Stool
Diarrhoeic stools (two hours after first dose, second day).
Diarrhoeic stools discharged with considerable force (ninth day). Diarrhoeic faeces and abundant flow of urine (tenth day). Frequent diarrhoeic stools (nineteenth day). Copious liquid stools, followed by a starting sensation of the anus, at 2.15 (my bowels had moved as usual at 8 A.M. and are generally very regular), (three-quarters of an hour after third dose, second day). Stool at usual time; first part of faeces hard and painful, last part soft (sixth day). Hard lumpy faeces, with tenesmus ani (two hours after dose, seventeenth day). Alternating constipation and diarrhoea (after second dose, twentieth day). Constipated since the second day (fourth day).
Urinary Organs
Bladder and Urethra. Cutting pains extending apparently along the ureters down to the bladder (nineteenth day). Pain in neck of bladder (after second and third dose, fifteenth day). Constricted feeling at the neck of the bladder while urinating, with pain in the testicles and spermatic cords (after second dose, fifteenth day). Painful cutting and feeling of strangulation at neck of bladder when urinating, lasting a long time (after third dose, fifteenth day). Feeling of strangulation in the neck of the bladder (after second dose, sixteenth day).
Pain in neck of bladder (sixteenth day). Pulsative pain in region of prostate gland, occasionally extending along the urethra, continuing for half an hour (eighth day). Burning sensation in prostate gland (after second dose, fourteenth day). When voiding urine, slight pain apparently in prostate gland (after second dose, fourteenth day). Itching in the orifice of the urethra and around the glans penis, and constant desire to urinate (fifteenth day). Micturition and Urine. Increased desire to urinate (after third dose, second day). Urging to urinate, with smarting in the urethra (two hours after second dose, thirteenth day). Constant desire to urinate (sixteenth day). Voided urine at three several times during the night, an occurrence that has never happened before with the prover (second day). Copious discharge of light-colored urine, which previously was red and scanty, with rumbling pain and griping in abdomen (after third dose, second day). Free discharge of light-colored urine (soon after dose, fourth day). Urine scanty and dark (third day). Voiding of an unusually large quantity of urine (ninth day). Abundant flow of urine and diarrhoeic faeces (tenth day). Copious flow of urine, with continued pains in spermatic cords and testicles; worse in left (Staphysagria seemed to relieve the pain considerably), (twelfth day). Increased flow of urine, with irritation at the neck of the bladder and smarting in the urethra, (after second dose, fourteenth day). Copious flow of straw-colored urine (fifteenth day). Copious flow of clear light-colored urine (eighteen day). Profuse pale urine (twentieth day).
Sexual Organs
Pain in left spermatic cord and testicle, continuing all day, with soreness of the testicle; at the same time, occasional darting pains in right spermatic cord and testicle (eleventh day). Pain in spermatic cord and testicles continues (thirteenth and fourth days). Pain in left spermatic cord and testicle (seventeenth day). Itching and stinging of prepuce (after second dose, fifteenth day). Pain and soreness in left testicle, and extending along spermatic cord (nineteenth day).
Respiratory Organs
Constriction of the larynx (first day). Dry cough, in the night, excited by titillation, in the upper anterior part of the chest, with a dry sensation in the larynx when coughing (after about twelve hours). Cough excited by a pricking-tingling sensation behind the upper part of the sternum (after forty minutes, second day).
Chest
Sharp pain under the right scapula, extending into the chest and to the pit of the stomach, with heavy beating of the heart and throbbing of the carotid arteries (third day). Pulsative pressive pains just above the xiphoid cartilage (eighth day). Cutting pain in left side of chest (eighteenth day). Burning in chest, with cold feeling in pit of stomach and shooting pains (two hours and a half after second dose, nineteenth day).
Heart and Pulse
Sharp cutting, shooting pains in region of heart, extending through to left shoulder-blade (two hours and a half after third dose, second day). Heavy beating of the heart (third day). Pulse 65 (after third dose, second day).
Neck and Back
About midnight awoke with severe lameness of the muscles of the left side of the neck, extending to the shoulder, and rendering movement painful (third day). Lameness of muscles of neck continued, with the same pulsative and wandering pains (fourth night). Pulsative pains in left lumbar region (fourth day).
