Urine. copious; in afternoon; with constant urging; with and inability to retain it; with exhaustion; then retained, with nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea; and pale, passed every hour; and watery; and watery, it did not collect in large quantities, but provoked constant micturition; and pale straw-yellow, feeble acid reaction, sp. gr. diminished, organic and in organic solids diminished, and deep-colored. Scanty and dark; and of high sp. gr.; and red; and clear and pale. Dark. Brownish, offensive. Red and burning; R., depositing a sediment. Acid. Neutral; in afternoon, acid at other times; in evening, not after dinner. Thick, with dense white sediment. Turbid in morning and afternoon and depositing a thick, white sediment. Thin brownish sediment. Free deposit of lithates.
Clinical Nephritis after scarlatina. Cystitis. Inflammation of neck of bladder, after passing a few drops the desire to urinate is increased and the patient walks about in great distress, associated with tenesmus of rectum; these symptoms have indicated the use of the drug for the relief of acute inflammation in chronic enlargement of the prostate. In inflammation of the kidneys of the the chronic from it is sometimes of temporary value when there is threatened failure of the heart, or very scanty or suppressed urine, with oedema of the lungs, etc.
Sexual Organs
Flaccidity, with loss of desire. Irritation. Itching of glans. Erections in morning; continued, in morning on rising; almost chordee-like, waking at night, with urging to urging to urinate, but scanty urine; almost painful, disturbing sleep. Bruised pain in r. testicle. Frequent sensation at night as if an emission would occur without one, in morning glutinous moisture at orifice of urethra. Emissions, then pain in penis; E. at night without dreams and without waking; almost every fourth night with voluptuous dreams; at night, then exhaustion next day and erections on and after rising; copious, at night; copious, at 1 A.M. and on waking smarting in urethra. Lascivious fancies, with frequent erections. Desire, with frequent erections during the day. Power diminished, the propensities disappear, liquor seminis diminishes and may at last cease. Menorrhagia. Uterine haemorrhage. Discharge of menstrual blood.
Clinical Gonorrhoea, with strangury, inflammation of prostate, upper portion of the urethra and neck of the bladder. Weakness of sexual organs in men, seminal emissions with general Digitalis symptoms of the heart faintness, weakness of the extremities, etc. Hydrocele, especially with suppressed or scanty urine and albuminuria. Suppression of menses, with haemorrhage from the lungs, associated with cardiac disease.
Respiratory Organs
Mucus in larynx in morning easily loosened, but he is obliged to swallow it. Tenacious mucus in larynx, loosened by hacking cough (Kali). Rawness of air-passages. Hoarseness in morning; on waking (Iodium); after night-sweat so that he cannot speak; frequent painless H. (Calc-c.). Cough; at midnight, with sweat; irritation to C. as far up as arch of palate; with catarrh so that he could scarcely speak; so violent after eating that he vomits the food; sympathetic with affection of stomach; C. from tickling in trachea without expectoration. Dry cough in morning after rising, with dyspnoea (Ferrum); D., with tensive pain in arm and shoulder; D. spasmodic, after much talking; D. and short, from itching in larynx. C., (<) long sitting, with expectoration and peculiar weakness in chest. Expectoration of grayish, sweetish, offensive- tasting mucus (Stann.); E. of mucus in morning by involuntary hawking; of blood.
Respiration. Irregular and performed by frequent deep sighs (K- cy.). Difficult, slow and deep. Dyspnoea (Ferrum), (<) sitting, with necessity to breathe deeply. Constant desire to breathe deeply (Ferrum), (<) evening, but on attempting to do so it seemed as if the chest could be only half filled or as if there were an impediment deep in chest, with dry cough, (<) deep inspiration, with rare expectoration of hard lumpy mucus, the expectoration freer in morning than in afternoon and evening, everything about body seemed too tight, the shortness of breath (>) evening in bed, returned in morning on rising with painful weariness and general affection of chest and frequent dry cough, the difficulty in breathing (<) after noon and evening, especially when writing, (<) next day in afternoon and evening, when it was accompanied by palpitation. Short. Short gasping. Sighs; and groans. Rapid. Feeble murmur.
