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General Action
indefinite, except that the urinary symptoms seem pronounced and similar to Sarsap., Apocyn., and probably will be found allied to Galium.
Generalities and Mind
Precipitancy in all actions. Uneasiness. Weakness; after dinner forcing him to lie down. Symptoms (<) in daytime and especially from 4 to 6 P.M. Violence in evening, with anger. Ennui, forgetfulness. Indisposition for mental labor.
Head
Aching; especially in occiput, forbidding reading and every mental exertion. Heaviness. Vertigo; on ascending stairs; with vomiturition. Lancinating shocks in l. frontal eminence. Tearing in middle of forehead. Supraorbital pain alternately on r. and l. side. Sinciput, darting pain in r. half; pressure; pressure downward; embarrassment, with pressure then weight; uneasiness, with pressure and heaviness. Piercing pain in r. temple. Lancinations in l. temple and r. side of chest. Weight in temples and occiput; in occiput, with pressure.
Eyes
Pain, with impaired vision and oedema of upper lids. Increased sensibility. Burning. Pressure in balls, with oedema of l. upper lid, which was afterwards red and wrinkled and itched; P. downward and upward in balls, with sensation as if the balls were pressed upward, and the light fell only from above, with troubled vision. OEdema of r. lower lid, then minute pustular point. Pressure downward in upper half of r. orbital nerve, with vomiturition and uneasiness in abdomen, afterwards the same on l. side. Photophobia. Vision misty after sleeping in afternoon; cloudy before r. eye, before twelve O’ clock.
Ear and Nose
Hissing in E. Roaring and buzzing as from a swarm of insects. Catarrh, (<) in daytime, of thin mucus, excoriating nose.
Mouth
Pasty mucus on teeth in afternoon; much paplike mucus on T. after dinner. Tearing in upper teeth in evening. Tongue coated white; coated with mucus; dry, with a dirty white coat. Irritation of buccal membrane as far as larynx, with increased saliva. Salivation; thick abundant saliva. Saliva seemed no longer to be secreted. Offensive breath on waking.
Throat
Ulcers extending up to the Eustachian tube. Inflammation, with foul-smelling saliva. Scraping; causing cough; on uvula, with pressure in stomach mounting into oesophagus, not (>) by eructations, and with vomiturition, the borborygmi as before diarrhoea; in throat and oesophagus, with itching. Grating. Roughness. Rawness, with peppery taste in it. Irritation in upper part, obliging hawking. Burning and grating pain. Burning, at first with sensations as from pepper, with hoarseness and rawness and dryness of throat, requiring frequent clearing. Dryness. Dysphagia, beginning at upper and back part of T. Cold feeling down oesophagus.
Stomach
Appetite lost; for supper; less at dinner. Thirst. Eructations; tasteless, with dryness of throat and trembling of hands. Nausea. Vomiturition; with shivering; then borborygmi, several liquid stools, copious urine and continual desire to urinate; (<) by spitting. Violent vomiting. Copious vomiting of saliva, bile, chyme and fecal matters, then, several stools enveloped in viscous mucus. Peculiar indefinable sensation in epigastrium and in umbilical region, with increased urine, (>) pappy stool. Coldness, then on whole anterior part of chest, forcing him to button his coat, then pressure in S. and throat as from a foreign body, changing into burning; C. in epigastric region.
Abdomen
Fulness; after stool; with nausea and turgescence at upper part, (<) clearing throat. Inflation and discomfort, with tenderness to touch, especially under umbilicus. Gurgling. Rumbling; with pain under umbilicus and desire to go to stool. Perceptible pulsation in aorta during rest after eating. Cutting; after breakfast and dinner; C. before stool; C., with calls to urinate. Pinching. Pain; with rumbling, then liquid stool; then diarrhoea mixed with air bubbles; tractive, all around. A., with continual borborygmi and eructations, he is obliged to go to bed in apprehension of inflammation of the liver, (>) diarrhoea. Tenderness on touching it and bending backward. Uneasiness and fulness, not (>) by eructations.
