Heart and Pulse
Pressive pain beneath the precordial region. Palpitation of the heart. Pulse increased eight beats per minute (first day). Pulse accelerated by small doses. Rapid pulse. Pulse very quick, without much fullness (after fifteen minutes). Pulse feeble and quick; very easily compressed (third morning). Pulse 60 (eighth and ninth days). Pulse 72 (before the proving); 86 (after three hours, second day); feeble and quick in morning; 95 at 2 P.M.; 65, and easily compressed, at 10 P.M. (third day); 75 (fourth day). Pulse 58 (before the experiment); 62 (after twenty minutes). Pulse 74 (before the experiment); 75 (after five and ten minutes); 76 (after fifteen minutes); 77, a little fuller (after twenty minutes); 74 (after fifty and fifty-five minutes); 73 (after sixty minutes); 74 (after sixty-five and seventy minutes). Pulse 78 (before the experiment); same (after five and ten minutes); 80 (after fifteen minutes); 81 (after twenty minutes); 80 (after twenty-five minutes); 83 (after thirty and thirty-five minutes); 82 (after forty minutes); 80 (after thirty and forty-five and fifty minutes); 78 (after fifty five minutes); 82 (after sixty minutes). Pulse irregular (twelfth day). Pulse 76 (before the experiment); same (after five minutes); 78, full and strong (after ten minutes); 80 (after fifteen minutes); 84 (after twenty minutes); 86, very irregular and not so full (after twenty-five minutes); 86 (after thirty minutes); 87 (after thirty-five minutes); 84 (after forty minutes); 82 (after forty- five minutes); 85, extremely irregular in fullness and force, from the nausea (after fifty minutes); 80 (after fifty-five minutes); 77 (after sixty minutes); 74 (after sixty-five minutes); 75 (after seventy minutes); 73 (after seventy-five minutes); 72 (after eighty minutes); 73 (after eighty-five minutes); 74 (after ninety minute). Pulse 76 (before the experiment); same (after fifteen minutes); 78 (after twenty minutes); 80 (after twenty-five minutes); 82 (after thirty minutes); 83 (after thirty-five minutes); 84, small and quick (after forty minutes); 80 (after forty-five minutes); 75 (after sixty minutes); 74 (after sixty-five and seventy minutes); 73 (after seventy-five minutes); 77 nearly natural (after eighty minutes); 76 (after eighty-five minutes). Pulse 76 (before the experiment); same (after five minutes); 77 (after ten and fifteen minutes); 79, diminished in fullness and force (after twenty minutes); 78 (after twenty-five minutes); 81, considerably fuller (after fifty minutes); 79 (after fifty-five minutes); 78 (after sixty minutes); 77 (after sixty-five minutes); 75, nearly natural in fullness and force, only being a little irregular (after seventy minutes); 76 (after seventy-five and eighty minutes); 75 (after eighty-five minutes); 76 (after ninety minutes). Pulse 76 (before the experiment); same (after ten minutes); 78 (after fifteen minutes); 80 (after twenty minutes); 82, full (after twenty-five minutes); 84 (after thirty minutes); 86, rather small and quick, with considerable tension (after thirty-five minutes); 84 (after forty minutes); 82 (after forty-five and fifty minutes); 80 (after fifty-five minutes); 78 (after sixty minutes); 76 (after sixty-five minutes); 76, externally irregular (after seventy minutes); 75 (after seventy-five and eighty minutes); 77 (after eighty-five minutes); 76, nearly as full as usual though not so strong, and fluctuating (after ninety minutes). Pulse 76 (before the experiment); same (after five minutes); 78 (after ten minutes); 79, and fuller (after fifteen minutes); 80 (after twenty and twenty-five minutes); 82 (after thirty minutes); 80 (after thirty-five minutes); 82 (after forty minutes); 78 (after forty-five minutes); 77, (after fifty minutes); 74 (after fifty-five minutes); 72 (after sixty minutes); 74 (after sixty-five minutes); 76 (after seventy and seventy-five minutes); 75 (after eighty minutes). Pulse 80 (before the experiment); same (after five minutes); 82 (after ten minutes); 82, a little fuller (after fifteen minutes); 80 (after twenty minutes); 82 (strong and full after twenty-five minutes); 84 (after thirty minutes); 86 (after thirty-five minutes); 84 (after forty and forty-five minutes); 85 (after fifty minutes); 86 (after fifty-five minutes); 88 (after sixty minutes); 89 (after sixty-five minutes). Pulse 80 (before the experiment); same (after five minutes); 83 (after ten minutes); 84, very strong and full (after fifteen minutes); 87, smaller and tense (after twenty minutes); 88 (after twenty-five minutes); 86 (after thirty minutes); 84 (after thirty-five minutes); 85, remarkably small and quick (after forty minutes); 83 (after forty-five minutes); 81 (after fifty minutes); 79 (after fifty-five minutes); 77 (after sixty minutes); 78 (after sixty-five minutes); 80 (after seventy minutes); 81 (after seventy-five minutes); 79 (after eighty minutes); 78 (after eighty-five minutes); 78, nearly of its natural fullness, though very irregular (after ninety minutes). Extreme reduction of the force and frequency of the pulse, together with great irregularity of action. Diminution of the frequency and regularity of the pulse.
