Sensation of weakness in both knees (disappearing in the right in ten minutes, in the left in half an hour), (first day). Strong extension of the right knee impossible on account of sensitive, painful obstacle in the popliteal space; the same symptom in the left knee. Sudden soreness shooting into the left knee, tension and sticking, partly on the patella, partly just above it, with swelling, aggravated by pressure, standing, rising from a seat and sitting down, also depriving of sleep at night, lasting a long time. Pains in both knees (twenty-fourth day). The right knee-joint was painful when seated, but the pain soon disappeared, and was succeeded by a feeling of cold in the knee, in the forenoon; a transitory pressing and tension in the heart then came on, and on ceasing, the coldness in the knee was again perceived, but in a less degree, in the forenoon (sixty-fifth) day. Pain in the patellae, frequently returning, whether sitting or walking; a twitching as if a tendon were slowly drawn out and then suffered to return; a similar pain in the temples while sleeping. Knees painful while walking, as though bruised; the weight of the body seems to him to great for the legs, in the evening (sixty-eighth day). Sensation of dislocation in the knee and hip-joints (aggravated by walking in the open air). Cramp like pain above the left knee, while sitting (after forty-six hours). Drawing tearing in the right knee about 5 P.M. (sixteenth day). Very painful drawing transversely through both knees, through the middle of the patella, with a painless circumscribed tense and elastic swelling, as large as a small hen’s egg in the middle of the hollow of the left knee, extending deeply without preventing motion, appears after fourteen days, but gradually disappears, with simultaneous disappearance of a previously existing rectal fissure (twelfth week). Tension in both knees and heels, especially when rising after being long seated, in the evening (sixth day); she compared to a feeling as if the feet had been rendered stiff by overexertion in walking (seventh day); diminished; did not altogether cease on the days when she took no medicine; only troublesome when walking, not when sitting twenty-second day); diminished only very slowly, often disappeared, and then suddenly set in again, and first completely vanished at the expiration of three months. Painful tension in the right popliteal space, in the afternoon (fifteenth day). A tensive pain and a bruised sensation, extending from within outward on flexing the right knee, on pressure, the pain involved the outer margin of the patella, in the evening while lying in bed (forty-first day). Tension in the left knee. A painful pressure inward on the inner side of the knee, while sitting (after two hours and a quarter). Slight pressing on the inner side of the right knee (sixty-eighth day). Pinching pressive pain near and beneath the patella on bending or stretching out the right leg (after seven hours and a half). Sensation as if a fine knife were piercing beneath the knee, a coarse was sticking. Tearing in the knees.
Tearing in the right popliteal space on bending the body to the right side. Tearing in the left knee-joint, extending to the middle of the calf, commencing while sitting, and lasting only a short time (after ten hours, second day). Tearing in the left knee (third day). A long-continued burning in the hollow of the left knee, as though an eruption would break out (after twenty- five hours). Stinging in the patellae and heels; in the latter it often returned, and was especially troublesome in walking (for a quarter of an hour). Stitches in both knees, so that they cannot be bent. Stitches in both knees when walking. Dull sticking in the hollow of the knee (fifth day). Some stitches in the knees, only when beginning to walk, and especially on rising from a seat. Sticking pain in the right knee, coming on from the popliteal space (first day). Sticking now in the left knee, now in the head, and now in the elbow and finger-joints, in the evening (sixth day). Sticking in the left knee (fifth day).
Painful stitches on the inner side of the left knee-joint, while standing (fifth day). Sticking pain in the left patella when going upstairs (sixteenth day). Violent sticking under the right knee. Sticking in the left knee, early in bed (fifth day).
