Female. The os tincae is open, the blood looks red, the discharge is profuse and paroxysmal, especially during motion.
Miscarriage at three months and a half preceded by discharge of thin black blood. Miscarriage, metrorrhagia. Milky leucorrhoea, causing itching. Leucorrhoea, with itching of the pudenda.
(Permanent disappearance of leucorrhoea, of a starch like consistence, yellowish, ichorous, fetid, and of painful discharges of blood, which occurred every fortnight, fetid, resembling meat-washings; the menses then appear regularly).
Hemorrhage from the uterus, at the period of the menses.
Hemorrhage from the uterus. Contractive pain in the region of the uterus. Severe stitches, deep in the vagina, from before backward. The menses, generally too early, now came on eight days late. The menses appear without pain, but are three or four times more profuse than usual; she passed clots of blood after rising. The menses continue for nine days very profusely. Violent menstruation returned three days after the menses had ceased, with violent colic and labor-pains; the blood was partly fluid, partly fluid, partly clotted; there was less discharge of red urine with strangury, and discharge of a slimy fluid from the vagina. The menses, which generally appeared four of five days too early, appeared at the right time for only a few hours, and looked watery, on the next day pure blood appeared, but only for two hours, and so in succession for four days. Increases the sexual desire to a great degree and the consequent gratification in females.
Respiratory Organs
Crawling and tickling in the larynx, exciting cough and a slimy expectoration, sometimes the cough is dry. Crawling in the larynx as if something were crawling out of it. Dry blood the next day.
Breathing laborious, and with stertor. Asthma, increasing to arrest of breath. Painless shortness of breath, during rest and motion.
Chest
Hemoptysis. Slight oppression of the chest, with desire to take a deep inspiration, which seems to relieve the oppression; after while when the inspirations are difficult, they causes a stitch on the left side behind the union of the cartilages of the short ribs, superficial (from chewing the berries). Fullness in the chest, with cough. Pressure rushing into the chest like a wind; the chest feels dilated and nevertheless oppressed (after twenty- four hours). Cutting in the chest, above the pit of the stomach (after twenty-four hours). Cutting in the chest, above the pit of the stomach (after three hours). Painless trembling in the chest, behind the right side of the sternum, frequently through the day; tremulous motion, sounding like a hollow rattling or snapping, as of electric sparks, somewhat like the creaking of new ice when walking over it (after eight days). Intermittent stitches in the clavicle. Aching pain in the whole extent of the sternum, increased by inspiration; sensation as if the sternum is painful to touch. Tensive pain with pressure in the middle of the sternum, neither increased by expiration nor inspiration. Sharp stitches below the sternum, increasing during inspiration; sensation as if breathing were made difficult by tightness of the chest. Painful dull stitches below the manubrium of the sternum on the left side (after thirty hours). Constant sore stinging pain in the xiphoid cartilage, increased by a deep inspiration and touch, most tolerable during complete rest, for a fortnight.
Spasmodic pressive pain in the front of the chest, above the pit of the stomach, extending across the chest like a band, and increasing on inspiration, after a long walk. Burning with pressure in the right lower false ribs. Burning stitches in the left chest. Shooting stitches in the left chest. Sharp stitches in the region of the right last true ribs, towards the sternum, only during inspiration. Pricking in the left side posteriorly, in the region of the two last false ribs (after thirty-one hours). Perceptible swelling of the breasts. Aching pain near the left nipple (after one hour). Tingling in the nipples, with pleasurable sensation. Stitches in the left nipple (after two hours).
Heart and Pulse
The beating of the heart is increased, more violent, alternating with pulsations throughout the abdomen, but neither in the head nor limbs, accompanied with drowsiness, without ability to sleep, in the afternoon. The beats of the heart are stronger, sometimes more rapid, fuller, and felt over a larger space (after three hours); weaker after the siesta. Pulse small, tense at one time rapid, at another slow (after two hours. Pulse beating with great force (after twenty minutes). Pulse somewhat tense, at times more rapid, at times slower. Pulse full and strong (after two hours and ten minutes). Pulse feeble.
