Neck and Back
Neck. Neck feels lame and stiff when moving head (after one hour). While smoking, after tea, lameness in back of neck and shoulders (after two hours and a half). One of the most painful sensations, and one which remained a very long time, was a very great sense of a weight on my neck, with a tenderness even to the touch, over the seventh cervical vertebra. Drawing in muscles of right side of neck, think in splenitis capitis (after one hour). Awoke with stitching pain in right side of neck, which increased during day (seventh day). Pain in neck very severe, with twinges of pain that would last a few seconds, then wear off; in five seconds it would return as before. This condition lasted some eight hours (ninth day). Soreness of muscles of neck (splenitis capitis), (third day). Back weak and sore (second day). Back. Good deal of pain in back, and right side. Soreness of muscles of back and limbs (third day). Pains in small of back, and it hurts to straighten himself, and they became still worse by riding, where jolting aggravates. Aching pain across the small of back and in the lower limbs (after one hour). Severe aching pains in small of back, somewhat relieved by pressing the hand against it (fifth day). Tired sensation in renal region. The first two doses of the acid of the first centesimal dilution, taken three hours apart, relieved a severe pain in the lumbo-sacral region, which had existed more or less, mostly during the latter part of the night, for two years. Having another attack of backache, took a dose of Carbolic acid, 30th dil., which relieved the pain like magic, and have had no other attack up to date (about three weeks). Health in every respect excellent.
Superior Extremities
Shoulder. Drawing pain in left arm, from shoulder to elbow (transient). Lameness and soreness of right shoulder, when walking (second day). Rheumatic pain in right shoulder-joint nearly all day. He regarded it as an attack of rheumatism in the shoulder, having suffered with several attacks during the last eighteen years; they never lasted less than three or four days; this passed off suddenly in the evening, like all the other Carbolic acid pains (second day)(440). Acute but transient pain in right shoulder-joint (after one hour and a half). Aching pain in right shoulder, when bending forward. Aching pain in hip has gone to left shoulder-joint; although not very severe; he is reminded of it from time to time (second day). Arm. Constant tired, heavy feeling in left arm. Aching pain in left arm an right wrist (after one hour and a quarter). Soreness of muscles of right arm (after one and one- third). Forearm. Aching pain in left forearm (after fifteen minutes). Hand. The hand very much swollen, so that he could not write. Trembling of hands (cannot write steadily). A peculiar feeling of stiffness and discomfort (pricking) of the entire hand. This discomfort remained on the middle finger until night. At one spot it never left until there appeared a small pimple, which increased in size until it became a sore resembling a carbuncle. The flesh suppurated until a probe could be passed nearly through the finger. For several days the sore hand was intensely painful, and prevented sleep for several nights. It healed finally, but was a serious sore. Contracting pain in palm of right hand (after two hours and one-third). Fingers. Pain in second phalangeal joint of middle finger, right hand (after two hours and five-sixths).
