Bruised feeling, after each paroxysm of cough; he is obliged to keep quiet.
Voice.
Hoarse, wheezing voice.
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough, especially night and morning; also from movement and warmth. Cough, with coryza and hoarseness. Incessant cough, proceeding from the bronchi, and aggravated in the evening by warmth and in the open air. Constant short cough, as if something had “gone the wrong way”. Hoarse cough, which seems to scrape and bruise the bronchi. Barking, croupy cough, with sensation as from a foreign body in the larynx, dryness and smarting in the throat; hurried, noisy respiration; face sometimes red, sometimes pale pinched or swollen; Contractive and pressive headache, with drowsiness but no sleep; skim moist and hot; pulse quick and hard; restlessness, anxiety; cannot be quiet in bed; formication in the legs has to keep swallowing his saliva, in order to relieve the symptoms of the throat and larynx; great flow of viscid mucus into the mouth; frequent nausea; desire for acids etc. Cough, with expectoration of yellow, green, gray, rusty, or blood-streaked mucus. Cough, with copious, thick, acrid and bilious expectoration. Hard, noisy cough, ending only on expectoration of thick white mucus; especially morning and evening.
Severe and long lasting cough, with congestion of blood to the head, burning and tearing pains in the chest, and bloody expectoration, especially in the evening. Expectoration is always difficult and painful. Hemoptysis of decomposed black blood.
Respiration.
Noisy, panting respiration. Bad smell of the breath, proceeding from the stomach.
Chest.
Objective.
Inflammation and swelling of the lungs, as from abscesses and tubercles. Sensation of debility of the lungs, with impeded, difficult respiration, and crepitant rale.
Subjective.
Pains in the chest, especially on the right side.
Great fullness of the chest; dyspnoea and suffocation.
Paroxysms of angina pectoris, with loss of consciousness. Acute rheumatic pains in the chest, with palpitation and sensation as if the heart were forcibly compressed. Pains in the chest, as if the lungs were pierced, especially during respiration; with painful weariness and great weakness in the back. Stitches and lancinations in the chest.
Sensation when breathing as if the lungs were pricked by a thousand needles. Beating and shocks in the chest.
Mammae.
The breasts are flaccid and pendant. Large abscess; erysipelas on the breasts. Drying up of the milk in nursing women.
Burning pains in the mammary glands. Intolerable itching of the nipples.
Heart and Pulse.
Precordium.
Heart feels as if immersed in water. Burning, contraction, and anxiety in the precordial region, extending to the region of the liver. Sensation of heat and burning at the heart. The heart feels swollen, full, disordered; with lancinating pain on the right side. Sensation of enormous swelling of the heart, with pulsating and lancinating pains. Sensation of aneurismal distension of the heart; suffocative attacks, especially from heat and after an embrace. Cramps, which seem to revolve around the heart.
Heart feels heavy, with slow, hard movements.
Heart’s Action.
Palpitation of the heart, often with great oppression after eating, when walking, or going upstairs, and on even the least movement. Palpitation of the heart, oppression, anxiety, fear of death. Tremor and anxiety at the heart, with strong disposition to weep.
Pulse.
Pulse accelerated and hard, or quite slow and hard, intermittent, irregular, or imperceptible. Pulse hard, hurried or slow.
Neck and Back.
Swelling and stiffness of the neck; every movement causes pain, as if it was broken and torn; neck bulky, red, hard, and very sensitive. Burning, pulsating, and crampy pains, starting from the left occipital protuberance, and extending to the nape of the neck, with stiffness of the neck. Pulsating pains in the joints of the neck.
Back.
Stiffness of the spine preventing him from bending forward.
Lancinating and burning pains all along the spine and in the loins, extorting cries, especially during motion; with painful prostration and weakness, and frequent vertigo and swooning.
Lumbar.
Digging and twitching in the kidney region; sensation as from knife-stabs in the loins, with coldness and cramps in the stomach, crispation of the limbs, and ineffectual urging to urinate.
Extremities in General.
Frequent numbness of the limbs. Burning, lancinating, and tensive pains in all the joints. Violent pains in the limbs, as if they were being dislocated. Tearing pains in the right arm and left leg. Great liability to dislocations and fractures.
