Inferior Extremities
The child does not stand any more. Stepping motion of lower limbs. Lower limbs, abdomen, and sacrum asleep; cannot get up from the seat. Lower limbs fall asleep, with a restless, anxious feeling; has to move them to jump out of the carriage; also at night. Legs tired, weak, restless, crawling, tingling. Lame feeling of lower limbs, tired, heavy. In damp, rainy, cold weather, dull pain in lower limbs. Hip. Caries, hip-joint, heel, with stinking pus. In the hip-bone, tearing, shooting, drawing. Shooting or stitches from the hip-bone up or down; worst from the ischium down, jerking, drawing, with a warm feeling. Thigh. Going to sleep of the gluteal muscles, with restlessness in the lower limbs; he is constantly obliged to move them and change his position; at the same time a feeling of anxiety, he wants to jump out of the carriage; if he turns upon the right side, half lying, the nervus ischiadicus pains as if pressed, and he is obliged to sit up erect (during a longer drive at night), (twenty-third day). On rising after sitting a short time, the right buttock feels as if gone to sleep, and this sensation extended through the entire leg down into the toes (fourth day). Buttocks and backside asleep, with an uneasiness. Sore aching in buttocks; warmth, heat, burning, itching, oozing pimples; after scratching, scurfs continue to itch. Day after a snowstorm, buttocks as if beaten, with lameness. In the nates lameness, as if beaten; after a storm all kinds of pain, with soreness; most from right to left, but alternating most on right side. Aching and soreness of thighs. Sharp pain in the tendons on the inside of thighs, more when walking. While nursing her fifth child during sixth month (taking four drops of 4th in water), labor pains down in the thighs, with an involuntary stool, and passing some blood. A strong, healthy woman, never before having catamenia during nursing (Bute). Knee. Pains above the knee. Knees painful when walking, as if scraped, when touched by the pants; later he found red pimples on the knees that caused the pain (eighth day). Pains in the knees worse when walking; first left, then right (observed in fifty-four symptoms). Boring in the right knee, worse from stretching; most at night. Knees pain as if sprained; sore when walking. Sharp pain in the knees. Sharp pain in both knees when walking, in the afternoon (second day), (from the 4th). Shooting through the left thigh to the knee; stirring above, down to ankle-bones; toes too thick. Violent pain below the hollow of the knee, worse when taking boots off. Pain beneath the hollow of the knee every time it is strongly bent, as for example, on drawing on the boots, exceedingly painful; it makes the use of the whole limbs uncertain, as for example, when walking or jumping. Tendons in the hollow of the knee as if too short. Tensive drawing in the left popliteal space when raising or stretching out the foot, as if the tendons were too short, relieved by continued walking (fourth day). Leg. Feels blood run from the knee down to the feet. Tearing in left lower leg from the knee down to the feet; dry, crusty tetters over the leg. Rending pains in the bones of the left leg, as if broken, alternating sympathetically with the right hand (fourth day). Contraction around the left calf, as if he were tied thee (seventh day). Cramp pain in calves, drawing, rending, shooting, warm feeling. Cramp in calves, on a small spot inside, when walking. Pain in the calves, rending, tearing, drawing, shooting. Pain in the right calf, so violent that he could scarcely raise the leg, in the morning (third day), (from the 4th). Drawing pains in shin-bones. A pain in the head of left tibia caused by a kick returns; the spot became so sore that he could not bear it touched; it disturbed the sleep, coming on every night; gradually an exostosis formed and remained (Freitag). Ankle. Ankle-joint as if dislocated. Rending, tearing, shooting in ankle-joint. Foot. Weakness in the feet after coition (twenty-first day). Left foot went to sleep while driving, and crawling in the sole of it like formication (fifth day). Cramplike pain in the feet, most in the ankle-joint. In the right metatarsal bones, stitches, as if with needles, when stepping down (tenth day). Tearing pain in the left metatarsal bone (fifth day). Toes. Twitching of the big toes; the little toe drawn inward. Old (gouty) pain in the left great toe, with inclination to crack the joints, which, however, he did not do (crude).
