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Generalities
Neuralgic pains in forehead, hands and feet. Rheumatic pains all up and down l. side, with cutting in l. knee and calf if I pressed any weight upon toes or flexed knee with any weight upon it; R. pains in muscles of arms, hands, fingers and small of back, those in back (<) walking. Symptoms of a cold. Malaise as if I had taken cold; felt sick with a cold, continual watery flow from nose and eyes, with occasional chills. Sick all over, could scarcely tell where. Languor; during the day, with headache, (<) noon, and with burning frontal headache at 9 P.M.; in morning on rising; on waking early, yet could not rest; in morning on rising; at 2 P.M. Faint feeling at 11 A.M. in a warm lecture- room; F. spells beginning in epigastrium, with small pains in hypochondrium and bowels.
Mind
Depression of spirits in afternoon. Could not bear to see or talk with any one. Irritability, (<) being asked a question or to repeat anything. The day seemed like a dream.
Head
Aching; all the morning; at 7 A.M.; in evening, (>) forehead; (<) walking. Vertigo in attacks, sometimes with double vision sometimes white specks blot out everything else, later attacks of V. with internal heat. Frontal pain in morning; in forenoon, with smarting in eyes; all day, with aching distress in eyeballs and with fulness in head in morning; with distress in epigastrium; sharp. Prickling in l. temple. Loss of hair.
Eyes
Attacks of twitching, and eyes appear to look (revolve) in circles and dart from one object to another. Spasms, with vanishing of vision and head seems to whirl. Aching and lachrymation in open air. Lids agglutinated in morning. Vision of spots dancing to and fro.
Nose and Face
Boil in r. nostril. Dryness of nostrils in forenoon, with dry feeling in skin. Bright epistaxis. (>) pressure. Sudden pallor when sitting and in evening.
Mouth
Sometimes looseness of teeth. Aching all day in decayed upper first and second molars. Tongue coated in morning. Prickling in tongue, with feeling as if something were pressing the roots upward, with dryness of nostril. Salvation; bitter; thin, bitter. Taste coppery; in morning; slimy coppery; slimy coppery in morning; slimy; slimy, with burning distress in stomach.
Throat
L. tonsil enlarged, congested, dark reddish, r. painful on swallowing at 2 P.M.. l. painful at 9 P.M., next morning congestion of l. extending along Eustachian tube and causing pain in ear. Lancinations in r. tonsil (fauces were somewhat inflamed when the medicine was taken), next day fauces hotter and more sensitive to motion. Roughness of fauces. Dryness of fauces, with burning dryness in stomach; D. of fauces, with difficulty in swallowing, feeling of a lump behind larynx, later frequent efforts to swallow, with feeling as if something had lodged in fauces, afterwards irritation of fauces, and on swallowing feeling of a lump in larynx. Burning in oesophagus.
Stomach
Appetite craving; poor. Thirst; at night. Eructations of sour fluid; of sour food. Cutting. Pain; frequently in afternoon; on full inspiration; in epigastrium, with drawing pain in joints of fingers; in spells, and in small intestines, with distress in r. hypochondrium; burning, in cardiac region. Distress; in forenoon; in afternoon, (>) supper.
Abdomen
Periodical cutting in umbilical and hypogastric regions, at 6 P.M., (<) 8 P.M. by a constipated stool, afterwards grumbling pains in whole abdomen. Pain occasionally; P. in r. lobe of liver; in umbilicus; umbilicus before natural stool; l. groin when walking; drawing, in r. hypochondrium all days. Distress in umbilicus and r. hypochondrium.
Stool
Natural at 4 A.M. Loose at 4 A.M., with pain and rumbling in abdomen. Light-colored diarrhoea. Soft, next day dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry, lumpy. Constipated.
Urinary Organs
Tenesmus of bladder and incontinence of urine. Urging, urine light-colored. No desire, but uneasiness. Urine increased; scanty, red; acid, high-colored.
