Neck
Sticking in muscles on moving neck; S. in nape on motion, with tearing. Cutting in nape, with numbness, obliging him to draw the head backward, which seems hindered by a soft, dead substance compressed between the joints. Pain in muscles as from a band. Bruised pain in nape between shoulders, extending over anterior part of chest, where there was pain on pressure, (<) over sternum, with frontal headache, bruised pain in epigastrium and distended feeling in stomach. Pressive drawing in nape at occiput, at point of insertion of cervical muscles on bending head backward. Painful stiffness of neck and throat, (<) motion, with tension.
Black
Tearing on motion, with sticking, Drawing in B., limbs and fingers as after taking cold. Stiffness of B. and sides of neck, with thrustlike pain; S. in muscles of r, side, (<) bending head, with pain. Thrust in dorsal vertebra. Sore pain in joint of last cervical and first dorsal vertebrae on bending neck forward. Sticking between scapulae. Tearing beneath r, scapula. Sticking in region of kidneys; l. when sitting. Drawing cutting in l. side in region of lumbar vertebrae, (>) pressure. Pain in small of B. on stooping. Pressure on both sides on spine in lumbar region after stool. Bruised pain in small of B. on blowing nose; B. pain on beginning to move after lying down. Drawings above nates.
Clinical Spinal anaemia resulting from seminal emissions (China).
Extremities
Tense painful swelling of legs, then also of forearms and hands. Burning sticking in tips of fingers and toes. Piercing pain in joints. Pain in all joints after midday nap, as if crushed. Pressure in r. shoulder and l. knee. Drawings in elbows and knees. Weakness of arms and legs. Heaviness, with sluggishness; H., with helplessness.
Upper Extremities
Pain in l. shoulder and in elbows, at night, with semi-conscious sleep, lying upon back, with l. arm over head. (Muscular rheumatism in r. shoulder, allowing but little sleep.) Tensive pain in muscles of arm and shoulder on moving arm. Paralytic weakness of l. arm, so that he can hardly raise it, and cannot clinch the fingers without pain. Heaviness of l. arm. Upper arm, sticking in lower part; burning S. in l.; tearing S. in r. when walking; painful itching throbbing in flesh. PRessure in r. elbow; pain in elbows on touch as if the nerve were pressed, or as if the arm would go to sleep.
Sticking in muscles of r. forearm. Tearing in r. forearm. Pinching on back of ulna above wrist, with sticking pinching. Paralytic pain in middle of ulna on stretching arm or when it lies outstretched. Boring in r. wrist towards thumb. Paralytic tearing in bones of wrist; in r. metacarpal bones. Swelling or r. hand and fingers at night Jerking and drawing outward of l. index. Cramplike sticking in ball of l. thumb; burning S. in thumb above nail, (<) pressure. Paralytic tearing in finger joints; jerking paralytic T. in r. index. Drawing in fingers. Frequent sudden stiffness of fingers. Falling asleep of F. Numbness of three last F. and of one side of ball or r. had.
Lower Extremities
Staggering. Infiltration. STiffness of joints after siting in a wagon, (>) walking. Nates fall asleep in evening when sitting, and feel dead.
Thigh. Drawing cramp in forepart of bend of r., (<) motion of lumbar muscles, when it becomes a bubbling and continues even when sitting. Spasmodic movements of muscles. Sticking in bend when walking; S. above l. knee, towards l.side. Cutting on laying one leg over the other, (>) separating legs. Bruised pain on beginning to move after lying down, and in legs. Pain anteriorly, pressive rather than drawing. Tension in tendons of lumbar muscles in bends of T., (<) motion, but almost only when walking, on pressure there is pain, as from pressure of a hard body under skin. Drawing in anterior muscles; D. in inner side when sitting; cramplike, in muscles above popliteus when sitting, (>) after walking. Painful itching throbbing in flesh.
