Intermittent stitches in the muscles of the right thigh, when sitting (after twelve hours). Knee. She is unable to stand long because the knees are very weak. The knees feel weary, as if they would give way. Drawing, with pressure, in the outer side of the left knee- joint (after five minutes). Tearing in the side of the right knee on every step. A few stitches in the outer parts of the left knee, when sitting (after two hours and a half).
Sticking in the right knee (sixth day). Burning in the knees.
Leg. Erysipelatous inflammation on the right tibia, with violent burning pain (after four days). Tension in right calf when walking. Violent tearing-tensive pain in the calves in bed, soon after midnight, disappearing almost entirely after rising, eight morning in succession. Pinching, with pressure, long the right tibia when walking. Foot and Toes. Swelling of the feet, most violent in the morning, for a fortnight. The feet are somewhat swollen and are very painful when walking; she would prefer to slip along on soft ground; she feels every little stone and can scarcely get along (first days). Heaviness of the feet.
Painful pressure in the sole of the left foot, when standing (after three hours and a half). Tension in the feet. Prickling in the toes, as if asleep.
Generalities
Convulsions resulting in death, in a child, from the powder placed upon the head. Violent trembling of the body, especially the third. A sort of slight jerking, once only, of the upper lip, then of the hands, fingers, or thighs, especially of the left side, and always from right to left (first day, then after a lapse of five days, and then again after several weeks).
Frequent weak yawning, with lachrymation (after one hour). He feels so weak all the time that he comes near falling. Weakness of the whole body, as if he would become very sick. In the morning, when waking, more weary than every; all her body feels painful, suddenly attacked in the street with an uncommon weariness and with dulness of the head, as if he had taken liquor; his eyes closed; he was almost unable to get upstairs (after one hour). Sudden extreme weariness, her eyes close involuntarily. She felt tried and broken down, so that she wanted to lie down and sleep all the time, for two days (after seven days). Lassitude in the forenoon, while sitting down, until he falls asleep; he disturbed after three-quarters of an hour, and starts up as if in affright, whereas he generally wakes very calmly and easily; afterwards his head feels heavy (third day after a large dose). Heaviness with lassitude, in the whole body; feels relieved by lying down, for three days.
Lassitude, for several days. Relaxation of the whole body.
Anxious restlessness. He starts at the least noise. Sensitiveness to cold (first day). She feels bruised all over; would like to lie down all the time, walking and standing, are extremely distressing. Intense but transient bruised pain in various parts of the body. He does not feel well, without pain, for eight minutes. Intense pain in all the bones, especially in the joints, as if the interior of the bones were scraped and cut with a sharp knife, especially in the right arm; it continued uninterruptedly all day, more or less violent, increased by old, relieved for a short time by moving the arm very fast; lasting some time in warmth and during the night. Many of the pains are felt first in the right, afterwards on the left side, or extend from right to left, for instance, headache, pain in the side, pain in the limbs. Considerable prickings under the skin all over, especially about the fingers and toes, for many days. Shooting stitches in the whole body, now here, now there (fourth day). Beating dull stitches in several parts of the body, almost like pressure, and sometimes pinching, intermitting several times, returning after four or seven beats of the pulse, and instance, in the cheek, tip of the tongue, epigastrium, groin, penis, lower arm, metacarpal bone of the little finger (first days). Pulsation in all the vessels, in the evening before falling asleep. Cold increases the pains and the uncomfortable feeling. Most of the primary effects of large doses last five days; in one prover many of the symptoms returned after the second five days, and then disappeared for weeks. The primary action, particularly the pains in the joints, the weakness and drowsiness, seemed to be especially violent in the last hours of the forenoon. He feels more comfortable in the recumbent posture than when standing or walking.
Skin
Objective. Abdomen, hands, and chest are covered with red spots, becoming redder in the open air, of the size of the point of a pin, but not elevated. Red spots on the left arm, occasionally red points, which are not elevated, causing merely a hot sensation, not itching, and continuing in the open air (after two hours). Red elevated streak transversely across the left forearm. Both hands dotted with small red spots, the left more than the right. Redness of one hand and red spots upon it. The redness of the spot and streaks was always worse in the cold. Yellow spots on the fingers. The skin peels off on the sides of the finger-nails in several places (after five to six days). The skin of the hands becomes dry and rough, in the forenoon; it becomes smooth again in the afternoon. Small pimples behind the right ear, for five days (after three days). Small burning-itching pimples in the skin, on both forearms. White blister, with a red areola and burning pain on the forepart of the left knee. A kind of itch between the fingers of the right hand, which itches considerably, but only at night when in bed; nothing could be seen in the daytime. Subjective.
Burning-creeping sensation, here and there, about the body.
Excessive itching all over, in bed at night; scratching causes a violent burning, for an hour (third day). Itching of the skin, which woke him, after midnight. A kind of hot feeling, and a slight painfulness in various parts of the skin, especially in the face, more perceptible when stooping; washing with cold water affords relief; afterwards that feeling changes to a slight tension, especially in the left side of the face (after two hours). Violent itching of the left cheek; specks on the face, like herpes, disappearing after several days (first and second days). Violent itching of the hands and feet, as if she had the itch, for three nights in succession (second day).
Sleep
Drowsiness, which closed his eyes (after five hours). Sleepiness all day; the eyes constantly closed, as if he had not slept the preceding night. Great sleepiness, so that she could keep awake with the greatest difficulty; she sleeps as soon as she sits down, and is like one dead. She is constantly obliged to stretch, with cracking in the shoulders and back. Constant desire to sleep, even in the daytime. Contrary to his habit, he sleeps in the afternoon, and feels extremely peevish on being disturbed from his sleep. Very sound sleep without dreams. His night sleep is disturbed by confused unremembered dreams. In the morning he starts up from sleep as if in affright (after twenty-three hours). Restless unrefreshing sleep. Restless sleep, tosses about and dream much. Restless night, with an aching pain in the right thigh and right upper arm, for six days (after one day). Towards evening, a general discomfort; he stretches and falls asleep; during sleep his mind seems to be worried by all sorts of strange thoughts; his sensation were quite weak; no images in his dreams (first day). A crowd of ideas prevent his falling asleep, several evening. In the evening, when half dreaming in bed, he has strange thoughts, a s if they were separate from him, and more important than he, and as if he could not drive them away (first day). Confused dreams. Vivid dream, with details about helping other people and making them feel glad (after one day). Lascivious dreams; in the morning, with scanty emission of semen and relaxed penis; he is conscious of dreaming and of an emission; followed by painful erection and extreme lassitude; feels easier on getting into the open air (second day fifth days).
Fever
Chilliness. Violent chilliness, at 5 P.M.; coldness over the back, as if dashed with old water; his teeth chatter as from internal coldness; the coldness is relieved only by the warm stove; it lasts full two hours, and then ceases gradually; afterwards he feels warm all over, and some sweat breaks out at last, especially on the forehead; the lower limbs are simply warm; thirst; the warmth and sweat last three-quarters of an hour at most; in the following night stitching in chest, an cough. Chilliness all over, followed by a kind of warmth, and as if a creeping would set in, especially in the thighs (after one hour). Fever; chilliness, at 9.30 P.M., so that he goes to bed; followed by shaking chill, so that the feather bed which was usually too much for him, did not suffice; after half an hour, he became alternately hot and cold, for thirty minutes; afterwards he became oppressed, with profuse perspiration, so that he changed his shirt; sweat was accompanied by constant chilliness (first 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.