Daily periodic cramp-pain in r. calf, r. sole and in extensor tendons of three middle fingers. Bruised feeling in arms and legs. Prostration in arms and legs in morning after rising.
Upper Extremities
Pain in shoulders and wrists; in r. shoulder-joint on raising arm (Chelidonium). Drawing pain in r. deltoid; and muscles of r. radius; in r. upper arm at 2 A.M. Periodical pains in r. upper arm. Cramp-pain in muscles about radius and in l. fingers. Drawing pain in muscles covering l. radius at 3.15 A.M. Burning pain in skin on inner side of lower half of l. forearm, also on outer aspect of l. index. Cramplike drawing pain in inner side of r. hand extending to two first joints of fourth finger. Cramp in r. second, third and fourth fingers. Drawing pain on outer side of r. fourth fingers. Drawing pain on outer side of r. fourth finger. Rheumatic drawing in first joint of l. fourth finger; in first joint of r. index.
Lower Extremities
Bruised pain in nates. Pain in hip-joints in morning, spreading through nates, making rising difficult, (<) stopping; in houghs when walking, (<) l. Drawing pain in l. knee; in sin on outer side of l. knee; from l. down leg; from outer side to external ankle. Stiff feeling in patellae and tendons of houghs when walking, with paralyzed feeling in legs and staggering. Cramp-pain in calf. Drawing pain on inner side of r. leg to internal ankle. Paralytic pain in l. tibia, with drawing pain in cutaneous nerves on outer side below patella. Feeling of a band around calf a hand’s breadth below knee when walking. Sudden cramp in muscles of r. sole flexing toes, then itching in sole in front of heel. Pain in r. instep; in lower part of r. heel, (<) treading; in sole in front of heel, (<) moving ankle.
Skin
Itching after lying down in bed.
Sleep
Yawning. Sleepiness. Waking at 11.30 P.M., with chilliness and urging to urinate, passed about two tablespoonfuls of urine; W. at midnight, with cough from irritation at back of larynx; at 2 A.M., with pressure in stomach and burning in eyelids and anus; at 3 A.M. from pain in r. loin and in urethra; at 3 A.M., with erection, rheumatic pain in r. deltoid and in muscles covering r. radius. Restless, dreamy night; R., frequent waking, and when lying on back nightmare.
Fever
Rigor; with quick pulse; with pulsation in abdomen. Shivering. Cold feeling in knees; in soles; toes. Hot feeling in face.
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.