Inferior Extremities.
Paralytic drawing in the whole lower extremities, during rest and motion. Drawing in the lower extremities. Hip and Thigh. Tearing in the hip-joints. A sudden violent tearing in the right hip, while sitting. A painful sensation in the right hip-joint, only while walking; if, when walking, he puts the left foot to the ground while the right is extended backward to its farthest point, just before bringing it forward there is a drawing in the right hip- joint, as if the foot were forcibly pulled backward.
Fine needle like stitches in the right hip, returning paroxysmally (after one hour). Drawing on the inner side of the left thigh. Tearing on the outer side of th right thigh, extending to the heel, while sitting. Gnawing in the posterior surface of the thigh. A stitch in the left nates. Knee an Leg.
Painful tension in the right knee only while resting part of his weight upon it when bent, not when standing erect, sitting, or lying. Tearing in the left knee. Cramp like pain bout the right patella, not relieved by any motion (after three hours and a half). A pain extending up along the tendons of the right popliteus, while standing (after two hours). Drawing in the lower end of the tibia, in bed. Tearing in the calves. Ankle. Paralytic pain in the left ankle, as if the ligaments were relaxed. A numb pain in the inner malleolus. Sharp violent stitches in the left inner malleolus, while sitting (after one hour an a half). Slight drawing in the external malleolus. Tearing in the right external malleolus. Fool and Toes. The feet seem weary an tremulous, while walking. A paralytic pain in the sole of the left foot, when stepping upon it, continuing for several days. Dull stitches on the back of the right foot (after one hour and a quarter).
Violent painful stitches in the sole of the foot, transversely across above the balls of the toes (after two hours). Pinching on the back of the foot (after ten hours). Tearing in the sole of the foot. Tearing in the right heel, and thence along the outer margin of the foot to the little toe. Dull drawing in the os calcis. Long-continued formication in the heel. Such violent tearing in the right great toe that she could cry out, while sitting. Jerking in the right great toe, in the evening, while sitting. Acute stitches in the forepart of the right toe. Drawing burning beneath the toes, especially in the evening.
Generalities
Weakness. Weariness, as after a journey on foot. Feeling as after intoxication. Discomfort, so that he was obliged to lie down.
Skin
Eruptions. A red curved striped above the navel, along the anterior line of the ribs, with painful pressive sensation, especially in the middle. Papular eruption on the forehead, with pressive pain when touched. Small dry pimples, with itching biting, above the left eyebrow; the biting is aggravated any scratching, and then it seems as if fine points (splinters) were sticking in the skin. Red itching tetter on the cheek and on the ramus of the lower jaw, like millet-seeds, that is painful on rubbing and scratching, and is not moist. An itching pimple on the right side of the chin, that was painful after scratching (after twenty-four hours). A pimple, the point of which is filled with pus, in the middle of the upper lip, outside of the red, surrounded by red areola (after half an hour). Itching pimples on the metacarpal bones of the right index and middle fingers, with pain after scratching (after three hours and a half). Papular eruptions, the points of which were filled with pus, and which were surrounded by a red swelling, on the upper lip, beneath the nose (after four hours). Sensation. The whole skin seemed sore to touch. Crawling in several places in the skin, without itching, for a few minutes. Crawling on the inner surface of the left hand, almost as if asleep (after one hour and a half). Violent itching here and there in the skin. Excessive itching biting and burning on the left side of the lower jaw and beneath its left margin, in the evening, before going to sleep; in the morning, after rising, there were to be seen bloody pimples, like millet- seeds, that had been scratched open. Violent itching on the coccyx.
Sleep
Constant yawning (after four hours). Frequent yawning, with sleepiness. Yawning, with sleepiness, in the afternoon (after twelve hours). Sleepiness after dinner, and sleep with restless dreams. Sleepiness during the day. Sleepy very early in the evening. Partial sleep all night (after four days). Sleep short, broken. Restless sleep three nights in succession. Constant tossing about the bed, only half asleep. At night, on waking, he thought to fine himself in a very strange and solitary place.
