General debility, increasing in the evening, and obliging him to go to bed at 7 o’clock. Debility, with feeling as if beaten in the limbs, in the afternoon (twelfth day); General debility, at night (twenty-fifth day); after two hours sudden debility, with painful lassitude, with pain in the calves; then an internal chill in the whole body, with dry, hot skin, which compelled him to lie down; he could not, however, keep warm in bed, and the debility increased to such a degree that he could with difficulty move his limbs; at about 10 p. m. this chill first began to disappear, merging in a dry and burning heat, and towards morning a sweet broke out over the whole body; he had no appetite, much thirst, passed on urine during the whole day, and had, during the access of heat, a full, quick pulse and intolerable (thirty-fifth day); on the morning of the following day he passed a small quantity of dark red urine; the sweet continued until noon, and the prover could not leave his bed on account of his extreme weakness; a chill came on again in the evening, followed by a sleepless night (thirty-sixth day); the debility continued, he had no appetite, his tongue was furred, and he urinated copiously (thirty-seventh day). Great lassitude and weakness in both arms, with frequent tearing in them (first day). General feeling of malaise, with internal chills (fifth day). General malaise, with a sensation as if a chill were about to come on, in the afternoon (twenty-first day);general malaise, two hours after dinner (twenty-sickened day);a special feeling of malaise, with general discomfort (fifty-seventh day);while seated at his writing-table he felt the influence of the drug spreading through his system; but he was obliged to go out; the development of the effects of Thuja are always hindered by bodily movement (fifth-eighth day); at 8.30 p. m. he was seized in the street with general malaise and such universal debility, with weakness in the stomach, that he took a small glass of cordial; after awhile he felt better, but about 10 o’clock he felt an indisposition by no means easy to describe (sixty-second day). Great general weariness (twenty- fifth day). General weariness during the day, as if he had slept none all night (seventh day). General weariness and uneasiness, with dull confusion of the head, in the evening (tenth day). A general feeling of weariness, with a chill over the whole body, in so remarkable a degree that i was obliged to go to bed, although it was only 6 p. m. (thirty-fifth day). General weakness, with slight headache in the forehead, after dinner (twentieth day). Weariness and uneasiness in the whole body; the uneasiness less after dinner (seventieth day); general weariness and universal feeling of discomfort (seventy-third day).
Weariness, with apparent loss of sensation in the limbs (ninth day). In the evening a general feeling of weariness which drove me to bed at 8 o’clock (twelfth day). Weariness and general weakness, with heaviness in the feet and general feeling of discomfort; she felt if threatened with a severe attack of illness (twentieth day. Great weariness and prostration of the body, with aversion to motion, in the afternoon (after eleven hours). Great weariness in the morning, on rising. General weariness and faintness (twentieth day) Felt tired after a walk in the morning, and frequently yawned when reading aloud (third day).
More tired than usual at the dispensary (eighth day). Weakness (thirty-first and sixty-sixth days). She feels weak and weary, so that she falls asleep several times during the day (first day).
Weakness increasing daily, so that her breath seemed to go, and swelling of the feet. Weakness of the body, with perfect mental activity. Standing erect and walking were difficult, and constantly gave out. On walking, very weak, and every part of his body felt as though it had been bruised; the weariness nearly disappeared in the course of the body (eight day). Felt very weak and unwell, in the evening (twelfth day). Weak (fourth day); discomfort, weakness, sleepiness, and yawning (sixty-seventh day). Weak and debilitated all day (twenty-eight day). General weakness (thirteenth and nineteenth days); weakness, even to falling, with the fever (nineteenth day); weak before dinner (twentieth day); very weak and frequently obliged to sit down to rest (twenty-second and twenty-third days);so weak and powerless that she cannot leave her bed (twenty-fifth day); great weakness and prostration (thirtieth day). Weakness (twenty-second day); with sleepiness, at 11 a. m. and after eating, so that he was obliged to lie down (fifty-fifth day); weak and sleepy towards 5 p. m. so that he was obliged to go to bed, but could not rest, and tossed about constantly, could not find a comfortable spot, and become hot; in spite of the restlessness he felt too weak and indolent to rise; this lasted an hour and a half (sixtieth day).
