Introduction
Animal kingdom. Class, Arachnida. Order, Acaridae. Preparation: Tincture of the animals.
Generalities
Inability to keep quit. Weakness (eleventh day). Weakness, especially in the knees, after a stool (thirteenth day). Great weakness, able to walk about some, but easily tired (eighth day). Rheumatic pain in left shoulder, arm, knee, and the region of the heart (eleventh day). Felt better in the open air.
Mind
Unusually talkative during the day (second day). Talkative during the day, and disposed to be contrary (third day). Inability to collect ideas; absence of ideas. Loss of memory.
Head
Vertigo. On every attempt to rise from bed felt dizzy and faint, and had to throw myself back on the bed to prevent fainting (seventh day). Dizziness of the head from lightness; it felt as if there was no weight in the head. General Head. Lightness of the head. During the forenoon a dull feeling through the head (third day). In the evening congestion to the head, with red face and ears (tenth day). Oppressive headache. Pulsation in the arteries of the head, with the fever (seventh day). Temples. Dull, heavy, sometimes sharp pains in the temples, extending over the frontal regions, felt more severely in left side (at 9.30 p.
m.), (second day). Awoke with pain in the left mastoid process at 7 a. m. (third day). Parietals. Dull pain in left side of head, aggravated by shaking the head and walking, at 10 p. m. (fourth day). Shooting pains in the right side of head, just above the temporal region, at 3 p. m. (fifth day). Shooting pain in the right side of head, near the parietal eminence, at 11 a. m. (seventh day). Occiput. Dull aching in the occiput, with the fever (seventh day). External Head. Intolerable itching of the scalp, especially the vertex and occiput, at 7 a. m. (fourth day).
Eyes
Redness of internal portion of the conjunctiva, similar to a pterygium (twelfth day). Intolerable itching in the inner canthus of the rights eye at 9 p. m. (fifth day). Lachrymation in the open air (fourth day).
Ears
Quite a burning sensation in the pinnae of both ears, felt more especially in the right, in the evening (tenth day). Shooting pain in right ear at 3.30 p. m. (third day). Shooting pains in the rights ear at 3 p. m. (sixth day). Shooting pains in the rights ear (thirteenth day). Dull, but occasionally severe shooting pains in right ear, aggravated by swallowing or blowing the nose, in the forenoon (fifth day). Shooting pains in both ears, occurring quite frequently, and felt more severely in right one, in the afternoon (eleventh day). Severe shooting pains in right ear, frequently during the day and evening (twelfth day). Itching in both ears soon after rising (fifteenth day).
Nose
Mucous discharge from anterior nares, worse while eating dinner (third day). On rising, the nasal passages were much obstructed, but in the afternoon and evening, flaunts coryza especially while eating, and in the open air (fourth day). Fluent coryza, especially while eating, and in the open air (fourth day). Fluent coryza, brought on in the open air, and by eating (all through the proving). It gave place in the evening to a dryness and scabs in the nose (fourteenth day). Nosebleed in the morning (ninth day); in the afternoon (tenth day).
Mouth
Teeth. Dull toothache all the evening, in a decayed tooth of the left side (thirteenth day). Dull pain in decayed teeth of left side at 11 p. m. (second day). Awoke at 7 a. m. with a toothache in a decayed tooth of left side, pain dull, which having abated somewhat, was renewed by eating breakfast, and continued till noon (fourteenth day). A severe dull pain in a decayed tooth of left side, brought on during the evening, by reading aloud for an hour, and which prevented sleep almost the entire night (twentieth day); it continued on the next day, until evening when a dose of Staphisagria 200, relieved it; it was aggravated by lying down by eating talking, and from cold air; ameliorated by taking some warm drink into the mouth. Tongue. Tongue heavily coated with white coating (ninth day).
Throat
Slight soreness in the right side of throat (fifth day).
Stomach
No appetite (eighth day). Eructations after meals, tasting of ingesta (fourteenth day); lasting an hour after each meal (fifteenth day). (Two days after, vomited after breakfast, thought it was from drinking coffee). Pain in the pit of the stomach (dull griping), aggravated by eating dinner (twelfth day).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Dull aching pain in the region of the liver, just under the free ends of the floating ribs, aggravated by pressure, in the forenoon (third day). Sore dull, aching pain in the region of the liver, just beneath the free ends of the floating ribs, place very sensitive to the touch, in the evening (seventh day). Pain in region of liver, just under the free ends of the floating ribs (thirteenth day). Darting pain in the liver, at 10 p. m. (fifteenth day). All day dull pain in the region of the liver, under the free ends of the floating ribs, sore to pressure (seventh day). Same dull pain that had been felt after each inhibition, in the region of the liver (fifteenth day). General Abdomen. The entire abdomen much distended, with flatulence, at 10 p. m.
