Extremities
Pain in second joints of fingers and in ankle, (<) jolting of the horse; quick P. in ring fingers and corresponding toes. Out- pressing sensation in hands, arms, feet and legs in early part of night.
Upper Extremities
Tearing from l. shoulder to hand; paroxysmal, from l. shoulder to elbow. Crampy pain in l. shoulder and mamma. Trembling of l. arm, with weakness. Pain in r. arm and wrist. Tearing in muscles of l. upper arm. Pain in r. wrist, with weakness of the part in morning. Trembling of hands. Pricking in hands and fingers in morning. Hands and arms stiff and hot as if parched; r. hand and arm stiff and painful, (>) after 8 A.M.
Fingers. Cramp. Pricking in tips at 5 P.M., with heat of palms; P. extending up arms, with sensation as if blood would press through the veins, which lasted into the night. Pain beginning at tip of index, as from an electric current, with throbbing of the pulse; sensation of an electric current beginning at tip of index, extending to other fingers and up arm, in l. at 5 P.M., then in r., with cold feet during the time. Stiffness; of r. at 5 P.M., with cramp in middle finger and up arm.
Lower Extremities
Staggering; when walking, with inclination to fall forward. Joints seem to lack synovial fluid, can almost hear the crepitus. Quick pains. Lassitude, (<) fleshy parts.
Thigh. Intermittent stitches in r. hip-joint; through the day. Boring in r. hip-joint, with stiff feeling in muscles of thigh. Sharp pain in inside of l. thigh, over femoral artery, two inches below Poupart’s ligament. Catching pain through r. hip and down outside of r. thigh, (<) sitting up. Pain in r. hip and down thigh; in l. thigh when moving, with flatulency and lameness in ankles; intermittent pain in a spot on inner side of middle of l. Drawing pain in r. hip, extending down outside of thigh, (>) moving limb. Soreness in r. hip-joint, (<) thirst. Lassitude.
Knee. Trembling. Sharp pain in a spot on inside, extending towards front, at connection of patella with tendon of rectus muscle. Grasping pain. Pain; all day; when walking, with weakness of them, also (<) ascending an eminence. Heavy pain after lying down; H. pain extending to ends of toes.
Leg. Cramp in legs and feet after morning stool. Stinging below r. knee at 5 P.M. Darting pains in evening, disappearing as suddenly as they came. Pain, causing her to twist and turn; P. below knees, suddenly shifting from place to place. Rheumatic lameness and pain in l. when walking. Heavy; and full feeling. Weakness. Heavy tired feeling, with shooting from groins down inner side to knees.
Pain in ankles, (<) motion; P. in A. extending to toes. Neuralgia in foot; r., and toes. Boring on top of l. foot. Pulsation in feet. Feet tender and ankles swollen. Cramp in l. toes at 5 P.M.
Skin
Tingling in legs. Formication below knees. Itching of calf; in r. temple in evening; on upper part of chest and arms, with itching rash about forehead and around borders of hair; of hands, as from nettles; burning I. in the swell of deltoids, transiently (>) scratching. Skin of abdomen at intervals felt stiff and stretched. Numbness on pressure.
Sleep
Yawning and stretching. Sleepiness; in evening. Sound sleep, but sudden waking three times to urinate. Sleeplessness; after 2 A.M.; after being aroused by anything. Restless sleep; and full of unremembered dreams; with frequent waking as from fright. Frequent waking. Sleep broken by disagreeable dreams, arose earlier than usual unrefreshed. Dreams all night; laborious; frightful and laborious; unpleasant; lascivious, towards morning, with emission; lascivious and exhausting; queer, half-walking, with heat all night, things occurring at short intervals appeared as if at long intervals.
Fever
Chill; in evening, then diphtheritis; towards evening, causing constriction of heart, extending to beneath scapulae, heart feels as if squeezed in a vise, all the blood seems to have gone to heart, causing a feeling as if I must bend double, I can hardly walk straight, and the heart shakes with the cold; sudden C., with fulness of head. C. running downward from face, with congested and constricted feeling in chest, as if too narrow and as if it might be (>) letting out blood; over face in forenoon, then fever, congestion to chest and twitching around heart; running over face, with hot congested feeling in chest; congestive, beginning in face and extending downward, in forenoon in open air. Chills in back, (<) going to bed at night, with hot flushes towards morning; down back; in back at night on going to bed, as if cold water were poured over it. C. creeping down back every night on going to bed; C. creeping down back, then violent beating of heart when lying on either side and throbbing of carotids, preventing sleep. Cold feet; and hands; C. hands from any excitement; outer side of l. leg, also as from a wind.
Heat; in afternoon, with lassitude; internal and external; of head; in back; in hands; hands and feet; hands after 2 P.M.; limbs at night; hands all night, with sweat; arms and legs in early part of night, with pulsation in bloodvessels and sweat of palms; in hands, arms, feet and legs at night, with desire to put them out of bed; in palms and soles at night, extending up limbs, with restlessness; in palms and soles, extending over limbs, (<) evening and after going to bed, (>) cool air, with general restlessness; in lower limbs, with restless movements; in hands, arms and lower limbs, with general restlessness and feeling as if blood would burst through veins.
Sweat in axillae, (<) r. Cold, clammy, on limbs; on hands and feet.
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.