Stool hard, with much mucus and some blood (sixth day). Stool omits every other day, and continues very irregular; constipation, at the most, two days for three or four weeks.
Stool omitted (third day); somewhat indolent (fourth day); omitted (fifth day); occurred with much pressure and was hard (sixth day); copious, though hard stool; faeces covered with mucus (tenth day). Stool light brown, pasty, mealy; at the same time a small quantity of clear urine was passed (second day).
Stool somewhat indolent; micturition rather more frequent than natural; the quantity rather smaller than usual (from 1/6000th).
Urinary organs.
Woke towards morning with pain in the left kidney. In the evening, slight pain in the region of the right kidney. Intense pain in the region of the kidneys. (Feeling of fullness in the bladder).
Bladder distended with urine, but cannot pass (tenth day). Slight burning pain through the urethra to the orifice, as though a drop of acrid urine would pass, in the evening (second day). Slight burning, with a somewhat voluptuous sensation in the urethra, during micturition, at noon (eight day). Violent burning during micturition; the urine is passed only in drops (sixth day).
Micturition and Urine. Passed urine involuntarily (third day).
Frequent desire to urinate; the urine is of a lighter color (second day). Urging to pass water, with copious discharge; the water is of a lighter color than usual. Disposition to pass water every two hours, and in large quantities (second day); inclination to pass water every hour, and in large quantities each time; slight burning in passing the urine, which is clear, and of a straw color (third day). Urine passed more frequently, in a smaller quantity than usual. Diminished desire for micturition (eight to tenth day). She passed on water during the whole ten hours. Profuse flow of light-colored urine frequently urging the evening. Copious discharge of urine, at 5 A.M. Passes less urine than usual, in the morning (second day). The urine passed in the morning and evening was exceedingly acid, even after standing thirty-six hours in a warm room; deposited numerous crystals of uric acid; indications of oxalates of lime were recognized in the milky-white sediment (nineteenth day). For more than a week her urine was loaded with enormous crystals of oxalate of lime; a single drop on a glass slide yielded hundreds of crystals, together with blood-disk; some of these crystals were quite one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter, which may, perhaps, account for the intense pain in the region of the kidneys.
Sexual Organs.
Male. Red points on the glans penis, without itching or soreness.
Pain in the glans penis, six or seven thrusts, not very violent, but very annoying, always on urinating (second and third days).
During walking, in the evening, a pretty severe pain and heaviness in both testicles, shooting along the spermatic cords; worse on the right side. Itching in the testicles and spermatic cords. Erections, without cause, on lying down in the afternoon, followed by pain in the testicles on going out (first day); after going out, pain in the testicles and spermatic cords; worse in the latter, and worse on the right side (firsts day). Erections, with dullness in the occiput, after sleep, in the forenoon (second day). Erections and lascivious dreams (sixth night).
Excitement of the sexual function, repeatedly. Emission interrupted by waking (first night); it followed on the fourth night. Great increases of sexual desire during the night and morning, with voluptuous dreams every night, for three nights.
Excessive sexual desire (fifth day). Female. A great deal of burning pain in the genital organs.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx. On walking in the open air, tickling in the larynx, with a sensation of sticking; he cough several times; the larynx feels swelled. During speaking, a sensation of mucus in the larynx, hoarseness; he has to expectorate more than usual. A few mouthfuls irritated the glottis. Voice. Voice very rough. Voice rough before going to bed (third day). Hoarse (third day). Voice every hoarse (second day). Lost her voice for eight days, but whether this depended on the action of the Oxalic acid or not it is difficult to say. Directly after the recovery from the first effects a new symptoms presented itself, namely, alteration of the voice. The man, previous to taking the Oxalic acid, possessed a remarkably deep bass voice, now reduced to a very low key, giving you the idea of a person talking in an undertone. This “weakness” of the voice remained for more than a month, without any amelioration, during the greater part of which period his legs used, for several hours a day, “to go to sleep,” as he termed it. Nine weeks from the time to taking the acid his voice had become much stronger, but he says he “cannot sing his old songs any longer, as his voice is so altered;” in fact, it is a complete old man’s voice. Cough and Expectoration. Constant dry cough on violent exertion (third day). Violent dry cough, caused by tickling in the throat, with violent pains in the chest, afterwards somewhat persistent, in the morning (after fifteen hours). Cough and tickling in the throat, in the evening (after five, and six hours). Some slight cough, with soreness of chest (fourth day). Slight cough (fifth day). Slight cough, from tickling in the larynx and trachea; also sensation of soreness in the larynx. Desire to cough, but cannot for pain in his side (fourteenth day). Has a little cough, and expectorates a considerable quantity of greenish mucus (fifth day).
