Heart and Pulse
Precordia. When the second proving occurred, a severe pain in the region of the heart was experienced, with a slight swelling externally, and great tenderness over the cardiac region. Pressure, spasmodic tension, and heaviness in the heart. Cramp like feeling in the heart and lung. C Tension and stitches in the precordial region. Stitches in the precordial region, aggravated by violent expiration (ninth day). Heart’s Action. The first cardiac sound was hoarse and rather prolonged. Impulse of the heart increased, like palpitation. C Palpitation, 27 28. Momentary palpitation (after eight hours). Frequent momentary palpitation. Frequently recurring palpitation. C Frequent palpitation without special anxiety (after two days). Painful palpitation, and stitch with every beat of the heart. Pulse. Pulse more rapid (72, 79, 85) in the evening; at times with a feeling of increased warmth. Pulse tense, accelerated, irregular, hard. Hard pulse, 24 30. Pulse small and hard. Slow pulse, easily compressed under the finger. Pulse slow, very feeble. Pulse 40 and intermitting. Pulse wiry and irregular, averaging 112 per minutes.
Sexual organs
Male. On evening of first day an excoriation appeared on upper surface of glans penis near the tip, just to left of mesial line, sore to touch; it healed next day, but the scab remains on it till today (eight day). C Strong erections (tenth day). Persistent erections, with pains. Long-lasting, strong erections, with pressure in the abdomen. Penis painfully sensitive when walking, as if the shirt were rough and rubbed it. Tearing drawing in the root of the penis, preceded by dull sticking in the lower abdomen, near the genitals. Tearing in the tip of the glans penis. Painful jerking in the root of the penis. Dull stitches in the glans penis, coming up from the scrotum. Shivering of the scrotum (second day). Pain in the right side of the scrotum, especially when touched (third day). A sore sensation on the side of the testicles. C Frequent drawing, extending from the testicles up along the course of the spermatic cord (second and third days). C Drawing up of the right or left testicles, with some pain and swelling. Drawing pain in the left, afterwards in the right testicles. A prickling-drawing pain in the testicles, mostly while sitting and stooping, lasting several days. Prickling pressure and drawing in the left testicle, at times extending up along the spermatic cord. Transient pressing stitches in the left testicles during rest. Great irritation in the genitals for coition, but difficult and almost impossible seminal discharge (after forty-eight hours). The sexual organs and desire are too much excited in the company of women, and the semen is discharged much too soon. Emissions without lascivious dreams, two nights in succession (seventh and eighth nights). Female. Profuse falling of the hair on the genitals. Varices on the pudenda. Lochia suppressed and milk diminished. Pressure on the pudenda and rectum (after thirteen days). Pressure towards the pudenda, with cutting pain about the navel. During the menses sticking biting and itching on the pudenda, with a feeling as if swollen. Much Leucorrhoea (first day). Acrid leucorrhoea, with burning in the pudenda (after nine days). Slimy leucorrhoea, with griping in the upper abdomen. Leucorrhoea preceded by cutting colic, with constant yawning. C Leucorrhoea of thick mucus, lasting three days, especially in the morning and evening, also before and during the menses (eighteenth and nineteenth days). Leucorrhoea, especially after every stool. Leucorrhoea returned for only one day (after fifteen days). C Discharge of large clots during the menses, mostly when walking. C After the menses, discharge of bloody mucus, which caused itching on the pudenda. The menses appeared at the right time, were preceded by violent toothache in a hollow tooth (after seventeen days). The menses which had been suppressed for three months returned, with alterations of paleness and redness of the face. After menses had remained away for thirty-seven days, they appeared very profusely, especially at night and while walking, with violent cutting and dragging in the abdomen and small of the back (twenty-sixth day). C Menses fourteen days too early (after eighteen days). Menses about five days too early, more profuse than usual, and lasting three days. The menses did not come on at the proper time. Menses only thee days. Termination of the menses prolonged. C Sexual excitement in a woman, several times at night, without lascivious dreams (second night). Irresistible desire for onanism, without lascivious dreams, in a woman (seventh night).
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.