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Catamenia premature (five days) and of short duration (three days), with deficient quantity (after six days). Retardation of the menstrual flux.

Respiratory organs

Tickling in the windpipe. Voice. Voice like speaking though the nose, from obstructing mucus at root of nose, p73 extending down into the throat, in the evening (eighth day); voice rough (eleventh day); hoarseness and tenacious mucus in throat which renders it convenient to keep the mouth constantly open (eighteenth day); hoarseness (nineteenth day); hoarseness from the mucus in the throat (twenty-sixth day); voice obstructed by mucus in throat; hoarseness, after 9 A.M. (thirty-third day); voice obscured (thirty-fifth day); hoarseness, at 8 A.M. (thirty- sixth day); hoarseness (forty-seventh day); on rising, the voice gruff, bass, and hoarse; obstructing sweetish mucus in throat; voice becomes clearer after a short time (forty-eighth day).

Cough and Expectoration. Dry cough several times. Hacking cough, from tickling in larynx, chiefly in morning (fourteenth day). Hacking cough, from irritation in throat, as if from warm air ascending spirally, in the daytime (nineteenth day); cough, in the evening (twentieth day); cough, in the morning (twenty- first day); hacking cough, in the morning (twenty-second day); hacking cough, at short intervals, from irritation in throat, as of hot air rising spirally, at 6 P.M., and in the evening (twenty-sixth day); cough hacking, from irritation in throat, as of hot air rising spirally, morning, noon, and evening (twenty- eighth day); hacking cough, troublesome, frequent, excited by speaking, and tickling in throat, in the morning (twenty-ninth day); cough hacking, which detaches sweet mucus into the mouth (thirty-first day); cough ejects sweet mucus into mouth; cough hacking, from tickling in throat, at intervals (thirty-second day); cough, from tickling in throat, at intervals, in the morning; coughing and hiccoughs; shaking hacking cough (thirty- third day); hacking cough (thirty-fourth day); cough from tickling in throat; two or three single coughs in succession (thirty- sixth day); cough in series, 10 to 11 A.M. (thirty-seventh day); cough single, hacking, in the morning, at intervals (forty-eighth day); cough, with hiccough, at intervals (fifty-ninth day).

Increased secretion from the mucous membrane of the respiratory organs.

Chest

Feeling of tightness in chest with diminished secretion of mucus; the asthmatic symptoms went off after a few hours. Pains as of knives darting through the chest (after meal), decreasing towards night (eleventh day); after every meal (twelfth day). Pain in the chest on both sides, as if from a knife (twenty-fourth day).

Darting pains in the chest under lower sternum (sixteenth day).

Paroxysms of dull pressure under the sternum. Oppression in left chest, clogged sensation, as if it were difficult to force the blood through that lung, worse on stooping (forty-seventh day).

Dull pains through the left chest, worse on moving the left arm or leaning forward (forty-eighth day). Tightness, tensive- stretched feeling across chest between left breast and sternum, and in left breast, worse on inspiration, in the morning (twentieth day). Tightness under left breast (thirty-first day).

Tightness, tensive pain in left chest under breast, especially during inspiratory inflation (forty-ninth day). Tensive pain in left side under ribs, in a line with the nipple; worse on inspiration, at 9 A.M. (thirty-fifth day). Tensive pains in left side just below axilla (sixteenth day). Dull tensive pains in left chest under arm-pit and near nipple, in a line with it externally (forty-eighth day). Dull tightened pain in the chest on blowing the nose (forty-eighth day). Dull pain in left side (under axilla, in a line with nipple), in the evening (thirty- fifth day). Anteriorly, under left clavicle on inspiration a shrill, whiffing, slightly jerking tubular sound, the jerks perceptible throughout inspiration, but the shrill tubular whiffing perceptible only at the commencement of inspiration.

Pain like a knife darting through left chest, from a spot a little below the breast, also slightly in right chest, chiefly during the inspiration (fifth day). Pain as of a knife in right side, at noon (fourteenth day); (sixteenth day). Pain like a knife in left side under the ribs (twenty-first and twenty- seventh days). Aching, as if bruised, in the left clavicle, increased by moving the arm, in the evening (forty-ninth day).

Pains in left chest in the spot below breast; pricking as of needles, in the evening (tenth day); at 5 P.M. (thirteenth day).

