Cough and Expectoration.
Awoke with slight cough and a little dyspnoea, very similar to that felt yesterday morning but slighter in degree (third day).
Slight cough on rising in the morning (fourth day) with a tickling in the larynx (fifth day). Awoke at 4 a. m. with a violent cough, attended by an excessive tickling in the larynx and sense of suffocation; respiration hurried and difficult; attack lasted a quarter of an hour; no way relieved by change of posture (first day). Short, dry cough throughout the day (second day). Scanty expectoration of frothy mucus (first day).
Respiration.
Sighing (twenty-third day). Has to take a deep inspiration now and then (twenty-third day). Breathing has been all day somewhat oppressed and tight (second day). Great difficulty in taking a deep inspiration, with aggravation of the sore aching pain in the scapulae (third day). Short of breath (eighth and eleventh days).
Chest.
Faint at chest (third day). A burning dry sensation with pains in the chest (thirteenth day). Rising from the bottom of the chest into the throat, with oppression of the breath; he has to sigh often to relieve the feeling of want of air in the chest (tenth day). Tightness across the chest (twenty-second day). During the day, twitching tightness round the lower part of the chest, in front, with rising in the throat and want of appetite (third day). The chest feels too tight to admit of any expansion (third day). Uneasy aching about the chest (eighth day). Chest aches both anteriorly and posteriorly (third day). Oppression of the chest all day (sixth day). Oppression at the chest with difficulty in expanding it (eighth day). Considerable oppression at the chest, with inclination to sigh (second day). Greatly oppressed at the chest, as if from a globus behind the sternum (fifth day).
Shooting through the chest (tenth day). Shooting in all directions through the chest but particularly under the right scapula and left nipple, during the evening (sixteenth day).
Shooting in the right posterior and left anterior chest in the evening (seventeenth day). Soreness of the chest and limbs, though less severe (fourth day).
Front.
Uneasiness behind and to the right of the sternum on swallowing, as from fullness (for five hours), (eleventh day).
Pushing aching under the sternum (twenty-fourth day). Dull pain, varying in intensity to the right of the sternum, below the cartilages of the fifth and sixth ribs (ninth day). On breathing deeply, there is a dull heavy pain in the middle of the sternum as if from a blow, passing through to the back, in the evening (twentieth day); recurring during the proving. Great oppression behind the sternum on walking (eighth day). Constant oppressed sensation at the sternum, relieved for a little by sighing (third day). Sense of thrusting at the sternum (seventh day). Thrusting at the lower end of the sternum (fourth day). Stitch in the anterior chest lasting some minutes, followed by a similar pain in the left posterior chest (seventh day). Very sore under the sternum, particularly towards the left side (after first dose, third day). Heavy throbbing at the sternum, coming on particularly on slight exertion (fifth day); the same sensation more constant (sixth day). Single heavy throbs at the sternum on walking (eighth day).
Sides.
Uneasiness in the right and left sides of the chest (second day).
Continual uneasiness in the right and left chest, anteriorly (tenth day). Pain and tenderness on percussion, under the left clavicle (ninth day). Uneasy fullness in the right chest, with a heavy pain to the right of the lower end of the sternum (eighth day).
Drawing pain from the region of the left breast through to the angle of the scapula (eighth day). Dull pain, varying in intensity, with external smarting about an inch below the left nipple (ninth day).
Dull broad pain from left nipple to the point of the left scapula; worse on walking (half an hour after 10 drops, first day). Succession of long stitches through the right chest, extending to the shoulder and arm, with coldness of the hands and feet (third hour after 10 drops, fourth day).
Mammae.
Awoke with pain under the left nipple, which left soon (twentieth day). Constant pain in the left breast, varying in intensity from dull to acute pain (eleventh day). Hot pain, with anxiety, under the left nipple; before dinner (twenty-third day).
Slight but distinct aching under the right breast (first day).
