Cough on deep inspiration; C. (<) during the day; with paroxysms of suffocation suddenly (Ipecac.) on swallowing; racking, preventing speech; violent, with sensation of sulphur fumes, then confusion of head and headache; rough, and hollow and dry, with fatigue; hacking. Dry cough, in morning; from tickling rawness in throat; with pain in l. side of chest; with stitches extending from l. nipple into l. side of chest. Short C., without expectoration, with sore pain in chest.
Respiration. – Oppressed (Ipecac.). Difficult; he cannot inspire sufficient air, (>) walking, even rapidly, and in evening and night, (<) morning. Short, obliged to catch for breath (Kali- cyan.); S. and quick; and difficult, with prolonged inspiration and mucous rale. Deep forcible inspirations necessary from time to time. Spasmodic. Frequent, deep. Deep breathing becomes a yawning; D. expirations now and then; frequent D. expirations when sitting. Impeded by pressure in pit of stomach, as from pressure on lower end of sternum; inspiration as from impediment in middle of chest.
Clinical Croup, diphtheritic; croup idiopathic. In croup Bromium is rarely indicated in the early stage; but when the febrile symptoms have subsided, the patient is weak, perspiring, has a hard, tight cough, which is spasmodic, with suffocative attacks and sometimes rattling of mucus in larynx; the element of spasm generally indicates the drug. It follows well after Iodine. The choice is generally between Kali bich., Ipecac. and Brom; these are adapted to the same stage of the disease. Spasmodic croup symptoms, starting up as if choked, (>) drinking; every inspiration provokes cough. Asthma is suffocative attacks, it seems as if the breathing were hindered by spasmodic constriction. In pneumonia, for suffocative attacks, cannot expectorate. Asthma (>) at sea.
Chest
Swelling of mamma. Stitches; here and there in wall; in r. side, (<) rapid walking; in r. side between sixth and seventh ribs at 6 P.M.; in r. side beneath fourth rib, with palpitation; in l., below ribs; in l., extending towards arm; in upper part, with difficult breathing and sensation of distention; in lungs on attempt to breathe deeply, with cough, pulse full and hard, in beginning slow, afterwards rapid. Tearing in l. clavicle. Pressure upon; on deep inspiration; in r.; in l. pectoral muscles; in wall below r. nipple; in upper part; below l. clavicle; in sternum, with lassitude; intermittent, outward in spots in r. wall in evening, (<) motion of thorax.
Pain during cough; P. under ribs, (<) pressure, more in r. side; in l. side; in l. by fourth rib; under l. ribs, (<) lying bent and in night; in l. side during cough, extending inward from nipple; in l. lung; in r. lung; in r. wall on waking; in r. side beneath ribs, (<) pressure; in r. between seventh and ninth ribs, (<) motion; in r. side, gradually extending towards back; in r. side, (<) morning and evening, lifting a light weight with r. hand by walking, on account of increased motion of pectoral muscles, (<) moving thorax after rest, and on waking, afterwards less when walking than when sitting, at times changing to r. dorsal muscles and then (<) by expiration; wandering, in l. on waking, (<) bending shoulders forward, with slight flexion of upper part of chest, or by turning thorax on its axis, thus seeming to be in muscles, then extending to r. side of chest, then leaving l. and continuing in r. Paralytic drawing pan through l. towards scapula and into l. arm.
Anxiety, with difficult breathing. Constriction, impeding respiration with dry tickling cough. Tension. Fulness increasing till noon, continuing till evening, and in throat, with feeling as if a soft substance were between lungs and sternum. Congestion. Burning, then ineffectual retching. Tickling in region of r. eight rib; in r. side, in region sixth rib, in afternoon. Peculiar exhaustion.
Heart
Severe beats when standing, (>) deep inspiration. Palpitation; in evening, (<) lying on l. side; when walking; on rising from a chair; with forcible inspiration; with oppression around heart, sensation as if the inspired air were cold, and with tendency to yawn.
Clinical Hypertrophy of heart, palpitation, suffocation.
Pulse
Rapid; and tense. Slow and hard; and full then rapid. Full.
Neck
Swollen gland on each side. Stiffness in morning; on l. side and pain on turning head.
Back
Twitching in l. latissimus dorsi. Pain before menstruation, with weakness and want of appetite. Creeping down. Sticking tickling in spine, more towards r. side. Boring in spinous processes of dorsal vertebrae. Pressure in l. dorsal muscles. Wandering pressive pain in dorsal muscles below scapulae. Tension in r. lumbar and dorsal muscles, (<) moving these parts. Sore pain in small of B.