Inferior Extremities
Cannot walk straight (after twenty-five minutes). Lower extremities feel heavy as lead (fifth day). Draggy sensation about lower extremities which occasioned a little unsteadiness in walking (from 20 drops). Hip. Occasional pains in hips and shoulders (third day). Aching pain in both hips (after forty-five minutes). Transient pain in right hip (after one hour and a half). Aching in right hip (transient), (after thirty-five minutes). Transient aching pain in right hip an left knee (after two hours and a half). Hard, aching pain in right hip, like a sciatic pain, which slowly moved along the course of that nerve, and at night was in the bend of the knee, and then ceased altogether (fifth day). Very severe aching pain in right hip- joint, felt only when walking (second day). Thigh. Transient pain in muscles of right thigh (after a few moments). Deepseated muscular pain, on inside of upper third of left thigh, that almost made him walk lame; lasted from five to ten minutes (after half an hour). The dull aching pains extend from the spine down the posterior muscles of the thigh. Drawing in right thigh and right zygoma (very soon). His thighs feel bruised (second day). About 7 P.M., while walking, bruised pain in the middle of anterior part of right thigh, deep seated and lasting only for a few minutes (second day). Knee. In the night, pain for a few minutes on inside of left knee-joint (fourth day). Pain on inside of left knee joint, lasting for considerable time (third day). (470). Aching soreness beneath left patella, all day up to about 4 o’clock P.M.; feels as if it would be stiff and sore to move it, but on the contrary during motion it is not felt at all (second day). Leg. Sensation just below the knee, on the shin, as if the parts was touched with a piece of ice (after forty-five minutes). Aching pain to the left of middle of left shin-bone (after two days). Sharp pain in left shin (after one hour and a half). Cramps in the calves. Severe bruised pain beneath left tendo Achillis close to posterior part of tibia, as if struck with a club; in a few minutes it disappeared for a short time, when he had a sharp pain in middle joint of large finger of left hand; this pain was only momentary, when it went back (but less intense) in the leg again (after one hour an a quarter). Ankle. Dull pain in right ankle and left knee, most of the morning (second day). Aching pain in right ankle, and in lower part of abdomen (after one hour). Pain in right ankle, and in lower part of abdomen (after one hour). Pain in left outer malleolus (after three hours and one- fifth). Foot. His feet, though he was lying flat on his back, felt as though they could not support his body, even by a strong effort of the will. Feet feel heavy (after fifteen minutes). The feet feel as if bruised, all the time. Toes. Pain in right great toe as if pressed upon. Pain in under surface of big toe of left foot (after three hours). Pressing pain in left great toe (after fifteen minutes). Tingling in left great toe, followed by a feeling as if pressed on (after a few moments). Sharp, stinging pain through corns (third day).
Generalities
Objective. Body much swollen before death. Trembling. Slight tremor over whole body, steadily increasing (after ten minutes). Muscles relaxed. Muscles completely relaxed. Loss of involuntary motion an speech. Became convulsed. Convulsed (immediately). Convulsions. Violent convulsions, with trismus, and blood passing from the mouth in consequence of the teeth having wounded the tongue. She fell to the ground in convulsions, was delirious and without consciousness. Disinclined to work; even correcting proof is fatiguing (second day). Feeling of languor, enervation, indisposition to attend to professional duties, and drowsiness, with uncomfortable feeling of fulness in the head, varied occasionally by a passing pain through the forehead, or right or left temple. Feel languid; must lie down to rest after a light day’s work (second day). Languid and sleepy; retired early (fourth day). Great languor. Easily fatigue by the least walk (am usually a good walker). Complains of being very tired (after twenty-five minutes). Very tired at night, and not at all amiable (third day). Weakness. Physical exhaustion (second day). Great prostration. Profound prostration. Faint feeling, spreading from the thigh all over the body. Administered chloroform in large quantity (one-third of a pound), to a patient during an operation, and was thereby affected nearly as much as the patient; obliged to go into the fresh air in order to keep from fainting (fourth day). Fell insensible (immediately). Fell from her seat to the floor. Extreme syncope. Complete anaesthesia. Complete anaesthesia, even of the conjunctiva. Numbness of skin of hands. Subjective. Physical and mental exhilaration. Shuddering sensation when he took it in his mouth; imagined he could taste the acid. General feeling of dulness and heaviness. Felt badly the whole day, especially from a burning in the stomach, with a sore feeling to the touch (second day). Said he felt mean, and left for home before his usual time. Feels as if he had taken a violent old (second day). Soreness, as if he had taken cold (thinks he has not), (third day). General soreness, worse in back, abdomen, and chest (third day). All the muscles prominently used are sore and stiff (fourth day). All symptoms to from the head downward. Pain felt only on right side. The pains seem to affect the right side first, and afterwards the same parts of the left (after thirty five minutes). The pains appeared most frequently on left side; came and went very suddenly, and generally lasted but a short time; they generally affected the muscles and joints, but not the bones. I became thoroughly unfit for study, as every exercise at reading increased all my symptoms, especially the pressing at the occiput. Relief of symptoms, except frontal headache, after a hearty lunch.
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.