Heart and Pulse
Uneasiness about the heart (immediately).
Aching in region of heart (after fifteen minutes).
Jerking in the heart (after one hour).
Painful jerking in the heart (after two hours).
Continual soreness in the heart (after one hour).
Pulse small and rapid.
Neck and Back
Neck.
Stiffness in the nape of the neck soon. Constriction in the left side of the neck (part of S.435). Contraction in some muscles of the neck, on the left side and towards the shoulder, during the forenoon, on reposing and whilst rising; after some exercise, it gradually subsides; the pain seems to change from one set of muscles to the other, but is always in more than one; the omohyoideus muscle is decidedly affected, but not the sternocleidomastoideus (fourth day).
Warm streaming from the right side of the nape of the neck to the shoulder.
Pain in the nape of the neck, beneath the scapulae, and in the left side of the chest.
Pain in the right side of the neck in the forenoon.
Very transient drawing pain along the right side of the nape.
Violent drawing pain in the right side of the neck in the afternoon.
Soreness in the left half of the nape (first day).
Inclination to wash the neck and behind the ears with cold water.
Back.
Pain in the back, sometimes high up beneath the shoulder-blades, sometimes deeply seated, as if in the region of the kidneys (first week).
Dorsal.
A pain under the point of the right shoulder-blade, to which he was formerly subject, and which impels him to bend the body backwards and to stretch, appears after a few hours, and returns occasionally for several days, but more seldom than usual after some weeks.
Deep seated pain in the back, below the point of the shoulder- blade, more towards the left; it occurs more in a sitting posture, particularly whilst riding (fourth and ninth days).
Pain, like a contraction, under the right shoulder-blade (part of S.73).
Burning-pricking pain in the left shoulder-blade (after one and two hours).
Lumbar.
Deep seated pain in the left lumbar region at night (fourth day).
Sacral.
Aching in the os sacrum very soon after taking.
Jerkings in sacrum during the first hour, and less frequently the second hour.
(His habitual bruised pain in os sacrum and lumbar region relieved by stretching and bending backwards, but particularly by pressure, as well as after fatiguing bodily labor) is much aggravated by Fluoricum acidum 6th, but is removed entirely after Fluoricum acidum 30th; a similar pain, however, returns in the region of the right shoulder, which is also quickly cured after a dose of Fluoricum acidum 3D; it returns during the fourth and fifth days, in the back below, between and above the shoulder and only disappears in the second week).
Pain in the tuberosities of the ischia in the middle.
Extremities
Pain in the bones of the right forearm and knee.
Pains of a short duration in the left leg, arm, and hand (after eighth dose).
Different aching pains in the bones of the forearms and legs about the center, going and coming.
Sensation as if the shoulder and hip-joints were being pulled out of joint.
Superior Extremities.
Slight lameness in the right arm, so that he has some difficulty in writing (after fifteen minutes). The right arm, on which he rests, becomes benumbed and feels lame, with a pricking sensation, at 10 P.M. Sensation of numbness, jerking, and lameness in the left arm, appears in the morning and forenoon, and subsides again between 12 and 1 o’clock. Heaviness in the right arm, in the morning on waking, with some numbness, although he only lay on the left side (second day). A burning, pricking, and jerking pain in the whole left arm, often returning, as if there was passing through the nerves a very painful, but slow electric shock; most severe on the inside of the left little finger, together with now and then a sharp stitch in the tip of the finger, passing from within outward; at 2 P.M. (second day).
Pressive pain in the left arm, and also in the left side of the abdomen. Pain of a deeply penetrating character, first in the right, afterwards in the left arm, most about the junction of the cancellated with the solid portion of the ossa humeri; even after the disappearance of the pain there is soreness upon pressure of the parts previously affected; a similar pain in the muscles over the head of the left radius (in forty minutes). Shoulder. A pain in the right shoulder-joint, which he had felt the week before last, but not the last; returned for a few moments, and extended towards the fingers, as if air was passing down, a sensation which he had never experienced before (after one hour).
