Trembling of hands (eleventh day).
Cold hands and icy cold tips of the fingers (third day).
The left hand is remarkably cold, the right not.
Hands cold and moist.
On coughing, heat and moisture of the hands, and sweat of the head.
On the back of left hand, on touching the hairs, fine severe stitches.
Tearing and stitching in the border of the left thumb, so violent that it seems as if the tendons would be torn out (9 A.M)..
When she wants to clench her fist, or extend the fingers, they are tense, as if swollen (4 P.M)..
Fingers firmly contracted down upon the shoulders, with every muscle in an extraordinary state of rigidity.
On the lowest joint of the right middle and ring fingers, frequent violent pinching pain, with sensation as if the tendons would contract; still, motion remains free (fifth day).
Stitching in the lowest joints of the left middle and ring fingers, as from a thistle, worse on pressure (sixth day).
Twitching, tearing below the right third finger, as if in the marrow, extends towards the arm; disappears only gradually, in the afternoon.
Tearing on the back of the left middle finger, as if it would tear out the tendon (for one minute).
The tips of the fingers become dead, dry and hard, without sensation, several days.
Lower Extremities.
Numbness and coldness in the legs.
Lower extremities heavy and stiff, as if lamed.
Drawing, tensive pain in lower extremities (fourth day).
Tension and tearings in lower extremities.
Rheumatic pain in and over the left hip.
Just below the left hip, transient rheumatic pains.
Spasmodic twitchings of the muscles of the thigh (eleventh day).
Tension in the hamstrings on walking, evening.
Rheumatic drawing in the upper part of the right thigh.
Twinging on the anterior surface of the left thigh, as if pinched him, or raised his skin with a needle; the spot to pain still longer in the open air (after two hours).
Fatigue in the knees.
Burning pricking in the knees.
In the morning in bed, and on rising, aching in the bones of the knee-joint, as if the limb had no power, and as if the tendons were over stretched and strained.
Tearing, a hand’s breadth above and below the knee, on the external surface (after two hours).
Evenings in bed, sticking in the knee and hip (first day).
On the left side below the left knee, a slow, throbbing, sensitive picking, in rest and motion.
Painful cramps in the calves.
Cramp in the calves frequently wake him.
Cramp in the calves, afternoons, disappears on walking about (fifth day).
Spasmodic drawing sensation in the calves (ninth day).
Soreness in calves.
Tearing internally in the right calf, and at the same time burning externally (after half an hour).
Slight twitches in the left calf (second day).
Rheumatic pain on the left side of the left calf.
Tearing and itching on the external surface of the left calf (after two hours).
Violent pinching and clutching in the left calf, and from the popliteal space to the external malleolus; extremely painful.
Itching below the left calf, which causes scratching, after which a considerable lump arises, which continues to itch.
An outward sticking in the varices.
A painful, biting itching in the leg, where there are varices, as if a suppurating inflammatory swelling would ensue.
Very violent, rheumatic pains between the calf and the malleolus of the left leg; together with rheumatic pains in the right lower back teeth.
Slight swelling and stiffness of the malleoli of the right foot (eleventh day).
The feet go to sleep immediately after sitting down each time.
The right foot goes to sleep while standing, with crawling (2 P.M)..
Weariness in the feet (third day).
Cold feet.
She can scarcely raise the feet on account of heaviness (6 P.M)..
Suddenly across the left instep, a transient, pressive, pricking pain, as from a blow.
On the left instep, near the inner malleolus, suddenly a pricking transient pressure, as from a blow; it goes as quickly as it came.
During the day, on walking, a tension on the dorsum of the foot.
Itching soreness between the little and next toe of the right foot, for ten days.
A sudden, painful, rhythmical picking in the left great toe.
Generalities.
Face and whole body very pale (twelfth hour).
Loss of seven pounds, in weight, in three weeks.
Spasmodic movements.
Convulsions (death in a few hours).
Convulsions and loss of consciousness.
Convulsions and tetanic spasms.
She lay on the ground distorted by cramps, rigid, as if dead; one foot was gangrenous and afflicted with most violent pain.
Constant contraction of all the muscles, especially of the abdomen and upper extremities (two hours).
