Respiration. Threatened with suffocation. Gets out of breath on ascending a mountain, with catching in chest and nausea. Difficult; partly on account of contraction of larynx and trachea, partly on account of dryness of nose; and hurried. Groaning. Hurried. Irregular and imperfect, sometimes quick, sometimes slow and at great intervals.
Clinical Acute inflammation of larynx, with extreme heat and burning. Occasionally useful in croup in children, with swelling, expression of great agony, loss of voice.
Chest
(Drawn together at times when coughing, the lungs themselves are contracted.) Pneumonia. Stitches; in centre of sternum; in lower part of sternum; in sternum, then in last r. false rib; (in sides); in r. side; in r. false ribs; in middle of r. (in sides); in r. side; in r. false ribs; in middle of r. clavicle; in l. side; in l. side, then below r., in l. more externally on ribs; below l. axilla; in region of l. axilla in morning; in sternum in afternoon; in r. lower ribs in afternoon; in r. costal region below arm in afternoon; deep in l. lower ribs in afternoon; at midnight on inspiration, preventing her from lying on l. side; in r. side on each inspiration after midnight and next day; in l. after dinner; in r. after dinner, more in upper part, then in l.; in r. costal region after dinner; in r. lower false ribs while yawning; in forepart, (<) inspiration; from one side to the other; from front towards back, impeding respiration; in l. lower ribs, extending towards back; in r. lower part, extending towards middle of sternum; in r. forepart, passing downward into r. lower ribs; under r. arm, extending into chest; under l. arm, extending to middle of sternum; below r. chest on inspiration, extending into r. shoulder; inward below l. breast, extending under axilla; below l. arm on sudden turning of body and on inspiration, extending through body, as if pierced by a spear, with a jerk, arresting breath, the same once on r. side, (>) rest, not at all on respiration and motion.
Tearing, especially in region of heart. Inflammation of side of diaphragm. Pain on both sides beneath ribs. Pressure; on sternum; in side in morning in bed, (>) rising; deep internally on r. side of sternum, with stitching outward. Sensation as if something beneath r. false ribs were pressed together. Squeezing in forepart from 11 A.M. till 8 P.M., (>) lying, but returning, with impeded respiration and and stitching in whole chest. Fulness after coffee, and in stomach and abdomen. Sensitiveness to touch. Dryness internally. Burning; in morning, with a clot of blood in mouth; with stitches externally and internally, as if in bones; on chest, with pinching in abdomen and constipation; on sternum. Amelioration of symptoms by empty eructation.
Clinical Extreme heat and burning in chest. Pleurisy. Has proved valuable in the exudative stage of pleurisy, with the characteristic burning sensation.
Heart
Stitches; then crawling. Pressure from H. towards sternum towards evening, (<) speaking and deep respiration. Pain; drawing. Anxiety; in afternoon. Jerking, running to head. Palpitation; towards evening.
Pulse
Diminished. Scarcely perceptible. Imperceptible. Thready. Irregular and intermittent. Small, hard and intermittent. Slow and full; S., small and intermittent. Rapid; and small; and weak trembling. Hard and full, as in inflammatory fevers. Full and bounding at wrist, with congestion of vessels of head and neck.
Neck
Thickness. Swelling of glands, with pain on touch. Twitching of l. muscles in afternoon. Tearing in l. muscles on walking, with headache like a heaviness; T. in afternoon, extending towards vertex; in nape on moving head, extending into upper of head, with stitches in r. cervical muscles. Drawing pain in a narrow line extending downward, deep in r. muscles. Stiffness, with tensive pain on stooping.
Back
Tearing; (<) morning. Cutting in B. and abdomen, extending through urethra; sticking C. through B. and abdomen. Dragging as before menstruation. Pain; and in limbs; in spine.
Scapulae. Stitches in upper part of l. in afternoon, with burning in skin on same place; S. in r. in evening; inward below r.; between S., on every motion, as if sprained. Tearing; in upper part of r., with stitches; T. between S. Pain between S. Intermittent throbbing on r. side of spine, near eleventh and twelfth dorsal vertebrae at 11 P.M., (<) every motion, extending by single jerks to r. thigh.
Kidney Region. Twitching in r., with throbbing. Stitches in r. Paroxysmal cutting and burning pains, with sensitiveness to slightest touch, alternating with pain and burning in tip of penis, urging and painful micturition, by drops, of bloody urine, at times passage of pure blood, with clots. Pain; late in evening; with urging to urinate; and in ureters, extending to bladder; in r.; in l., with tenderness on pressure and sympathetic fever.
