Respiratory Organs
Great dryness in the trachea, early in the morning (second day). Cough and Expectoration. Fatiguing dry cough, morning and night (twelfth day). Rather dry cough, owing to roughness in the throat, early in the morning. Dry cough early in the morning.
(Dry cough, with increased tightness of the chest and roughness in the throat), (seventh day). Several attacks of dry cough, excited by tickling in the trachea (first day). Scraping dry cough, in the evening (after twelve hours). Scraping cough, accompanied with expectoration of mucus, disturbing sleep, continuing for several days. (In diseases of the chest the cough and expectoration of mucus become easier. He hawks up a quantity of white and tenacious mucus. Respiration. The respiration is accelerated by an anxious undulating sensation arising from the abdomen. Suppressed breathing; suffocative sensation.
Chest
Violent congestions to the chest, returning for two days, with more or less violence (after three hours). Oppression of the chest, caused by a tensive feeling in the pectoral muscles, in the evening (first day). Oppression of the chest, as if the sternum were pressed upon. Oppression of the chest, as if the chest were constricted, more externally. Oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest, and pain in the chest when stooping or when sitting bent. Oppression of the chest during sleep, a sort of nightmare. Oppressive burning pain in the chest, below the ribs, with impeding respiration (after forty- four hours). A very transient dull pain extending from the chest to the left hypochondrium, almost like splenetic stitches, when walking fast (first day). Extremely violent aching pain deep in the chest, arresting the breathing, in the afternoon (first days). Aching pain in the chest with tightness of breathing (third day). Constriction of the chest. Contractive pain in the chest. Pressing and drawing pain under the short ribs, early in the morning, with a feeling of fullness in the pit of the stomach and oppression of breathing (first day). Periodical clawing pain under the short ribs (first and second days).
Pinching pain transversely through the chest (fifth and sixth day). Periodical pinching pain in the outer chest, especially in the house, during motion (first day). Scraping rough feeling in the chest, with heaviness; this obliges him to hawk frequently (first day). Pain in the muscles of the chest, increased by touch (first day). The whole of the thorax feels sprained and bruised (first days). (A kind of undulating sensation in the chest). Front and Sides. Fine tearing pain in the region of the lower extremity of the sternum. Sticking pain in the middle of the chest; feels the pain as far as under the left scapula, and it is increased by motion. Pain in the middle of the left chest, which resembles cuttings with a knife, increased by turning the upper part of the body from the left to the right side. Painful sticking in the left side, below the ribs, the stitches extending in the direction of the dorsal vertebrae, during rest. Shocks in the side, across the lower part of the spinal column, or rather single continuous pressure, as with a dull point. When bending to the right side and backward, he feels as if some one plunged a knife through the left chest and out at the back. Beating paralytic pains along the left clavicle.
Heart and Pulse
The beat of the heart is stronger and more perceptible. Warm undulations at the heart (third day). Pulse reduced to 38 beats.
Diminished the number of pulsations. Immediately after taking the drug the pulse becomes feeble, small, and slow. Slow pulse.
