Leucorrhoea, with weakness and paralyzed sensation in the small of the back, before the discharge, followed by weakness. Profuse leucorrhoea. Profuse leucorrhoea followed by hoarseness, with cough and expectoration. Leucorrhoea of a white acrid mucus, which caused burning. Leucorrhoea, ten days after menstruation, lasting several days, with much pain in the bowels before the discharge. Thick, milky leucorrhoea, with contractive labor like colic coming from both sides. Discharge of brownish blood, instead of menstruation (thirty first day). Bloody mucus, instead of leucorrhoea, for ten days. Menses appeared on the seventeenth day. Menstruation delayed seven days. Menses suppressed.(* Checked while on her, in Andree’s case; in Greding’s delayed.–HUGHES. *).
Suppression of the menses, which had scarcely appeared, followed by drawing pain down the back into the sacrum, day and night.
When she arrived at term, she was troubled, for several days previous to delivery, with false pains, which prevented sleep and exhausted her a great deal (after three months).
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx.
Scraping in the larynx, with irritation to cough and dry cough in the evening. Much scraping and tickling in the larynx, with dry cough, frequently during the day. Irritation to cough, with dry cough in the morning. A dry spot in the larynx, where there is a crawling and almost constant irritation to a dry cough.
Tickling in the larynx, with dry cough.
Voice.
Voice hoarse. Hoarseness.
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough at night. (* Not found.–HUGHES. *) Cough easily excited by acid and salty things (without expectoration). Cough very much aggravated by lying down; in the beginning many shocks of coughing as if he would vomit; constant severe cough in the evening on going to sleep.
Cough, almost only when first lying down, during the day or evening; he was obliged to sit up and cough it out, after which he had rest. Urgent cough.(* See note to S. 328. –HUGHES. *).
Forcible cough. (The most violent cough, on account of which he was obliged to keep his bed).(* This supervened in a case of tubercle of the breast, while taking Conium. –HUGHES. *).
Short, racking cough, caused by deep inspiration. (Dry hacking cough). ( * See note to S. 784. — HUGHES. *)Dry cough, with hoarseness. Loose cough, without being able to expectorate anything. Cough, whereby something is loosened but cannot be expectorated until afterwards, when it comes up with an easy cough together with coryza. Cough as from tickling in the middle of the sternum, with and without expectoration. Hooping cough with expectoration of bloody mucus.
Hooping cough and dyspnoea. Yellowish expectoration, tasting like bad eggs. (Purulent expectoration from the chest). In a case of mammary cancer, where the lungs were found cancerous after death.–HUGHES. *).
Respiration.
Respiration subdued. Slow respiration. (Short sighing respiration).(* See note to S. 487.– HUGHES. *).Short respiration during rest and motion (seventh day). (Labored respiration). (* See note to S. 328.– HUGHES. *).Impeded respiration.
Difficult respiration. Difficult, slow inspiration, in the evening in bed. Difficult respiration and violent pain in the chest. Respiration, especially inspiration, was very difficult as if the chest could not be sufficiently distended (after four hours). Difficulty in breathing; it seems as though something rose up into the larynx and threatened to suffocate her; respiration was so difficult and noisy that it could be heard outside the door. Dyspnoea. Frequent dyspnoea. Suffocative attack, as if mucus collected in the throat. Suffocative attack, as though something collected in the upper part of the larynx.
Respiration ceases.
Chest.
Objective.
Rattling in the chest, in the evening on lying down, followed by much cough on sitting up.
Subjective.
(Dryness in the chest).(* In a case of suppurating mammary scirrhus; this and S. 758 coincided with the discharge becoming thin.– HUGHES. *).Pains in various places on the chest, not aggravated by respiration. Violent pains in the chest, with severe cough. Very violent pains in the chest. Sensation of fullness in the chest; on coughing nothing will loosen, followed by sticking in the sternum. Everything seems as if too full in the chest, head and hypochondrium, for ten minutes; several mornings on waking. Tension across the chest and pressure on it, on inspiration. Drawing and tearing through the whole chest, in the evening in bed, when lying upon the side, with oppression of breath and hard pressure upon the upper part of the sternum, which on inspiration takes away the breath (third day).
