Sexual Organs
Seem large, as if puffed, relaxed and sweating, and skin of scrotum seems thick. Glans covered with red points, with dryness, causing desire to rub it, prepuce swollen along its margin, sore and painful. Burrowing in penis. Retraction of prepuce after coition, with pain and swelling. Swelling of prepuce, soreness on its margin, with biting on urinating, compelling rubbing. Sore corrosive pain on prepuce. Erections mornings when half-awake, (>) when fully awake; in morning without desire; in morning, and cohabited, but suddenly his desire ceased and he did not know whether there was an emission or not; painful, without desire, changing one morning to desire with relaxation of penis; incomplete, it seems as if broken, with too early emission; no E., even after amorous caresses. Sweat on scrotum. Impotency, relaxation of penis during excitement and desire. Desire increased; diminished. Emission after micturition; in dreams; no E. during embrace, and no orgasm, penis less hard than usual.
Female – Pruritis vulvae (Ambr., Rhus-t., Sulphur, Graphites). Cramp pains in uterus after midnight.
Clinical The most efficient remedy in pruritis of the uvula and vagina.
Respiratory Organs
Epiglottis and adjacent parts swollen and painful to pressure. Constriction of larynx and trachea (Bromium), impeding deep breathing, the attacks of cough seem to originate above larynx. Hoarse. Inability to speak, apparently from swelling of vocal cords or from cough. Cough, (<) by attempts to speak; hoarse C.; in weak paroxysms, with expectoration of lumps of mucus, also chest seems hollow afterwards, weak toneless, at night, preventing sleep and recurring next morning. Constant desire to take a deep breath, cannot get air enough. Difficult respiration with grasping at his throat; D., irregular and accelerated. Incomplete respiration, inspiration catching, with sinking in pit of stomach on inspiration.
Chest
Cracking below last ribs on straightening up, as if they had been dislocated and snapped back again. Stitches; in evening; l. side near sternum; r. side, evenings in bed, (<) by lying on l. side, (>) lying on r. with oppression; deep-seated between l. nipple and shoulder. Cutting in r. side, (<) during respiration and by pressure. Aching in r. side; in twinges on r. side over fifth rib. Tightness. Oppression; with burning in stomach. Peculiar throbbing below heart, not palpitation, only perceptible to hand.
Heart and Pulse
Heart, cutting in region; constriction; action irregular; action slow. Throbbing of all arteries on lying down, (<) carotids, the thud of heart-burn rises into ears. Pulse rapid, weak; P. hard, full, jerking.
Back
Stitches in forenoon, as from incarcerated flatus. Pain in spine. Bruised feeling in morning on rising. Stiffness, and in neck. Loins, boring and burrowing, and in anus; pain in l.; pain in morning, a kind of weakness, with stitches on certain movements, (<) walking.
Extremities
Jactitation. Drawing pinching between bones of forearm and behind tendo-achillis. Pain; cramplike, in flexors of l. arm and l. calf, then of r. Crampy tingling running up from feet, and then in l. arm. Loss of power.
Upper Extremities
Pain in muscles of l. forearm. Stiffness of r. forearm. Veins stand out on back of hand. Feeling in palms towards evening like pins and needles, similar to what is felt when ulnar nerve is stuck, or by some persons when looking down from a height, (>) sleep. Fingers felt large, like sausages, with inability to use them well and feeling as if they would be paralyzed.
Lower Extremities
Sharp pains, (>) moving about. Leg, sticking in l.; tired when walking. Knee, sudden pain in l. as if it would be torn asunder, with cracking on stepping, preventing, walking; weakness when standing, with trembling. Pinching is soles at night. Sticking in a corn; in a corn on l. foot, and S. in l. eye; in a corn on l. little toe.
Skin
Dry and rough; D. on forehead, and harsh. Read inflamed spot on bridge of nose. Rash on wrist, forearm and bend of elbow, with white vesicles and itching at night in heat and internal burning after scratching; itching, on chest. Nettle-rash on chest, alternating with asthma; N. of red pimples, which itch and burn, on inner side of forearm, with oppression of chest, so that he could scarcely breathe, as if mucus would suffocate him, (<) after eating and after midday nap. Pimples on mons veneris and l. ear; painful, red, on r. ear. White pustules here and there, with red areola, itching and soreness to touch. Blisters at l. corner of mouth and on cheeks. Mosquito-bites pain greatly, then itch and burn. tingling. Crawling as of a fly, (<) on face. Itching of various parts; at base of r. index; l. elbow; shin; in a point on l. calf; fingers, (<) when lying at night.
Sleep
Sleepiness; at 7 A.M., with fretfulness and desire to return to bed; in morning after rising, with closure of eyes while walking in open air, with nausea like emptiness, weakness and prostration in knees; evening; before dinner, so that eyes close, with tension in temples. Necessity to lie down during the day, but inability to sleep, with shivering and vertigo.
Sleepless; till 1 A.M. Anxious groans and moans in sleep. Starting in sleep. Sleep unrefreshing. Restless sleep, with confused dreams; r. sleep, with heat, then excessive erections at 4 A.M., without desire, then deep sleep towards 6 A.M. so that he could not rouse himself, with vivid dreams of persons he had not seen for years. Everything troubles him in sleep.
Dreams. Restless, anxious. Vivid; of dead persons, of events of past years, after waking he falls asleep again directly and continues to dream of then. Of fighting and murder. Confused sleep, during which everything comes to his mind which he had forgotten while awake.
Fever
Chilliness; in evening, coldness extending from abdomen to feet, with coldness of fingers; in limbs; feet and legs, with hot face, head and hands; l. hand and arm as if ligatured; over back and whole body, withdrawing pains in l. little finger, which feels as if full and gone to sleep, and stretched sensation in whole body. Shaking, (<) of lower jaw.
Heat; during the day, then in evening till midnight coldness, thirst, wheezing in chest, sleepiness, fever wakes him again about midnight and then disappears with throbbing in chest and coryza; after midday sleep, then sweat, then chill in open air; every day between 4 and 5 P.M.; in evening till midnight, and again waking him, with thirst; before midnight, chill after midnight; with fulness and heaviness over orbits; with thirst, pain in ear; swelling of submaxillary glands and constipation; internal, (>) sleep; internal, with exhausting sweat. Hot and dry skin. Hot hands and feet. Heat in flushed over head, face and chest; H. ascends into head; H. of feet every day between 4 and 5.P.M.; hands, face and abdomen, with coldness of feet before midnight, after midnight coldness of abdomen and heat of feet, without thirst. Burning on external upper margin of ear, without redness or heat; sudden corrosive B. in spots on skin, on cheeks, nose, toes, etc. obliging, touching, always on r. side.
Sweat over whole body in forenoon; towards evening, with prostration, yawning and sleepiness; after heat, alluring the flies; cold, clammy on face.
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.