Superior Extremities.
Objective.
Swelling of the arm, with numb sensation and pulsating pains.
Paralytic weakness of the arms.
Subjective.
Burning pains in the arms during rest; lancinating pains on moving them. Sensation of burning heat between the bones and the muscles of the arms. Bruised pain in different parts of the arm, as if from a beating. Smarting, pulsating, and drawing pains in the joints of the arms, with cramps and inclination to twist them about.
Shoulder.
Sensation as if the arms would fall off at the shoulders.
Contractions in the shoulders, forcing them to be thrown backward. Crampy pains in the shoulders, extending into the cervical muscles. Cutting and lancinating pains, as if from stabs with a penknife, through the shoulder from below upwards.
Wrist.
Inflammation and swelling of the joints of the wrist and fingers.
Hand.
Contraction and stiffness of the hands. Ulcers and fissures on the hands. Great awkwardness of the hands.
Fingers. Arthritic nodosities on the fingers. Paronychia.
Frequent torpor of the fingers.
Inferior Extremities.
Hip.
Crampy and acute pains in the hip, and all through the leg.
Thigh. Sensation as if an iron bar were driven into the leg, from the hip to behind the knee.
Knee.
Sensation as if the knee-joints were cut and bruised, with very painful cramps.
Leg.
Oedematous swelling of the legs, with feeling as if the circulation had stopped. Inflammation and swelling of the tibia, with abscesses and much suppuration. He loses control of his legs when walking; they knock against each other, and he staggers at every step.
Paralytic weakness of the legs. Heaviness and great weakness of the legs; he cannot put one before the other. Cramps in the legs, mostly in the calf, and especially during and after an embrace.
Drawing pains in the legs, with contraction and stiffness of the tendons. Acute rheumatic pains in the legs.
Ankle.
Swelling of the malleoli, with intolerable pains and inability to use the feet.
Foot.
Inflammatory swelling of the bones of the foot and toes.
Hammering pains on the instep. Pulsating and lancinating pains in the heels.
Toes.
Pains in the toe-nails, as if they were lifted and pulled out.
General Symptoms.
Objective.
Marasmus. Inflammation, swelling, and suppuration of the bones.
Abnormal swelling of the arteries and veins. Blood black, thick, and greasy, or watery and pale. Sanguineous congestion.
Haemorrhage. Cramps and convulsions, often accompanied by tetanic rigidity. Laziness and extreme indifference. State of fatigue and exhaustion, as after sexual excess. Excessive painful debility.
Extreme debility and indisposition, especially before meals.
Complete bodily and mental prostration. Partial paralysis. Great agitation and tremor, with heat of the head, ebullition of the blood, headache, and general sweat, especially in the evening, from heat and on movement, The least noise makes him start and tremble.
Subjective.
Constant sense of numbness and intoxication.
Heaviness and constant vertigo. Rheumatic and gouty pains.
Bone-pains.
Pains usually appearing on the right side, and then settling on the left. Can only lie on the left side; other positions aggravate all the pains. Inclination to be in marshy places full of mud and aquatic plants; longing for stagnant water, as if it would relieve the pains; great dryness of mouth and tongue; very bad-smelling breath; the lungs often seem to be without air, so that speech fails him; constant hacking cough; he is ill-humored, and envious of others who are in good health.
Skin.
Objective.
Skin red and burning, as if from hard friction, or white in some places, yellow and transparent in others. Skin soft and very sensitive, or hard, like bacon-rind, and as if paralyzed. Skin morbid and very irritable; the least friction inflames and excoriates it. Red and blue swellings on various parts, as from bruises.
Very bad smell of the skin. Warts and callosities. Skin of the face hard and apparently very thick. Wrinkles and fissures on the skin of the face. Great tension of the skin of the arms and hands.
Eruptions, Dry.
Small red elevations, which itch and burn like the bites of insects. Erythema on the inside of the thighs, with itching of the vulva, and increased sexual desire. Eruption of miliary pimples, which prick the face like pins. Eruption of small burning pimples, and appearance of lice on the pubis. Miliary eruption, with much smarting, on the hands. Miliary eruption on the leg. A great many small black points in the face, which can be squeezed out like flesh worms. Severe furfuraceous herpes.
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.