Complete relaxation and general prostration of strength, with heavy drowsiness. (Relieved by Carbo veg. 200th). General lassitude on getting up, lasting the whole day, with hoarseness; weakness, with little moral or physical inclination to work.
General fatigue, passing an excessive amount of urine. Fatigue, uneasiness, constant movements of the arms, legs, and trunk, and impossibility of doing anything or keeping quiet. Complete prostration of strength. Great prostration and pains, as if the whole body was bruised. Great restlessness, could not keep quiet anywhere, or in any position; felt that I must keep in motion, though walking aggravated all the symptoms. Restlessness, cannot remain in one place; uneasiness without a cause; apprehension, followed by vertigo, is compelled to sit down; chills, malaise, increasing fever becoming intense, with great excitement, gesticulations, redness of the cheeks, eyes sparkling in an extraordinary manner. Restlessness, excitement, passion; irresistible desire of moving the legs. Uneasiness, malaise, dissatisfaction, ennui, need of moving the head. Has to change position, has to sit down on the floor and move constantly. Is obliged to cry, with great restlessness, especially in lower extremities. Is obliged to change position every moment.
Agitation; cannot keep in one place; uneasiness without a cause; apprehension, afterwards vertigo; is obliged to sit down; chills, distressed; malaise, increasing fever, which becomes intense, with great excitement and gesticulations. Constant movements of the legs, arms, and trunk, with inability to do anything, cannot even keep quiet in one place. This state is preceded by malaise and oppression. Need of constantly moving the hands, feet, and head. Debility, syncope, with effusion or oedema of the legs and abdominal walls. Syncope, nervous crisis, with crying and screaming; general oedema. Oppression, malaise, continual movements of the arms, legs, and trunk; impossibility of doing anything, or of keeping quiet. The muscles of the whole body seem as if they were shorter; the pains are unbearable; slight fever. Difficulty of walking, on account of pains; extreme debility; thirst; want of appetite; after eating, the lassitude continued, but with gayety and desire to laugh, lasting till bedtime, followed by sadness; quiet sleeping, though accompanied with dreams. During a walk a disagreeable sensation, as is experienced after a shock or a fright; this lasted about half an hour, and was followed by great weakness. Muscular pains after wetting the hands in cold water. General pains, particularly of the bones of the arms. General pains, but principally located in the bones of the arms. Pains, with gouty swellings. Some pain and swelling. On being urged to dance, she replied with tears that she could not, on account of the violence of the pain in the joints of the feet and total loss of strength. Pain in the right inferior maxillary nerve, with a painful sensation in the left elbow-joint, as if the ligaments were relaxed. A few minutes after, slight rumbling in the sigmoid flexure, accompanied with a marked increase of heat in the stomach, ascending towards the thoracic cavity, with increased perspiration. Six minutes after, tendency to sleep, with painful headache and paleness; eight minutes after feels the head relieved, but pain in the nerves of the left internal surface of superior lip, with throbbing; eleven minutes after, slight pains in the stomach, in its great curvature. When these symptoms passed off, great sleepiness, heaviness above the eyes, and shooting pain in the left ischiatic tuberosity. He immediately yelled and fell down; they carried him into the house in agonies; terrible smarting pain, hot and cold, starting from the bite to the small of the back, and from there returning to the bite; this alternating pain continued all night. Wandering pains, relieved by warm frictions. Pains changing and flying from place to place, in the shoulders, back, arms, and knees, etc., and are relieved somewhat by warm frictions. Arthritic pains. Strong, sharp prickings on different parts of the body, which compel to jump or start, with contraction of the lateral muscles of the neck; sore throat; pain in all the teeth, as if they were burning. All these symptoms increase when seeing others in trouble, with noise, talking, and from the smoke of tobacco. There is a marked periodicity in the symptoms. Having seen the bite of a rattlesnake successfully antidoted by large doses of whiskey, I drank about two fluid ounces, but had no wish to repeat the dose, as it produced a very decided aggravation of all the symptoms. The symptoms steadily increased in severity until they reached their acme, then as steadily decreased, without any remissions or periodicity. Every year at the time of the bite, all the symptoms returned, pain in the bitten part, with a red color, etc. All the symptoms were removed by the dance. The cold air produces pains in the bones, as if they were sawed. Aggravation. In the afternoon, sunset, and night. In dry cold weather, and change of weather. During rest, in bed. From smoke of tobacco, from sexual intercourse, from moral emotions of a depressing character, and from wetting with cold water. Reappearance of all the symptoms, twenty-five days after. The symptoms appear particularly in the afternoon and evening. The easiest position that can be taken is to sit on the floor. Dampness and a change of weather aggravate all the symptoms. Many of the symptoms of this medicine get better by walking, or taking a walk in the open air, and still more relieved on sitting down; some of the pains (of the trunk) are worse on horseback; meanwhile the pressure in the chest and the dizziness are relieved. Amelioration of the symptoms in the open air. (Music caused the patient to dance, and was followed by relief of all the symptoms). Music lessens the symptoms; feels well, laughs; gayety, followed by crossness. Amelioration. In the open air, when walking, by motion. By music (tarantella), amusement. From warm friction and perspiration.
