Am in the habit of taking a cold sponge bath every morning, but I feel a perfect horror for cold water, and therefore omit it (fourth day). I have noticed that both days I felt the weakness have been particularly cold and bracing. General sensitiveness to cold, or change of temperature, with the headache (after four hours). Excessively nervous; cannot endure pain; specially sensitive during the filling of a tooth (eighth day). Felt sickish (after a very few minutes). Felt sick, and lay down in bed (after two hours and twenty minutes). Complained of sickness (second day). Felt uncomfortable (second morning). On walking, noticed some two or three times during the day, on raising my foot, a momentary feeling as though I was going up, floating like, and on foot touching ground an unpleasant feeling that made me feel a shuddering sensation pass over me. Confused feeling, dull, stupid, sluggish, at 8 A.M. (third day). Dull and sluggish (fourth day). Dull and sluggish throughout the day (after two days). Feel dull and languid (second day). Just before 6.30 P.M.
I felt a sudden access of vigor, and felt particularly strong, and the symptoms which followed seemed to come like a reaction (eighth day). Feels as if he had taken a cold (second day). Feel sore and stiff all over; feel as if I had taken a severe cold (second day). A kind of paralyzed feeling in the left side throughout (after fourteen hours and a half). Intense suffering, producing perspiration or forehead (tenth day). Pains, which are of a darting character, wander from one place to another (fourth day). Darting pains in various parts of the head, aggravated by motion (after eight hours and a half). Slight momentary pain in various parts of the body, as twinging pain in the fingers of the left hand (after a few minutes). Various twinging pains about the body (after half an hour). Occasionally sharp pain in different parts of the body, head, limbs, knees, and elbows (fifth day).
The severity of the pains frightened her, and she declined to continue the proving. (Felt the customary stitches in the left side), (after half an hour, second day). (All old ailments returned with renewed force), (sixth day). Nervous motions go not only down through the body, but through the arms, and it seems as if a little stronger dose would make the arms move; this time the motions were accompanied with violent palpitation of the heart, at 3 P.M. (fourteenth day); with much weakness at the pit of stomach (fifteenth day). A strange indescribable sensation throughout the system, continuing many days (after half an hour).
For two weeks after taking the last dose had frequent recurrence of the head, throat, hip, and knee-joint, symptoms, growing gradually less frequent and severe. All the forenoon I was engaged in packing a camphor-chest; I was in the midst of crude camphor, which suspended the symptoms entirely for the time; but very soon afterwards, in less than an hour, they returned (fourth day). In the first action of the medicine, all the symptoms run through two days, with one exception, that of soreness in the tongue and difficulty of moving it; the medicine has begun a second round or course, which has been much longer (third day).
All the symptoms are more decided, distinct, and prolonged than the first time, and the medicine seems to act more searchingly than in the first round, although the dose has not been repeated (first day). The symptoms continued without abatement for about sixteen hours, notwithstanding several remedies had been tried; at length the fact that the pain seemed to be produced by hard pressure on the lower end of the sternum, led to the selection of Arnica, which afforded prompt and decided relief. The chief action of this medicine seems to me to be in the nerves; all the other symptoms have been entirely accessory and secondary; and it seems to me, so far as I can judge, to have a very curious double action on the nervous system; the nerves in front of the body (which I believe are the? voluntary nerves, or? nerves of motion), it appears to excite to involuntary motion, causing tremblings, and going up and down in wavelike motion, all down through; but the nerves in the back of the body (the? passive nerves or nerves of? sensation), it seems to paralyze and numb, and during this numbing process it causes a good deal of pain, very similar to a pain in a tooth when its nerve is dying or being killed. The medicine seemed to act more on the left side than on the other. I think the medicine hinders voluntary motion as well as causes involuntary motion. Better in warm room, from not moving. Walking seemed to relieve the pains, but I had not strength to continue any length of time (second day). Worse from motion, better in the open air (after two hours and a half).
State very like the effects of an overdose of Aconite (after 12 grains). Symptoms wore off gradually in two or three days (after six days).
Skin
Eruption upon the back about the size of fleabites; the same petechial eruption on the arms (fourth day). Fever blisters in and around left nostril (seventh day). Applied to the skin it benumbs, and causes a pricking all over the spot. Itching of the left palm (fourth day).
Sleep
Sleepiness. Yawning (second day). Continual yawning, with a drowsy feeling all day (second day). For three or four days I felt irrepressible drowsiness, especially from early morning till 2 P.M.; this continued for a week. The drowsiness was diminishing (after two weeks). In the worst eases there was great drowsiness, while others complained of giddiness. Became drowsy, and slept for two hours, but the mind was so active all the while that I was not conscious of having been asleep (two hours after 12 grains). Drowsy at 11.30 A.M.; lay down and slept in afternoon (which I am not accustomed to); dreamt my head was full, and as if brain was revolving upwards from frontal sinus to occiput, and that I was almost blind (fifth day); drowsy, at 9 A.M. (sixth day). Sleepy (second day). Irresistible desire to sleep; soporific sleep, extremely distressing, with the headache (second day); felt drowsiness and desire to sleep all the forenoon, even while driving; after dinner the drowsiness, instead of passing off by exercise, increased, and for two hours he slept soundly, without dreams, in an uncomfortable position; he could arouse himself only with great effort; the sleepiness continued for an hour, even while walking in clear, cool air and bright sunlight; slept well all night (this never the case after having even a short nap in the afternoon), (third day). He awoke at 6 A.M., and felt bright for two hours, when he became sleepy again while driving, with dull pressure encircling the head; after a light dinner, sleepiness became irresistible, and he slept some time; went to bed early and slept well (third day); drowsiness all the day, until after two hours’ work in the garden, causing profuse perspiration, which expelled the drowsiness in part (fourth day); felt it slightly (fifth day). Felt sleepiness while riding, for two mornings; after dinner he felt great drowsiness, which was very difficult to shake off; his desire for sleep was uncontrollable; he would fall asleep so quickly that he was surprised on waking up that he had slept; a few hours of hard exercise would remove the drowsiness; he slept just as well at night as if he had not slept in the afternoon. Such sleepiness that the attempt to keep awake produced nausea, with the headache. Intense sleepiness, which I thought came from the medicine (sixth day). I am not usually a heavy sleeper, but was intensely sleepy in the morning; almost impossible to get myself up, as if drugged (sixteenth day). I went to bed an hour and a half earlier than usual; was so sleepy I could not keep my eyes open; slept till after daylight, an hour later than I usually do (first night). Very sleepy at 3 P.M., hardly able to keep awake, till finally relieved by sleep (after five hours, third day).
Heavy sleep; feel tired before rising; profound sleep; does not see why he should sleep so soundly. (Slept better than for six months before (first night); slept very soundly (second night); slept unusually well (third night); curative? C. W.). During the proving I awoke every morning to hear the clock strike 2, and generally fell asleep after 5. Sleeplessness and Dreams.
Sleeplessness before midnight; disturbed sleep after (second night). (In the evening I was not drowsy as usual, but wakeful), (first day). Falling asleep frequently, but always awoke suddenly, without relief; the following night scarcely closed the eyes in sleep; thoughts very active; an idea started, kept on with unusual persistence (tenth day). Sleep rather restless (first night); slept restless the whole night (sixth night).
Sleep disturbed; with awake about 2 A.M., and remained awake in till about 5, then a very deep, short sleep of about an hour; on awaking a very disagreeable feeling, as though I had slept too sound, with pain on right side of head and right side of neck.
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.