Respiratory Organs
Larynx and Trachea. Dryness in the Larynx. Dryness in the Larynx, noticed on talking and breathing, when in the open air (second day). Soreness in the trachea throat (after eight days). Rawness in the trachea (after thirteen days). Voice. Hoarse voice, for two days (after ten days). Hoarseness and coryza, day and night; great oppression of the chest, for seven days (after eight days). Hoarseness with great cough. Complete Hoarseness; he could not speak a word. Cough and Expectoration. Inclination to cough caused by tickling in the throat (sixth day). Cough mostly in the morning, with partly salt, partly offensive purulent expectoration. She coughed very much at night, complained of scraping in the throat, and slept very uneasily. Cough, with a feeling of rawness in the chest, and expectoration of greenish purulent mucus (twenty- fifth day). Frequent cough, with wheezing in the trachea. Hacking cough, with rattling in the chest (fourth day). Scraping cough, at times with hoarseness and heat of the hands (after four days). Scraping cough, with sore pain in the whole chest, and alternating hoarseness, heat, and burning in the hands or soles; bruised feeling in th legs, loss of appetite, nausea, heat, and perspiration at night, without thirst and constipation (after two days). Tickling cough (third day). Dry cough, with stopped catarrh, after taking cold. Dry cough, with tickling in the chest, in the morning (eight day). Violent dry cough, in the afternoon and evening, especially on coming from the cold air into a warm room. Slight expectoration, with rattling in the chest. Respiration. Anxious respiration, in the morning bed. Expectoration of blood, in the evening, while coughing (seventh day). She easily gets out of breath, on walking. Dyspnoea, in the forenoon (also after eight days). Dyspnoea with greatly excited sexual desire. At first, suffocative dyspnoea, with a hoarse deep sound to the voice, and scraping in the pharynx and trachea, followed by cough, short during the day, fatiguing at night, rough and hollow, with sore pain at first in the chest and trachea, and a throbbing rush of blood to the vertex, with a whizzing and rattling on breathing; relieved by sitting upright, afterwards with purulent bloody expectoration.
Chest
Transient burning externally in the right chest (twelfth day). Tension in the chest, on deep breathing. Drawing pain in the pectoral muscles, mostly in the morning and evening (with tightness of the chest) Pressure upon the chest after eating (after twenty-one days). Violent oppression of the chest, soon after eating, lasting an hour. Sticking in the chest, with short breathing, after eating pork (eleventh day). After the pain disappeared, there was a sharp sticking in the region of the left lower ribs, at 1.30 p. m. (first day). Several painful stitches in the right chest, extending from the below upwards (sixteenth day). Some sharp stitches in the right chest (ninth day). Sharp stitches in the left lower ribs, three or four times in succession. Violent sharp stitches, here and there, on the chest externally. Frequent painful. knife-like stitches back and forth in the chest, on rising, for three days (after seventeenth day). Great sensitiveness about the lower portion of the thorax, in the evening. Rawness in the chest all day, worse in the evening, together with pressure beneath the sternum and oppression, and at times palpitation; while eating the rawness disappeared, but soon returned, and at last a dry cough appeared, that gradually aggravated the scraping and sensation of rawness; but after some mucus was loosened, the chest was relieved for a short time; this was associated with thirst, some chilliness, fluent coryza, and a frequent, tense hard pulse (twenty-first day). Violent raw sensation in the chest, after dinner, with ill humor, and pressure in the pit of the stomach; after the midday nap he felt better, and so long as he was lying down the scraping in the throat was very much relieved; after rising it returned, and he was obliged with great exertion to hawk up some pieces of green tenacious mucus (twenty-second day). Frequent sudden jerking of the middle left ribs, with a feeling as if it would take away her breathing (ninth and tenth days). Front. Pressure beneath the sternum, in the morning, on deep breathing (twenty-second day). Cutting bruised pain in the forepart of the sternum, while sitting, disappearing on moving about and on inspiration, in the forenoon (sixth day). Pain as if beaten, and like a cutting in the lower extremity of the sternum and on the ensiform cartilage, in the afternoon (third day). Very painful sticking throbbing in the sternum, just above the ensiform cartilage; when this ceased, there was a sticking in the left chest, and then in the right, in the evening in bed (second day). Sides. Pressive pain in the left side of the chest, from not breathing. Sticking pain between the last false ribs of the left side, only on breathing. A sticking as with needles, in the right side of the chest, from within outward, in the afternoon (eleventh day). Violent sticking in the left side of the chest, and pinching in the same side of the abdomen, on rising from a seat, aggravated by inspiration and expiration (seventh day). Stitches in the side of the chest (and abdomen), (after twenty days). Frequent intermittent stitches in the left side of the chest, in the forenoon;in front of the axilla, in the afternoon (first day). Dull stitches in succession, in the left side of the chest, from within outward, in the afternoon (eleventh day). Sharp stitches in the sides of the chest, below the axillae, at night, so that she could lie only on the back;the pain occurred even while walking (sixth day). Sharp stitches in the right side of the chest, below the axilla, in the evening; at night it was aggravated by lying on that side, followed by frequent stitches in the right side of the chest (sixth day). Throbbing with simultaneous burning in the left side of the chest, in the forenoon (third day). Burning jerking, as from electric sparks, in the right side of the chest, in the forenoon (nineteenth day). Mammae. A sharp sticking beneath the left breast, so that she could scarcely breathe, with some cough, in the forenoon (fifteenth day).
