Needle like stitches in the heel, in the morning, in bed. Pain in corns.
Generalities
Slight involuntary motion of muscles (after fifty-five minutes).
Slight tremors (after sixty minutes). Very restless all night (second night). Great debility (after forty minutes). Debility, with vertigo and pain in the hypochondria. Great weakness. Very great prostration of strength. The prostrating effects of the drug compelled the suspension of all business, and I kept the bed during the fever, this afternoon (third day). General sensitiveness and weakness. Sensation of weariness and lassitude throughout the system (after one hour). With the pain at root of nose of the same feeling of lassitude which induces me to retire early (after six hours). Feeling of weariness and lassitude pervading the whole system, in the afternoon (second day). Great lassitude and weakness, with the qualmish, sickening feeling (after three hours, second day). All the principal symptoms, including the great feeling of lassitude and weariness, increased; scarcely able to keep on my feet; the feeling of lassitude and restlessness continues to increase, and am able to attend to but little business (third day). Lassitude, and without ambition, in cloudy damp weather (second day); lassitude (third day); lassitude and sick feeling all day, as if she would have to lie down (eighth day); lassitude, in the morning (fifteenth day).
Great languor, with an irresistible propensity to yawn (after fifty-five minutes); still continuing (after ninety minutes and subsequently). Extremely languid (after eighty minutes); (after seventy-five minutes). The dull languid feeling remained for some days after the proving. Feel very languid from the fever, this afternoon; scarcely able to sit up, in the evening (third day).
Very languid (eighth morning). Awoke feeling as tired as when I retired, with a pain under the left clavicle (eighth morning). I retired, with a pain under the left clavicle (eight morning).
Awoke feeling very languid; disinclined to rise (seventh day).
Awoke in the morning feeling very languid and as tired as on retiring at night; did not rise at my usual time, 5.30 A.M.
(eighth day). Exceedingly languid, in the morning; dislike to move (ninth day). The languid and sleepy feeling is distressing (ninth day). Awoke feeling as tires as the night previous (eleventh morning). Tired and stupid (twelfth day). Languid and dull, inclined to sleep all the time (fourteenth day). The dull languid feeling did not leave at all while I continued taking the drug, nor until about three weeks after I had ceased. Torpor of my whole system came on, with very frequent yawning (after seventy minutes). Faintness. Awoke this morning feeling badly, severe headache, and a tired sensation in every part of the body (twelfth day). Neuralgic pains in various parts of the system.
Pain in the superficial bony parts of the body (not in the fleshy parts and not in the joints), at 10 P.M.; on touching the painful spot the pain disappeared and suddenly appeared in other places.
Usually it occasions a quickly diffused and transient, but at the same time a very peculiar nervous thrill, which pervades the whole system, and is often extended to the minutest extremity.
Pulsation through the whole body. Racking and burning pains.
Shooting pains from the right thumb to the symphysis menti, that continued during the day (twelfth day). The pains were always accompanied by a burning sensation, whether in the head, chest, or stomach. General insensibility. After eating but a little feels worse, with difficult breathing, nausea, water-brash, lassitude, almost to fainting, with cold sweat, until midnight; awoke several times after going to sleep (second day). For the unpleasant of effects of Sanguinaria, such as nausea, burning at the stomach, faintness, vertigo, diminished vision, and general insensibility, coldness, reduction of the force and frequency of the pulse, great irregularity of action, and often palpitation of heart, extreme prostration of muscular strength, and convulsive rigidity of the limbs, Opium is decidedly the most effectual remedy. Constant change of the symptoms, when a new one arises the earlier cease. The peculiar drug symptoms passed off one after another, in about ten days. A long ride in the country seemed to aggravate the symptoms (sixth day). The most of the symptoms appear to be aggravated in the evenings and mornings. I was not entirely free from the effects fro the space of two hours. It acts upon the circulation something like Digitalis (from larger doses).
Skin
Ulcer about the nail. Increased itching of an old tubercle-like eruption on the skin.
