Repeated tearing pains along the course of the spermatic cord, extending into the testicles, during rest at 4 P.M. after a short walk (2D trit)..
Crushed pain in the testicles, evening in bed (2D trit)..
Crushed pain in the right testicle, even the pressure of the clothes increases the pain on walking (2D trit)..
A repeated, grabbing pain deep in the substance of the right testicle, when at rest, with a certain fear and anxiety (3D trit)..
Pain in the left testicle, as after a contusion (after forty-nine hours).
Sexual desire somewhat diminished (6th dil)..
Emission of semen almost every night.
Emission at night (3D trit)..
Pollutions at night, without lewd dreams.
An incomplete emission during sleep (4th dil)..(Secale S.).
Respiratory Apparatus.
Laughing produces mucus in larynx, and excites cough.
When going upstairs, or stooping, mucus gets into the air- passages, which is expelled by a single fit of coughing.
On quietly inspiring, two tones (as from a bassoon, a low and a high) sounded at the same time from low down in the throat (just before going to sleep evening), (4th dil)..
When eating fruit, it seemed to him repeatedly as if a little piece stuck in the larynx; it feels as if in the upper part and in front something lay in a little spot almost as if chilling, and somewhat pressing, which sensation constantly irritates him to cough, without being removed by doing so (1st trit)..
In the throat (larynx), a remarkable shattering kind of a crack or crash, with almost a metallic reverberation (like that heard from the ice breaking up in the spring), (3D trit)..
Rawness and soreness in the upper part of the larynx, when coughing, not when swallowing.
A dull cutting, which becomes a stitch, in the air- passages, from below upwards, occasioning two or three fits of cough; it continues even after the cough; the cough produces a kind of watery expectoration, which, however, does not relieve the irritation to cough (after twenty-four hours).
It seems like a raw spot in the windpipe, in the region of the suprasternal fossa; worse when speaking, talking, or singing.
Pain in the cricoid cartilage, caused by a draught of air, with a feeling of a stopper in the throat, and on pressing on it a bruised pain.
Cough from laughing.
(Cough in the morning).
Irritating, hacking cough, without expectoration; early in the morning after rising (after forty-eight hours).
Several attacks of a short, rattling cough by day, not in the night, nor in the open air, with white, thickish, easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch, but not transparent, without taste or smell.
Chest.
Mucus in the chest, and cough, with expectoration (after twenty-six hours).
Spasmodic aching and tension in some of the ribs.
Drawing, stinging pain, as in an ulcer, in the lowest rib near the spine (2D trit)..
Violent cutting in both sides, in the region of the lowest ribs, from within outwards; the pain is severe only during a deep inspiration; when moving the trunk without taking an inspiration, he feels no aggravation of the pain, but feels it as soon as he inspires (after ten hours).
A pinching, pressive pain in a place as large as a half dollar, in the right side of the chest below the axilla; at noon, while at rest, on pressing on it a bruised pain remains (4th dil)..
On the right side of the chest, a place affected with a pain, as if something hard were pressing upon the ribs.
A painful drawing in the right side of the thorax, about one and one-half inches below the axilla, paining, on strong pressure, as if bruised while at rest after a meal (6th dil)..
During a deep inspiration, under the second or third rib of the right side, in a place of the size of half a dollar, a pain pressing from within outwards.
Sharp stitches on the right side, near the handle of the sternum (after eight hours).
Sharp stitches on the right side, near the nipple.
In the right side of the chest, for a minute, such a violent stitch from within outwards that he can neither expire nor inspire (when sitting), (after twenty-eight hours).
Cramp like pain in the left side of the chest; after the pain has subsided the place is still painful to the touch (after nine hours).
Gnawing irritation on the left side of the chest, when at rest.
Sensation of oppression in the left side of the chest, over the heart (after seventy-eight hours).
Cutting, as with a fine knife, across the cartilages of the false ribs on the left side; morning in bed after, waking, the spot pains on pressure as if bruised (4th dil)..
