Hawking of mucus frequently accompanied by attempts to vomit.
Incessant expectoration of mucus, causing inclination to vomit.
Respiration. Difficult respiration. Difficult respiration, which was almost asphyxia, with dry skin, and temperature of 40.6 0 C.
Difficult whistling respiration. Difficult respiration, with dyspnoea.
Chest
Moist rales in the chest and larynx on breathing. Pneumonia very peculiar an extremely obstinate; possessing a singular motility, occupying at one time a certain portion of the lung, at another time changing its place. (* Autopsy showed the whole left lung in the third stage of gray hepatization; in the other lung, red hepatization; there were also found indications of approaching gangrenous dissolution; the bronchial glands enlarged, red and soft; the kidneys showed the second stage of Bright’s disease; in the stomach were large ecchymosed spots. *) Air, containing vapors of Osmium, affects the lungs when inhaled. Oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest, with difficult respiration, as if the lungs were collapsed and they could not get air enough, relieved by deep inspiration. Tightness of the chest; dread of breathing; one can feel the air entering the bronchial tubes by the sore pain it causes. Pain near the left lower rib, about a quarter of a circle towards the front; a dull stitch (immediately after olfaction). Rawness in the chest provokes hawking and hacking cough. Sensation of dryness in the chest. Pain beneath the sternum on coughing, extending to both sides of the chest, with a burning soreness, as if everything were raw; after coughing a long time some lumps of yellow tenacious mucus were loosened.
Heart and Pulse
Pulse 90, when I am well it is 72 (sixth day); 80 (seventh day).
Pulse 80 at 11 A.M. (fourth day).
Neck and Back.
Pains in the back. A peculiar pressing pain in the back, extending from the scapula to the sacral region, aggravated by motion and by cough. Pain in the lumbar region. Pressive pain in the sacral region.
Extremities.
The limbs feel as heavy as lead, with weariness and heaviness in them, especially in the knees, was unable to stand long (after two hours).
Superior Extremities.
Shoulder and Arm. Pulsating, dull stinging on the inner side of right shoulder-joint (after olfaction). Severe pinching pain in the left upper arm, a hand’s breadth above the elbow, inwardly and on the inner posterior side; often repeated and very severe, for fifteen minutes (soon). Sensitive pain in the middle of the left humerus; soon after in the fingers of the left hand (two hours after olfaction). Elbow. Violent bone-pain in the left elbow (immediately after olfaction). Forearm. Violent pinching in the bones of the right forearm (after 1st cent.). Drawing on the inside of the right forearm (after 1st cent.). Drawing on the inside of the right forearm (after olfaction). Dull weary pain deeply seated in the left radius, aggravated by lifting anything or by allowing the hand to hang down, lasting three days, gradually disappearing; on the third day, the pain extended to the same place in the right forearm but was much less severe.
Burning pressure on the outer side of the right forearm (after olfaction). Wrist. Pain in the left wrist-bones, in the morning after stool (second day after 1st cent.). Finger. Severe pains in the right forefinger, especially in the phalanx, stinging and twitching towards the point, in the forenoon (after a week).
Burning pains in the left ring finger (sixth day after 1st dec.).
Aching pain in the metacarpophalangeal joint of left thumb (fifteen day). Irregular attacks of stabbing in the tips of the fingers, particularly those of the left hand (fourth day).
Several times I have felt the stabbing pains in the tips of the thumb an fingers of the left hand.
Inferior Extremities.
Fullness and restlessness in the legs which becomes quite unbearable, he does not know what to do with them, and finally he has to lie down, at 9 P.M. (fifth day after 1st dec.). The legs and feet feel as if too full (1st cent.). Yesterday and to-day felt a drawing aching in the left quadriceps tendon, each side of top of patella, varied by occasional shoots below the external malleolus, and on the instep of left foot (fourteenth day); aching of left knee is less severe, e and ceases at night (fifteen day). Sudden pain in the hip-joint as if it would be dislocated in the right ankle, which do not prevent walking (fist hour). Pinching pain in ankles (first cent.). Flying, cutting pains in the bones and joints of the right foot (first hour, after olfaction). Pinching, pressing pain in the heel, as if in the bone, first left, then right (second day, after 1st cent.).
