Common name: Crawfish.
Introduction
Astacus Fluviatilis (Cancer astacus, Linn). Class, Crustacean; Sub Order, Macroura. Preparation: Tincture, prepared by pouring alcohol on the pounded living animal.
Mind
Slight delirium. Great apprehensiveness, and anxiety in the chest.
Head
Confusion. Confusion of the head. Great confusion of the head. Confusion of the forehead. Some confusion of the forehead. General Head. Inflammation of the head, neck, and chest, with efflorescence of red serous blotches (“maculis rubicundis serosisque”), relieved after a time by sweating. Excessive pain in the head, caused by the violent sneezing. Headache extends towards the occiput, but is especially felt in the right temple and about the ear. Headache, with pressure to the eyes. Forehead. Pressure on the forehead. Pressure, confusion of the forehead, about noon. Constant pressure in the forehead, with frequent yawning. Temples. Pressure in the temples and forehead, after 10 A.M.
Eyes
Pressure in the upper part of the right eye. Eyelids swollen. Conjunctiva somewhat injected, and decidedly yellow. Lachrymation. Pupils dilated. Dimness of vision.
Ears
Sensation in the right ear as if a foreign body were lodged in the meatus, and caused some deafness. Dragging in the ears from within outward, about 4 P.M., lasting five minutes. Sticking in the right internal ear, lasting six hours, which changed to a dull pain (after two hours).
Nose
Frequent spasmodic sneezing. Slight and sudden discharge from the nose, as in a slight catarrh. Nose-bleed, repeated daily for a week. Bleeding of nose toward morning, with relief.
Face
Puffy face. Face red, puffy. Redness and increased warmth of the face, the whole afternoon, with burning in the left cheek, heat and redness of the ears. Burning of the face.
Mouth
Violent dull toothache in a carious tooth, in the afternoon. Drawing pains in the teeth, soon followed by sticking, in the right ear. Pressive pain in the tongue, in the pharynx, and in the region of the stomach. Sweetish taste in the mouth, after coughing. Continually dumb until the crabs had been vomited.
Throat
Scraping sensation in the throat, with constant irritation to cough, and tickling in the larynx, the whole day. Rawness of the throat caused frequent hawking.
Stomach
Appetite diminished. Eructations and increased warmth in the pit of the stomach; nausea. Nausea. Vomiting of the contents of the stomach, almost without exertion, without nausea, with good appetite, followed immediately by great longing for food; this vomiting took place at the time when he was passing the fatty substance from the bowels, and it persisted during the last ten months of his life. (*The post-mortem showed a great constriction of the duodenum, so that the cavity was almost obliterated; the opening of the gall-duet into the duodenum was completely closed*). Sour vomiting after smoking at 5 P.M. Stomach empty and sensitive. Great heaviness in the stomach. Violent pains in the epigastric region, especially in the duodenum. Burning in the pit of the stomach, followed by urging in the anus. Great oppression deep in the epigastric region, which extended to the lower portion of the chest.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Region of the liver was painful to severe pressure (after two hours). Uncomfortable feeling in the region of the spleen. Pressure in the region of the spleen, followed toward evening by a tension, as though the bowels were contracted. Umbilical. Colicky pains around umbilicus. Colic-like pains about the umbilicus, quarter of an hour after dinner, so that he was obliged to bend double, followed by a soft, at last, pasty, dark- brown stool. Colic pains about the navel. General Abdomen. Distension of abdomen. Abdomen distended and painful. Flatulence, with urging to stool. Painful sensation in the abdomen, the whole afternoon. Pressure in the region of the duodenum caused constant pain. Griping in the abdomen, followed by an unsatisfactory stool, after 7 A.M. Gripings in the bowels, with urging to stool, and weariness, about 1 P.M. Griping and urging to stool, on every motion; relieved when sitting still. Colicky pains before and during the stool (second day). Feeling in the bowels as though he would have a painful colic, followed by griping in the left side of the lower abdomen. Pricking in the left pelvic bone. Hypogastrium. Griping in the left side of the lower abdomen (after two hours). Short-continuing twinging in the left side of the lower abdomen, with great weariness, after 8 P.M.
