U.
Sticking in r. side beneath ribs, arresting breathing; S. outward in a spot in l. side, arresting breathing, with sensation as if something would force itself out and pain on pressure; intermittent S. in l., (<) pressure. Sudden cutting contraction in l. side. Inguinal glands swollen and hard; l. inguinal gland S. Griping in hypogastrium in evening, with desire for stool. Burrowing above chest of l. ilium, (>) pressure. Pain now in l. inguinal glands, now in r. Tension in groin, in region of pubis on rising from a seat. Burning in the bubo on motion and touch, with sticking.
Rectum
Pressing during the usual stool. Desire for stool in evening with griping in hypogastrium, then a large, moist, at last thin, sour stool, after which he was relieved but felt weak, he had a hard, difficult stool in afternoon. Urging, then small hard stool; sudden U., then after some time hard sluggish stool, with pressure and griping and cutting here and there in abdomen; U., which griping, yet presses but little, with pressure; ineffectual U. all day, with nausea.
Stool
Yellow watery diarrhoea, with tearing cutting before stool as after taking cold (Hyoscyamus, Rhus-t., Thuja). Thin, afternoons, with flatulence. Soft; in small pieces. Infrequent, sluggish, hard, difficult. Suppressed.
Clinical Diarrhoea always (<) cold, wet weather, stools mucous, green or changeable, of sour odor, with general dry heat of skin.
Urinary Organs
Catarrh of bladder. Pulsating (stitches?) outward in urethra. Burning in meatus urinarius when urinating. Involuntary micturition.
Clinical Involuntary discharge of urine, paralysis of neck of bladder. Catarrh of the bladder, the result of taking cold. Inflammation of kidneys, with suppressed urine, caused by working in water.
Sexual Organs
Heat in female, pruritis; also desire.
Respiratory Organs
Cough, with expectoration of tenacious mucus and sticking in sides of chest (Drosera); hacking C. as from deep inspiration. Respiration rapid.
Clinical Cough (<) cold, wet weather, sometimes dry, but more frequently with very free expectoration, caused by constant tickling in larynx, the expectoration is tough and greenish, or the cough is dry and hoarse, or even spasmodic, like whooping cough (Drosera). Very frequently useful in bronchial catarrh, with free greenish expectoration. It is a valuable remedy for the cough of old people, (<) change of weather to cold and wet.
Chest
Sticking on sternum; S. in l., in region of fifth and sixth ribs; in r., in region of third rib on pressure, extending into small of back and to between shoulders, and on inspiration sticking on margin of l. scapula; suddenly coming and going in r.; pulsating. beneath l. short ribs when sitting; intermittent, in l.; stupefying; beneath r. clavicle, extending into chest; on sternum, like a thrust. Sticking tearing from middle of sternum to wine when sitting. Thrusts beneath axillae; intermittent T. on l. side above ensiform cartilage, extending deep into chest, when sitting bent and afterwards when upright. Cutting and pinching as from incarcerated flatus; deeply C. pain beneath l. clavicle, (>) pressure. Pinching, (<) inspiration. Digging in r., (>) pressure; D. or strained sensation. Intermittent pressure sternum. Oppression; (<) breathing; as after sitting bent. Intermittent squeezing in a spot beneath upper after part of sternum. Drawing externally over forepart, with tension; D. beneath sternum, with jerking; intermittent surging, tearing D. through l. Tension on deep breathing. Feeling as if something would be forced out of l.
Clinical Suppression of milk caused by taking cold.
Heart and Pulse
Excitement of H. Palpitation, (<) night; P. as if he felt the heart beating outside of the chest. Pulse rapid; and irregular; and small; P slow, intermittent; small and hard in evening.
Neck
Pain in nape as if head had been lying in an uncomfortable position; drawing, P. in r. cervical muscles; constrictive, in muscles of nape as if he neck would be twisted; stupefying, in nape rising to occiput; in muscles of nape as from stiffness, no turning head to one side. Stiffness of muscles of nape (Causticum, Rhus-t., Lithium carb.).
