Back
Some pain in the back (ninth day). Severe pain in the back, extending around the waist, so that he was unable to sit erect (twenty-seventh day). Dragging pain in the sacrum in all positions.
Extremities in General
General weakness and heaviness of the limbs, with a sensation in the arms as if they were compressed by an iron hoop, or as if they were forcibly stretched. Lightness in all the limbs (second day). Heaviness in the limbs, with pain in p73 the back (twelfth day). Tightness in the limbs (fourth day). Drawing pain here and there in the limbs (fourth and sixth days).
Superior Extremities
Paralyzed feeling, as if going to sleep, in the arms and hands, in the morning, in bed (eighth, ninth, tenth days). Feeling as though the arms were compressed with an iron band, or forcibly drawn out. Shoulder. Deep piercing stitches in the region of the shoulder and other joints. Sore pain in the shoulder-joints, especially the left, becoming a hard pressure on raising the arm. Forearm. Severe cramp like pain in the extensor muscles of the left forearm and hand (tenth day). Fingers. Feeling as of a splinter in the first phalanx of the ring finger (seventh day).
Inferior Extremities
Rheumatic pains in the right limb (thirty-seventh day). Hip. Pains in the left hip, extending to the knee, most violent when rising, and making her scarcely able to walk without support (never had a trace of rheumatism), (twenty-ninth day); next day the pains became pains became again violent and chiefly seated in the hip and thigh; on the next day the pains were less and were confined to the left side, with a general sick feeling and some stiffness. Rheumatic pains in the hips, afterwards in the soles of the feet, with feeling of tension, even during rest, increased by walking. Leg. Very sensitive sticking and drawing in the right leg, for several minutes (seventh day). Foot. The soles of the feet becomes painful when stepping on them. A callous spot on the soles of the foot becomes painful (fourteenth day). Jerking sticking pain in the great toe (fourth day). A crumpled toe-nail becomes sensitive, but afterwards assumes its normal condition.
General Symptoms
Objective. Diminished secretions. Activity in all the veins, excitement of the circulation. No elasticity in the body (thirtieth day). General lassitude. Great weariness. Weakness (third and fourth days). Great weakness and weariness, with dragging sensation in the abdomen, as if it were too heavy. General exhaustion; inclination to sleep (after half an hour). Subjective. Takes cold very easily (caused and then cured). Very well feeling (first and fifth days). Sensation of mental and physical comfort; no exhaustion while bathing. An indescribable feeling of comfort ran through all the fibres during the bath. Pulsation in the body, especially in the arms, with jumping in them (fourth day). Aggravation before a storm or on the occurrence of the sirocco. Aggravation during the sirocco. (Gradual cessation of all the pains in the bath).
Skin
Objective. Skin becomes dry and red. Skin becomes soft and velvety. Old scars break out anew and foreign bodies are thrown out. Eruptions, Dry. Erythema, erysipelatous in inflammation of the skin. Purpura. Urticaria. Eruptions, Moist. Small, red or whitish-yellow pimples under the skin, without itching, rather painful. Furuncles. Violent itching of the skin, large furunculus, pustules leaving pock, especially on the legs, in the hollows of the knees; they ruptured and discharged a liquid partly yellowish, partly bloody. Pustules rapidly healing on the scalp, painful to touch. Some acne on the face, disappearing after some days. A persistent eruption similar to the itch on the exposed parts of those working in the hot baths. Subjective. The eruption burns and itches, especially after scratching. A contractive pain begins in the night in the scar of a scrofulous ulcer which healed several years ago. Pinching and griping in the skin, as if pinched with fine pincers (caused and cured). Old scars become sensitive. Sensation as if a blister were on the outer side of the right leg, which is painful, especially when touched, in the evening; on the next day pain as from a blow (twelfth day). Itching over the left eyebrow, which becomes a violent pain on slight rubbing or stroking.
Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Much yawning (eighth and tenth day). Frequent inclination to sleep. Inclination to sleep (half an hour after a bath). Heavy, unrefreshing sleep (fourth day). Sleeplessness. Sleep disturbed by uneasiness and vivid dreams. Sleep after midnight is uneasy; awoke early (first day). Excessively uneasy sleep, so that he falls out of bed (twenty-first day). Early waking. Dreams. Sleep towards morning full of dreams (fourth day). Confused dreams towards morning (fourth day). Dreams of sexual excitement.
Fever
Chilliness. Slight shivering followed by flushes of heat. Slight creeping chills over the back (after half an hour). Heat. Warmth and turgescence are increased. A pleasant pricking sensation of warmth (after the bath). Heat in the bed instead of the usual coldness, fever usually lasted one or two days, seldom during the whole course. The fever is usually repeated in two or three periods, even after the cessation of the baths. Feverish sensations (third and fourth days). More or less febrile excitement. Febrile excitement during the sirocco. Three periods of excitement of the vascular system were noticed; the first, in the first twenty minutes of the bath, lasting two or three hours; the second at the commencement of digestion, lasting two or three hours; the second at the commencement of digestion, lasting three or four hours after eating; and the third, only sometimes from 2 to 3 A.M. Increased, anxious orgasm of blood. Sweat. Copious perspiration. Perspiration of a pungent odor, clammy, acid, staining the linen red (staining it yellow in patients). Perspiration is seldom general.
Aggravation
(Morning), Headache; bitter taste; rising from stomach; in bed, feeling in arms, etc. (Forenoon), ptysis of water. (Afternoon), Dryness in mouth. (Evening), Heat in head; hoarseness. (On ascending steps), Pulsation in ears. (After dinner), Accumulation of water in mouth. (Stormy weather), The symptoms. (Walking), Pains in hips.
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.