Tightness of the chest.
Oppression of thee chest and difficult breathing, especially when walking and in the evening in bed, with sibilant mucous and often crepitant rale.
Exceeding weight and oppression of the whole chest.
Painful pressure in the chest, extending into the back.
Pressure pain in the chest and between the shoulders.
Pressing pain in the chest with shortness of breath, and at the same time between the scapulae, in walking and sitting.
Acute pressing in the region of the sixth true rib from within outwards (after a quarter of an hour).
Stitches and pulsations in the chest.
In walking, fine stitches below the clavicle from before backwards (after four days).
3 P.M., stitches in chest and just below right axilla (second day).
Fine shooting pain in the chest, (Case 11 and 18).
Shooting, disappearing quickly, like stabs with a blunt knife, below the last two ribs, close to the xiphoid cartilage, and above the false ribs (after eight minutes).
Scraping, digging, and often lancinating pains in the chest, with constant inclination to cough, often without the ability.
Great inquietude and beating in the chest.
Sternum.
Pain at sternal extremely of fifth rib (after less than one hour).
Sharp, cramping pain just below the extremity of the sternum, gradually extending to the pit of the stomach and upward to the sternum, and over the cardiac region (after nine hours).
An acute pressing pain in the sternum directly above the xiphoid cartilage.
Stitches in the sternum in coughing and yawning.
Shooting, pinching pains in the chest, on both sides of the upper part of the sternum.
A beating pain under the sternum above the scrobiculus cordis.
Sides.
Pains more in the left than right side of the chest.
Burning in the right chest.
Pressing in the right chest, which causes anxiety.
Pressing squeezing pain in the left and right sides of the chest.
A pressing pain below the right nipple.
Intermittent, pressing cutting in the right side of the chest, unaffected by either inspiration or expiration (after three hours).
In the right side of the chest, a deeply penetrating and constant stitch, unaffected by the breathing.
Fine stitches in the left side of the chest from the sternum towards the axilla, more violent during motion, unaffected by the breathing.
In the right side of the chest, stitches here and there below the skin, in some measure external.
Stitches in the side of the chest under the right arm, which hinder the breathing, towards evening.
(Pressive shooting pain in the left side under the ribs).
Constant pressive shooting in the cartilages of the left ribs, more violent, and changing into an almost burning sensation, during expiration (after three hours).
A corroding gnawing pain beneath the cartilages of the last ribs on the right side (after two hours).
Heart and Pulse
Precordium and Heart.
Great anxiety about the precordia.
Precordial anxiety during the catamenia.
After dinner and supper, precordial anxiety, headache, redness of face, and bitter taste in the mouth, (Case 14).
Anxiety was noticed about the heart, a peculiar troublesome sensation from time to time, like that noticed with an intermitting pulse; in fact the pulse did intermit at times (after one hour).
Pressure in the cardiac region, which arrests the breathing, and causes a sense of anxiety.
Sensation of cardiac oppression in the scrobiculus cordis; she could not breathe properly; thereupon nausea, rising up in the throat as if she would vomit; and so oppression and nausea alternated every seven minutes (after a quarter of an hour).
The action of the heart was feeble (after two hours).
The action of the heart was feeble, and the pulsations and the radial artery were 116 in the minute, regular, and weak (after two hours).
Weak but frequent beat of the heart (after a quarter of an hour).
Beat of heart and pulse smaller and somewhat contracted, but not accelerated.
Starts and trembling of the heart, which feels large and heavy.
When she goes upstairs the heart clucks; a sort of palpitation.
Violent beating of the heart.
Beating and palpitation of the heart, with great oppression of the chest.
Violent palpitation.
Violent palpitation, and active, accelerated pulse.
Palpitation of the heart, with pulsation of the carotid and temporal arteries, heat and redness of face; generally with congestion to the hear, and fever (after a quarter of an hour).
(During rest, palpitation, with feeling as if the concussion extended to the throat, more violent during movement, and with difficult, slow respiration).
Pulse.
Very feeble pulse (after one hour).
Pulse very feeble and almost countless.
Pulse scarcely perceptible.
Pulse small, contracted, not to be counted.
Pulse full, and slightly accelerated.
Full, frequent pulse, increased by ten beats.
Pulse full and quick (90 to 100), (after six hours).
Pulse full, about 120.
Pulse strong, frequent.
