Drawing in the left testicle (first day); (second day). Drawing in the left testicle, with feeling of weight in it (first day); disappeared while walking in the open air (fifth day). A pressing pain in the testicles, as if they would be crushed while walking and sitting, worse when walking (after two hours). Feeling of compression in the testicle. Repeated sharp stitches in the left testicle (after seven hours). Painful, frequently repeated stitches in the right testicle. Stitches in the left testicle for eight days. Very violent dull sticking pain in the right testicle (third day). Sticking pains in the left testicle, several times during the day (fourth day). A fleeting stitch in the left testicle (twelfth day). Feeling in the testicles as if they moved, disappeared while walking in the open air (fifth day).
Four pollutions (fourth night). A pollution towards morning (seventh night). A pollution in the night, and afterwards a troublesome burning in the urethra (first night); a pollution in the night (fourth day); at 4 A.M. (tenth night); in the night (twelfth day). Emissions become more frequent. An emission causing faintness towards morning, followed by heaviness and ill- humor. Emissions becoming more infrequent, and afterwards ceasing entirely. Nocturnal emission, with distressing pain in the orifice of the urethra, as though too tight. Nocturnal emission, whereupon he awoke (after twenty-three and forty-eight hours).
Persistent impotency. The sexual impulse was again active, with normal results, on awaking in the morning (twenty-eighth day).
Great excitement in the genital organs, especially tickling in the prepuce and glans, at noon (sixtieth day). Sexual impulse much exalted (till thirteenth day). The sexual impulse was exceedingly importunate (sixth and seventh days). In the night, increased sexual desire, which, during the whole course of the preceding proving, had been rather diminished than exalted (second day). During the whole duration of the experiments (unica nocte exempta) the sexual impulse was diminished even to indifference. Voluptuous fancies and an erection (the first since taking Thuja), with discharge of prostatic fluid, while lying down (fifty-seventh day). In the evening he was very much excited sexually, which did not entirely disappear after coition, so that he only fell asleep towards midnight (fifty-eighth day). Excited sexual impulse (fortieth day). The striking indifference to sexual intercourse, by no means customary, continued during the whole experiment, and, in fact still longer. He has no desire for coition for a long time. Female. In the pudenda along the loins new varices appeared; were very painful and prevented walking, with a warm feeling in the genitals eight or ten times, as if warm blood were flowing. Swelling of both labiae, with burning pain only when walking, and on touch (after fifteen days).
Swelling of the left labia. (A whitish ulcer on the inner surface of the labia majora, at first painfully sore when touched, afterwards itching, lasting a long time). Miscarriage at the third month, commencing with a scanty discharge of blood for five days, then profuse for four days until the miscarriage, followed by good health. Cramp like pain in the female genitals and perinaeum, on rising from a seat. Cramp like pain in the female genitals, extending up into the lower abdomen (after ten hours).
Paroxysmal constrictive pressure in the genitals, with discharge of milky leucorrhoea in gushes. Pain, like a pressure and contraction, in the female genitals, while sitting. Labor like pains, with increased leucorrhoea. Biting and itching in the female genitals, mostly in the urethra, when urinating, and for some time afterwards. Contractive pains in the left ovary.
Tensive and pressive aching in the right ovary, with a feeling as if a stick were sticking in it, mostly while sitting, pressing into the groin and in the rectum. Deeply-seated drawing aching in the left ovary, extending over the groin, with increased leucorrhoea. A forcing outward protrusion of the vagina from the pudenda. Burning and biting in the vagina when walking and sitting. Pain in the pudenda, as if sore and biting. Pain, like a soreness and biting. Pain, like a soreness and biting, in the pudenda on walking (a long distance). Itching of the pudenda when walking. Leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea causing soreness; also with burning-biting itching in the groin. Leucorrhoea gummy and offensive, smelling like sea-fish, corrosive, causing soreness, and irresistibly compelling to onanism. Leucorrhoea increased, with colic and drawing in the loins, corrosive and offensive. The leucorrhoea becomes at first more profuse, and then gradually disappears (after eight days). Leucorrhoea at first increased, then very scanty, and only before and after the menses. Constant profuse leucorrhoea, which a show of menses, but of only a few drops of blood. Profuse leucorrhoea, with cutting and pressure in the genitals. Slight leucorrhoeal discharge, which she had never had before (thirty-first day); leucorrhoea lasted until the menses appeared, when it ceased (thirty-sixth day); reappeared, but it is scanty, and obliges her to wash herself frequently in the daytime; it is mild, yellow, green, and leaves spots of a similar appearance on her linen (thirty-seventh day); leucorrhoea increases (forty-fourth day); continued after menses (sixty-sixth day). Mucous discharge from the female urethra. (A brown ichorous offensive discharge during the menses ceases), (third month).
