Three times have had hard stitching pains in the left spermatic cord, lasting from five to ten minutes each time (ninth day).
Hard stitching pain in the left spermatic cord and testicle, at 11 A.M. (ninth day). A number of times had stitching-drawing pains along the left spermatic cord (ninth day). Drawing pains in the testicles once (fifth day). Dull distress in the testicles, with drawing pains along the left spermatic cord (eighth day).
Twice had dull pains in the testicles, more in the right one (ninth day). Slight seminal emission (first day). Female.
Stinging darting pains passing through the uterine region, from side to side (after one hour, second day). Fluor albus of a mild kind, but so profuse and combined with so great depression of spirits and weakness that she refused to make further trials; although the medicine removed a pleuritic or pulmonary pain from which she was suffering at the time. Since that time she has occasionally taken it with good effects, for the same pain, which she has had frequently for years. The first, or at most the second dilution have always removed the pain very speedily (in one-quarter of an hour, and sooner). At 4 P.M. had a flow of whites, about a teaspoonful, without pain (third day).
Leucorrhoea, slightly, in the evening ( a symptom she never had before), (fourth day); still more of leucorrhoea (fifth day).
Feeling as if menstruation (which has been irregular of late) was coming on (sixth day). (Menses have been more regular since the proving), (after two months and a half). Catamenia one week too soon; this never occurred before, but the discharge formerly had been too dark, with considerable pain; this time there was no pain, and the discharge was natural. The monthly discharge, which is always copious, at once became very profuse, amounting to hemorrhage and continued with violence for three days. In the morning, on awakening, found menses had appeared for the first time since weaning her babe (two months), (eighth day).
Respiratory Organs
Coughed a good deal every day, for two or three days (after taking one or two powders, morning and night). Coughed a good deal to-day; constant inclination to cough (third day). A small sore spot in the upper part of the windpipe; continues all day (fifth and sixth days); grew better during the day (seventh day).
Chest
Sharp stabbing pains in the pectoralis major muscles for five minutes, followed by a burning distress where the pains were (eighth day). During the evening, pain in left side, under the arm, nearer the back, severe, lasted till bedtime (after last dose). Aching pain (slight) in the chest all the forenoon (fifth day).
Heart and Pulse
Audible pulsation of the heart for half an hour (after second dose, fifth day). Pulse 80 (generally 60) for two hours (fifth day).
Neck and Back
Stiffness in right side of neck, in the morning (fifth day).
Habitual backache, with headache at intervals (fourth day).
Lameness of back and loins particularly (second night). After a long walk, felt a shooting pain across the lower part of back for about half an hour (after eight hours); pain then settled in the left side, where it remained during the evening (first day). Dull pains in the lumbar region (eighth day). Pains in the lumbar region (ninth day). Wake up frequently during the night with some lameness in lumbar region (third night). Awoke frequently with aching in the loins and hips, causing frequent change of position in bed, which seemed too hard, after 1 o’clock (second night). Weakness in the loins, and a general feeling as if menses were coming on, which ought not to appear for five days (after one hour); sensation like approaching continues (second day).
Extremities
Awake frequently with aching of the limbs, lameness of back and loins particularly (second night). Frequent flying pains in the hands, feet, and toes (eighth day). Stiffness of the fingers, with dull pains in the ankles and toes (third day). Slight drawing pains, by spells, in the fingers and toes (fourth day).
Superior Extremities
Rheumatism in right shoulder (seventh day). Lameness of the muscles of the right upper arm (after two days). The muscles of the arms ache, and are quite stiff (especially the flexors); passed off in a short time after moving them (ninth day). Frequent pains in the wrists and fingers, lasting but a moment (after six hours). Drawing pains in the left metacarpal bones (fifth day). Fingers stiff (ninth day). Sharp pains in the first joint of the right forefinger (third day). All the forenoon have had hard drawing pains from the first to the second joint of the right middle finger (second day).
