Neck and Back
Neck. Inclination to stretch out the neck, “to run the head out,” from uneasy sensations in the back of the neck (ninth day).
Stiffness of right side of neck; not able to move the head, with a feeling of drawing and tension, which lasted several days (sixth day). Stiffness of neck on left side. While taking usual morning cold bath, was suddenly seized with stiffness in right side of neck, which extended during the day to the right shoulder, and also to clavicle, which felt sore, and was swollen over sternomastoid muscle; there was much pain from every attempt to move, and was relieved from leaning head towards right side; this pain continued quite acute all day, extending towards evening through right lung also; at times the pain in neck and shoulder was so severe as to cause nausea; considerable sharp pain also in right ear (third day). Stiffness in neck and pain in ear almost entirely disappeared, only a little soreness remained (fourth day). A little soreness still in muscles of neck (fifth day). Pain in back of neck, reaching to first dorsal vertebra (after two hours and a half, second day). In the afternoon, peculiar pain across the back of the neck, I should say at the base of the brain, as if it were cutting off the body from the head; it went right through the neck, and seemed to go to the back part of throat, which was stiff and sore; a feeling of loss of power and sensation in the back of head, as if the head would fall over forward, and the natural supports of the head would no longer hold it back; this was followed by pains all down the back of the neck, especially in the most prominent bone there, and on each side of it, drawing whenever the head was turned (fifth day). Soreness and pains, as from rheumatism, in left side of neck (after four hours and a half). Seemingly rheumatic pains in left side of neck and shoulder of same side (second day). Back.
Back very weak; am unable to stand erect (continued two days), (after three days). Pain in the back came on again, at 2 P.M.
(sixteenth day). Dull pain in the back, with almost constant desire to urinate (third day). Dull pain an downward pressure in the back, accompanied by the appearance of the menses (after two weeks). Chilly, creepy sensations passing up the back, at 7 P.M.
(first day). A creeping numbness over the back of the head, and all down the spine, especially in the part between the hips; between 8 and 9 P.M. (fifth day). Stiffness and pain going all down the spine; with these pains in the back there is an inclination to bend forward, as if hard to sit up straight (at 1 P.M., nineteenth day). Cramp like stitches up and down the spine.
Dorsal. After dinner there came on a heavy pain in the back, under the left shoulder, which, after continuing severe for an hour, slowly passed away. Pain under right shoulder-blade, felt while sitting, transient (deep), in the afternoon. (Pain under right shoulder-blade), (old ailment), (sixth day). Aching in region of and below right scapula. Stitches under interior angles of scapulae during expiration. Lumbar. Backache, which kept me restless all night; pain seemed to be in region of the kidney; no position favored the pain in my back (second day). An unusual feeling, a drawing pain low in the back and abdomen, with bearing down, as if the menses were coming, although it was a week before the time; but, after four hours, it all passed off (after third powder, on the second morning). The menses came at the right time, and without the usual unpleasant premonitory symptoms. The rest of the night, after 3 A.M., I felt a dragging pain over the left hip, towards the back; I slept, but was conscious of dull pain (first night). Dull heavy pain over the left hip, and extending to the back; this continued through the afternoon and evening, with bearing down, strongly indicative of the return of the courses; the pain diminished gradually in the night, and I slept soundly (after three hours, second day). Pain in the lumbar region of the back (after second day). Pain in back, between the hips, and a slight feeling of numbness in the region of the womb, at 6.30 P.M. (eighth day). Soreness in lumbar region (after four hours and a half); with dull, heavy pains (after fourteen hours and a half); the severe heavy pain has followed me all day (second day). Pain in motion, in the sacral region, to the left of the spine, as if strained by lifting, with a feeling that a violent motion would produce lumbago (ninth day). Pain in left of sacrum, in the afternoon (fourth day); in the morning (fifth day). Contractive pain of the anterior surface of os coccygis, as if dysentery were coming on; since verified (second day).
Extremities
The limbs felt watery, as after great fatigue, with a constant desire to move (fourth day). Heaviness and weakness of limbs (third day). A numb or tired feeling of limbs (fifth day). A certain pleasant feeling of slight numbness in the limbs, like that which precedes the sleep caused by Opium or Morphia, which I remarked when awake for a minute, once or twice during the night (after 6 grains). Bruised feelings in my joints (second day).
