Clinical Bronchitis in children, with rattling of mucus, which accumulates in the bronchial tubes and seems to fill up the air- passages so that there is great shortness of breath, cold sweat; with wheezing and rattling and cyanosis, cannot clear the lungs, greatly debilitated, with rattling in the chest, cold perspiration, threatening paralysis of the lungs. The cough is usually short, without expectoration. Sometimes valuable in oedema of the lungs, with great dyspnoea and cyanosis, with dilated heart.
Chest
Rattling of mucus, with oppression (Phos). Pain behind and at base, (<) deep breathing; deep in C. and pharynx after violent sneezing. Pressure on, in sleep. Oppression (Phos). Constriction with cough. fulness; in lungs. anxiety, and around heart; A., with oppression of chest (Phos) and rising of warmth from heart. Rawness. Almost sore twitching feeling towards evening, especially in l.side, with despair. Burning in (before each of his epileptic attacks), which rises into throat.
Heart
Pressure or heaviness in praecordium. Oppression (Phos). Anxiety in praecordium. Apprehension and warmth about heart, with sensation as if he felt the beat of the heart in the head. Warmth about heavy feeling in praecordium. Palpitation with purging. Whirling every night, with beating, (>) sweat. Action rapid; and irregular; small and irregular; intermittent and feeble; weak, afterwards forcible.
Pulse
Rapid, weak and trembling (Arsenicum); R. during nausea, rising till he vomits, then slow and weak; and almost audible, with general pulsation, which she believes must be audible. Excited. Full; irregular and rapid; F. and slow. Slow and weak. Contracted. Imperceptible. Intermittent.
Neck
Cramp in muscles. Sudden aching over l. then over r. scapula on turning head and on touch. Weakness of muscles close to occiput, (<) r. side.
Back
Stitching tearing, especially near r. hip. Pain as from weakness, (<) after eating and while sitting. Stitches in kidney region on moving arm. Pain in loins; as if he had carried a weight there, before and on rising from bed, (>)after rising; rheumatic P. above sacrum in morning.
Clinical Lumbago and sciatica, the vertebrae feel as if rubbed against each other.
Extremities
Inclination to stretch. Tearing; and drawing; T. and D. in joints. Rheumatic drawings through r. had, then drawings through legs from above downward, especially in region of knee and noticed on walking. Rheumatic and bruised feeling before and on rising. Weariness. Heaviness; of feet and arms. Insensibility, with coldness (Secale c.).
Upper Extremities
Cracking in shoulder-joints with tearing to hands. Pain in r. shoulder-joint a if dislocated. Short rheumatic pain in and around shoulder joint and l. breast. Twitching in r. arm; of tendons of arms and hands; tearing, in arm and l. side. Paroxysmal drawing along outer surface o l. upper arm, almost as if in bone. Rheumatic pain in l.elbow. Tearing in muscles of l. forearm. Trembling of hands (Agar). Stitches on back of l. hand on touching hairs. Fingers contracted upon shoulders, with rigidity of every muscle. Deadness of tips of fingers, with dryness, hardness and insensibility.
Lower Extremities
Cramp. Sticking upward in varices. Drawing, tensive pain. Tension and tearing. Heaviness and stiffness.
Thigh-Spasmodic twitching of muscles. Sticking in hip and knee in evening in bed. Rheumatic pain in and over l. hip; below l.hip. Rheumatic drawing in upper part of r.,(spasmodic drawing in T., extending to abdomen). Tension in hamstrings in evening on walking (Rhus t). Burning pricking in knees. Aching in knee as if the limb and no power and as if tendons were stretched, in morning in bed and on rising. Weakness of knees.
Leg-Tetanic spasms, (>) straightening. Twitching in; calf. Cramp in leg, (>) forcible extension; C. in calves; in calves afternoons, (>) walking; in calves, waking him. Slow rhythmical picking below l.knee. Upward sticking in Varices. Rheumatic pain on l.; side of l. calf; rheumatic between l. calf and malleolus. spasmodic drawing in calves. Weariness in legs. Numbness and coldness.
Swelling of r. malleolus, with stiffness. Sudden pricking as from a blow in l.instep; near inner malleolus. Tension on dorsum of foot during the day while walking. Weariness of feet. Feet go to sleep on sitting down (Secale c.). Sudden painful rhythmical picking in l.great toe.
