Urinary Organs
Uneasiness and pressure in the bladder (sixth night). Urine of a deeper yellow straw color since yesterday noon (second day). For the last two mornings noticed the urine thickly loaded with a red sediment, which gathered like a cloud at bottom of vessel, and seemed to be mixed with mucus (fourth day). The urine was thickly loaded with lithates and mucus (first and second provings). The urine has been densely loaded with lithates and mucus ever since commencing the November packets (sixth day).
Sexual Organs
Male. Peculiar distress about the generative organs, attended with great depression of mind; sexual desire morbidly strong, yet no physical power (fourth day). After going to bed last night, and this morning, for some time after rising (an hour), felt a stinging, aching, somewhat burning pain along right side of penis, as if immediately under the skin (second day). Unusual excitement of genital instinct and power. plus On going to bed, after taking second powder, felt peculiar morbid condition of body and mind; constant violent sexual desire, but with little physical power; thus the night was passed most miserably; frequently waking, with vivid imaginations, and much painful state of mind, involuntary seminal emissions, followed by great prostration and distress; I never felt these symptoms in the same way before (fifth day). Female. Violent crampy pain in the region of the left ovary. In afternoon, leucorrhoea returned for a few hours, thin, whitish (sixth day).
Respiratory Organs
Larynx and Trachea. Several times in the course of the day, felt a clogging up of the larynx and trachea with thick mucus, which was hawked up with difficulty (fifth day). On getting into bed, felt a tightness in the larynx, and a sensation as though it were stuffed; this was followed, but without much relief, by cough (third night); a similar tightness in the larynx, and also coughed a good deal (fourth day); slight cough and tightness in the throat after getting into bed (fourth night); began to cough, and felt a tightness in the larynx, with a difficulty of swallowing, immediately (fifth day); began to cough, and feel a slight, very slight, tightness in the throat (sixth day); cough, and sense of tightness and fullness in the larynx, immediately, in the evening (seventh day). Uneasy constriction or irritation of the larynx, giving rise to a desire to cough without the organic inclination; this returned several times (third day). Tickling and teasing constriction at top of larynx increasing, and mucus becoming more tenacious (ninth day). Irritation of windpipe, and heavy feeling at top of chest (twelfth day). Felt an irritation in the larynx and top of trachea (after a quarter of an hour), which gradually increased in intensity, and still continues; the feeling is like that experienced on inspiring irritating vapor, with a sensation of warmth and rawness, like what I have felt after running fast for a good distance, and it causes a short tickling hoarse cough; hoarseness of speech (after one hour); still the feeling of warmth etc.,; feeling for some time past on a small spot about the center of left palate, like that caused when Aconite is chewed (after two hours); irritation in larynx, but less severe (after four hours); felt well from 1 to 3 or 4 P.M. (after four hours and a half), when irritation in larynx and headache came back, and continues (after nine hours and a half); same kind of sensation in larynx, but not so intense, and it did not continue so long, not above an hour; cough and hoarseness neither so intense nor so enduring as yesterday, soon (second day); scarcely any, if any at all-perhaps it was fancy that made me think there was any-of the sensation in larynx (third day); irritating, raw, rough pain in windpipe, which increased rapidly and was very annoying, and gave rise to frequent severe, hard cough, which made me quite giddy, and caused a noise in my head and pain in my chest (almost immediately); the raw feeling in larynx, etc., much increased by the cough (fourth day); slight feeling of irritation in windpipe, lasting only a short time (fifth day); slight irritation of larynx and trachea (after first powder); raw feeling and irritation as formerly, pretty strongly marked, with occasional slight cough and hoarseness (after second powder, sixth day); felt irritation in larynx and trachea this morning on waking, which continued for an hour or more; for half an hour was very hoarse while reading aloud; I thought I was sure of “a cold,” having been out in the country, walking fast, and getting wet with rain, but the rapidity with which the hoarseness left, without any apparent cause, leads me to refer it to the medicine (seventh day). Very soon feeling of irritation in larynx, as on former occasions, but much less severe, lasting two or three hours (after first powder); feeling of irritation very slight, and lasting only a very short time (after first powder, second day); scarcely perceptible irritation in larynx (after first powder); the night was foggy, and immediately on going out the irritation of larynx became severe, and accompanied with cough (after second powder, third day); irritation in larynx slight (fourth day); irritation of larynx, and great sensitiveness of mucous membrane of larynx, evinced by a short frequent cough on removing from a warm to a colder room, and especially on going out into the open air (fifth day); slight feeling of irritation in larynx, and slight cough (seventh day). Feeling in windpipe at the neck (between larynx and top of sternum), as if it had been skinned (second day). Sharpish prick in the larynx, with a desire to cough, soon (fourth day). Tickling in windpipe (after second powder). Awoke with a troublesome tickling in the larynx, attended with nausea, sneezing, and coughing (second morning); continuance of the tickling, with scanty viscid expectoration of tasteless mucus, in the afternoon (second day); tickling less (fourth day). Feeling as if there were a hair in the trachea (fifth day). Increasing tenderness over the trachea, immediately (fifth day). Voice. Hoarseness of speech (after one hour); not so intense nor so enduring (second