A horizontal cutting, as with a knife, on the left side near the pit of the stomach, in the cartilage of the left false ribs, after breakfast when quiet (5th dil)..
Pain, as if sprained, in the cartilage of the left false ribs, horizontally across the rib near the pit of the stomach.
Morning, in bed after waking, transient cutting, as with a fine knife, on the left side near the pit of the stomach, in the cartilages of the false ribs; returns several times, and after awhile alternates with a pain in the same place on the right side, which last is more like a circumscribed pressure (5th dil)..
Dull stitches on the left side under the last false ribs.
Dull stitches under the third true rib of the left side, remaining the same during both expiration and inspiration.
Slowly intermittent, dull stitch under the cartilages of the last true ribs on the left side, over the pit of the stomach (in the evening in bed), (after thirty-one hours).
Sharp stitches between the sixth and seventh true ribs of the right side, increased during an inspiration.
Pressing stitches on the right side of the chest and in the sternum, increased only by deep inspirations (after a few minutes).
Cutting stitch transversely across below the last rib of the left side, when stooping sideways and leaning on the arm.
Pressive pain in the sternum externally.
Prickings under xiphoid cartilage of the sternum.
Violent pressure on the sternum internally, increased by every motion, especially by stooping and then rising again.
A sticking pinching pain in the left side of the sternum; most violent when sitting bent, and is uninfluenced either by expiration or inspiration (after eight hours).
Fine stitches inside of the upper part of the sternum. from within outwards (after forty-eight hours).
A momentary but frightful stitch in the left side of the chest (praecordial region), as if in the diaphragm (2D trit).
Heart and Pulse.
Frequent spasmodic, though painless twitching of the whole cardiac muscle, especially on lying on the back, with a constantly recurring, though not anxious thought, that he would have apoplexy and never complete the proving (2D trit)..
(Oppressive burning in the region of the heart).
In the evening, in bed, quick pulse with thirst (after eleven hours).
Neck and Back.
The nape of the neck feels stiff; there seems to be something foreign in the occiput, a kind of drawing and pressing on it.
Painful tension on both sides of the foramen magnum especially on motion, after waking in the morning (third day), (6th dil)..
Violent drawing pain in the right neck, close to the foramen magnum (3D trit)..
A drawing pain from the mastoid process, extending for an inch downward, disappears on pressure (3D trit)..
Pressure on the outer left side of the neck, when walking in the open air.
A tensive, bruised pain on each side of the neck, along the course of the sternocleidomastoid muscles, only noticed when the head is turned to the opposite side, and the muscle put upon the stretch, on sitting in the open air (3rd trit)..
Tickling itching stitches between the scapulae, resembling violent flea or mosquito bites; he could not scratch enough.
Sharp pressure under the scapulae.
Excessive tearing in the upper portion of the left scapula; the pain is felt when sitting, and abates when rising from the seat.
Tearing in the glenoid cavity of the scapula, extends as far as the clavicle.
Tingling of the left scapula, as if the parts had gone to sleep.
A transient itching between the scapulae, as if the parts had gone to sleep.
A transient itching between the scapulae, causes scratching (5th dil)..
Cutting stitches at the termination of the ribs, on the right side, near the vertebral column, especially when curving the back.
Pressure in the side of the back, opposite the bowels; afterwards, fearfully violent, as though he would die, oppressive stitches occurring on the least motion, or when breathing, so that he had to walk bent; when lying still, a griping there, as in a malignant ulcer; oppression of the chest, as if a heavy load had been lying on it, which prevented breathing.
Bruised pain in the back and loins, after waking, in the morning (third day), (6th dil)..
Drawing tensive pain in the left lumber region, and in the groin below the inguinal ring, extending to the thigh; at 7 P.M., while at rest, after a moderate walk (4th dil)..
Dull stitches in the second lumber vertebra.
Sensation as if the small of the back and been knocked away (after twenty-four hours).
The small of the back pains very much, as if beaten.
Bruised pain in the small of the back, in the loins and neck, especially painful on motion, mornings after waking (3d trit)..
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.