Violent sticking on the outside of the left knee. A persistent burning-biting stitch on the anterior portion of the left knee (after twenty-five hours). Short, abrupt, burning-biting stitches near the inner hamstring of the knee. Dull throbbing pain on the outer side of the knee while sitting, aggravated on walking (after six hours). Leg. Numerous varices, large and small, develop over the whole right leg (second month). Both tibiae red and swollen, with burning. (The tibia is thickened, as if swollen). Weakness of the left leg while sitting, changing into a cutting sensation in the muscles of the calves when walking, which subsequently, while sitting, returns paroxysmally (after three hours). Debility of the legs (sixty-seventh day). Heaviness of the right leg, with burning on the whole inner surface of the lower leg (thirty-fifth day). Heaviness and burning again in the right lower leg, in the evening (thirty-seventh day). Heaviness and weariness of the legs, with dulness of the head (sixty-sixth day). The bone-pains of the swellings on the tibia in an old case of Mercurial poisoning begin to diminish after the third day, and become gradually less until after six weeks they entirely disappear, together with absorption of the swelling. On the tibia, a spot where there was formerly an ulcer, begins anew to be painful. Pain in the tibiae, as if the bones were broken, worse on going upstairs. Pain in the left tibia, with redness and swelling of one spot, whence the pain extends into the ankle, and does not permit the slightest touch. Cramp in the calves and soles of the feet. Cramps in the calf on stretching out the foot (thirty-seventh day). Cramp in the middle of the right calf, as though a cord were tied about it, extending into the tendo Achillis (thirty-seventh day). Spasmodic contraction in the left calf and across the sole of the foot, in the morning on stretching in bed. Right lower leg painful twice during the day (thirtieth day); felt again immediately after rising in the morning; a spot next to the tibia, near a varicose dilatation, smarted as though sore, and very sensitive to touch, and the skin over it was slightly reddened; painful again upon its upper surface as if sore, in the evening (thirty-first day). The pain in the leg again made its appearance on rising in the morning; the spot is still sensitive (thirty-second day). Bruised pain in the legs. A pressure from within outward in the tibia. A paroxysmal pain drawing downward in the right leg. Drawing pains in the left shin-bone, at 9 P.M. (eighth day). Tension in the whole right leg, while walking, at noon (thirty-ninth day).
Drawing in the right calf the whole day (fourteenth day). Drawing in the right lower leg, especially on the outside towards the ankle, and in the right hand, particularly in the thumb, at noon (sixty-first day). Tension in the flexor surface of the right leg (fifteenth day). Weight and tension in the right leg (twenty- sixth day); violent tension in the right lower leg, on which the skin was painful, as though sore and ulcerated, in the forenoon, less after dinner (twenty-eighth day). Pain, as if bruised, in the right shin-bone (third day). Tearing in the left leg downward (first day). Tearing pain in the right shin-bone from the knee downward, and from the tarsus up to the knee (subsequently repeated), (first day). Very painful tearing in the right tibia downwards (the whole day), (first day). Tearing in the right leg (fourth day). Tearing in the left lower leg (fifth day). Tearing in the right lower leg (fifth day). Tearing in both legs, and in the right thigh (sixth day). The severe burning pain in the inner side of the right lower leg was again troublesome in the afternoon (thirty-third day); the spot upon the tibia is still sensitive (thirty-fourth day); the burning in the right lower leg is drawing nearer to the ankle (thirty-seventh day); burning in the right lower leg (forty-sixth day); slight burning on the inner side of the right lower leg (fifty-eighth day); burning in the right lower leg, in the morning (sixty-fourth day); towards noon (seventy-first day). Sticking-burning pain in the external tuberosity of the left tibia (coming on when sitting, and increased by pressure), (sixteenth day). Intermittent pinching in the calves (after four days). Periodical pinching in the middle of the left calf, as if a convex button were pressed upon that part (twenty-second day). Sticking in the bones of the lower leg, from the tarsus up to the knee. Ankle. The right ankle felt sprained, though he had not sprained it; every step caused pain in the joint (after six months). The outer malleolus of the right foot was painful while walking, as after a false step. Sharp drawing pain in the left inner malleolus, gradually extending into the calf (after twenty-one hours). Tearing pain in the right tendo Achillis. Sharp tearings in the inside of the right ankle, in the afternoon (forty-sixth day). Sticking tearing in the right tarsal joint, in the forenoon while walking (fourteenth 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.