Pressure on l.; on r.; especially below r. nipple; paroxysmal, in r. side after motion. Anxiety. Tightness; in morning after rising and inability to walk; in forenoon on walking in open air; as of filled with blood. Oppression after stool; O. of forepart; in region of r. fifth and sixth ribs, with stitches; with tension. Fulness in morning on rising, as if he could not sufficiently expand the chest, (>) expectoration. Tension in ribs of both sides, extending across to pit of stomach. Weakness after loud speaking.
Clinical The chest is very sore externally to percussion or pressure, sharp pains shoot through it from front to back.
Heart
Stitches, which prevent breathing and leave aching. Painful pressure. Spasmodic contraction in region; impeding respiration, then shocks. Anxiety. Palpitation; waking from his midday sleep while sitting; in evening in bed before sleep, with anxiety; at night, with restless sleep; after eating; after dinner; during a walk, with pain in chest; with anxious dread that he might have organic disease of heart; with anguish and restless oppression of chest, pain in back, a loud sound as if on every inspiration breath would leave the body, coldness of body and cold sweat; with irregular pulse.
Pulse
Rapid.
Neck
Swelling of glands on margin on hair (Baryta carb.); of glands on l. side with sticking in throat on swallowing; hard, of glands, of lowest cervical vertebrae, with pain. Sticking in nape; and in scapulae, with confusion of head. Tearing in muscles; in r. side; in nape. Pain in glands; P., with stiffness; on turning head as if a tumor or boil would protrude; sudden sprained, on turning head; drawing, extending into head. Tension so that she could not turn the head. Stiffness; in side; on stooping; from taking cold, with stitches in neck and head, over eyes, and cough; in nape and throat.
Back
Stitches. Pain; bruised, and in chest; in both sides as if wrenched. Painful jerks in r. side on breathing, with chilliness and cold creeping. Pain in spine on bending backward. Painful stiffness of spine in morning on waking and after rising, with indolence and heaviness in legs. Stitches in upper part during, inspiration.
Scapulae – Twitching in both, and on chest. Stitches between S.; in l. praecordial region; in r. at 9 A.M.; burning, between S. (as in phthisis.); itching, in r. Tearing between S.; drawing T. between S. Cutting between S. during rest. Aching beneath S., and in middle of back; in spine between S., with short breath and (<) by breathing, with pain in vertebrae on touch. Drawing pain between S. Pressure between S.; which on motion impedes respiration; beneath r., extending upward. Pinching constriction between S.
Lumbar Region – Sticking in l. side of sacrum while walking. Tearing. Pain; in morning when rising; when riding; from lifting a heavy weight; (<) motion; so that he could scarcely rise from a seat; so that she could neither sit nor lie. Jerking pain extending from l. side to anus. Pain as from straining; in spine on stretching. Pain as if menstruation would come on, and in iliac bones. Drawing pain when sitting. Drawing. Dragging towards rectum.
Coccyx – Sticking. Drawing.
Clinical Useful in disease of the bone and curvature of the spine, tabes dorsalis. Muscular rheumatism.
Extremities
Twitching of single E. during the day; T. at night, and drawing up, waking him; in r. thigh, l. shoulder and l. arm. Shootings through, with imagination that he would have rheumatic fever, swelling of finger-joints, fever, chattering of teeth and chilliness. Sticking in joints; on great exertion; tearing, in various joints; wandering S. in joints.
Tearing; in small spots in arms and legs; in forepart of l. foot and in fingers. Paralytic bruised pain in long bones on motion and in joints of limbs and small of back, even when sitting and standing the small of the back pains as if beaten, and the muscles of legs are sore to touch. Drawing pressure in joints. Painless drawings in afternoon. Weariness in evening; till going to bed, especially in feet; of arms and feet at night. Falling asleep of hands and feet.
Upper Extremities
Shoulder – Stitches in r. after dinner; under l.; in r. joint; in l. joint of all day. Tearing; in l. joint and in elbow, also with stiffness of arm. Pain in joints in evening and night; in r. joint during rest; as after great fatigue, and in elbows. Pressure. The joints disturb him at night, at beginning of sleep; obliging him to lay arm above head.
