Extremities
Trembling in afternoon; at 1.30 P.M., with chill, then stinging outwards along I. lactiferous ducts, (<) sternal half of breast. Sensation of a galvanic current down forearm and hands and in feet, when sitting. Pain; waking at 4 A.M.,; at night, (<) after midnight, (>) day; at night, (<) forearms and calves, also in knees and elbows; in I. elbow, wrist, knee and both ankles; deep, and in joints; in muscles; deep, in muscles, (>) movement; deep in muscles of upper, waking at 3 or 4 A.M., in I. arm and both calves; in bones or deep in muscle sin region of humerus and in lower limbs, at 10 A.M.; in muscles of r. arm and shoulder, and sometimes in I. arm and finger joints when lying, and at same time in r. foot, (<) ball of great toe. Rheumatic pain.
Weakness towards 12 O’clock; W. of hands and feet, with indisposition to move. Heaviness. Gradual loss of control.
Clinical Loss of power in the extremities; the hands are very tired from playing on the piano; writer’s cramp loss of power in the lower extremities; gait staggering the lower limbs feel as heavy as lead. Rheumatic symptoms in the lower extremities, the flesh feels sore. Trembling of all limbs; loss of muscular control; numbness and lack of sensibility of the extremities.
Upper Extremities
Inability to pour coffee from a cup. shooting from r. shoulder to dorsal vertebrae after breakfast. Spasmodic pain extending from inner condyle of r. arm to axilla. Arms insensible to pain. Aching in I. elbow at 7.30 P.M.; crampy, in bend of r. when walking after writing. Drawing about I. elbow at 3 P.M. when in a draughty church, with aching. Sensation of a galvanic current down forearms at 6 P.M. Pain in flexor muscles of r,. forearm. Pain in r. wrist, with weakness sharp OP. in r. at 6 P.M. Drawing sticking in dorsum of r. hand, running into middle and ring fingers. Sensation in hands and arms blunted, but not in proportion to the loss of motion. Flexors of hands and arms paralyzed and extensors nearly so. shooting in last joint of r. thumb in morning. Pain in little and fourth fingers.
Lower Extremities
Staggering. Pain; paroxysmal, in I. Fatigue after slight exercise (Arg-nit.). Feeling during and after a walk as if they could not be moved another step. Loss of voluntary motion. Jerking about middle of r. rectus muscle; of vastus externus muscle near r. knee; from r. sartorius about middle of thigh. Sticking as of drawing or cramping of single fasciculi of muscle, about origin on I. gluteus maximus, running in direction of hip- joint. Crampy pain in inner part of thigh when walking; drawing C. pain in bones and muscles of thighs, extending to toes, during the headache. sharp drawing pain in hip-joint, extending at times to outside of thigh, (<) movement. Pain in I. thigh at 7 P.M.; in I. rectus femoris at 11.30 P.M., with drawing in r. calf.
Sudden twisting on inside of patella when sitting down to breakfast. Knees feel when walking as if bones did not fit. Pain under r. K. when walking. when pains are felt above K. they are not felt below, and vice versa. Drawing pain in I. hamstring extending across joint to origin of gastrocnemius. Rheumatic pain in r. K. when walking. Weakness of K. Shooting in r. calf at 3 P.M; S. midway between knee and ankle in paroxysms, each more violent. sharp Crampy pain about largest part of I. gastrocnemius. Contracting pain in I. gastrocnemius, unlike other pains in limbs, not (>) sitting. Soreness of gastrocnemii and it beaten. Pain in I. ankle, with spasmodic contraction of toes and drawing pain in them. Cramp in r instep. Crampy pain in r. foot.
Skin
Yellow in forenoon; in afternoon. Erythema on face and neck. Papules as in measles, but larger and more distinct, (<) on face, with little or no sensation. Sore pimple, with inflamed areola on I. side of neck, one at r. corner of os hyoides, another at I. anterior temporal ridge, a P. sore to touch on I. side of larynx. Painless vesico-pustules on inside of thighs. Sudden stinging in whole skin at 5 P.M. as before an eruption, with greenish color, then burning, then itching, with profuse sweat. Itching at 11.30 P.M. about elbows and forearms; of points on face and at edge of hair, on forehead. r. side and elsewhere on scalp.
