Cough, with chilliness over the whole body. Cough, caused by cold air, which affects the chest very much. Violent paroxysm of cough about midnight, loose, though without expectoration, relieved by sitting up, lasting an hour, after which she fell asleep with the cough; in the morning, only a sensation of soreness in the throat. Cough, after dinner. Cough, with a sensation of soreness in the throat, immediately after dinner. Cough, in the open air, causing pain in the chest and abdomen. Cough, mostly when drinking anything (either cold or warm). Cough, caused by constant tickling in the throat. Cough, from irritation in the larynx, in the afternoon. Cough, with a stitch below the pit of the stomach, so that she was obliged to hold the chest. Cough, consisting of two shocks, after dinner. Cough, with sticking pain beneath the hypochondria. Cough, worse from warmth. Cough, causing pain in the base of the sternum (second day). Cough, with burning in the throat. Cough, with sensation as if something was tearing loose in the chest. Cough, preceded by tickling in the throat. Cough, with draggy feeling in lower part of the chest.
Cough, worse from exercise, and from going into the house from out of doors. Two or three single coughs come together. Cough, without expectoration. Cough with difficult respiration, and violent bronchitis, at first without fever, with remarkably soft pulse; great prostration and emaciation. Cough, complicated with all the symptoms of acute bronchitis. Cough, and bronchitis of more or less intensity. After two years and a half he began to cough very much, and expectorate a thick white mucus. Cough, with difficult expectoration. Short cough, coming at irregular intervals. Slight cough, immediately after rising, with large quantities of a grayish phlegm as if mixed with dust (after twenty hours). A great number are taken with cough, which is sometimes so severe as to oblige them to leave off work.
Exhausted by purulent expectoration, depending on true bronchial blennorrhoea, with emphysema of both lungs; this blennorrhoea was the result of a bronchitis that had frequently recurred, and was never perfectly cured during the last two years. The patient was in danger of succumbing. Expectoration of thick, light-colored lumps of phlegm, in small quantity. (The usual expectoration of mucus in the morning without cough is very much relieved.
Expectoration of tenacious mucus (sixth day). Expectoration of flakes of mucus, with smarting burning behind the sternum. Bloody expectoration, with mucus, when coughing (after twenty- four hours). Expectoration of blood, with mucus, with short slight cough (after thirty-six hours). Bloody expectoration from the lungs. Streaks of blood in the mucous expectoration from the chest (after four days). Expectoration contained streaks of blood (seventh day). Expectoration of blood, with fatiguing hacking cough, without pain, the day preceding, and on the first day of the menses. Slight haemoptysis (seventh day). Slight mucous expectoration with the cough (thirst day); expectoration more copious, phosphorescent, and, when dry upon the floor, burned readily from the application of a lighted match (fourth day); almost pus like in character and quite profuse (eighth day).
Respiration. Breathing rather hurried. Respiration became slow rattling, shortly before death. Respiration slow and easy (after seven days). Respiration slow. Shortness of the breath and vertigo. Respiration always very short after coughing. Short respiration. Tightness of breath after the slightest food.
Breathing short and attended by a violent pressive kind of pain in upper part of sternum, for a minute or so, at intervals of two to three days. Respiration 40, interrupted by attacks of dyspnoea (third day). Respiration 40, deep, associated with contraction of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscles, at times stertorous (fourth day). Vesicular respiratory murmurs, with sonorous, almost tympanitic percussion. Slight crackling cough be heart at the end of each inspiration at the base of the right lung (old pleuritic adhesion), (fifth day). Respiration became stertorous shortly before death. Moist rales, with very weak vesicular respiration (fourth day). Mucous rales were easily distinguishable in different portions of both lungs, but more noticeable in the lower lobes (sixth day). He could breathe only with a loud rattling noise. Respiration became like a suppurating bronchitis.
Gasping on ascending a hill. Respiration anxious, panting, oppressed (second day). Anxious, short, and hurried respiration, with elevation of the whole thorax, and especially of the left side. Anxious respiration while reflecting. Respiration anxious, frequent (third day). Respiration very labored (second day).
