Below the left axilla some fine superficial but sensitive needle stitches.
Fine tensive stitches in the shoulder-joint extending inward (second hour).
Bruised sensation in the shoulder and elbow-joints.
Twitching in the left upper arm-joint, extending inward (forty_ eighth hour).
Twitching in the muscles on the outer side of the left upper arm (fourth hour).
A drawing pain around the head of the humerus, on holding the arm still, with a kind of trembling over-irritability (as after great fatigue) in the muscles themselves, so that he must constantly move them (first day).
Tensive drawing in the left upper arm on the inner side (third hour).
Pressing in the muscles of the right upper arm.
Pressure on the muscles of the right arm.
Intermittent cramplike pressure in the left upper arm not far from the shoulder.
Burning stitch on the outer side of the right upper arm (forty- eighth hour).
Tensive stitches in the right upper arm from the upper part outward toward the inner side, immediately.
Boring stitches in the inner surface of the right upper arm, which do not disappear on motion (forty-third hour).
Pressive sticking in the right upper arm, on its inner surface from within outward (sixty-eighth hour).
Sticking pain on the inner side of the left upper arm twenty-sixth hour).
Twitching sensation in the inner muscles of the left upper arm (thirty-fourth hour).
Burning on the outer side of the right elbow-joint (seventh hour).
Fine stitch in the elbows (twenty-sixth and sixty-fourth hour).
A fine, long stitch extending into the bend of the elbow (sixth-fourth hour). A cramp like twitching extends down the right forearm, with the feeling as if the hand would stiffen.
In slow intermissions, cramplike drawing streaming up along the inner surface of the left forearm.
Pressure on the outside of the left forearm (second hour).
Boding pressure on the inner side of the left forearm from within outward (first hour).
On moving the finger, tearing pains along up the forearm, Tearing pains up along the forearm, on bending the fingers (first day).
Dull sticking on the inside of the right forearm.
Tearing stitches followed by burning extend up the right forearm, during rest (second day).
Stitches on the skin of the right forearm.
Pains as if beaten in the bones of the wrist, in rest (second day).
A scraping sensation on the inner (ulnar) condyle at the wrist.
The hands soon get icy cold, the coldness of the back increases and keeps on, with slow pulse.
Pressure on the joints of the hands.
In bed, repeatedly, severe pressing in the joints of the right hand and in the right temple, and these appeared at 6 A.M., exactly on awaking, and with pressing in the neck.
A dull pain in the palm of the right hand as from a pressive body, with the sensation as if the hand would stiffen.
Pressive sticking on the back of the right hand (eighth hour).
Cramplike sensitive twitching in the metacarpal bones of the left thumb.
Frequent pains in the joint of the left thumb.
A numblike pain on the metacarpal bone of the left middle finger, as if an oppressive body lay on it.
A transient cramp like pain in the right thumb, with un hindered motion of it; immediately afterward, also in the left thumb.
Severe aching, from time to time, in the external condyle of the wrist-side of the thumb.
Cramplike aching in the flesh between the metacarpal bones of the left thumb and index finger.
Pointed sticking burning at the tip of the left index finger (sixty-third hour).
Drawing pain in the joints of all the fingers.
Drawing in the joints of the fingers, on the dorsum of the hands and feet.
Pressure at the root of the middle and index finger of the right hand, continuing on various motion (eighth hour).
Pressive pain from the right wrist, extending into the right index finger (twenty-ninth hour).
Pressing pain in the joints of the left thumb.
Pressure on the inner side of the thumb (ninth hour).
Severe pressing in the joints of the left thumb, and later in the joints of the other fingers.
On lying and in rest, drawing pressure on the back of the finger, and jerks from the forearm to the elbow (second day).
Stitches in the finger-joints.
Dull stitch from the thumb outward toward the back of the hand (forty-fifth hour).
Frequent stitches in paroxysms in the joints of the small finger, worse on motion of the joint.
Lower Extremities.
When walking, drawing and pressure in the lower extremities.
Violent tearing pressive pain in the whole right leg, less on walking (third hour).
Tearing around the hip-joint on walking (first day).