day). A little hoarseness for an hour in the morning (third day). Slight hoarseness (fourth day). Lost his voice, and became partially unconscious (within half an hour); quite unconscious (after one hour). Cough and Expectoration. Some cough (eighth day). On two mornings cough, attended with a taste of blood in the mouth. While warm in bed had several fits of coughing, with a peculiar sensation about fauces and larynx (second day). Slight cough, with wheezing (fifth day). (About midnight had a severe fit of coughing), (fourth night). Short tickling hoarse cough (after one hour); neither so intense nor so enduring (second day). Towards noon a dry hacking cough commenced, caused by a constant troublesome tickling at the top of throat, followed by hoarseness; hoarseness increased towards night, with a scraping sensation in throat; more effort required to swallow than usual (third day); awoke better from hoarseness and cough, but slightly troubled in the course of the day; cough less dry and tickling (fourth day); some hoarseness left (fifth day). Blood spitting; the blood had no tendency to coagulate (after three or four hours); continued (second day). Respiration. Breath hot, and of unpleasant odor (thirteenth day); the heat and foul taste extending to the throat, and slowly down to the stomach (fourteenth day). Respiration 20 per minute, very shallow, without stertor, and free from any sound indicating laryngeal or tracheal obstruction (after thirty-five minutes); natural respiration had ceased (after forty minutes). Respiration hardly perceptible. The breathing could only be recognized by the hand on the abdomen. Neither breathing nor pulse. Breathing laborious (after some hours). Respiration extremely laborious. Difficult respiration (after one hour). Grasping for breath all this day, yesterday, and the day before, but particularly so to-day, with several deep-drawn inspirations (third day); gasping for breath for several hours (after four and five days).
Chest
After a considerable fast, feeling of uneasiness about the left chest (after one hour, third day). Once or twice, considerable uneasiness in the upper part of the chest, lasting only a short time (third day). After a moderate walk, heat and uneasiness in the left chest, with aching pain, felt particularly about two inches below the middle of the left clavicle (after seven hours, fourth day). Most acute pain and sense of oppression at the chest, as though a hot iron had been run in and a hundred weight put on top of it; instantly relieved by hartshorn and water. Dull, heavy pain over the lower half of the right chest, with stabbing on taking a deep inspiration; chest not affected by movement, but intensely aggravated by inspiring deeply; the attempt to take a deep breath causes a sudden short, puffing cough; a real cough is impossible, from the stabbing in the lower part of the right chest, in bed; cannot lie for a minute on the left side, but pain and breathing much relieved by lying on the affected side; took one dose of Bryon. (after eleven hours, fourth day). Chest much easier, but cannot expand the lungs without considerable stabbing pains; dulness on percussion, distinct as high as the right nipple, at 8. A.M.; chest comparatively easy, at noon (fifth day). Right chest quite easy; some aching in the left chest in front, at 8 A.M.; the aching sticking in the left chest much worse; it is not so much confined to the base as on the right side, but extends all over, and seems to be more external, at noon; cannot ride, and can scarce walk, with pain in the chest; have to press the left side with the hand, and bend towards that side; on attempting to walk fast, it is as if there were a broken rib tearing the lung; on attempting to breath deeply, there are horrid lancinations in all directions through the chest, and a short puffing cough; short puffing cough every minute, at 4 P.M.; sticking-aching pain all through the left lung on attempting to breath deeply; side not affected by motion; respiration 34 per minute (natural 16); cannot lie on the right side; comparatively easy on the affected side, at 11 P.M. (sixth day). Still considerable pain in the left chest, and cough, at 8 A.M. (seventh day). Chest much better; can take a breath and cough without much inconvenience, at 8 A.M. (eighth day). Quite well (ninth day). Asthmatic constriction of chest for half an hour, ending in mucous expectoration, in the evening (eighth day). Dull aching, contractive pains in chest (after second powder, fourth day). Uneasy aching about the chest, particularly the left side, in the evening (ninth day); the uneasiness about the chest always returns in the evening (eleventh day). Hard pressure on chest just above right nipple, in the afternoon (second day). Decided pressive pains in left pectoral muscles, for a few minutes in the forenoon (eleventh day). Pain shooting through from the left shoulder-blade (inner and upper angle) to the front of the chest (fourth day). Distinct dull shooting in various localities in the left chest (after three hours); chest better (nine hours after second powder, fifth day). In the right side of chest felt a dull, warm pricking in a great multitude of points, over the lower half of front, from fifth rib downwards, with heat extending up the bronchi into pharynx; a hard cough came on immediately, lasting for half an hour, ending in expectoration of a little thick mucus, in the evening; a very peculiar attack (second day). (Cold appears to affect the chest more than usual), (third and fourth days). Front. Dull pain to the right of the sternum, immediately behind the third rib, passing under the sternum; the spot is tender to touch; chest tight across the upper part (after five hours, fourth day). Increased tenderness over sternum, and in throat, all day (sixth day). Sides. Very violent shooting pain in right side, momentary, but very severe (after second powder, sixth day). Mammae. Secretion of milk very much decreased (fourth day); towards evening the milk returned freely (fifth day); scanty (sixth, seventh, and eighth days). Occasional pains at top of both mammae (fourth day).
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.