Intermittent pinching near the metacarpal bone of the little toe (after three days). Very violent stitches in the toes on bending the body to the left side, noon and evening (seventh day).
Painful stitches in the big toe of the left foot (thirteenth day). Stitches in the right great toe, at night in bed (forty- second day). Tearing stitches in both sides of the nails of both great toes. Glowing and stitches in the left great toe in bed, after midnight (forty-third day). Extremely violent sticking pain in the metatarsal bone of the middle toe of both feet. Fine superficial sticking in the points of the fourth and little toes (second day). Stitches in the fourth toe of the left foot, in the left sole, and in the right thigh (first day). Sticking in the great, fourth, and little toes of the left foot. Stitches in the corn on the left little toe (forty-third day). Tearing stitches in a corn.
Generalities
Dresses have become loose (eighty-fourth day). Strong sulphurous odor in the axillae on undressing, in the evening, which gradually recurs, and at times extends over the whole spine (in a woman who several years before, took several sulphur baths). The odor of the prover was exceedingly, almost intolerably, increased, so s to become perceptible to those about (after twelve hours). A peculiar spoiled, cadaverous odor from the whole body, without perspiration. The effect of revaccination is changed; three persons who had taken a dose of Thuja, four to eight weeks previously, exhibited peculiar symptoms on revaccination; at first the vaccine developed in the usual acute manner, but after four days it began to be indistinct, and disappeared rapidly in a way never before observed under similar conditions without the action of the drug; but the cure, which was progressing previously, was seriously interrupted by this continued poisoning, so that afterwards the cure was more difficult and more prolonged, and especially the weakness of mind rapidly approached idiocy. Chlorosis, with oedematous swelling, first of the face, then in both lower extremities, about the abdomen, with menstruation at the right time, and profuse and watery (sixth week). Swelling of the veins, especially of the arm (fortieth day). Violent indescribable pain in the left side of the forehead wakes him at night from a restless sleep, he becomes affected by an unaccountable awkwardness in all his accustomed movements (thirtieth day); the next two days this awkwardness increases more and more, until in the evening of the third day he has a sensation of complete paralysis of the right arm; the arm feels and moves as if it did not belong to him, of which he was conscious, without ability to alter it, with great general lassitude, dulness of the head, disagreeable voice, and extreme ill-humor; this continued more or less severe till 11 P.M. of the fifth day, when he was suddenly seized with the most violent convulsions, beginning with extremely painful flexion of the toes of the right foot, extending thence to the right side upward, which became quite stiff, extended and rigid, causing loud cries, arrest of breath, and at last mounting into the head, with jerked back and forth incessantly, and he lost consciousness; on returning to himself, five hours later, he found himself fallen out of bed, lying on the floor, bathed in perspiration, with complete paralysis of the right leg, from the foot to the knee; it also felt cold and dead and as heavy as a hundredweight; and he was unable to stand or move; after a sleep of two hours he was able to rise and drag the paralyzed limb after him, after which it gradually improved, but was constantly affected by spasmodic drawing of the muscles up and down from the toes to the calf, at times rising into the thorax of the same side, and moving back and forth; he also felt very sick, with excessive development of gas in the stomach and intestines, with excessive eructations in an almost uninterrupted stream from the mouth, together with emission of flatus. The next day spasmodic drawings in the whole right side continued; he was unable to write, because he could not recall the letters of even proper names; but he was able to dictate, though he seemed to grasp all ideas by the wrong end.
