Heart and Pulse
Praecordium. Praecordial anxiety. Violent pain at the praecordia. Obstruction and anxiety in the praecordia and epigastric region, followed by slight palpitations (after second dose, portion of 3/16 grain). Heart’s Action. The heat-beat had a tremulous, undulating motion. “Bruit de souffle” at the base of the heart (fifteenth day). Palpitation; (after third dose). More frequent palpitations, in the night. Beats of the heart seemed remote and slow (after five hours). Every fifteenth or twentieth beat of heart intermits (after four hours). Heart-sounds dull and intermittent (second day). Heart-beats still intermittent (owing, no doubt, to organic disease, probably mitral insufficiency), (seventh day). Pulse. Small, frequent pulse (second day). Pulse small, contracted, frequent. Pulse small, frequent, and irregular (after one hour and a half). Pulse rather more frequent than usual, but not full (second day). Quick pulse (after second day). Full and quick pulse (seventh day). Pulse quick and feeble. Pulse small quick, tremulous; (after eight days). Pulse small quick, and regular (first day); not to be counted (second day); unsteady and feeble (third day). Quick, small, and very indistinct pulse at the wrist (first day); barely 50 (second day); 64 but small and weak (third day). Pulse very quick and small (second day). Pulse rapid, full Pulse rapid, small, spasmodic. Pulse rapid, hard, without being particularly large, Pulse small and rapid (after half an hour). Pulse rapid and weak. Pulse very rapid and small (after half an hour); could not be felt at the wrist, at the carotids and heart it was 168, feeble, regular (after one hour and a half); had returned at wrist, 140, feeble, regular as to frequency, but varying in strength (after three hours and a half). Pulse feverish after dinner, at 1 P.M. (eighth day); (sixth night). Pulse small, feverish. Pulse did not rise above the natural standard, and maintained a good degree of fulness and regularity until a few hours previous to dissolution. Slow and feeble pulse (second day). Pulse feeble and slow (after two hours and a half); 80 (second day); more frequent and feeble (fifth day). Pulse 136 very feeble (after eleven hours). Pulse almost imperceptible (after two hours and a half); 120 (after seven hours); 100 (second day); 130, in the morning;120, in the evening (third day),. Pulse 126 (second day); 105, small and corded (fifth day),. Pulse 120, and feeble (after five hours),. Pulse 120, and small (soon),. Very feeble (after eleven hours). Pulse 120, and feeble (after two hours); upwards of 100, and feeble (second day); 100 soft, and weak (third and fifth days); almost imperceptible at the wrist (seventh day). Pulse small, hard, 116, with diminished temperature and moist clammy skin. Pulse 110, and full (second day). Pulse very much depressed (after one hour and a half); 100 feeble (after five hours); 108 (third day); 108 full (fourth day); 90, in the evening (fifth day); 80 (sixth day); 80, weak (seventh day); 92 rather feeble, thready in the evening (eleventh day); hardly perceptible (twelfth day). Pulse 96, rather weak (ninth day). Pulse 90, and feeble (fourth day). Pulse 86 (third day); 72 to 76 (seventh day); 84 (tenth day); 88 (fifteenth day). Pulse 70, full and regular (third day); 62 (fourth day). Pulse 70 (second day); 72 (third day); 90 (sixth day). Pulse small, contracted, irregular. Pulse 128, very feeble and irregular (after one hour); 120 (after two hours);112, very much corded and intermitting occasionally (second day). Pulse intermittent, 89. Pulse small, intermittent. Pulse 104, small, irregular, intermittent (after four hours); 80 small, uneven, irregular (after seven hours); 68 (after eleven hours); 80, at 8.30 A.M.; 100, intermittent, at 5.30 P.M. (second day);84, at 5.30 P.M. (third day); 90 (fourth day); 90 Intermittent, in morning; 70, intermittent and uneven, at 6 P.M. (fifth day); 90 in morning; 84, in evening (sixth day); 70 still intermittent in morning;. 68, in evening (seventh day). Pulse full and hard (seventh day). Pulse small, contracted, 100. Pulse small, contracted, 120. Pulse feeble (after eight hours and a half). Pulse soft and regular, but feeble (soon). Pulse small, tremulous, and feeble (after twelve hours). Pulse feeble, laboring in its diastole (second day); less perceptible (third day). Pulse small and extremely feeble (after one hour and a half). Pulse small and innumerable. Pulse small and scarcely perceptible after four hours pulse scarcely perceptible (soon). Pulse small, filiform, scarcely perceptible (after five hours). Almost pulseless. Pulsation imperceptible at the wrist twelve hours before death (after twelve hours). All pulsation left the wrist and extreme arterial branches (after twelve hours).
