Want of excitability of the sexual desire (first ten days).
Emission of semen of night, without amorous dreams (after twenty-seven hours).
Tearing in the mons veneris.
Respiratory Apparatus.
Cough, commencing with titillation in the larynx, and suffocation.
Shaking attacks of cough, resembling fits of hooping-cough, excited whenever he talks.
Shaking cough, which does not permit him to sleep at night.
Short cough, mostly in the afternoon, with expectoration of a tenacious gray-yellow substance.
Short cough, with purulent expectoration.
Short hacking cough, after a meal, affecting the throat as if it were raw (after three days).
Hacking cough, after a meal affecting the throat as if it were raw (after three and a half days).
Periodical attacks of cough, only in the daytime; he gets out of breath; every three or four hours.
Cough early in the morning.
Severe attacks of cough, with shivering, lasting for hours, beginning at 4 A.M., and occurring several times during the day (after fourteen days).
Violent cough after dinner, with vomiting of the food.
Severe cough in the evening, when in bed, causing the blood to rush to the head.
Nightly cough, with rawness of the throat.
Cough, almost only during the night, and more severe than during the day.
Cough, more severe at night than by day; several days.
Cough, with stitches in the forehead or in the side of the head.
Cough, with pain in the occiput.
Cough, with usually vain desire to sneeze. Cough, with yawning after the attack.
He spits blood when coughing (fourth day).
Short breath, especially after a meal and when sitting.
Chest.
Uneasiness in the chest, apparently about the heart, especially in the forenoon (fourth day).
Pressure on chest, especially when sitting, with fullness; he would like to get rid of this symptom by vomiting (after ten hours).
Pressure of the chest, like oppression, extending toward the axilla, with difficulty of breathing (after twenty-four hours).
Oppression of chest, with weeping, which relieves it.
Asthma; oppression of chest (after ten hours).
Oppression of chest, during an expiration, with pressure upon the sternum (after one and a half hours).
Oppression of chest, with internal anxiety and heat.
Drawing pain in the muscles of the chest.
Twitching sensation in the pectoral muscle when raising the arm.
Feeling of soreness and rawness in the chest, increased by inspiration (immediately).
Single sharp stitches in the chest.
Sharp pulsating stitches in the chest, above the heart (after eighty hours).
Itching upon the chest.
Corrosively itching prickings, as from pins, at the last false rib.
Sudden, quick pressure in the right side of the chest, close by the axilla; he feels it at the same time on the opposite side of the back, without any influence upon breathing.
Dull pressure, as from a plug, in the right side of the chest.
Pressure from without over the right nipple.
Wavelike drawing in the left side of the chest.
Dull stitches in the left side of the chest, a hand’s breath below the axilla.
Sharp stitches in the upper part of the left mamma, which prevented her for a long time from rising from her seat; afterwards, a sensation of a pressive weight at that place.
Tearing, with some pressure, on the left side of the chest, reaching as high as the heart, as though the whole side were being crushed, especially when stooping (after ten hours).
Intermittent throbbing pricking, as with needles, on the left side of the chest, close to the throat (after three and a half hours). Constrictive prick, as from a pin, at the left false ribs, externally (after four hours).
Oppressive anxiety in the region of he sternum, without pain, as if he could not remain in the room, but must go into the open air, and be very busy.
Quick pressure upon the sternum, as from a blow, when falling asleep during the day.
Sensation behind the sternum, as if there were a sore place in the chest.
Dull pressure upon part of the right border of the sternum.
Short breath; he feels oppressed in the region of the sternum.
Cutting in the praecordial region.
Sharp stitches in the praecordial region, extending thence to the small of the back.
Stitches on the left side of the praecordial region, increased when breathing and walking, and coming on anew when the walking was recommenced.
Severe stitches in the praecordial region when the walking was recommenced.
Severe stitches in the praecordial region when breathing.
Stitch in the praecordial region at night, when breathing.
Heart and Pulse.
Short stitches piercing through and through the heart, succeeding each other two by two.