Between 10 and 11 P.M. there was an attack of spasms, with incipient retraction of the toes, and drawing up and down in the muscles of the right side, with uneasiness and tossing from side to side, and difficult and late falling asleep, this, however, did not amount to a complete spasm. The next evening, at the same hour, there was a return of a similar attack, this time with accelerated pulse, and ending with a general perspiration of a rancid odor, which afforded relief; since the time gradual improvement, with freedom from the at-tacks, which however, recurred at the same hour for three evenings, but each time less severely. Subsequent to this there remained very speedy fatigue of the right side when walking, a contractive rigid feeling of the toes of the right foot, and deadness of the whole right index finger, and also of the first phalanx of the middle finger; these, however, also come and go. Exactly a year after the first attack there appeared a general spasm in the evening, again followed by paralysis, with most violent headache and vertigo, rapid, bounding pulse, anxiety, spasmodic numbness and clumsiness of the left hand and of the right thigh, posteriorly as far down as the calf, twitching beneath the right eye, preventing falling asleep or lying upon the side; there was no recurrence of the attack. Since that time the previous vertigo and the cramp like paralytic feeling of the right side gradually became weaker and weaker. She seems awkward, every thing drops from her hands, for several days (forty-fourth day). Trembling over the whole body, not perceptible externally. General painful jerking of the muscles. Violent twitching in isolated muscular parts, which was strongest in the middle of the upper part of the right thigh and of the left arm; in the ends of the fingers and toes the twitching was finer and more transient; this muscular twitching was frequently repeated in different parts, and was one of the most troublesome symptoms; for example, it still came on the seventeenth day, and lasted for almost ten minutes in the chin.
After he passed the whole night, after the thirtieth day, in convulsions and unconscious, and awoke with paralyzed limbs, he was unable to write even his own name, because he could not recall even the right letters, yet he was able to dictate correctly; at the same time his movements no longer obeyed his will, but exactly the reverse. An epileptiform spasm in the evening, after lying down with loss of consciousness for ten minutes, followed by pain in the stomach and yawning (sixth week). A paroxysm, commencing with intolerable pains in the head and teeth, spasmodic weeping, icy-cold feet and hands, leaden heaviness of both arms and groaning, the breath became very short, and often stopped entirely; suddenly she lay motionless and without breathing, but with clenched fingers, with quiet and regular pulse; after about ten minutes she took a deep breath, looked wandering at the bystanders, and seemed gradually to become conscious of what was said and done; afterwards she felt very weak, and a constant sensation as of a draft of air blowing upon a small spot just below the limbs, which to that point had been cold. After a quarter of an hour the paroxysm was repeated, but was less severe and shorter, and ended with some perspiration. There continued during the whole paroxysm a sensation as if she would fall forward, which impelled the patient to grasp tightly, though standing up, at the same time it seemed as if her mind were absent in a star surrounded by the brightest light, which suddenly disappeared and left her in darkness in bed; these paroxysms returned every other day.
Paroxysms; after yawning for two hours and scratching the head, a violent spasmodic screaming, while sitting with open eyes inter- mingled with delirious prattling of unintelligible words, raving, with sensitiveness to the approach or touch of those about her, at first with tossing about, and afterwards lying motionless, with closed eyes and dark redness of the face, followed at last by quiet sleep, until she woke confused and with weak memory; during the paroxysm an unusual quantity of urine passed and the right hand was spasmodically pressed against the genitals.
(Chorea; a chorea that had lasted for years, constantly recur- ring, but always apparently cured by homeopathic remedies (Belladonna, Stramonium, Agaricus, Sulphur, Calcarea), and this time returned in an aggravated form, began to decrease very decidedly; the third day after a dose of Thuja, and then gradual- ly diminished day by day, till after three weeks there was no further trace of it, while at the same time the general health visibly improved. This cure now lasted for more than two years, and seemed permanent and radical). Catalepsy; he laid for about two hours rigid and stiff, without consciousness or motion, followed by jerking back and forth. Rachitis, with paralytic- like weakness of the lower extremities, emaciation of them, and relaxation of the ligaments of the joints, followed by swelling of the articulation and curvature of the bones, becomes gradually cured. (The left sided paralysis gradually diminishes, especially after the seventh month, so that she is able to walk without a cane). General debility, with the confusion of the head (thirteenth day); debility (twenty-first day); felt uncommonly debilitated for three days (after thirty-five days). Quite unwell, faint, debilitated, as by fatigue, without being able to state what ails her (thirty-eighth day). Feeling debilitated all over, as by fatigue, and gloomy, was compelled to take a little wine, after which all the above symptoms disappeared (fifth day). Had to lie down on account of increasing debility, and was not able to go to sleep for severely hours (fifteenth day); general debility, as from fatigue (sixteenth day). General debility, with such weakness in the feet that he thought he should fall (sixth day). On rising felt debilitated all over, especially in the upper arms and thighs (ninety-seventh day). General debility and weakness in the feet (second day).
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.