Heart and Pulse
Precordia. Violent shoots in heart. Heart’s Action. Violent palpitation, with tearing and shooting in heart. Very quick and painful beating of heart. Irregular, intermitting pulsation of heart. Pulse. Quick, hard pulse, with confusion of head, and thirst. Quick, full pulse, with palpitation.
Neck and Back
Neck. Bruised pain in nape and back. Tearing and drawing pain in nape, with stiffness. Shooting in right side of neck to the ear.
Shooting pains along spinal column, from nape to lumbar vertebrae, preventing the slightest movement; they lasted eleven days. Back. Drawing pains down back to sacrum. Dorsal. Pressive pain in scapulae. Tearing drawing pain in scapulae. Between the shoulders and on both arms a pain as if insects were gnawing it.
Shoots between the scapulae, with oppressions of breath. Dull pain in the region of the last dorsal vertebrae, worse when pressed. Lumbar. Pain in small of back, worse on every movement.
Violent pain in small of back, with difficulty of moving legs.
Drawing in small of back, extending to calves. Drawing pain from small of back into pelvis. Aching and stitches in the loin, which extend to the spine, with difficulty of breathing.
Extremities
Weariness and heaviness of the limbs. Tearing, drawing, and shooting pains in the limbs, especially in their joints. Tearing in hands and feet.
Superior Extremities
A kind of paralysis in right arm, which the day before was quite well; he cannot move it without the assistance of the other man.
Paralytic feeling in both arms, with creeping in tips of fingers.
Sleeping of arm, with coldness of it, and dull feeling in tips of fingers. Violent pains in both arms, with three red elevated spots that broke on the twelfth day, discharged much matter, and looked exactly like syphilitic sores; continued open eight days, and then healed up. Bruised pain in whole arm. Tearing pain in whole arm, with contraction of elbow-joint. Jerking tearing from the shoulder-joint to the fingers. Shoulder. Stiffness in the left shoulder-joint, with difficulty of moving the arm, especially backwards. In the right shoulder-joint, a violent, ever-increasing pain, at one time tearing and shooting at another aching and burning; the fifth days it went down to the fingers and bent them so spasmodically into the palm of the hand that they could not be opened. Pain as of dislocation in shoulder.
Paralytic felling in shoulder, with leaden heaviness of whole arm. Tearing and shooting alternately in shoulder and elbow- joints. Violent tearing in shoulder, at night, which disappears by external heat and friction. Burning or shooting in axilla.
Arm. Shining red swelling in right upper arm, with shooting pain in it. Dull pain, with cold feeling in both upper arms, as if a cold wind blew on it. Pain deep in middle of upper arm, with swelling of bone in three different places. Violent boring pain in humerus. Cramp like jerking in muscles of upper arm. Tearing pain in right upper arm, preventing all movement of it. Elbow.
Swelling and tearing pain in right elbow. Cracking in elbow and wrist. In bend of elbow, a feeling of contraction, so that the arm cannot be fully stretched out. Frequently recurring shoots through elbow-joint. Burning pain in bend of elbow, with slight redness of skin. Forearm. The left forearm as if paralyzed, relieved by friction. Tearing pain from middle of forearm down to fingers, which are contracted. Wrist. Redness, swelling, and violent pains, with immobility of wrist-joint. Sprained feeling in right wrist. Drawing pains in wrists and finger-joints. Hand.
Trembling of hands. Oedematous swelling of dorsum of left hand.
Soft, painless gout-nodes the size of hazelnuts on dorsum of both hands. Burning in palms. Sleeping and coldness of hands. Fingers.
Fine shootings, with swelling of finger-joints. Cramp like contraction of fingers. Tearing pain in fingers, which are swollen in places.
Inferior Extremities
Hip. Stiffness and immobility of hip-joint, with feeling as if the leg were too long; when he treads the bone seems out of joint. Bruised pain in both hip-joints. Violent tearing from hip to knee. Burning pain in hip-bone, worse particularly at night. Shooting in hip-joint. Thigh. Aching pain in thigh, as if a broad iron band were firmly bound to it. Intolerable aching in thigh-bone, with cold feeling, but external coldness. Crushed feeling in head of thigh-bone. Pain in thigh when walking, as if it would break. Paralytic pain in thigh impeding walking.
