Frequent cough, with slimy expectoration.
Slightly quickened respiration.
Quickness of breathing, interrupted by coughing and yawning.
Chest.
The breasts swelled as large as if she were in the last month of pregnancy, and a milky discharge escaped from them.
In the region of the short ribs, right around across the back, a jerk like constriction.
Spasmodic tightness of the chest, as if the lungs could not be fully expanded.
Spasmodic contraction of the chest, so severe that the pulse became small, contracted, irregular, and slow-60 or 65.
Oppressive aching feeling in the chest, relieved by mucous expectoration.
Severe pressure in some dorsal vertebrae.
Drawing pressive pain, with contraction of the chest (half an hour).
Pressure here and there in the thorax and in the muscles of the back.
Pressure on the chest, with constriction of the throat (sixty-third hour).
Pressive pain in the left intercostal muscles, from within outward (thirty-seventh hour).
Pressure in the left intercostal muscles, from within outward, which is worse during inspiration and expiration (fifth hour).
Decided oppression of the chest.
Slight oppression of the chest. Spasmodic oppression of the chest.
The oppression of the chest increased to an agonizing degree, preventing respiration, and driving the patient about in a restless manner.
Great oppression of the chest, with pressure and throbbing in it, when lying, soon after a meal (second day).
Burrowing sticking, from the diaphragm out to the left ribs, continues on inspiration and expiration (sixty-seventh hour).
Penetrating stitches in the chest after hawking, when standing and sitting (sixty-fourth hour).
Needle stitches in all the intercostal muscles, when sitting.
Stitches and pressure in the chest, when lying, with very difficult sighing, sobbing inspiration; on pressing with the hand on the chest, or on sitting up, it disappears (second day).
Weak movements in the left intercostal muscles (four and a half hours).
When stooping, severe pain back in the region of the left short ribs.
Burning drawing in the right intercostal muscles (sixty- first hour).
Pressive sticking in the right cavity of the thorax, then fine stitches, with pressive pain, in the ribs near the spine (fifth hour).
Pressure under the left front edges of the ribs.
Pressure in the thorax, to the right side, extending outward (sixty-ninth hour).
Lasting pressure behind, in the region of the left short ribs.
Pressive pain in the right side of the chest, from within outward (twenty-sixth hour).
Pressure in front, below the edge of the left ribs.
Oppression of chest, especially on left side.
Drawing sticking pain in the left side of the chest (four and a half hours).
A pressive sticking pain on the lower ribs of the right side, which extends into the abdomen to the flank of the same side (half an hour).
Stitch in the right ribs (sixth hour).
Tensive stitches in the left intercostal muscles (fifty- eighth hour).
Dull stitches in the left ribs (sixty-third hour).
Pinching sharp stitches in the right inner side of the ribs (twenty-seventh hour).
Boring stitches in the left cavity of the thorax, from within outward, continuing the same during inspiration and expiration, Boring dull stitches in the left side, extending outward to the ribs, continuing during inspiration and expiration (forty- seventh hour).
Stitches in the region of the diaphragm, on the right side (twenty-fourth hour).
After a meal, stitches in the region of the last true ribs, right side, and oppression of the chest.
Pressure in the sternum.
Pressure in the sternum and on the right side of it.
On bending the thorax forward, a pressure on the lower part of the sternum (first day).
Even on compressing the abdomen, pressure on the lower part of the sternum, and nausea, with fullness at the pit of stomach (second day).
Pressive pain in the middle of the sternum, with a kind of nausea rising up from the chest (thirty-fourth hour).
Dull pressure in the sternum; passes off on inspiring and expiring, but returns on writing (three-quarters of an hour).
Pressive stitches in the sternum, from within outward (thirty-second hour).
Fleeting but very painful stitches under the breast-bone, with aching and burning in the chest, and frequent inclination to cough.
Pressive throbbing in the thorax, extending to the fauces, on standing and sitting (sixty-fourth hour).
Heart and Pulse.
Congestion and distension of the heart, attended with smallness of the pulse, and followed by loose stool.
Slight palpitation of the heart, more like a tremor, several times, when sitting.