Sexual Organs
Relaxed. Erections when reading at 4 O’clock; frequent during the day and night. Scrotum relaxed and cold sweat on it. Pain in testicles, (<) r.; P. in testicles, sometimes neuralgic; in paroxysms, sometimes causing faintish feeling. Desire depressed. Yellow and offensive leucorrhoea. Tenderness of l. ovary, with pain and swelling. (Aching distress at mouth of womb.) Menses that had just ceased returned, bright-colored, soreness and bearing down in l. side preceding the flow and partially ceasing with it; M. copious, bright red, not coagulating easily (in a woman who thought she had passed the climacteric, as there had been no discharge for over a year), it stopped as suddenly as it began, no pain, only faintness and confused feeling in head.
Clinical Uterine haemorrhage, bright red, partly thin, partly clotted; the uterus is soft and spongy and suffers from passive congestion. Uterine haemorrhage, with pain extending down to the knees. In the uterine region soreness, especially on l. side, with ovarian irritability, bearing-down pain, the pains often shoot down the legs. It has proved curative in amenorrhoea. At the period sharp pains from hip to hip, followed by expulsive pains. Numerous cases of menorrhagia. Left ovarian neuralgia, with habitual profuse menstruation, which is followed by brownish and yellowish leucorrhoea. Membranous dysmenorrhoea, lancinating pains shooting down the leg. Chronic uterine haemorrhage, with persistent oozing of dark blood, with black clots. It is especially suited to the climacteric period and to tall, slim women, with clear, white skin. Pain in l. mammary region in intermenstrual period; ovarian congestion with burning pains.
Chest
Spasmodic tearing at top of l. side and passing to sixth or seventh rib, at 3 P.M. when standing and reading, (<) breathing. Pain in l. infraclavicular region in morning; drawing, in l. inframammary region, waking me at 3 A.M., (>) turning on back from r. side. Aching burning distress in sternum and under it in stomach, with neuralgic pains. Oppression along median line. Constriction, with pain. Heat and pressure.
Heart
Sudden flying pain from it to stomach, arresting breathing.
Back
Pain; extending to extreme end of spine; in lumbar region; in region of r. kidney, (<) sitting still, next day in region of l. kidney, (<) sitting still, next day in region of l. kidney, (>) moving about, with heat, fulness, soreness on deep pressure (but it relieved the pain), with uneasiness in l. thigh, frequent desire to urinate, stream very small, the following day it requires considerable effort of will to empty the bladder, which is done slowly, pain and soreness in l. loin continue; heavy, in lumbar region, in bed, with uneasiness about bladder (had had no desire to urinate on going to bed), woke early in morning with distended feeling in bladder, micturition slow and difficult, urine scarcely colored, pain in B. (<) next night, (<) lying on face, (>) lying on face, (>) lying on r. side; bearing down, in sacral region as in dysmenorrhoea, changing to l. ovarian region and gradually extending through hip.
Extremities
Cutting in bones of r. hand and foot. Frequent rheumatic symptoms in arms, fingers and legs. Pain in shoulder-joints; rheumatic, in muscles of r. shoulder. Intermittent numb tingling sensation in r. arm and hand every day. Pain in r. elbow, (<) motion. Stitching along metacarpal bone of r. index. Rheumatic drawing pain in finger-joints, (<) second joint of r. index, all the afternoon. Pain in l. knee when walking, increasing to cramp, obliging me to lean upon the arm of a friend, the pain, with occasional cramps, lasted all the evening, (<) raising foot so as to press upon toes. Cramplike stiffness in l. leg, (<) raising foot so as to press upon toes. Feet swollen; in morning.
Skin
The scalp one filthy mass of inflammation, two-thirds of the hair came out, the rest matted together, with oozing of watery serum from scalp, eruption like rubeola on neck and chest, gradually extending to feet, thickest on chest and joints, itching (<) night, rubbing any part brought out the eruption, on face and neck it was in patches like ringworm, but not vesicular. Boils on nape. Congested feeling.
Sleep
Difficult falling asleep and then unpleasant dreams. Restless night; with fever; with troubled dreams. Gloomy and disappointing dreams. Sexual dreams; without emission; and disgusting in which I was a principal actor, waking me, arose and urinated with difficulty and tenesmus.
Fever
Chills running up and down back. Heat at night. Internal heat; with vertigo; (<) eyes, which are inflamed and sensitive to light, eyeball sore to touch; intermittent, (<) eyes. Burning in face and scalp. Skin dry; at night; and hot.
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.