Arm – Cramp of the whole of one or other. Tearing in l.; in r.; below r.; downward in r.; drawing, in r. from shoulder to hand; sticking, bruised pain on moving them or taking hold of them. Twitching or sticking pain at night, and in wrist, preventing sleep. Jerking pain in r. in evening. Wrenching pain in l. on moving it. Burning paralytic pain in.r.; form finger-joints to shoulder. Uneasiness and anxiety in joints and in wrist. Weakness of l., with a kind of paralysis, difficulty in moving a raising it and falling of itself. Falling asleep if he lies upon it, with pain.
Upper Arm – Sticking in r. humerus, then trembling of arm, with stitches in various muscles. Tearing in middle; in r; sticking; sticking in l. Pain just below shoulder-joint so that he cannot raise it high nor put it across back. Pain in middle as if flesh were tightly adherent to bone. Drawing pain in l. when sitting (and sewing). Partially paralyzed condition of muscles.
Elbow – Sticking in r. Tearing; in r. Drawing pain, extending from bend to wrist, (<) during rest.
Forearm – Swelling and of back of hand, with tension on motion. Stitches in l. with weakness. Tearing in r.; in l.; spasmodic, on outer side, extending from elbow to wrist, as soon as he takes hold of anything. Drawing pain in l. Painful pressure in muscles when walking; (>) touch, standing and siting.
Wrist – Stitches in l.; in r. like tearing. Tearing; in r.; in l.; sticking. Jerking shocks. Sprained feeling in r.; on motion, with sticking and tearing. Drawing pain, and in metacarpus. Jerklike drawings and thence up arm, even in morning in bed.
Hand – Distention of veins, with burning on backs of hands. Twitching in muscles of l. Trembling in afternoon. Cramp all night; in l. Sticking in l. bones; in palms in morning in bed. Tearing in r; in l.; in metacarpus; in palms. Pain in morning, with relaxation; cramplike, between r. third and fourth fingers; drawing.
Fingers – The three middle are white, cold and senseless, preceded by drawing in them. Swelling of joints. Spasmodic contraction. Cramp, without being drawn inward. Twitching of l. thumb. Stitching through r. middle; in last phalanx of r. middle; in l. joints; in first phalanx of r. index; in first joint of l. index. Tearing in l. index; in r. middle; in r. and l. ring; in l. thumb; in tips; in joints; in first joints of l. index; in second joint of l. index; in first joint of l. ring; in second joint of l. ring; in first joint of little; in second joint of l. little; in first joint of l. thumb when lying; pain in joints as if swollen on wing in evening, without swelling. Pain in knuckles as if cauterized. Jerking pain. Cramplike pain in last joint of index. They seem tense and bent in ward, as if stuck together, on stretching them. Drawing in second joint of l. index. Fuzziness in l. little and ring. Deadness.
Clinical Rheumatoid arthritis of fingers.
Lower Extremities
Dizzy tottering in evening when walking in open air. Weariness at noon, especially in ankles; of legs; especially above and below knees; after coition, with trembling of them, as after a long walk, especially of thighs.
Hip-joint – Stitches on stooping; when walking and running; in l., (<) motion; in l. extending in direction of psoas major.(<) running; above r. hip. Tearing; in l. from hips to ankles. Suppurating pain when walking in room. Wrenching pain in l. Tension in evening when walking, with drawing in hip-bones. Numbness on r. hip and thigh, with feeling as if brittle, short and small.
Nates – Painful muscular twitches when sitting and standing. Drawing spasmodic pain on r. extending towards anus. Pain on touch as if suppurating, less when sitting than when walking.
Thigh – Painful twitches in a spot in r. Stitches only at night, and in knee and heel. Tearing. Cutting in upper part of l. as from distention of muscles, (<) motion. Bruised pain in muscles of r. when at rest after walking. Weariness in anterior muscles in morning on beginning to walk, with stiffness; W. when walking, and in groin.
Knee – Swelling. Stitches; in l.; in l. in morning, more when sitting than when walking, with throbbing pain, obliging him to limp; at noon when riding, in patella on stepping when beginning to walk, extending into hip-joint; tearing, in l.; tearing, in the stiff patella (formerly broken); drawing, in patella. Tearing; in r. with tension, and in r. hip-joint; on inside on rising from a seat, with tension; stitchlike in l. Pain in patella; in patella on rising from a seat. Sprained pain in r. Bruised pain. Drawing pain about, just above hollow. Tension. Feeling as if she could not stretch the leg enough. Weariness; at night; after a warm bath, and in ankles. Numbness during afternoon nap.
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.