Throat
Tough white mucus, hard to remove, feeling as if throat were full, and suffocate unless mucus were removed. Stinging from swallowing the drug. Smarting, sore feeling. Tingling.
Stomach
Excessive hunger; but satisfied with a reasonable amount of food; almost to faintness, sometimes before meals, especially dinner; sudden H.before meals. Appetite lost; for breakfast; but stomach feels empty, craves acids. Aversion to bread. No thirst; with the fever. Nausea. Pain is S. and upper part of abdomen in evening, (>) pressure. PRessure in epigastrium, with needle-like pains. Empty feeling about 10 A.M., then faint feeling. Feels collapsed. Symptoms (>) after breakfast, still hardly able to hold head up or to sit up.
Clinical Persistent bilious vomiting, preceded by a chill, associated with vertigo. In a case of cirrhotic liver it relieved the vomiting, etc.
Abdomen
Bloated around the waist (<) r. side. Rumbling and uneasiness. Occasional shooting through A. and chest; through A. during the day. Sharp fleeting pains through A. and chest; at intervals; through A. during the day. Pain every few minutes all night with restlessness, tired feeling, a long night; P. for a few minutes at a time, causing a faint, sinking feeling; sudden fleeting in A. and chest during the day. Bruised feeling and trembling; B. feeling, must hold on to it when walking or coughing. Pain in side opposite to the one lain upon, (>) pressure; in l. hypochondrium when walking, also stitches at night in bed; fleeting, in hypogastrium, with pressure and fulness in vagina; sharp fleeting, through hypogastrium, (<) region of ovaries and uterus, with heavy, pressing feeling in vagina.
Anus and Stool
Itching at anus, with smarting. Diarrhoea early in morning. Frequent diarrhoea all day, with pain; F. at night; at night, with faintness during and after stools; painless. Stools milky- white, sometimes like half-beaten eggs; and before the stool pain more in large intestines, but at times radiating to every part, causing a faint sinking sensation, diarrhoea (<) after 1 P.M. Constipation.
Urinary Organs
Frequent anxious desire to urinate. Urine; scanty, with brick- dust sediment; thick.
Sexual Organs
Fulness in vagina when standing; when walking. Weight in vagina, (>) continued motion. Menses too early; and profuse; every three weeks, preceded by weak feeling, bearing-down pain in pelvic organs, with frequent micturition, flow lasted three days, dark, scanty, with bearing-down pains, with occasional griping in r. ovary, weakness, restlessness, tired feeling, head symptoms and depression of mind, in another proving the same, with severe pain in lumbar and sacral spine, running down thighs, with weight on vertex, loss of appetite, nausea, giddiness.
Clinical Ulceration of the uterus, the discharge ichorous, corroding, fetid, with haemorrhoidal fissures and general appearance of scirrhus cachexia, with aching in all limbs and numerous symptoms.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness, almost aphonia. Smarting way down in bronchia. Bronchial tubes sore, inflamed. Cough in afternoon and evening; C. jarring the head; dry, hard; dry, hacking, causing shattered sensation in head; dry, harsh, hollow, shaking the whole body, (<) head, (<) after 3 P.M. till midnight, and lungs feel dry; dry, harsh, hollow, paroxysmal, from irritation at base of lungs, causing a shattered, torn feeling in head and redness of face, no expectoration; paroxysmal, in afternoon and evening, causing shattered, torn feeling in head. Dyspnoea, with pain about heart; D. from exercise, with distress, almost amounting to pain, in praecordial region. Difficulty in breathing after ascending stairs. Short breath; on slight exertion. Sighing.
Clinical Dyspnoea of emphysema, exceedingly distressing.
Chest
Stitches through middle of C. and about heart in morning after waking; S. on ascending a hill, with palpitation and breathlessness; about middle and lower part of sternum, later from behind sternum through whole lower part of chest. Darting pains through it; in evening, now through base, then through apex, though lungs. Sharp pain two inches to left of sternum, extending from second to fifth intercostal space, at night. Pain through r. lower side in afternoon; at base before breakfast, with pressure; P. when walking fast; when ascending stairs, stooping or leaning forward, with difficulty in breathing. Lung Constriction; of lungs. Fluttering several times during the day. Lungs feel dry. Lungs feel as if I had taken cold.
