Incessant spasmodic pains;in the feet and hands, changing from place to place, with constant crying. Pains in the limbs; (second and third days). Pain in the upper and lower extremities. Pain and bruised sensation in all the limbs. Pains in all the extremities; cramps in the flexor muscles. Periodic drawing pains extending downwards in the knees and elbows, with loss of sensation, coldness of the skin, and difficult movement of the parts. Drawing in the hands and feet. Painful drawing and tearing in the limbs. Drawing and tearing in the hands and feet. Drawing and crawling in the limbs. Drawing in the limbs, especially in the arms. Drawing or tearing pains in the limbs or joints, sometimes associated with a crawling sensation in the extremities. Violent jerking in the limbs, so that the patient was unable to separate or approximate the fingers. Severe pains in the limbs (first day). Tingling in the extremities. Tingling in the fingers and feet (after two hours). Jerking pains in the limbs and gum. Violent burning in the hands and feet, and especially the fingers and toes, which were bent and stiff.
Sensation of burning fire in the hands and feet. Burning in the palms and soles. Burning of the hands and feet. Consuming fire in the hands and feet. Fuzzy feeling in the limbs. Extension of the flexed limbs afforded some relief.
Upper Limbs
Tonic spasms;of the upper extremities. Shoulder. Violent tearing pain in the right shoulder and upper arm, as if a string were tightly drawn around it, followed by painfulness of the muscles, for a long time. Pain in the left shoulder (sixth day). Very annoying pain in the left shoulder (fifth day). Arm. Paralysis of the arm. Paralytic symptoms in the arms, with stiff and rigid flexion of the fingers, so that they could not be extended, with the most acute pains. The arms fell asleep. Wrist. Soft, painful, watery swelling of the wrists, lasting several weeks. Hand. The whole hand is drawn inward, so that the bones of the wrist are very prominent; the forearm is affected by spasms, and the hands are approximated to the chest; relief of the pain follows when one attempts to extend the flexed parts. Weakness of the hands; the patient could not hold anything securely. Contraction of the hands. The hands can with difficulty be carried to the mouth, the fingers are bent backward, and the eyes distorted. Crawling sensation in the hands and arms. Fingers. Gangrene, followed by spontaneous amputation of a finger, in one case. Fingers rigid, cold, shriveled, painful to pressure dry; hands covered with red erysipelatous spots, scales, and cracks. The fingers of both hands were flexed tightly into the hands, so that they could be opened with great difficulty; relief if the fingers were extended by another, but they immediately retracted again into the hand.
Fingers so violently flexed that the strongest man could not extend them. The fingers were violently contracted. Contraction of the fingers. Loss of sensation in the tips of the fingers.
Numbness of the tips of the fingers. Numbness of the fingers.
Most violent pains in the tips of the fingers. Violent pains in the ends of the fingers, followed by lymphatic swelling, extending up the arms, and by loss of the ends of the fingers.
Cramps in the fingers, frequently lasting several weeks, especially in children, and making it impossible to work. Drawing in the fingers. A crawling numb sensation in the fingers for a long time. Crawling in the tips of the fingers, as if something alive were creeping under the skin, or as if the fingers were asleep, as from pressure upon the arm. Peculiar prickling feeling in the tips of the fingers, that are very sensitive to cold; after awhile they begin to suppurate, and later the nails separate from their matrix and fall off one after another, leaving an unhealthy granulating surface.
Lower Limbs
Two of the youngest were attacked with gangrene. One, a boy, ten years of age, after eating the bread during fifteen days, felt a severe pain from the left groin to the calf of the leg. The feet and legs became tumefied, covered with phlyctenae, and the gangrene appearing at the inferior third of the legs, descended towards the feet and ascended to the upper part of the legs, where it became limited. The other, aged twenty-eighth months, was attacked in the same way, but on one leg only. Convulsions of the lower extremities and most violent pains. The patients are able to walk only on the rips of the toes, on account of constant cramp like spasmodic contractions of the limbs. The lower limbs were flexed; she could not stand upright, and reeled as if intoxicated, yet was perfectly conscious. Occasionally slight convulsive twitches in the lower extremities were experienced by two of the individuals. Reeling gait. Gait difficult, tottering.
Tottering gait. Inability to walk. Painful rigidity of the muscles, and an extreme lassitude in the lower extremities, causing considerable difficulty in walking (after second dose).
