Respiratory Organs
Larynx, pain on swallowing; pain in L. and throat, with irritation to cough; itching tickling, compelling forcible cough; dryness; burning extending up to it. Hoarseness; (<) afternoon, and when speaking rawness and soreness of chest. Speech nasal. Tone of voice seemed muffled, though as strong as ever. Trachea, rawness, with expectoration of mucus; crawling scratching below larynx, waking from the deepest sleep at 2 A.M.; feeling as if air rose in waves and streamed out of mouth. Irritation to cough as from sulphur fumes; I. to cough from deep breathing, stretching out throat, and at times on empty swallowing.
Cough; in morning, with tightness of breath; in morning and evening; from 4 till 8 P.M., with much drinking; at 9 P.M., with fever, then heat of head, cramp in legs, feet and hands, and rapid pulse; on deep inspiration, with pain in chest; (<) evening and by motion and lying on r. side, with difficult respiration, sticking in r. side of chest, chilliness and trembling of limbs, the pain in chest (<) lying on back; with pain on swallowing; with sticking here and there in chest; at night, (<) before sunrise, affecting stomach and diaphragm; at night, causing pain in head and sides of abdomen; at night, preventing sleep before midnight, with pain in chest. Violent cough; with tightness of chest (Phosphorus); and fatiguing during the day, sometimes with expectoration of white gelatinous mucus. Paroxysmal, from tickling in larynx, ending with sneezing; P. and exhausting, with vomiting; P. and fatiguing, then palpitation, hoarseness and rawness in throat. Tickling, in throat, amount to retching; fatiguing T. during the day, (<) evening on going to sleep and in morning. Hacking; in evening in bed, with hawking; from tickling in larynx. Dry; with sore pain along trachea; and fatiguing; and whistling, as in brandy-drinkers; with whistling, piping and crackling in throat; and rough, (<) night; and short in morning, with hoarseness; and hacking, with rawness below sternum; then yellowish purulent expectoration, with rawness and sore pain in chest.
Cough with Expectoration – At night; at night, with hoarseness and sore pain in spot in chest where the expectoration is loosened; thick E.; in morning after waking; granular E. from 3 till 4 A.M., in morning yellowish firm E.; thick E., thick, yellowish-brown E.; yellowish-gray E.; and smarting in chest; purulent E., with fever and night-sweat, as in last stages of suppuration of lungs. Cough with mucous E.; at night; day and night, blackish; in white balls; in grayish granules. Cough with hawking of thick, firm, yellow mucus from throat, pharynx and trachea. Tickling cough as from sulphur fumes, with gray salt expectoration (Sepia, Calc-c.); tickling C., with gray E. Over- powering C. in evening before sleep, as if larynx were tickled with a feather, with scanty E. Violent C., with thick, whitish- yellow E.; violent C., with scanty expectoration, then oppression of chest, difficult breathing, palpitation and heat of face. Distressing, hacking C., with E. of thin, then thick, purulent mucus. Coughing up bright blood in afternoon.
Expectoration – Salt; gray, salt (Sepia, Calc-c.); of salt mucus morning, evening and night. Of thick, yellowish mucus from bronchi in morning (Calc-c.). Gray, granular, morning and evening. White, slimy. Tough, thick, yellowish. Of a sourish, watery, at times bloody liquid. Bloody. Cannot bring off the sputa, but must swallow it again.
Respiration. – Dyspnoea as if chest were constricted by cramp; D., with short breath and rush of blood to chest. Difficult; in morning; when walking, with palpitation; as from sulphur fumes. Short; in afternoon when walking, also with at times pressure upon chest; in evening when riding in a carriage; in sleep; before the cough; on ascending steps and walking rapidly. Arrested on ascending steps. Catches his breath three or four times in sleep before he can draw it properly, with a noise, when he cannot get his breath he wakes and cries. Impeded on ascending steps. (Oppressed in morning during physical exertion.) Whistling.
Clinical Chronic bronchial catarrh, especially in old people, dyspnoea. Chronic bronchial catarrh, cough (<) after 4 P.M. Cough, with free expectoration. Subacute pneumonia, with great difficulty in breathing, and fanlike motion of wings of nose, patient (<) when lying on back. Hard, dry cough, day and night, with emaciation. Cough rather worse when going down hill than up. Many cases of phthisis pulmonaris, characterized by the persistent abdominal symptoms.
