Inclination to lie down, yet when he goes to bed he cannot close his eyes to sleep. Aversion to work (first day). Disinclination for physical effort. Aversion to moving about. Reflex and motor functions weak. Muscles weak and flabby.(1150) Relaxation of the whole body. Excessive languor. Lassitude and debility of the voluntary muscles, with vertigo on motion. Feeling of great exhaustion. Prostration. Profound prostration. Excessive prostration all night. Complete prostration, motionless, and apparently insensible. Nervous excitability. Nervous and shaky on smoking.(1160) Smoking makes him nervous if he exceeds his usual amount. Very nervous for several years, especially after smoking, in the morning. Restlessness. Great restlessness.
Restlessness and sleeplessness, with jerking of the muscles. Restlessness, requiring continual change of place. Restless and excited condition. Restless drives her from place to place, with constant sighing (tenth day). Vertigo when standing and sitting, at last becoming painful; frequently obliged to change his position, and when standing, was frequently obliged to stand upon one foot and frequently change the position of the body, to lean or support the body in some way; while sitting, was obliged to stretch out or bend up the feet and move them back and forth; while reading, the arm speedily became fatigued from holding the book, at times associated with stitching in the fingers, especially in the thumbs; even in bed was frequently obliged to change the position, and also while asleep I became very restless, so that the sleep was frequently interrupted, and was often weary in the morning. Following this, there was complete loss of power of co-ordination of antagonistic muscles, so that while standing, the knees gave way, or on sitting down, I fell with my full weight on the chair. I became unable to draw my clothes on to my limbs without supporting myself. At times the gait became slow and shuffling, the steps short, scarcely raising the feet from the ground, so that I frequently stumbled and became weary; it was especially difficult to go upstairs, especially if the steps were high; such an ascent caused anxiety and dread of falling backward, so that I went with the body bent forward. This was associated with transient attacks of vertigo while walking in the open air, especially on suddenly looking upward, also with great weakness and speedy fatigue, without confusion of the head and without difficulty in performing mental labor, with at times nosebleed without apparent cause. One evening, while sitting, as usual, drinking beer and smoking, there was a sudden peculiar creeping chill along the back with general weakness; this was ascribed to a draft of air, so that I changed my place, but the symptom was repeated from time to time, with such aversion to my cigar, that I threw it away and went home. On my way home, I was attacked with a dull pressive headache on the lower portion of the frontal bone; while undressing, on going to bed, I was attacked with a shaking chill, soon followed by dry heat, and afterwards perspiration; the sleep which followed was interrupted by vivid dreams, from which I awoke with perspiration pouring from the whole body, greatly exhausted, and with head confused; on rising in the morning, I had a dull distressing headache in the frontal region, as though there were an actual pressure from above downward within the skull; the headache was completely relieved by a horizontal position; this was associated with thirst, a coated tongue, and loss of appetite. On attempting to walk, I had pains in the loins, small of the back, and nape of the neck; the gait was slow and anxious, accompanied by vertigo and a terrible pressing headache; when walking, my left foot frequently failed to make a step, as do soldiers on changing the step. In the afternoon there was considerable bleeding on the left nostril, with some relief to the headache, but later, in the evening, on attempting to make some visits, the pressive headache became worse, and concentrated in the left side; this, however, disappeared on going to bed, in the evening, but the sleep was filled with vivid dreams. The next morning the headache returned, was concentrated in the left side, with great weakness, thirst, p73 and loss of appetite, and with no inclination to smoke; hemorrhage from the left nostril returned, and lasted for a quarter of an hour, consisting of black blood. To-day my gait was very unsteady, tottering, and assisted by a cane. The urine was increased in quantity and of a deep yellowish-brown color. On the subsequent day there were, in addition, tearing pains in the temporal muscles, the epistaxis recurred, the blood being thick, dark, tenacious. This condition continued unabated for some time, after which it gradually improved until perfectly food health returned, with less desire for Tobacco and with greatly lessened use of it. In the course of an hour a patient has been seen to sit on every chair in the room, reline in various positions on sofas, armchairs, bed, or floor, sit on the edge of the table, and give, as a reason, that no place or position seemed comfortable, and he was compelled by an irresistible restlessness to this constant change.(1170) Incline to faint. Faintness, etc. Sudden faintings. Quite collapsed, with cold sweats (in one hour). Frequent attacks of faintness. Attacks of syncope and unconsciousness. Violent syncope. Profound collapse, with pale face, with cold sweat. Hyperaesthesia of different nervous branches. Anesthesia more or less complete, especially of the left side of the extremities and of the tip of the tongue.(1180) General numbness. General numbness, commencing first in tips of fingers, toes, and tongue. Complete loss of sensation, of voluntary motion, and of respiration. Feeling as though the blood were circulating more rapidly and violently (soon).
Inability to lie on the left side; it caused so much pain and palpitation. Painful cramp. Cramps and twitching. Different neuralgias, as of N. pudendus ext., awakening him from good refreshing sleep, at 4 A.M., with painful erections and strangury, and passing off about noon after micturating a watery urine six or eighth times or eighth times; of the plexus coelia- cus, with continual sour eructations; of the fifth left intercostal nerve; of the right plexus brachialis; as soon as one neuralgia ceases, another starts in it place. Drawing pains over the whole body. Violent pressive pain, with uneasiness of the whole body and anxious perspiration.(1190) Dread of motion. During low barometer, and when the wind blows, the pains return, and they can only sometimes be relieve by hot applications to the stomach, by lying on the back, and by a strict diet (notwithstanding his good appetite), during the two, three, or four days.
Aggravation of all the symptoms from great heat, great cold, and especially from stormy weather. Aggravation by walking, riding in a carriage, and especially from the jarring of a railway train. The left side of the body suffers more than the right.
She feels better in the open air.
Skin
Objective. Jaundice. Cases of jaundice in healthy young men.
Skin pallid and presented an anaemic appearance. This skin gradually assumes a peculiar grayish tinge, which may be said to occupy a medium between the paleness of chlorosis and that of other cachexia.(1200) Increased turgescence of the skin, with violent itching and slight general perspiration. Skin livid, covered with cold sweat. Red itching eruption over the whole back (after five days). Red spots on the face (first day). Red spots on the right shoulder, with burning when touched (tenth day). Many pimples on the forehead, with itching, which is relieved for a short time by rubbing (third day). Itching pimples on the small of the back and fingers (after eleven days).
Itching pimples on the chest (third day). Papular eruption.(1210) Pustular eruption on the nape of the neck and upper extremities. Gritty elevations on both cheeks, beneath the eyes, perceptible only on touch (first day). Small itching blisters on the body, surrounded by red areolae, and filled with yellow liquid, with sore pain on touch (after five days).
Dryness of the skin. Subjective. Increased vulnerability of the skin, so that the slightest wound or abrasion is followed by a high grade of inflammation. Trembling sensation in the skin as though it were being torn. Formication of the left lower extremities from the knee to the toes (third day).(1220) Violent itching. Violent itching of the whole surface. Itching, here and there on the body, provoking scratching, and afterwards disappearing (third day). Frequent itching, as from fleas, on the face, in the evening (second day). Itching on the right hypochondriac region. Itching, as from fleas, on the arm and neck (third day). Itching on the thighs.
Sleep
Sleepiness. Much yawning (second, third, fourth, and fifth days). Yawning and sleepiness after dinner (first day). Much yawning after dinner (first day). Drowsy. Sleepiness (after one and a half hours). Great inclination to sleep.(1230) Very sleepy towards evening (third and fourth days). Promotes sleep.
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.