Lumbar Region. Stitches after rising from a seat or on walking; extending into r., in r.; then tearing in l. hypochondrium; pointed, in l., with cutting in abdomen; on r. side of sacrum, as if in bone, with gnawing. Tearing with stitches. Cutting, (<) sitting; in afternoon, extending to beneath shoulders, where it becomes stitching. Boring. Gnawing; in sacrum in evening. Biting. Pain; (<) pressure, and in hypochondria; with incessant desire to urinate, with scanty discharge; P. extending to perineum; on motion as if he had injured himself; heavy, (<) pressure. Weariness while sitting, with peculiar pressing pain in back, in region of last rib.
Coccyx.-Stitching with tearing.
Clinical Lumbago, or great pain in loins, region of kidneys, etc., incessant desire to urinate, moaning and screaming. Pain in os coccygis, lancinating and tearing.
Extremities
Convulsions. Unconscious tossing about. Trembling; of hands and feet in evening during chill. Stiffness as in tetanus. Tearing in middle of r. forearm and in calves in evening and next day. Pain, with stiffness. Bruised feeling in forearms and legs. Contracting, almost paralytic pain. Drawing, almost paralytic pain. Painful drawing on external surface of l. thigh, a hand’s breadth above knee, to be low knee, and from r. elbow to middle of forearm, on inner surface. Drawings. Dry feeling in joints of arms and limbs. Weakness; in morning; of hands and feet. Numbness of arms and legs. Collapse.
Upper Extremities
Stitch in r. axilla, extending into chest. Tearing in A. Stitching-tingling in A. Stitches through and through bones of r. shoulder in afternoon. Drawing pain in l. shoulder-joint.
Upper Arm. Tearing in middle of r. in afternoon; from middle of r. to middle of forearm, (>) rubbing; on inner surface or r. humerus during breakfast, (>) pressure. Boring in middle. Gnawing in middle, of r.; in middle, on external surface; in middle of r. humerus, with stitching farther up. Bruised pain in r. Drawing in r., as if in bone, after dinner, with stitches.
Elbow. Tearing in bend of r.; from bend of r. into shoulder; in bend after dinner, passing, on rubbing into outer side of upper arm. Drawing pain in r. Sensation in r., as if she were holding something fast.
Tearing from middle of l. forearm to middle of upper arm. Stitching from r. wrist towards elbow in afternoon, and with each stitch a blow. Hand. Tearing in l.; on back of r., with stitching extending into l. upper arm; on inner margin of r., towards little finger, (>) rubbing. Painful drawing from r. into fingers, with tension. Drawing pain in bones of H. and of forearm. Tearing in l. thumb; in l. finger in afternoon. Pain in little finger, with tension.
Lower Extremities
Tottering as if dizzy. Inability to stand or walk. Paralysis; with weakness of arm.
Thigh. Twitching in flesh in middle, in afternoon, with itching. Stitches in r. hip in afternoon. Tearing in posterior part of l., with stitches; T. from middle of r. into hollow of knee in afternoon; from r. nates down posterior surface to knee; from r. hip down posterior surface to knee; from l. hip-bone into knee. Gnawing on external surface of bone from middle of r. into calf. Weight in muscles. Falling asleep of one or other.
Knee. Tottering on ascending steps. Stitches deep into r.; on inner surface of l. penetrating the knee. Tearing about r.; in r., (>) rubbing; on external surface of l. and after sitting down sensation like falling asleep; in r. extending to middle of leg; boring, now in both, now in r. only, extending backward and downward into feet, upward into r. hip and thence into l. hip, (>) warm dry applications, with sticking. (Cutting while walking.) Boring so that legs were drawn together. Pains on bringing them together; P. causing lamenting and whining; as if swollen, impeding walking, lasting longest in r. Drawing pain in hollows. Sensitiveness to touch, and in legs. Tension on r. Weariness, and of legs.
Leg. Trembling on motion. Tearing in l. calf after dinner; in calves worse while walking than while sitting; in calves at 10 A.M., as if flesh were torn away. Pain (>) violent rubbing; P. in calves, (>) afternoon by walking violently till she sweated. Bruised feeling in forenoon when walking. Feeling in tibia, just above ankle, as if skin and flesh were loosened from bone, (>) touch. Tension in r. calf after dinner. Weariness.
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.