Lumbar Region. – Sticking in kidney region; on coccyx and sternum; on rising after squatting; on lifting, continuing when sitting, (>) moving about. Intermittent tearing on rising from stooping, and on standing still jerklike drawing. Burning pain in a spot above small of back. Intermittent sudden drawing pain, (<) standing, (>) walking, pressure, sitting and stooping. Pain; as from something alive, like a drawing and pressure, at times tearing, only distinctly felt when standing.
Clinical Spinal anaemia, resulting from sexual excesses, with palpitation, impotency and pain in vertex. Weakness of the small of the back and heaviness in the lower extremities, resulting from sexual excesses. It has provided a palliative in caries of the lumbar vertebrae.
Extremities
Jerking tearing. Contracted feeling. Bruised feeling in hands and feet as if paralyzed. Cramplike drawing in hands and feet as if asleep, in evening and morning. Crawling as if asleep, with weakness. Falling asleep of arms and lower limbs at night, so that they must be moved by others.
Upper Extremities
Swelling of axillary glands. Shoulder, pinching on top of r.; rheumatic paralytic pain in r. joint; drawing extending into arms; drawing in joint, with throbbing. Arms weak in afternoon, so that he trembled. Arm that had been injured stiff and painful on motion, hand heavy, picking and sticking in an ulcer, tearing and sticking in ball of thumb and in fingers, internal burning in hand and on allowing arm to hang down blood shot into hand. Jerking of upper arm, (>) motion. Paralytic pinching in upper arm, (<) touch. Drawing cutting in elbows, wrists and first finger- joints. Pain in elbow on touch. Drawing extending from elbow to shoulder.
Forearm, sticking boring near bend of l. elbow, (<) rest; pinching above r. wrist; pinching extending inward and outward; pinching heaviness in r.; bruised pain when lying on the table; paralytic pain externally below elbow. Wrist, tearing transversely across r.; spasmodic tearing in l. (possibly from taking cold in hands when out of bed); stiffness, (<) motion, with pinching. Hands, trembling when writing, with crawling and itching in them; cramp in r.; drawing stitches in palms; tearing in l. H. and shoulder; tearing rolling up and down in bones of H., fingers and forearms, at times with stitches; griping pinching between r. metacarpal bones; drawing in r.; swollen feeling.
Fingers – Stitches in joints; through back of r. thumb, extending under nail; intermittent, in ball of thumb. Tearing, (<) joints, with tension on motion as if tendons were too short; sticking T. on first phalanx of r. middle. Cramplike pain in l. Painful drawing in little, (<) joints, (>) bending finger into hand. Falling asleep, coldness, yellowness and wrinkling, with slow, scarcely perceptible pulse. Numbness of tips. Circumscribed deadness on one side of l. index during the chill.
Lower Extremities
Staggering sensation when walking. Heaviness of joints. Falling asleep when sitting.
Hip-joint – Cramp tearing through whole leg, (<) eating and sitting. Pain on rising from a seat; as if broken when walking and on touch; tensive and bruised, in r., (<) motion. Heaviness on beginning to walk after sitting, (>) motion, with lameness.
Thigh- Painful pulsating jerking from middle to knee; itching J. in gluteals. Stitches on motion, (<) sitting and rising from a seat; boring, in l. near abdominal ring during rest. Tearing extending to great toe. Pinching in r.; P. externally above knee. Pressure; a hand’s breadth above knees; sharp, on muscles of r., extending to knees. Bruised pain in femoral muscles; in T. and legs when walking; transversely across middle when walking, so that he staggered. Cramplike drawing in l. nates when walking. Weariness, (<) after sleep; W. when sitting, with anxious restlessness, so that he must constantly move the feet.
Knee – Sticking in r. patella, (<) motion. Tearing from hollow to upper part of thigh. Periodic pinching beneath l. Tensive pain in tendons under K., (<) motion and touch. Painful drawing deep in l. extending to tibia, when in walking the body is supported by l. leg.
Leg. – Cramp in l. calf. Sticking in lower part of tibia; cutting, in calf extending downward. Tearing in tibia and in outer surface of upper part of thigh; burning, in tibia at night, extending downward. Spasmodic pinching in l. calf, (>) rubbing. Pain below knees at P. in r. tibia, (>) walking. Spasmodic drawing, obliging her to rise and walk about during the day, and to move the leg back and forth at night. Pulsation during rest. Crawling in r. Weakness on walking. Rheumatic paralysis of l.
