Sensitive intermitting throbbing on the inner side of the left foot.
Sensation in the lower part of the left foot (which rides over the other and hangs down) as if it would become stiffened.
Burrowing on the inner side of the left foot (forty-second hour). In walking, pressure in the joint of the left foot, for a great while.
Severe pressing pain in the joints of the right foot when walking, after awhile the same pain in the left foot when sitting, but worse when walking.
Pressure in the joints of the feet and knees, in walking.
Pressive pain on the back of the left foot when sitting (forty-eighth hour).
An irregular intermittent severe tension as from a tight boot on the right instep.
Pointed stitches in the dorsum of the right foot, which go away completely on walking (fourth hour).
Itching on the dorsum of the foot continues when sitting and walking (sixty-sixth hour).
Twitching in the left sole toward the toes (second hour).
Pressive pain in the right sole, on sitting (forty-sixth hour). Sensation in the ball of the left sole as if he had stood long upon it.
Slight twitching in the right great toe (half hour).
Drawing pains in the right toes.
Burning pressure at the root of the left great toe (forty- ninth hour).
Fine stitches in the third toe of the right foot, on walking (twenty-fourth hour).
Burning stitches in the left little toe (sixty-eighth hour).
A sensitive throbbing in the left great toe from time to time.
In the left great toe a simple, sometimes throbbing pain, on rest and motion.
Painful throbbing in the tip of the great toe. Itching crawling on the lower surface of the right great toe (forty- ninth hour).
Generalities.
Yawning, discomfort, restlessness, and debility, Sense of heaviness in the whole body.
(Unusual fatigue at evening, followed by very sound sleep).
Troublesome lassitude.
Great lassitude and sleepiness in the evening.
Great weakness on moving; so long as he lies still or stands he feels bright and strong, except a languishing feeling, whereby the mouth is very dry (first day).
Sense of general prostration; the limbs sink down heavily and relaxed, and the head feels dizzy.
Causes, in large doses, hemorrhages.
(Asafoetida penetrates the whole organism (in large doses); all secretions, the breath, sweat, urine, flatulence, the pus in the carious ulcers, smell of it).
A good night’s sleep was followed early in the morning, by oppression of the chest, quick breathing, and beating of the pulse and heart, distension of the abdomen, and in three hours by troublesome aching of the stomach; all relieved in three hours more by partly solid, partly papescent, dark-brownish and blackish stools, smelling strongly of the drug; also the rheumatic pains in the back of the head, extending to the arms, and drawing, rending pains in the back of the neck subsided after the stools.
Drawing in the muscles of the shoulder-blades, thighs, fingers, and in the right cheek.
Pressing pains in the thorax, in the elbow-joint below the left shoulder-blade, in the hands, shoulders.
Drawing pressing pain below the edge of the ribs on the left side, when walking, and in the muscles of the shoulder-blades.
After rising, pressure in the forehead, drawing in the muscles of the right forearm, in the muscles of the left cheek; pressure in the right tibia, in the left calf; drawing and pressing in different places of the forehead.
Stitches as with needless.
Stitches in the points of the toes, in the skin of the right axilla, on the right cheek.
Fine, superficial, sensitive, needle-stitches here and there, so that he must rub.
Trembling over the whole body, with coldness of the skin, and small, weak pulse.
Frequent repetition of the pains.
The pains return frequently, and jump from one place to another.
Clinical.
NOTE. The following are clinical: (Chorea, Geisschlager in Hufeland’s Journ., 10). (A very “cold” swelling, pitting on pressure, around the malleoli, diminished in eight hours, and disappeared in thirty hours). (The pus from a carious tibia, previously ichorous, very offensive, and thin, became thicker and odorless; twelfth hour). (The char pie did not adhere to the sore any longer, causing, on removal, unendurable pain in the bone underlying it, but came off easily and without pain, even without previous wetting; twenty-eighth hour).
(No longer tormented by the nightly syphilitic bone-pains, but can again sleep under his feather-bed; twelfth hour). (The apparently healthy portion of the tibia lying beneath the peculiar carious ulcer, became again sensitive and painful to the slightest touch, or ever the approach of the finger, so also to the removal of the char pie, and at night also almost unendurable; second day). (The superficial sore in the skin, around the peculiar carious ulcer in the calf and inner side of the knee, becomes again bright-red, bleeds easily, and covered with a tough, membranous, coagulated lymph-crust, to which the char pie sticks fast, and when it is removed the whole epidermis around the sore is painfully abraded, clear, transparent, lymph like pus is seen in the sore; second day).