Uneasiness in left chest over heart, in the afternoon (one hundred and seventy-seventh day). Sensation of uneasiness in left lung (sixth-first day). Pricking in left side under rib (eighteenth day); slight (nineteenth day). Prickings in left side under ribs (twenty-ninth day). Pricking pains in left side, close under ribs, in the evening (thirtieth day). Prickings in left chest, in a line with nipples externally (a few inches), (forty-eighth day). Prickings in left pectoral muscle on moving the arm (forty-ninth day). Left chest remained affected till the seventy-third day, gradually improving. Pricking in the right side under ribs (seventeenth day). Prickings in right side (twenty-third day). Tensive pain like a string pulling in right breast (third day). Tensive pains in left breast, in the evening (thirtieth day). Lancinations and biting pains in left breast, increased by a deep inspiration (eleventh day).

Heart and Pulse

Heart. Palpitation of the heart (ninth day); palpitation of the heart, with transient flushes of heat (eleventh day); sinking of the heart, which beats softly as if in water (twelfth day); slight palpitation of the heart (twentieth day); palpitation of the heart at 9 P.M. (thirty-fifth day); palpitation and jerking of the heart at intervals, worse during the flush of heat, and especially after drinking stout (forty-first day); palpitations; jerkings of the heart, in the evening (forty-fifth day); palpitation of the heart, violent and visible, prolonged after running upstairs (forty-ninth day); palpitation of the heart after drinking beer, increased by paying attention to it (fifty- first day); beatings of the heart at intervals, without any apparent exciting cause, with the heat (fifty-ninth day); heart still palpitated, violently and irregular at times, with a bellows’ sound; after a dose of Spigelia 3D, the heart became quiet (fifty-ninth day); flushes of heat in floods from the back (sixty-first day); heart’s impulse strong; pulse irregular (one hundred and seventy-seventh day); uneasiness over heart, palpitation intermittent; jerking whilst lying down or sitting (one hundred and seventy-eighth day); uneasiness over heart, it flutters slightly, especially after quick exertion, chiefly in the afternoon (one hundred and eightieth day); heart’s impulse strong (one hundred and eighty-first day); heart’s impulse strong, jerking, especially after exertion, or ascending stairs, and during digestion (one hundred and eighty-second day); the action of the heart full, and sharp strokes at times, irregular, beating rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly; (like arnica heart).

Pulse Accelerated full pulse. Circulation perceptibly accelerated. Pulse 70, weak, low, and irregular (fourth day); pulse 78, irregular; afterwards 80, low and weak; subsequently sinks to 70, irregular (ninth day); pulse 90, strong, in the evening (twelfth day); pulse 82, full; afterwards 74; strong, very irregular; very compressible during the flush (sixteenth day); pulse 96-100, very irregular (eighteenth day); pulse very irregular, 66, weak, low, and occasional quick, full beats, compressible; afterwards 70, very irregular, strong, then narrow, compressible (nineteenth day); pulse 58-60, with occasional p73 powerful quick beats, in the morning; rises to 88 after dinner; 70 in the evening (twentieth day); pulse 52-6, compressible, very irregular; afterwards 90, followed by moisture on the skin, in the morning subsequently narrow (twenty-second day); pulse 88, irregular, in the morning (twenty-fourth day); pulse irregular, 82-88, compressible, narrow, occasionally strong (twenty-seventh day); pulse very irregular, compressible (thirtieth day); pulse strong, compressible, very irregular (thirty-first day); pulse 72, very irregular, compressible (thirty-second day); pulse narrow, compressible, 94, very irregular (now at 66, now 100) (thirty-second day); pulse full, very irregular, compressible, in the evening (thirty-second day); pulse accelerated in the after- noon (thirty-ninth day). Pulse irregular (fourteenth day).

Neck and Back

Neck. Nape of neck on right side much swollen, from the spine to the mastoid process, and left maxilla slightly enlarged; the swelling is not tender, but pressive and hot, the head is with difficulty rotated, but without pain, further than tension over the part which seems to press on the brain (one hundred and ninety-second day). Stiffness and pain in muscles of neck and back, on rotating the head (thirty-third day). Painful stiffness of the cervical muscles, extending towards the ears and temples.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.