Generalities
The patient looks intoxicated; the eyes and face red. Great weakness after a short walk; the limbs feel bruised; the small of the back and loins are painful, yet he experiences the symptoms only after sitting down; on rising and walking about he seems better. Unusually weak (sleepy) in the afternoon, disappearing after walking (second day). Weakness, in the morning (second day). Unusually weary very soon after playing with the children, in the evening (second day). Great weariness and heaviness of the whole body after a meal; such sleepiness that the eyes close; better in the open air. Great weariness.
Weariness and indolence only while sitting, not in the least after walking awhile. Lassitude and heaviness of the whole body.
Great prostration. Faintness. Occasional feeling of faintness (after second dose). Great restlessness three evenings in succession, with pressive headache and feverish heat.
Restlessness. Indescribable sense of nervousness, creating a fear that an overdose had been taken (after third dose). He does not know where to lay his legs on account of uneasiness and heaviness; he lies now in one place, now in another, and turns from side to side. All parts of the body upon which he lies, even in bed, are painful, as if bruised (After seventeen hours). The whole body seems pressed full, associated with impeded respiration.
Skin
Eruptions. Corrodes the skin and draws blisters. Papular eruption on the upper and lower lips (from vinegar of Rue).
After touching it for some time, the skin becomes inflamed and the hands swell. Erysipelas of the hands and forehead. Erysipelas of the hands. Very acute itching on the hands, which became red; after some hours there developed vesicles filled with transparent liquid, and surrounded by a very red areola; these vesicles were more numerous between the fingers than on the rest of the hand; they showed a general disposition to become clustered, and were somewhat like the pustules occasioned by the itch insect; on the next day, the itching became very violent, the vesicles completely covered both hands, the itching was almost intolerable, especially at night; when the vesicles became confluent, very large phlyctenules developed and resembled an incomplete vesication by cantharides; this condition persisted ten or twelve days, after which the inflammation subsided and the hands desquamated. Even after three weeks small vesicles continued to appear in the palms of the hands, and were disposed to form groups, as if caused by the bites of insects. Very great itching developed on the great toes, and a crop of vesicles identical with those between the hands; this eruption on the feet was certainly not caused by direct contact of Rue, but resulted from the infection of the hands, and did not occur until several days after the trouble commenced on the hands. The next year the same man came again in contact with the leaves; the effects were more intense than before; for three months the hands seemed denuded of skin, they looked as if they had been boiled, and were completely excoriated; there was also intense fever, keeping the patient in bed five or six days{350]. Next morning he observed that both his hands were remarkably red and warm; on the third day the redness and pain had increased to such an extent that the sensation was as if both hands had been exposed to scalding vapors; he rubbed them gently with sweet oil; towards evening they were densely covered with water blisters, especially at the tips of the fingers, which had been most exposed to the pollen; on the fourth day the swelling of the hands still continued to a considerable extent, between the blisters they showed a dark-red color with a bluish tinge; on the fifth and sixth days the swelling likewise spread over the posterior surface of the arm as far as the elbow; embrocations of Chamomile and Elder flowers were applied, and the blisters were opened; within the space of four weeks the epidermis of the hands gradually peeled off, even in localities where no blisters had existed. Sensations. Itching about the corners of the mouth (third day). Formication on the thigh, so that he was obliged to scratch the side upon which he was not lying. Deep fine stitches very close together in both arms that change to a kind of biting itching, with redness and heat of the skin of the arm.
Hot tingling prickling in the soles of the feet. Itching over the whole body, relieved by scratching, in the morning on rising from bed (after twenty-four hours). Itching of the left upper arm, provoking scratching (after eight hours).
Sleep
Yawning and stretching in the house, followed by sleepiness.
Yawning (incompletely) several times, that is not satisfying; in the midst;of yawning he was obliged to stop. Yawning, with fever.