Generalities
Was obliged to keep his bed ten days on account of weakness, from which he was not free until the third week. Indolence. Weakness.
Great weakness of the whole body, so that he was frequently obliged to sit down. Weary, as after a very long walk (after two hours). Felt very weak and easily tired (thirteenth day). General sick feeling (after a few hours). Feeling so poorly, I took no more medicine (ninth and tenth days). I rise jaded. Feel restless and fidgety (eight day). Arose feeling jaded, after a restless tossing night (second morning). Arose very tired, with muddled head and aching limbs and body, and was thus all day (fifth day).
Skin.
Red spots on the dorsum of the hand. The fold of the skin remains attached to the growing nail; more on the right side, an mostly on the middle finger (fourteen days after 1st dec.) Copious exanthema on the forearm and on the dorsal and palmar surface of the hands and on the cheeks. Red-brown papules on the skin of the forearm, and hand, with desquamation of the epidermis. Small pointed vesicles, surrounded by red areola, with intolerable itching, on the back of the left hand, between the thumb and index finger (in a spot where, six years before, scabies had broken out); some vesicles appear on the ulnar margin of the same hand, extending from the metacarpal joint to the phalanges of the little finger, on the outer surface of the wrist; also on the right hand violent itching, but no vesicles disappear after twenty-four hours (third day). Burning stitches in the skin on many places, particularly in the right upper lid; worse at the inner border of the nail of the fourth finger of the left hand, where it burns like fire (soon after 1st dec.). Prickly heat disappears on the upper half of the body and increases on the lower, first on the thigh, then on the leg, then on the ankles (after several days),. Itching, as from crawling insects, on the shoulders and back, in the evening, when going to bed; it scarcely permits sleep, and makes him very impatient (nine days after 1st dec.). Violent itching on a place an inch wide and a hand long above the crest of the left ilium, towards the abdomen; the place is red, with many small pointed spots, as if tetter would appear (seventh and following days after 1st dec.). The itching on small spots near the left hip returns, when the erections return, at 3 to 4 A.M. (thirteen days after 1st dec.).
Violent itching on the legs and ankles (first day).
Sleep.
Overpowering sleepiness (after two hours). Sleepiness. Night sleepiness. Restless tossing night (first night); slept badly; tossed about as before (third night). Sleep restless every night, with dreams of painful events (seventh day); sleep is haunted by dreams of activity and of events of a serious and important character, but they are not remembered on waking (eleventh day).
Restless night (first day (. Nightmare during sleep. Confused, but not frightful, dreams of fire, at night.
Fever
Shivering, especially in the back. Fever, with difficult respiration. Sweat in axilla, smelling of garlic (eighth day), especially in the evening and at night, lasted for a week.
Conditions.-
Aggravation.
(Morning), Twitching in the levator of right upper lid; nausea; on awaking, erections; cough; on rising, cough; after stool, pain in left wrist.
(Forenoon), Pain in stomach; pain in right forefinger.
(Afternoon), Bowels distended; urging to stool.
(Evening), Headache; 9 P.M., headache in forehead; ring around flame of candle; flame of candle seemed larger; earache; 6 P.M., weakness in stomach; distension of stomach and bowels; fullness and restlessness in legs; urine strongly scented; when riding out, inward weakness; on going to bed, itching; sweat in axilla.
(Night), Aching at base of skull; aching in jaws and base of brain; sleeplessness; sweat in axilla.
(Open air), Hoarseness.
(Breathing), moist rales in chest and larynx.
(cough pain beneath sternum; pain in back.
(After drinking coffee), Diarrhoea stool.
(While eating and drinking), Tongue sensitive.
(After eating), Wheat bread, pain in muscles of chewing; pears, pain and numbness in teeth; qualmishness.
(Fixing eyes upon any object), Lachrymation.
(Hanging hand down or lifting), Pain in radius.
(Motion), In open air, hacking cough; pain in back.
(Riding in open air), Qualmishness. (Smoking cigars), Rawness in larynx.
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.