Strong, rapid pulse.
Pulse much increased in force and frequency.
Very small, quick pulse.
Pulse small, compressed, and very quick (120 to 130), (after six hours).
Pulse regular, small, and 120.
Pulse very feeble, and quick.
Pulse extremely accelerated.
Accelerated pulse, strong or small, sometimes full and slow, or small and slow, or hard and tense.
Pulse 80 (second day).
Pulse 80 to 90, and regular.
Pulse 90 (second day).
Pulse 100.
Pulse 120 to 130.
Pulse very slow and full.
Large, full, slow pulse.
Very small, slow pulse.
The pulse was soft, and slower than usual.
Pulse weak and slow.
Pulse extremely slow, filiform, and irregular.
Pulse sand from 80 to 75 per minute (after ten minutes).
Pulse 70, feeble, and compressible.
Pulse 60 (after five and a half hours).
Pulse 37, radial artery full, hard, and firm to the touch, with entire insensibility; a vein being opened in the arm, the blood, which flowed slowly, was dark and thick.
Pulse irregular; one strong beat is quickly followed by four or five weak ones (after half an hour).
Pulse small and intermitting.
Pulse contracted, very accelerated, often intermitting (after seven hours).
Neck and Back
Neck.
Swelling of the glands on the left side of the neck, at which spot he also frequently complains of a burning pain.
Swelling of the glands in the nape of the neck, with cloudiness of the head (after six days).
Inflammation and swelling of the glands of the neck and of the back of the throat.
Swelling and stiffness of the neck and nape of the neck, especially on the left side, with crampy pains at the least movement.
Drawing pains and pressure at the nape of the neck.
Pressive pain externally in the neck, when bearing the head backwards and when touching the part.
In coughing, a violent pressing pain in the nape of the neck, as if it would break (after three and a half hours).
Sharp pain between the last cervical and first dorsal vertebrae (after four and a half hours).
Sensation as if the nape of the neck was struck with a hammer.
Back in General.
Weakness of the spine, with heaviness of the head, and stooping walk.
Stiffness of the muscles of the back and lower extremities prevents him from sitting up in bed, or raising himself upright; if supported, he is able to stand on his feet, but is unable to move the, m or to walk.
Rheumatic pain in the back, (Case 15).
Burning sensation, as if the spinal marrow was on fire.
Cramps in the back and chest.
Cramp like pressive sensation in the middle of the spinal column, which becomes tensive when he attempts to straighten the back (after half an hour).
During the menses, a cramp like tearing, now here and there in the back, now in the arms.
Pain as if dislocated in the right side of the back and the spinal column.
Gnawing in the spinal column, with cough.
Pressive pain at the left of the spinal column, under the false ribs.
Stabbings as if with a knife from without inwards in the vertebrae.
Shooting and gnawing pain in the spinal column.
Dorsal.
Painful stiffness between the scapulae and in the nape of the neck when turning the head and neck to and fro, in the morning (after sixteen hours).
Distensive and rheumatic pains, with feeling of dislocation between the shoulder-blades.
Pain between the scapulae, as from a strain.
Cramp-pain, almost like pinching, between the right scapula and the spinal column.
Violent drawing along the spine between the scapulae, in the evening.
Drawing, cutting pain behind right shoulder-blade.
Pressive pain under the left scapula, more towards the outer side.
Drawing pressure between the right scapula and the spinal column.
Fine shootings in the right scapula.
Repeated electric shoots from the left scapula to the right (after one hour).
Lumbar.
Burning and weakness in the loins; he walks with difficulty and bent over.
Spasmodic sensation in the left lumbar region.
Cramps and pressure in the loins, extending into the bladder and groins, with inclination to bend over and squat.
Cramps and pains of dislocation in the loins and back, with painful stiffness of these parts.
Sharp slight pain in left loin, just above ischium (after ten minutes). cutting pain in right loin, and in lower extremity of the sternum (after fifty minutes).
Intensely painful sensation of cramp in the lumbo-sacral region and the coccyx; he can only sit for a short time, and while sitting becomes quite stiff and unable to rise again for pain; he cannot even lie down well; he often wakes at night because of it, and has to turn on the other side because of the violence of the pain; he cannot lie at all on the back; he is relieved chiefly by standing and walking slowly about, but he cannot walk fast (for eight days).
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.