Much yawning, especially at night, even after eating (first day). Yawning, with stretching of the arms and legs, especially of the former. Great sleepiness, after eating. Sleepy, in the forenoon. Overpowered by sleep, heavy, the head seems befogged (second day). She fell so soundly asleep, immediately on lying down in the evening, that it was difficult to arouse her.
Excessive sleepiness after eating; he fell asleep while reading; sleep with partial consciousness; he awoke with a cry of extreme fright on the slightest touch. Starting up in fright and jerking and feet, during the afternoon nap. She tossed from side to side in extreme uneasiness, woke nearly every hour, and could with difficulty fall asleep again. During night but little sleep, and great restlessness (after third dose).
Night sleep restless; he was obliged to lie here and there, without heat of the body or cough, or any thought that prevented sleep; he was obliged to rise three times to urinate, and passed an unusually large amount of urine. Uneasy sleep, with fretful morose dreams. Unrefreshing sleep, from 3 to 4 A.M., afterwards inability to sleep, with heaviness of the head (fifth day).
Uneasiness at night; she awoke frequently, had nausea and painful twisting about the umbilicus; at times it seemed as though something rose to the pit of the throat, and as if water would accumulate in the mouth. Awake a long time at night, internal confusion of the head, without special pain, prevents his falling asleep (third day). Frequent waking at night as if it were time to rise. Vivid confused dreams. Constant fatiguing dreams, at night (fourth day). Vivid dreams during sleep (first night). Dreamy sleep, vivid dreams (first night).
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness or rather shaking chill over the whole body, with gooseflesh, associated with yawning and stretching.
Frequent chilliness and shuddering during the day (first day). Chilliness and coldness of the whole body. Internal chilliness; she could not get warm (a sensation that she always experienced just before the appearance of the menses).
Shivering of the whole body, even by a warm stove; the hands and feet feel cold, with internal and external warmth of the face and dulness of the head, as in catarrhal fever, with thirst, which disappeared after drinking once, though it had been very violent before. Creeping coldness over half the head and face.
Coldness creeps over him, especially up the back. General coldness of the extremities. Shivering over the back and chest.
Sensation of coldness running up and down the back. Coldness down the spine. Internal coldness in the arms. Hands and feet cold (fourth day). A sensation of internal coldness, almost like falling asleep, on the inner side of the leg, from the sole of the foot to the knee, without shivering (after twenty-four hours). Heat. Fever, with yawning. Flushes of heat over the body (after three doses). Heat over the whole body, and feverish restlessness, with anxiety, as though he would die, that took away his breath, and great heat, especially of the face, without thirst, with white- coated tongue, that seemed red and dry, in the afternoon. Heat all over. Temperature somewhat elevated. Great heat in the head, with feverish restlessness of the whole body and anxiety (about 11 P.M.). Heat in the head.
Increased warmth of the face. Internal and external heat of the face with redness. Sweat. Sweat broke out over the whole body, after walking in the open air (after six hours). Sweat, while walking in the open air, in the afternoon (third day).
Perspiration on the crown of the head (immediately). (Cold sweat on the face, in the morning in bed, with redness of the cheeks).
Slight perspiration on the back of the nose; the nose and also the cheeks are warmer than natural, with slight redness of the face, without thirst.
Aggravation
(Morning), On rising from bed, vertigo; after rising, headache; on waking, dulness in brain; mucus in canthi; pressure in pit of stomach; on rising, itching; in bed, cold sweat.
(Afternoon), Ill-humored; thirst for cold water. (Evening), Ill-humored; on going to sleep, dulness in brain; while reading, sensation of heat in eyes; after lying down, cough; restlessness. (Night), Pressure in pit of stomach; pressure in lower abdomen; emissions; pressure in lower part of chest; gnawing on costal cartilage; drawing in last two joints of last two fingers; pain in thighs; uneasiness. (Open air), Pressure on the inner surface of right eye, with lachrymation. (Brushing or picking teeth), Bleeding of gums. (When coughing), Pain over forehead. (After eating), Veins of hand swollen; sleepiness.
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.
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