Heart and pulse
Uneasy pain in the region of the heart, lasting an hour or more (after two hours and a half). Slight palpitation of the heart, which lasted about five minutes, in the afternoon (first day); perhaps a slightly increased action of the heart (second day).
Pulse 92, irregular (first day).
Neck and Back.
Sensation of stiffness in the neck (part of S. 19). Pain in the neck, more on the left side when riding in the carriage, as if it would break in two. Pains in the neck in the evening, which become insupportable in looking upwards. Pressing pains in the left side of the neck, sometimes a kind of itching or burning there, soon. Back. The pains in the back and hips have increased, they are of a sharp shooting character, shooting down the thighs; also shooting pains in shoulders and down the arms to the hands and fingers, a sensation of pricking over the skin in the region of the pain; the pain is more on the left than right side (one hour after fourth dose, first day). Small jerks along the left side of the spine, in the region of the ninth rib, due to spasm of a small portion of muscles. Dorsal. Acute pain in the inferior part of the scapula, at 12 M. (seventh day).
Shooting pain in region of, from 11.30 to 12 P.M. (second day). Lumbar. Stitches in left lumbar region, lasting only a few seconds (after fifty minutes). Sacral. Severe pains in the crest and dorsum of the ilium, extending across the sacrum with a sensation as though there was powerful traction at the attachment of the muscles, at 12 M. (seventh day). At 5 P.M. very severe attack of pain across the sacrum and dorsum of each ilium; every movement caused very severe pain; could only rise with great difficulty from the chair, or walk, or move my body in any way; the sensation was as if the muscles were strained, and on the point of being torn from their attachment; much pain for awhile after going to bed (twelfth day).
Extremities in General.
Pain in arm and leg of right side; pains mostly in the joints; deep seated pains as though they were in the bones; the pains shifted about and did not remain long in one spot (third day).
Aching of the bones, with a feverish state of the system, with fullness and fullness of the head.
Tearing and drawing in left arm and leg from above downwards, at 10 P.M. (third day).
Superior Extremities.
When riding in his carriage a sensation in both arms and hands, as if they had gone to sleep, more in the hands. On awaking his left hand and arm have gone to sleep (fourth morning). Darting, sticking pains in the arm, neck, and chest of right side (second day). Shooting pains in the arm, neck, and chest of right side (second day). Shooting pains in the arms, extending to the elbows, at 12 M. (seventh day). Shoulder. Continued soreness, very painful in the anterior part of the left armpit (third day).
Arm. Twitching in triceps middle of the left upper arm, like a pinching with dull wooden pincers, coming at intervals and lasting half an hour; subsequently very similar pains on various parts of the body lower down. Long, deep stitches in left upper arm; afternoon (second, fifth, and twelfth days). Elbow. Pain in elbow and wrist of right side (second day). Severe pain above the right elbow, inwardly on the inner side, increasing in intensity in the direction of the upper arm. Rheumatic pain in the right elbow-joint. Forearm. Rheumatic pain in right forearm and wrist. Stitching pain in the course of the ulnar nerve down to the left little finger. Shooting pains in the forearms and hands, at 1 P.M. (seventh day). Biting pain in left forearm, lasting a short time (third day). Wrist. Several slight indefinable sensations in and around the left wrist, followed in ten or fifteen minutes by a pain in the right tendo Achillis; at its height after one hour, and most in the right upper posterior part of the head. Rheumatic pain in the right wrist-joint and in the course of the ulna. Great inflammation, redness, and swelling of the back of the hands; soon after, suppuration under the finger-nails, followed by loosening and falling off of the nails. Burning pain in left carpal bones, at 11 P.M. (fourth day). Shooting pain in carpal bones, while writing, extending down third and fourth fingers, at 9 P.M. (second day). The palms of the hands burn (first day). For several days in succession burning stitches in the finger-ends, first in the left hand, and worse in the evening, then on the right hand, and worse in the morning, the middle finger most affected. Tearing pain in middle finger of left hand, at 11.50 A.M. (second day).
Inferior Extremities.
Bruised sensation in the lower limbs (sixth day). Hip. An uneasy painful sensation in the hips and thighs, with a desire to change often their position whilst sitting (seventh day). Pain in the hips (bruised) at night in bed, causing him to change from side to side. Slight pain in the hips and small of the back and sacrum (three hours and a half after third dose, first day).