Neck and Back
Neck. Stiffness of the nape of neck, early in the morning, when in bed (first, second, an third days). Rheumatic pain, with stiffness in nape of the neck, early in the morning, after rising (third and fourth days). Painful sensation as if the outer neck were swelling (after six hours). Tensive pain in the left cervical muscles, even during rest. Tensive rheumatic pain in the right outer side of the neck, with drawing, extending as far as behind the ear (fourth day). (Tensive pain in the outer cervical muscles, at noon). Drawing pain in the right side of the neck, towards the shoulder (sixth day). Pain in the nape of the neck, as if it had become rigid. Pain in the posterior cervical muscles (first day). Back. Violent aching-drawing pain in the right side of the back, more in the scapula, waking him from the morning sleep, and only going off gradually by turning to the other side (after thirty- six hours). Pain in the back, shoulders, and arms, early in the morning, when in bed, digging, drawing, disturbing sleep, accompanied with a bruised pain of the whole body (second, third, and fourth days). Rheumatic pain between the scapulae, hindering motion (after eight hours). Rheumatic drawing pain in the left scapula (second day). Pain, as from taking cold after a sprain, in the left scapula, early in the morning, when turning over in bed. Lumbar. Aching pain in the small of the back and back. Aching pain in small of the back (after a quarter of an hour). Aching pain in the left lumbar region. Aching pain in the small of the back, with anxiety, while sitting, disappearing on motion. Aching pain in the left side of the lumbar vertebrae, during rest. Pain in the small back, as if sprained. Pain in the small of the back, resembling a fine drawing tearing, as if on the bone (after twenty minutes). The small of the back is painful when sitting, as if the back had been bent too long, and as if one lying upon it too long. Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised, increased by rest, especially violent in rainy weather (first day). Pain in the small of the back. Pain in the small of the back, becoming intolerable by stooping. Pain in the small of the back, while sitting. Shuddering sensation in the region of the lumbar vertebrae, while sitting.
Extremities
The joints affected by gout become red, swollen, and painful.
Tremulousness of the limbs, at night. Increase of the pains in the limbs. The pains in the limbs seem to be seated in the bones or periosteum; they are mostly confined to small spots, and reappear on changes of weather. The pains in the limbs are especially felt in the forearm and leg down to the fingers and toes; they soon pass off, and resemble a cramp like drawing.
Pressive pain in the joints of the left limb, worse on motion (after 50 drops). Erratic tearing pains in the limbs (seventh day). Creeping sensation in the limbs, causing an uneasiness, especially in the arms while at rest, which obliges him to move them (first day), and afterwards, at different periods, returning, especially in rough weather.
Prickling in the right foot and hand when walking, as when the parts, go to sleep (after two hours and a half). Insensibility of the limbs. Insensibility and paralysis of the limbs. The limbs go to sleep easily (first day).
Superior Extremities
Heaviness and tremulous paralytic weakness of the right arm, when at rest, diminished by motion (fourth day). Feeling of heaviness and weakness in the left arm, as after an excessive effort, disappearing by moving the arm. Considerable feeling of weakness in the right arm, with prickling in the tips of the fingers (after eight hours). Sensation in the left arm, as if the blood ceased to circulate, with weakness and heaviness in the arm, especially when at rest (second day). Drawing digging pain in the joints of the upper limbs, especially the left, when at rest (first and second days). Fine drawing and jerking in the right arm and in the left hand (after four hours). Drawing pain in the whole of the right arm, especially when at rest; in rough weather (seventeenth and eighteenth days).
Spasmodic contractive pain in the left arm, with a paralytic feeling in the same, to such an extent that it can be lifted only with great trouble (after three hours). Sticking in the right arm (second day). Transient, dull, stitching pains in the whole of the left arm (after five hours). Pain as if the right arm were dislocated, so that it is very difficult for him to hold anything in his hand, continuing the whole day (fifth day). Fine tearing, as if in the periosteum of the right arm and elbow-joint, and only when at rest. Shoulder. Dull pain in the left shoulder-joint, continuing the whole day (after half an hour). Paralytic rheumatic pain in the right shoulder, upon which he rests, sometimes extending below the elbow, and going off by turning to the other side (after nineteenth hours).
Boring beating pain in the right shoulder-joint (seventh day). Violent tearing-boring pain in the left shoulder-joint; with falling asleep of the arm, and with a prickling sensation in the tips of the fingers, after twenty-seven hours, returning for several days. Violent tearing in the right shoulder, for several evenings, while in bed, an disturbing the night’s sleep. Tearing pain in the shoulder, early in the morning, when in bed (third and fourth days). Violently beating and drawing pain in the right shoulder- joint (fifth day). Arm. Pain in the muscles of the upper arm, as after an excessive exertion (first 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.