Ankle.- Swelling without redness but with tearing, which can be (>) application of warmth. Tearing; around ankles and on dorsum of feet when lying down, with nausea. Pain on touch.
Foot.- OEdematous; with exhaustion. Swelling; then weakness, then heaviness of them; with numbness and creeping in lower limbs; hard, red-blue, green-yellow and painful; shining hot, extending above ankles, with round red spots, causing burning pain. Drawing, so that he cannot hold it still and can step only cautiously. Trembling. Dragged loosely when walking, when lying they lie relaxed and fallen down. Steps flat with the whole sole when walking. Cramps; and in legs to knees, (>) warm applications and friction Stitches in outer border; in soles; in bottom of l. heel when treading, extending to posterior surface of thigh. Tearing in heels; in metatarsal articulations, with stitches, and with stitches in joints when treading or walking, as if feet were sprained, and ankles feel sore and painful when touched; prickling T. in a corn at night in bed. Pain; (<) motion; (<) on appearance of menses; in soles on stepping; Sprained-pain when in unnatural position and on a misstep; in joints, on top of instep, when stepping. Pain in heels as if they had lain in a hard place, in morning on waking. Pricking pains from soles to about two inches above knees, with sensation lost in l. leg and impaired in r. and loss of motion in both. Numb pain in r., with inability to raise it when sitting except with the hand. Weakness; on great exertion; gave way beneath him. Fuzziness, extending a hand’s breadth above ankle, with falling asleep and coldness; in soles, with formication and pain, the numbness and pain gradually extending up calves and thighs, with cutting. Soles feel as if made of wood and do not feel the ground. Numbness, with stiffness, insensibility and occasional swelling and pain. Stiffness, with weakness. Could be moved only when lying. Paralysis; preceded by vomiting.
Toes.- Drawn downward (Cuprum). Contracted so that the tips touch the soles, walking is difficult and standing upright causes pain. Flexed, can be extended a little by exertion of the will, but easily with the hand, and her gait is difficult and awkward. Weakness. (Stiffness so that she could not walk.). Numbness to knees (Phosphorus). Paralysis of extensors and flexors.
Clinical Sciatica coming on at night, (>) heat, burning pains, anguish.
Skin
White and pasty-looking; W. as in infants, then yellow and scaly, producing an irritating eruption all over body, with a strong and peculiar smell. Blue; in spots on abdomen, genitals and in white of eye; in spots anteriorly on thighs, not removed by pressure. Blue, corrugated and feeling as if parboiled. Yellow on neck; yellow spots on chest; upper part of chest; and brown, with rare perspiration; then dusky brown. Livid on arms; on anterior part of chest and neck; dark and L. on hands and lower half of forearm, as in malignant cholera. Smutty, mottled, especially on limbs. Smutty brown, especially on uncovered parts. Red over whole body; with moisture; R. spots over whole body; redness of hand, with red points extending half way up forearm. Spots of purpura on neck. Anaemic, lustreless, parchment-like and would be raised in thin folds from the underlying tissues, especially as all fat and disappeared. Hard and horny on toes, especially little toes, which pained like a burning and made walking difficult. Day; and rough; and cracked, also scaly, very sore, with a strong and peculiar smell. Petechiae (Phosphorus, Secale c.); on trunk and thighs; purple, on chest and neck; red, circumscribed, in evening, painful, moist, and burning after scratching.
Eruptions; around mouth (Rhus t.), burning and painful; over whole body; chiefly on hands, forearms, scrotum and thighs; on forehead; colorless, biting, around whole neck, on shoulders and on sides; rough cracked, dirty, brownish-red on neck, bosom and shoulder, with burning and itching, which were always (<) during coryza; reddish-brown; rough in patches on chest anteriorly; itching, dry brownish-red in irregular patches on waist and bosom; painful black. Rash red, scorbutic; over whole body, falling off in scales (Hydrocotyle); with such pains all over that he could not turn in bed; red anteriorly on body, spreading to whole body except face, skin red, swollen, covered with fine blisters, with itching and burning, disturbing sleep, than desquamation. Miliary eruption; on forehead, wrists and feet; with amelioration of all symptoms and re-establishment of urinary discharge, then mealsy scales. Nettle-rash; especially on abdomen. Blotches on forehead; on hands, with pimples; small white, and the skin colored, smarting and painful, the pain generally (<) at night; large bed blotches, and partially in wheals, on face and neck, spreading over whole body.
