Elbow. – Tearing through l.; in l.; (<) motion. Sticking in l. Painful drawing in bend of l., on coronoid process of ulna, (<) touch; drawing pain in bones to fingers in evening.
Forearm. – Tearing, (>) rubbing, with drawing back and forth, now r., now l.; T. in shafts of ulnae, (<) touch. Drawing pain, as if periosteum were scraped with a dull knife. Falling asleep on bending, for example, on writing, with sticking in tips of fingers. Drawing sticking across wrist in evening. Jerking tearing in wrist and metacarpal bones.
Hand. – Swelling of l., with pain across dorsum on motion. Trembling when writing. Sticking in l.; in metacarpal bone of r. index. Tearing where metacarpal bone unite with bones of wrist; jerking T. in metacarpal bones and fingers, (<) touch; jerking T. in metacarpal bone of r. little finger. Cramplike drawing pain on taking hold of anything; drawing pain in palm across roots of fingers. Swelling of knuckle of middle finger, with stiffness and pain on motion. Tearing in bones of r. distal phalanges, (<) joints sticking T. in distal joint of r. thumb; jerking t. in phalanges. Jerking pain in l. little finger. Drawing in thumb, middle and index fingers of l. hand, extending upward.
Lower Extremities
Tottering. Pain like a sticking and burning on several places. Painful drawing in long bones. Weakness when walking. Falling asleep when sitting.
Thigh. – Hard swelling, at times extending to beginning of feet, becoming thinner in lower part, reddish and painful to touch. Jerking in middle of l. Sticking on posterior part of r. when standing, extending upward. Jerking-tearing; on anterior part of l.; on anterior and outer parts on touch. Paroxysmal tearing downward in to femora. Pressure in upper part of flesh of r. nates, on pelvic bone, when sitting, increasing in a pulselike manner. bruised pain in posterior muscles when sitting. Cramplike paralytic pain in r. on rising after sitting some time and on walking, and in knee. Drawing pain in bones as if periosteum had been scraped with a dull knife. Drawing in nates and knees when standing; painful D. in skin on inner side of l.; painful D. downward in shaft of femora in afternoon, (<) sitting; tearing, in l. nates when sitting; cramplike (sticking), and in legs. Sensation in l. when standing, as o a hard pimple in flesh, with drawing pain in it. Tension in anterior muscles when walking. Burning and crawling on rising from a seat, as if asleep, (<) in hollow of knee, (<) standing. Weakness; as from heaviness and paralysis; of hip-joint and knee in morning, with unsteadiness, changing on motion to a bruised pain in thigh, then (<) legs.
Knee. – Hot swelling of r., with drawing-tearing, waking at midnight. Trembling on rising form a seat, (>) walking. Giving way; when walking; (<) ascending steps. Sticking in l. Tearing to thigh, with weakness; paralytic T. in r., extending now to thigh, now to leg, (<) more by touch than by motion, with weakness; jerking T. on inner side of patella. Pain on bending, preventing sleep, with nodes in its skin; pain on side of patella when touched; jerking P.; bruised, on motion; drawing, in r. in afternoon on rising from a seat and on walking (>) sitting. Drawing when sitting, and in inguinal joint; jerklike, synchronous with pulse, in tendons of flexors of hollows; spasmodic, in hollow of r. in evening when sitting, (>) standing and walking, extending into thigh (with pressure), as if leg would be drawn up.
Leg. – Painful cramp in l. calf at night on stretching and bending up foot. Sticking in tibiae when walking; sudden, in upper part of calf when walking in open air. Tearing in calf. Bruised pain in bones on stepping, (<) touch, and if she feels of it shivering of foot and chilliness of it as if she put it into cold water; pain in lower half as if periosteum were bruised and swollen, on standing, but on touch sore pain as if excoriated. Drawing pain on tibia in evening when sitting, (>) standing and walking; in r. tibia near heel when sitting, then in foot; on inner part of l. tibia, below patella, when stretching leg while sitting, (>) bending leg. Sensation as if garters were too tight and leg would go to sleep and be numb (compare Coccul. and Cedron). Burning tension above tendo-achillis. Restlessness, obliging him to extend and draw them up. Weakness.
