Clinical Palpitation, sensation of oppression about the heart, sometimes with a full but soft pulse. In anaemia we may have anaemic murmur of the heart with palpitation.
Neck
Chronic glandular swelling. Pain; when lying on r. side, and in shoulder. Drawing extending from nape into head, in which there are then shooting, roaring and rushing. Soreness as if bruised. Soreness and stiffness; and in occiput. Stiffness, with coldness of hands and feet, (<) hands.
Back
Tearing when sitting and lying; between scapulae when sitting, (<) when walking. Pain during menses. Sticking in scapulae if she works a little with her hands. Tension between scapulae and in sternum, preventing raising the arms, a kind of paralysis. Sticklike jerks in sacrum when walking, extending more towards the hips than upward, (<) after sitting or standing, almost as if strained. Pain in small of B.; in kidney region; on each side of sacrum on rising from a seat. Lumbago in l. loin; lumbago all night, (>) rising. Bruised pain in sacrum. Soreness in small of B. on rising, with rumbling in abdomen.
Clinical Rheumatism of the back; lumbago, (>) walking slowly, as are most of the pains of Ferrum
Extremities
Swelling of hands and legs up to knees. Fingers and toes drawn up with cramp and painful. Pain in joints. Pain from touch. Soreness, with languor and restlessness. Heaviness; and exhaustion; and general exhaustion. Stiffness of fingers and toes.
Upper Extremities
Shoulder. Creaking in r. joint, with bruised pain on touch, and shooting and tearing down through upper arm, inability to raise the arm; C. in joint and on touch bruised feeling. Downward- shooting, and in arms, more severe than the shooting upward. Shooting and tearing from joint into upper arm and farther down, so that the arm cannot be raised. Boring passing down to finger- ends; in r. joint, (<) at irregular intervals, passing down biceps to elbow, (<) motion, (>) heat. Pain, and in neck; pain alternately in S. and elbow. Soreness in front part of r. and in r. arm; s. on touch.
Arm. – Pinching in r. deltoid (see Sanguinaria). Pain, (>) bending them towards the chest, (<) motion and weight of bed-covers, with stiffness. Drawing, whereby it feels heavy and paralyzed. Lameness of r., with disinclination to move it, involuntarily assisting it with the l. hand. Irresistible desire to move them; at 2 A.M., then pain driving him out of bed. Stiffness; with pain; with soreness. Fixed in an upright position, with general trembling and chilliness.
Sticking in l. elbow; in l. wrist and back of hand, thumb most painful when moving it. Sprained pain in l. wrist. Swelling of hands, then desquamation. Trembling on hands in morning on trying to work; in evening, preventing sewing; T. when writing, write better when writing fast. Soreness and stiffness of hands. Numbness of hands, with swollen sensation; l. nearly numb, r. cold. Cramp in fingers, with numbness. Pain in thumb on motion; P. in fingers from shoulders; rheumatic P. in phalangeal joints of l. hand. Stiffness of r. thumb, with pain on motion.
Clinical It seems to have an especial affinity for the deltoid just above the insertion of the biceps, were there is pain causing inability to move the arm or fingers. Severe muscular pains about the shoulder-joint, extending to the elbow, particularly worse in l. shoulder.
Lower Extremities
Weakness. Tonic spasm of thigh and leg. Shooting and tearing from hip-joint down tibia, (<) in evening in bed, he must get up and walk, with bruised pain on touch; a kind of paralysis, shooting and tearing from hip-joint to tibia and sole (the ball is always painful on touch as if bruised), by day he cannot step on account of pains, which, however, diminish when he walks, (<) in evening after lying down, so that he must get up and walk till midnight. Paralytic pain in thigh when sitting, after sitting crouched from some time she has to stretch the feet, the pain (<) rising from her seat, (>) walking. Distress in thighs during menses. Thighs feels as if asleep. Numbness of thighs.
Knee. – And ankles swollen and painful, (<) extending knee in bed Contractive pain, and in ankles. Pain as if overfatigued, so that he cannot keep them still. Weariness in hollows on rising from a seat, and beginning to walk; W. so that he sinks down.
Leg. – Trembling, with bruised pain on walking. Cramp in calf in morning on rising; cramp in calves when standing, (>) when walking. The varicose vein in l. continued to extend downward, more painful to touch. Sensation in l. as of a swollen vein, painful on touch, sometimes inconvenient when walking. Acute pain like the moving of a screw through r. on walking. Contractive pain in tibia and calf, like cramp, on beginning to walk. Bruised pain in morning in bed, (>) rising. Painful drawing. Weakness of calves as if bruised.
