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Generalities
Sore feeling, with late, rising and stiffness. Weakness. Aggravation in evening; from 7 till 9 P.M., amelioration by lying down at night, except dreams.
Mind
Irritable and dissatisfied; I., don’t wish to be spoken to, unfit for mental exertion. Mind worked rapidly at night, study easier and perception clearer.
Head
Aching at night, (<) r. side and over r. eye, (<) stooping and motion, even opening and closing eye, (>) lying still; heavy A. during the day, being busy or studying, returning on stooping, (>) open air, next day head the same till 11 A.M., then burning prickling in face, with full pulse and Dullness of vertex as if empty, this lasted all day, with marked clearness of perception. Heaviness, (<) forehead, over eyes and in temples, never in occiput and only occasionally in vertex, (>) lying and open air, was forgotten when mind was occupied, (<) thinking about it, (<) a warm, especially a narrow room, it seldom amounted to a pain. Fulness. Dullness in forenoon. Vertigo.
Forehead. Sharp pain over l. eye and passing over eye from l. to r. Pain above eyes; P. commencing about noon, beginning at outer canthi, (<) around edges of orbits and over bridge of nose, (<) a warm room, (>) cold, open air, partly (>) eating, but returning after eating, forehead hot and dry; towards evening, (<) over l. eye, (>) retiring, returned next morning on rising, afterwards nausea, (>) retiring; in F. and temples and around edges of orbits, (>) cold air, (<) warm room; as if I had taken cold, (<) towards night, with general tired feeling and pain in small of back; heavy, in F. and temples all the morning, (>) shutting eyes, disappeared on eating a hearty meal at 2 O’clock. Heaviness; in anterior part of head, forgotten during mental exertion, (<) thinking about it.
Dragging downward in temples, next day with pain, which was (<) thinking of it and forgotten during mental application. Heavy drawing pain in r. temple towards night and in evening. Heavy aching in vertex and sides of head. Pain in l. side. Scalp feels as if adherent to bones in afternoon.
Eyes
Sticking in l. in afternoon. Pain in l., with smarting. Sore, weak, pressure on ball causes sticking. Tried feeling in afternoon. Lachrymation; with smarting of eyes. Balls feel as if pressed from above, (>) closing eyes, (>) a hearty meal at 2 O’clock, with tired feeling in them, pain and difficulty in keeping them open.
Nose
Stoppage of l. nostril in afternoon and evening (Lycopodium, r.); of l. all day. Scanty acrid discharges from anterior nares. Sneezing.
Clinical Hay fever, the nose is dry and hot, no discharge, nostrils apt to be alternately affected. Acute coryza, thin, watery, excoriating discharge, with sharp hacking cough, (>) lying down, with smarting and itching of the eyes. Hay fever, eyes red, smarting burning, itching. Lachrymation, sneezing, thick acrid discharge. Hay fever, with great swelling of the nose, thin, acrid discharge, dyspnoea, oppression of the chest, (<) night lying down. Hay fever, with rattling wheezing in chest and difficult breathing. Acrid nasal discharge. Acute catarrh of the pharynx, hot, inflamed, feels scalded, sometimes with violent burning of the stomach, (<) eating. Dryness of anterior nares and pharynx, of posterior nares, with slightly lumpy secretion.
Face
Shrunken. Redness around mouth, with smarting of lips. Burning prickling. Sensation as if cheek were bulged out by a bubble of air just below malar-bone, in afternoon. Lips dry and feel as if integuments were stiff.
Mouth
Teeth sensitive to warm drinks and cold air, (<) those that have been filled. Tongue coated dirty white in middle, (<) towards back part; a fissure along median line at the point where I was in the habit of taking the drug from the bottle, did not disappear on taking the drug in a different manner; sore and raw, could hardly bear weight of teeth on it, with soreness of gums; burning scalded feeling; forepart sore, feeling as of a blister on tip; feels dry and sticky. Burning extending to stomach. Dryness. Salivation. Breath offensive, as after onions. Taste of garlic all day; in morning, with tingling of tongue; T. of horse-radish.
Throat
Soreness on r. side, soon extending to l.; on l. side, next day felt on swallowing and on forcing mucus from posterior nares, whole throat injected behind uvula, light red.
