Urinary Organs
Urine scanty and high-colored, for the last two days (ninth day).
Respiratory Organs
Pressing sensation in larynx, with dryness of fauces (after ten minutes).
Heart and Pulse
Burning distress in the precordial region (first day). A full inspiration produces sharp pains in the region of the heart (first day). Pulse 84, soft and feeble (after second dose, sixth day).
Back
Back very stiff (fourth day). Back ached all day (third day).
Dull aching pains in the back and hips (third day). Felt very badly, with aching and sore sensations along the spinal column (after two hours, second day). Pain in the back. Dull, aching pains in the dorsal and lumbar regions (third day). Dull pains in the small of the back (first and second days). Dull pains in the lumbar region (after third dose, sixth day). Dull pains in lumbar and dorsal regions (seventh day). Violent, dull, aching distress in the lumbar region, all day (eight day).
Extremities
Fingers, knees, ankles, and feet have constant rheumatic pains in them of a drawing, aching character (after third dose, sixth day). Severe stitching drawing pains in the elbows, fingers, knees, ankles, and toes (after second dose, sixth day). Had such severe pains in the wrists and left knee that I could not sleep (seventh night). Severe stitching drawing pains in the elbows, fingers, knees, ankles, and toes (after second dose, sixth day).
Had such severe pains in the wrists and left knee that I could not sleep (seventh night). Severe drawing pains in the elbows, wrists, fingers, knees, ankles, feet, and toes (third day). All day have had drawing pains in the wrists, knees, ankles, and feet, with deep, dull, aching pains in the tibial bones (fourth day). Drawing pains in the wrist and left knee and ankle- joint; walking makes the pain in the ankles of a sharp cutting character (first day).
Superior Extremities
Drawing pains in the left forearm and fingers, all the afternoon (first and second days). Severe drawing pains in the elbows and flexor muscles of both arms (fourth and fifth days). Wrists ached all day (third day). Dull pains in the wrist (third day). Fingers ache and are quite stiff (fourth and fifth days). Fingers feel quite, stiff, with frequent stitching pains in the joints (fourth and fifth days). Stiffness of the fingers, with sharp pains in them when closing them (fifth day). Fingers stiff (second and seventh days); quite stiff (sixth day). Fingers are very stiff (after second dose, third day).
Inferior Extremities
Hips ached all day (third day). Severe drawing pains in the inside of the right thigh (after second dose, sixth day). Dull drawing pain in the knees and ankles (second day). Hard, drawing pains in the knees and ankles all night, which made me very restless (second night). Sharp pains in the right tibia (after one hour). Great weakness and pain in my ankles and feet (third day). Dull pains in the ankles (seventh day). Ankles and feet ached severely (first day). Aching distress in the ankles, feet, and toes, with sharp pains in the toes (fourth and fifth days).
My ankles and feet ached severely (first day). Aching distress in the ankles, feet, and toes, with sharp pains in the toes (fourth and fifth days). My ankles, feet, and toes ache and pain me so severely I cannot walk without great difficulty (third day). The soles of my feet and heels feel as if they had been pounded; cannot bear to have my boots on (third day). My feet and feeling as if they had been pounded (fourth day).
Generalities
Felt weary (after one hour). Very languid (seventh evening); (fifth and sixth days); (third day). Languid all day (second day). Great lassitude (fourth and fifth days, after third dose, sixth day, ninth and eleventh days). Great lassitude; could with difficulty get about (third day); great lassitude (fourth day). Very languid all day yesterday and this morning (eleventh day).
Peculiar sensation as though I would like to get away out of sight and lie down (after one hour). Felt somewhat sore and lame, in the morning (second day). Felt as if I had had a spell of sickness (third day). Rheumatic pains in every part of the body, excepting the back (after second dose, sixth day). Those rheumatic symptoms have all continued since the fourth day; the last three days it has rained most of the time; the dampness of the air has aggravated the symptoms most wonderfully, especially nights; pains in shin-bones, very hard to endure (eleventh day); rheumatic symptoms lasted eight weeks. All the pains aggravated by motion (third day). For ten days, every day about 10 A.M. my head would commence to ache, with severe aching pains in the back, but more especially in the legs; would gradually increase until 3 P.M. when the pains in the legs were so severe I had to lie down to get relief; with this there was great despondency and weakness; from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. it would gradually pass a way, and all the evening I would feel perfectly well. The effects in the legs did not entirely leave until four weeks subsequent to taking the medicine.
Sleep
Disposition to yawn and stretch (third day). Sleepy all the evening (sixth day). Slept good until 3 A.M.; very restless after that (second night). Had a restless night, my ankles and feet pained me so severely (third night). Sleep disturbed and restless (second day). Restless night (seventh night).
Fever
Paroxysms of chilliness, and cold, shivering sensations, followed by feverishness (which was reduced by hot baths and Aconite), (after two hours, second day). Chills and a shivering sensation. Feel very cold (third day). Face hot and flushed (second day). Hands hot and dry (fourth day). Palms of the hands hot and dry (second day). Slight perspiration (first and second nights).
Conditions Aggravation
(Morning). In bed, frontal headache; tongue coated white; sweet, flat taste; tonsils congested; dryness of fauces; distress in epigastrium. (Forenoon). Pains in region of spleen; 10 A.M. to 3 A.M. the symptoms. (Afternoon). Pain in temples; pain in left forearm and fingers. (Evening). 9 P.M. dull headache; tonsils congested; eructations of sour air; pains in umbilical region.
(Dampness). Rheumatic symptoms. (Full inspiration). Pain in region of heart. (Motion). Light feeling in head; pain in forehead; pains. (Pressure on epigastrium). Distress. (Reading).
Headache. (After stool). Pains in liver; pains in bowels.
(Walking). pains in liver; Pains in bowels; cutting pain in ankle.
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.