Great weakness and heaviness after eating, a little motion is very difficult; therewith he feels sick and is obliged to lie down. Attacks of excessive weakness, with trembling of the lower extremities and loss of breath, in the evening. She feels weakest in the morning. (Exhaustion after a stool), (after five day).
General exhaustion, as if paralyzed (immediately). Sudden deep faintness in the afternoon, after an unrefreshing sleep for half an hour, while consciousness continued clear. A kind of sudden faintness at 11 A.M., without loss of consciousness with icy coldness of the whole body, mostly in the back, with painful, rapid beating of the pulse, heat, intermingled with a sensation as if dashed with cold water, especially from the small of the back downward and around the abdomen, which is sore. Uneasiness for two hours, in the evening, in the bed, before he could fall asleep. Uneasiness and sensitiveness to cold air, in the forenoon (twenty-fourth day). General uneasiness for a couple of hours, after dinner (sixteenth day); general uneasiness, restlessness, after dinner (twenty-third day). Indefinite feeling of uneasiness (sixty-eight day). Uneasiness, as if something were lying upon the heart. (He becomes restless and ill-humored, on walking violently). She has rest nowhere. Restless and ill-humored (seventeenth day). Tossing about, with voluptuous dreams, at last with lightning-like pain shooting through the back, and ending with weakness. Inclination for exertion, in the evening (thirteenth day). Walking seems excessively easy, it seems as though her body carried wings, she could run several miles in a remarkably short time, and with an unusual lightness, immediately. Illusory sensation, as if the whole body were very thin and delicate, and he must avoid every touch, just as if the connection of the different parts of the body were in great danger of being severed, and such a separation was to be dreaded General feeling of discomfort (twenty-first day). Painful sensation to touch of the whole body. Feeling of taking cold. In the forearms, several times, a coursing and gurgling, as of single drops of blood rolling one after another. Bruised sensation in the whole body, especially in the thorax, he could not turn over in the morning, on waking; after lying wide awake for some time this sensation disappeared, but gave place to a stopped catarrh and spasmodic cough, with sensation of soreness and rawness in the chest (twenty-third day). The whole body feels bruised, in the morning (third week). Gradual extension, especially of the pain, cramps, and paralysis from without in- ward, from the periphery towards the center. Jerking of the upper part of the body, during the day. Pressure in various parts, associated with a scraping prickling sensation, seeming to be even in the bones. While writing, drawing pressing in the right thumb (for five or six minutes); then in the index, later in the middle, and finally in the little finger; in the afternoon the same sort of a pain appeared in the arm, shifted then to the upper part of the thigh of the same side, soon after appeared in both mastoid process of the temporal bones, then in the frontal eminences, where the pain took more of a digging-twitching character, and finally reappeared in the extremities; this wandering about of the pains continued through the following day (seventh and eight days); for several hours, in the afternoon, the pain remained in the neighborhood of the left wrist, and during the whole afternoon in the upper part of the left thigh (ninth day); while lying down the pressing in the sacrum was fixed in the same spot for a whole hour; it was diminished, and disappeared on motion; but after-wards appeared while lying in bed, in the lower part of the left thigh, in the same spot where it had already appeared once before (tenth day). Drawing pains, now here, now there (ninth day); (eight day). Transient drawings often flitted about now here, now there, especially in the upper part of the thigh (fifth day). Drawing, now here now there on the left side of the body (fifty-third day). Slight drawing here and there under the skin, in the tendinous expansions (fifty-second day). Short drawing tearing, now here, now there, but always on the left side of the body (sixty-seventh day). Drawing tearing in the right arm, especially along the course of the ulnar nerve, in the right thigh, in the right zygoma, and in the right side of the chest, after rising; after a little while these symptoms passed off, and appeared, but weaker, in the left side of the body (sixty-fifth day). Tearing, drawing, or sticking sensations accompanied with repeated attacks of vertigo, and a feeling of stiffness in the feet and back, as far as the nape of the neck (after every dose). Through the day flying drawing pains in various parts, especially in the hands (thirteenth 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.