Extremities
Twitching in morning, after rising, especially in arms, with excitement; T. in forenoon. Bruised pain in joints of arms, hands and feet.
Upper Extremities
Shoulder, pain in l.; l., (>) motion; rheumatic pain in l., (<) motion; drawing tearing, especially in l. shoulder Pain in arms; as if distended in afternoon, (<) after supper; rheumatic pain in bones of arms, (<) r.; pain as from a cord around r. arm; pain as from a cord around r., just below shoulder, causing fulness of bloodvessels and weakness, the pain sudden, intermittent and extending in lines in different directions. Unpleasant sensation in arms in morning, then heat, more in l. hand. Weakness; a kind of numbness in l. arm, and particularly in l. shoulder.
Elbow.- pain; extending into arm; rheumatic, in bend, morning on walking, when extending arm, (>) rising and walking. Sprained pain in r. wrist at 12 M., thence it goes into first phalangeal joint of r. forefinger, where it is a tearing, with weakness of hands during menses. Trembling of hands. Rheumatic pain in l. hand, and in all finger joints.
Lower Extremities
Bruised pain when standing, as after a severe cold. Weakness; l.; on ascending stairs. Pain in knee when walking, (<) r. Uneasiness in knees, with pains just above them. Sensation as if a cord were tied under r. knee, the pain extending upward and downward in lower leg. Numb feeling in. leg from knee into foot, when lying on it; Pain in l. ankle in morning when walking, (<) ascending steps. Pain in l. foot and ball of foot. Cramplike drawing in plantar surface of r. foot. Sensitiveness of feet to pressure and when walking, especially soles. Stitches in. great toe; in under part, in evening when walking in street and when pressing on it.
Skin
Bleeding of chin from a slight scratch in morning when shaving. Itching on scrotum in evening; I. on r. shoulder; burning I. on l. hip.
Sleep
Drowsiness. Sleep delayed by warm ebullitions. Restless S., when he does sleep it is so light that he hears his birds move in their cage. Sleeplessness, with fever. In the night, half walking, half dreaming, she hears what happens around her, but dreams on, of dead bodies, that her father had died, together with fear, but feeling that the dream would pass over if she could turn on her side, which she could not do on account of heaviness in her bones.
Fever
Chilliness, at noon; C. with nausea; then heat; alternating with heat. Sensitiveness to cold. cold head and hands; skin; limbs. Cold hands; (<) motion; afternoon and evening, with cold legs. Cold legs; cold feet. Chill, with metallic taste, nausea, palpitation, pain striking from heart across to lower extremity of r. lung, sensation of cold water poured down back, numbing coldness of feet, afterwards a general chill, with deathlike faintness.
Heat; With thirst, nausea and vomiting; inward, all forenoon. Warm ebullitions in morning. Ebullitions like spasms spreading over trunk, especially in back. Flushes to head. Warm creeps run over abdomen. Burning on r. side of neck. Heat in arm; in hands; in l. hand. Heat and tingling after creeping and coldness. Fever, with thirst, nausea, vomiting, sleeplessness, agitation, animated expression of face, pain and distention of epigastric region, frequent pulse and burning pain in mouth, pharynx and stomach. Cold sweat during cramp is 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.