(fifth day). Tympanitic distension of the abdomen (sixth day). Abdomen distended with flatulence, causing slight colicky pains, at 11 p. m. (fifteenth day). Pain in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus, at 3 p. m. (second day). Dull pain in the abdomen, aggravated by the pressure (third day). Griping pain in the abdomen, before the brown diarrhoeic stool (eighteenth day). Dull heavy pain over the whole abdomen, aggravated drinking cold water in the forenoon, and by eating dinner (twelfth day); same dull pain, worse by pressure, at 11 a.
m. (thirteenth day). Sudden griping pain in the abdomen, more on the left side, which induced the stool, which was passed quickly, at 1.30 p. m., but afterwards his considerable tenesmus, with slight prolapsus, followed by a pain, lasting for several minutes, as if excoriated, this stool relieved the pain only temporarily, as if returned in few minutes with such violence as to force the perspiration from all parts of the body; after few minutes it gradually abated in violence, until it became bearable; the pain was aggravated by eating dinner, to the same extent as before, causing another stool, followed by the most severe tenesmus I have ever experienced, the stool was composed of soft brown faces mixed with mucus there was prolapsus also; felt weak after his evacuation, especially in the knees; the pain soon ceased (thirteenth day). Slight pain in the abdomen, which was relieved by a diarrhoeic stool, at 3 p. m. (fifteenth day). Awoke about 5 a. m. with severe sore pain in the abdomen, and urging to stool (seventh, eighth and ninth day); pain urging to stool, early in the morning (tenth day). Eating seemed to bring on the pain in the abdomen, and desire for stool (eighth day). Immediately after rising was seized with a griping pain in the abdomen, obliging a stool, which was diarrhoeic, of brownish color, and which relieved the pain after breakfast, when it returned with greater violence and induced a second stool, accompanied with severe tenesmus causing prolapsus ani, and followed by a burning sensation about the anus, which lasted about for an hour (tenth day). Dull pain in the abdomen, proceeding and following the stool (seventeenth day). Darting pain in the abdomen, more in right side above the hip at 10 a. m. (fifth day). Violent shooting pain in the abdomen, beginning in the left side, in the hypogastric region.
Rectum
Prolapsus ani and burning about the anus, after the stool (tenth day). Slight prolapsus ani with the second diarrhoeic (eight day). Prolapsus with the stool (thirteenth day). Stitching pain for several times upward along the left side of the anus (tenth day).
Stool
Soft pappy stool (had been rather costive for some days), (fourth day); brown diarrhoeic stool, with some tenesmus, preceded by the pain in the abdomen, pain griping at 7 a. m.; another diarrhoeic stool, with severe tenesmus and slight prolapsus ani, at 8.30 a. m. (eight day); diarrhoeic stool, with some straining and expulsion of flatus, at 9 a. m. (twelfth day); stool passed quickly, at 1.30 p. m.; after dinner a stool composed of soft brown faeces, mixed with mucus (thirteenth day); no stool (fourteenth day); diarrhoeic stool, at 3 p. m.
(fifteenth day); for a fortnight afterwards was occasionally troubled with the same kind of diarrhoeic as has been experienced over since the second dose was taken, and which so increased in violence that it became necessary to take something to act as an antidote; Merc-c. answered this purpose most admirably. Diarrhoeic stool of brownish color, followed by the second stool (tenth day); at 10 a. m., diarrhoeic stool, light brown in color, preceded and followed by dull pain in the abdomen; at 2 p. m.
another stool of the same nature as above, and accompanied by the same abdominal pain, and voided with much straining (seventieth day). Passed a quantity of loose faeces, at 5 p. m.; during the day had several small loose stools, always preceded by terrible sore pain in the intestines, and attended with tenesmus and shivering along the back (seventh day); several stools during the day, most of which was small and consisted of mucus, and attended with severe tenesmus (eight and ninth day); several mucous during the day (tenth day); diarrhoea better (eleventh day); better having taken Mercurius (twelfth 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.