Sticking in the left side of the chest (within two hours); all the afternoon (tenth day). Painful stitches in the anterior of the left chest. Pressing dull stitches in the left side of the chest, alike during inspiration and expiration (after one hour).
Several throbbing stitches in the left side of the chest (after two hours). Dull sticking in the left side (of the chest), near the middle of the sternum. Mammae. Small indurations develop in the left breast close to the nipple, in a girl of eleven years.
The indurated spots in the breast become larger and more sensitive with at times constrictive stitches in them, followed by a sore sensation over the whole area, and gradual disintegration and disappearance of the indurations. The left female mamma becomes hard. Drawing pains, with swelling of both breasts. An ulcer on the right nipple, with violent pain in the whole breast.
An indurated spot in the left breast, of a young grown-up girl, becomes sensitive, with tension in the breast as far as the axilla, at the same time the whole left side of the neck, from the ear down, becomes filled with glands as large as hazelnuts (twelfth week). Tensive sticking aching in the left female mamma.
Sensitiveness and heaviness of the breasts after the menses, with cutting pain in the nipples, which were surrounded by a brown areola, as in pregnancy (after twelve months). Feeling, when seated, as though the breasts were compressed, from before backward, aggravated by stretching the body. Pressing in the left breast, after the sensation in the lower lobes of the lungs, especially when breathing deeply (sixth day). Constant painful pressure from within towards the nipple. A double stitch in the breast (sixth day). Very painful stitch through the upper part of the left breast, from before backwards, which immediately disappeared, and left a feeling of twitching in the spot.Temporary stitch in the lower half of the left breast (fourth and twelfth days). Stinging itching on the breast, and on both sides of the neck, towards noon (eighth day).
Heart and Pulse
Precordia. Frequent feeling of faintness at the heart, relieved by warmth, with nausea and a peculiar pain, as if a number of threads were tied together in one spot, as large as a half- dollar, above the heart, and were painfully stretched with every respiration. Pressive anxiety rising to the heat like a rush of blood into it; as this accumulation recedes from the heart there remains a slight painful sensation at this point, from which it disappears as after an unusual distension. The heart is drawn downward toward the left side, as from a weight hanging upon it, with whizzing in the head. In the region of the heart a small spot, sensitive to touch, with pain as if sore (fifth day).
Cramp in the heart; in the forenoon he is suddenly attacked by a cramp which affects the whole hypochondriac tightness, even to arrest of breath, causing anxiety, without any loss of breath, with extremely painful surging, congestive squirming, warm sensation in the middle of the distended and tense pit of the stomach, extending through the spine, as if the circulation in the large blood vessels were stopped, with imperceptible, very irregularly intermitting, and tremulous beating in the heart, and a similar pulse, with paroxysms of anxiety and fear of an attack of apoplexy, obliging him to jump up suddenly and to move about in a dizzy paralytic way; after lasting three hours, disappearing gradually, with most violent, almost uninterrupted eructations of air and much flatulence, though the congestive cramp at the heart still continues the next day; but in the evening, while sitting still, it was associated with violent pain in the back, and after a restless night’s sleep, with much tossing about, there remained a suppressed, irregular intermittent pulse and action of the heart, which only gradually improved (fifth month); since that time similar paroxysms recur for a long time at shorter or longer intervals, mostly in the evening, sometimes in the night, seldom lasting all day, allowing one to lie only on the back at night, and always aggravated when he lies on the side; with frequent and profuse micturition, and with a very sunken, pale-gray expression of the face. During the thirteenth month there occurs a somewhat different attack of “heart cramp,” after an uneasy sleep an oppressive anxiety about the heart in the morning, with a quite suppressed, small pulse, intermittent and irregular, for a long time, with a tremulous feeling within the heart, obliging him frequently to gasp for air, with a feeling as if he would suffocate, though he could take a deep breath, with dizzy confusion frequently rising into the head, obliging him to rise and walk about, with deep, pressive aching in the pit of the stomach, which is distended, with enormous eructations of gas from the stomach, the emission of which affords relief; all this increases constantly during the forenoon, begins to diminish somewhat towards noon, and only ceases entirely in the evening with emission of flatus and return of the normal pulse. The whole attack was repeated on the fourth day, but was less severe, then again on the seventh day, in the evening, always beginning with spasmodic accumulation of gas in the stomach and intestines, arrest of the circulation, passing off with eructation of gas and relief. Pain in the region of the heart. Constant pressive pain at the heart, with violent beating when lying on the left side at night. Transient feeling of pressure in the heart (eighth day).
