Female.- Burning. Biting in pudenda as from salt during and after micturition. Leucorrhoea flowing like menses and of same color. (Zn.); L. at night (Natrum mur.). Uterine spasm, (>) application of warm stones, pain now in hypogastrium, now in stomach, now in chest, now in small of back, obliging her to end forward, with in tolerance of clothing on epigastric region, pain in abdomen and stomach from even the most digestible food, fulness as if abdomen would burst and ineffectual desire to eructate. Menstruation delayed; too soon; no discharge at might (Pulsatilla); offensive and causing itching in pudenda; copious. Intermittent traces of bloody discharge for many days after menstruation and cased.
Clinical Uterine inertia during labor (K-carb.). Postpartum haemorrhage from inertia of uterus. Leucorrhoea especially (<) night, with great weakness.
Respiratory Organs
Dryness; of larynx. Pain in larynx on blowing nose. Drawing in larynx. Frequent need to clear something out of L. Irritation in L. as in beginning of cold, with general febrile excitement. Muscles of L. do not perform their function and inability to speak a loud word. Hoarseness (Kali-bi.); (<) morning and evening, with scraping in throat; in morning, with rawness in throat. Stoppage of voice every morning, as if there were a wedge in larynx which should be expectorated.
Cough in forenoon, with rawness in throat; C. in forenoon, with rattling on every inspiration as from mucus in r. side of chest; wakes her in evening and mucus in r. side of chest, wakes her in evening and morning, (>) during the day; only at night; every night at 2 A.M., (>) during the day, with much expectoration; always caused by speaking; caused by crawling in larynx or by stooping in pick up anything; caused by incessant crawling; on becoming warm after being cold; (<) after eating, with expectoration of mucus. Tickling cough. Paroxysmal C., caused by tickling of mucus in throat. Violent C., caused by tickling of mucus in throat. Violent C., even at night; at times dry, with pain in r. side of abdomen. Hollow C., (<) night and morning, with adherent mucus in chest, in which there is sticking, soreness and ulceration, with and without there is sticking, soreness and ulceration, with and without coughing, with stoppage coryza. Dry hollow C., in paroxysms, with a sore streak down trachea, where it pains on every paroxysm of cough and almost prevents breathing. Dry cough at night, disturbing sleep; C., with scraping in throat, without expectoration; causing burning in chest; racking, in morning on waking and preventing him from sleeping again. Hacking C., with difficult breathing; dry H. cough and only seldom some expectoration of mucus. Hoarse C., (<) morning and evening, (>) night. Irritation to cough, even in morning in bed; I., with every expiration. Expectoration of tough mucus, at first difficult, then easy to loosen.
Suffocation in attacks during inspiration while sitting, as if some one grasped the trachea. Arrest of breath while speaking or walking rapidly, with necessity to suddenly catch for breath; sudden A. when hunting, with rapid palpitation, necessity to kneel, general sweat, shortness of breath, rush of blood to head, bluish-red color of face, as if he would have apoplexy. Want of breath, with weakness of thighs. Dyspnoea after lying down; (<) sitting; spasmodic. Inspiration difficult and deep. Short breath in morning, with pain in abdomen; S. when walking in open air; with oppression of chest; then paroxysms of cough.
Clinical Acute laryngitis, loss of voice and rawness and soreness in larynx and trachea (Belladonna and Benzoin.). Sudden aphonia after taking cold. Paralysis of vocal cords. Loss of voice in singers and speakers. Cough, (<) warmth of bed, (>) sips of cold water. Cough, with sensation as if he “could not get under the mucus” to raise it. Contact hacking cough, with involuntary micturition. Expectoration as a rule scanty, must be swallowed, excessive rawness in chest on coughing, especially under sternum.
Chest
Rattling when coughing (Ant-t.). Stitches on walking in open air; S. beneath skin; in region of r. clavicle; in l. breast below nipple; in l. side opposite ensiform cartilage; in l. side, on a level with pit of stomach; in first l. false ribs; below l. female breast at 5 P.M. (>) rubbing; deep in C. in forenoon on deep respiration; beneath l. breast during menstruation; above heart on motion; in l. after eating; in l. when coughing; in r. side on inspiration; in sternum on deep breathing and on lifting; in sternum on physical exertion; below sternum on inspiration and expiration, then stitch in sternum, lasting all the forenoon, with alternating severity, (<) expiration, with stitches in l. shoulder-joint; on two last false ribs, (>) rubbing; below arms, extending to pit of stomach, with apprehensiveness, then rumbling in abdomen, and griping extending into chest, (>) passage of flatus; deep in C., out to back; near nipple, extending suddenly towards navel, (<) inspiration; as with a nail; knife- like, anteriorly in l. side, piercing through to back, at night, with anxiety, restlessness and sleeplessness.
