Introduction
An element. Preparation: Triturations.
Mind
Great loquacity when excited, especially in the evening. Very talkative, light-hearted, excited. Fretful, peevish, sleepy, lazy, with frequent vomiting and stretching (second day). Dread of people and of his occupation, but overcoming this he is able to continue his work. Lascivious thoughts with impotency. After mental work, which keeps him up late in the night, he is so unusually exhausted, that for several days he can think of only what is absolutely necessary, and can return to work only after some time. Completely unfit for every work; although he constantly begins he is obliged soon again to leave off. Very forgetful, especially about business, but when lying half asleep everything recurs to him.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, for the first three days (in the morning)? (t). Vertigo, as if intoxicated, he staggered and was obliged to steady himself, with attacks of faintness, perfectly pale, distorted face, and anxious sweat, so that his shirt could be wrung out; while riding in a carriage, immediately after breakfast, he was obliged to turn back to the house, where he vomited, and was so weak that he had to go to bed (thirteenth day). Vertigo, in the evening. Vertigo, on standing up (t).
Vertigo, so that he dreaded falling, in the evening while riding in a carriage (twelfth day). General Head. Great dulness of the head, especially in the evening (third day). He is always attacked with headache after drinking lemonade, also after wine, sometimes after tea; but not after water, chocolate, coffee, or brandy. Headache, pain in the temples (Hong). Headache, after tamarind water. Headache, every afternoon. Head felt as if filled up with an expansive substance. Transient stitches in the head internally. Transient stitches deep within the head. Forehead and Temples. Dull stitches in the forehead, temples, and eyes, after going from the cold air into a warm room, both in the forehead and evening (second day). Headache, in the temples (fourth day), (t). Occiput. Great heaviness in the occiput, at times waving in the brain, fluttering in both ears, twitching and pressure in both eyeballs (fifteenth day). Pressure in the occiput and vertigo, on standing up (t). Drawing in the occiput, with ringing in and stoppage of the ears (twenty-seventh day). External Head.
Falling of the hair on combing. Swelling of the glabella, as if pimples would form.
Eyes
Causes inflammation of the eyes (H. S. Kestner). The hair falls from the brows. Frequent spasmodic twitching in the left eyeball (fourth day). Pains deep in the orbits. Small round blisters, with itching and pressure, as from a grain of sand on the inner margin of the lid. Twitching of the eyelids, with indistinct vision (fourth day). Burning and itching on the margins of the right eyelids, was obliged to rub them (second day).
Lachrymation, with dull pressure in the left eye (fourth day).
Myopia increased. Vision obscured (Hong).
Ears
The earwax is increased in the left deaf ear, it is harder, and in the other ear softer than usual. Ears stopped, as if a membrane were stretched in front of them, moderately relieved by shaking the head and boring the finger into the ear (fourth day).
For three days (third to fifth day) after lying on left ear it seemed to be stopped up, causing deafness of that ear; removed by inserting the finger; on the fifth day, removed from it a good deal of wax, and there is a spot just inside meatus externus, which is sore to touch. Throbbing in the right ear (fifteenth day). Sound of a distant rumbling in the left ear causing a “wu, wu,” with a sensation as if the ears were stopped, in the evening in bed (eleventh day).
Nose
Fluent coryza, every evening. Coryza (Hong). Sudden fluent coryza, with profuse discharge of mucus, that disappeared as suddenly as it came. There frequently remains a persistent coryza, with a distressing dry cough (Kerner). Yellow, thick, lumpy nasal mucus. Gelatinous nasal mucus, at times containing small yellow masses. A little plug of mucus escapes from a comedone near the nose (which had never happened before), followed by some pus, after which the spot inflamed. She frequently bores the finger into the nose involuntarily. Pain in the septum of the nose, as if a pimple would develop. Itching in the nose. It destroys the sense of smell for several hours (H. S.
Kestner).
Face
Twitching of the facial muscles (t). Red cheeks on waking (Neidhard). Cracking of the upper lip (Hong). The middle of the inner portion of the upper lip is cracked. Cracking in the lower jaw (the latter days), (t).