Aching in the loins, with pain around the left hip-joint (nineteenth day). Pain in the sacrum and bladder, with desire to urinate, not relieved by voiding large quantities of urine (one hour after a dose, nineteenth day).
Extremities
Trembling of the limbs (ninth and sixteenth days). Limbs feel bruised (sixteenth day). Shooting pains in the arms, back, and legs (fourth day).
Superior Extremities
Shooting pain in the left arm, from the elbow to the tips of the fingers (third day). Dull pain in extensor muscles of left arm, from shoulder to wrist (after third dose, second day). Sharp pain in right shoulder-joint, extending to elbow in one direction, and the trapezius muscle in the other, with occasional shooting through the occiput (third day). Pulsative and intermittent pains in left shoulder-joint (fourth day). Aching in the left shoulder, when recumbent, about 11 P.M. soon after going to bed (second day). Painful pressure on the left palmar-radial side of the right forearm, an inch and a half above the wrist, at the spot where the radial artery is distinctly felt, lasting seven minutes (after ten minutes). Throbbing, shooting pain in the left wrist, extending to the tip of the middle finger (first day).
Inferior Extremities
Aching pains in lower extremities (eighteenth day). Dull pain in legs, with tensive pain in calves and weariness (after third dose, second day). Pulsative pains in the hips and loins, with ineffectual urging to stool and tenesmus (nineteenth day). Pains around left hip-joint, with aching in the loins (nineteenth day).
Pain in knee-joints, extending down to ankles (eleventh day).
Aching pain in knees (after second dose, nineteenth day). Pain in the left knee, with a feeling of great weakness (third day).
Severe aching at the forepart of the left tibia, about four inches below the knee, from 1 to 2 P.M. (second day). Pain, pressive and remittent, for two consecutive evenings, at the anterior-inner surface of the head of the left tibia (third and fourth days).
Generalities
Trembling of the whole body, with profuse perspiration from moderate exercise (third day). Great weariness after walking (twentieth day). Extreme lassitude, after taking a short walk (third day). Feeling of excessive debility (seventeenth day).
Sensitiveness to cold (thirteenth day). Pains moving from place to place; erratic (after third dose, second day). Pains move suddenly from place to place, in the ball of the little toe of the left foot, in the right shoulder-joint, in the right foot, at the left extremity of the stomach, in the knees, etc. The pains were momentary, but frequently recurred. Sometimes a single pulsation, at other times several, before the pains appeared in another place. The character and movement of these pains reminded the prover of the flashing of the Aurora borealis, or rather, perhaps, of the distant electrical phenomenon sometimes observed in a thunderstorm after the cloud has passed far away; a tremulous electrical movement (fourth day). Same erratic pains continue in region of mastoid processes, at the insertion of the deltoid muscles, etc. (fifth day). Pulsative and wandering pains continue in wrist and finger- joints, more in the metacarpophalangeal joints, in epigastrium, abdomen, etc. (fifth day). Pulsative and wandering pains continued through the day, but mostly when within doors, scarcely felt when in open air (sixth day). Pulsative and erratic pains continues, especially when in the house (seventh day). Erratic pains continue (eighth and ninth days).
Skin
Skin of the whole body, dry (after second dose, fifteenth day).
In the evening a scarlet eruption, about three inches in width, made its appearance around the waist, itching and burning, attended with pain (third day). Appeared on two successive evenings. Itching and burning around the waist, and fine, red eruption (sixteenth day). Itching under the eyes (after second dose, fifteenth day). Itching and burning around the waist, during forenoon (fourth day). Intolerable itching in the left shin, a little above the ankle, at 6 A.M. (second day). Burning tingling in the whole body, more in left and feet, forearm and hands (nineteenth day).
Sleep
Restless sleep, with unpleasant dreams; awoke unrefreshed (ninth day). Uneasy sleep and dreams (fourteenth day). Dreams, but could not recall them (tenth day). Dreamed of having a severe headache, and awoke with the head aching violently (after third dose, fifteenth day). Laborious and fatiguing dreams (sixteenth 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.