Back
Sticking in middle of spine on breathing; tickling, in middle of r. scapula; intermittent throbbing, in l. side near spine. Intermittent tearing thrusts on outer side of r. scapula. Drawing tearing on external margin of r. scapula. Intermittent pressure on l. side of spine near nape, when lying on back in morning. Pain in small of B. as after long stooping (Bryonia). Sticking outward above l. hip on every inspiration; S. outward in loins on every inspiration when sitting bent after a short walk; burrowing S. on l. side near sacrum; burrowing. in l. loin, (>) walking, returning when sitting; jerklike, above r. hip, near spine. Cutting deep in loin, transiently (>) pressure (Bryonia) Bruised pain above l. hip close to spine.
Clinical Lameness of the small of the back, or stiffness and lameness across the neck and shoulders, OF severe drawing pains in muscles of the back, with fever, after getting wet or cold (myelitis).
Extremities
Trembling. Shooting in l. toes and thumb. Drawing tearing in r. shoulder, above r. hip-joint and above and below r. knee. Pain; cramplike, here and there, (<) fingers. Bruised sensation. Weakness and heaviness. Heaviness of arms and thighs. Sudden numbness in evening, with pains in knees and elbows, increasing so that he could hardly move his limbs.
Upper Extremities
Jerking pain in r. axilla. Pulsating pain in l. axilla, (>) motion. Jerkings of arm on being it back ward or forward. Paralytic bruised pain in l. arm. (<) during rest, (>) touch; bruised pain in r. arm, with leaden heaviness, stiffness of muscles and coldness of arm as if paralyzed, and with bruised pain in elbow when bending or touching it. Jerking in upper arm on bending it and drawing it backward, but on stretching it out stiffness of fingers so that she could not close them. Pain in upper arm in evening in bed and in morning after rising. Paralytic sensation in r. upper arm, (>) violent motion.
Intermittent corrosive gnawing on outer side of elbow. Drawing from l. elbow to wrist, (<) bending it; twisting boring D. from elbow to wrist, (>) during motion. Sudden jerking, pinching tearing in middle of l. forearm. Drawing pain in r. forearm. Frequent drawings in l. ulna. Weakness of l. forearm, (<) at elbow, with lameness. Sticking on r. wrist, motion. Inflammatory rheumatism of l. wrist, pain beginning at pisiform bone extending along branchings of ulnar nerve to end of little finger, and again upward along the main tract of that nerve till it was lost in the inferior origin of flexor carpi ulnaris muscles, with redness and swelling on integuments, the little finger flexed and inflamed. Redness of back of hands, and if he becomes warm by walking in open air burning pain. Frequent stretching of hands as if they would take hold of something, hands hastily carried to mouth, with motions like chewing or swallowing. Cramp in hands so that he could hold nothing firmly. Cramplike jerking in first phalanx of r. middle finger. Cramplike drawing in ball of l. thumb so that he could scarcely move the thumb.
Lower Extremities
Staggering. Inability to stand or walk. Sticking on r. nates. Hip, drawing sticking in l. joint when walking, extending into groin, with sensation on every step as if the head of the femur would be dislocated, the pain (>) violent stretching of leg, which seemed to replace the femur, but bruised pain remained and caused limping; drawing pinching in r. hip; drawing tearing in l. Thigh, sticking posteriorly close to l. knee; sticking tearing in T.; drawing tearing from middle of posterior part to knee; drawing tearing or constant pain, at one time sticking, at another pinching (>) when walking, then changing to weariness and returning when sitting (Rhus-t.); pan; drawing pain on anterior part of r.; drawing here and there in muscles, with sensitiveness to touch; paralytic drawing or anterior part of r.
Tearing in knees when sitting; sticking T. from knee up thigh when walking in open air. Rhythmical undulating pressure on inner side of knee. Weariness of knees. Swelling of leg and calf towards evening, with tensive pain in weariness. Cramp in calves so that leg were drawn up against thighs; C. in l. calf when walking. Sudden sticking in l. calf, then sensation as if warm water or blood were flowing from that place. Tearing up r. tibia in morning; T. posteriorly in l. calf, (>) moving foot. Cramplike, almost cutting drawing through l. leg. Pain as from ripping extending down l. calf posteriorly. Pain in tibiae as from weariness. Numbness of calves i n afternoon and evening. Cramp in r. inner malleolus, waking at night, (>) walking. Tearing extending from outer malleolus towards forepart of foot; drawing T. near r. inner malleolus. Cutting in r. sole. Pulsating tearing in first and second l. toes.
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.