Clinical Cholera or choleraic stools, not copious, with desire for warm food and drinks, which are swallowed with a gurgling sound, the attacks are characterized by the most horrible cramps in stomach and abdomen and piercing screams, cramps in extremities, especially of the flexor muscles, with intense coldness and paleness of the surface, thumbs clenched across the palms.
Urinary Organs
Urging, with scanty discharge and burning sticking or cutting, (<) meatus urinarius, Painful inability to urinate, requiring considerable time and effort to relieve bladder. Frequent micturition; and scanty, with smarting as from soreness of urethra. Involuntary M. M. rarer and scantier than usual. Urine suppressed (Plumb.). Burning sticking in meatus. Burning during micturition. Urine scanty; and scalding. Tinged with blood. Turbid and jumentous; T., dark red, with yellowish sediment; T., brownish, with sediment.
Sexual Organs
Penis swollen, glans inflamed. Menses delayed, dark and painful.
Clinical Violent pains after labor. Puerperal convulsions.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness so that he cannot speak; H. on breathing cold dry air. Voice trembling, stammering. Cough; with interrupted, almost suppressed respiration; fatiguing, with blowing of blood from nose; paroxysmal, without signs of lung disease; violent, at night, then chilliness and hoarseness from morning till evening; short, dry, straining; violent dry, at night between 11 and 1, (<) sitting, with tearing in head and return of the anxiety and pressure in chest; dry, preventing speech; hard, dry, with nightsweats; in morning, with offensive-tasting expectoration; with mucous E.; with bloody E.; with purulent E. Much expectoration. Purulent dark expectoration.
Respiration difficult. Suffocative loss of breath; sense of suffocation, (<) walking, fatigue and in damp weather. Spasmodic dyspnoea, with constriction of chest, then spasmodic vomiting. Short R. Rapid R.; with rattling in bronchi. Vesicular murmur weak, absent or replaced by a subcrepitant rale.
Clinical Whooping cough. Laryngismus stridulous, with thumbs clenched in the palms. Spasmodic asthma, with blueness of the face and constriction of the throat, intense dyspnoea, retching and vomiting. Violent spasmodic and whooping cough, face became purple, vomiting, the paroxysm (>) drinking water. Occasionally useful in pneumonia when there is want of reaction with coldness of the surface and cold sweat, excessive dyspnoea.
Chest
Rattling when awake; R., ceasing during epileptic attack, with bloody mucus from nose and mouth. Spasms; cramping, after vomiting. Diminished elasticity posteriorly on both sides. Sticking beneath heart; S. in side, preceded and followed by screaming, which interrupted sleep, Pinching in l. side, extending to hip. Pain on r. side; sharp drawing P. in cartilage of sixth rib. Pressure as from something hard on cartilage of third rib, (<) touch. Constriction; spasmodic, impeding respiration and increasing the anxiety. Feeling as if blood accumulated. Coldness along sternum, with coldness of limbs and internal heat in abdomen.
Heart
Dullness in praecordial region on percussion. Boring in praecordial region. Anxiety. Interval between first and second sound shortened by one-half, “bruit de rappel,” Palpitation. Rapid action after a light supper. Contractions weaker.
Clinical Chronic aortitis, with distress behind sternum, etc. (see Baryta).
Pulse
Rapid; and hard and full, also with red face and dry skin; and irregular; and weak; and thready; and small; and small, spasmodic; and small, intermittent; and small, weak; and small, wiry; and small, weak and thready. Slow, large and intermittent; S. hard and small; S. and small; s and weak. Hard; and full; and contracted; and small, spasmodic. Contracted; and small; and small, weak, hard. Soft Weak and small.
Neck
Swelling of r. glands, with pain on touch; S. of r. glands, with induration. Lancinations in nape on bending head backward. Intermittent sticking tearing in muscles. Resisting pain in muscles where neck and black unite on moving head backward. Tensive pain in nape.
Back
Pain; (<) rest (>) motion. Cutting drawing in l. side. Sticking in l. scapula on moving head; S. beneath l. scapula near spine, not affecting respiration. Pain between scapula; P. beneath r. scapula changing on respiration to sticking. Sticking transversely across small or B. Lancinations in loins, sacrum, navel and in iliac region. Pain in loins; (<) rest, (>) motion.
