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Generalities
Trembling, with sensation as if a good deal larger all over. Sensation as if larger all over. Feeling all the afternoon as if just getting over a drunken spree. I feel and walk as if I had taken too much larger. General feeling as if poisoned. Weakness; in morning; with sleepiness. General heavy dull feeling after going to bed. Numbness, especially in face. Amelioration after supper; A. on lying down.
Mind
Sad, as if I could cry, do not want to be spoken to, feel better in society of ladies. Do not want any one to speak to me but like to see people and hear them talk. Want to walk in a slow and very dignified manner, and prefer to walk alone. Felt at 10 P.M. as if I could not get myself together and could not find my clothes, although they were quite near, felt better in open air. Dull and stupid feeling at 8.30 A.M., with no energy. Stupefied and intoxicated feeling all the afternoon. Cannot think of anything, cannot bear to work or study. Can think of a thousand thing in a minute.
Head
Aching on waking at 5 A.M., with neuralgia in malar-bones and stiff dry feeling in jaws; A. on rising at 5 A.M., suddenly (>) at breakfast, with prosopalgia; at sunset and lasting all night, after riding in afternoon and evening, with pain in face. Neuralgia almost every day and every other night, suddenly (>) on eating, and in face. Dull heavy feeling; in morning on rising, (>) after moving around; full and dull heavy feeling, afterwards settling in occipital region. Dull feeling. Feeling as if as large as a half-bushel. Vertigo when walking, can hardly walk straight, feeling as if I should stumble over my own legs. Sticking above orbital arches, (>) pressure of hand, (<) removing hand. Frontal headache, especially in eyes, (<) bending forward. Pain over l. eye.
Eyes
Look about E. as if he had taken too much liquor. Dull look. Pain in r.; pungent, with lachrymation. Heaviness without sleepiness. Upper lids feel as heavy and thick as shoe leather. Burning in l. inner canthus. Inability to see at midnight on going out of doors, rubbed his eyes to bring sight.
Ears, Nose and Face
Redness of lobules of ears; sudden, clearly defined, of alae of nose. Nose is most prominent, on looking down it looks large and as if extending out from face. Face yellow. Rough feeling in f. Puffed-up feeling in F. Insensibility pinching in F. Pain through l. malar-bone.
Mouth
Aching in unsound bicuspids when biting anything. Tongue white and rough, looking like a calf’s, with feeling as if scalded and as if the skin would peel off. Feeling as if the tongue filled the mouth. Speech thick and slow. Salivation. Taste as of lye; T. between sour and bitter; sweetish now (always had been salt); acrid, in pharynx and oesophagus.
Throat
Constant inclination to spit and hawk up much tough white mucus, which I could feel drawn through nares. Burning in lower part; B. down to stomach.
Oesophagus – Sensation as if lye from wood ashes had been swallowed. Soreness in morning, (<) thinking about eating. Seemed to close and prevent swallowing. Feeling during breakfast as if solid food lodged until forced down by more food, after breakfast pain as if swollen and constricted and as if something were trying to force through it, (<) after dinner and supper, and on attempting to swallow solid food.
Stomach
Appetite good, but unnatural feeling while eating, the eating seeming to be performed mechanically; A. disappeared when I got what I had desired; lost. Thirst; then salt taste; no T. Nausea; from smoking tobacco; on rising from a seat.
Clinical Has proved valuable in obstinate hiccough on the slightest provocation, talking, laughing, eating or any motion.
Abdomen, Anus and Stool
Griping on riding. Ineffectual urging to stool, with paralyzed feeling in rectum. Itching around anus. Watery, frequent yellowish diarrhoea, (<) at night. Stools frequent, bright yellow, afterwards delayed. Stool small in morning on rising.
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Micturition delayed, urine dark red, smelling like that of cats. Diminished urine; and sparkling; with milky appearance and smelling like that of cats. Erections, with great desire; E all night and long after rising, but without desire, penis soon becoming shrivelled and not half its usual size. Desire gone.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
Hoarseness. Warmth down trachea into lungs. Cough, with strangulation; C. almost causing vomiting. Pain across chest; in r. side below ribs; in r. lung; sharp, through superior part of lungs; occasional sharp, through lungs; sharp, from before backward through superior and internal parts of r. lung. Soreness across chest, with pain in l. shoulder. Lungs felt loose while riding and as if I must hold them together by pressing on them.
Pulse, Neck and Back
Pulse rapid; full and strong; P. weak. Sensitiveness of cervical muscles to pressure. Pain in dorsal surface of l. scapula. Stitches through r. lumbar region when stooping.
Extremities
Almost complete loss of sensibility on outer side of thighs and dorsal surface of forearms and hands, with sensitiveness to pinching on inside of thighs and palms surface of hands. Enlarged feeling in joints, with some pain; in shoulder-joints. Pain on pressure on inside of shoulder, (<) l.
Arm. – Dislocated feeling in l., with pain on raising it. Tired in morning on rising, and heavy. Feeling as if tied to body, (<) l.; and l. particularly numb, with feeling as if they would tremble if I would let them. Feeling like soaked wood hanging to me, after breakfast. When raised, feeling as if they would drop in spite of me. Weakness of elbows, with lame feeling. Laming sensation in carpal bones of wrist.
Knee. – Stitches through at midnight on rising in bed. Pain. Weakness when walking; with pain, so that walking was difficult.
Skin
Eruption as thick as measles all over arms and body and upper part of legs. Itching, (<) scratching.
Sleep
Gaping and stretching. Desire to sleep with arms locked under his head. Sleep unsound. Amorous dreams without emissions; unpleasant D., and in the latter part of the dreams disposition to swear and act like a rowdy.
Fever
Cold feeling, with cold sweat. Burning in face. Profuse and weakening sweat.
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.