Neck and Back.
After the head, the neck began to swell.
Stiffness of the muscles of the neck, with tensive pain, especially when moving the head quickly after keeping it still; less during constant motion (after fifty-two hours).
Stiffness of the nape of the neck.
Stiffness and pressive tension in the nape of the neck, in the occiput, and between the scapulae, on waking, both when at rest and in motion.
Painful stiffness of the right side of the neck, two days in succession, early in the morning on waking; he had been lying on that side; the pain was brought on by the slightest motion, and especially upon turning the head towards the painful side (after four to five days)(390).
Painful contractive stiffness on the left side of the neck, close to the occiput; the pain is felt when at rest; it neither interferes with nor is increased by the motion of the head (after two hours).
Dull intermittent pressure, as from a heavy burden, on the right side of the neck and on the top of the left shoulder, apparently in the bone.
Slowly intermittent pressure in the angle formed by the neck and the top of the left shoulder.
Cramplike pressure under and near the shoulder-blades, from without inward (after half an hour).
Formication in the shoulder-blades, or sensation as if they had gone to sleep.
Cracking in the scapula upon lifting the arm.
Pain in the right side, near the vertebral column, in the shoulder-blade, as from continually sitting bent.
Tearing stitches near the right shoulder-blade, extending outward.
Violent lancinating pressure close under the left shoulder- blade, without influencing breathing (one and a half hours).
Sharp stitches in the external side of the left shoulder blade.
Dull stitches in the left shoulder-blade, returning slowly, and causing a tearing pain to extend to all sides.
Fine and dull thrusts in the right half of the external surface of the scapulae externally, at short intervals.
Painful tearing between the scapulae.
Cracking in the cervical vertebrae, when stooping.
Painful stiffness in the back when raising one’s self while sitting; the pain disappears when sitting bent.
Rheumatic drawing along the back.
Blunt stitches in the small of the back.
Extremities in General.
Repeated tearings, in paroxysms, simultaneously through the upper and lower extremities.
Heaviness in the left arm and leg, when walking.
Upper Extremities.
Itching-pricking, as with needles below the shoulders, passing off by rubbing.
Itching and tickling in both axilla, forcing him to rub (after quarter of an hour).
Painful lancinating tension in the arms, upon stretching and extending them; from the joints down the flexor muscles; on bending the arms back there is a cracking in the joints, especially in the shoulders, with pain, as if the arm were dislocated.
At night he cannot lie long on one side because his arm then feel a pain as if bruised.
Pressure in the right arm, apparently in the muscles and bones simultaneously, with lassitude in them.
The left arm goes to sleep.
Tearing and drawing in the left arm.
Pimples with red areolae and pus at the tip, on the lower portion of the upper arm, with painful itching during motion of the arm, irritating to scratching (after twelve hours).
(Spasmodically) pressive pain in the muscles of the upper arms, when walking in the open air, and when sitting, in the evening.
Pain as from a bruise, frequently, in the right scapula and upper arm, so that she can scarcely lift up her arm.
Rheumatic drawing pain in the right upper arm, from the shoulder to the bend of the elbow, with a feeling of stiffness in the arm.
Painful jerking in the left upper arm, above the bend of the elbow.
Dull pressure, like a grumbling, in the left upper arm, apparently in the marrow of the bone, very painful, and intermittent.
Beatings, as with a heavy body, very painful, in the middle of the left upper arm (immediately).
Pressure from without inwards, in the forearms here and there, short, painful (immediately).
Cramplike twitches all over the forearm, a hand’s breadth above the left wrist (immediately).
Pressive scratching upon the bone of the forearm, when at rest.
Cramplike drawing in the right forearm, from the wrist to the elbow.
Pressive pain in the muscles of the right forearm, when writing (after thirteen hours).
Cramplike pressure at the left forearm, more violent on pressure, and becoming a tearing pressure on motion.
Cramplike violent pain in the left forearm and the back of the hand, unaffected by motion, at night in bed.
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.