Sensation of great distress in the chest (fifth day). Distressing anxiety and pressure in the chest, amounting to real suffocation, so that deep inspiration was difficult but not impossible, with burning and sticking pains behind the sternum. Anxiety in the chest, with want of breath. Anxiety in the chest, with throbbing in the lower portion of the right side of the chest. Anxiety in the chest, in the evening. Anxiety and heaviness in the chest, as if compressed, with arrest of breathing. Heaviness of the chest, as if a weight were lying upon it. Sensation of heaviness in the chest on inspiration, while walking, immediately after dinner.
Tightness of the chest, as from rush of blood, especially in the morning, on waking. Tightness of upper part of chest (after several days). Tightness of the chest (after thirteen days).
Tightness about the chest, as if the air was forcibly kept out.
Tightness of the chest (fifth day). Tightness of the chest and pit of the stomach (first day). At 5 P.M., feeling of fulness about chest. Tension and dryness in the chest. Tension on the chest, without dyspnoea. Sensation as if the clothes were too tight about the chest. Tight tensive sensation on the chest. The chest is constantly tense, as if a band were about it. Tight tensive sensation behind the chest. A feeling of constriction about the chest began to be troublesome (after two days).
Constrictive pinching sensation very high up in the chest.
Feeling of constriction in the chest, with painful, difficult breathing, in the morning. Spasmodic contraction in the chest.
Pressure upon the lower portion of the chest. Pressure in the chest, so that he could not breathe easily (immediately).
Pressure in the upper part of the chest, drawing downward, followed by empty eructations. Pressure upon the chest and short breathing, after eating. Contractive pressure in the upper part of the left chest. Contraction in the chest, with pressure or pinching in the upper abdomen. Violent burning pain in the lower portion of the chest (oesophagus), stomach, and through the whole abdomen. Pain in lower part of chest, when drawing a long breath.
Pleuritic pains through the thorax, extending into the throat and down the right arm. Darting pains in the chest (third day); pains in breast intolerable (fourth day). Severe pains in the chest.
Pains in the chest. Pain and tightness in the chest (third day).
Pain, as if bruised, behind the right breast, beneath and axilla, on pressure. Pain in the chest, especially on inspiration.
Fugitive pains in both thorax and abdomen (after second dose, second day). (Three months have elapsed since the proving, and I have been uncommonly free from fugitive thoracic pains, which have generally annoyed me with apprehension of a tubercular diathesis). Bruised pain in the upper part of the chest, on motion, stooping, and touch. Sore pain in the clavicle, when touched and when not. Soreness on pressure, on both sides, under the short ribs. Rawness in the chest (after twenty-four hours). A feeling in the chest and abdomen as if everything would sink together. Catarrhal coating of the chest, in the morning. Violent aching in the pectoralis major muscle. Cramp in the chest, at night; he thinks he will suffocate. Cramp in the chest that constricts it, several evenings in succession. Cramp in the chest, after riding in a carriage, toward evening. Drawing cutting beneath the short ribs, while walking. Stitches and sticking in various parts of the chest, especially while sitting, at times with burning. Painful dull stitches beneath the left breast, deep internally, on rising from a seat. Stitches in the chest, externally, without affecting respiration. A stitch in the right clavicle, at the shoulder. Stitches in the chest and back, and also in the right arm, on motion, especially at night, in bed (after eleven days). Transient stitches in the upper part of the chest, at the origin of the neck. Sensation of dryness in the chest. (* See S. 2518.-HUGHES. *) Itching, internally, in the chest. Itching in the chest (trachea), and beneath the pit of the throat, with dry cough, that does not relieve it. Front and sides. Intense sensation of heat behind the sternum. Burning sensation on the lower end of the sternum, extending towards the left clavicle, after dinner. Acute pain behind the sternum and in the epigastric region (first day). Great pain behind the sternum, extending into the stomach (after one day). Pressive pain below the middle and somewhat to the right of the sternum, with slight oppression of the chest, relieved by eructations (first day).