Foot. – Hard swelling, spotted red; soft swelling of soles. ticking in l.; (in scar on l.); tearing, in sole when sitting and walking. Jerking tearing in metatarsal bones and toes; in metatarsal bones and phalanges of toes, (<) touch, (<) joints; in tarsal and metatarsal bones; at union of metatarsal and ankle bones. Sticking tearing in sole, in region of heel, when sitting and walking. Contractive pinching on outer side of r. sole. Drawing pain in r. metatarsal bones. Drawing on dorsum when standing, with sore pain, (>) sitting; sticking, in heel; cramplike, on inner side of l. when sitting. Sticking burning in upper part, close to tibia when sitting. Weakness as if bruised. Boring sticking in tips of toes. Sticking crawling as after freezing, from great toe to dorsum of foot in evening when sitting, (>) standing and walking.
Clinical Occasionally useful in hip disease, the effects of prolonged suppuration, with sweats, diarrhoea, etc. Chronic synovitis of knee. Sensation as if cords were tied about the leg. Anasarca of lower extremities, always (<) towards night, with general anaemia and general sensitiveness of the surface of the body to the slightest touch.
Skin
Turgor of veins. Eruption in concha; (red miliary, on forepart of throat). Boil on cheek; on pectoral muscles. Urticaria of face, forearms and hands, afterwards with vesicles like varicella. Watery vesicles behind ears. (Ulcer discharges offensive ichor, with burning and aching in it, he cannot let the foot hang down and the foot is painful when standing); boring in U.; throbbing pain on moving part; (sticking throbbing pain, even during rest); sensitiveness; sticking-itching pain.
Sticking in various places. Digging in a wound. Tugging as if a hair were pulled, (<) on abdomen. Sensitiveness (Arsenicum), even of palms; on thighs, to rubbing of clothes, as if rough and covered with pimples. Sensation on elbow as if infiltrated with blood. (Creeping on forehead.) Itching at night; I., with oozing of blood on scratching; followed after scratching by vesicles as from burning nettles; on arms, loins and chest, (<) evening, and after scratching pimples; on r. sole when walking and sitting, (>) scratching; crawling, on coccyx, (>) for a short time by rubbing; burning, under knees and on inside of arms when warm and at night in bed, with watery blisters, which disappear in cold air; biting, almost only on those parts on which he lies, (>) scratching and lying on other side; biting, during midday nap, almost only on those parts upon which he does not lie and which are turned upward.
Sleep
Yawning; with stretching of limbs; with chilliness; without sleepiness. Sleepiness during the day; at 8.30 P.M.; after eating; after dinner; with palpitation; then wakefulness. Sleep during the day; S. when sitting; as soon as she sits down during the day, with nodding, but if she lies down she is wide awake at the slightest noise; with one eye open, the other half-closed, with balls turned upward as in a dying person; on his back, head thrown backward, arms stretched above head, with slow expiration and strong, rapid pulse; sound, as of a drunken person, then in morning confusion of head as if he had not sleep enough, with pressure in temples on shaking head.
Sleeplessness all night; with vivid disagreeable thoughts crowding upon each other; till midnight, with headache; after midnight, though sleepy, with activity of thought and frequent changes in his position; till 2 A.M.; except from 3 to 5 A.M.; on account of thoughts crowding upon him, also with warmth towards morning, but inability to have less covering; with restlessness. Falling asleep late, then unsound sleep and exhaustion in morning on rising. Frequent waking; with sweat on scalp and forehead and chilliness over back. Early waking. Snoring inspiration (through nose); inspiration and expiration; inspiration at one time, at another a puffing expiration; S. in a child, with moaning. Starting out of sleep; with inability to collect himself; starting on falling asleep. Uneasy sleep; interrupted by four or five erections; with general sweat after waking in night; full of dreams and crying out; with uncovering, worrying dreams of former occurrences, and in the morning he cannot get awake on account of confusion and stupidity in head, in morning out of sorts and unrefreshed.
Dreams. – Heavy, making him anxious after waking. Anxious, whereupon he woke half conscious and remained frightened; that he is descending a precipice, waking him and remaining vivid before his fancy, (<) closing eyes, and he cannot quiet himself. Frightful; just as he is falling asleep, waking him; waking him without his being able to come to his senses; of falling from a height, with waking full of uneasiness and inability to collect himself. Confused, on falling asleep, on account of which he woke; C. and senseless; C. and senseless after midnight, with half conscious waking. Of nasty things on closing her eyes to sleep. Voluptuous, with emissions.
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.