Pressure in l. knee and in bones of foot. Tension in hollows of K. Fatigue of K. on ascending steps. Stiffness of external condyles of K. as from internal swelling, with coldness. Jerking of muscles below hollow of l. K. rhythmical with pulse, (>) touch. Sticking on outer side of tibiae below knees. Pain in calves. Smarting pain in l. leg when standing, as if crushed. Drawing in l. fibula as if part were torn out; painful D. in leg when sitting, (<) thigh, then in r. knee and r. ankle. Weakness of legs; with trembling; with necessity to stretch them; paralytic; and of knees; of tibiae and knees when walking. Heaviness in l. tibia impeding walking. Pressure in l. ankle. Sprained pain in ankle on stretching it. Sticking in r. sole in evening, so that the whole leg jerks. Pressure in toes. Drawing in toes.
Skin
Pale, ashy-gray and parchment-like. Rash on backs of hands. Desquamation of whole. Erysipelatoid affection of face resulting in ragged desquamation. Red round spots on body, supinator surfaces of forearms and backs of hands, (>) pressure, uniting in large elevation, next day desquamation on face, new eruption on upper arms and neck, later desquamation. Itching eruption on cheeks and chin, which desquamates and leaves red spots. Pimples on back; beneath l. nostril biting pain; red, on middle of forehead, with burning biting, (<) touch. Comedones on face, which suppurate and ulcerate. Painful furuncle on nape. Cluster of vesicles on chin. Tension of abdomen on becoming erect. Itching on back of hand, (<) night, also on back of r. foot; on cheek and chin, (<) night, with biting; voluptuous, in axillae. Corrosive itching in l. loin; of upper and anterior part of thigh; on leg above external malleolus; in various parts, returning after scratching; (<) when he does not scratch, becoming intermittent, burning, sticking.
Sleep
Frequent yawning and stretching, with chilliness. Sleepiness; till evening, with incapacity for study; early in evening, with indolence and Dullness of mind; after eating, with frequent yawning after dinner; on going to bed, but unsound sleep. Deep sleep; from noon till midnight. Lethargic sleep.
Sleeplessness; at night, leaving his bed every moment and conversing with persons not present; with restlessness, palpitation, and at 1 A.M. an almost jerking pulse; with palpitation and uneasiness, (<) lying on l. side, and pulsations in ears, (<) l. Little sleep. with restlessness of mind; little sleep disturbed by dreams. Slumbering instead of falling asleep, complete consciousness without ability to sleep. Difficult falling asleep; though at times in a stupor. Starting in sleep. Frequent waking as from anxiety and as if it were time to rise; F waking in fright, from dreams of falling from a height or into water. Restless and unrefreshing sleep; R., with frequent waking, also with dreams; with frequent waking and internal and external heat of face; with frequent waking, always lying on back, with emissions; and waking in semi-consciousness; and he lies only on the back; with merry dreams. Many dreams, not unpleasant; unpleasant D. Full of unsuccessful projects; anxious, confused D.; confused, vivid.
Clinical Deep sleep.
Fever
Sensitiveness to cold. Chilliness; before stool; after vomiting, then heat and redness of skin, then pain in lower limbs, (<) calves and knees; then frequent general warmth, but cold sweat on forehead; and pale and covered with seat. Internal coldness; with external heat; and external. External C. of whole body, with warmth of face, also with redness of face. Shivering; in afternoon, then sweat at night, even of head; then heat; then heat of skin; over back; in back, cold hands and creeping coldness through limbs. Cold skin; and alternately hot. Coldness in back; in the room after eating, with burning of head, face and ears and redness of cheeks, and l. eye is smaller than r.; C. of limbs; of arms and hands, then of whole body; of one hand, with warmth of the other; of fingers, then of palms and soles, then of whole body, (<) limbs.
Disease similar to typhoid fever, with affection of gastric viscera. Heat at night restlessness; general H., with swollen veins and rapid pulse; sudden general H., then general weakness. Heat in head; internal and external; in flushes; in forehead and vertex, with heaviness; in face; in back then creeping coldness, with cold hands and shuddering through back; of hands; burning in r. calf on resting one leg over the other; sorelike B. of r. arm; externally in chest, then coolness. Hot skin; in evening, (<) towards head; with dryness and roughness. Sweat; in morning on waking; at night in sleep; in palms; copious cold.
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.