Back and Neck
Neck. Bruised pain in the cervical muscles and vertebrae, per se, not aggravated by touch. Rheumatic drawing in the left cervical muscles, frequently returning (after one hour and a half).
Tearing pain, with pressure, in the left side of the neck, between the mastoid process and the angle of the lower jaw.
Tearing in the cervical muscles. Pressure in the left cervical muscles. Pain in a small spot on the right side of the neck, aggravated by pressure, continuing a long time and then disappearing for awhile, while walking in the open air (third day). Back. Labor like pains commencing in the back and extending along Poupart’s ligament down the thighs, followed by bloody slimy discharge from the vagina. Creeping over the back, commencing in the nape of the neck. Dorsal. Aching pain in the soft parts, just above the border of the left scapula, during rest; it disappears in the evening during motion. Pressure in a small spot below the left scapula, not noticed when moving the arm (after two hours and a half). Paralytic pressing pain in the muscles of the left scapula, with a burning sensation, gradually extending over the left side of the thorax, unaffected either by rest or motion. Stitching pain in the dorsal vertebrae (after three hours). Sharp stitches in the region of the dorsal vertebrae, increased during inspiration. Lumbar. Constant pain in the small of the back, obliging him to bend the back inward, when there is a voluptuous pain the same. Paralytic pain in the small of the back; he would like to stretch; bending backward relieved. Paralytic pains in the small of the back, especially on the left side. Painful drawing in the small of the back, especially when bending backward, as she is accustomed to feel previous to the menses (second day). Drawing pains in the small of the back, extending into the pubic region. Tearing pain, with pressure, in the region of the lumbar muscles and the lowest dorsal vertebrae, also in the adjacent parts of the ribs, especially when bending the body (after eight days).
Indescribable uneasiness in the lumbar vertebrae; dragging sensation from behind forward (resembling weak labor-pains), (after two hours). When stooping, a stitch darted into the small of the back and there remained a violent tension, as if the parts were torn; he was obliged to remained a violent sensation, as if the parts were torn; he was obliged to remain bent for some time; afterwards, when in bed, violent chill, without thirst.
Extremities
Limbs convulsed. Cracking of the joints. Dull drawing pain in the bones of the upper and lower limbs, commencing in the middle and spreading as far as the joints, where the pain was felt for a long time more violently and continuously, both during rest and motion, while in the house, disappearing in the open air (after four hours). Paralytic pain in the joints, especially after exertion. Tearing stitches in all the joints, with sensation as if swollen, accompanied with drawing stitches through the long bones.
Upper Limbs
Shoulder. Drawing sensation, with pressure in the shoulder-joint.
Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder-joint. Tearing pain in the left axilla and above the left nipple, increased by touch. Pain, as if sprained, in the right shoulder-joint, even during rest.
Stitch from the shoulder to the tip of the elbow, and at the same time a stitch from the wrist-joint to the elbow, like electricity. Arm. Weak feeling and loss of strength in the whole of the left arm, but not lasting. Aching pain in the muscles of the upper arm internally, increased by touch. Pressure pain in both upper arm, near the elbow-joint, from without inward, worse on touch and motion (after eight hours). Paralytic pain in the left arm, around the elbow-joint and in it, worse when leaning the arm upon anything. Drawing paralytic pain through the left arm, from the head of the humerus to the elbow (after half an hour). Paralytic drawing, with a feeling of weakness, in the head of the left humerus, during motion. Paralytic tearing along the right upper arm as far as the hand (after twenty-eight hours).
Tearing pain in the right arm when lying, so that she stretched it out. Stinging in both upper arms, from within outward, near other elbow-joints (after one hour). Elbow. Sticking pain in the outer condyles of both elbows (after ten hours). Sticking in the outer side of the left elbow-joint, not felt on motion (after two hours and a half). Forearm. Aching pain in the right radius, increased by motion or touch (after six hours). Heaviness and bruised feeling in both forearms on flexion, and a feeling of anxiety, obliging him to change the position of the arms frequently in order to obtain relief, after Coition (after sixteen hours). Tingling feeling of weakness in the left forearm.
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.