Expectoration of thick yellowish mucus from the throat. Hawking up of thick yellowish-white phlegm, with a black lump in the center, of the size of a pea (first day). Expectoration of hard mucus in lumps, and watery running from the nose, e with sneezing. Expectoration of crumbly tenacious mucus my hawking (third day). Respiration. Respiration very quick and laborious.
Great oppression of the breath. Respiration difficult; in the forenoon (third day); (fourth day). Difficulty of breathing, with constrictive pain in the larynx, and wheezing; oppression of the whole chest, towards the right side. The breathing slightly spasmodic. Respiration very slow (after four hours); quicker than natural (fourth day). “Felt as though his breath was going; was almost strangled, “immediately. Breathing 14 (before the proving); 16 (after five minutes); 15 (after ten minutes).
Dyspnoea marked; tracheal rales very loud, so loud that I was unable to make any satisfactory examination of the chest; I could not even hear the heart-sounds (second day). Pressure and tightness of respiration, on every violent motion, in the evening (third day).
Chest.
Sharp shooting pain in the left lung and heart, extending down to the epigastrium, lasting for some seconds (from 5 grains 1/10th fourth day). In the afternoon, stitches several times in the left lung (fifth day). In the afternoon, stitches several times in the left lung (fifth day). Sharp lancinating pain in the left lung, coming on so suddenly that it deprived him of breath for several seconds and then gradually subsided (sixth day). Some tightness in the chest, with inclination to take a deep breath (after one hour and a half). Pressure upon the chest, as if it were ulcerated, at noon (second day). Sore pain, like a sore sticking, in the chest, that afterwards extends backwards to between the scapulae, at 2 P.M. (third day). Pains in the chest when coughing. Feeling of constriction across the chest, and the breathing is rather short (fifth day). Dull pain in the middle of the chest, extending through to the scapula (after two, and three hours). Stitches in left breast, more during walking.
Heart and Pulse.
Heart. Sensation as if ulcerated in the precordial region, with heaviness of the chest, as in asthma or in dropsy of the chest, in the evening. Oppression at precordia, with sighing (after two hours). Fine stitches in the precordial region (second day).
Stitches in the heart, extending towards the upper abdominal region. A pain in the heart, that extends forward from the posterior and lower portion, in the forenoon, while lying down, and afterwards, also, while walking in the street; very violent electric-like beats extending outward from a place rather near to and bellow the nipple to the sternum (second and third days).
Heart in a continual fluttering palpitation. Immediately after lying down in bed, at night, palpitation of the heart, for half an hour, three nights consecutively. After going to bed, at night, the heart made its beatings sensible in an unusual manner, an attracted attention. Heart’s impulse much diminished (after four hours). Heart’s action exceedingly feeble, and the sound barely audible (after nine hours). Heart-sounds imperceptible, and the pulse could be felt only at long intervals. Heart’s action irregular, and the sounds somewhat distant, but otherwise normal. Depressed circulation. There seemed to be no capillary circulation; Depressed circulation. There seemed to be no capillary circulation; there was no pulsation in the radial artery, and it was extremely feeble in the branchial (second day). Pulse. Pulse 110 and sharp (second day); 120 and wiry (third day); 110 and hard (fourth day); 98 and softer (fifth day); quick and tremulous (eighth day). Pulse hard and contracted (after twenty minutes). Pulse more frequent than usual, 1000 and over. Pulse more rapid than usual (third day). Pulse quick and small (after one hour and a quarter). Pulse increased in frequency, from 100 to 108. Pulse 105, hard and rapid, at noon (fifth day), Pulse more frequent, and harder than usual. The pulse is more frequent than usual, and tense. Pulse small, quick and wiry (after fourteen hours). Pulse almost extinct, but could be felt by touch, and was found to be extremely weak, rapid, an so irregular that it could not be counted (first day); 130, very small and threadlike (second day);132, fuller and hard (fourth day); full hard, and intermittent, 122 (fifth day); full, not hard, 100 (sixth day); hard, 104 (seventh day); 100 (eighth and ninth day); almost insensible to touch, very weak (tenth 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.