Inferior extremities
Cramp like pain in the hip, at night (second day). Pain in the left knee and thighs, in the forenoon (seventh day). Pain in the right knee, felt on going up stairs (sixth day). Occasionally sharp pains in the calves of the legs (third day). Aching pain in both ankles (fourth day). Left foot numb every time I sit still (second day).
General symptoms
Objective. Weight 136 1/2 pounds (before the proving); 132 1/2 pounds (thirty-fourth day). Restlessness, with aching pain in the region of the lumbar vertebrae, in the afternoon (fifth day). Subjective. Feeling of lassitude (fourth day). Feeling of weakness and debility (second day). Felt so faint I did not want to get up, but was relieved of faintness after getting up and moving about (twenty-sixth day); more aggravating (twenty-seventh day). Deathlike feeling, with chills and shuddering all over the body (seventeenth day). Feel sick and weary (twenty-eighth day). Aching pains in various parts of the body (fourth day).
Skin
Objective. From the time of the subsidence of the diarrhoea until now, I have had an eruption upon the upper front of the chest, the size of the hand, resembling very much the eruption of the eczema simplex which I feel confident is the effect of the Juglans, always having been free from eruptions of any king; the eruption is not troublesome, except when heated from overexertion, when it has the same itching prickling sensation that occurred during the proving. Pustular eruption appears on the thighs, hips, and nates, with intolerable itching and burning; a few pustules appeared on the body, face, and arms; the eruptions remained for three weeks after the drug was discontinued. Subjective. Violent itching over the whole body, in spots, changing about first one place the another (twenty-sixth day), more aggravating (twenty-seventh day). Arms burn and itch, scratching relieves (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days). Arms itch and burn, with redness of skin, also redness and flushed appearance of the face (twenty-third day). Itching and pricking sensation on head, neck, and shoulders (third, fourth and fifth days).
Sleep
Sleepiness. Constant yawning but not sleepy (fourth day). Drowsy (twenty-fifth day). Great tendency to sleep (first day). Feel unusually sleep, want to sleep all the while (sixteenth and seventeenth days). Sleeplessness. Sleep light and uneasy; very troublesome dreams (fifth day). Restless sleep (fifth and seventh night). Very restless in the night (eighth night). Very restless at night; tossing about a great deal while asleep (fourth night). Great wakefulness (first day). Awoke at 3 O’clock in the morning and could not get to sleep again (third day). Felt weary and unrefreshed, which is very unusual for me, my sleep being generally goes, seldom dreaming any (third morning). Dreams. Vivid dreams (third day). Ridiculous dreams all the night (seventh night). Very troublesome dreams (sixth night). Fearful dreams all nigh, waking from sleep covered with sweat (twenty-eighth night). Frightful dreams (first day). Very restless frightful dreams all night (first night); same restless condition all night; dreamed of being among Indians (second night).
Fever
Some chilliness alternating with flashes of heat, yet feel refreshed (twenty-ninth day). Cold chills along the spine (twenty-first and twenty-second days). Severe ague chill when sitting near warm fire, commencing in back, but no coldness of the flesh (seventh day).
Aggravation
Aggravation, (Morning) Headache. Aggravation, (Forenoon) Dull headache; roughness etc., of the throat; diarrhoea; worse when sitting down, pain in the region of the lumbar vertebra, etc.; numb pain in wrists, etc.; pain in knee etc. Aggravation, (Afternoon) Burning in eyes; restlessness. Aggravation, (Night) Pain in vertebrae; pain in hip; restlessness. Aggravation, (Ascending Stairs) Pain in knee. Aggravation, (After Dinner) Pain in abdomen. Aggravation, (While Sitting) Pain in region of sacro-illiac symphysis. Aggravation, (After Stool) Burning in abdomen. Aggravation, (When Stooping) Pain under scapula.
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.