Clinical Laryngeal catarrhal, with dryness, burning, sensitiveness. Bronchitis, cough in the night, with rawness behind the larynx. Paroxysmal cough, with suffocation, (<) cold air. Capillary bronchitis, with extreme anxiety, puffiness of the face, etc. Emphysema, with excessive dyspnoea, suffocative cough, cold perspiration, etc. Asthmatic attacks coming on after midnight, suffocative, with cold sweat, burning in chest, extreme anguish. Asthma especially (<) cold changes of temperature, feeling of great constrictions in air passages and gasping. Dyspnoea from oedema of lungs in Bright’s disease, consumption; consolidation of the lungs, with extreme prostration; fever, sweat etc. Valuable for the cachexia which leads to chronic disease of the lungs. In all pulmonary troubles the cough is (<) after midnight, (<) lying on back, expectoration is very scanty, with general Arsenic symptoms. pectoris.
Chest
Muscles wasted, peculiar sunken appearance. Hollow between his chest and belly, into which “she could have laid her arm.” Suffocative catarrh; catarrh and oppression of chest, with phlegm; wheezing, with and oppression of chest, with phlegm; wheezing, with bruised pain between shoulders. Cramp Twitching.
Stitches; when stooping; in l. during deep inspiration, obliging to cough; in side under short ribs, she cannot lie on that side; when coughing in side of chest, then in side of abdomen; under ribs when coughing, and increased headache, as if heat were in it; upward on sides from talking; upward in sternum when coughing. Stitching-tearing in region or r. upper ribs. Stitching-tearing, tensive pressing and burning pain. Pain; in r., clavicle; at junction of upper and lower sternal regions; in r. side; in lower, on full inspiration; internally in upper part; in r. upper, ending in stitches, (<) breathing; tensive, (<) sitting; smarting pain along sternum.
Oppression; evening; wakes at night with O. or spasm in chest and anxiety; in region of sternum, making respiration difficult; when walking fast, coughing or ascending stairs; after eating, with anxiety; sudden while walking, threatening suffocation, with weakness. Tightness; as soon as he walked a little; with dryness; as if bound by a loop; he feels as if he must burst. Constriction evenings, with anxiety and restlessness; C. with heaviness; with short and hacking cough; so that he could scarcely speak and came near fainting. Heaviness on sternum. Weight on. Compressive sensation when eating.
Pneumonia of posterior lobes of lungs and partial consolidation of lower lobes of both sides. Inflammation of lungs. Congestion of lungs. Shock in apex of r. lung, with higher percussion sound than in l., increased auscultation, vesicular murmur and large and fine moist rales. Soreness in chest, with rawness. Burning internally; with excruciating pain; extending below diaphragm; in r., extending to groin, where it is a pressure. Chilliness internally, in evening and after supper. Creeping internally. Lassitude when walking, with oppression of breathing.
Heart
Sounds, especially the “choc,” violent, not agreeing with the small pulse. Decided bruit de souffle. Cramp. Pain in region; burning P. in region, with tumultuous beating of heart and feeling as if it were turning inside out and everything were spilling out of it. Praecordial anxiety. Oppression in region. Sensation as if pressed down. Inflammation, and its results, dilatation and oedema of feet.
Irritable. Palpitation (Spigelia, Thea); at night (Sulphur); after stool, with tremulous weakness, so that he has to lie down; irregular, but so violent at 3 A.M., that he imagines he hears it, with anguish; visible and audible, at night; visible in carotid, causing beads of sweat on face; with profuse sweat; with vomiting; with small irregular pulse. Tumultuous beating, but no pulse. Violent action, and one hears a violent blowing sound, with full rapid pulse. Irregularity of heart’s action and breathing. Beats faster and stronger when lying on back. Quick and faltering; and feeble, also with no pulse at wrist. Slow, with weak pulse. Weak; and irregular; almost imperceptible, small, irregular.
Clinical Very valuable in weak heart, which is irritable, rapid action on the slightest provocation. Tumultuous action of heart, palpitation. Irritable heart of smokers or of tea-drinkers. Occasionally indicated in inflammatory affections of the heart, endocarditis, hypertrophy, dropsy about the heart.
