Extremities in General.
Objective. Trembling of the limbs. Trembling of the hands and feet, painless jerkings in the arms and legs in the evening in bed, (fifth day). Great weakness of the limbs (ninth day). Lameness of the limbs, with weariness (third day). Paralysis of the limbs. Subjective. Pains in the right hip and left shoulder and ankle joints especially on walking, also tensive pains in the sterno- cleido-mastoid muscle, Drawing in the upper and lower extremities. (Drawing in the limbs was worse), (four hours after the dose). Cramp like drawing pain, now in the right, now in the left arm, now in the legs, especially about the knees, mostly during rest, Sticking pain in the right shoulder, and afterwards in the knee-joints, repeated several times (seventh day). Sticking pains lasting a few minutes in the knee, elbow, and shoulder joints in the left elbow it lasts longer, and is increased by motion; the pains are worse in the afternoon than in the forenoon (first day). Tearing and drawing in the limbs (seventh day). Bruised feeling in the limbs (fifth day).
Superior Extremities.
Weakness of the arms, Temporary Paralysis of the arms (from a drachm daily). (* The medicine was taken for an inveterate headache, which improved when the arms lost power. They recovered a few hours after discontinuing the drug, and the headache returned. – Hughes. *) The left arm falls asleep at night while lying on the back, it wakes her about 3 a. m. (after eleven days). The feeling of numbness and crawling in the arm, with pain in the shoulder that had existed previously, disappeared instead of it there was pain in the right thumb- joint on moving it for several weeks (after thirteen days). Drawing pain in the arms, if she lets them hang down for a long time. Tearing in the right arm, especially in the shoulder, worse in the afternoon and evening. Tearing in the arm intermitting, and returning at night when lying upon the right side (during menstruation. Tearing extending from the right shoulder to the fingers, waking from sleep at 11 p.m. lasting to 4 am. with a sensation as though the shoulder were standing farther out than natural she was unable to lie upon either side. Extremely painful tearing in the right arm, extending to the wrist on motion, with stiffness of the arm, extending to the wrist on motion, with stiffness of the arm, which was not relieved by rubbing, but by violent motion (twenty seventh day). Drawing tearing in the arm, extending from the shoulder to the fingers, towards evening (fourth day) Shoulder. Pains in the right shoulder on almost every motion of the arm, except upward and backward, which afford relief, pain in the left shoulder on raising the arm, especially on moving it backward, pain as from weariness in the left shoulder (after four hours). A paralytic pain in the right shoulder-joint towards the forepart, as if in the head of the bone, but only felt while the arm remained in one place as soon as the arm was moved, the pain disappeared if the arm was turned on its axis, there was a cracking in the forepart of the joint, which seemed to be caused by the tendon of the biceps muscle here was a similar pain in the first joint of the right ring finger, only noticed on flexing and extending it. On the next day these symptoms had entirely disappeared except that when lying down (and as it happened after a new dose of the drug) there was noticed a similar pain in the left patella, which disappeared after sleeping and gave place to dull sticking pains in the anterior and farther portion of the left side of he chest. Rheumatic pain in the shoulders Pressure on the left shoulder (after twenty-two days). Tearing in the shoulders, at one time on uncovering them at another under the cover, wakes at midnight (twelfth and thirteenth day). Tearing and heaviness in the right shoulder, with a feeling of numbness in the arm, pain afterwards also extending to the wrist, and waking from sleep about 2 A. m. (after four days),. Tearing in the nigh shoulder, with falling asleep of the fingers, wakes her at 3 a. m. (after twenty three days). Frequent tearing in the left shoulder, Painful tearing in the left shoulder, frequently renewed (after thirteen days). Violent tearing in the right shoulder from 2 to 5 A.M. disappearing after rising. Bruised pain on the shoulder in the morning. Painful tearing in the left shoulder, the shoulder in the morning (after nineteen days). Arm. Jerking in the muscles of the right upper and forearm. (3rd day). Paralytic weakness of the right upper arm. Drawing