Heart and Pulse
Palpitation. Heart’s beats nearly quadrupled. Pulse rapid; and strong; till night, and weak; with peculiar noise in ears. Pulse slow; and small, with increased tension.
Neck and Back
Pain at upper part of nape on bending neck down forward. Sprained pain in muscles of l. side of nape at 10 P.M. on bending head backward or forward. Sudden sharp pain in r. lumbar region in morning, during forcible expiration when standing.
Extremities
Pain, (>) outbreak of boils. Warm in distinct pain in l. shoulder- joint at 12.30 P.M. Pain about insertion of deltoid in morning on moving r. arm by that muscle; in arm about insertion of r. deltoid at 4 P.M. on rising or lowering arm after having raised it; occasionally in l. deltoid. Sprained pain in l. deltoid at 10 P.M. on rising or lowering arm and during the night when lying on r. side; suddenly in lower part of r. deltoid in morning on lowering arms, often on holding arms clasped above head and afterwards on raising or lowering arm by that muscle; suddenly in r. deltoid at 9 A.M. on using it.
Pain in bones of l. forearm as if broken, (<) raising or stretching out the arm, so that he could scarcely use it or take hold of anything with l. hand. Pain in muscles of forearm and along border of radius as from a blow, on moving it and on pressing on it. Lame pain on borders of band.
Fingers. Painful lameness of r. fourth and fifth, (<) stretching fingers or grasping anything, without external pain, next day this lameness was more in abductor of little finger and consisted of pressure with pain deep in flesh, as after a blow or great exertion. Deadness of r. little, in morning and on waking from siesta; of l. little, on waking, with enlarged sensation.
Lower Extremities
Staggering; to l. Sudden pain in r. buttock at 5 P.M. on walking in open air, preventing movement. Stickling on r. hip, with weakness in walking; S. on r. hip, running towards bowels; occasionally in muscles at back of l. inner side, above knee, at 5 P.M. Pain in l. thigh from hip-joint when walking. Aching anteriorly in r. knee, shooting down tibia to foot, after getting warm in bed, lasting till sleep.
Cramp in r. calf in night, with pain on pressure and on walking during the day, afterwards to 4 P.M. or while lying on back with leg extended, suddenly in l., afterwards in evening when sitting with knees bent, next morning when sleeping with l. foot on descending stairs. Occasional pain in l. calf as after cramp, on walking, descending stairs or using muscles of calf. Weak, trembling sensation in legs.
Sudden painless feeling in r. ankle as if it had given way or become loose, at 1.45 P.M., on lifting r. leg when running gently. Sudden weakness of l. ankle as if it had given way, at 4 P.M. on running gently in open air. Pain in l. instep on walking as if dislocated Strained sensation in l. instep in morning on rising in warm weather, and later on walking or sitting. Feet heavy. Feet fatigued.
Skin
Yellow; and tense. Leaden. haemorrhage from people with thin skin and fair complexion. Ecchymoses on contiguous sides of first phalanges of r. ring and little fingers, on r. palm and on ulnar side of palmar aspect of first phalanx of l. little finger, near the base, and on radial side of first phalanx of r. little finger, some of them (>) washing. Lump tender on pressure and sometimes when walking, in loose skin between l. thigh and scrotum posteriorly. Pimples in hollows of knees; red, on inner surface of thighs, itching at night. Circumscribed erythema. Exanthem resembling herpes, around eyelids. Swelling on r. cheek, close to ala nasi, hard, resembling one he had on perineum, movable in the integuments, afterwards on pressure discharge of pus and blood from a hole just below it. Nettle-rush on several parts or limited to lips, causing scabs, bleeding and insupportable pains.
Soreness in l. groin and region of abdominal ring (where he had a glandular suppuration several years ago, from cold and fever), at 8 or 9 P.M., when writing, with smarting and tenderness to touch. Tingling in hands in evening and morning during expiration after deep inspiration, when very warm, (>) when cooler, (<) in l. palm, once in palm and back of r. hand and once down r. palm towards fingers. Itching at junction of r. thigh muscles with gluteals maximus at 2.20 P.M., renewed after scratching; on front of throat at 8 and 10 P.M., not (>) scratching, with feeling as if rash were coming out; fearful, on scratched spots.
Sleep
Yawning; all the forenoon without weariness; after supper; when sitting, with sleepiness. Sleepiness; at 4 P.M. at 5.30 P.M., (>) coffee; after dinner; early in evening but wide awake in bed, with heat throbbing of temporal arteries till midnight; when sitting reading or studying; then wakefulness till 4 A.M.; but can do with only four hours sleep in the twenty-four without overfatigue. Slept later than usual in morning. Slept after dinner; at 1 P.M., and sleepy till 4 P.M. Long in recovering herself when awakened in the night, and staring with widely- dilated pupils.
Sleeplessness; in evening; till 2 A.M., with pressive pain in eyes when working, then quiet sleep; till 2 A.M., with shivering, vertigo, fever, rush of ideas and anxiety, then sweat and quiet sleep; with flow of ideas; passed the night in reading and writing and felt no fatigue nor hunger in the morning. Sudden jerking in the usual afternoon nap, and waking. Sleep disturbed; with frequent waking, unpleasant dreams and constant sweat. Restless sleep, with dreams of being hurried; R., with frequent waking. Waking on back; after many dreams; in the midst of a dream; or inclined to l. side. Rose more than an hour before the usual time, then read, then slept in the chair.
Dreams, many; heavy, with sweat; active, troubled; incoherent, unremembered. That something was adherent to fauces at posterior nares, which he was trying to detach, woke at 8 A.M. in the effort, and there was mucus to detach, then smarting soreness; at 3 A.M. that he was trying to remove mucus from pharynx by hawking, on waking found himself trying to do so, but cold not succeed by coughing or hawking, with hoarseness. Vivid, partly suggested by what he had lately read; V., of fighting, suggested by reading the “First Worshippers” a few days ago; V., that the medicine had loosened the teeth and a piece of the jaw; V., that he held a large beetle by the upper part of the body in the agony of death, firmly grasped between index and thumb, and wondered at the power it exercised to get loose and bite him. That he saw a recently-deceased friend hanging dead by his legs for hours. Of fighting with six of seven black generals who garroted him, binding him with ropes, causing great agony of mind.
Clinical Insomnia, inclined to sleep, but cannot.
Fever
Chilliness; at 10 P.M. when sitting with a window behind my back open, then shivering, the S. continuing in open air, (>) quick motion in open air; at night; with headache on r. side and in occiput and less on r. side of forehead, and vertigo; in head; of limbs. Fever, with heat of skin; fever in afternoon, (>) wine, with prostration; heat up back in flashes and burning across abdomen in flashes. Sweat; in evening; unpleasant. Secretion of skin diminished.
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.