Stomach
Eructations at first tasting of horse-radish, then tasteless: E. of gas; of gas all the evening, with heartburn. Singultus. Nausea till breakfast; in evening; with headache. Copious vomiting at 4 P.M. Pain in epigastric region; in cardiac region all day; in region, (>) bending forward and sitting, with faintness; across epigastric region, tears ran from eyes and it seemed to double me up, could hardly stand; running across epigastric region when sitting leaning forward, (>) sitting straight; burning, then sharp, intermittent. Burning. Load, with heartburn.
Abdomen
Rumbling; before stool. Emissions of flatus, generally noiseless and odorless. Accumulation of flatus, with occasional twinges of pain about umbilicus extending to l. iliac region, pain (>) retiring. Heavy pain. Pain in l. hypochondrium. Twisting pain in small intestines; in umbilical region; in umbilical region, extending in l. iliac region. Pain in umbilical and lumbar regions; in U. region in forenoon; to l. of umbilicus, extending to l. iliac region, on the fifth day it ascended to r. side to ascending colon. Burning in umbilical region. Weight in umbilical region in forenoon; below umbilicus in afternoon. Swelling of a gland in l. groin, with pain (may have come from a sore heel caused by a tight shoe). Pain in r. groin in afternoon, (>) pressure; sharp, in r. inguinal gland in afternoon; remittent heavy, in l. iliac region, at times sticking.
Rectum and Stool
Smarting cutting low down in rectum and in anus after stool, with sensation as if more should be discharged. Sharp smarting in lower part of rectum and in anus after stool, with sensation as if more should be discharged. Ineffectual desire. Two stools in one day, the second loose, difficult rather scanty, did not seem to be through after stool, next day desire to go stool all day, stools difficult, in lumps, which at first were large and then tapered off, same sense of not being through, some efforts fruitless, third day difficult, in small hard lumps, with desire, to remain long at stool. Stool hard, like balls; hard, large, only about once every three days.
Urinary Organs
Pain in bladder in morning before urinating. Frequent desire. Frequent micturition, urine pale; F. and copious at night, always preceded by erections which woke him; sometimes followed by continued desire, urine copious, pale; and urine pale, after passage it seemed as if more would come, in about half a minute dribbling, was able to retain urine without much discomfort. Urine copious.
Sexual Organs
Erections sometimes with lascivious dreams; at night, with lascivious dreams and emissions; violent, day and night. Desire.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness in evening; with frequent attempts to clear the throat. Cough in evening; hacking, in evening, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus; hacking, beginning generally about 7 or 8 P.M., sometimes with feeling of something low down in trachea which must be dislodged, sometimes dislodged small chunks of tenacious white mucus, but mostly dry, (<) cold air, (>) lying and temporarily (>) eating, excited by laughing and during the day, (<) forenoon, continual attempts to clear throat, difficult raising of small lumps of white mucus, at night same sensation, with greater difficulty in raising mucus, and from posterior nares difficult discharge of cold, tasteless, tenacious, white masses of mucus. Respiration at base of l. lung roughened, with pain there.
Clinical Loud coughing spells, with barking expiration heard at a great distance.
Chest
Suppuration reaching down to sternum, with gangrenous inflammation muscles, vessels and nerves laid bare. Sticking, and in r. side. Pain in a spot an inch above and an inch to r. of apex best of heart; wandering P.; wandering, and in abdomen.
Heart
Sharp pain. Pain towards apex in evening; P. (>) afternoon every day about 10 A.M. and from 4 till 6 P.M. and sometimes at night when studying, with dread and oppression, sometimes with a peculiar pain in r. side as if heart were there and as if I were conscious of its beating. Oppression in region, with pricking. Uneasiness, with occasional pain in cardiac region.
Pulse
Rapid. Slow. Full; and usually soft.
Back
Pulsating pain under lower angle of l. scapula in afternoon; in intercostal muscles under lower angle of l. S. in forenoon. Pain in lumbar region, (<) towards bedtime, then all night restlessness and sleeplessness from pain in back and hips, next day pain through back and hips, (>) motion.
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.