Dull pain in the chest and to the left of the sternum, suddenly while sitting. Pressure in the chest. Pain under the left breast.
Pressure in the ribs. The clothes lie like a weight on the chest and shoulders. Sharp thrusts directly through the chest, from the sternum to the spine, while sitting. Sudden sticking between the right nipple and sternum, while sitting, aggravated by even slight inspiration. Throbbing sticking pain in the upper part of the left chest, more towards the middle. Stitches in the chest, aggravated by inspiration and almost preventing it, not relieved by strong pressure, mostly while sitting. Stitches beneath the ribs. Stitches behind the cartilages of the eighth and ninth ribs. Dull stitches between the cartilages of the ninth and tenth left ribs. Tearing in the chest. Scraping and crawling in the chest, with irritation to dry, almost constant cough.
Tremor at base of clavicle and in muscles across chest, just above the sternum (first hour). Itching in the interior of the chest.
Mammae.
Complete atrophy of mammary gland; lean, a flaccid, bag like skin; wasting of the breasts. The female breasts shrivelled to a single fold of skin. Hardness of the right breast, with painfulness to touch and nightly stitches in it.
Inflammation of a mammary scirrhus. (The glands become painful in the evening). (* In a case of scirrhous mamma.– HUGHES. *).
The female breasts ache. Sticking in both nipples and vicinity, in bed and on the inner surface of the left cheek. Stitches, as with needles, in the left mammary gland.
Front.
Caries of the sternum. Stiffness in the sternum on physical exertion. Pain in the sternum, as if pressed inward. (Burning in the region of the sternum). (* From injecting Conium into a fistula of the neck.–HUGHES. *). Pressure behind the sternum and the left side of the chest, while sitting, not aggravated by inspiration. Pressive pain upon the sternum in the morning, with difficult breathing while standing (third day). Pressive pain on the sternum the whole day, with now tearing, now sticking pains about the breast and nipples, accompanied by frequent oppression and shortness of breath (fourth day). Oppression and severe pressure externally on the sternum after eating. Stitches behind the sternum, extending to the axillae. Bruised pain on the inner surface of the sternum. Bruised pain in the forepart of the chest and in the back.
Sides.
Cutting pressure on both sides of the chest, aggravated by inspiration (after fourteen hours). Fine sticking pressure in both sides of the chest, most severe when he lies upon the front of the chest. Pressive pain in the right side of the chest and abdomen, aggravated by inspiration. Frequent oppression of the upper part of the right side of the chest, with sensation as if it were caused by incarcerated flatulence. On coughing, sticking in the left side of the chest for three hours, so that she, being waked by it, sleep uneasily. (Stitches in the side of the chest).
(* In a case of caries of the ribs.–HUGHES. *). Stitches beneath the ribs of the left side, obliging him to press upon them, while sitting. Stitches in the right side of the chest, as from needles, on walking in the open air. Severe stitches, like knife thrusts, in the side, with loud cries on this account. Violent stitches in the right side of the chest about the nipple, on every inspiration while walking, relieved by hard pressure with the hand. Fine stitches in the left side of the chest beneath the axilla. Cramplike tearing in the right side of the chest.
Heart and Pulse.
Precordium.
Anxiety at the heart. Anxious sensation in the heart with rapid action of the heart. Pressure at times in the precordial region, as if the heart would be pressed down, with oppressed breathing (third day). Dull stitches above the heart on deep inspiration, although also soon afterwards on every motion of the body. Flying stitches and tearings, at one time in the cardiac region, at another in the hands, head and legs. Frequent shocks in the heart.
Heart’s Action.
Palpitation on rising. Palpitation after a stool, with intermissions in the beats of the heart. Frequent visible palpitation. Violent palpitation after drinking. Anxious palpitation on being suddenly awakened by a loud noise. Heart’s impulse very week.
Pulse.
Rapid pulse. Pulse extremely rapid and tense. Pulse went up to 120 from emotional excitement; but in a few minutes the heart regained its usual quietude. Pulse and temperature lowered. Pulse slow and weak. Pulse small, soft, slow (soon after 40 drops).
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.