Pulse
Rapid; weak and irregular (Digitalis); weak and unequal, with occasional indication of fluttering; soft and jerking; full and hard; sharp, but easily compressible; hard, irregularly accelerated; full and compressible, then fluttering, then weak. Slow and hardish. Tense; and small. Full and strong. Feeble; and small. Small, contracted and intermitting. Restless, small, increased after repeated vomiting. Pulseless; with frequent, irritated beating of heart.
Neck
Drawn by spasms to l. side and backward. Distortion of muscles. Painless swelling. Swelling of an artery on l. side when stopping. Neuralgia on l. side, then paralyzed feeling. Pain in morning on waking, across nape and shoulders; P. in vertebrae on pressure; cramplike P. on l. side. Stiffness; of nape, of nape if bruised or sprained, night and morning, and a similar pain over hips. Lost the use of muscles of nape.
Back
Pain; with uneasiness and anxiety; with weakness and inclination to lie down, which did not relieve; with painful drawing on external surface of extremities. Beating, drawing and stitching pain at night in back, small of back and thighs. Bruised pain; and across scapulae. Burning pain, (<) sitting up. Drawing pain in forenoon. Drawing up and down. Gurgling movements in muscles of l. side when lying on r. side. Weakness.
Spine.- Unmistakable alteration of cord, which may manifest itself as myelitis centralis acuta or poliomyelitis acuta, in more chronic cases inflammation may result, not only of the gray substance, but of the white also, constituting a diffuse myelitis (comp. Phosphorus). Tearing in lower part. Acute pain in lower part. Neuralgia at top, extending to vertex. Stiffness beginning in region of as coccygis. Weakness, with coldness and tenderness.
Pain across scapulae, extending down arms. Drawing pain between scapulae, obliging him to lie down. Pain in region of two last dorsal vertebrae. Stitches in region of kidneys when inspiring and sneezing. Loins, tensive tearing, especially below curve of l. rib, where it is sensitive to touch; pain; pain after vomiting; periodical pain; bruised pain; drawing pain from loins to shoulders, with stitches in sides and flatus moving about in abdomen and pressing up, (>) eructations; painful contraction over anus, towards loins; weakness; painful stiffness. Drawing pain sacrum to nape, causing trunk to bend backward.
Extremities
Nails lost; badly colored; altered color and peeled off; livid, violet; dirty yellowish brown, with longitudinal furrows and cracks; changed color nearly every month, at first fiery red, then black, as if suffused with blood, then new nails, which were thin and transparent. Swelling. Atrophy of muscles. Hands and feet as if mummified, so that the skin hung in folds about the bones, which protruded. Hands and feet wasted, so that joints protruded, and so paralyzed that nothing could be held firmly, the feet would not permit him to rise, on stepping he always planted the flat sole and on walking dragged his feet like weights.
Convulsions; with rigidity and pain. Distortion. Twitching; with painful drawings starting from back. Startings on falling asleep. Stretching from time to time and remaining in that condition several moments on account of relaxation, then vomiting with renewed violence. Contractions; in knees and elbows; drawing together of upper and lower. Toes and fingers continually flexed, (>) after profuse loss of blood by vomiting and from anus, after being bent straight they hands and feet, and the toes and fingers again remained bent. Contraction of flexors of four last fingers of both hands and of all toes, the toe last phalanges flexed upon the first and the balls of fingers and toes rested on palms and soles, so that walking was difficult. Cramp; with rigor and numbness; in legs and arms. Trembling; after a moderate walk; after vomiting; with jerking; of r. arm and lower extremely; in hands and feet, with prickling. Hands and feet constantly agitated.
Stitches in hands and feet. Tearing; in long bones; in arms and lower limbs, (<) lying on affected side, (>) motion of affected part; sudden tearing jerking or stitching in thumb or big toe in morning in bed, changing to a burning. Gnawing in legs and arms; as of rats, or like the boring of a gimlet into bones. Neuralgia in arms and legs. Pain; with stiffness; with dread of moving them; with feeling of sickness; occasional, in joints, as shoulder and knee. Wandering pain; especially in arms, which were weak. Arthritis pain in shoulders and hips. Drawing pain; (>) by exercise; in joints of knees, feet and hands; in evening in foot and middle finger. Sensitiveness of muscles. Uneasiness before retiring. (>) lying down.
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.