Rheumatic pains in both hips from left to right. Slight shooting pains in the hips, shooting down the thighs at 7 P.M.; pains have increased and are more acute and sharp at 10 P.M. (sixth day). A severe bruised pain in the left hip-joint, so as to interfere with walking. Thigh. Shooting pain in thighs down to the knees, at 12 M. (seventh day). Knee. In the evening, when walking, the right knee gave way under him on account of a severe pain below the knee; the following day the same, and a hindrance in walking, from a similar severe pain in the middle toe of the left foot. Pain in the knee-joints (rheumatic). most in the right, increased by walking. Rheumatic pain in the left knee.
Lancinating pain in the left knee-joint, waking him from sleep.
Ankle. Sharp rheumatic pain in both ankles, much increased by walking. Foot He is troubled in the night with cramp in both feet, especially in the soles under the toes, and always in a very small spot (after two or three weeks). he is woke up at 3 A.M. by a cramp in the soles of the feet, particularly in the forepart and under the toes; more in the right foot; he had the same when lying on the lounge in a warm room (fourth night).
Toes. Sharp intermitting pain in fourth toe of left foot; soon after, a burning pain just behind the ball of the first toe of the same foot; soon after, slight pain in the lower part of the tibia of the left leg (fifth day). Stinging and burning in left great toe (second night).
General symptoms
Objective. In four hours, pink, flat, spreading swelling of bitter part, with itching; the swelling increased, so that it felt tender on bending the wrist; then the swelling went up arm, bright red, like erysipelas, with itching; the swelling pitted on pressure, leaving a white indentation, with crimson areola; itching in wrist at this time; the swelling was relieved by warm bathing, and the itching by Arnica. More than usual agility (second day). Great agility of mind and body (third day).
Indisposition to exercise the muscles; they feel painful when exercised, especially the extensors of the legs. General weakness of the whole muscular system; the muscles feel as if paralyzed. Very weak in the morning (eleventh day). Attacks of faintness, lasting some minutes, at 8 P.M.; everything is black before the eyes; is compelled to sit down (fifth day).
Subjective. Very susceptible to cold. He could not bear as well as usual the cold weather (first and second days). He is more affected by the cold then usual, especially when walking against the wind, in the evening (fourth week). Great liability to take cold, and bad effects from it. General exaltation; wants to run, but soon becomes tired, in the evening especially (first day).
General lightness (second day). Indisposed, forgetful, very sleepy and tired in the evening; unusually affected on hearing bad news of some threatening evil. Had a feeling of discomfort immediately, and felt badly all day. He is dull, feels heavy and bruised, in the morning (second day). A wretched feeling of the whole system, causing one to gape and stretch. Languid feeling of the whole system, with pain in all the limbs, accompanied by chills and horripilations along the spine. A kind of sharp corroding, sore feeling or painfulness, here and there, more or less during the whole day. All the symptoms, including the cold, have been on the right side (which is the deaf ear), the others occasionally sympathizing. The powders taken at night seem to have had the most effect. Pains increase whilst sitting up after a walk, at 10 A.M. (seventh day). Recurrence of the pains several days after, upon taking a slight cold. Mercurius corr. stopped all the symptoms.
Skin
Violent itching on the inside of left arm and hand, followed by a rash, appearing in streaks on left arm and hand, as from the seams of a glove; in the afternoon (seventh day). After taking the first powder, the blister on the face for which the medicine was given seemed rather smaller and harder;after the second it was softer and felt sore; a small pimple appeared on the face; the morning after the third the surface of the blister was irregular. Here and there on the skin a pressing- burning sensation on small but not sharply defined places. Small but violent prickling-pressing stitches, particularly in the region of the right nipple, as from nettles, but without the long continued sensation of an after-burning; after awhile the same on the left side of the back, and much more violent; still later the same sensation on other parts of the body. Tingling in the left fingers. Itching on the scrotum. Itching in the left armpit, followed by a soreness; besides this, also a sore place inwardly (first day); the itching still continues, and the feeling of soreness in increased by scratching (second day). Itching of the scalp, arms, abdomen, and the whole trunk and head; (this symptom was well marked), (first day). Several mornings in succession, instead of the itching in the inner and anterior part of the left armpit, he now has the same in the right armpit more outwardly (fifth day). In the evening, night, and the following day, a violent itching on the left shoulder-blade and on the left thigh near the inguinal region; it comes again and again, and is each time relieved by scratching (sixth evening and seventh day). A very violent itching in the palm of the left hand, for several days. Burning itching in the bend of the left knee, which increased to an extraordinary degree, at half past nine; the same sensation, which is neither an itching, nor a burning, nor a pressure, but a union of the three, on many different parts of the body, now here, now there. Very violent penetrating itching at the right nipple, immediately.
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.