Allen's Keynotes
- for stout, swarthy persons; for systems, once robust, which have become debilitated, \"broken down\" from exhausting discharges
- apathetic, indifferent, taciturn; despondent, gloomy, has no desire to live, but lacks courage to commit suicide
- ailments: from loss of vital fluids, especially haemorrhages, excessive lactation, diarrhoea, suppuration; of malarial origin, with marked periodicity; return every other day
- after climacteric with profuse haemorrhages; acute diseases often result in dropsy
- pains: drawing or tearing; in every joint, all the bones
- peristeum, as if strainted, sore all over; obliged to move limbs frequently, as motion gives relief; renewed by contact, and then gradually increase to a great height
- headache: as if the skull would burst; intense throbbing of head and caridids, face flushed; from occiput over whole head; worse sitting or lying, must stand or walk; after haemorrhage or sexual excesses
- face pale, hippocratic; eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins; pale, sickly expression as after excesses; toothache while nursing the child
- excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels; fermentation, borborygmus, belching gives no relief
- worse after eating fruit
- colic: at a certain hour each day; periodical, form gall-stones; worse at night and after eating; better bending double
- great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise; sensitive to touch, to pain, to drafts of air; entire nervous system extremely sensitive
- unrefreshing sleep or constant sopor; worse after 3 a. m.; wakens early
- haemorrhages: of mouth, nose, bowels or uterus; long continued; longing for sour things
- disposition to haemorrhage from every orifice of the body, with ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, general coldness, sometimes convulsions
- pains are worse by slightest touch, but better by hard presure
- one hand icy cold, the other warm
- intermittent fever: paroxysm anticipates from two to three hours each attack; returns every seven or fourteen days; never at night; sweats profusely all over on being covered, or during sleep
- worse from slightest touch; draft of air; every other day; mental emotions; loss of vital fluids
- better hard pressure; bending double
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