Genital Organs
Erections. Excitement. Soreness of r. ovary. Menses only once in seven weeks, scanty, with cramplike, bearing down pain, generally has nosebleed before menses (it is not quite evident that tea caused these symptoms, but it undoubtedly aggravated them).
Respiratory Organs
Symptoms of swelling of mucous lining of R. and digestive tracts. Scraping in larynx. Constriction of larynx, with dry hacking cough. Hoarseness, almost aphonia. Cough, with bloody expectoration; dry C. during one day. Suffocation. Apparent asphyxia every five or six minutes. Gasping. Respiration irregular and oppressed. Respiration increased; in frequency and amplitude. Breathless at least attempt to walk; on ascending stairs, with palpitation.
Chest
Oppression; and anxiety. Constriction. Tightness across upper part, obliging her to sit up in bed. Fulness in clavicles, with feeling of suffocation; F. about clavicles, with fluttering in l. side.
Heart
Sibilant rale. Spasmodic pain in region; with feeling as if continually falling into delirium. Anguish in region. Anxious oppression. Praecordial anxiety after tea at supper, with a sleepless night, but if excited by lively conversation or by continued thinking the anxiety disappears and he had a refreshing sleep. Uneasiness. Praecordial distress as if about to faint. Palpitation; at night, with inability to lie on l. side; with dilatation and thinning of heart; with pain in region of heart; at times, at other times heart seemed motionless. Fluttering, then momentary suspension of its action and long-continued swoonings.
Pulse
Rapid; and full; and irregular, often intermittent; then slower, irregular and intermittent; and small, feeble. Slow and weak in some cases, in others fluttering or intermittent; S., irregular, small, at times hardly perceptible. Irregular and scarcely perceptible. Irregular, intermittent, almost imperceptible, with anxiety in praecordium or sensation in pit of stomach as in incipient faintness, then frequent paroxysms of asphyxia like nightmare, with spasmodic pain in praecordial region, with intermittent, irregular, at times suppressed respiration.
Extremities
Trembling. Pain on inside of arms above elbows, waking her at night. Joints of hands and feet tender and sensitive to touch. Nervous excitability of wrists, feet and hands. Trembling of hand; and arm. Pain in sciatic nerve. Sensation on under side of thighs as if circulation had ceased, with sensation of paralysis, causing nervousness and desire to kick in order to restore sensibility. Neuralgic pain in outer hamstrings. Inability to lift the affected leg, sometimes r., sometimes l. Restlessness of feet in evening. Sensation as if the weight of a sheet would crush toes.
Skin
Peeling of ends of fingers from dryness. Pimples, red, indolent or slightly painful, sometimes in clusters, over neck, shoulders and (<) thighs, they are easily broken, bleed a little and dry up soon. Tumor, circumscribed, almost indolent, movable, in thickness of derma, in lumbar region, the skin covering it is a lively pink, tension of integuments is felt even to the hips, with itching, afterwards a similar tumor on outer and upper part of r. thigh, and on one palmar aspect of r. wrist, the hand engorged, preventing, writing, then the same symptoms simultaneously on scrotum, penis and prepuce, appearing like an enormous hydrocele and a phimosis, the parts are indolent, all these tumefactions require two days for their resolution. Crawling under various parts of skin, with pricking and itching, causing irritability. Itching of different parts, (<) anteriorly on thighs, next day it extends to legs and ankles and insteps.
Sleep
Sleepy; in the daytime. Sleeplessness; till morning; all night; from 10 P.M. till 2 A.M., with irritation and persistent thinking; (>) beer; with vascular excitement; with restlessness; with dryness and heat of skin and tossing about. Tardy slumbers, with anxiety in limbs, more rapid action of heart, sweat on praecordial region, dry heat of other parts. Troubled sleep, waking at intervals. Frequent starting from sleep. Woke suddenly as from a struggled of incubus. Waking in night in agitation (from green tea after a hearty dinner), with oppression of head, sensation of approaching death, or sometimes he seemed dragged from the lowest abyss of darkness back to the world, from which during his paroxysm he felt himself gradually sink. Nightmare. Dream that I murdered in cold blood boys and girls, these crimes caused no emotion, and long after waking I found pleasure in the remembrance of the dream.
Fever
Coldness; of skin; passing over head; deathly, of cartilages of ears form least draught of air; of hands and feet, with clammy sweat on them. Heat; internal, with flushes upon the surface. Sweat; chilly. Dry skin.
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.