Severe stitches in the sides, especially the right side, from the seventh to the eighth rib, aggravated by the least motion (tenth day); severe, especially in the posterior portion of the right side; neither soreness nor stitches remaining in the left side (thirteenth day); the right side also better, and many other symptoms (fourteenth day).
During the afternoon, severe stitches in the sides, especially the posterior portion of the right side, aggravated by the slightest motion, with severe aches and pains in various parts of the body (eleventh day); all gone (sixteenth day).
Pain in the right side only on contortions of the body (fourteenth day).
Heart and Pulse
Severe, vibrating, tremulous palpitation of the heart, even while sitting or lying quiet, upon the least elating or other emotion of the mind (twelfth day).
While lying in bed, forcible pulsations of the heart felt and heard, extending from the chest up into the neck upon the slightest emotion or thought (twelfth day).
Palpitation of the heart, with a fluttering and vibrating upon the slightest emotion of the mind (thirteenth day).
Occasional spells of severe jerking, fluttering palpitation of the heart, upon a sudden elating thought or emotion of the mind, even while sitting or lying (fifteenth day).
To-night, while lying on the right side, the heart is both heard and felt to pulsate from the chest up to the neck (fifteenth day).
Midnight, while in bed, vibrating palpitation of the heart, lasting but a few minutes, after which, while lying on the right side, a sensation as if the lower lobe of the left lung was settling down or being collapsed; it appeared to have settled from three to four inches, lasting five minutes, and was relieved by changing position (twenty-seventh day).
Neck and Back
Up into the neck, palpitation.
A very stiff neck, C. Hg.
Occasional severe drawing pains in the nape of the neck, lasting but a few minutes at a time (eighteenth day).
Stitches and stiffness in the nape of the neck, aggravated by flexing the head back and forth, or felt a few minutes at a time, while sitting still (seventeenth day).
Soreness and lameness, with stitches in the nape of the neck, aggravated by bending the head back and forth (thirteenth day).
(Glandular swellings on the left side of the face, throat, and neck, nearly all of the size of a hen’s egg, some hard, some suppurating; they disfigured and enlarged the whole region considerably since his early youth, now twenty years; 30th, in often repeated doses, lessened it very much, more than half the former size).
Fielitz.
In the scapula, pain from pit of stomach.
Severe pain in or near the head of the right scapula, lasting but a few minutes (tenth day).
Painful drawing near the spine to the left, downwards from the shoulder-blade; a similar sensation in the forehead, and slightly in a decayed back tooth.
Severe lancinating pains and stitches in the posterior right side below the scapula, aggravated very much by throwing the shoulders back and the chest forward, or contortions of the body; at times eliciting a moan or shriek, caused by the pain (twelfth day).
In vertebra, opposite pit of stomach, pain from front to back.
Pain in the small of the back, hips, and lower limbs (eleventh day).
In the afternoon, sharp pain felt in the right kidney, lasting but a few moments (twenty-seventh day).
Extremities
Pain in the front of the upper part of the right shoulder, afterwards in the left shoulder and arm, C. Hg.
Palms of the hands hot and dry (tenth day); dry and husky (eleventh day).
Lower limbs pain.
Hips pain.
A pain in the right knee-joint, lasting about twenty minutes, 2 p. m. (ninth day).
Pain in the left knee joint on going up or down stairs (twelfth day).
Several hard, small lumps along the shin bone, C. Hg.
An intermitting pain in the muscles of the lower posterior third of the right leg, with a sore, contracted, clumsy, bruised feeling of the anterior muscles of the lower third of the right leg, which is aggravated by flexing the foot and going up stairs, w hen the toes have a tendency to drop down, as if the foot was asleep, though without the sensation as if asleep (sixth day).
The intermitting pain in the posterior muscles of the right leg has not been felt since yesterday, but there is an aggravation of all the symptoms in the anterior portion of the same leg to day, especially when going upstairs, walking or flexing the foot, so as to render it quite painful and awkward (seventh day).
The sore, numb, clumsy, bruised feeling in the right leg is ameliorated by remaining quiet in the house, aggravated by going up and down stairs several times during the afternoon, rendering it necessary to go up slowly, on account of the uncertainty of step, and tendency of the toes to drop down, which makes it necessary to step higher with the right foot (eighth day) (100).