Swelling of all parts around orbits; painless under l. eye, soft, partly closing eye (Rhus t.); like a nut on each frontal eminence, (<) evening; of ears, with erysipelatous redness and blisters, which soon discharge and become gangrenous looking; of l. hand, forearm and axillary glands, with inflammation of hand, and purple patches gradually covering arm and side. OEdema of head, face, eyes, neck and chest. General erysipelas, with sensation of a devouring fire.
Desquamation; from head to foot; of whole body except head; of the cuticle and skin of tongue; scaling and irritating eruptions, which nothing relieves but. Turkish baths. Eruptions on face dried into scabs, and nose and lids scaled. Eruption on face dries, here and there scabs fall off, and l. concha new blisters form.
Pimples on hands, chest and forehead; on thumb; around mouth; burning, causing anguish; red, conical, over hand and fingers, with itching, which is (<) by scratching; painful nodes on r. arm; small, on several parts, causing burning pain, but not much itching; pointed, with itching, (>) scratching in region of l. temple, exuding bloody water when scratched and painful and sore when rubbed; itching, between eyebrows, exuding bloody water and then filled with pus; whitish pointed, the tips filled with watery fluid, with burning itching, on hands, between fingers and on abdomen, the fluid flows out on scratching and the itching disappears. Inflamed spot on l. side of face, by the parotids, red, solid, painful, appearing yellow on pressure. Inflammation of lower part of abdomen, penis, scrotum and upper part of thighs, with ulcerations in some places, burning pain and constitutional derangement.
Deep gangrene (Secale c.). Whitlow. Abscesses on hands, then pain in wrists and arms; on posterior side of arm above wrist, on opening it copious discharge of thick yellow pus, with denudation of surface of ulna. Boils; which refuse to heal; on back; digging burning pain in the boil in groin when touched. Sores on head and neck. Pustules; on forehead; face; l. cheek; about angles of mouth; on chest; on neck and arms, especially painful at night; pale red, between thumb and index, with pain (<) evening; itchlike, then desquamation and itching; as in varioloid, on face and upper part of body; partly confluent, easily torn open, changed to thick crusts and left scars, on forehead, about eyes, on cheek-bones, shoulders, upper part of arm and chest.
Blistering of feet. Vesicles covering face; about mouth; black, causing burning; on face, with itching; coalescing, surrounded by a red base, over ear and on nose; over whole body except limbs with inflamed appearance of skin between them; containing clear watery liquid, on inner side of thumbs; filled with yellow fluid, on the red inflamed part of face, the redness and inflammation spreading about nose and mouth. Discrete papulo-vesicular eruption on trunk and upper limbs, with itching (<) at night. Shingles. (Ranunculus bulbosus, Rhus t.). Eczema. Herpes-like spot on side of neck, and upon face, with itching and burning, l. then r.; red herpetic skin around mouth. (Itchlike eruption, especially in bends of knees.)
Ulcers on face; which did not yield to treatment; around lips; cancerous, ulcer necessitating amputation of the limb; on leg, with crust and surrounded by on inflamed border, it is burning and painful; with very high edges; much coagulated blood comes out; on heels, discharging ichorous matter. Burning pain in ulcers. Burning in border of ulcer and itching in U. itself; around ulcer, which is fetid and suppurates, with faintness and drowsiness in daytime. Tearing in U. Painful ulcers, (<) morning, with dark-brown, thin, bloody pus under a thin scurf, with single stitches while sitting, the stitches (>) standing and still more walking. Suppuration and swelling around the spreading U., especially on abdomen, genitals and inside of thighs. Fleshy excrescences spring up from U. on fingers, they soon become decayed, blue and green, with viscid ichor, spreading on intolerance odor. Painful sensitiveness of old U. previously painless.
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.