Clinical Irritation of the bladder, most violent urging to urinate, with inflammation of the whole urethra.
Sexual Organs
Aching, (<) r. testicle, with diminished urine; A. as after excessive sexual intercourse; A. in l. testicle. Drawing pain extending along inner side of r. thigh to knee.
Respiratory Organs
Painful pressure in r. side of larynx at night, waking him, not painful on touch. Hollow cough at night. Short hacking cough. Respiration difficult. Respiration quick and panting.
Chest
Stitches behind cartilages of l. sixth and seventh ribs; S. downward deep behind sternum; sudden S. to l. of ensiform cartilage, behind costal cartilages, arresting breath. Pain in l. clavicle; deep behind sternum, in region of l. third rib, above and inside nipple; in r. pectoral muscles; in l. clavicle in forenoon; in l. pectoral muscles, making respiration difficult. Throbbing pain in l. clavicle in morning. Constriction, with attacks of anxiety, preventing sleep. Tension in middle of sternum.
Heart
Sinking feeling in praecordial region, with nausea, then soft stool. Violent beating; when walking slowly about the room; suddenly. Action irregular and weak. Palpitation; after moving about.
Pulse
Rapid; and strong; and hard; throbbing; and large, full, almost jerking; and weak. Slow; and full; and full, soft. Irregular, of normal frequency. Small, thready, intermittent. Almost pulseless.
Neck and Back
Stiffness of nape; of muscles of nape. Pain in muscles across back; in l. rhomboid muscle, in region of fourth and fifth ribs; in region of sixth dorsal vertebra. Stitches in lumbar region of sixth dorsal vertebra. Stitches in lumbar muscles. Feeling of a thrust in muscles of small of back when walking. Soreness of small of back; and in rectum, as in diarrhoea. Painful stiffness of lumbar muscles. Crawling beneath skin of sacrum.
Extremities
Spasms. Cramps in arms and legs; of hands and feet. Pain in l. calf, r. knee and r. wrist; on back of r. foot, on posterior surface of l. upper arm and in flexor surface of l. forearm; P. alternately in upper arms and r. calf, only when sitting; pressive and contractive P. in various parts, (<)in wrists, toes and calves; drawing P. in various parts, in part seeming to be under the skin.
Upper Extremities
Pain in shoulder-joint; in l.; in r. shoulder, extending into hand, (<) along ulnar nerve; rheumatic P. in r., then l. shoulder. Bruised pain in shoulder-joints; B. and stiff feeling in shoulders. Drawing in muscles of l. shoulder. Bruised pain in muscles of arm. Pressure in muscles of r. upper arm. Weariness of upper arms. Pain in elbows extending to tips of fourth and fifth fingers, with numbness and burning, causing insensibility. Gnawing in ulnar nerve. Aching along l. ulnar nerve; from elbow to tips of fourth and fifth fingers. Internal pressure in flexor muscles of l. forearm. Drawing on back of l. hand. Pain in metacarpus of r. thumb, extending to wrist and hand; P. in first joint of r. index, extending to tip; in first joint of r. thumb, extending to wrist, in morning.
Lower Extremities
Gait tottering, body inclined to l. in walking. Tearing in l. knee and malleolus. Pain in hollows of knees; r. knee and l. calf on walking slowly in the room. Bruised pain in knees; when sitting; extending into legs and becoming seated in ankles. Cramp of legs and feet. Cramplike pain in legs, and cramp in calves, which become knotted (Cuprum). Scraping on inner surface of l. tibia. Painful pressure in external muscles of legs, with internal crawling. Compression in muscles of l. leg, (<) lower part of calf. Painful weakness of legs, (<) knees. Stiffness of legs when walking, with unsteadiness.
Calves.- Cramplike jerking, with painless diarrhoea; internal jerking and pressure in l. C. and toes, more towards inner angle of tibia and on inner surface of tibia. Sticking. Pain; in l.; in l., (<) towards tibia, with stiffness; when walking, with internal drawing in legs; drawing pain in outer part of r.; bruised pain in outer part of r.; bruised feeling, (<) when sitting. Pulsation in l. Stiffness; of l.; when walking in room; of l. and back of l. foot, with pressure.
Pain in r. ankle; rheumatic P. in l., (<) forenoon. Sticking in l. sole and l. calf, with pressure; S. in l. sole when sitting, with jerking. Heels sensitive when stepping on them. Drawing on back of right foot; drawing in balls of feet; rheumatic D. in l. foot, extending into ball of great toe. Rheumatic pain in ball of r. foot in morning. Twitching inward of r. toes. Sticking in l. great toe. Tearing alternately in toes and on back of l. foot. Pressure and drawing in great toe and on back of l. foot.
Skin
Pimples on wrist and back of r. hand; hard, on middle of r. cheek; sore painful P. on nape; sore painful P. on bend of r. thigh. Prickling on back of l. hand. Crawling on legs and feet; in toes; l. great toe. Itching between r. index and middle finger and on palm; between first and second fingers in morning, (>) rubbing; between toes at night in bed; around mouth, (>) rubbing, with tension; between thumb and index, (<) then (>) rubbing; internal I in fingers, (<) l.
Sleep
Yawning, with nausea, salivation and eructations. Drowsiness; after vomiting, with heat. Dropped asleep every half minute, but was easily aroused. He is scarcely able to wake in morning and afternoon, must force himself to move, after which he feels better. Waking at 2 A.M. on account of an angry conversation which he had had in the evening, then dream of the conversation. Sleeplessness, with throbbing of pulse; all night, with tossing about. Incessant dreaming.
Fever
Coldness, with shivering, clammy sweat, vomiting and diarrhoea. Shivering; with cold finger-tips; with cold hands and blue nails; with cold feeling extending through abdomen, and the palms previously dry became moist and cold. Shivering in back; in spinal marrow; in region of lumbar vertebrae; creeping; up and down back; starting from lumbar vertebrae; deep in lumbar vertebrae, with desire for stool earlier than usual; extending into upper arms. Coldness in back; at times; deep in spine; extending into upper arms. Cold hands; and blue nails. Cold limbs; in evening; C. creeping through limbs, extending to scalp.
Heat; in evening. Hot skin, with rapid pulse and dry tongue. Heat in head; (<) sinciput; in occiput; in occiput, with confusion of it; in ears; in face; in face, as in catarrh; across back. Sweat; during sleep; profuse, general; 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.