Very disagreeable pressing in the region of the heart confined to a small spot, in the evening (sixty-fourth day). A transitory pressing and tension in the heart, in the forenoon (sixty-fifth day). Sensation of falling drops in the heart felt through the whole heart into the chest. Twitching pains under the heart.
Tearing pains in the region of the heart, and from there into the left scapula, in the open air (fifth day). Sticking pains in the region of the heart. Sticking in the heart, with a hot, burning sensation in it, and then throbbing in the heart, causing anxiety and depression of spirits. Stitches in the cardiac region.
Sticking burrowing in the region of the heart. Heart’s Action.
Momentary palpitation of the heart (seventy-eighth day).
Palpitation on moving and stooping. Palpitation, with want of air, so that talking is difficult. Anxious palpitation, after smoking part of a cigar (sixty-third day). Palpitation in frequent paroxysms, recurring at irregular intervals; it begins with uneasiness and whirling in the whole body, followed by some beating in the chest, difficulty of breathing, with paleness of the face, then throbbing of the heart, so that she can neither sit nor lie, but is obliged to walk about. Beating of the heart at night, and throbbing of the pulse in the forehead, and twitching in the face. Visible palpitation without anxiety.
Violent beating of the heart in the morning when washing, disappearing during the day, suddenly returning in the evening with great anxiety, so that she did not know what to do, with heat and rush of blood to the head, dark-red face, followed by shaking chill with cramp, the next morning after which she still felt dizzy and confused (fourth month). Paroxysmal loud pulsation in the heart, at times interrupted by a violent extra sound, with intermittent pulse and was difficult to feel the pulsation of his heart; after a quarter of an hour he experienced a trembling of the heart, which recurred for a quarter of an hour, with anxiety (seventh night). Pulse. Accelerated pulse (twentieth and sixty- fourth days). Pulse 120, full and hard, in the evening (twenty- second and twenty-third days); feverish pulse, with headache in the evening (twenty-third day); pulse moderately accelerated, full and hard (twenty-fifth day). Full, quick pulse during the access of heat (thirty-fifth day). Pulse weak, fell below 60 (after four days).
Neck and Back
Neck. Swelling of the veins in the neck, extending downward from the ears, with pressure. The thickness of the neck increases, and nodular glandular swellings become very hard. The neck appears swelled, so that the loose neck cloth is troublesome (twenty- second day). The cervical vessels are distended and blue. The skin of the nape of the neck is fatty. Creaking in the cervical vertebrae on making certain movements with his head; this symptom had already been frequently observed with particular attention being paid to it, but today it was troublesome in such a greater degree (fifty-second day). Painful stiffness of the nape of the neck when moving the head, in the afternoon (ninth day).
Sensation of stiffness in the nape of the neck and on the left side of the neck, extending into the ear, even during rest, which in no way impedes movement of the neck (the stiffness is not aggravated on moving the neck), (after two hours and a quarter).
Feeling of stiffness on the left side of the nape of the neck, which had been already perceived during the first days of the experiment, but had been attributed from the beginning, by the prover, to an uncomfortable position in bed (tenth day). Drawing tension in the nape of the neck (more on the left side), recurring several times (eleventh day). A painful tension in the right side of the nape and in the small of the back (seventh day); slight tension in the left side of the nape (eighth day).
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.