Slight stiffness in the joints, at 9 P.M. (seventh day). Pain in limbs (eleventh day). Slight pains in the limbs (seventh day).
Darting pains in joints; more in the legs than arms, extending up into the body; pain in my knees, worse when I flex them (third day). Neuralgic stitches in muscles of knees and arms.
Superior Extremities.
Shoulder. Sharp shooting pain in the left shoulder, at 7 A.M.
(fourth day). Rheumatic pain in left shoulder, at 8 P.M. (second day). Drawing rheumatic pains through the left shoulder (after six hours). Arm. Nervous, uneasy pain in right arm (second day).
Sharp pain, first in left arm, then in the right, involving the shoulders of either side. A momentary constrictive pain suddenly seized the left arm, extending around, just above the elbow (after ten hours and a half). The next day felt pains in right arm (as from hitting the nerve), tingling, extending from elbow down the ulnar surface and into the third finger, repeatedly for three days. Pains down the arms, with weakness of the same (sixteenth day). Tired feeling in arms, and difficulty in lifting them (fourteenth day). A dumbbell, previously used with ease, was found a great burden, and the arm was with difficulty extended with it (after twenty minutes). Numbness in the left arm (after two days). Numbness in the left arm and down the ring finger, at 7 P.M. (sixth day). Numb feeling down the left arm (sixth day).
Burning throbbing sensation in the left arm and hand, as if it had been out in the snow or cold, with the sensation felt on coming to the fire, also a nervous, tremulous, weak feeling in the arm, at 11 A.M. (sixth day). Elbow. Sharp darting pain in the right elbow-joint, extending down the outside of the arm to the two middle fingers (third day). Acute pain in left elbow, and darts of pain from thence to fourth and fifth fingers, same side (these pains seemed to begin in left side of neck and elbow, and thence external to left leg, locating in left knee, and were constant for hours), (after seven hours and a half). Forearm.
Deep pain in muscles of right forearm and wrist came on about 8 P.M., and with it a dull aching pain at times occurred (first day). Pain moving; gnawing in inner aspect of wrist, deeply situated; from wrist it ran up along ulnar side of forearm to elbow; had a desire to move the arm and work it out, which did not relieve (second day). Dull numbness of the left forearm, with stitching pain passing down the arm, at 5 P.M. (fifth day).
Wrist. Aching in the joints of wrists and hands, also in the knees (after fourteen hours). Wrists feel weak; dull aching pain in them. Sharp pain in the left wrist, at 11 A.M.; frequent recurrence of the pain, lasting about five minutes at a time, at 8 P.M. (eighth day). Pain in right wrist, as if squeezed and gradually let go (deep in the bone, in the afternoon). Pain in dorsum of right hand (sixth day). Hand and Fingers. Hands powerless. Hands feel trembling, as if he must make an effort to keep them steady (second day). Numbness of the left hand, as if asleep (seventh day). Benumbed sensation in hands, very much increased by feeling of the pulse, at 11.30 A.M. (fifth day). At 3 A.M. I had ten or twelve sharp darts of pain through my right thumb, at the root of the nail, and several weaker ones through the finger-joints of the right hand (second day). Sharp pain in forefinger of left hand (sixth day). Sensation of pain in the right knuckle, as from the sting of a bee, pain lasting about two hours, at 2 P.M. (sixth day).
Inferior Extremities.
Pain in lower limbs, at 9 A.M. (tenth day). A feeling as if all the power were going out of my limbs (legs), and they would give way under me, and I could not walk across the room, as if the cause of the weakness came from the spot in the back between the hip, and took away all power below that spot from the limbs, at 6.30 P.M. (eight day). Slight twinging pain in the lower limbs (fourth day); particularly sharp momentary twinges in the ankle (fifth day). Lower extremities felt unusually warm. A feeling of weakness, as though paralyzed, passed downward from the occiput through the back to the lower extremities; the feeling in the legs was like that known as being asleep (after fifteen minutes, second day); same feeling in legs, but the sensation less perceptible in the back (after fifteen minutes, third day).
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.