A young man who had been given up several years before as an incurable consumptive, but had been afterwards cured by homoeopathy.
With the cough, scraping in throat.
When coughing, a scratching in the throat, to the middle of sternum.
Cough, with pain in region of ovary.
Expectoration.
Slight expectoration; very scanty.Thirst, phlegm in throat and on palate.
Expectoration of a mass of clear, transparent phlegm.
Expectoration relieves scraping.
It evidently so changed the expectoration as immediately to cause a copious discharge of mucus from the bronchi, and finally checked the superabundant secretion; did not produce thirst or any unpleasant symptoms, and so far from aggravating the febrile state, it often served materially to alleviate it.
Chest.
When inhaling, pain under the right clavicle and right shoulder (second day).Since yesterday, stinging from the upper part of the left chest, through to the back, between the shoulder-blades.
Worse at night in bed, when it awakens him; not aggravated by deep inhalation.
Stitching pain down the middle of the chest; later in the right side.
From upper left of chest stitches through to the back.
Pain from heart to lower part of right lung.
Sore pain in the right side of the chest under the nipple, especially when bending up double (contracting the body) in the morning (second day).
Pain in the left chest when sitting, especially when bending forwards.
Pains in the chest to the left, near the middle of the sternum, after rising, when washing and dressing, lasting until 9 A.M.
The following morning the same and worse (Trbg)..
Pains in the chest; on side of chest.
Rawness on the chest.
To the middle of sternum, scraping, scratching. 1 and 10.
Sensation of fullness in the chest; in the afternoon, particularly after supper, painful, as if distended in the chest and arms.
Soon after taking it in the evening, felt a slight pain or binding sensation in her breast, especially on the right side, retiring to rest almost immediately, it disappeared after lying down.
Tightness across upper part of chest.
Feeling of weakness in the lower part of the chest and in the abdomen.
Heart.
Half an hour after the second dose he feels very warm in the left side, opposite the shoulder, inside, and feels also very tried, still he slept afterwards very good.To the heart a throbbing from epigastrium.
From the heart a pain shooting to the lower part of right lung.
At times quite well as if nothing ailed her, then, when beginning to think about her disease, she feels the heart beating, so that it seems to move the whole little stronger than natural, and at other times its motion is scarcely perceptible; sometimes the contractions are frequent, sometimes seldom.
The contraction seems to end with a snap, as if the valves of the heart were jerked suddenly shut.
Fluttering of heart, sudden attacks, disappearing as quickly as they came.
Rapid and violent palpitation, worse when lying on the right side; also when lying in one position for nay length of time; has to throw himself about in bed (twenty-first day).
Perceptible strong palpitation and strong pulsation through the whole body, when standing for some time on one spot.
Was in about an hour seized with a throbbing of the heart, similar to heavy blows of a hammer, with long intervals; in ten or fifteen minutes the violence abated, and gradually subsided.
Violent palpitation; intermitting beating of the heart.
The palpitation of the heart and other symptoms, except the constipation, were better during the first week until Saturday, when owing to a sudden excitement, the heart began to beat violently, and continued to do so for a few moments, and the palpitation then passed off.
Since that time an symptoms have been increased.
Had but little trouble with the disease in heart since, and the few slight attacks have been immediately relieved by it.
Pulse, intermittent.
Throbbing, as in an abscess, in the stomach; after a pressing pain there; then throbbing in arms.
Strong pulsation through the whole body.
External Chest.
Tenderness over the second rib of the left side when touched; tenderness upon pressure, later above the left clavicle.An intermitting sore pain along the course of the third rib of the left side, which continues sometimes a minute (but more frequently less than a minute), and is sometimes accompanied with more stinging pain in the region of the sixth or seventh rib of the same side, which is sometimes felt in the elbow, at long, irregular intervals.
In the morning, sore pain in the right chest under the nipple when bending forward, in sitting (second day).
Neck.