Heart
Praecordium. Very painful cracking at the heart, several times during the day (seventh day). Pressure in the heart. Violent sticking in the Praecordium region, aggravated by inspiration, in the forenoon (sixteenth day). Some sharp stitches in the Praecordial region, in the evening (eighteenth day). Heart’s Action. Sometimes palpitations and a well-marked bellow sound. Palpitation woke her at night, while lying on the left side. Palpitation on going upstairs (first day). She could never lie upon the side, on account of palpitation. Palpitation while sitting, if his attention was directed to anything; also in the evening, while lying down (fourth day). Palpitation without anxiety, very easily caused. Anxious palpitation on stooping (twenty-first day). Anxious palpitation, while writing, with dull pressure in the forehead, and confusion of the head (eight day).
Neck and Back
Neck. Cracking of the cervical vertebrae, on moving the head (twenty-fourth day) Stiffness and lameness of the neck. The neck is stiff, as from taking cold. She feels the movement oh the pharynx posteriorly in the nape of the neck, on swallowing. Tension in the nape of the neck while sitting and walking, worse on moving the head (fourth day). Drawing pain in the nape of the neck, whereby he becomes ill humored and impatient while reading (twenty-second day). Spasmodic drawing in the nape of the neck, which made motion of the head difficult (twenty-first day). Transient sticking pains in the nape of the neck. Some sharp stitches in the nape of the neck, frequently returning, in the evening (eighteenth day). Tearing in the cervical muscles, in the forenoon (first day). Sudden drawing tearing pain in the nape of the neck, whereby it seemed to become stiff; aggravated by moving the head (thirteenth day). Constant sticking tearing in the right side of the neck, in the afternoon and following forenoon (after sixteen days). Back. Becomes easily strained; a jerking pain, starting from the small of the back, immediately after lifting anything heavy followed by great weakness in the vicinity (after twelve days). Violent pain in the back, day and night; she could lie only one side; the pain was worse at night, and also on taking a deep breath (seventh day). Violent pain in the back during the menses, but only during the day. Burning and sticking in the whole back, at 3 A.M., disappearing after rising; but the back remained very sensitive, as if beaten (ninth day). Tension in the back on sitting bent, on stretching up, in the afternoon (first day). Tension and drawing in the back, into the anus in isolated paroxysms, and ending with a stitch, while sitting and lying. Tensive pain in the back, after dinner, and also at night (eighteenth day). Backache (after twenty days). Sticking and pain in the back, only while sitting. A violent sticking in the back prevents sleep all night and she cannot lie upon either side (after ten days). A dull but violent stitch in the left side of the back (third day). Bruised pain in the back, extending into the nape of the neck, in the evening, after lying down (second day). She was awakened at midnight by a violent bruised pain over the whole back; she dared not turn over; towards morning the pain was relieved (first day). Dorsal. Paralytic pain between the shoulders, and in the nape of the neck, lasting a long time, in the morning (twelfth day). Burning and pressure at the lower region of the right scapula, disappearing on the motion, but several times repeated (sixth day). Tension and drawing pain between the scapulae (twentieth day). Boring pain in the tip of the left scapula; she feels the pain as far forward as the end of the ensiform cartilage. Painful pressure and sticking beneath the left scapula, very sensitive to pressure (sixth day). Sharp sticking on the right scapula several times in succession, after dinner (seventh day). Violent stitching, as with an awl, in the back, below he left scapula, extending through the left chest and to the right side, in the evening (third day). Extremely violent sharp stitches between the shoulders, lasting half an hour, by sticking in the whole back, worse on inspiration; tension over the whole back on moving the trunk, relieved by walking, in the evening, and all next day (after nine days). Tearing between the shoulder (fifth day). Gnawing pain in a spot as large as the palm of the hand, between the shoulders (first day). Lumbar. Momentary pain in the small of the back, so that stooping or becoming erect was almost impossible for some time (fifth day). Most violent pain in the small of the back, after walking. Pain in the small of the back, like a great heaviness, occurring suddenly while sitting, and disappearing on moving, in the forenoon (eleventh day). Drawing in the lower portion of the back, as from incarcerated flatus (after eighteen days). Cutting burning and scraping in the small of the back. Sticking in the right lumbar region, followed by gripping in the upper abdomen, while bending the trunk towards the left side, in the afternoon (second day). A stitch as quick as lightning, across the small of the back, so that he could not touch it for some minutes, in the evening (third day). Sore pain in the small of the back, even while at rest, and when not touched. Sore pain in the small of the back internally, extending toward the abdomen; alike during rest and motion (second day). Violent pain in the small of the back, as if beaten, during rest and motion, in the forenoon, and for a still longer time. (ninth 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.