Generalities
Objective. Phosphatic diathesis (G). Rachitis; fontanelles wide open; diarrhoea; emaciation. Rheumatism returning with cold weather, leaving her with the warm season. Distended veins (from the 4th). After fractures, when they do not ossify, or the callus does not form, smaller doses of the stuff are required to form a callus, are followed by the formation of one, containing one hundred times more of the C. ph. Disposition to stretch. Constant stretching. Convulsive starts when the child lies on his back, which cease when lying on its side. Extensors more affected than flexors, in all the limbs. Stiff in bed in the morning; can hardly turn. The greatest weariness; tired from going upstairs; does not want to rise from sitting. Weariness when going upstairs; wants to sit down; hates to get up. Weakness, with other symptoms. Great weakness and weariness, soon after taking; sharp pains in the stomach and in the knees, with headache, which lasted a whole day; on the next morning pain in the right great toe, worse when walking, lasting the whole day; after a few days he repeated the dose, which caused the pain in the stomach and the headache, with diarrhoea; the pain in the stomach continued the next day, was very severe at times, with a watery diarrhoea and burning stools; the diarrhoea continued the third day, with violent pain in the stomach on every attempt to eat anything; much better the fourth day; quite well the fifth day (from the 4th)(530). Soon after taking it she felt weak and prostrated, with flushes of heat in the head, nervous weakness; three hours afterwards she was attacked by severe pain in the right knee, on account of which she could scarcely walk; she felt as though she had received a blow on the inner side of the knee, which caused at the same time a violent pain and sensation of soreness, which lasted two days; the second dose taken some days afterwards had the same effect, aggravated by bending the knee; her twelve-year old daughter had the same symptoms from the same dose, only more severe; she had together with weakness, severe headache, pain and sensation of soreness of the thighs, which after a time extended into the left knee and there lasted twenty-four hours; after the disappearance of the pain the knee still remained sensitive to touch, as if beaten; her ten-year old son was also affected by a violent pain in the left knee, extending to the sole of the foot; her infant, who had just began to stand, would not stand any longer, and it was plainly to be seen that he had been affected by the paralyzing power of the drug through his mother’s milk (from the 4th). Restlessness, spasmodic motion of limbs; worse when lying on back, better lying on side. Sensitive to slight touch. Subjective. She feels in general very uncomfortable (from the 4th). After taking cold, liable to rheumatic pains in all her joints. Feeling of lameness of the flexors; sudden aching of the extensors of all the limbs. Painless gnawing, with quivering, jerking, and heat; full of fear. Trembling feeling, then toothache, and uterine pains. Ailments from grief, disappointed love. Pains in various parts of the body, frequently shooting along the muscles into the joints. Pain in bones, particularly shin-bones. Bones affected along the sutures (see head), or where bones unite, symphysis; also in the pelvis (see falling of womb). Most pain in joints, afterwards in the bones. Pain in all the joints; most left side; later and less the right. Sharp pain in the tendons. The tendons are sore when stretching and bending. Sensations mostly on small spots. Sore pain, first right, then left. Places hurt by shock become sore to the touch; on a place burnt twenty-three years ago a tetter forms, an exostosis; old scars ulcerate. The symptoms remaining the longest with the provers appear in the morning hours. The sunny half of the dark half like 5 3. The last half of the day stands to the first half like 5 7. In bed, pains in bones or joints. Every cold causes pains in joints, and where bones unite and form a symphysis or suture (C. Hg). She is very much worse after taking a light cold. On every little cold she is much worse; rheumatic pains and displaced uterus. During moderate motions of single limbs most of the painful symptoms appear, and get easier after lying down. Pains after great exertions are worse when lying down. Pressure worse, head, chest, belly, limbs. The symptoms occur after the second dose and gradually diminish until the fourth day, when they disappear. Right to left, sutures of frontal and lateral bones; earache, stopped up; cold feeling; jugular bones ache, upper jaw pains; toothache; bellyache; aching in groins, above the os pubis, mammae, neck, chest, back, armpits, arms, elbows, forearms, hands, fingers, buttocks, thighs, above knees, shin- bones, calves, heels, big toes, toes. Right upper, left lower; pain in bones (Schreter).
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.