Vomiting and epileptic spasms (inunction on a child).
As soon as he got warm in bed, at night, he sprang into the air.
Trembling.
Whole body trembled and felt very sick.
A very peculiar internal trembling (third day).
Long-continued trembling of the head, and a paralytic trembling in the hands on every motion (15 grains).
Throbbing and pulsating in all the vessels of the body, perceptible externally, yet without anxiety, only with ill-humor.
Relaxed condition of the whole body.
His condition was such, that he might have been taken for a man intoxicated on wine.
Blood loses fibrin, and becomes thinner.
Restlessness excessive (ninth day).
Either general restlessness or nausea.
Restlessness, vertigo, syncope.
Anxious restlessness and tossing about (fifth day).
Great general discomfort, which starts from the abdomen; he groans and moans involuntarily; restlessness drives him from sitting to standing, and walking about.
For two days, indolence and great sleepiness.
Weakness, general and great depression of spirits (eleventh day).
Great weakness. Great weakness and lassitude.
Weakness and exhaustion.
Weakness so great that he must lie in bed.
After vomiting, great weakness, fatigue, and sleepiness; disgust for all the customary food; pale, earthy face; swimming dim eyes, yet appetite for cooling things, like apples.
Such great general weakness, and so warm about the heart, that she must let the arms sink down.
The child wishes to be carried constantly.
Great fatigue.
General fatigue on waking.
Very weary.
Whole body very weary and prostrated (4 A.M)..
Prostration and weariness on all the limbs (ninth day).
Great prostration and sluggishness of the body; he feels best when he sits still and does nothing.
So prostrated, that she can only raise her feet with difficulty, in the forenoons.
Faintness.
Faintness; he lost consciousness.
Attacks of faintness.
Syncope.
Alternations of unsteadiness and syncope.
Loss of sensation.
Loss of sensation in the anointed parts.
General malaise. Malaise after supper.
Malaise, nausea ( in a few hours).
Head, hands, and feet feel swollen and enlarged, after walking in the open air (4 P.M)..
Drawing here and there.
Tearing in all the limbs, the chest, abdomen testicles, and eyes.
Tearing and drawing in the bowels, and in all the limbs.
Skin.
Rash, where the salve had been rubbed in.
Reddish rash.
Rash on the arms, breast, occiput.
Itching eruption on the skin.
Eruption of bright red, small, conical, distinct, hard pimples, with an inflamed base like lichen simplex, thickly covered the breast, anterior surfaces of the upper arms, wrists, hypogastrium, and inner surfaces of the thighs.
Vesicular eruption over the body (internal use).
A very itching rash, which suppurates.
Rash over the face and whole body, with profuse sweat; respiration very difficult with continued heat, thirst, and headache.
Painful pustular eruption.
Pustules, when it is rubbed in, also on other parts of body, as nasal fossae, margin of anus, glans penis, genitals, arms, etc.
A thick eruption like pocks, often pustular, as large as a pea, filled with pus.
Eruption of itching pustules, which soon dry up.
From applying antimonial ointment to the dorsal region considerable local eruption was produced; in six days itching on scrotum; on ninth day five pustules on scrotum and three on penis.
Eruption of pimples and vesicles, which in two days are filled with pus, are like the pustules of smallpox and are very painful; these pustules dry up and form crusts; this eruption appears first on the internal surface of the forearm, then on the back (from internal use).
At first small, red pustules; the third day increased in number and size; the fourth day most of them had a brown everted margin, were covered by crusts similar to cow-pox, and contained much matter in the centre; the sixth and seventh days some were as large as the thumbnail, shaped like a flat ulcer, and contained much thin matter.
Most of the suppurating places became confluent the eighth day, discharged blood and matter.
The corners of the nostrils are ulcerated and painful (fourth hours).
Cracked lips, at night, on waking (fourth day).
Dry, scurfy lips (three hours).
The right and left sides of the upper lip are full of clear, itching vesicles, which, on drying up, are replaced by new ones; the itching is especially violent in the evening.
On the right side of the lower lip several clear vesicles; at the same time the right side of the upper lip is swollen, and covered with small pimples, with tensive pain on pressure.
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.