Great sensitiveness of the epigastrium, feels as if she “had craved in.”.
Abdomen
After luncheon, painful stitch below the ribs, extending from the right towards the left side, and returning in paroxysms.
Relaxation of the fibres of the abdominal intestines. Transient borborygmi in the abdomen, and especially in the epigastric region. Liability to hernia.
Rectum
Tumefaction of the inferior extremity of the rectum, with a very slight itching.
Stool
Chronic relaxation of the bowels; aggravated by beer; relieved by port wine. Relaxation of the bowels, profound constipation (Japan Tea). Three or four stools daily, of natural consistence, but formed very thin. In the daytime, two stools instead of one.
Three natural stools during the day (second day). The stools have become very irregular, in part hard and dry, the rest scarcely formed (sixth day). Stools irregular and costive. Costiveness.
Constipation in some. Excessive constipation.
Urinary Organs
Very marked increase of urea.
Sexual Organs
Erections. Unnatural excitement of the sexual organs. Soreness and tenderness of the right ovary. Menses appear only once in seven weeks, are scanty, and accompanied by severe uterine, cramp like, bearing-down pains, from beginning to end of menstrual period. It is not quite evident that these symptoms arose in consequence of the tea, but were undoubtedly aggravated by it.
Respiratory Organs
All the signs of an Oedematous swelling perhaps general, but more probably partial, of the mucous lining of the respiratory and digestive tracts, phenomena evidently analogous to those which were brought out on the skin, and which are, relatively to my constitution, the symptoms characteristic of tea. Scraping in the larynx (sixth to twelfth day). Voice. Hoarseness, amounting almost to aphonia (sixth to twelfth day). Cough and Expectoration. Dry cough during one day. Severe cough and bloody expectoration. Respiration. Respiration is greatly increased, the respirations being increased in frequency and amplitude.
Respiration regular and oppressed. Gasping for breath. Unable to go upstairs, without experiencing great breathlessness and palpitation of the heat. Great breathlessness on the least attempt at walking. Sensation of suffocation. Slight fits of apparent asphyxia recurred every five or six minutes.
Frequent paroxysms of asphyxia, like nightmare, with violent spasmodic pain in the precordial region, with intermittent, irregular, at times suppressed respiration.
Chest
Oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest and heart. Sense of constriction of the chest. Great fullness about the clavicles, with a feeling of suffocation. Fluttering in the left side, with a sense of fullness about the clavicles. Tightness across the upper part of the chest, which obliges her to sit upright in bed.
Heart and Pulse
Precordium. Anxiety in the precordium. Oppression of the heart and chest. Feeling of anxious oppression about the heart. Strong infusions sometimes produce a painful oppression and sensation of anguish in the region of the heart. Acute pain, as from a spasm in the region of the heart; and in spite of all his efforts he is felt as if he were continually falling into deliquium. A certain uneasiness of the heart, general trembling and debility, making him feel somewhat sick the next day. Unusual and distressing sensation about the precordia, as if he were continually on the verge of fainting. Heart’s Action. Heart sometimes palpitated, and at other times seemed motion less. Palpitation. Palpitation of the heart at night, with inability to lie on the left side.
Palpitation of the heart and oppression in the precordia; these symptoms, however, soon subsided. If taking tea at supper, he generally experienced a slight feeling of anxiety in the precordial region, and a sleepless night; but if his brain was more than ordinarily excited by a lively conversation, or by continued thinking, the anxiety disappeared, and he had a refreshing sleep. Palpitations of the heart; on examination, I generally find dilation, with thinning of the heart. Violent palpitation, and considerable pain in the region of the heart.
Sibilant rale from time to time. In the worst instances that are on record, the fluttering of the heart has been succeeded by a momentary suspension of its action, and long continued swooning.
Pulse. Pulse very rapid, irregular, often intermittent. Pulse quick, small, and feeble. Pulse quicker and stronger than it had been in the course of her illness. Hurried pulse. Pulse fast.
Extremities
Symptoms of paralysis; the extremities becoming numb, and partial loss of the use of the legs. Joints of the hands and feet tender, and sensitive of touching them (Oo.). Nervous excitability in wrists, and hands (Oo.).
