Heart and Pulse
Praecordium. Trembling about heart, worse walking upstairs (after menses). Feels as if a lump, a bubble, started from the heart, and formed through the arteries. Heart feels uneasy and pains, especially about its base, when pains in limbs and great toe are better. Heart’s Action. Lying down at night, hears heart beat, as though it came from under pillow. Every strange noise causes palpitation. Pulse. Pulse quick, jerking, 11 to 12 o’clock; before breakfast. Feels pulse all over body. Pulse felt in different parts of body, as if shot were rolling through the artery.
Neck and Back
Neck. Crick in both sides of neck. Back. Weakness in back (sixtieth and one hundred and fifty-fifth days); towards evening (one hundred and fortieth day). Weakness in back, requiring an effort to sit erect (one hundred and thirty-seventh day); back weak, worse towards evening (one hundred and thirty-eighth day). Stitches in right of spine, on taking deep breath, morning. Dorsal. Slight pain in left scapula, in evening (one hundred and twenty seventh day). Lumbar. Weak feeling in small of back, when lying in bed, at 11 P.M.; most felt while lying on back, but not relieved by lying on side; diminishes in a few minutes, and is followed by an annoying, deep seated twitching in left inguinal region. Shooting in region of right kidney (one hundred and fifty- fifth day). Fine stitching pains in left renal region. Pain in articulation of lumbar vertebrae and sacrum, left side; pressing the spot causes a pain down thigh to knee; later this spot grew more painful, and the leg seemed to give way when walking, as though knee was weak. Sacral. Sharp cutting in right sacroiliac articulation (one hundred and thirty-sixth day).
Extremities in General
Right wrist and left ankle weak, and ache as if paralyzed; after menses. Drawing in hands, feet, wrist-joints, and left shoulder.
Superior Extremities
Synovial crepitation (in upper limbs). Arm (left) feels “gone,” tired. Arms so weak she must let them drop. Heaviness of right arm. Contractions of the extensor muscles of the back of the arm, often when writing (one hundred and fifty-ninth to one hundred and eighty-sixth day). Shoulder. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder; feels nervous. Shooting pains from neck over right shoulder (one hundred and thirty-eighth day). Slight drawing in left deltoid, morning. Wrist. Deep-seated pain in right wrist, going to center of palm. Sudden drawing-cramping pain in left wrist, at various times, extending over dorsum of hand to fingers; index finger intensely painful. Paralytic aching in right wrist (during menses). Drawing in right wrist-joint. Hand. While writing, cannot keep hand from trembling; the pen moves further than he designs thus he makes an “A” or a “y” too long. Numbness of right hand and arm. Slight crampy pain in left hand, particularly index finger. Fingers. Slight numbness in fingers of right hand, with occasional darts, especially in ring fingers (one hundred and twenty-fifth day). Pain in right index finger, in an old gouty joint. Pain in little finger of right hand. Rheumatic pain in joints of little finger, left hand. Pains darting in little finger of left hand, then in right, worse riding. Severe shooting pains in the median and index fingers of left hand (forty-sixth day). Sharp pain, like a needle, in right middle finger.
Inferior Extremities
Synovial crepitation (in lower limbs). Unsteady gait. Weariness of legs while standing. Sudden giving way of legs while walking, as though they would be paralyzed; fears she will have typhoid fever. Hamstrings feel stiff when she attempts to rise; he “kicks out” to limber up. Thigh. Dull, boring pain in left thigh and knee (one hundred and second day). Dull aching in right thigh, very severe. Drawing in the inner side of the left thigh. Drawing in hamstrings of left leg, while walking. Slight drawing in left ischiatic nerve, from foramen to middle of thigh. Sharp shooting in anterior part of left thigh (one hundred and twenty-sixth day). Bruised pain inside of thighs, when walking upstairs. Knee. On getting up, after sitting awhile, knees tremble. Pains about patella. Pain in left popliteal space, going upstairs. Knees felt as if cords were shortened (during menses). Muscles of left knee pain as if hamstrings were too short. Sharp cutting in right knee, not influenced by motion (one hundred and thirty-seventh day). Sharp stabbing in left knee (one hundred and fifty-sixth day). Twitching in left knee-joint. Leg. After getting up, several mornings, legs, from knee down, feel heavy, as if paralyzed. Pains between knees and ankles, when walking fast. Slight pains about shin and left testicles. Aching along shins, while walking. Pain in calf, worse on first rising. Right calf feels as if tightly bandaged. When walking, calves feel as if pulled tight. Sensation as of a needle piercing calf, while walking. Foot. Muscles pain when flexing left foot. Feet felt swollen, and itched (subject to chilblains), (fifty second day). Sharp cutting pains in left foot, through middle of instep to toes, lasting but short time (one hundred and thirty-sixth day). Pain in hollow of right foot, after going upstairs, also while riding. Pain in hollow of left foot, worse walking or exercising; alternates from foot to foot. Pain in ball of left foot; walking. Toes. Big toe pains. Right big toe pains; as this gets better, pain in heart. When rubbing big toe, it prickles as if going to sleep.