Sticking, commencing at the sternum and extending through the chest to be left scapula, aggravated by working, worse in the evening while spinning; in the evening the sticking was usually accompanied by slight chilliness, lasting only a few minutes, followed by slight perspiration; during this paroxysm she was obliged to keep very quiet, else she suffered from a feeling of apprehension, with palpitation; the corresponding portion of the back was very sensitive to pressure. Stitches, as with knives, in the middle of the sternum, extending to the right scapula, from morning till evening, somewhat relieved during breakfast; so violent that they took away his breath, aggravated by inspiration, relieved by motion (fourth day). Drawing-pressive pain in the left side of the thorax and abdomen, relieved by rubbing with the hands, and disappearing after eructations of wind and emission of flatus, disturbing sleep, towards morning.
Dull pressure upon the right ribs, with dulness of the head, mostly in the parietal portion. Pressive sensation beneath the short ribs of the right side. Pains in the upper portion of the right side of the chest, affecting respiration, afterwards changing to a deeply seated pain corresponding to the sixth and seventh ribs, so that deep respiration was at times impossible; with this burning pain there was a constant desire to cough, which was with difficulty suppressed on account of the pain (tenth day). Three females in Charity Hospital (doses 1/50th to 1/33d) complained of pain in the left side; upon examination we found distinct pleuritic friction, without present or subsequent serous effusion. Acute pain in the left side, when taking breath, increased by a full respiration (after one hour and a half). Dull pain, like rheumatism, in the left thorax. Pain in the right side of the chest, as if the skin were raised up with needle. Short sticking pain in the right side of the chest. Shooting pains in the right side of the chest. (after first dose, second day). A stitching pain on the right side, under the false ribs, when riding horseback. Violent stitches in both sides of the chest, during rest and motion. Stitches in the left side, beneath the ribs, lasting five days. Stitches in the left side of the chest, on breathing. Stitches in the right side of the chest, on breathing. Dull stitches in the left side of the chest, relieved by deep inspiration. Beating, as from a finger, on the right side of the chest, while sitting. Chest symptoms are worse on the left side. Mammae. Anxious feeling beneath the left breast, with bitter eructations, every day. Burning and pinching, externally, beneath the right breast, with mounting of heat into the head.
During the day, three or four attacks of violent cramp pain in the breast, high up under the sternum, lasting from fifteen to thirty seconds, and disappearing, with flatulent eructations (fourth day). Pain in the fleshy part of the right breast, as if a gland were violently pressed. Pain half an inch below nipple, shooting like electricity, lasting three-quarters of an hour. At 3.30 P.M., pain from left nipple to right nipple, from right nipple to right shoulder, thence down to little finger on right side. Stitches in the mammary glands. Stitches beneath the left breast, with much anxiety.
Heart and Pulse
Anxiety about the heart, associated with nausea and a peculiar sensation of hunger, somewhat relieved by eating, distressing her even in bed, sometimes for several hours, after 10 P.M. Sensation of warmth above the right side of the heart and beneath the left clavicle (after ten minutes); this warmth afterwards extended to the tip of the left scapula and to the acromion process, while at the heart it disappeared. Sensation of pressure above the heart, extending to the region of the thyroid gland, as from incarcerated flatus, with frequent need of taking a deep breath, and slight attacks of nausea (after five minutes). Slight pressure in the precordial region, not relieved by eructations.
Pressive sensation about the heart (first day). Precordial pain.
Great anxiety in the precordial and epigastric regions. Heaviness of the precordial region. Aching in the precordial region on every paroxysm of cough. Rush of blood to the heart and palpitation, that becomes very violent after eating (after nine days). The heart is not enlarged and in its normal position, but the impulse is of a whirring character; the first sound of the heart at the apex is blowing, the second clear; at the orifice of the heart a systolic murmur is heard (seventh day). Bruit de souffle with the first sound of the heart (after sixteen days).
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.