After two days of taking the medicine (Tarantula), the callosity detached itself, but the cough and the sexual appetite lasted for eight days longer. Sexual appetite (in a woman of twenty-six years), with some dry cough by spells; facility to express herself, but hesitation, incertitude, and changeable in her actions and ideas. The sexual appetite lasted in this woman forty-five days, and was not influenced by menstruation. During all this time there was poor memory, quarrelsome and changeable temper, and her look was at times vivid and passionate. (* The sexual desire was so manifest in this woman that when playing or dancing with gentlemen, she hugged them before everybody. The just remarks on her conduct made her irritable; she cried, was angry, and finished by promising not to do it again; however, she did not keep her promise long. During this period the catamenia were scanty and pale, with severe pains in the teeth and buttocks. At times she experienced the desire to take things which did not belong to her. A circumstance worth mentioning, was that the “Tarantella” played on the violin and guitar did not produce any effect on her, but as soon as she took in her arms a little girl, she commenced to cry until the child was taken away this never took place with her before. These experiments were repeated several times, always with the same results. *).
Respiratory organs
Larynx. Roughness in the larynx and trachea, with some dry cough, and smarting in the eyelids. Sensation of roughness and scraping in the larynx and trachea, with smarting in the eyelids, and indifference. Dryness, scraping in the larynx and trachea, with frontal headache. The patient was unable to speak a word, and pointed to the larynx as the seat of the trouble. Voice.
Aphonia, with increased difficulty of breathing. Hoarseness.
Cough and Expectoration. Cough, shortness of breath, oppression, and prostration until 9 A.M. Painful cough, and sensation of dryness in the chest; laziness, languor, sadness, and fear of running into consumption. Cough, with gagging; cough produces distensive pains in the head, chest, and uterus, with sadness and anxiety; but when walking in the open air, a sensation of happiness (tenth day). Cough, when getting out of bed, with vomiting, and involuntary emission of urine. Cough, with pain in the left side of chest, extending to the arm of the same side.
Cough, with desire to raise something, but without succeeding.
Cough, excited by smarting in the throat and bronchia; worse at night. Cough, when getting up from bed, and nausea, on account of the efforts to raise the mucus in the chest; pain in the false ribs of the left side. Cough, when walking, with retching, and pain in the head and heart. Dry harsh cough, with oppression in the chest, followed by two soft and burning stools, with pain and smarting in the anus. Dry cough, in the morning, as in the beginning of phthisis. Dry cough, with a slight smarting in the throat. Dry, fatiguing, and convulsive cough, with retching, in the night, in bed, relieved by smoking; when waking up, hoarseness, with sensation of roughness in the chest and throat.
Dry cough, in the morning (in a woman of twenty-six years); in the evening it is more frequent and spasmodic; hoarseness, roughness in the larynx and trachea, and pain in the front part of the chest; frequent pulse, increased heat; dizziness, pain in the whole head, and smarting in the eyes; thirst, but water disagrees; want of appetite; heat in the abdomen; shaking chills in the back; convulsive spasms in the posterior part of the trunk, thighs, and legs; general lassitude, indifference, and poor memory. These symptoms, which lasted for several days, increased from 5 P.M. till 5 A.M., with sleeplessness and malaise, in bed. This woman experienced, at the same time, violent and constant sexual appetite. Frequent coughing, dry in the beginning, and followed afterwards by an abundant expectoration of tough, whitish mucus, of a salty taste. Dry painful cough, with a very thick and yellow expectoration; pain at the base of the chest; indifference and laziness. Loose cough, scanty expectoration; great fatigue and oppression in the chest, as if smothering; general perspiration, particularly on the head and chest. Loose cough, followed by tickling in the larynx and bronchial tubes, which renews the cough. Moist cough, difficult expectoration, and great debility. Cough, with yellow and thick expectoration, increased when waking, and followed by pains in the lungs, particularly the left, when coughing, and during a deep inspiration. Respiration. Breathing short and hurried, much worse on attempting to lie down. Great difficulty in breathing. Great difficulty in breathing, accompanied by a peculiar incessant sighing. Attacks of suffocation and oppression of the chest, with crying screams and restlessness.
(Nervous attack, hysteria). Feels suffocated, oppressed at the chest; followed by crying and screams, without a cause. Feels suffocated on account of so much laughing. Suffocation; violent and painful palpitation, causing great anxiety. Suffocation, constant want of air, beating of the heart, ceasing suddenly, then the patient thinks he is going to die.
Chest
Murmurs in the chest, and palpitation of the heart, with alternated acceleration and suspension of the movements of the heart. Cutting pain in the left lung and heart, with pain in the tonsils, and necessity of stretching. Painful feeling at the base of both lungs, when coughing or inhaling. Chest expands with difficulty. Constriction of the chest. Oppression of the chest, with rheumatic pains and debility; these pains flew from the chest to the stomach, from the uterus to the limbs, etc., and vice verse, with weakness in the arms, prevent-ing work.
(Bovista relieved). Oppression in the chest, with headache, burning heat, general perspiration, sadness, with palpitation and desire to cry. When waking, after a quiet sleep, oppression, with pain in the left side of chest. Oppression in the chest, with cough and prostration, till 9 A.M., when the headache increases, extending to the neck and throat, with stiffness of the muscles of these parts. (These symptoms appeared in the morning, when waking, preceded by sadness, trembling, and headache). Great oppression in the chest; panting respiration, palpitation, and prostration. Pain and oppression in the chest, worse when raising the arms, with the sensation as if a blow was received at the base of left lung. Repeated coughing, with desire to raise sputa, which was bloody. Oppression and panting respiration at the slight movement. Lying on the left side is unbearable, and produces suffocation, and necessity of sitting up in bed. At the same time an exaggerated resonance is detected by percussion, at the anterior part of the base of th lung. (The symptoms resembled much those produced by a cavity. Relieved by Bovista). Muscular pains in the whole chest, particularly on the left side; becoming worse and pressive, when touched in the left mammary region. Constrictive pain in the chest and head, as if a blow was received there. Rheumatic pain in the anterior and middle part of the chest; extending to both sides, with acute pain in the hypochondrium and umbilical region. Acute pain in the anterior and inferior part of the chest, towards the left side, with crossness, and fixed ideas. Pressive pain in the muscles of the anterior part of the chest. Towards evening, constant stinging pains, very severe in the interior of the chest, between the fourth and fifth ribs; worse by lying on the affected side, and by deep inspiration; better after sleeping.
The pain is followed by bitter taste, and gastric symptoms. Pain in the anterior and lateral walls of the chest, with cough, sad countenance, indifference, and disgust for everything. Pain in the right side, towards evening with a smarting sensation. Pain in the right side, towards evening, with a very disagreeable sensation, lessening when sitting and pressing on the parts.
Pain under left false ribs, followed by dryness and smarting in the throat. Cramp like pains in the left false ribs, with cough and difficult expectoration when rising, causing nausea. Cramp like pain in the left side of chest, with necessity of striking himself, and scratching his face and neck; at the same time yawning, stretching, and necessity of putting the fingers in his mouth. Pain in the left subclavian, with cold feet. Pressive pain in the left side of chest, with tearing in the stomach, great thirst and restlessness. Pressive pain in the left side of chest, and in the left subclavian, with the sensation as if it was distended. Shooting in the left side in the morning.
Shooting pain in the region of the left subclavian, with sensation as if stretched, and shooting in the heart at times; palpitation and slight murmur at the same time, tearing pain in the stomach for several hours, and shooting in the spleen.
Mammae. Swelling of the breasts, with itching in the nipples.
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.