Numbness in thighs and legs. Cramp like jerking in muscles of thigh. Drawing-tearing pain in thigh down to knee. Tearing in glutei down into thigh. Feeling in thigh as if the flesh were hacked off the bone. Knee. Swelling of the knee-joint, with stiffness Cracking in knee-joint on moving it. Aching pain in patella. Shooting pain through knee-joint. Continued burning in left knee-joint. Leg. The left leg swells in the middle a little; the swelling increases and is the seat of throbbing pain; after eighteen days the place bursts, and the wound thereby occasioned, and the swelling of the bone increased daily; in twenty days it was healed again. Bruised pain in legs. Deep boring pain in middle of tibia, worse at night. Cramp in calves after moderate exercise. On going to sleep, frequent cramps in calves and thighs. Tension in tendo Achillis, preventing him from putting his foot to the ground. Ankle. Erysipelatous inflammation of left ankle and top of foot. Aching pain deep in bone of left ankle, extending up to knee; when it becomes very violent the foot becomes stiff. Feeling of strain and stretching of ankle-joint.
Violent tearing in ankles and toes. Cutting pain in ankle-joint, when walking. Foot and toes. Heaviness and weariness of feet. Tearing pain in dorsum of foot, extending over the shin-bone.
Weariness and burning in soles, as after a forced march. Great burning in heels. Swelling and painful tearing in great toe.
Shooting jerking in great toe.
Generalities
On awaking, weariness, heaviness in the limbs, and confusion of the head. Increased sensitiveness to draughts.
Skin
Objective. Redness of skin, with increased turgor. Turgor of the skin, with profuse perspiration. Scarlatina, like redness on the left side of the chest, disappearing on pressure of the finger.
Miliary rash on different parts of the body, most frequently on the extremities and chest. Scaly eruption covers the left half of the face, extending to behind the ear. Eruption of the chin of pustules as large as peas, which regularly burst on the second day, form scabs, and leave white marks. Pustular eruption at the commissures of the mouth. Pustular eruption on scrotum. Eruption on the chest, like a kind of scabies pustulosa, with violent smarting. Miliary rash on the chest. Eruption on the chest, like scabies pustulosa, with violent griping pain. Eruption of small pimples over the whole back, that occasion severe burning pain, nothing of the sort on the front of the body. Miliary rash on right shoulder. Eruption round right elbow, like a scab, with violent pain and much suppuration, heals after twelve days and leaves no mark behind. An eruption in left popliteal space that spreads over the middle of the calf. On both ankles, a miliary rash, with shooting pains in metatarsal p73 bones, and slight swelling of them. Vesicular erysipelas in face. Vesicular eruption on the upper lip (herpes labialis), which dies in a few days and forms yellow scabs. Vesicular eruption in upper third of internal surface of thigh. Blisters on both legs, like erysipelas bullosum. Three or four ulcers form on the legs, beginning with burning pain, then breaking and spontaneously healing again.
Small furunculi that suppurate. Subjective. Prickling in various parts. Prickling as with needles, especially in extremities.
Sleep
Sleepiness. Sleepiness by day. Restlessness and tossing about in bed. Frequent jerks in the act of falling asleep. Uncomfortable dreams at night. Lively dreams, with increased sexual desire.
Fever
Chilliness. Great chilliness. Shuddering. Coldness and deficient sensibility in thigh. Rigor alternating with increased temperature of the body. Cold feeling in shoulder, as if a cold compress lay on it. Heat. Sensation of prickly heat, followed by moderate perspiration. Sensation as if warm water were running down the back. Sweat. Copious perspirations. Sour and mouldy- smelling sweat.
Condition.- Aggravation
(Night), Pain in hip-bone; pain in tibia.
(Breathing deeply), Pressure and weight in chest.
(Going upstairs), Oppression of chest.
(On going to sleep), Cramps in the thighs and calves.
(Moving head), Pain in it.
(Moving knee-joint), Cracking in it.
(Motion), Pain in small of back.
(Swallowing), Aching pain.
(Walking), Pain in thigh; cutting pain in ankle-joint.
Amelioration
(Friction), Paralyzed feeling in left forearm.
(Cold water), Pain in stomach.
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.