Clinical It has been found useful when there is great soreness over the region of the gall-bladder, especially in diarrhoea.
Rectum and Stool
Rectum felt as if the drawings were upward instead of downward. Inactivity of lower bowels and rectum, stool natural but slow. Diarrhoea; in morning. Papescent stool., with much mucus, but no real pain. Constipation; with haemorrhoids in afternoon; with fulness of abdomen, flatulence, pain in hypogastrium, and soreness of abdominal muscles as from cold or coughing severely.
Clinical Diarrhoea in low types of malarial fever evacuations horribly offensive, thin, fecal, usually dark. Dysentery, discharges bloody, some tenesmus, but not painful.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Burning when urinating, urine not very copious but dark red. Urine high colored. Urine whitish, has no effect on blue high colored. Urine whitish, has no effect on blue litmus nor on red paper. Shriveling and relaxation of genitals, with drawing pain in r. testicle and spermatic cord, the same next day, with absence of sexual desire and with seminal losses from relaxation and inertia of sexual organs, afterwards the aching in spermatic cord was very annoying at night.
Respiratory Organs
Epiglottis swollen in morning. Hoarseness. Breathing difficult (on waking from a dram of hard labor in snow, which caused great heat, and finally of being smothered in the snow), the lungs felt compressed, obliged to open the window heat of surface, dryness of tongue, increased pulsations of heart, rapid pulse and excitement of brain (as in beginning of delirium, then chilly horripilations over lower limbs and back. Breathing difficult on lying down, from a feeling of weakness of respiratory apparatus, such as he had only felt during fever, obliging him to rise, with fear of going to sleep lest he should have nightmare and suffocate (Lach). Breathing oppressed at 6 P.M., with cough, soreness of r. lung, sneezing, increased secretion from bronchial tubes and fauces and expectoration of mucus. Constant want to take a full breath.
Chest, Heart and Pulse
Pain through I. chest.; in sternum; in r. lung, less in I., with soreness. Constriction of chest, with oppression. Tightness of chest, with desire to inspire deeply. Oppression in praecordial region in afternoon, with a feeling of unsatisfied breathing. Frequency of pulsations of heart, the pulsations seem to fill the chest. Audible throbbing of the heart. Pulse rapid at 2 P.M.; and full, soft; then faint; slow and weak; slow, round and full.
Neck
Pain, unbearable on moving head. Soreness of muscles. Stiffness of muscles, with lameness.
Back
Twitching of I., latissimus dorsi. Pain; (<) walking; extending to sacrum. Lameness of muscle of B., and chest. (<) moving head Stiffness of B. and hips, with pain. Pain in lumbar region; walking; heavy, in lumbar region at night on going to bed. Pain in sacrum compounded of a feeling as from pressure and fatigue from long stooping, soon extending around hips and down r. leg.
Extremities
Aching; drawing, in arms and legs; at times drawing, in r. wrist and I. ankle; wandering, with vertigo. Pricking of hands and feet, (<) motion, with numbness. Thrilling through hands and feet, somewhat, like going to sleep or want of circulation.
Upper Extremities
Constant twitching of I. deltoid. Pain in shoulder and arm; in I. shoulder, extending down arm; drawing, in shoulder and arms, (<) I. Sore and stiff failing in shoulders and chest, the jar of the buggy is pains. Numb prickling pain in hand and arm, (<) movement, with sharp darting pain through fingers. Hands felt large and we trumulous. Numbness of I. hand and forearm, with prickling.
Lower Extremities
Feel weak and vacillating on walking. Pain in hips and legs, with numbness. Drawing pain in L. hip; in r. hip and in both calves Soreness in anterior part of thighs, (<) after sitting Darting pain in I. knee and I. malleolus. Cramp in calves whenever he moves them, Drawing pain in calves; in legs. Pain in legs. Numbness of I. foot with prickling. Prickling of foot and leg, they can be moved but little.
Skin
Livid spots all over body and limbs, thickest on body. Feeling on forehead as if it would be pulled to the back part of the head, with numbness in forehead and face. Contracted feeling in forehead. Tight feeling in forehead, with pain over r. eye. T. feeling in forehead, with pain in temples.
Sleep
Yawning while conversing with people. Sleepiness; all day; after breakfast; with stupidity and weariness; with desire to have eyes half closed. Sleep unusually sound; deep till 3 A.M. slept well till 2 A.M., then restless till morning. Fell asleep while sitting and writing; in a carriage. Restless night; with frightful dreams. Sleepless; after midnight; after 2 A.M.; after 3 A.M., with restlessness. Nightmare, feeling on waking as if the room were insufferably hot and close; N., then anxiety after waking. Frightful dreams. Dreams of being bound down with a chain across the mouth; of fighting and disputations, but always comes off best; of triumphing over all opposition; continual.
Fever
Chill about 11 A., m.; in evening on going into open air; all day, with fever at night and rheumatic pains and soreness all over body; of surface; over back in evening; in lower limbs and back.
Heat after going to bed. Hot sensation over whole body, then sweat, vomiting and diarrhoea, stools dark. Heat in flashes on walking at 3 A.M., with feeling as if sweat would break out. Heat in forehead; on top of head, with soreness of scalp; of face; cheeks; of face in flashes; of face, with redness; in i. side of face and head, with prickling; of lower limbs at night; in feet, which are cool. Heat of whole surface, especially of face, the tongue dry on rubbing it against roof of mouth, startling and feeling sore as if burnt, compelled to move to cool part of bed and finally to rise, peculiar feeling in head which is never felt except during fever. Dry heat of whole surface, with occasional chills, principally up and down back.
Clinical Typhoid fever, with great sensitiveness of the r. iliac region and soreness of the abdomen generally. Generally useful in the early stage of typhoid fever, restlessness, with muttering delirium, fetor of breath and body, face dusky, etc.
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.