Extremities
Pain; alternating with chilliness and heat. Compression in upper arm and in forepart of both knees. Stiffness at 11 A.M., (>) in afternoon.
Upper Extremities
Constriction. Stitches in r. axilla; burning, on top of r. shoulder joint. Pain in r. shoulder; in joint; below S.; in l. shoulder-joint, with weariness; bruised in l. S. then in r. elbow; rheumatic constricting, in r. S. when walking in street, extending into arm; painful paralytic sensation in l. S., then in r. S. joint.
Arm. – Tearing in evening, especially in hands and fingers. Restlessness and jactitation. Weakness; of l. Paralyzed feeling in l.; as after a blow, in afternoon on holding it bent while walking, with ill humor.
Cracking in l. elbow. Sticking in inner condyle of r. elbow. Sensation from wrists to a little below elbows as if in a vise, then sticking in fingers, which extends towards head. Pressure in l. forearm; in l. wrist. Trembling of hands. Pain in r. hand, once shooting into middle finger, with throbbing pain. Pressure in metacarpal bone of r. index.
Fingers. – Stitches; on back of joint between first and second phalanges of l. fourth all the forenoon; on back of r. little, with red spots; burning, in tip of l. index. Tearing; in first phalanges of r. fourth and fifth; through l. fourth and in r. third and fourth; in middle joint of l. middle obliging extension of fingers; T. asunder pain between metacarpus and first phalanx of r. thumb. Pressure in roots of l; on back of joint between first and second phalanges of r. fourth. Compression at bases of l. fourth and fifth. Dead pain in all joints of l., extending to elbow and shoulder, with pain in upper and lower part of arm. Stiffness of r. so that she is afraid of letting the dish fall which she is holding.
Lower Extremities
Knee. Twitching in inner side of r. Pain; in bone of r.; in bend of r.; in r. and downward, with heaviness in r. leg; in l.; in forepart of l; in l. in morning, (<) motion, and in l. hip; rheumatic, in l.; burning, in l. Throbbing in forepart of r. while sitting.
Leg. – Gnawing in tibiae; sudden G. in forepart of leg, extending to r. side, or sawing pain. Boring in r. tibia; in l;. T.; in lower part of l. T. Pressure in r. tibia; in head of r. T.; deep in l. leg; deep in l. leg, extending into foot, with weariness. Pain deep in leg while sitting, l. then r. Throbbing pain in evening on going out, especially in r., with stiffness as far as foot, and with stiffness and pain in r. great toe and in middle toes. Fatiguing pain in bones of l. Weakness of l. Paralytic sensation in r.
Ankle. – Pressure in r.; in l. and anteriorly in bones of r. tarsus and bones on back of r. foot; in r. internal malleolus.
Foot. – Tearing in tendons on back of r. Pressure on back of l. Pain in middle of ball of l. in evening, as from stepping on a hard body, with paralyzed feeling in knee and hip, then aching in l. side of throat near thyroid cartilage. Drawing in tendons on back of r. Tension in tendons on back of r. on bending ankle while walking.
Toes. – Cutting in flesh near nail of great; on back of l. fourth. Pain in r.; in r. fourth in evening; in tip of r. fourth, with tickling on forehead and pain on inner side of r. knee; in a corn on r. little, with rapid growth. Burning and pain in a corn on r. fourth and beneath its ball.
Skin
Yellow. Bluish in many parts. Red spots on back of l. hand, more towards thumb and index, disappearing and reappearing, sometimes itching, sometimes changing to vesicles, which leave red spots. Destruction, with burning, then inflammation. Boils on arms and face. Pimples on nose and posteriorly on r. side of tongue; about r. inner canthus, with pain on touch and watery discharge when pricked; in suture before anus, with pain on pressure and (<) rubbing; on r. ring finger, on lower part of ulnar side of third phalanx.
Stitches on malar-bone; on larynx. Pricking changing to burning and dryness. Cutting on ball of r. great toe. Sensation of something living, especially in arms and legs. Crawling below l. nostril, then on r. cheek; of l. great toe, with coldness in it, waking at night; in fingers and short twitches in muscles of foot and in region of knee; tickling, in l. cheek, also in middle of l. cheek. Tickling, (>) scratching; T. on r. side of forehead and on l. side of occiput; on l. cheek and l. side of head; on l. malar-bone in afternoon; on r. cheek, (>) scratching; on r. shoulder; on lower limbs; on outer side of l. thigh in afternoon; below r. knee-cap, (>) scratching. Itching, (>) scratching; above r. external canthus; between fingers; in various places, but reappearing; I. now here, now there, mostly on r. side of face; tickling, in spots, now on r. side, now on l.
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.