Chest
Rattling and rales. At one time involuntary contraction of pectoral muscles forward, at another of scapulae backward. Exudation of blood and glutinous water from one nipple, (<) touch. Swelling of one breast, with pain on touch. Hard lump in l. breast and beneath arm, with burning pain.
Sticking; in sides; in nipples; region of fifth ribs; l.; region of l. fifth rib; in l. near sternum. In morning, in sides; l.; l., near sternum; region of l. fourth rib near sternum; now r., now l., near sternum. In forenoon, in l.; in l. near sternum. Afternoon, in r.; in sternum. At 3 P.M., (<) running, with oppressed respiration. Evening, in l.; in l., (<) deep inspiration; in sides in bed; on pulsation, (<) a hand’s breath below l. clavicle, (<) cough, deep inspiration and motion, could scarcely move in bed, with chilliness, cough, headache, fever, then heat in head, dreamy sleep and sweat after midnight. At night, beneath margin of l. ribs, on turning to l. side, then uneasy partial sleep, with heat and sweat. S. in r. when coughing and moving body; in region of fifth rib, close to sternum, when at rest, then sticking on l. side; here and there on breathing; in l. when breathing, also with jerking; in and beneath C. on breathing after supper; in sternum on deep breathing. Aggravation by deep breathing; in l.; in l. in region of fifth rib; in region of l. sixth rib, till night. S. in r. clavicle, with sensitiveness. S. in l. in evening, causing uneasiness; sudden, close to r. border of sternum in evening; intermittent; intermittent tearing, in lower part of sternum during rest, not affecting respiration; pulsating, in l.; burning, on margin of sternum when walking in open air. S. in l. extending to back, so that he could scarcely breathe; on l. margin of sternum, transversely through chest to back, in morning; in region of l. fifth rib, backward to border of scapula; in region of l. fifth rib, backward to border of scapula; in region of r. third rib, transversely through chest, (<) deep inspiration; from ensiform cartilage and r. hypochondrium to dorsal vertebrae and especially to scapulae, impeding respiration on rising.
Darting pain in r. Cutting in r.; through l. C. and hypochondrium, (<) stretching. Tearing in region of l. clavicle. Ulcerated feeling, beneath sternum in morning, with pressure. Pain in l.; beneath sternum; in morning beneath manubrium sterni, with tightness increasing to dyspnoea; in posterior mediastinum and pit of stomach, with general Dullness and weakness; so that he could not lie on l. side, then cough in morning, with greenish expectoration; sprained, in l., alternating with jerkings; flatulent, in lower part, and in praecordial region, with distention under false ribs. Sore pain; beneath sternum in morning. Rawness beneath sternum.
Oppression; all day; in forenoon, (<) deep breathing; in evening; during respiration; with internal rawness; with tickling in throat obliging coughing; with sticking in throat, provoking scraping cough; as if too full; rheumatic, (>) empty eructations. Constriction in middle, from walking in open air; C. in region of false ribs, almost taking away the breath. Tension; in forepart of l.; beneath sternum in afternoon; from 11 P.M. to 1 A.M., making respiration difficult; at night on waking, with pressure in epigastric region and rumbling in abdomen; on inspiration, (<) r. side; in r., with pressure; below sternum, with sore sensation on chest; and pressure, taking away the breath with evening, alternating with distention of abdomen; beneath sternum, with pressure obliging deep breathing. Tightness in open air; T. (<) moving about, with oppressive pain in pit of stomach; (<) after walking in open air, with loud thumping of heart.
Pressure upon C. in evening; on spot beneath l. axilla; as from a knob on r. true ribs. Feeling as if anterior surface of lungs were swollen. Fulness in C. and stomach after eating; F. as from oppression at noon. Feeling as if full of mucus; with whistling in air-passages on breathing during the day. Heaviness; in morning; beneath sternum at 11 A.M. when walking, with pressure; in afternoon, obliging deep breathing; on ascending a height; in C. and epigastric region after supper, with empty eructations; (<) deep breathing; (>) expectoration of puslike mucus; with frequent sighing; beneath sternum, with pressure; impeding respiration, (>) cough and expectoration of white, tenacious mucus; as if catarrh would develop.
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.