Skin
Pallor of whole body; bluish. Yellow spots on fingers. Sallowness increasing to jaundice. Eruption; itching. Spots like flea bites on hands. Rash; on arms, breast and occiput; reddish; itching, suppurating,. pimples on genitals; itching, from waist to knees; like the itch, on arm near wrist and on upper arm, the itching (>) by scratching; small red, conical, hard, with inflamed base like lichen simplex, on breast, anterior surfaces of upper arms, wrists, hypogastrium and inner surfaces of thighs.
Pocklike eruption, often pustular; pimples like pocks on side of chin, with tickling. Pustules; on genitals; on scrotum and penis; as in small-pox inner surface of forearm, the on back, painful, then forming crusts; on chest and neck, lie cow-pox, with red areola, then a crust leaving a deep scar; itching; painful. Vesicles over whole body. Suppurating places become confluent and discharge blood and matter.
Itching; on scrotum,; around an ulcer;’ crawling in the sores in evening on lying down in bed; painful burning, in leg, where there are varices, as if a suppurating inflammatory swelling would ensue; biting; in r. sole evening in bed, with biting.
Clinical Pustular eruptions with red areola. Said to be useful in dynamic types of small-pox.
Sleep
Yawning; and stretching, also forenoons. Sleepiness; at 10 A.M., also with weak and gone-to-sleep limbs; 11 A.M., with sleep if he sits still and vivid dreams of a continuation of his previous thoughts; early in evening; in evening then wide awake till late at night; after dinner; on horseback in strong air; when riding in open air, with vertigo; with inactivity. Sleep as soon as he sat down in the daytime; S. after dinner. Sleeps with head erect on back, with l. hand under his head. Stupid sleep. Heavy sleep; and on waking knows nothing about it.
Sleeplessness; ill midnight; till 1 A.M., then dream that he is wading in deep water and cannot get out. Late falling asleep, with frequent waking and tossing about. Difficult falling asleep. Shocks and jerks coming from abdomen in first sleep, throwing of one or other arm from the body, now of a foot, now throwing of the whole body into the air. Starting in sleep in forenoon. Screaming in sleep, with staring eyes and trembling and drawing up of arms and feet. Talking in sleep. Restlessness sleep; with confused heavy dreams. Short sleep. Light sleep, full of historic dreams. Waking often from anxious dreams.
Dreams anxious; vivid heavy, anxious; heavy. Historic. Of fire, from which he must fly. That he preaches without having memorized and “gets stuck”. Fatiguing. Nightmare.
Fever
Chilliness; forenoons at night and on rising in morning. Rigor at 5 A., m., then heat, with rapid and full and strong pulse, hot skin, red face, heat in head, palpitation, burning at stomach, fulness and nausea, impeded respiration, pressure and constriction of chest, cough, rough respiration and pain under l.nipple on deep inspiration. Chill at 3 P.M., with trembling. C. at 6 P.M., then after eating heat with drawing in occiput; at 8 P.M., with flushes of heat.
Cold limbs hands; l. hand; hands, with moisture; cold hands and finger-tips; feet; skin; skin of r. arm, hand and both grate toes; cold shivering through skin, which remained longest on hands; C., with drowsiness and weakness; with heat of certain parts, especially of face. Rigor, with burning in head and especially of face. Rigor, with burning in head and beating of heart alternating with heat; till 8 P.M., on motion; with heat in head.
Shivering. Trembling chill on going into open air. Chill, as if cold water were dashed over him, with goose flesh on arms and yawning. Creeping chill, with heat, nausea and faintness. Chill from within outward, with trembling and general sick feeling; C. from within outward, spreading from spine over abdomen and limbs; extending from spine to limbs and especially to abdomen, with feverishness. C. running through all vessels.
Heat; afternoon, (<) motion, especially in head; H. in evening especially in face; at 6 o, clock, with want of appetite, then increased pain in abdomen in head, middle of spine; of skin; with full hard pulse; with weak pulse; with restlessness, thirst and headache followed at night by sweat. Heat and moisture of hands on coughing, with sweat of head. Heat and moisture of hands on coughing, with sweat of head. Heat and sweat of forehead on coughing, so that she became dizzy. Burning in joints, with tearing. Heat rising to head in flushes. Dry H., driving him out of bed Fatiguing H. at night, interrupting sleep. H. of same kind at the same hour two days.
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.