Dull pain in the right breast, two inches below the nipple, in the evening (after 10 drops, first day). Dull pain in the left nipple (tenth day), (increasing next day after 20 drops). Dull pain in a small spot under the left nipple while riding (third day). Awoke with continuous dull pain above and to the left of the nipple, worse on inspiration; pain, not constant, towards the right side of the middle of the sternum; these pains, particularly the former, keep recurring, without any apparent exciting cause (nineteenth day). Darting pain for some time in the left breast (fifth day). Short-lasting stitches under the right breast (second day). Dull stitches under the left nipple, continuing many hours (sixteenth day). Soreness in the right breast on pressure; a continual pain in that region (eleventh day). Tenderness over a circumference of three or four inches, about an inch below the left nipple (ninth day). Single heavy throbs, quite rhythmical, at half-minute intervals, below the left nipple, after walking smartly (fifteenth day).
Heart and Pulse.
Precordium.
Continual weariness, not amounting to pain, in the region of the heart and in the right hypochondrium (twenty-first day).
Uneasiness about the heart (sixth day). Slight feeling of heat about the heart (seventeenth day). Aching at the heart, lasting some hours (fourth day). There remained, for many weeks, a clawing-dragging pain at the heart, on riding, relieved by compressing the side firmly. Occasional pushes at the heart (second day).
Heart’s Action.
Strong beating of the heart, so bad that he can hear it (eleventh day). Palpitation at intervals of three minutes, consisting of three or four heavy throbs, excited more by mental emotions than by bodily movement (third day). After taking 5 drops more the palpitation declined and did not return. Occasional palpitation, consisting of three heavy throbs (twenty-third day).
Slight palpitation during the headache, lasting a few seconds.
For upwards of a month after the proving there remained a very troublesome palpitation and fullness at the sternum on walking uphill; no exertion seemed to induce it so much as this; it gradually increased for the first fortnight and afterwards declined in strength and frequency; the sensation occurred at intervals of two or three minutes and consisted of one or two jumps or rolls of the heart, with occasionally an intermission of the pulse at the wrist. Repeated attacks of a kind of palpitation, similar to that felt after quick running, as if the heart beat heavily and with difficulty; it is accompanied by dull pain, as from an obstruction, somewhere at about an inch to the left of the nipple; this recurs at intervals, aggravated by stooping and taking a deep inspiration in the evening (twentieth day); continue to recur during the proving.
Pulse. Pulse 106 (seventh day).
Back.
Aching in the back and down the posterior part of the right thigh (sixth day).
Dorsal.
Violent pain between the shoulders (eighth day). Aching along the inner border of the right scapula in the evening (ninth day).
Dull stitches under the right scapula, which continue many hours (sixteenth day). Felt very sore at the inferior angles of the scapulae, particularly the left (after first dose, third day).
Slight tingling under the angle of the left scapula, amounting now and then to pricking (after five minutes); this lasted only a few minutes but when it passed off, I immediately felt a pain under the angle of the right scapula, as if produced by the pressure of a blunt point. This pain increased in intensity all day and spread round to the front, being particularly severe under the left mamma. The pain there and under the angle of the scapula was a constant dull pressure but on making any sudden movement with the arm, walking or expiring strongly, it became shooting and occupied the interior space, appearing to shoot sometimes from the back to the front, sometimes in the opposite direction. By evening the pain was so great as nearly to prevent my moving about (fourth day); continuing the next day. Had to stay in bed till noon. (* It was the opinion of the prover that this pain was in the pleura. *).
Lumbar.
Aching in the back, across the loins (third day). Aching pain across the loins and in the left iliac region (fifth day). Long stitches in the loins (seventh day). Aching in the region of the kidneys with shooting in the right loin (fourth day). Rather severe aching in the region of the kidneys, extending round into the abdomen, in the evening (eleventh day).
Extremities in General.
Weakness and aching of the limbs (fourth day). Aching in all the joints, especially the shoulders and particularly the right shoulder, inducing constant inclination to stir the limbs (twentieth day).
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.