Clinical Spinal irritation, with violent paroxysmal pain, extreme sensitiveness of the whole length of the spine.
Extremities
Cramps; convulsive movements. Rigidity between convulsion. Periodic painful contractions of fingers and toes, often so that fingers could not be extended by any force. Painful jerkings alternately in flexor and extensor tendons of hands and feet, extending into upper arms and legs, with cramps in calves. Trembling. Pain; (<) rest, (>) motion. Bruised and paralyzed sensation in E. and small of back, so that it was difficult to use E., with tearing. Drawing and tension, often with sundering and chilliness though skin was not cold. Sick feeling as before coryza. Weakness; with pain at elbows, in bends of knees. Numbness; of different parts and under certain circumstances prickings in various parts of body. Difficult to move.
Upper Extremities
Tearing. Paralysis as from lead. Drawing pain in shoulders. Jerking of arms and hands. Arms painful during rest, (<) r. Arms weak. Thrust or jerk in l. upper arm. Pain in upper arm; as if broken or bruised. Sensation as if bubbles of air issued from upper arm. Tearing in ulna, (<) wrist, (<) touch; jerking T. in ulna. Pain in l. forearms as if something were broken. Drawing pain in forearm, extending to thumb, r. then l.
Hand.-Swelling and inflammation, nd of arm, with pain, fever, quick pulse, thirst, furred tongue, then abscesses on H. and arm, afterwards fingers and back of hands were oedematous and contained transparent fluid, finally it was necessary to make an incision from middle of forearm along wrist, over tendons, into palm. Twitching in morning on rising. Jerking tearing in metacarpal bones and first joint to thumb, (<) touch. Construction of different parts of r. H. and forearm and sensation as if increased in size, motions not fully under control of his will. Pain in ball as if something were thrust through it. lameness of r., forearm in constant pronation, hand bent at r. angle to arm, thumb drawn into palm, fingers flexed, extension of hand, especially of finger-joints impossible flexion only partial, upper limbs emaciated, (<) r., r. hand nothing but skin and bone. Weakness; and paralysis. Numbness.
Fingers. – Nails white. Tearing in tips. Bruised pain beneath thumb-joints. Pain in thumb-joints as if dislocated. Tensive pain in balls of thumbs. Numbness and shrivelling.
Lower Extremities
Cramps, (<) calves. Reeling from side to side. Drawing pain in nates. Sticking down from l. hip at noon, (<) joints of knee and foot. Pain in muscles on anterior surface of thighs. Pain above knee as if bruised or broken. Drawing pain in r. thigh. Pain in knee as if broken. Knees weak, and painful drawing on walking or standing they give way. Oedema of legs. Cramp from ankle into calf; C. in calves; drawing one limp sideways and backward, (>) rubbing. Tensive-drawing cramplike pain in calf. Tearing below knee. Burrowing in and below calf. Pain in legs; in calves, (<) quite; in lower part of calf as from a thrust or jerk; drawing P. in lower part of calf. Legs weak. Legs asleep. Legs feel heavy and dead.
Painful heaviness of ankles. Pain in ankles when tired. Jerking tearing in sole and on back of foot. Pain on inner margin of l. sole; P. in metatarsal bones, (<) touch; sprained P. in l. sole. Drawing pain in feet, in metatarsal joints, at root of grate toe; in l. sole, (<) walking. Great toes drawn tetanically downward and pain in soles. Pain in toes. Sensation as if wind issued from toes.
Clinical Paralysis of lower extremities, attacks of suffocation, internal heat, external cold, with anxiety and anguish, the results of fright.
Skin
Yellow; light, (<) face and conjunctiva; and pale, earthy. Red spots on arms, with burning itching, (<) night, Flabby. Dry and lifeless. Contracted on limbs. Rash on chest and hands. Eruptions; from back of r. hand to elbow and on l. hand, with irritation, (<) night in bed and near fire, and occasional oozing. Petechial spots on neck and arms. Tetter on bend of elbow, causing yellow desquamation, itching, (<) evening. Eruption similar to leprosy; (<) hair of head, the largest spots white and scaly, with moist base, appearing as if something acrimonous had been secreted under the cuticle, which thickened and separated from cutis. Vesicles exuding water, on tips of fingers. Sticking outward in various parts. Formication of hands, (<) finger-tips. Itching on soles.
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.