Drawing fine stitches in the right hip-joint, extending into the intestines (twenty-ninth hour).
Twitches in the right gluteal muscles (sixty-eight hour).
On the anterior surface of the left thigh, not far from the knee, a frequent wavelike twitching.
Twitchings in the anterior muscles of the thigh, in the upper half (forty-ninth hour).
Twitchings on the anterior side of the right thigh (twenty- fifth hour).
Twitchings in the muscles of the right thigh.
Twitchings of the muscles of the left thigh (second hour).
Superficial twitchings on the inner side of the left thigh (one-quarter of an hour).
On the inner surface of the thigh, at the upper part, sensitive twitchings in slow intermissions.
Burning on the anterior surface of the thigh when sitting.
Drawing in the muscles of the right thigh.
Tensive drawing on the inside of the right thigh.
Constant drawing in the muscles of the right thigh, running down the knee and foot, where a pressure is several times felt, jumping up also to the knee when sitting.
Paralytic drawing pain on the outer side of the thigh when sitting.
Drawing pressive pain in the hamstrings on making them tense (first day). Pressing pain in the muscles of the inside of the right thigh, in the joints of the right foot, recurring several times, also in the joints of the left foot, in sitting as well as when walking.
Twitching tearing in the left thigh (forty-eighth hour).
Tearing in the left femur when sitting (first day).
Pains in the flesh of the right thigh as if a pointed body stuck therein.
Stitches in the skin of the external side of the left thigh.
Dull stitches in the right gluteal muscles (twenty-ninth hour).
Dull, sensitive, regularly-beating stitches in the outer surface of the left thigh in a small spot, just below the hip- joint.
A restlessness (trembling) in the thigh and leg when sitting, like a violent pulsation of the arteries, after a walk.
Twitching on the inner side of the right knee-joint (twenty- ninth hour).
Twitching in the outer side of the left knee-joint. The pains in the knees are severe and of long duration.
Burning aching, which sometimes changes to a burning throbbing, in a small spot on the upper part of the knee.
Drawing in the muscles above the knee.
Stitching drawing pains in the right knee and above it, worse when walking.
Pressure in the knees.
Frequent pressure in knees, more in the right, when sitting.
Pressive pain behind the left patella.
Burning sticking in the right patella (fourth hour).
Stitches on the knee near the patella, on sitting; the patella pains on touch as if sore and ulcerated.
Stitching pains in the knees and joints of the feet, wandering about, when sitting.
Fine stitch in the left knee-joint when sitting (sixty-first hour). Clucking in the left knee-joint on the inner side (thirty- sixth hour).
Itching on the inner side of the right knee-joint, which continues on motion (thirtieth hour).
Itching of the skin on the left patella, which does not disappear on scratching (twenty-seventh hour).
The lower leg goes to sleep easily, if its nerves are the slightest compressed; for example, if one leg is crossed over he other in sitting, the latter goes to sleep immediately.
A drawing in the skin of the entire external surface of the left leg several times.
Itching sticking in the left tibia in the forepart below the knee; disappears on walking (sixth hour).
A general twitching in the muscles of the upper half of the right tibia.
Severe drawing in the right tibia. Pressure in the left tibia, which disappears on motion (thirty-sixth hour).
Sharp stitches from within outward in the right tibia (second hour).
(Sharp stitches running down in the left tibia toward the inside) (fourth hour).
Tensive burning in the left calf (seventy-second hour).
Drawing in the calves.
Drawing pain in the left calf. Pressive pain below the right calf; on walking it disappears (First hour).
Severe stitches in the right calf when sitting, later when walking.
Stitches in the right calf, and like pinching when sitting, for a long while, then the same pain in the muscles above the right knee.
Twitching in the right ankle extending downward (thirty- sixth hour). (The decided, cold swelling around the malleoli disappeared in the first twenty hours; curative action).
In walking about, pressure in the joint of the right foot and towards the calf.
Itching sticking below the inner malleolus of the right foot, which at once disappears on rubbing (forty-second hour).
Dull stitches in the left ankle toward the inner side (twenty-ninth 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.