Stool
Soft stool, with straining (after three hours). Evacuation of scanty faeces in small hard masses, like sheep- dung, with pressure (after fifteen hours). The bowels were invariably somewhat relaxed. No stool (first day).
Urinary organs
Frequent desire to urinate; a large quantity of urine is passed (after two hours). Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge (after seven days). Very frequently obliged to pass much urine (after half an hour); an unusually small amount is passed (after thirty-six hours). The urine passed within ten minutes of taking the medicine always had the odor of Verbascum, and a considerable tendency to diuresis remained subsequently. In several careful series of observations there was found an increase in the bulk of the urine of from 15 to 50 per cent., from moderate doses; in one instance, the quantity of urine, after taking the drug for two days, rose from 47 1/2 ounces to 57 ounces, 6 drachms; and the two subsequent days, the medicine being omitted, it fell to 40 ounces, 6.
Respiratory organs
Hoarseness on reading aloud.
Chest
Invariably pain and oppression at the chest, with disinclination to frequent breathing. Painful tension across the chest, with stitches in the region of the heart, immediately after lying down in bed in the evening. Intermittent, benumbing, frightful cutting near the left side of the ensiform cartilage, below the last ribs. Sharp pressure just beneath the left nipple. Intermittent dull needle like stitches taking away the breath, in the region of the first and second costal cartilages (after five minutes). Pressing-sticking pain in the next to the last rib where it passes into the cartilage, suddenly disappearing on external pressure, but immediately returning. Violent stitch on inspiration several times, beneath the left nipple, which slowly disappeared, but which always returned on deep inspiration (after four hours).
Back and neck
Sharp intermittent stitches in the left scapula. A very fine persistent, stitch in the last dorsal vertebra, on sitting bent over (after half an hour). In the middle between the right loin and spine, intermittent deep, sharp, knife like stitches, quite internal in the intestines.
Extremities
Stretching in the limbs (after half an hour).
Upper Limbs
Pain on the top of the shoulder, pressing rather than tearing, disappearing on motion (after five hours and a half). Cramp like pressure in the left elbow, extending into the forearm, in every position (after three hours and a half). Tearing extending downward, in the left ulna. Tensive pain in the left wrist, during test and motion (after twenty minutes). Pain on the back of the right hand, pressing rather than tearing (after one hour). Cramp like pressure, now in the right, now in the left metacarpus on moving the arm, disappearing during rest (after two hours and a quarter). Pain on the outer side of the metacarpal bone of both little fingers, as from a bruise, only noticed on touch. Violent sticking, as with a dull knife, in the thick flesh between the metacarpal bone of the right thumb and in the index finger. Tearing sticking in the palm of the hand. Dull sticking in the external condyle of the palm. Numbness and insensibility of the thumb. Cramp like pressure in the first phalanx of the right thumb, disappearing on motion (after seven hours). Paralytic pain in the left fingers, especially in their metacarpal joints. Paralytic drawing in the whole of the left index finger. Some dull stitches in the joint where the carpal bone of the thumb articulates with the radius, like a kind of sprain (or numbness). Violent picking (intermittent dull stitches) in the middle joint of the index finger. Violent tearing stitch through the whole of the left little finger. Violent tearing stitch through the whole of the left little finger (after two hours). Sharp sticking in the first phalanx of the left thumb. Violent dull intermittent sticking in the last phalanx of the index finger; on moving the finger the pain extended into the first joint.
Lower Limbs
Gait tottering, while walking in the open air, as if the limbs could not support the body on account of weakness (after four hours). Weariness of the lower extremities (after five hours and a half). Very great heaviness in the lower extremities, as if a weight were hanging upon them on going up and downstairs (after two hours). While riding the right thigh over the left, weakness and sensation of weariness in the bone of the right thigh, not noticed on walking (after three hours and a half). Paralytic pain on the inner side of the right thigh, while the leg is drawn up in a sitting position; on stooping of the pain extended toward the knee, painful like a sticking. Drawing pressing sensation, extending from the middle of the right thigh to the knee, while sitting (after three hour). A cramp like pain in the muscles of the right thigh, while walking in the open air (after four hour and a half). A pressing cramp like pain in the muscles, above the right knee, while sitting and standing (after three-quarters of an hour). Dull stitches just above the left patella, only on stepping on it (after twenty-four hours). The knees tremble as if one had received a great fright (after two hours and a half). Sudden pain through the right knee, while standing, sitting, and walking (after thirty-six hours). Tearing from above downward in the leg. Cramp like pressure on the left leg near the ankle (after two hours and a quarter). A cramp like pressure in the sole of the right foot, while standing, which disappears on walking (after two hours and a half). Violent intermittent dull sticking in the metatarsal bones of the great and adjacent toes of the left foot, during rest.
Sleep
Frequent yawning and stretching, as though he had not slept enough (after two hours). He cannot keep awake immediately after dinner, the lids close (after seven hours). More or less inclination to sleep. Sleep only till 4 A.M. filled with dreams of war and of corpses, several nights. Restless sleep at night, he tosses from side to side. From the external application of the juice.-HAHNEMANN.
Fever
Shivering, especially over one side of the body, from the shoulder to the thigh, as if cold water were poured over it. Slight transient coldness over the whole body, even perceptible externally on the hands and feet. When the doses were large, the extremities became cold and the face pallid.
Skin
Pimple on the cheek in front of the right ear, with stinging pain when touched (after twenty-four hours). A large red pimple on the neck near the thyroid cartilage, painful on pressure, lasting two or three days (after two days). Itching on the forearm (after three-quarters of an hour). Itching, crawling tickling on the side of the left middle finger, provoking scratching (after three hours and a quarter).
Amelioration
Amelioration, (Motion), Pain on shoulder. Amelioration, (Stooping), Pressing from within outward in forehead.
Aggravation
Aggravation, (Bending body forward), Sticking in left side of navel. Aggravation, (Biting teeth together), Pressure in articular eminences of temporal bones. Aggravation, (Going from cold into warmth), Pressure in right frontal eminence. Aggravation, (Deep inspiration), Stitches in umbilical region. Aggravation, (Motion), Pressure in metacarpus. Aggravation, (Pressing left cheek while supporting head), Vertigo. Aggravation, (Pressure), Sticking in right temple; pressure on the left malar bone; sensation in abdomen. Aggravation, (Stooping), Pressure upon umbilicus, stitches in umbilical region.
Heart and Pulse
According to the state of the system the pulse was more or less readily reduced in number and force, especially in the latter.
Sexual organs
Emissions at night. Nightly emission, without lascivious dream.
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.