Lower extremities paralyzed. Weakness of the lower extremities, so that the gait was unsteady and stumbling. Weakness and pains in lower extremities. Thigh. Rigidity and soreness of the muscles, the muscles of the thighs and other parts of the lower extremities being more particularly affected. In the course of the day, a creeping sensation of insensibility upon the anterior part of the thigh and calf of the leg (second day). Leg. Great weariness of the legs, followed by lasting pains, though worse at night, and would allow no sleep nor rest. Sense of weight and want of tone from the knees down. Painful sensation of weight in the calves and ankles (second day). Occasional cramps in legs and feet. Cramps in the calves. Foot and Toes. Gangrenous death of the feet and legs as far as the knees. Swelling of the feet.
Dropsical swelling of the feet. Inversion of the feet. Violent pains in the feet and calves. Cramps and weakness of the feet.
Anaesthesia of the soles of the feet. The feet seem asleep and stiff. The ends of the toes turned purple, suppurated, and fell off. Gangrene of the toes and legs, and dropping off of the joints, the cases terminating either in death or fatuity. Cramps in the toes, so that walking is impossible.
Generalities
Rapid emaciation. Child loses flesh. Hot gangrene, that eats the flesh from the bone. Cold gangrene and death attacked the nose, fingers, hands, arms, feet, tibiae, and thighs. Dry cold gangrene. The gangrenous parts became black and separated from the body. Gangrene. Emphysematous swelling. Apoplexy. Extreme exhaustion, gangrene, or apoplexy, sometimes most violent epilepsy, followed by death. Hands, feet, ears, and nose became purple, and much of the surface assumed a mottled aspect (after twelve hours). General adynamic condition, under which the patients commonly succumbed about the tenth or twelfth day from the attack. Indications of the puerperal state (eighth day).
Secretions diminished. Opisthotonos. Emprosthotonos, opisthotonos, risus sardonicus, and raving. Emprosthotonos.
Convulsive movements and twitching of the muscles and tendons of the limbs; twitchings of the muscles of the face (tenth day); twitching of the muscles (eleventh day). Violent paroxysms, consisting of contractions of the extremities, repeated at short intervals until the extremities became cold, stiff, and immovable, with violent pains in various muscles; in some cases the attacks became tetanic, with trismus and opisthotonos, or even epilepsy, followed by weakness of memory; the attacks frequently occurred suddenly in the night. Most frightful convulsions, followed by tetanus. Paroxysms usually better at night, so that the patient could at times sleep quietly.
Convulsions. Convulsions, etc., the convulsions sometimes carrying off the patient. Strong general convulsions (after twelve hours). Frightful convulsive movements and spasms. Spasms, followed by death. Convulsions, followed by death. She died in violent convulsions. Spasms. Violent spasms, followed by anaesthesia, complete loss of sight and hearing, and coma.
General spasms, similar to epilepsy. The spasms are especially brought on by emotional excitement, followed by exhaustion, weakness, and sopor. Repeated spasms. Extremely painful tonic contractions of the muscles, with opisthotonos, great anxiety, and loud cries; these attacks lasted from half an hour to several hours. The whole body was tossed about with the greatest uneasiness, and the person covered with cold sweat. Clonic spasms, that in some parts of the body changed to tonic spasms or alternated with them. The most violent spasms seemed to recur periodically, so that the recurrence of a new attack could be foreseen. The most violent spasms occurred at night; the sweat associated with them seemed to be caused rather by the anxiety than the pains. Most violent tonic spasms in the muscles of all the extremities. Tonic spasms. Slight tetanic contractions of the face and extremities, which yielded to repeated hot baths (after one hour). The muscles subject to volition responding irregularly, with occasional violent spasms of the muscles of the extremities and back (second and third days). Spasms and twitchings, followed by death. Spasmodic movements of various kinds. Painful spasms, that lasted several weeks. Spasms and twitchings of the upper and lower extremities; spasmodic contractions in the veins. Sudden epileptiform spasms, with loss of consciousness. Epileptiform spasms. Epileptiform spasms in children; followed by death. Epileptiform spasms, occurring at intervals of about a month, during which the patient lost her memory, became foolish, and spoke with difficulty. Completely developed epilepsy, occurring form time to time, gradually succeeded by idiocy, generally fatal after six months. Epilepsy, especially in children. Epileptic attacks. Epilepsy. In some patients the spasms occurred without remission or without aggravation at any time of day, and these were in great danger.
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.