Superior Extremities
Could not sleep in night for a violent pain on the inside of her arms, above the elbow, which awoke her after she had been asleep after half an hour. The hand trembled so violently, that it was impossible to write with any regularity, nor could it be restrained for more than a few seconds; (after Thein, 12 grs.).
Inferior Extremities
Sensation on the under side of either or both thighs as if the circulation had ceased, causing great nervousness, and a desire p73 to kick out the leg with force to restore sensibility (Oo.).
Pain in the sciatic nerve (Oo.). Neuralgic pains in the outer hamstrings (tendon of the biceps) of either leg (Oo.). Inability to lift the legs affected, sometimes the right, at others the left (Oo.). Restlessness of the feet, cannot keep them quiet in the evening (Oo.). Sensation as if the weight of a sheet would crush the toes (Oo.).
Generalities
In twenty-four First Series Second series hours 1260 grams of water 1260 grams of tea being taken. A. Exercise. 84.14 minutes.
87 minutes. B. Excretions. 1. Loss of weight. 539.000 grams.
203.000 grams. 2. Quantity of faeces. 178.30, 96.000, 3.
Calculated perspiration.1349.90, 1335.000, 4. Urine 2621.143, 2550.000, Water 2543.519, 2474.016, Solids. 77.624, 75.984, Urea 35.194, 34.221, Uric acid. 0.356, 0.231, Ammonia. 0.421, 0.660, Muriate of am. 1.250, 1.959, Oxalic acid. 0.092, 0.088, Potash. 4.466, 5.274, Sulphur acid. 2.841, 2.815, Sulphur of potash. 6.187, 6.132, Chloride of potassium. 1.774, 3.113, Chlorine. 11.475, 10.687, Chloride of sodium. 16.156, 13.043, Phosph. acid. 2.923, 2.926, Phosphate of soda. 5.483, 5.488, lime. 0.724, 0.772,, magnesia. 0.756, 0.717, Salts by incineration. 28.663, 27.229, Volatile salts and extractives. 13.309, 14.403, C. Food-total weight. 3610.50, 3617.00, Water.
2938.84, 2957.87, Solids. 671.66, 659.13, Lying on a sofa, his lips and countenance bloodless, his skin bathed with a cold, clammy moisture, and his pulse so slow and feeble as scarcely to be felt. She is lean and pale. An enormous tumor, almost as large as the fist of an adult, is developed in the lumbar region. This tumor, quite circumscribed, is almost indolent, even to pressure.
It is movable and appears formed in the thickness of the derma.
The skin which covers it is of a lively pink. The tension of the integuments is felt even to the hips, and is accompanied by a constant itching. After twenty-four hours passed without taking the medicine, this tumor was almost reduced (eighth day); a similar tumor, a little less prominent, but larger, manifests itself on the external and superior portion of the right thigh (eleventh day); a third tumor on the palmar aspects of the right wrist. The mobility of the skin, in this region, permits me to state positively that the ganglionic engorgement exists in the thickness of the former. During twenty-four hours the hand is completely engorged, so much so as to disable me from writing (twelfth day); finally, the same symptom shows itself simultaneously on the scrotum, the penis, and the prepuce, in such a manner as to resemble at once an enormous hydrocele and a phimosis. The parts affected are, moreover, absolutely indolent.
These tumefactions, like the others, require two days for their resolution (thirteenth day). Trembling of the whole body. Little isolated twitchings, exactly resembling the sensation caused by electric sparks, in different parts of the body, especially in the forearms, the hands, and the finger-joints (after three days). Epilepsy. Epilepsy in a child from swallowing a concentrated infusion. Convulsions; the muscles of the limbs were principally affected. Great agitation. Oppression, slight nausea, general tremor, palpitation and oppression of the heart, with a feeling of debility, as if the knees would not support the body. Vascular excitement and sleeplessness in some. Languor.
Debility. Great debility. Feeling weak and exhausted. Weakness and pain in the small of the back. General weakness, especially after every meal. A sense of general weakness for two hours after breakfast. A glass of sherry or beer always shortened the attacks of weakness, irregularity of the pulse, and nausea.
Great general weakness, and above all, uncontrollable longing for tea; a bowl of strong tea was the only source of relief, removing the sensation of “goneness,” and giving new vigor for a short time. Great inclination to lie down, with dread of movement.
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.