Sleep
Disposition to yawn, a sort of stupor, inability to keep eyes open, necessity to lie down and sleep. Sleepiness; in forenoon; with dim vision, a kind of drunken stupor; with deep respiration and general numbness; then aggravation of he habitual sleeplessness, liked a lethargy, after 2 P.M., lasting all the afternoon and evening. Sleep after supper. Sleeping and sound; sound till 7 A.M., difficult, weary waking. Restless night; (>) towards morning; with unpleasant dreams after midnight. Sleepless all night; till 1 A.M., with desire to study, sound sleep the last half of mare woke me. N. repeated on falling asleep again, as if I. side from neck to knee were a soft muscles jerking up and down with the elasticity of jelly, the centre of this motion seemed to be in region of heart, while r. side of back. on which I lay, was quiet, with inability to stir, on waking drawing pain in lower third of L. thigh, which was repeated next day. Little inclination to sleep, and when it comes dreams much about business, etc. Dreams and early waking; D of work and of many people. unpleasant D.
Fever
Chill; during the day; all day, (<) morning; after breakfast; in afternoon, then cold sweat till 5 P.M. after 2 P.M., then weakness like faintness, then cold sweat; between 2 and 4 P.M., then heat, then cold sweat, all without thirst; at 3 P.M., with cold sweat, hot at 9 P.M.; with profuse micturition; with chills running from loins to nape; with pains in and between bones of I calf, inability to descend stairs without holding on to something; with tremor and sudden general cold sweat, so that drops stood on arms; with cold limbs, hot head and face and headache; then flying heat and pricking in skin, he sweat; then heat,; and congested; and clammy, finally covered with cold sweat; in afternoon and sweat; head cool to touch in afternoon. Chills on upper half of body, (<) in back and nape, at 3 P.M., when reading exciting news; C. along spine; cold limbs; hands and feet; feet as if standing in cold water, generally with heat of head and face and headache.
Heat in forenoon; in afternoon, as if sweat would break out, then chill down back. heat in face, with fulness of head; with bruised pain in brain and rapid pulse; at 2.30 P.M. without external heat. Burning in zygomatic region and in eyes in afternoon whenever aroused from sleepiness; B in I. zygoma in afternoon, there in r., drawing down to a gland at anterior r. side, of neck, where it swells and pains as if an ulcer were forming (at this spot she had, twenty-two years ago, a glandular abscess, which opened internally); in I. zygoma, with swelling, a nd in eyes, (<) I. then in r. zygoma, with swelling, and in eyes, (<) I., then in r. zygoma at 1 P.M.; in I. zygoma before 2 P.M., and in eyes, (<) I., with red swelling of zygoma. Burning running through all limbs in afternoon, with burning in first joint of I. index as if blood would come out (this joint of I. index as if blood would come out (this joint is stiff and anchylosed from a wound). Hot and dry hands at 10 A.M.; in afternoon, (<) palms; palms at 11.30 P.M.
Sweat; with prostration;; easy, from movement; profuse; profuse and cold during the stinging in I. breast and after the chilly tremor; sudden, profuse, cold (after pain in forehead) till 6 P.M. Dry skin.
Clinical Eruptive fevers, especially measles, with catarrhal symptoms of eyes, nose and throat, and cough, but with great prostration, stupor, livid eruption and lack of thirst. In malaria fever, especially of the South, so-called bilious-remittent, it is an extremely valuable remedy; the fever is periodic, generally coming, on towards evening, with stupor, dizziness, blindness, faintness, no thirst, great prostration, slight perspiration which relieves. In pure intermittents there may be chill in the back, prolonged low type of fever, possibly with delirium, but with soft pulse and other Gel symptoms. Nervous chills, the effects of emotion excitement of depression. early stage of typhoid fever, with vertigo, tired feeling in all limbs, great weakness, soft pulse tremulousness to be of the extremities. Catarrhal fevers, chilliness in the back, desire to be over the fire, hot head, suffused eyes, stuffed nose, etc. Fever of erythema, or in low types of scarlet fever and mild forms if erysipelas.
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.