Sleep. in the afternoon, with many voluptuous dreams, with profuse emission and hard erection. Sleep at night full of dreams. Anxious dreams all night, for several nights.
Fever
Chilliness. Decided chill, as if he trembled all over internally, in the evening, and also in the forenoon. Chilliness in the chest, abdomen, and lower limbs, with gooseflesh yawning, with icy-cold feet (after one hour an a quarter). Chilliness in the lower limbs and a sensation of contraction in the skin, while the abdomen, upper limbs, and feet are warm (after two hours and a half). Creeping shiverings (after ten minutes). Some coldness in the evening, on lying down (second day). Constant sensation of coldness, as if all the internal parts were drawn together by the cold, and they trembled back an forth (second day). Coldness of the whole right half of the body, from the head to the feet, while th other half was of the natural warmth (after four hours and a half). Small icy-cold spots, as large as tip of the finger, here and there in the skin. Feet constantly cold, especially at night. Heat and Sweat. Heat staring from the nape of the neck an extending down the back, several times during the evening.
Sensation of heat in the face. Increased warmth of the whole body (after three-quarters of an hour). Frequently warm and anxious over the whole body. The fingers are at one time hot, at another cold, as if dead, and of a dead color. Heat and perspiration on the head, with nausea, after breakfast (first day). Frequent warmth and perspiration over the whole body. Warmth and perspiration on the upper part of the body, with increased full pulse (after one hour and a half). After a light dinner, flushing of warmth, with perspiration over the back and one the forehead, followed by shivering in the back, with cessation of the perspiration, and dry burning heat, with redness of the face (after two hours and a half). Very profuse perspiration. General biting-itching perspiration, in the morning, on waking, that obliges scratching (after twenty-two, and forty- eight hours).
Perspiration, on waking, about 3 A.M.,.
Conditions.-
Aggravation.
(Morning), Mucus in the eyes; after rising, lachrymation, nose stopped; pain in gum; after rising, root of tongue brown; on waking, mouth dried up; slimy froth in corners of mouth; tasteless water rises from stomach; sensation as if a stone were lying in stomach; after urinating, tenesmus of the bladder; on waking, trachea dried up, with hoarseness; on rising, constant hacking; on waking, biting-itching perspiration; 3 A.M., on waking, perspiration.
(Forenoon), Drawing in a hollow tooth; empty eructations, with pressure; chill.
(Afternoon), Toothache; griping in stomach; while sitting, griping in abdomen; yawning, with sleepiness; sleep, with voluptuous dreams.
(Evening), In open air, headache; all symptoms; while walking in the open air, pain in both ears; pressure, as from a ball, in throat, sticking scratching in throat; after lying down, drawing and cutting pain in left side of chest and abdomen; palpitation; heaviness in all the limbs, with coldness; stitches in the joints; while sitting, jerking in right great toe; burning beneath toes; before going to sleep, itching-biting burning in left side of lower jaws; early, sleepy; chill; on lying down, coldness; cold feet; heat from nape of neck down back.
(Night), On awaking, internal headache; restless sleep; anxious dreams.
(Before midnight), Feeling of swelling of right forehead, right temple, and right temple, and right side.
(Cold air), Coldness in teeth, with wrinkled sensation and pain in gums.
(In bed), Drawing along lower end of tibia.
(Bending head to left side), Paralytic pain in left side of neck.
(After breakfast), Accumulation of water in mouth; burning rising from abdomen into chest; heat an perspiration on the head, with nausea.
(Cold and warmth), Toothache.
(After dinner), Cutting colic, with desire for stool; sleepiness; sleep, with restless dreams.
(After eating), Hiccough; abdomen full and uncomfortable.
(Going upstairs), Vertigo; throbbing headache in forehead.
(Hanging arm down), Pain in forearm.
(During inspiration), Sticking in left nipple; stitches close to spine, between four last right ribs.
(Lying down in bed), Hacking and cough.
(Lying on left side in bed), Cough.
(During micturition). Burning in the urethra.
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.