General Symptoms
Objective. Tired in morning; weak feeling in legs, seemingly relieved by forcibly stretching. Fatigue from slight exertion (fifty-second day). Languid (after nocturnal emission (one hundred and twenty- fifth day). Very languid (sixtieth day). Lassitude in hot weather (hitherto indifferent to summer heat). General lassitude. Nervous, on rising in morning. After breakfast, nervous, went to bed again. Study makes him so nervous he must get up and walk about. Nervousness, goneness at stomach, headache, crick in neck, worse in thunderstorm. Subjective. Feels weak and cross, after dinner; would like to lie down. Sick feeling, nervous; 11 to 12′ o’clock, before breakfast. Now and then, slight pains here and there (sixtieth day). Sore feeling, especially in joints (sixtieth day). Awakens after 12 P.M.; soon after, a sensation as from an electric shock, through the body; trembling and palpitation as from fright.
Skin
Eruptions, Dry. Itching of the skin, particularly lumbar region and hips; rubbing causes an eruption of papules, about the size of lentils, and the color of the skin. After going to bed, itching here and there, and lumps, similar to hives, raise up; scratching relieves itching, but is followed by burning; could not sleep. Apis removed hives. Burning stinging lump, like hives, on second joint of ring finger. Pimples on left natis, with a broad erythematous base (one hundred and forty-fifth day). Pimple on left leg, itching burning; loss of appetite. Itching of small pimples near the right ear (one hundred and first day). Small, round, reddish papules about the tendo Achillis, and later, on lower limbs, mostly in bends of joints, itching terribly. Sepia aggravated, but finally relieved, eruption about joints. Eruptions, Moist. Itching about mouth, neck; vesicles form; pimples like nettle rash. Itching about the joints, elbows, knees; at same time itching of right external ear; vesicles form. Sensations. Itching of nose. Itching about mouth and neck all through the proving. Itching of the prepuce. Itching about the anus. Itching of prepuce, of anus, of coccyx. Joints itch. Great itching of the scrotum (ninety-sixth day). Intense itching of the face, especially of the nose; also spots on body and limbs itch; feel like insect-bites; she wants to tear the flesh.
Sleep and Dreams
Sleepiness. Drowsy, 10 A.M. Drowsy all day, mostly forenoon. Drowsy, afternoons, must lie down; after dinner, so sleepy can hardly keep eyes open; tired, weary, not disposed to do anything. Very tired in afternoon; falls asleep while sitting. Sleeplessness. Great and unusual excitement; not able to get to sleep until near 1 A.M.; awoke at 5 unrested. Could not get to sleep until 4 P.M., then had a tiresome sleep until 5 A.M. Restless sleep all through the proving. Restless sleep during and after menses. Sleep restless, tosses from side to side (after menses). Sleepless, after 12 P.M. until 3 A.M. Wide awake from the least noise. Sleepy, from 3 P.M. until bedtime, then sleepless from thoughts; finally urging to sleep, dreams of these thoughts. Dreams. Troublesome dreams. Sexual dreams, thinks she is with her husband, but the act is prevented by the unforbidden entrance of some stranger. Vexing dreams. Dreams of the dead; tired on awaking. Sits up in bed, seizes the sheet, and folds it precisely along the hems.
Fever
Chilliness. Chilliness (during menses). Chilly, felt mostly in chest. Chill, followed by hot flashes around body. Cold feet (subject to them, but only in winter), (fifty- second day). Feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed (during menses). Heat. Cannot get to sleep, feels so hot; thoughts crowd on his mind. Flashes of heat and sweat, evening. Flashes, every afternoon, headache (lady who, though fifty, never had them before). Face burns.
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.