A pain running from the anterior of the right leg to the posterior of the right thigh, between 12 o’clock and 1 in the afternoon (ninth day).
The anterior muscles of the right leg sore as if beaten, and a contracted feeling, sore upon going upstairs or walking, with a numb feeling while sitting or lying (tenth day).
The constant sore numb feeling of the muscles of the leg continues to be more or less aggravated at times, especially on going upstairs, or flexing the foot (fifteenth day).
Soreness and numbness better, and only slightly troublesome, on going upstairs, (sixteenth day).
Lessened hard cellular swelling of both legs, C Hg., o.
Severe crampy pains in metatarsal bones of both feet.
Sharp, stinging pain in the posterior portion of the right heel, aggravated by the slightest pressure, lasting but a few minutes (eleventh day).
Bad ulcers on the feet of horses.
(Popular remedy).
Hurts of the hoofs of horses.
(Popular remedy).
In toes, a tendency to drop down as if asleep.
Chilblains.
(Popular remedy).
Generalities
During the afternoon, severe aches and pains in various parts of the body, with severe stitches in the sides, especially the posterior portion of the right side, aggravated by the slightest motion (eleventh day); all gone (sixteenth day).
A general soreness of the muscles and integuments of the whole body, especially the integuments, aggravated on motion, and especially by the friction of the clothes (eighth day).
Flesh and integuments feel sore to touch, even of the clothes, with sensitiveness to cold and cold air (ninth day).
Sore as if it had been beaten, and very sensitive to touch or the friction of the clothes (tenth day); less during the afternoon (twelfth day); also less sensitive to cold and to cold air, and to touch (thirteenth day); all gone (sixteenth day).
Skin
On forehead, tetter-like eruption.
Itching on scalp.
Scrofulous diseases, particularly swollen glands.
(Popular remedy, o). Bruised spots from falls or being beaten.
(Popular remedy, o). Sensitive to cold and cold air.
Friction of clothes aggravates soreness of skin.
Flesh and skin sore to the touch; cheek and malar bone.
Sleep and Dreams
Restless night, could lie a short time only in one position, on account of soreness of the muscles and whole body (eleventh and twelfth days).
Awoke with frightful dreams, and severe crampy pains in the metatarsal bones of both feet, lasting from fifteen to twenty minutes, at 3 to 4 o’clock (third day).
Fever
Heat in forehead.
Feverish hot breath and mouth in afternoon.
Hot and dry palms of hands.
Conditions Aggravations
(Morning), Hawking bloody mucus; when first getting up, hawking mass of bloody mucus; 8 o’clock, pain in pit of stomach.
(Forenoon), Frontal headache, dull, etc., feeling of head.
(Noon), Pain in urethra.
(Afternoon, Between 1 and 2 o’clock, dull headache; until late in evening, frontal headache; heat, etc., in forehead; at 3 o’clock, pain in eyeball; shocks in the ear; sneezing, etc.; discharge of mucus from nostril; mouth, etc. hot and feverish etc., et c.; 2 o’clock, sore throat; paroxysms of cough; same after 1 o’clock; pain in kidney; 2 o’clock, pain in knee; pains in various parts.
(Afternoon and Evening), Shocks heard in ears; sneezing etc., pleuritic stitches.
(Evening), 7 to 10 o’clock, on a rainy day, headache, etc.; 7 o’clock, heat, etc., in forehead; bad taste in mouth; pain in supraclavicular region; 9 o’clock, severe drawing in same.
(Midnight), In bed, palpitation of the heart.
(2 p. m. till 7 a. m)., headache, etc.
(Ascending stairs), Pain in right leg; sore feeling in leg; numbness in leg (Bending head back and forth), Stitches, etc., in nape of neck; soreness etc., in the same.
(Bending foot), Pain in right leg; numbness in same.
(After breakfast), Headache on top of head returns.
(Contortions of body), Pleuritic pain; pain in right side.
(Friction of clothes), Soreness of skin.
(Full inspiration), Pleuritic pain; in afternoon, pleuritic stitches.
(While lying on right side), In bed, at moment of becoming unconscious in sleep, suffocative attacks; pulsations of heart heard, etc.,; sensation in lung.
(Mental emotion or thought), Spells of palpitation.
(Motion), Stitches in side; soreness of muscles, etc., Pains in heel.
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.