Neck and Back
Tonic cramps involving the neck and back lasting several minutes, during which respiration completely stopped. Tension externally near the left scapula (first day). Tearing internally in the upper part of the left scapula, as if in the bone (first day).
Extremities in General
Objective. Hands and feet rather livid, shrunken, and cold (after half an hour). Trembling of the extremities; (second day). Trembling of the limbs, especially if he stretched them out. Constant trembling of the extremities. Convulsive motions of the right upper and lower extremities. Spasmodic convulsions of the fingers and toes. Twitching of the limbs. Paralytic stiffness of the extremities (second day). Extended on her bed, without control over her limbs (after five hours). Complete paralysis of the upper and lower extremities, a few hours before death (sixth day). Lassitude in the limbs, and trembling when standing up and without moving (after fourth dose). Loss of power and stiffness of the extremities, gradually increasing day by day, with excessive pain on every attempt to change the position until the patient became completely paralyzed. Subjective. A peculiar feeling of loss of power in the deltoid muscles and also in the muscles of the calves and thighs, without special cause (fifth day). Feeling of weakness and shivering in the limbs (after third dose). Numbness of the hands and feet (fifth day), (in one case). A peculiar numbness attendant on the pains in the arms and legs; worse in the evening, better the latter part of the night and during the day. Pain in the extremities (second day). Pains in her limbs and arms, like those felt after long and fatiguing exercise, always worse after sleeping. Universal pains in the limbs (after two days). Dull pains in the extremities, with general weakness, for five or six weeks. Drawing deep in the limbs, in the bones (seventh day). A kind of tearing in the bones (joints of the fingers, hips, etc.), (seventh day).
Superior Extremities
Shoulder. Tearing in the left shoulder, frequently (fourth and fifth days). Sensation as though the glands in the left axilla would become swollen; with frequently repeated transient stitches in them (tenth day). Arm. Rheumatic pain (like that peculiar to windy weather) in the right deltoid muscle, while walking (tenth day). Hand. Jerking constrictive pain in the right metacarpus (fifth day). Cramps in the hands (after two hours and a half). Sticking pain in the muscles on the back of the hand, especially in the abductor and extensor of the thumb, and in the extensors of the foot (third day). Tearing in the left metacarpal bones (during the first days of the proving this tearing had been farther down in the joints of the fingers), (seventh day). Fingers. Fine but very sharp stitches in the tip of the left thumb, in the evening while walking (sixth day). Acute tearing in the bone of the first joints of the left index and ring fingers, and also in the first joint of the thumb, continuing next day (first day).
Inferior Extremities
Objective. Lower extremities drawn up in bed (fifth day). Spasms of the lower extremities (after four hours). Stiffness of the legs. Sticking in the muscles of the lower extremities (eleventh day). Hip. Pressive-sticking pain in the hip-joint and in the knee, during both rest and motion; also in other extremities, but of less intensity (twelfth day). Rheumatic pains like needle- stitches in the lower extremities (second night). Sticking in the left hip-joint from within outwards (first day). Sticking pain in the hip-joint, during rest and motion. Sticking pain in the hip-joints during rest, disappearing on motion (tenth day). Shooting stitches in the hip-joint, in the afternoon (fourteenth day). Tearing posteriorly in the right hip-joint, afterwards more to the side and externally (second day). Thigh. Drawing in the thigh-bones (second day). Knee. Knees drawn up (after four hours). Leg. Twitching in various muscular fibres of the calves inner side of the gastrocnemius muscle (fifth day). The lower leg seems asleep; (second day). Numbness and want of feeling in the legs (after three days). Cramps in his legs (after five hours). (Cramp in left leg (after two hours and a half). Drawing pain in the bones of the leg (eighth day). Tearing in the left calf extending inward (first day). Foot. Very unusual weariness of the feet and sleepiness, in the evening (first day). Trembling of the feet (soon). Trembling of the feet on walking, especially affecting the left side, and mostly in the morning on rising, and in the evening.
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.