(Most extreme sensitiveness, in the vicinity of the carious ulcer of the tibia, of the superficial skin-sores, and also of the ulcer itself; the patient cries out if the finger touches a place distant from the ulcer; removal of char pie causes most severe pain; second day)].
Skin
Burning in the skin externally on left leg.
Sleep and Dreams.
Unusual desire to sleep (thirtieth hour).
Toward 9 P.M. the pains cease entirely, and a good night follows.
Sleep disturbed very much.
Restless night.
Vivid dreams of business and feasting.
Sleep full of dreams of things of which he had previously spoken or thought; the dream becomes a true continuation, which afterward is completely realized.
Fever.
Chills ran over the body from time to time.
Chilliness lasts till after 9 A.M.
Chilliness in the back, cold hands.
Slight chilly feeling in the back and loins.
The chilliness in the back increased, ran through the upper and lower extremities, the hands got cold, a creeping chill ran through the whole body, the nails were bluish, much salivation, and sometimes Asafoetida eructations.
In walking up and down the room several times, severe chilliness in the back, cold feet, cold hands, with blue nails.
The chilliness seemed to be somewhat less, perhaps from being obliged to walk incessantly the whole morning.
Chilliness at 6 P.M., with increased warmth of the hands (second hour).
In two hours the hands begin to get cold, and some chilliness in the back; the same wandering pains remain, with heat in head and face.
Repeated alternations of chilliness in the back and cold hands, with heat and heaviness and pressure in the head; even a slight motion in the warm room aggravates the chilliness.
Coldness of the hands, with blue nails, with continues heat of the face and head, visible twitches of the right lower eyelid, stitches in the point of the tongue, pressure in the sternum, chilliness in the back, wandering pains.
With the heat of the face, cold hands and feet, and chills of the back from 8 1/2 to 9 A.M.
The fever disappears about 5 1/2 P.M., and a sensation of heat only remains.
After eating, feverish, with heat in the face (without perceptible heat externally), without thirst, but with anxiety and sleepiness.
Cold sweat on the forehead and limbs.
Conditions.- Aggravation.
(Morning), Pain in joints, etc., of head; sensation as if beaten, etc., in epigastric region, etc.; after rising, tearing in joint of left foot, etc.; early, oppression of chest, etc. (Evening), Hysteric rising in throat; great lassitude, etc. (Night), When awaking, pain in joints, etc., of head.
(Bending thorax forward), Pressure on lower part of body back and forth), Pressive pain in sternum.
(Bending upper part of body back and forth), Pressive pain in small of back.
(After dinner), When walking, flatulent pain in abdomen.
(Drinking), Causes heaviness, etc., in intestines.
(After eating), Pressure in epigastric region; pressure in epigastric region, etc.; tension in abdomen.
(During inspiration and expiration), Pressure in left intercostal muscles; sticking in left loin.
(When lying), Soon after a meal, great oppression of chest, etc., in chest.
(Motion), Drawing down left side of throat; drawing down left side of neck; stitches in joints of small finger; great weakness; chilliness.
(On moving finger), Pain up forearm.
(Motion of painful joints), Increases sufferings.
(Rest), Pain along left shoulder, etc.; stitches up right forearm; pain as if beaten in wrist-bones.
(Sitting), Pain in pit of stomach; cutting in abdomen; drawing across abdomen, etc.; after eating, stitches in both sides of abdomen; sticking, etc., in left side of lower abdomen; stitches in chest after hawking; stitches in intercostal muscles; throbbing in thorax; palpitation of heart; twitching in muscles of lower half of back; pain in small of back; bruised feeling in extremities; pressive pain at scapular end of clavicle;burning on anterior surface of thigh; pain on outer side of thigh; tearing in left femur; restlessness in thigh, etc.; stitch in left knee- joint; stitch in right calf; stitches in right calf, etc.; pain on back of left foot; pain in right sole. (Standing), Pain below navel; stitches in chest after hawking; throbbing in thorax. (Stooping), pain in region of left short rib; stitches under left shoulder-blade. (Swallowing), Tension in throat. (Making parts tense), Pain in hamstrings. (While urinating), Drawing in glans penis.
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.