Aching pain in the region of the heart, as if from overfilling.
Quickness of the pulse.
Fullness and quickness of the pulse.
Pulse small and frequent.
The beating of the heart and pulse became somewhat small, quick, and irregular.
Pulse small and rather slow.
Neck and Back.
Twitching in the muscles of the right side of the neck (twenty- third hour).
Clucking in the muscles of the left scapula (forty-second hour).
Drawing pain in the muscles of the neck, right side.
Drawing down along the left side of the neck, on motion (second day).
Pressure in the right side of the neck (second hour).
Attacks of pain in the back, especially below the scapula (sixth hour).
Pain in the back, especially in the right scapula (twenty- ninth hour).
Repeated transient drawings in the left scapula.
Pressive pain in the right scapula (two and a half hours).
Cutting pain below the right scapula (fifty-fourth hour).
Dull stitches externally in the left scapula (twenty-fourth hour).
Fine burning stitches in and behind the right scapula, extending toward the ribs (second and third hour).
Under the left shoulder-blade, when stooping, severe stitches.
Itching on the right scapula (forty-second hour).
Twitching in the muscles of the lower half of the back, when sitting.
Cannot work on account of the backache (thirtieth hour).
Pain in the right side of the back (sixth hour).
Perceptible sensation of heat along the back.
Burning in the vertebrae, more on the left side.
Severe pressure in some of the costal vertebrae.
Pressing pains, sometimes very severe, on both sides of the spinal column, in the region of the short ribs, repeating several times, and sometimes aggravated by the motion of the trunk.
Stitches in the latissimus dorsi, near the upper arm (first day).
Tensive stitch in the dorsal muscles of the left side, from below upward (twenty-fourth hour).
Transient stitches in the right side of the back (forty- ninth hour).
Crawling in the skin of the back.
Drawing pressive pain along the four to five last dorsal and the first lumbar vertebrae, as if it were internal along the bodies of the vertebrae themselves (first day).
Continual dull pressure in the lumbar region.
Pressive pain in the small of the back, especially on bending the upper part of the body forward and backward (first day).
Tearing pain in the small of the back, when sitting.
Tensive sticking in the left loin, continuing during inspiration and expiration, disappearing on walking (twenty-sixth hour).
Boring sticking in the left loin, from within outward, disappears on inspiration and expiration (forty-first hour).
Burrowing pressive sticking in the left loin, from within outward, toward the ribs, with anxiety (forty-fifth hour).
Fine stitches, as with needles, around the left loin (twenty-sixth hour).
Fine stitches, from the right loin toward the ribs (fifth hour).
Stitch extending along down the sacrum to the anus (first day).
Extremities in General.
In many places on the limbs, rapidly passing cramplike drawings, like a twitching.
Bruised feeling in the extremities, especially in the knees, when sitting.
Rheumatic pains in the arms and legs, especially in the joints and shoulder-blades, but shifting locally from time to time.
Drawing and stitching in the calves, in the muscles of the arms, here and there, more in the flexors.
Pressure on the joint of the right great toe, above the right carpus, and on the back of the right hand.
Shortly after waking up, tearing in the right shoulder, and several times in the left tibia; after rising, in the joint of the left foot, in the toes, and in the finger-joints.
Severe bruised feeling in the muscles of the upper arm in the joints of the hands and feet, and severely in paroxysms in some places.
Upper Extremities.
Twitching in the left shoulder-joint, toward the outer side (ninth hour).
Twitching in the left shoulder (first hour).
Twitching in the deltoid muscle (second hour).
Twitching in the deltoid muscle (fourth hour).
Drawing in the muscles of the left shoulder-blade.
Paralytic drawing pain along the left shoulder and down the upper arm, in rest (second day).
Pressing pains in the shoulder-joints.
Frequent pressure in the shoulders, more in the right.
Below the right axilla toward the front an intermitting severe inward pressure, without oppression of respiration.
Beneath the left axilla a transient inward pressure.
A pressive pain at the scapular end of the clavicle when sitting (first day).
Dull stitches in the left shoulder (first hour).
Stitches in the left shoulder-joint from within outward (twenty-sixth hour).
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.