Tearing in forepart, (<) open air; sticking, in l. side. Cutting in morning, with burning. Pressure; above pit of stomach; by l. lowest rib; on r. side; on r. side in evening; with difficult or short breathing; in intercostal muscles, transversely across chest, on stopping; in upper, part of ensiform cartilage, extending upward; sharp, after dinner, (<) walking. Pain in r. side as if lung were loosened from pleura, even when lying; rheumatic; P., and in abdomen. Bruised pain in muscles, (<) pressure; B. pain below r. mamma, not affected by breathing. Sprained pain in l. lower muscles on moving l. arm. Burning pain and sometimes stitches. Drawing pain internally in upper part after immoderate running or singing, with heaviness. Sore pain when coughing.
Scraping. Rawness in morning. Anxiety in evening after stool, with distention of abdomen. Tightness; with frequent necessity to take a deep breath. Sensation as if clothes were too tight. Painful compression form both sides towards sternum, with oppression of breath and weakness of throat. Oppression in afternoon, (>) dancing; O. (bronchi) after eating; of both sides as if pressed together. Rushing in region of heart mornings, until rising, (>) motion, returning when lying. Heat internally; rising into throat.
Clinical Nipples sore and cracked.
Heart and Pulse
Oppression of H., with melancholy. Palpitation in morning, with irregular pulse and pain in back; P. in evening, with anxiety, which made the breath short; with weariness; anxious, with rhythmical constriction of abdomen. Pulse small (almost thready) and slow.
Neck
Jerking motion, near head. Stitches at night when lying. Pinching in r. side. Bruised pain. Tensive pain, extending to heat. Tension of muscles on becoming suddenly erect or on turning head. Tensive sensation in nape as if drawn backward by both ears. Stiff pain in r. side. Stiffness, so that he could not put, and bound feeling in muscles, so that he could not move the head; of r. side; with tensive pain.
Back
Stitches; when sitting, then pain. Sticking piercing-jerking, sand in sacrum, arresting breath. Tearing in a spot. Pain during menstruation. Pain like a drawn and beaten sensation, then extending into small of B. and thence into abdomen, where there is flatulence, with pain, then discharge of flatus and leucorrhoea. Crawling. Pulsation in middle.
Scapulae.- Stitches in l.; near r. when swallowing and hawking and on exerting voice. Tearing in r.; between scapulae at 4 P.M.; in vertebrae between S. extending into r. scapula, then into l. Pain on border of r., extending to back, (<) bending r. upper arm and head backward, and at last on every motion of body, even if the part of only shaken, (<) turning head towards the l., with tearing. Stiff pain between. Tensive pain in upper part on motion. Drawing; in l.
Loins.- Stitches in l. by false ribs; above r. ilium, like electric sparks, extending to ribs; itching. Tearings. Pinching in region of kidneys. Pain; on every motion; when sitting; after copious micturition; the two last days before menstruation, with anxious dreams; cramplike, while sitting; pinching cramplike, and in nates; so that he must bend over, with pain in hypogastrium. Sore pain, then pressing in hypogastrium. Sore pain, then pressing in hypogastrium, as if everything would come out of rectum and pudenda, like flatulent colic (from straining). Bruised pain towards evening, with passage of leucorrhoea; B. pain with walking, (>) sitting. Sprained pain on motion. Tensive pain. Pain as if squeezed. Stiffness of lumbo-sacral joint.
Coccyx.- Bruised pain. Drawing pain in region. Jerking pain.
Clinical Lumbago, painful stiffness of black and sacrum, (<) attempting to rise.
Extremities
Twitchings in evening. Stitches in joints after taking cold. Tearing now in one, now in another, at one time severe, at another slight; T. (<) joints and extending thence into long bones. Pain in arms and thighs. Gouty pains. Drawing pain in r. index finger and in l. second toe. Drawings here and there; D. in fingers, soles and toes. Uneasiness in morning in bed; in evening. Sensation as after great exertion, after rising from a seat. Weakness and trembling; paralytic. W.; so that he can scarcely walk and the hand must lie outstretched. Crawling in arms and legs, as if they would go to sleep. Heaviness at night, preventing sleep.
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.