The reddish, offensive liquid (the digesting fluid) contained in a sack just back of the mouth of the live lobster is triturated with sugar of milk. (This fluid mixed with warm milk solidifies it in ten minutes, making a coagulum harder than cheese-curd.)
Generalities
Pain somewhere all day; in eyes and various parts of body and limbs after retiring. Strange feeling all over, was not dizzy, but when I tried to take hold of the door-knob I could not do it readily, but put my hand all around it, I guess I was little scared. Felt sick, unable to move, (>) moving. Dull feeling. Nervous feeling; but dread of moving. REstlessness. Weakness; (<) walking. Amelioration after eating; after dinner.
Head
Aching; in morning; sharp at times, mostly in temporal region, (<) l. Dizziness. Frontal pain; just above eyes, at times worse in l. temporal region; from over eyes to occiput; (<) l. side, sharp, over l. eye, had to scowl and rub the parts. Pain in temples; r.; l., and in occiput; sharp, in l.; sharp, in front part of l.
Eyes
Aching; in r. and above l. angle of r.; in l., with soreness to touch; from l. side of r. to occiput; in l. when rising, later in r., as if something had been blown in the eye suddenly. Sharp pain in l.; over and back of l.; occasionally in r. Smarting. Sharp pain in r. ball. Aching pain in l. ball, not much affected by the light. Lids stuck together in the morning.
Ears and Nose
Frequent stabbing through lower lobe of l. ear, had to pinch it. Stinging in nasal passages. Burning in nasal passages extending to throat after arising. Sensation of mucus in l. nostril. Nose stooped in morning. Discharge from nose; watery, from l. nostril. Sneezed often.
Throat
Pain near l. ear; sharp, sudden, transient, in l. side, occasionally extending to ear. Smarting; and redness; (<) r. side, back of it looks as if covered with tough mucus, constant accumulation of mucus in fauces, next day throat sore and burning, looks mottled, arteries show very plainly, sticky mucus i mouth and T., smarting in T., (<) l. side, T. dry and sore on waking from a nap, T. looked granulated, expectoration salt. irritation; of l. side. Sore and raw feeling; S. and burning, posterior fauces gray and covered with membrane or touch mucus, arteries show very plainly where there is no mucus or appearance of deposit; S. (<) l. side, less on r. than posterior parts, with smarting, the smarting and inclination to cough (>) opening mouth and inhaling very cold air; in l. side of T., ear and neck, with aching, the S. seems to be in the muscles rather than in the mucous membrane, (>) holding side of head with my hand. Tingling; and inclination to cough, raised white mucus. Burning; in r. side; and in oesophagus, stomach and bowels.
Stomach
Belching of tasteless wind in morning. Pain; all the forenoon, with occasional hot flashes; sharp, after at light breakfast. Distress on waking in the night, (>) morning, returned in evening; before and after a light breakfast; after a plain dinner, followed by a little ice-cream; through to back; through epigastrium to back, worse near spine, several times during the day; around body at epigastric region before rising, extending down back to region of kidneys. Burning.
Abdomen and Stool
Pain in diaphragm; in hypochondria; lower part of liver; liver and spleen; liver and spleen during the day; in liver, (<) evening. Sharp pain in region of liver; in liver in morning; in l. lobe of liver; region of liver, (<) drawing a long breath; under ends of l. floating ribs after retiring, appeared to be in the spleen, but a little higher up on the other side, may have been in lower border of liver. Frequent transient inclination to stool during the day, alternate diarrhoea and constipation, changing every three or four days.
Genital Organs
Long-continued excitement every morning; and in night.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
Difficult breathing after retiring. Sharp pain in back side of l. lung. Pain through chest; in sides; in r. lung; in back side of r. lung; through centre of r. lung; in centre of l. lung after retiring, and around body at diaphragm; in centre of r. lung and through to scapula. Burning distress at right of lower and of sternum; in both sides, with difficult breathing.
Pulse
Full, rolling.
Back
Aching; just below diaphragm; in centre of r. scapula in morning; inside of scapula, (<) r. Sharp pain at superior spinous process of l. ilium; suddenly at anterior superior process of l. ilium; transient, sudden, in r. side near kidney forcing me to sit down.
Extremities
Grinding pain just above elbows. Pain in arms and legs; in l. arm in afternoon; just above elbows, (<) r.; just above r. elbow, seemed to be in the bone; in l. forearm; l. forearm and wrist; l. wrist in afternoon; r. thigh and leg; legs, (<) above knees; bones of l. leg after going to bed; knees; l. ankle; in feet, with burning. Lame pain in r. knee. Knees weak; (<) afternoon, (<) r.; and trembling. L. foot lame through metatarso-pharyngeal joints at times.
Skin
Sore pimple on l. thigh, outside. Itching in various parts frequently day and night; of various parts before and after retiring, (>) scratching, but appearing in another place; sudden, (<) night, (<) limbs; frequent sudden darting, on various parts, (<) legs.
Sleep
Slept in a chair (unusual) after dinner. REstless at night. Sleepy water retiring, so that eyes ached, but could not sleep for a long time. Sleepless for nearly two hours after retiring, and restless, had headache, pain in back, stomach and bowels, woke at midnight, after a few minutes sleep, with hurried desire for stool, (>) passing much wind, after much effort passed a large, long, tenacious stool. Every night go to sleep on retiring, and in five or ten minutes wake and lie awake one or two hours. Wakefulness in the morning, but later in the proving it was both in the first and last part of the night. Woke early and could not go to sleep on account of pains all over, (<) epigastric region, back, arms and legs, legs lame and painful as from severe exercise and cold, expected to be very lame on rising, but felt nicely. Woke two hour earlier than usual, with dull headache, burning all over chest, seeming to be in the pleura, aching pain through lungs to scapula, aching in back part of shoulder, outside of upper portion of scapula, pain in hypochondrium, extending down back, burning pain in legs and feet, mostly below knees, so that I could not go to sleep, feet so hot that I had to put them out of bed, then the pain extended o the thighs, the pain was so severe that I felt as if I trembled all over, but think I did not, I felt as if I could not move, but on moving there was no pain and I felt better by moving, could not sleep again.
Fever
Chilliness, all over so that I trembled. Feet cold; and damp; afterwards burning.
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.