. Sacral. Feel a little weak in the back (sacrum), (fourth day). Burning in the sacral region (after one hour and three- quarters, sixth day). Just a perceptible dull feeling in sacral region, in the morning (seventh day). Aching pain in sacrum, which also extends down into each buttock, at 4.45 P.M. (fourteenth day). Severe aching in sacrum, in the afternoon (fourteenth day).
Inferior Extremities
A burning, or rather a warm numbness in the legs, most marked in the knees; (it was like the Aconite anaesthesia, but not so intense); it seemed to begin at the tendo Achillis of each leg, streaming upwards, and was very marked over the region of each gastrocnemius; at times my legs feel almost as numb as they have done from a ten-minim dose of Fleming’s tincture of Aconite (fifth and sixth days). Severe rheumatic pains in the right hip- joint, more during motion (seventh day). Painful aching in right ankle-joint as if a wedge were driven in; this lasted until I feel asleep at night (second hour after second dose, second day); although disagreeably painful it did not interfere with locomotion (after second dose, third day). Numbness in my feet, which goes off by motion, and is only felt when sitting still (sixth day).
General Symptoms
Unusual degree of languor, at noon (after fourth dose, second day). Exceedingly tired and weak, just as if I had been prostrated by a typhoid fever, on walking home, nearly a mile, at 6 P.M. (ninth day). Exceedingly restless and want to be continually moving about (sixth day). All aches and ailing left me, and I felt as I imagine a strong man in perfect health must feel; the change in the state of my daily life was so marked that I could but observe it, although I had ceased to look for ‘Symptoms,” I cannot specify in detail how I felt, I only know I was filled with a general wellness, which made living a felt, I luxury (from twentieth to twenty-sixth day); on the twenty-seventh day reaction began, and until the forty-first day I was in a mental hell; it was the most profound mental depression I have ever known; I was plunged into the most abject despair. Feel unusually tired to-day, yet have done nothing to occasion it (ninth day). An easy walk of nearly a mile made me feel very tired and weak (fifth day). “Bilious,” sleepy during the day, head dull and stupid, poor appetite, food had no taste, etc.; (after two months); I had never been in such a state before, and at this date, November 17th, 1869 (after nearly twenty months), I am confident that my organism is not of the same habit as before my experiment with Helonias dioica; I feel as if the shock of the doses I took had revolutionized my system, and grafted a “bilious” habit upon one who for thirty-three years had been a stranger to it. Symptoms were at their height (after four hours and a half); all pretty much disappeared (after seven hours). All the symptoms reached their height in four or five hours, and in seven or eight they commonly disappeared entirely and without any inconvenient consequences whatever. Feel better when moving about, or when doing something which absorbs my whole attention (sixth day). All my pains and aches cease at once when I walk about; on sitting still they return at once; this appears to me like a physiological paradox, for the sensations that are relieved by motion are like those dependent upon excessive fatigue, yet the work of walking dispels them (ninth day).
Sleep
Have awakened every morning since the proving was commenced, at 5 o’clock, an unusual hour (fifth day).
Fever
Every movement of the arms occasioned a chill which seemed to radiate from the solar plexus all over me (fourth day). Extremities cold; (after two hours and a half). Flushes of heat pass over me, on every movement, while in a room (sixth day). Feverish without feeling hot to others or having an increase of pulse during headache (eleventh to fourteenth day). Sensations of heat and cold alternately, which are more particularly referred to the epigastric region (after vomiting).
Conditions.-
Aggravation (Afternoon), Pressure on vertex; aching in sacrum.
(Night), When sitting and reading, heat, etc., in dorsal region; pain in back.
(Much exertion), Blindness.
(Looking steadily at fixed point), Pressure in head.
(Moving head suddenly), Vertigo; dimness of vision. (Moving arms), Chill.
(Sitting still), Numbness in feet; all pain. (Stooping), Pain in vertex.
(Walking), Blindness.
Amelioration
(Moving about), The symptoms.
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.