Pain on the side of it.Burning on the right side of the neck.
Back.
Between the shoulder-blades, stinging.Stitches pain from upper left chest through to the back between the shoulder-blades, worse at night in bed; awakens him, increases when lying on left side, not by taking a long breath.
Pain on the right side of the spine, near the spine, exactly there where the shoulder-blade ends.
From 2 o’clock P.M. until evening, tearing pain in the back, at the lower angles of the scapulae, when sitting still, not when moving.
Under the shoulder-blade.
Pain on both sides of the spine on a line with the inferior angles of the scapulae, with every deep inhalation, all evening.
On each side of the spine above the middle of it, a spot where the breath appears to come from, drawing a long breath.
Feels as if her back would break; can scarcely get up.
In back the weakness is most felt.
Sensation as of cold water running down the back.
In back, warmth spreading.
In small of back, burning.
In the morning, fifteen minutes after the fifth dose, a kind of cramp in the back just below the hips on both sides; very warm ebullitions; the sensation goes from the hips up the left side; it frightens him and he quickly takes a cup of coffee.
Upper Limbs.
Great weakness in the region of the shoulder-blades, with inclination to bend forward, which relieves.Severe pain in the left shoulder.
Pains in the left shoulder, which disappear from motion and exercise.
Itching on the right shoulder.
Drawing-tearing pains particularly in left shoulder.
Feeling of weakness, a kind of numbness in the left arm, and particularly in the left shoulder.
In arm, lack of power and dull pain.
In arms, fullness; of blood vessels.
Between three and four o’clock I felt a pain in my right arm as though a cord were drawn tightly around it, just below the shoulder, occasioning great fullness of the blood vessels and deprivation of strength.
The pain was dull and heavy, not general throughout the arm, but rather in lines, extending in different directions from the ligature which apparently bound it; the weakness was such that I could scarcely hold the needle which I was using when the pains commenced; it began suddenly, continued for a few moments, and then abated, although it did not leave me entirely, and returned at irregular intervals during the remainder of the day and evening.
Renewed doses increased the pain in the arm, which is this evening quite severe.
Pin in the right arm as if a string were tied tightly around
it.
Half an hour after the second dose pains in the arms and pains over the left eye.
Rheumatic pains in the bones of the arms, particularly in the right; the right side of the chest and under the left shoulder blade.
In the morning, for an hour, unpleasant sensation in both arms, afterwards heat, more in the left hand.
In arm, pain from elbow; in elbows.
In the morning, when awaking, rheumatic pain in the bend of the left elbow-joint, when extending the arm; disappears after rising and going about.
Bruised pain in the joints of the arm, hand, and feet.
Pain as if sprained in the right wrist, at 12 M., from thence the pain goes into the first phalangeal joint of the right forefinger, where it is a tearing, which disappears soon, but returns quickly (third day); felt weak in the hands, during catamenia; she drops things easily that she holds in her hands.
Rheumatic pain in the left hand and all the finger joints.
Hands pain; cold; heat; trembled very much.
Finger-joints pain, first phalangeal joints.
Lower Limbs
Great lassitude in the lower limbs when going upstairs; the whole of the third day.In lower extremities, lassitude.
Down into thighs, pain from rectum.
When standing, bruised pain in the lower extremities, as after a severe cold.
Uneasiness in the knees, with pain right above them.
Pain in both knees, particularly in the right, when walking.
Sensation as if a cord were ties around the leg, under the right knee; the pain extends downward and upward, but is confined to the lower leg.
To-night a similar feeling, though much slighter, in the lower limb on the same side, as though a cord were bound round it below the knee, the pain extending both below and above, on the under part of the limb only.
In the evening a kind of numb sensation in the right leg, from the knee down into the foot, when lying on it (one hour), (first day).
Legs, from knees down, cold.
Pain in the left ankle-joint when walking and particularly when going upstairs; in the morning (third 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.