Sexual Organs
Prostate gland enlarged, feels hard and swollen to the touch (fifth day). Dull heavy pain in the left spermatic cord, moving along the cord to the testicles (third day).
Respiratory Organs
Hoarse, but the trachea and bronchi seem to be clear (seventh day). Respiration as if greatly fatigued (second day).
Back and Neck
Pain in the back and loins (first night). Sharp lancinating pain in the lumbar regions (fourth day). Dull pain in left lumbar region (seventh day). Feel very tired in the lumbar region (eleventh and twelfth days). Severe pain in the small of the back, in the morning (second day).
Extremities
Cuticle dry and the nails very brittle, soon after I commenced my proving. Rheumatic pain in the joints (second day).
Upper Limbs
Occasionally, during the day, sharp lancinating pain in the right shoulder, left heel, and in the right side of the face (eleventh day). Sharp sticking pain in the left shoulder (twelfth day).
Lower Limbs
Weariness of the lower extremities (second day). About 4 P.M., sharp pain in the neighborhood of the sciatic nerve, shooting down the thigh, lasted for a few minutes only (seventh day).
Generalities
Slight exertion produced syncope (eighteenth day). Restlessness and vigilance (first night). Great debility and prostration attended the copious diarrhoea (second day). For the past few days I have often felt very tired, almost to tired to move, for a few minutes at a time (fifth day). Disposition to lie down, great weariness and general malaise (second day). Feel very tired (fifth day). Weariness and nausea (second day) Great languor (third day). Great lassitude, in the evening (first day); general lassitude (ninth and fifteenth days); lassitude (twenty-fifth day). Nervous trembling (fourth day); trembling (fifth day).
Stitches in different parts of the body, in the right and left foot, back of the neck, left and right arm, and the forehead (ninth day). About noon, before dinner, sharp stitches, moving from one part to another, in both inguinal regions, lower jaw, right shoulder, left shoulder, forearms, and the temples, lasting about an hour (ninth day). Sharp lancinating pain in different parts of the body, occasionally through the day, in the arms, legs, feet, chest, and face (tenth day). Sticking pain in different parts of the body (twenty-second day). Symptoms generally worse in the afternoon (first day).
Sleep
Frequent yawning and shivering, in the afternoon (fifth day).
Yawning and nausea, in the morning, on rising (seventh day); yawning (ninth day); morning, on rising, yawning; feeling of tightness in nose; yawning and inclination to stretch (tenth day). Drowsiness all day (fifth day. Frequent waking from sleep, at night (third and fifth day). Restless before midnight (first night). Restless sleep; frequent waking during the night; waking so imperceptible that, without effect, I could not tell whether I had been asleep or not, and sometimes not even then (ninth night); slept better than last night, but sleep is still restless and uneasy (tenth night); slept well (fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth nights); sleep uneasy (seventeenth night). Lascivious dreams, with an emission (second night). Lascivious dreams (fifth and seventh days). Many vivid dreams (fourth night). Many dreams (fifth night); many dreams, mostly of an intellectual character, and about different events of my life, showing an uncommon activity of memory and of the intellectual faculties generally (sixth night); dreams indistinct; (seventh night); many dreams about ships and cargoes, wagons and teams, writing, fighting, and breakneck adventures, always coming off lucky (ninth night); many dreams, about the events of the day mostly (tenth night); many dreams about everyday occurrences; pleasant dreams (eleventh night); many dreams of an intellectual character (fourteenth night); many dreams of a pleasant character (fifteenth and sixteenth nights).
Fever
Easily chilled; chilliness, followed by urging to urinate (second day). Chilliness before noon, followed by fever and perspiration, at tended with moderate thirst (second night). Chilliness and heat, particularly towards evening (after second dose).
Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air (second day); very sensitive to cool air (third, fifth, seventh, and ninth days).
Feverish (third day). Feverish in the afternoon (seventh and eighth days). Heat of the forehead (after second dose). Lips hot, in the evening (first day). Copious warm perspiration, towards morning (first night). Perspiration upon the forehead, in the evening (first day). Disposition to perspire (second day).
Aggravation
(Afternoon). The symptoms. (Open air), Flow of tears.
Amelioration
(Bending forward). Colic.
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.