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Generalities
Emaciation. Rheumatic and gouty pains in musical to ends of fingers and toes. Bruised, sore, swollen, inflamed, with burning pain; B. feeling the next day after a fitful, restless, dreamy sleep. Whole body feels swollen, bruised, lame, sore and painful, exhausted as in dry, sultry weather, movements heavy, labored, clumsy, stinging, restless irritation as if an eruptive fever would come to the surface, feeling as if sweat would break out. Burning irritation of eyes, nose, skin mucous membrane of mouth, throat and air-passages and oppression of respiration and circulation. Catarrhal feverish state of mucous surfaces. Pulmonic, cardiac and capillary circulation oppressed, feels as if death must result, as if there must be fatal organic lesions. Weakness. Stiffness of muscles, tendons, ligaments, with lameness and with dry feeling in cartilages, as if lame. Insensibility of surface, (<) back and abdomen, so that rubbing and pounding were bone without pain and insisted upon for the sake of warmth. Aggravation morning; A. before menses.
Mind
Hopeless foreboding, (<) sleep, Fear and anguish. Feeling unable to do anything, but as though something must be done, as if the will were paralyzed as to power, with the sense of suffering increased, no rest anywhere, mind anxious, restless, oppressed and all functions seem spellbound, as if they must act and cannot, cannot bear to see or be with any one, but restless, unhappy, fearful and foreboding when alone, as if mind and if mind and body must be in action and yet withheld from action by oppression and obstruction.
Head and Eyes
Confusion in head, with expansive fulness, all parts feel lame, swollen, inflamed, thickened, painful, burning, throbbing in head and brain, (<) cerebellum and cerebro-spinal axis, Dullness of the senses as from congestion. Boring through l. temple. Weight on vertex. Sensation as if l. eye were twisted during the headache.
Face and Mouth
Face yellow. Tongue white, dry; T. feels thick and numb; T. and mouth feel burnt and dry, but are moist, wants drink, but can take only a little and feels worse after food and drink, as if mouth and stomach were burnt, cold, warm, hot, sour, bitter and sweet things are repulsive, nothing is relished. Speech thick. Taste bitter; T. sweet in morning.
Stomach and Abdomen
Appetite lost, loathes meat. Nausea, with sinking in epigastrium. Vomits bile. Wears her clothes loose. Flatulent colic doubling the body forward. Pain in r. hypochondrium, with enlargement.
Stool, Urine and Sexual Organs
Stools watery, green, alternating with constipation. Constipation, bowels fell hot and dry. Urine strong, high- colored, hot, scanty; U. increased, variously colored, red, dark, light, phosphates abundant. Menses scanty, usually delaying, afterwards absent, then abundant, early, with dysmenorrhoea, (>) hot clothes.
Respiratory Organs, Heart and Pulse
Dry cough when tried. Suffocation. Breathing dry, asthmatic, with dyspnoea, sits bent forward, (<) lifting arms. Pain in heart, stitches. Heart’s sounds irregular, usually muffled, with a systolic murmur, (<) before menses. Palpitation when rising or lying on l. side, with vertigo. Pulse rarely exceeded 60.
Back and Extremities
Numbness in back radiating from spine. Burning weariness in small of back. Finger-ends thickened, horny, insensible to pinching nd pricking.
Skin
Harsh, generally dry cold, with burning stinging below, the surface, as if eruption would appear, rarely blotches and fine papules. Burning prickling on face, chest and hands, the parts became dark red and swollen, and there were blisters as large as walnuts, hanging down like bags of water, with water, acrid, sticky oozing, external heat like coals of fire on skin, at times internal heat, with cool skin, (>) hot applications, thee eruption returned each year with fear and expectation of death, loquacity, discussing repeatedly her symptoms, vertigo from lifting head.
Sleep
Sleepless after midnight, with restlessness, (<) from early morning till noon. Dreams frightful, vivid; D. fearful, after fitful sleep.
Fever
Sudden coldness of extremities, with numbness of them and heat of head. Fever and unrest; F., with congestion of bring, fulness, heaviness, Dullness, soreness, with expansive pressure, as if swollen, deadening heat in head as if scorched by the sun, vertigo, oppression of vital forces and circulation as if overheated, fatigue, faintness and burning, throbbing oppression. Dry heat. Heat of cerebellum and neck, with feeling as if the capillary circulation were congested and oppressed. Sweat on head and neck.
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.