Extremities in General
OBJECTIVE. Cracking in the joints (23rd day). Audible cracking in the joints (6th day). Violent audible cracking on slight motion of the wrist, ankles and spine. (3rd day). Loud cracking in various joints (18th day). Loud cracking on moving the extremities or joints of the spine (22nd day). Unusually loud cracking on moving the joints of the extremities and vertebra (31st day). Weariness in the limbs (20th day). Weakness of all the extremities (2nd day). Prostrations of the limbs in the evening. SUBJECTIVE. Pains in the joints (21st day). Pains in the shoulders, arms, finger joints, hips and knees (23rd day). Rheumatic pains in nearly all the joints (24th day). Rheumatic pains in the right hip and left elbow (30th day). Cramps in the limbs. Drawing in the limbs (21st day). Drawing in various places in the long bones (128th day). Drawing in the forearm and lower legs (21st day). Drawing of the backs of the hands and feet. Drawing and jerking in various muscles in the thighs and upper arms, in the evening. Violent drawings and boring pains in the bones of the left thigh and left upper arm, lasting several minutes and suddenly disappearing (3rd – 9th days). Dull drawing pains in various joints of the upper and lower extremities, most severe in the right ankle (13th day). Dull drawing pain in the left hip joint and left upper arm from shoulder to elbow (32nd day). Dull drawing pain in the left arm and in both lower extremities more violent in the right foot, and especially tearing, extending in to the great toe where it was most violent (2nd day). Tearing drawing pain in the tibia, right ankle and wrist, in various phalanges, especially in both the thumbs, transient suddenly changing about (22nd day). Rheumatic pains (or, as the workmen express it, “it got into the bones”), shooting and pricking in all the limbs was in the morning. Shooting and pricking pains in all the limbs in the morning; He is stiff all over and can hardly move. Tearing in the long bones of the extremities. Tearing in various joints, especially in the right wrist and finger joints of the same hand (9th day). Tearing in the hands and feet at intervals, in the afternoon (25th day). Tearing in the right tibia, and on back of right foot and corresponding ankle, also especially painful in the thumb, on the back of the hand, and in several phalanges of the right hand (32nd day). Tearing in the right tibia and right ulna, on walking in the morning (24th day). Tearing pain in the ankles and wrists (27th day). Slight tearing in the hands and feet (25th day). Violent tearing in the right tibia and various joints of the fingers of both hands, so violent in right thumb that he was disabled from writing for more than an hour (23rd day). Transient tearing and stitches in the right axilla and posterior of the left thigh (8th day). Short tearing pain in the extremities, especially in the anterior portions towards hands and feet (66th day). Wandering tearing pains in various joints of the upper and lower extremities, now in the hip, now in the knee joints (7th day). Dull tearing in various joints with cracking in them on motion frequently returned after the proving. Wandering dull tearing pains in various of the extremities (33rd day). Drawing tearing in the right thumb, right tibia, and corresponding great toe (after 2 hours, 31st day). Drawing-Tearing pains in various parts of the upper and lower extremities in the right ankle especially violent in the right great toe and the corresponding thumb. (18th day). Acute tearing pains in the lower legs and feet and also in the forearms and hands; these pains were very peculiar; they recurred in paroxysms and were not diffused, but seem to be confined to one fiber, as if a single nerve were suddenly torn, on walking in the morning (27th day). Bruised pain in the upper and lower limbs (10th day). Bruised pain in the upper and lower limbs, very violent;and tearing in the right wrist and ankle, aggravated by motion (tenth day).