Brown, slimy, offensive discharge, mixed with menstrual blood.
Discharge of yellowish-brown mucus from the female genitals. (The discharge of blood from the ureters mixed with corrosive, very offensive leucorrhoea, with migraine and difficult hearing, steadily and difficult hearing, steadily improved from day to day), (first fourteen days). Menstruation. The menses appeared about a week too early, and were associated with remarkable paleness of the face. Menses six days too late and much more profuse than usual, with thick black-clotted blood; the next time three days too early, remarkably scanty and pale; the next time preceded by violent pain in the abdomen, especially in the left ovarian region, eight days too early, very profuse, with many clots of blood, and with frequent painful pasty stools; after this they were quite normal. The menses always discharged more profusely when urinating, are of black color, corroding the groins, followed for eight days by discharge of pale blood mixed with gray, with gnawing in the left side of the abdomen (ninth month). Menstruation profuse and dirty-colored, with pressure in the spleen, throbbing of the heart (second month). The menses, hitherto, very painful and difficult, now flow very freely and without pain (sixth month). Menses become so profuse that on the third day large clots of blood passed, with trembling of the feet, anxiety about the heart, and vertigo. The menses recurred variably in the same woman during the action of a dose of Thuja; at times they were punctual and natural, at other times too early, at others too late, sometimes too profuse, sometimes too scanty, at times omitting entirely. Menses bright red, flowing in gushes. Menses less corrosive and offensive than for a long time (after four weeks). Menses at first very dark, then watery, of a very bad odor. The menses at first dark and slimy, mixed with a watery discharge, then stopped for two days, with anxiety and palpitation, then for three days a green and brown offensive ichor, with some offensive shreds of blood, gradually changing to a yellow and white slimy discharge; during the bloody discharge, now and then shaking chill and drawing in the feet, especially in the evening and at night, and burning in all the varicose veins (eighth month). The menses appeared more copiously and fresher than for years, and so remained (third month). The menses, hitherto pale, were now of a better red color. Menses bright rose-colored. Menstruation slimy, watery, with drawing pain in the small of the back and lower extremities, chilliness in the feet and afternoon sweat. Catamenia very scanty, ten days earlier than usual (twentieth day). Menses in fourteen days very profuse and long-continued, with weakness, palpitation, and hammering in the head, tearing in the face, and a swollen cheek (fourth to eighth week). Catamenia appeared without any morbid symptoms, but lasted only one day (thirty-second day). The menses came on without any trouble, after six weeks, for the first time in a chlorotic girl; they omitted the next time, at the subsequent period reappeared profusely, then omitted once, after which they were regular, while the general development kept pace and became more vigorous and blooming. Menses at their regular period, but weaker than ordinary (twenty-sixth day). Menstruation, which hitherto had been very profuse and long-continued, became normal; after four weeks, and then after varying in character for five months, became perfectly regular. The menses, that hitherto were frequently suppressed, became perfectly regular. Menses delayed, with isolated profuse gushes of blood. Menses delayed, with pain in the nipples, and heaviness of the breast (after twelve months). Menses inconsiderable, and lasted only one day (fourth day); menses appeared, lasted only a single day, and consisted in the discharge of a small clot of black blood of a the size of a hazelnut (thirty-sixth day); the menses lasted only one day, and consisted in the discharge of three clots of the black blood of the size of a hazelnut (sixty-fifth day); menses somewhat greater than the last time, and lasted a day and a night (ninety-seventh day); menses lasted three days, and flowed as before the proving (one hundred and twenty-fifth day). Menses delayed four days, and less than usual (thirteenth day). Menses at times in six, again in seven weeks, then again at the right time, and profuse; but always at the right time there is profuse perspiration day and night, most profuse on the head, with weakness and heaviness of the lower extremities, distension of the abdomen, tightness of the breath, pains in the teeth and head. Menses weaker, irregular, at times every fourteen days, at times every four to five weeks, with sensitiveness and swelling of the left breast, in which there is a round indurated spot, which afterwards becomes smaller and gradually disappears (after second month).
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.