Foot. – Swollen to ankles. Varicose veins. Cramp in r.; C. (>) pressing them against the footboard; in soles; frequent, in soles and toes; in evening, first in l., drawing up the limb. Shooting pricking in r. instep. Pain in heel; extending from r. into thigh. Soreness and stiffness. Has to take off the boots. Weariness after eating. Will not support her. Stiffness after resting from a walk.
Clinical Rheumatic or neuralgic pain through the whole extent of the lower limb, (>) moderate motion.
Skin
Pale. Icteric around eyes, lips and nails. Dark herpetic spots on dorsum of hand inflame and suppurate. Round red itching spot on r. shoulder, which peels off like dust in the evening and night. Peeling off like dust from l. hand. (Scarlatina during desquamation corresponds to the peeling of the skin.) Burning pain when not touched, on dorsum of thumb, of toes, etc., with smarting on light touch. Itching in eyebrows; of nose; above r. knee, with sticking stabbing.
Sleep
Yawning in morning, stretching, and eyes fill with water; frequent Y. Sleepiness; after dinner at noon, with Dullness and headache over root of nose and inability to undertake mental employment; in evening, and thirst, almost impossible to keep awake when reading. Sleep in afternoon; apt to fall asleep when sitting; falls asleep when sewing, she must lie down, sleeps an hour and wakes with thirst and cramps in r. foot. Heavy sleep in morning till 9 A.M., from which he can scarcely rouse himself. Sound sleep, with unpleasant dreams.
Restless sleep; and lying awake a long time, but not tired in the morning; and dreamy, with emissions. Anxious tossing about after midnight. Light sleep. Late falling asleep. Waking every hour and light slumber; repeated W., with quiet sleep only after 2 A.M. Almost entire sleeplessness, waking in quarter of an hour bathed in sweat, with prostration, epigastric anxiety, feeling as if life were leaving her, then nervous excitement. Sleeps with half-open eyes. Sleeps on her back, cannot sleep on either side.
Dreams disturb sleep, weariness in morning on rising. Vivid D., and anxious. Nightmare. Unpleasant D.; all night of friends and relatives deceased. D. of old friends, disturbing sleep; of meeting of old schoolmates, of student life, etc. D. that he is in battle, that he has fallen into the water, etc. Confused D.
Fever
Chilliness all day; in morning, with headache; in afternoon, so that he must go to bed; in afternoon, the fever; in afternoon, then thirst, must go to bed, then heat with sweat; between 1 and 2 P.M.; at 5 P.M. then fever; in evening in bed; then heat at 3 P.M., with sweat; all day, (<) afternoon, then feverish in evening, then chill after going to bed; not (>) sweat after rapid walking. Creeping chill at noon; c. chill beginning at 7 A.M., (<) in back. Rigor in evening before sleep without external coldness, chilliness all night; (R., and during the chill his face got glowing hot). Chill in back. Cold hands and feet; and numb, not (>) walking though there was sweat; C. and stiff hands. Cold feet; on getting into bed, lies awake some time; all night, and numb; with stiff fingers; with heat of head. Toes cold and painful.
Ebullition of blood by day and heat in evening, (<) hands. Heat; 3 P.M.; after the siesta; with sweat at 8 P.M., after thirst; after beer-soup, with anxiety; (>) at 7 P.M.; without thirst; in flushes, as if sweat would break out; internal, with external coolness and sensation as if the face were swollen; in body, with red cheeks, but the head was free; in palms; soles; (of face in morning).
Sweat; by day when walking and sitting; mornings; in morning after rising, relieving the head; at night, with weariness; frequent, in slumber about midnight; on alternate days from daybreak till to wards noon, each time preceded by headache; during digestion, with anxiety; of peculiar odor.
Clinical Ferrum produces a decided type of fever and many symptoms of chills and fever; there is certainly general coldness, especially of the extremities, though the head may be hot and the face red; sometimes there is persistent heat of the palms and soles; there is also profuse sweat, which is very debilitating. It has been prescribed for protracted intermittent fever, especially after the abuse of quinine, with swelling of the spleen, general anaemia and dropsical swellings of the face or feet. In many cases of fever the Ferrum patient feels worse while sweating (Mercurius
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.