pinching pain in the upper arm (after thirty-eight hours). Sticking and throbbing frequently in the upper arm (seventeenth day). Violent tearing in the bone of the upper arm (twenty sixth day). Drawing tearing in the deltoid muscle of the left upper arm during rest and motion (fifth day). Drawing in the right upper arm (sixth day). Elbow. Drawing in the elbow-joint, extending up the posterior surface of the right upper arm (second day); On strongly flexing the forearm, pains, a kind a drawing, in the right elbowing joint in the inner side, as if starting from the ulnar nerve (recurring soon after a new dose and lasting the whole afternoon), (twelfth day). Drawing, tension, and burning in the bend of the left elbow (after two hours). Tearing in the joints of the elbows, wrists, and finger-joints and beneath the nails (after seven days). Forearm. Paralytic weakness elbows into the wrists, where it is a tearing and breaking as if it would twist the bones thence into the knuckles, where it distends the spaces between them. with swelling of the parts thence it extends as a crushing pain as far as under the nails somewhat relieved by rubbing the hands, with a feeling as under the nails somewhat relieved by rubbing the hand, with a feeling as if the hands were larger than usual, wooden, heavy, and numb, and paralytic; loss of power in them, though only at night. Drawing, throbbing and violent pain from the right wrist to the elbow during dinner, afterwards in both arms (after twenty days). Tearing extending upward on the dorsal surface of the left forearm (ninth day). Tearing in the right forearm, index finger, and thumb, waking from sleep at night. Tearing in the right forearm, from the elbow to the ring and middle fingers, with heaviness and numbness of the parts. Tearing in a tendon on the outer side of the left forearm, followed by paralytic weakness of it (seventeenth day). Paralytic tearing in the left forearm, extending to the wrist (twenty second day). Extremely painful gnawing in the left ulna, a hand’s breadth above the wrist, at short, at short intervals, followed by a paralytic feeling, so that the arm must be allowed to hang down; in the afternoon while sitting; it disappears on rubbing, whereupon there is a pressure, which always reappears, often by itself (seventeenth day). Wrist. Pain on the winner surface of the right wrist, as if the parts would be forcibly drawn inward even externally a depression forms. The right wrist feels sprained (while drawing the tooth). This sensation lasted ten minutes (third day). Tearing in the wrist (fifth day). Tearing in the right wrist. Acute tearing in the evening in the external condyle of the right wrist even continuing during motion. Hand. Weakness of the hands and fingers, she could hold nothing tightly and properly; on, making an exertion, there is pain in the wrist. Heaviness of the hands like lead (after twenty-seven days). Painful grabbing and gnawing in the ball of the right hand, just behind the little finger (seventeenth day). Breaking and tearing pain in the right hand in the evening, Tearing stitches in the bones of the balls of the left hand just back of the little finger (second day). Tearing in the hands, with shivering and thirst (eight; ninth and tenth days). Tearing in the back of the left hand, better after rubbing. Tearing in the metacarpal bone of the right index finger in the morning (fifth day). Fingers. Stiffness of the fingers at times (after eighteen days). Drawing in the right little finger (twenty third day). Transient tearing drawing in the middle finger of the left hand (second day). Pain, as from a sprain, in the fingers on holding a large object on stretching them out, which at first he was unable to do, they seem too long, and if he wishes to hold anything, he is first obliged to bend them backwards. Pain as from a sprain in the right thumb-joint on moving it backwards and a pain in a small spot in the joints on pressing upon it. Pain in the right thumb-joint on bending the thumb backwards, as if it had been sprained and swollen, with cracking in it. Pain, as from a sprain, in the right index finger, and cracking in the joints on every motion of the hand. Sticking beneath the left thumb nail, as with needles (twentieth day). Jerking sticking in the right ring and middle fingers. Violent tearing in the last phalanx of the left thumb (nineteenth day). Pinching tearing in the left thumb. Cramp like tearing in the knuckles, alternating with the pains in the head.
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.