Neck and Back
Tonic cramps, during which respiration stopped. Tearing in upper part of bone of l. scapula. Tension externally near l. scapula.
Clinical Pott’s disease of the spine, and other diseases of the bones, attended with destruction and formation of abscesses; extremely valuable if characterized by nocturnal aggravations, sweats, etc.
Extremities
HAnds and feet livid, shrunken and cold. Trembling; (<) stretching them. Twitching. Convulsions of fingers and toes; convulsive motions of r. Cramps. Sticking, (<) hip-joint and knee; in muscles of back of hand, (<) abductor and extensor of thumb, and in extensor of foot. Tearing in bones (joints of fingers, hips, etc.). Pain; in arms and legs, (<) evening, with peculiar numbness; with general weakness; in limbs and arms as after long exercise, (<)sleep. Drawing in bones. Weakness, with trembling when standing up and without moving; W. and shivering; with stiffness and pain on attempting to change position increasing to paralysis; of deltoid and of muscles of calves and thighs. Loss of control. Paralysis. Paralytic stiffness. Numbness of hands and feet.
Upper Extremities
Sticking in l. axilla, with sensation as if glands would swell. Tearing in l. shoulder. Rheumatic pain (as in windy weather) in r. deltoid when walking. Cramps of hands. Tearing in l. metacarpal bones. Jerking constriction in r. metacarpus. Sticking in tip of l. thumb in evening when walking. Tearing in joints of l. fingers; in first joints of l. index and ring finger and thumb.
Lower Extremities
Drawn up in bed. Spasms. Sticking in muscles. Rheumatic sticking at night. Myalgia of thighs, with coldness of hands and feet. Sticking in hip-joints; in afternoon;(>) motion; outward in l. Tearing posteriorly in r. hip-joint, then more to side and externally. Drawing in femora. Knees drawn up. Cramp in legs; l. Twitching of various muscular fibres of calf, inner side of gastrocnemius. Tearing in l. calf extending inward. Drawing pain in bones of leg. Stiffness of legs. Numbness of legs. Leg seems asleep. Trembling of feet; when walking, (<) l., (<) morning on rising and in evening. Pain in feet. Weariness of feet in evening, with sleepiness.
Skin
Pale. Yellow. Livid, finally dusky. Swelling and mercurial erythema; S. of whole arm, with inflammation in places, and in places vessications filled with lymph. Brown scar on the part that had been powdered, surrounded by bright redness, afterwards the scar black and dry in centre and humid at circumference. Ecchymoses, (<) lumbar region. Rash around mouth. Itching eruption like rubeola, over whole body. Papulous eruption (lichen). Livid pustules on face and breast. Blisters; (painless, on arms and abdomen in morning,(>) during the day). Felt dry and harsh to the hand.
Tingling as if asleep. Burning and pricking, with redness and inflammation, afterwards vesicles at many points. Itching burning in many places just under skin, with sticking. Itching of skin, which looks dry and shrivelled; I. between r. great and second toes; in middle of back changing to sticking; in various places changing to sticking and burning.
Sleep
Yawning; and stretching; and stretching, without sleepiness. Sleepiness; in afternoon. Sleeps with eyes half closed. Sleepiness; till 3 A.M.; from midnight till 3 A.M., with tossing about the bed; on account of anxiety; could lie comfortably upon neither side. Late falling asleep and immediate starting up as from a shock in whole body, then sleeplessness from heat and pressure in chest, with anxiety. Starting up from sleep; on falling asleep, also with shuddering in whole body. Frequent waking; and unpleasant dreams. Interrupted towards morning. Soporous, from which she was occasionally awakened by return of pain. Light, with frequent waking and inability to sleep on account of confusion of head. Restless sleep; with mild delirium, she tried to get up; often interrupted by distressing dreams; and dreams of falling from high banks or being let down into deep wells or trying to get away from some one who intended to murder her. Frightful dreams, she was hurried by fancying that a horrid-looking figure at her bedside presented a bottle to her. Dreams of incendiarism and and murder. Vivid D.; of remarkable, ludicrous and disagreeable things, journeys, etc. Voluptuous D.
Fever
Chill; towards evening, with sudden transient heat; in evening, (<) head; at night; at night in bed; from slightest motion, with cutting colic; in open, warm air, to which she was averse, with cutting colic tenesmus; (<) along spine, with formication; creeping, at night; creeping towards evening, with coldness over small of back as if a lizard were creeping over it; alternating with heat. Shivering; during and after swallowing; over whole body in evening in bed, then sleeplessness on account of heat and pressure in chest, with anxiety; (<) open air, often with chattering of teeth, often (>) warm sweat.
Cold skin; with small, intermittent pulse; with sweat; on abdomen; except on abdomen and inside of thighs, with internal heat and burning pain in lumbar region; (<) limbs. Chilliness in head; in evening before sleep. In l. side, (<) after midnight. Cold back and feet. Cold limbs; with sunken face and rapid, small, contracted pulse. Cold feet; and hands; and feet, with salivation and difficult swallowing, then shaking chill, then dullness in head except in temples, inflammation of skin of l. side of lower jaw.
Heat; febrile excitement in evening; at night, preventing rest in any place, with anxiety; on stooping, but coldness on rising again; internal and external, (>) drinking cold water and sponging body with cold water. Of skin; (<) forehead; on face. Dry, of face.
Sweat; at night; at night, frequently on waking. Anxious. Offensive towards morning. Of mouldy smell, for the most part partial. Cold; with pale skin; on forehead, with dryness of rest of skin. Cold and clammy; and skin blanched; on limbs. S. on forehead, temples, chest and hands, with coldness in these parts; in drops on forehead; in l. axilla, then general, waking at night. Skin dry at night.
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.