Stool
Diarrhoea. A second stool at 10 P.M. (the one in the morning had not afforded him relief). A pasty stool at 5 A.M. Soft, somewhat slimy stool, after eating, followed by scraping in the rectum. Stool yellowish, consistent, afterwards pasty and offensive, with relief of the colic. Stool darker than usual. After some months, passage of a fatty substance from the bowels, looking like melted fat, and after being cold, of the consistence of butter; this substance floated on water, melted in a moderate warmth, and was extremely inflammable, generally was separated from the faeces, sometimes mixed with them, usually of a dark color, sometimes light, but always yellow; at the time this substance was passed the stool had a dark color, but never the color of health bile; after the fatty substance ceased to pass the stool became again as white as before. Constipation. No stool the whole day (fourth day). Stool unsatisfactory, with much urging. Stool scanty, crumbly, passed with much urging.
Urinary Organs
Pressure in the region of the bladder, with sensation of heaviness in it. Twitching below the right kidney. Drawings along the right ureter. Urine bright yellow, slightly acid. Urine golden yellow, at first not acid, but afterwards slightly acid; with light flakes floating in it (when boiled it frothed a great deal, and when somewhat evaporated, showed much albumen). (*Translated literally! A*). Urine dark yellow, with sediment.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx and Bronchi. Much hawking of mucus. Irritation to cough in the larynx. Tickling in the larynx, low down, which caused coughing. Accumulation of mucus in the bronchi and larynx, which seemed to be adherent. Oppression and difficult breathing in the bronchial tubes. Cough and Expectoration. Much coughing, without expectoration, in the forenoon, especially about 11. Cough followed by hawking, in order to loosen mucus, which was light yellow. Cough in the morning, with expectoration of bronchial mucus, which was light yellow, through the day, with rawness of the chest. Cough worse after 3 P.M., so that the chest became painful, with expectoration like saliva, or like white mucus. The cough did not trouble him while walking, but as soon as he sat down it returned. Expectoration had a sweetish flat taste, late in the evening. Hemoptysis and consumption. Respiration. Respiration more difficult than usual.
Chest
Rush of blood to the chest, with difficult breathing and spitting of blood. Oppression of the chest. Pressive pain in the whole sternum, on waking in the morning. Slight sticking in the left side of the breast, beneath the nipple.
Heart and Pulse
Pulse 80 (first day), pulse 50 (second morning), pulse 80 (second day, about 2 P.M).
Neck and Back
Sudden tearing from the right lumbar region to the kidney, while sitting.
Extremities in General
Obliged to move the limbs back and forth involuntarily, for it seemed as though she could only digest while doing so; continued half an hour, till digestion was better.
Superior Extremities
Jerking in the upper extremities, at 6 P.M. Weariness of the arms. Sensation of trembling in the arm upon which he was resting. Crawling in the arms, with trembling of the hands. Pressure and tension in the shoulder-joints and deltoid muscles. Pressure and heaviness in the bends of the elbows. Jerklike drawings in the left forearm. Trembling of the left hand, while holding a book. Tearing and sticking in the middle of the thumb, for a short time, early in the morning, immediately after waking.
Inferior Extremities
Burning on the anterior surface of the left leg, while walking, as from an acid, so that he was frightened, and examined it with his hand.
Generalities
Languor. Weariness, prostration (after two hours). Prostration (in two provers). Great prostration. Pains in various parts of the body, like rheumatic pains, now in the right clavicle, now in the left arm. Slight tension, extending from the nose downward to the forepart of the feet. Sticking pains continued till next evening.
Skin
Skin red from severe itching. Jaundice for several months; the urine, saliva, tears, mucus in the nose, and serum of the blood contained a large quantity of bile, but not the slightest amount passed through the intestines; the stools were constantly as white as pipe-clay. Violent attack of urticaria, with hepatitis, followed by jaundice. Red itching urticaria all over. Urticaria developed on chest, beck, arms, inner surface of thighs, under the knees; the large spots were elevated, with red areolae; was obliged to scratch, so that, after four hours, these places seemed puffed up. Itching on the neck, about 6 P.M., with continued heat and redness of the face. Violent itching on 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.