Suppression of the pulse.
Back and Neck
Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck, shoulders, and arms. Pain in the nape of the neck. Sore pain in the nape of the neck when touched. Pain in the right side of the neck, as if strained. Pain in the left side of the nape of the neck. In the night, severe backache between the crests of the iliac bones (fifteenth day). Pain down the back, and very severe in the lumbar region, and then down the extremities to the feet (third day). Soreness down the muscles of the back; feels it more when he draws his breath, pain shifts about (Fincke, 10).
Stitches from the back, beneath the left shoulder-blade, towards the shoulder-blade, worse than the stitches in the spleen (second day). Pain through the loins (third morning). Quite severe pain in the loins and down the extremities, in the morning (fourth day). Pain in the sacrum and bowels.
Extremities
Convulsive rigidity of the limbs. Tetanic rigidity of the limbs and even of the whole body. Stiffness of the limbs and rheumatic pains, with headache. Rheumatic pains in the limbs. Burning in the soles of the feet and palms of the hands. Violent pain in the right hand, so that the whole arm was sore, though lying quietly and warm in bed; also felt in the left foot several times, only on the top of the foot, afterwards in the heel and toes. Pain in the extremities (third morning).
Upper Limbs
Shoulder. Pain in both shoulders. Pain in the top of the right shoulder. Rheumatic pains in the right shoulder, worse in the morning, as if she had been lying in one position, extending down to the elbow. Violent pain in the left shoulder, in the evening.
Violent pain in the shoulder-joint, on every motion. Sudden rheumatic pain in the shoulder-joint. Pain along the inner border or the right shoulder-blade, with heat and chills and alternating, and extending down to the kidneys, where there is great heat and pain (after three hours, second day). Quite severe pain in the right shoulder, and down the shoulder-blade, in the morning (fourth day). Arm. Rheumatic pain in the arm and hand.
Rheumatic pain in the right forearm, in the evening. Hand.
Redness of the hands with violent burning. Violent ulcerative pain in the palm of the right hand close to the index finger.
Quite severe pain still continues in the right hand, in the morning (fourth day). Burning in the palm of the hand. Fingers.
Dull pains in the ball of the right thumb. Ulcerative pain in the root of the nail of the right thumb, afterwards in the left, then extending to all the fingers, on after another, from the thumb to the little finger, alike in both hands. Rheumatic pain in the right ring finger, just above the second joint. Cutting in the second joint of the left middle finger. Stitches in the tip of the right little finger.
Lower Limbs
Great weakness of the lower extremities and pain in the small of the back, relieved by bending forward (second day). Weakness of the lower extremities, while walking. Wandering rheumatic pains through both lower extremities, right most severe, in the afternoon (second day). Rheumatic pain in lower extremities (after three hours, second day). Severe rheumatic pain in lower extremities, and so severe in right ankle and toe-joint as to cause serious lameness in walking; some swelling in great toe- joint (after nine hours, second day). Hip. Bruised pain in the left hip joint, only when walking, but worse when rising from a seat. Rheumatic pain in left hip. Knee. Extremely weak in the knees and lower extremities, in the evening, while walking.
Stiffness and tension in the hollows and sides of the knees (fourth day). Leg. The left leg and foot swell, with inward burning and external coldness, at 4 P.M. (eighth day). In the evening the leg and foot swelled, with terrible burning pain; she did not know where to lay the limb; external coldness of the limbs; the pain lasted until midnight; she had to nurse the limb continually; after midnight the pain became easier, but continued until next day (sixteenth day). In the morning a stitch from the middle of the right lower leg up through the knee joint (second day). Drawing in the calves, extending into the heels, worse in the right. Cramp and crawling in the left calf (after fifteen minutes). Sharp pain in right ankle and also in great toe-joint (after three hours, second day). Ankle. Constant sticking pain, as from sting, below the right outer malleolus. Sticking pain in the right ankle. Foot. Severe pain in the left foot, at the same time as the pain in the left side of the head. Pain in the left foot, during the pain in the right arm. Pain in the left foot with headache. Burning in the soles of the feet, worse at night.
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.