Sudden jerking pain in the left shoulder, in the bone. Arm.
Trembling in the biceps of the right arm (after fifteen minutes).
Trembling in the biceps of the right arm (fifth day. Pain in the right upper arm in the bone towards the elbow, in the afternoon; from the right arm the pain passed over to the left, with the same pain in the bone (second day). Pain in the left arm above the elbow, appearing after the pains on the right side (after one or two hours). Rheumatic pain in the bones of the left arm, from elbow to shoulder, with lameness (after one hour). Pinching in the left deltoid muscle, after headache. Pressing pain in the right arm, and a constriction in the left side of the neck, at 9 A.M. Pressing pain in the left arm (part of S. 291). Pressing pain in the left arm, just above the elbow, in the morning. On awaking, the right upper arm and shoulder feel bruised and benumbed after lying on left side (after several days). Elbow.
A pain in the right elbow-joint, during the pain in the left side. Aching in the right elbow-joint (second day). Aching in the left elbow, in the evening (fourth day). Forearm. The left forearm and hand feel asleep, at 5 A.M., whilst lying on the right side (seventh day). A decided sensation of being asleep in the left forearm, and especially in the hand, more towards the radial side, as if only here and there, more internal, not general, therewith the hand and arm could be exerted as usual; on stretching them out, prickling in the ball of the thumb, and the above sensation in the hand was increased very much, from waking early in the morning, till noon, for several days; again noticed on the morning of the tenth day on stretching out and moving the hand, again somewhat on the eleventh day. at 1 and 2 P.M., and in the afternoon. Continual internal sensation of numbness in the left forearm, and a severe pricking in it whilst stretching it (part of S. 556). The numbness and paralytic sensation in the left forearm return every forenoon, but every day at a later period, and less decided (fourth, tenth, and eleventh days).
Pain in the bones of the right forearm (part of S. 501). Numb pain in forearms extending to the hands. A slight pinching pain in the middle of the left forearm, lasting only a short time, in the evening. Aching pains in the bones of the left forearm, towards the middle. Pressure and a paralyzed feeling in the forearm. Pressure in the right wrist and forearm, from 8 to 11 o’clock (sixth day). Hand. Both hands are constantly very red (third and following days). The hands are full and warm, uncommonly red, particularly in the palms, as if finely mottled (fourth day). Lameness of the right hand. Powerless if finely mottled (fourth day). Lameness of the right hand. Powerless sensation in the hands. The left hand is asleep in the morning, and remains so the whole forenoon (second day). A sensation of numbness, rather internal, in the left hand, extending to the forearm; the sensation is different from the numbness produced by long pressure, and also more lasting, and does not subside after exertion (second day). The pains in the hands became exceedingly violent and the hand much swollen; next day the fingers, and especially the thumb, were violently inflamed; the hot bright-red skin on the tips was discolored, the last phalanx almost immovable, with violent pains in the hands extending up to the shoulder and fever; towards evening of the second day the pains became throbbing and the tips of the fingers more swollen; on the third day the tips of all the fingers were white, and the thumb was enveloped by a white blister, upon which the nail seemed to rest, with constant tormenting throbbing pains; on opening the blisters there was discharged a thick brown, very offensive fluid, which was very acid; under these blisters was seen on the fingers the uninjured true skin; on the thumb there was underneath a second blister, upon opening which commencing suppuration was found; the fingers healed rapidly; the thumb continued to secrete a thin pus and was only healed after four weeks. After a cold from exposure to a raw snowy air, pain in the right metacarpus, like that formerly in the right leg, in the evening. The growth of the nails seems to be much more rapid for several weeks. Sensation as if there were a hair on the the back of the left little finger; he repeatedly looks to see if it is not actually there, during the forenoon, until 2 o’clock (seventh week). In the fingers of the right hand some numbness and rigidity, in the forenoon. Pain in the left index finger, as if in the bone, now and then during the day; the whole finger is painful internally, particularly in the evening (fifth 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.