Chest
Oedema of lungs. Sticking in r. above pit of stomach. Pinching sticking in ribs beneath r. axilla. Itching sticking rhythmical with pulse, in l. on a line with pit of stomach. Cutting externally in front, in region of third rib, on violent motion of opposite arm. Rawness, with stitches. Pain on coughing. Pulsating pain in l. lower part, more in walls, in afternoon, unaffected by breathing; P. pain in region or r. nipple when walking slowly, causing oppressed breathing. Drawing pain deep in lower part of r. in evening, preventing sleep; D. pain in middle of sternum when walking. Bruised pain over sternum and epigastrium in evening. Soreness to touch from ensiform cartilage upward. Oppressive pain beneath ensiform cartilage.
Contractive pain in sternum, (<) bending forward head and upper part of body. Suffocative constriction as if internal parts were grown together (Ferrum), (<) morning on waking, obliging him to sit upright. Tension, with pressure in pit of stomach, obliging deep breathing; T. in l. on becoming erect. Pressive drawing on coughing. Pressure in l. upper muscles, with boring; P. on lower part when sitting bent, with shortness of breath; outward in C. and epigastrium towards evening, (>) beating on chest. Uneasiness in mammary region, (<) l., and extending to l. shoulder and upper part of arm. Pulsation in r. Peculiar relaxed sensation, (<) long sitting. Weariness across to l. side.
Clinical Pneumonia, especially in old people, with prune juice expectoration, cold extremities, cyanotic face, feeble pulse. Oedema of the lungs and effusion into the pleura, with weak heart.
Heart
“Heart-worm,: with intermittent pulse and congestion to head, (<) occiput, somewhat to l., and nausea. Pain; shifting. Oppression; with need to inspire deeply. Sudden sensation as if it stood still at 9. P.M., with anxiety; after dinner, with anxiety and necessity to hold the breath; A. as if it stood still, violent slow beast, with sudden pain in occiput, unconsciousness and cold sweat on forehead (compare Apoc-c.). Uneasiness; in afternoon; with cold sweat; in various parts of region in evening, with weakness of forearm. Confusion, (<) moving, with weakness of wrists and forearms. Disagreeable sensation.
Palpitation; at night, starting him from commencing sleep; from a slight ascent (Calc-c.); from moderate exercise, with uneasiness at heart. Bests accompanied by gentle :bruit de souffle.” Action rapid, (<) the systole, heart dilated slowly and on each movement palpitation. Oppressive, contractive action, with anxiety and spasmodic pain in sternum and beneath ribs. Violent, slow action when sitting; V., with anxiety and contractive pain beneath sternum. Strong action; at night, so that he must rise, walk about and open the window, with orgasm of blood, palpitation, strong, rapid pulse; when walking in the room, with palpitation; and difficult; extending over entire l. side, the first sound dull and prolonged, the second clear, beast intermittent and irregular. Irregular action. Action feeble, frequent, intermittent and irregular (Apoc-c., Hydrous. ac.); action and pulse feeble and small; F., with palpitation.
Clinical Pericarditis, with effusion; fluttering of heart. Cardiac dropsies. In all forms of disease of the heart in which Digitalis is indicated there is feeble, irregular or fluttering pulse, feeling as if the heart stood still, with anxiety and oppression; sometimes there is a cyanotic hue of the face, general desire to take a deep breath, which only partially relieves the sense of suffocation.
Pulse
Irregular; after walking; and small; and weak. Strong and full; when sitting; S. and hard; S. from twelve to twenty time, then very weak for four or five times. Rapid; after gentle exercise; after exercise, and weak and irregular; when standing, slower on sitting, very slow when lying; on slightest motion, and on slowly sitting upright from reclining it became jerky, small and weak; on standing, and weak; and strong and full; and strong and wiry; and irregular; and irregular and full; and hard and small; and small and weak; and small weak, irregular, with strong beat of heart; and soft, feeble arteries dilated, irregular; three or four rapid, small beasts, then several slow, strong and full beats; suddenly R. for a few beats, then slow again, or it loses a whole beat. Full.
Slow; slow, thready, intermittent; and irregular, also small; and irregular, always a full hard beat after every three or four soft ones; and a peculiar explosive shock with each of the three or four feeble beats, then intermissions of several; and small, intermittent; but strong; and full; and strong, irregular and intermittent; and full and large, soon rapid and small; but accelerated on slightest exertion; and strong, full, their shocks rapid and separated by considerable intervals when at rest, but on slight exertion, rapid, irregular and less full; and frequently intermittent, with every intermission oppression as if the heart were slowly grasped. Intermittent. Irritable. Undulating at noon. Small; and soft; and weak; and weak and jerky on slowly sitting up after reclining in a chair; when standing, and weak, irregular in rate and strength. Feeble. Almost pulseless.
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.