Heart
Sudden intermittent sharp pain in region. Strange sensation, not real pain, yet causing faint feeling, after retiring. Semi- conscious of action, also of arterial pulsation in r. middle ear and in other place, in evening, only needed to think of any point to be conscious of pulsations there. Palpitation; from a little excitement; on walking; when walking a little hurriedly; when walking in the street and on first going into open air; on ascending stairs; on ascending stairs, with difficulty in breathing.
Pulse
Rapid; and temperature high. Strong. Slow and almost imperceptible; S., weak and lagging; some beats not as full as others; and intermittent; and I could count two beats, then a pause, three beats, then a pause, eight beats and a pause, then two and a pause, etc.
Neck and Back
Pain in region of region of seventh cervical vertebra after a walk; drawing, in nape. Sensation as if atlas and axis had been pried apart, on rising to the feet it changes to as sharp pain. Pulsation extending from neck along spine to lumbar regain in afternoon when sitting. Weakness of back; all day; all day, with lameness of it and aching at lower third of scapulae; of B. and hips all day, with lameness; when stooping, with lameness. Pain extending down spine; P. between scapulae. Bruised feeling in l. loin.
Extremities
Unsteady feeling on walking, gait as if intoxicated. Weakness, and in joints; W., (<) lower; with heaviness; with inability to walk straight, giddiness, knees feel weak. Go to sleep. Arms weak; (<) r.; in evening, with tingling; r., with numbness. Heavy, nervous, uneasy feeling in arms, with weakness of wrists. Sore spots in flexors of l. forearm, preventing a firm grasp. Lame spots in flexors of l. forearm in afternoon and evening. Lower limbs have no strength when walking, with trembling feeling; weak-feeling in muscles of l. thigh. Sore spot in flexors of r. thigh all day;muscles of l. thigh sore to touch; l. knee sore to touch in afternoon and evening. Legs lame when stepping up or down. Tenderness of feet in evening; T. of callosities of feet; of callosities of l. foot. Feet feel nervous. L. foot and limb go to sleep when sitting still.
Skin
Rhagades above ankles. Chapped;Above ankles. Itching; on various parts; (<) night; on head and back; arms, arms and thighs, extending over abdomen; arms and thighs, (<) after waking in morning and after 3 P.M.; lower limbs; thighs; sole.
Clinical Liver spots.
Sleep
Yawning. Sleepiness; nearly all day, with stupidity, head feels tired and dull; slept in a chair at 9 A.M. while trying to study; at 1. P.M. inability to keep eyes open, yawning; had to take a nap at 2 P.M.; at 3 P.M., and deep sleep for two hours. Shortly after retiring the thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a rush of disconnected ideas, which could not be controlled by the will. Sleepless the first part of the night; and waking every morning about 4 A.M.; till midnight, and waking at 4 A.M.; till after midnight, and waking every morning at 3 or 4 A.M. Frequent waking, with a disturbed feeling; F. waking, feeling as if some one were trying to rouse me. Woke in morning unrefreshed. Restless sleep; after midnight; and head felt hot and confused. Uneasy dreams all night; laborious dreams.
Fever
Chilliness, chills running up back, chattering of teeth, then heat congestion of blood to head; C. of feet at 6.30 P.M. chattering of teeth, chills running up back and then extending to extremities, chill came of after eating, lasted half an hour, then high fever, face almost purple, eyes red, cannot keep them open, lids hot, eyes sensitive to light. Cold hands and feet, all the blood seems to be in the head. Fever until nearly midnight. Heat in cervical region; between scapulae. Burning on l. thigh, the itching in evening; B. in a spot on ball of each foot; in a spot in each sole, (<) l.; in a spot on l. sole in morning; in a spot on each sole when shoes were removed; in feet on removing shoes, with itching. Sweat over the whole body.
Clinical Pernicious fever, with continued chilliness.
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.