Mouth
Teeth. The teeth become free of mucus, smoother and harder, so that on rubbing them with the finger they cracked, which was never the case before, with a thickly coated white tongue.
Toothache in a hollow tooth, as if it were being drawn up, with a feeling of coldness extending into the check, relieved by taking cold water and cold air into the mouth, also by eating, drinking, and smoking; in the evening in bed the pains increased, with beating and throbbing extending up into the left eye, left temple, and jaws; relieved after olfaction of Bryonia (seventh day). Boring pain in the hollow teeth (later), (t). Toothache as if a tooth were decayed internally, obliged to pick it till it bled. Drawing-sticking pain in a left lower molar (after the disappearance of the nausea), (fifteenth day). Tongue. Tongue thickly coated white, in the morning. The tongue seems covered with white mucus. Pains in the region of the root of the tongue.
Burning sensation on the tip of the tongue, that woke him at night (first day). General Mouth. Mouth full of tenacious mucus, after the midday nap. Heat woke from sleep, in the afternoon and night, with great dryness of the mouth, fauces, and pharynx, and was obliged to drink much water, followed by breaking out of sweat. Saliva. Salivation (Hong). Taste. While smoking he notices a disagreeable sweet taste on the lips; observed both from various kinds of cigars and pipes. Speech. A kind of stammering speech, so that he made mistakes in talking, uttered syllables wrong, and could not at all articulate many words, for many days (after three days).
Throat
Much hawking and raising of transparent lumps of mucus, every morning. When hawking there is frequently a spot of blood in the mucus. On hawking mucus appearances of blood, in the evening (third day). Frequently obliged to clear his throat, alternating with hoarseness. Throat dry, especially towards evening (second day). Very disagreeable sensation of dryness in the throat (fourth day). Tickling and scraping in the throat, without inclination to cough, with only need of raising mucus (first day).
Stomach
Hunger in the middle of the night, when he happens to rise.
Increased hunger and desire for food (second day). Hunger immediately, in the morning (second day). Frequent desire for brandy. Desire for salt things (earlier action); aversion to salt things (later action). Little appetite, in the morning. Much thirst, in the evening (first day). Even late in the evening a great desire to drink brandy (in one quite unaccustomed to it).
Hiccough and eructations caused by smoking before eating.
Inclination to vomit (twenty-seventh day). Feels very sick after sleep. Cramp in the stomach (Kerner). Pressure in the stomach as if cramp would occur (third day).
Abdomen
Violent splenetic stitches between the tip of the left ilium and the umbilicus, in the abdomen, while walking, so that he could scarcely move. Pains in the right side around under the last ribs, especially on inspiration, extending to the region of the kidneys, which were sensitive to external pressure. Rumbling in the abdomen, before eating. Cutting colic, disappearing after single emission of flatus, in the evening, repeated in the night (first day).
Rectum
Tenesmus (Hong).
Stool
Pasty stool, followed by a sensation in the anus like that after a hard stool (first day). Frequent semifluid stools with tenesmus (t.). Threads like hairs in the stools (Jahr.). Stool hard and accumulated in the rectum to such an extent, that it could scarcely be evacuated (after a week). Stool difficult, at the end slimy (after one weeks). Stool harder than usual, at the end of which some blood was passed (later action). Omission of the usual morning stool (second day); a natural stool (third day).
Constipation (Hong.).
Urinary Organs
Some fluid passes from the orifice of the urethra before urinating. A drop of watery sticky substance passes from the urethra just before the stool and soon afterwards. Dribbling of prostatic fluid. While sitting a drop of prostatic fluid passes from the orifice of the urethra with a peculiar disagreeable sensation. Sensation in the tip of the urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out. Twinging pain along the urethra from behind forward, with a sensation as if drops were passing out. Always obliged forward, with a sensation as if drops were passing out. Obliged to wait a long time when urinating.
Involuntary dribbling of urine, while walking (seventh day).
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.