Stitches in and through spleen. Pressure in r. and l. lobes of liver, extending into r. inferior pulmonary lobe. Warmth about umbilicus, colic, with borborygmus, then eructations as from small doses of tartar emetic. Pressive and lancinating pain in middle of ascending colon, not (>) by eructations. Hypogastrium distended; but soft.
Rectum and Anus
Inclination for stool, with pressure at anus. Frequent calls to stool, with escape of nothing but air, and with anxiety and warmth in lower-abdomen. Burning in anus. Tickling in anus in evening on lying down, obliging scratching.
Stool
Soft after dinner. Copious; and soft and frequent, followed by shock colicky pains returning periodically; frequent, semi-fluid, yellow, preceded by cutting in abdomen. Two in the day, soft, dark. Frequent in forenoon, first hard, then paplike and less highly colored. Scanty, then itching at anus. Delayed, containing partially digested food.
Urinary Organs
Constant desire to urinate (Apoc-c., Equis.). Micturition, with erection of penis, urine fiery and causing burning pain in urethra (Sarsap., Apoc-c.); difficult M. in morning, afterwards with burning in glandular portion of urethra, at noon, with burning at orifice of urethra and constant desire to urinate. Frequent micturition, but urine not increased; with copious urine. Burning in glandular portion of urethra. Drawing pain in urethra, causing desire to urinate. Copious urine; frequent and dark; and colorless. Scanty dingy-brown urine, burning the urethra, almost with strangury. Darker urine. Urine through the day strongly saline with an animal smell, not unlike sausage- soup.
Sexual Organs
Drawing in testicles and spermatic cord, in evening, with flaccidity of scrotum and feeling as if it were enlarged, afterwards with pain, the pain (<) during passage of pungent- smelling urine. Desire increased.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness; with vomiturition and colic, all (>) by diarrhoea; voice hoarse and hollow, with dry heat in pharynx. Aphonia. Easily detached mucus in trachea. Heat in trachea. Tickling cough, waking him at 3 A.M., with tough, greenish-gray expectoration. Inclination to cough.
Chest
Peculiar shooting over trunk, with beating pain. Isolated pains in trunk, lancinating and bruising. Dartings in middle third of r. side. Piercing pain in middle of r. Pricking in lower third r., with feeling of weight there. Oppression in inferior third, with embarrassed respiration on ascending steps, beginning in sternum. Constriction; with pressure.
Heart and Pulse
Tension in praecordia. Pulse agitated. Rapid P., (<) after siesta. Small P., a little accelerated. Full P. Slow P., and small. Carotids beat more violently.
Back and Extremities
Pain in small of back, as if in kidneys, (>) lying bent backward. Pain in l. arm as if broken. Pricking pain in l. hand. Lower extremities, stretching; heaviness; depression in lower limbs, with drawing in muscles of calf, in femoro-tibial articulation, with rheumatic pain in shoulder and back on r. side, in l. intercostal muscles of second and third spaces and in upper lumbar vertebrae, the pain in the second intercostal space extends to sternum and lasts till evening. Breaking pain in knee, with feeling as if the lower end of the femur would escape from the patella (?). Tearing in feet after dinner. Pressure in lower third of under part of r. foot. Weakness in soles; in feet after eating. Pricking under nail of great toe.
Sleep
Yawning; with stretching of limbs and cramplike feeling in lower limbs. Sleepiness; in morning. sleepless all night. Restless sleep, with lascivious dreams. Frequent waking and disturbing dreams, as, for instance, that he was about to fall. Wakes in fright and with cries, from painful dreams. Lascivious dreams, with erections, restlessness, and was awakened towards morning by an emission.
Fever
Chill, with trembling, then weight in head, heat in face and roaring and tingling in ears. heat; dry, (<) towards evening, without thirst; H. of face. Sweat; in evening on least motion and in cold air.
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.