Sleep
Very frequent yawning (after sixty minutes). Yawning, with disposition to lie down (after one hour). Disposition to yawn and take deep inspirations, which cause intense tearing pain in right breast, in the afternoon (second day). Drowsiness coming on gradually, causing an indisposition to move, or to make any mental exertion (after forty-five minutes). Very sleepy, it is almost impossible to keep awake, while reading (eighth day); the drowsiness continues did not wake at the usual time in the morning (ninth day). The demand for more sleep seems more urgent this morning than before; I yielded to the desire, sleeping an hour more than usual, but the inclination to “sleep on” remained the same (ninth day). The drowsy sleepy feeling is terrible; it seems impossible to get sleep enough (thirteenth and fourteenth days). One of the most prominent symptoms has been a sleepy feeling, and this remained until all the other symptoms of the drug had passed away. Very sleepy, could not keep awake ten minutes, while reading (eighth day). Starting from sleep, caused by a jerk through the whole body, several times (fourth day); restless sleep (sixth day); little sleep, many busy unpleasant dreams (seventh day). Passed a very restless night till towards morning perspiration broke forth freely, when most of the severe pains abated (third night). Woke earlier than usual. Woke at night, in fright, as if falling. Night sleepless. Dreams. Dreams of a frightful and disagreeable character. Many dreams of business matters, in which she was the main person concerned (second day); restless sleep, with dreams of business matters (fourth day); many dreams of occupation, with anxiousness (seventh day). Troublesome dreams and restless tossing all night, with painful sighing respiration, and considerable dyspnoea (first night). Dreamed of a sea-voyage two nights in succession, although he had never been at sea. Dreamed of a dead body, which he helped to dissect.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness in the evening, in bed, and shivering in the back, as if he had gooseflesh. Chilliness, with shaking and pain beneath the scapulae, on motion. Chill and nausea. Chill, with the headache. Light chills at 2 P.M., followed by hot flashes; pulse 95, for fifteen or twenty minutes, when burning fever set in, with exacerbation of all the symptoms; fever subsiding and pains abating, at 10 P.M. (third day). Coldness.
Coldness of the surface, more particularly of the extremities.
Cold and moist skin, with feeling of inward heat (seventh day).
Wrists cold and a profuse sweat on my forehead (after thirty minutes). Heat. Febrile condition came on at 2.30 P.M. (fourth day); the fever recurred four or five days, gradually subsiding, yet very regularly between 2 and 3 P.M. Very feverish state of the system (third morning). Slight flushes of heat, followed by chills (after three hours); and in less than an hour face flushed, with fever; hands hot (second day). Great increase of heat through the right shoulder and clavicle to the right breast, extending to the stomach and bowels (after three hours, second day). Burning heat, suddenly alternating with chilliness and shivering, at short intervals. Heat flying from the head to the stomach. Feels suddenly warm, it lasts only a few minutes (Fincke, 10). Glow of warmth over my body (after thirty-five minutes). Sweat. Perspired freely (after fifty minutes). Cold sweat (fifth day).
Aggravation
(Morning), After cold drinks, pain in right lower molar; after waking up, dry and raw sensation on tongue; pain in shoulder; in bed, stitches in heels; most symptoms. (Afternoon), Dimness of eyes. (Evening), Headache; tickling in throat, with cough; after lying down hacking cough; pain in left shoulder; pain in right forearm; while walking, weakness in knees and lower extremities; most symptoms. (Night), Colic, with pain in small of back; frequent micturition burning in soles of feet. (Hot drinks), Toothache. (While eating), Hacking cough. (After eating), Sweet things, burning in fauces; nausea. (Exercise), Frontal headache.
(Deep inspiration), Soreness in chest; constriction across breasts. (While lying down), Headache, with vertigo and earache.
(Motion), Headache; pain in shoulder-joint. (On moving and turning body), Stitches in left side. (A long ride), The symptoms. (Rising from a seat), Vertigo; frontal headache; pain in left hip-joint. (Rising quickly from stooping), Vertigo and faintness. (On smoking), Hiccough. (While standing still), Pain in right side of forehead, (Stooping), Headache; nausea; pain in epigastrium. (Swallowing), Pain in throat. (During and after touch), Pain beneath right nipple. (Touch of food), Pain in a hollow tooth. (Touch), Pain in nape of neck. (Turning head quickly), Vertigo and faintness. (Before vomiting), Anxiety.
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.