Inferior Extremities
Hip and Thigh. Sharp neuralgic pains, passing form the hip-joint down to the middle of the thigh, along the great ischiatic nerve (after nine hours). Drawing pains in the sartorius muscle (left), when walking (after three hours). Knee. Pain in both knees, aching, worse in left (third day). For two hours, while in bed, had severe pain in the whole right knee, of a dull aching character (fourth day). Sharp drawing pains along the outside of the left knee, half way down the leg (eighth day).
Some rheumatism in right knee (sixth day). Leg. Great heaviness of legs, while walking (fifth day). At noon, began to feel great weakness in the legs; could scarcely stand, and walking became difficult; it was a “trembling weakness,” she said, with a sensation of great weariness and heaviness; this continued till she went to bed (after five hours, second day). Nervous pains in the legs, particularly the left one. Felt as if she could not sit still (fifth day). Slight soreness in left calf (after two days).
Soreness in calf of right leg; slight pain while walking; very painful on going down stairs; the soreness is like that following cramp in leg (after third dose); the soreness continued about three days, and then the other symptoms disappeared at the same time. Ankle. Dull pains in the ankles (second day). Dull pains in the right ankle-joint (third day). Severe pain in left ankle, extending to the hip, continuing for some hours (fourth and fifth days). Drawing pains in the right ankle (fourth day).
Flying pains in the ankles (ninth day). Foot. Accompanying the desire to urinate, in the afternoon and night, was a nervous sensation in the feet, a constant, irresistible desire to move the feet, almost impossible to control (third day); this continued through the next day, and was worse at night. The continued sensation in the feet was felt on the fifth day.
Generalities
Great debility, with a feverish feeling, in the evening (first day). Great debility (second day). Weakness on waking (third day). Arose in the morning feeling generally languid and sick, with right side of head aching (I am almost always very well in the morning), (second day). Feeling very languid, in the morning (second day). Very tired from a hard day’s work (after thirteen hours, second day). Languid, with a gloomy state of the mind (fourth day). Very languid and feverish (eighth day). Very languid, with great depression of spirits (tenth day). Went to bed feeling much exhausted (first evening). Little dulness in the morning after good rest (fifth day). Disinclination to move during the forenoon, with great fatigue after walking (eighth day). More miserable at night; feel as if I had taken cold (sixth day). Always more miserable at bedtime. Anxious miserable feeling (second day); same feeling, with headache, the first half of the day (third day). Bruised feeling. On waking in the night, feeling of general discomfort, like that preceding fever (second night).
Has not felt well since the third day (eighth day). Although quite severe in its effects, they disappeared wholly after a night’s sleep (second night). Symptoms not so strongly marked (after thirteen hours, second day). The effect lasted six days, gradually decreasing during that time.
Skin
There is an eruption breaking out on my ankles, itching severely at night (eleventh day). The eruption has extended half way up to my knees, and several large blotches are on my back; the eruption is as large as a three-cent piece, and from that down to a fine eruption; the color is a dark-red; it itches more or less all the time, but at night the itching is most intolerable; the eruption stands out from the skin very prominently, and is exceedingly hard; the last two days it is commencing to pass away. This eruption may not be the effects of the Pulsatilla, but I never had anything like it before, and I shall attribute it to the Pulsatilla until it is proven otherwise (twenty-second day).
Slight rash on back and shoulders, lasting about two days (after one does). Itching on right side of chest; small scattered pimples and red points skin assumed a rose like redness on slight friction; itching was quite intense at times, chiefly on right breast, in the evening, while undressing, also in bed, and occasionally in the day; it lasted five days (twenty-second day).
In four weeks itching blotches, light-red and rash like, on right breast, itching severely at night. In three days it spread all over the chest in little red dots or stipples, lasting a week; relieved by scratching; worse on being heated. In eight weeks much itching on back and shoulders, small stipples, and general erythematous redness (never had the slightest skin eruption). Red rash over the body, face, neck, back, chest, arms, legs, abdomen; most on chest and abdomen; red blotches, and in some places red points running together making blotches (after sixteen days). Three days later, erythema still very severe.
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.