Ankle. – Tensive sticking in r. internal malleolus, extending to tibia. Sprained pain, even in morning in bed. Paralytic pain at rest, with cracking on motion.
Foot – Swelling, with burning of soles; S. with soreness. Sticking in soles and heels, and during rest heaviness; S. in corns, with burning; burning, in soles, (<) evening; jerklike, in r. sole. Tearing along r. external plantar nerve, with painful drawing. Pinching in soles. Cramplike pain caused by motion. Intermittent pressure in l. sole, extending towards great toe. Sore pain in soles and balls of toes on stepping. Smarting on outer side of r. in morning. Spasmodic drawing, (<) r. sole and balls of r. toes, preventing sleep till after midnight, (>) 1 A.M. Tension in anterior part of F. and in toes when walking.
Toes – Nails grows into flesh, causing inflammation and pain. Swelling of joint of great, with burning and throbbing, and on touch sticking causing jerking in toes, even hiccough or dread of being approached caused the pain. Tearing stitches on ball of l. great; boring S. in l. little. Pinching in two last r. Sore as if ulcerated.
Clinical It has been found valuable in hip-joint disease, with great fever and sleeplessness.
Skin
Red, burning spots on thighs and legs. Redness of whole body, with red spots on shoulders and red stripes above patellae, and from hips to umbilicus, with sensitiveness to air, the warmth of the bed feels good. Hands dry, rough and wrinkled. Rash over whole body, burning more than itching. Eruption on dorsa of hands, with a depressed centre like a grain of wheat, hands look as if covered with white of egg, skin dry. Eruption painful on touch, on scapulae.
Swelling on back of nose, with red spots on sides that now appear and now disappear, with tense sensation. Nodes on forehead. Pimples on face; red, on and between fingers, finally with white elevations in the centre; with throbbing in it and painful on touch, in tip of nose; sore on touch, on forehead; sore, (<) touch, behind lobule of r. ear; red, on back of hands; red, (<) evening, sensitive to rubbing and touch of clothes, on back, chest and neck; red, smooth, with red areola, sore on touch, on forearm and throat; itching, (<) evening in bed, on knee and calf, with burning after scratching, then they become confluent, spread and change to ulcers that bleed easily.
Itching scab beneath septum of nose. Red, itching pustules, (<) touch, on cheek and nose. Boils on l. chest and l. side of back; on r. shoulder; on nates. Inflammation beneath finger-nail, with suppuration. Vesicles on balls of toes; and toes and nates; deep- seated, hard, itching, on ball of thumb.
A bursa between metacarpal bones becomes painful, (<) night, (<) touch. Burning pain on l. side of forehead; on r. cheek near corner of mouth; in ulcers. Sore, even shaving is painful; S. spots on toes, groins and pubis. Crawling; over whole body, with stitches; now here and there; itching, on body, and hands in evening after lying down. Boring sticking on upper abdomen. Itching sticking on coccyx; around anus; on upper arm, not (>) scratching; between breasts, waking her about mid night and forcing her to walk about. Itching biting on forehead; on r. false ribs; on trunk and thighs; on coccyx above rectum; on l. leg, (<) scratching.
Itching of face; ear; of tip of nose; on tibia; r. hip; malleolus; heels; backs of hands, (<) scratching; on back of hands, (<) scratching; on back, with sweat on it; suddenly here and there, transiently (>) scratching; biting, on l. middle finger recurring after scratching; sticking burning, (<) scratching, with redness.
Clinical Atonic ulcers on the legs, with stinging, burning pains. Acne, resulting from onanism. Blood-boils. Chilblains. Wartlike excrescences.
Sleep. – Yawning; in forenoon and evening; from 9 till 10 and from 4 till 6, with shivering, and with cold feet in evening; with stretching of upper limbs and sleepiness; that brings water into eyes. Sleepiness; all day, (<) evening, with yawning; during the day, (>) walking, with weariness, at night sleeplessness, and from evening till midnight heat and sweat; early in evening and in morning. Falls asleep after dinner, when talking. Could not arouse himself in morning. Sleep early and sound; fell into sound S. when writing; sound during the day, interrupted 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.