Disposition to take deep inspiration, with discomfort on doing so (after first dose, second day). Inclination to take a deep breath. Respiration deep and difficult (fourth day). Respirations deep (fifth day). Respiration difficult and irregular (third day). Difficult and quickened respiration. Respiration a little difficult (eighth day). Respiration difficult, though auscultation revealed no rales (after three days and a half).
Respiration difficult (seventh day). Difficult respiration, in the evening, in bed (after three days). Difficult respiration on account of tension in the pit of the stomach. Great difficulty of breathing. Respiration superficial, 36 (second day). Respiration is impeded by rapid walking (after a few hours). Respiration impeded from fulness of the abdomen, in the forenoon, in all positions. Oppression of breath, with chilliness and violent headache, so that he could scarcely collect his senses (after an hour). Oppression of breath (first day). Respiration very much oppressed, breathing very short. Patient complained of want of air, though she frequently took a deep breath. Sense of suffocation and involuntary passages on the least motion. Feeling of suffocation. Dyspnoea and extreme prostration. Dyspnoea (tenth day). Dyspnoea, with transient nausea. Dyspnoea on taking a deep breath. Dyspnoea, with at time pain or a small stitch in the right side of the chest, above the heart, without cough, never observed while walking, but after sitting a long time. Great dyspnoea.
Chest.
In some cases, especially in those of a scrofulous tendency, tubercles of the lungs develop, with hectic fever, in addition to the necrosis of the jaw. The respiratory organs become rapidly involved, and the lungs rapidly suppurated, with formation of cavities and purulent exudation into the cavity of the thorax, with infiltration of the mesenteric glands, tubercular ulcers in the intestines, etc. Considerable irritation was felt about the lungs (after a few minutes). Severe pain in the posterior part of the left lung, sometimes aggravated upon inspiration, sometimes not (third day). Frequent sharp pains, as though a knife were throat into the lungs (after two days); no pain (sixth day).
Frequent stitches through the lungs, especially on deep inspiration (fourth day). Contraction of the whole lung. Lungs felt clogged; dyspnoea troublesome. Sensation of heat in the lungs (after first dose, second day). Raw feeling of the lungs, particularly the left one (after one hour and a half). Soreness of the lungs greatly increased; find great difficulty in taking a full breath (after seven hours). Cannot fill my lungs as usual (worse on left side). Weakness of the chest. Weakness of the chest for several days, and a feeling as if she would discover pain in it. Towards 6 P.M., very weak feeling in the chest, slight pains in different parts of the chest, and disagreeable cough, lasting until after retiring. Heat in the chest. Glowing sensation throughout the chest and epigastrium (after second dose, third day). Rush of blood to the chest. Rush of blood to the chest on every emotion, with a cramp like drawing between the scapulae. Rush of blood to the chest and head (after forty-eight hours). Trembling of the chest and hands, as if he had drank too much coffee. Great oppression of the chest, so that the patient, during the attack of cough, and in order to expectorate, must sit up in bed, when she experiences great pain, with a constrictive sensation under the sternum; mucous rattling; rhonchus sibilans in the two inferior thirds of the right lungs, in the upper third of the right lung anteriorly, and in the lower half posteriorly; uncommonly clear tone on percussion; almost complete immobility of the ribs at these parts; great arching of the pectoral walls.
Oppression of the chest, in the morning, in bed, lasting half an hour. Oppression of the chest, after walking in the open air, at night, so that she could not perfectly yawn. Oppression of the chest, as if very hot blood surged up to the throat, in the morning (after thirteen days). Oppression of the lower portion of the chest, with shortness of breath, in the evening. Oppression of the chest, in morning, with palpitation and nausea, lasting an hour. An anxious oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest, above the ensiform cartilage, with tightness of breath, always on stooping, always relieved by becoming erect, in the evening. Frequent oppression of the chest, with nausea. Frequent oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest, with anxiety, after dinner. Oppression of the chest, worse while sitting, relieved by eructations (after twenty-two days). Transient oppression of the chest. Slight oppression of the chest.
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.