Skin
Eruption, Dry. Ecchymosed spots on the skin, limbs, and on fleshy parts, varying in size from two to five inches in circumference, with uterine discharge of the pale blood; gastric complaint and debility. Hepatic spots on the body; after using the medicine they disappeared, but the above uterine symptoms reappeared. Hepatic spots on the body, here and there; when cured with medicine the uterine symptoms reappear. Spots and aphthous abrasions in different parts of the body. Hepatic spots; spots on the skin, oozing a pale and impoverished blood.
Reddish spots on the neck and sometimes on the cheeks; delicate, weak constitution on account of frequent uterine discharges, and symptoms of hysteria. It produces at first a little inflammation, like that from the sting of a bee. Ringworms (herpes) on the forehead, and also on the face, with stinging, like pins, under the chin. Furfuraceous herpes on the forehead and the face, with bluish or dark circles around the eyes, and spells of general debility. A very confluent eruption of pimples on the whole body, except on the hands and feet; with a marked increase of heat, itching and burning when scratching in the evening. (This eruption lasted twenty-seven days). Eruptions of small pimples over the whole body, mainly on the head and temples, together with pricking and itching, ending with a slight suppuration. An eruption of small pimples on the forehead, similar to miliaria (after three hours), extending on to the face and superior part of the neck under the inferior maxilla. As a forerunner of this eruption, general debility, frontal headache, vertigo, and burning itching of the whole face. The eruption disappeared on the third day, but the burning itching on the face and the impaired vision persisted two more days, with sneezing and coryza. Confluent eruption of pimples on the face, neck, and other places, except the hands and feet; with marked increase of heat, pricking, and itching when scratching, and aggravation towards evening for two days. Eruption like miliaria on the face; general scorching heat during three days, accompanied by a happy mood, and loss of memory. An abundant eruption of pimples on the whole face, more to the right than on the left side (after sixty hours). (Lasted thirty days). Miliary eruption on the face, with impaired vision, heat, and general perspiration, poor memory, and happy mood. (Lasted three days). An eruption of pimples on the cheeks and near the commissure of the lips; itching and burning, increased by scratching. Indolent pimples upon the dorsal surface of the left hand, the size of a pea; disappearing without inconvenience. Eruption, Pustular. A pustule in the left forearm, at the lower third and external aspect, the size of twenty-five-cent silver piece, with a black point at the apex; painful, with increased heat; it suppurated on the sixth day, and left a scar four days after. A pustule, large as a pea, conical in shape, with broad base, on the middle finger; it suppurated on the seventh day, discharging some blackish blood. Forty-eight hours after inoculation there was intense burning of the scalp, speedily followed by a vesicular eruption, resembling Crusta lactea; five ulcers formed on different parts of the scalp, which discharged a thin greenish ichorous pus, very offensive; vesicles appeared on different parts of the body, soon becoming pustular and turning to ulcers; the eruption on the scalp and body remained about three weeks before its final disappearance. Small tumor, or callosity, the size of a ten-cent piece, whitish and indolent, on the palmar surface of the right hand, between the middle and index fingers, near their metacarpal articulation. The next day the callosity increased in size, with heat and severe pain, causing the patient to wake up several times in the night. The callous tumor continued to extend to the base of both fingers on their internal side, till the third day, when it broke, leaving an ulcer with callous borders, of a good character, and covered with a whitish pus. The ulceration lasted twenty days, and left a slight scar.
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.