Superior Extremities
OBJECTIVE. The arms swelled became painful red and inflamed as far as the shoulder (after 3 days). Weariness and weakness of the arms (3rd day). SUBJECTIVE. Feeling as though the right arm had fallen asleep or were paralyzed, disturbing sleep (ninth day). Drawing in the bones of the arm (ninety-third day). Tearing and gnawing in the bones of the right arm and in the thumb and finger of the right hand; some indications of the same pain in the left hand; in the forenoon (91st day). Drawing tearing pain from time to time in the joints of the upper extremities; These pains suddenly change their places (12 day). Acute tearing pain in the bones of the arm, especially in the vicinity of the elbow and wrist (126th day). SHOULDER. The auxiliary glands suppurated but did not break (after 3 days). Pain in the right shoulder joint on moving it and at other times a sensation as though the joint were separating from its attachments (though without any tearing here or in other parts), (4th day); the disagreeable sensation in the arm increased after prolonged inactivity of the extremity to a stiffness which was painful even if no attempt was made to move the arm, but it was increased to a high degree on raising the arm (8th and 9th days); The pain in the arm was much worse especially if the arm was bent at the elbow and drawn somewhat backward and outward, as for example when putting on clothes (14th day). Rheumatic pains in both shoulders worse at night. Rheumatic pain in the shoulder and elbow on motion with numbness from shoulder to elbow (after 4 hours, 3rd day). Violent tearing aching pain in left shoulder. Paralytic drawing in the right shoulder (49th day). Pressive pain in the left shoulder extending thence in to the left chest, aggravated on moving the arm, especially on raising it (17th day). Tearing in the right shoulder afterwards in the left elbow and forearm and transient while the other pains continue in to the night. Paralytic tearing on top of the right shoulder (26th day). At night soon after lying down tearing pains in the shoulder and upper arm on the side not laid upon; On turning the pain went to the other arm. ARM. Frequent sudden very violent cramped like pain in the middle of the other surface of the right upper arm even after the pain had disappeared the spot remained sensitive (17th day). Sudden tearing and jerking in the right deltoid muscle. Frequent jerking tearing from the right shoulder to the elbow (8th day). ELBOW. Pain in left elbow for several hours (2nd day). Pain in the elbow joint (31st day). Drawing and tearing in the right elbow, extending in to the hand and right lower leg preventing the bending up of the foot, after midnight (18th day). Darting pain in the outside of elbow joint (half an hour after third dose). Shooting pain in the left elbow. FOREARM. Pain in a circumscribed spot on the extensor surface of the upper third of the right forearm, more in the muscles and partly in the upper arm; The place is also sensitive to touch (35th day). Burning pain extending from the middle of the forearm to the wrist as though the parts had been scalded lasting 2 days (after 5 weeks). Burning pain in the lower end of the left forearm though there was nothing visible on the skin; Evening (38th day). Dull painful sensation in the forearm during the day though never violent (6th day). Drawing in the bones of the right forearm on the radial side (42nd day). Drawing in the aponeurosis of the muscles of the right forearm (45th day). Tearing in both forearms; After a while tearing in the left shoulder (40th day). Tearing in the forearm (24th day). Tearing in the right forearm and right side of the occiput (46th day). Tearing pain in the right ulna on waking in the morning; After a time it disappeared here and appeared in the right tibia; After rising the pains disappeared entirely (61st day). Acute tearing pains the whole lengths of the bones of the right forearms (117th day). Throbbing not corresponding to the beat of the pulse lasting 5 minutes (31st day). WRIST. Darting in the right wrist (1 hour after the 3rd dose). Severe throbbing and darting pain in the left wrist near the pisiform bone continuing for nearly half an hour. (8th day). Cramped like tearing above the left wrist (3rd day). HAND. Spasmodic contraction of hand shortly before death. Great weakness of the hands so the he was unable to hold a paper without resting the hand upon a table. She let things fall from her hands with weakness and drawings in the arms and distention of the veins of the arms. (4th day). Drawing in the left hand after dinner (121st day). Drawing pain in the left hand and in the forearm and nape of the neck (47th day). Sticking in the metacarpal joints in the morning on waking. Violent tearing pain on the radial side of the left hand made me groan (4th day). Hands and arms feel bruised and lame (6th day). Hands felt at the bones as if they had been bruised. (45 drops, 4th day). FINGERS. Twitching of the little finger of the left hand (3rd day). Both thumbs are especially painful (6th day). Violent pain in the thumb so that I was scarcely able to hold a pen; Every motion of the arm or hand increased the pain; Externally there was neither redness nor swelling to be seen; This pain lasted during the whole forenoon and frequently so violent that I was unable to take my handkerchief out of my coat pocket. It extended to the elbow, without the least external appearance; In the evening the pain was less, the joint still remained sensitive to touch; It almost entirely disappeared the next day (77th day). Painful tension in the extensor surface of the right thumb; This tension diminished towards noon and was felt only on violent motion of the hand; On pressing of the place where the radius articulated with the metacarpal bone of the thumb the pain was still felt; this spot was sensitive to pressure and on motion throughout the day (76th day). Slight aching pains in the second joints of the fingers of the left hands (8th day). Drawing in the right index finger and in the spine, in the evening in bed (1st day). Drawing in the little and ring fingers of the left hand afterwards in the left side of the face and in the right knee soon after rising in the morning (81st day). Drawing pain in the right thumb (57th day). Acute pains in the bones of the first phalanx of the left little finger so that I was obliged to rub it constantly which brought relief; This pain was seated in the bone itself, was a gnawing boring pain and extended toward the tip of the finger and lasted an hour in the evening (131st day). Transient but piercing sticking through the bone of the first phalanx of the right middle finger (38th day). Repeated stitches in the metacarpal joints of the right middle finger towards evening (48th day). Tearing in various phalanges of both hands, wandering and transient (25th day). Tearing in the right thumb, afterwards in the left upper arm, then along the arches of the ribs of the left side (17th day). Tearing pain in the right thumb, lasting through the day with transient intervals (24th 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.