Heart and Pulse
Aching in the precordial region. Pressive pain in the precordial region. Stitches in the precordial region, lasting only a few seconds. Cramp in the region of the heart (fourth day). Slight cramp in the region of the heart, with accelerated pulse. At 6 A.M., decided oppression in the region of the heart, without change in its beat. The heart beats violently and rapidly. Palpitation several days in succession (after twelve hours). Pulse full, hard, and rapid. Pulse full, large, and quick, but not very frequent, at 9 A.M., two hours after breakfast (second day). Pulse increased scarcely ten beats in a minute. Pulse 80 (after one hours). Afternoon, pulse 80 (sixth day). Pulse at three different times, since 4 P.M., has been 84 (third day). Pulse three different times, since 4 P.M., has been 84 (third day). Pulse 85 (after half an hour). Pulse decreased from 94 to 87 (after thirty-five minutes); rose from 87 to 92 (after forty- eight minutes); sunk to 87 (after one and two-third hours); to 74, considerably weaker and more compressible (after three and five-sixths hours); 75, fuller and stronger (after five and five- sixth hours).
Neck and Back
Neck. Pains in the neck, on moving it. Pain in the nape of the neck, as after taking cold. A pain in the nape of the neck near the occiput, like a pain and weakness together, as if the head were weak. Painful stiffness of all the cervical muscles on motion, with rawness in the throat when swallowing. On the right side of the nape of the neck, towards the shoulder, painful stiffness of the muscles on moving the head. Tension in the nape of the neck, on moving the head, Drawing and stiffness in the muscles of the right side of the neck. Pressure on the left side of the nape of the neck. Tearing pains in the muscles of the left side of the neck down to the shoulder. Sore pain on motion in the left side of the neck, and throat, and the muscles of the face, and mastication renders turning the head or chewing difficult and almost impossible (after twenty-four hours). Back. Feeling of stiffness every time on rising; disappeared after walking. Burning in the back. Tension in the back and sacral region in the forenoon. Constrictive pain across over the whole back, as if he were bound tightly with bands, almost like a cramp (from four to eight in the afternoon), (after forty-eight hours). A drawing down the back when sitting, disappearing on motion. Frequent stitches in the afternoon on the left side of the back, especially violent in the left side of the chest and in the nipple, aggravated on moving the trunk or on bending the left arm backward. Shooting stitches in the back through the chest, in the forenoon. Stitches in the back in a very small spot between the tenth eleventh ribs (third day). He can neither bend nor stoop on account of the pain in the back and lumbar vertebrae a tearing, more when standing than when sitting, but not when lying. Painful sticking twitches on both sides near the spine, when sitting, especially in the morning and evening. Dorsal. Uncomfortable sensation between the shoulder-blades, more internally towards the posterior mediastinum, which causes frequent motion of the shoulder an trunk. Rheumatic pain in back, between inferior angles of scapulae (after three to four hours). Burning below and between the shoulder-blades. A spasmodic pain between the shoulder-blades almost like shivering. Tension between the shoulders. A very violent drawing pressive-tensive pain in the first dorsal vertebra (where the prover had suffered fourteen years before from a wrenching of the spine) with impeded and difficult respiration; the pain extended through the thorax to the lower portion of sternum. Drawing between the shoulders. Slight drawing between the shoulders, more on the right side. Drawing and sticking between the shudders on moving the trunk (third day). Pressure between the shoulders and opposite in the forepart of the chest, when sitting; disappears when walking. A scraping-sticking sensation in a place between the shoulder- blades, as large as a quarter of a dollar, as though a thorn were thrust into the flesh, only noticed on motion. Very violent, sudden (lightning-like) stitches in the region of the lower angle of the right shoulder-blade in the evening, and especially in bed, returning at short intervals. Dull stitches between the shoulder-blades, extending from behind forward, in the afternoon while lying. Violent twitching and tearing pain in the region of the last dorsal vertebra and sacrum (third day). Dull aching, and sharp, alternating pains, beneath right scapula at its lower or inferior angle (after two to three hours). Lumbar. Loss of sensation in the lumbar and sacral regions, in the forenoon, while walking, so that the muscles performed their functions automatically. Pain in the right lumbar region, as after long stooping. Throbbing, tensive pain deep in the right lumbar region, just above the ilium, recurring twice at short intervals, though lasting only two or three minutes. Drawing an pressing in the lumbar region, and in the temporal bones, especially after eating. Pressure in the lumbar region. When lying upon the abdomen, a sensation in the left lumbar region of a bladder filled with air, the size of a man’s lying beneath the walls of the abdomen and pressing toward the surface, without pain or hardness; (*Apparently caused by a partial spasmodic constriction of a portion of the intestines distended by gas. This sensation was frequently observed during the proving and for a long time afterward, but never before*) this sensation was least noticed when lying upon the back; slight diarrhoea in the evening and morning (1st dil). Tensive-pressive pain in the right lumbar region. Dull pressive pain in the right lumbar region (from 3d dil). Painful pressure and fullness in the lumbar region. Drawing, sticking pain deep in the upper part of the right lumbar region. Bruised pain in the lumbar region. Stitches in the lumbar vertebrae. Violent stitches from the third to the fourth lumbar vertebra, extending on both sides of the chest, especially on breathing (twentieth day). Dull aching in lumbar muscles (third day). Pressure and drawing in the lumbar muscles; the lumbar vertebrae by themselves seem to pain in the forenoon. The lumbar muscles were sensitive to touch; the band of the drawers could scarcely be endured (third day). Paralyzed feeling in the small of the back. Pain in the small of the back, which makes walking very difficult. Pressive-drawing pain in the small of the back and loins, which made turning very difficult; it awoke him from sleep (eight night). Sticking pain in the small of the back, and in the back, at night for six hours (after seventy hours). Bruised pain in the small of the back and thigh. Bruised pain in the small back when sitting, worse when lying, less when moving. The small of the back pains as if bruised when lying upon it. A jerk like pain in the small of the back, like a cramp, when sitting an lying. Pain in the loins, with dull pressive pain in the occiput and chilliness in the skin, awoke him at 1 A.M. (first night). Drawing pains in the loins, after a meal. Drawing pain in the loins and small of the back after eating. Bruised sensation in the loins (second day). The feeling of weariness on the right side of the sacrum, which rendered walking difficult, was very troublesome. Heaviness in the sacrum and dragging in the hemorrhoidal vessels. Dull, rheumatic pain, drawing lameness, in muscles of right sacroiliac region, and in right deltoid muscle, at its center (after two to three hours). He was unable to lie stretched out without violent pain in the sacral region; sitting up, lifting, or turning the body increased the pain; he found himself relieved when at rest with the body bet forward; he arose out of bed with great difficulty; putting on the clothes was very difficult on account of the violent pain in the sacral region; walking in the street caused great exhaustion; going upstairs was especially troublesome; walking caused such intolerable pain that he was obliged to be taken home in a carriage; he went to bed; the pain extended from the lumbar and sacral regions in part along the spine, in part down towards the legs; on attempting to raise to stretch out the legs or to raise the body upright, the greatest pains; every slight touch of the spine, especially in the lumbar region, increased the pain; urination much increased; urine yellowish-red; fever moderate; pulse full and hard (third day). Slight tensive pain in the sacral and lumbar region, on walking. Drawing pain in the sacral and lumbar region, on walking. Drawing pain in the sacral and lumbar regions, with moderate fever (afternoon, second day). A sharp violent stitch on the right side of the lowest portion of the back (from 5th dil). A persistent drawing-tearing pain, at the point of union of the ilium with the sacrum (in the evening of fourth day). Sticking- drawing in the coccyx while walking.
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.