Sound. First at apex sharp and metallic; first remarkably ringing, second dull, impulse strong, whirring, with pain under sternum. First short, defective second unusually distinct, the impulse received in two intercostal spaces is jerky but not forcible, no murmur. Bruit de souffle at apex; in cervical vessel; humeral; during first action, more at apex than at base; anaemic, at base and along large vessels. Anaemic blowing in vessels of neck. Sonorous bruit at apex transmitted along carotids, the second beat of H. is heard under sternum. Cat’s fremitus at apex. Double friction sound without enlargement; D. murmur in crural artery; D. souffle in subclavicular region but none in crural artery; D. rough blowing transmitted along carotids, with swelling of limbs and albuminuria. Sounds over a large surface, instead of the valvular sound a double bruit, rasping, which is transmitted along carotids. Redoubled, second rude and like a pericardiac sound. Sound accompanied by metallic tinkling. Chlorotic. At one point a mur-mur in second sound. Soft systolic souffle at base. Dull on percussion, with prominence of praecordial region. Tremor in jugular veins on auscultation.
Palpitation: (<) ascending stairs or running too long; with dyspnoea, he felt the heart beating along neck and as far as vertex, with full, hard, regular pulse, heart’s sound heard nearly all over anterior part of chest. Impulse violent, but pulse rhythmical. Action strong; and irregular. Action irregular; and hurried, shaking praecordial region, the beast seem stifled on auscultation. Action feeble; and slow; and second sound indistinct.
Jerking in praecordial region. Symptoms resembling angina pectoris. Sticking in praecordial region on inspiration, then anxiety with mounting of heat and redness into face. Sudden pain; P., with palpitation. Pressure in praecordial region. Oppression. Anxiety; with anxious respiration; with cold sweat.
Pulse
Rapid; and jerking; and strong, also cordy; and full; and hard, also full; and hard, small; and tense, intermittent; and small, also weak and intermittent; and small, irregular; and irregular, also slender; and soft; and weak; and scarcely perceptible one minute, the next slow and large; by turns R. and slow, large and small; sometimes R., sometimes slow, soft. Slow; and full; and strong; and hard; and hard, vibrating, also large; and hard, tense; and large, tense; large and soft; and contracted; and soft, and small; and small; weak; and small, contracted, hardish, intermittent; and weak; and weak, irregular; and weak, soft, also easily depressed; and indistinct, intermittent and of irregular strength; irregular as to force, sometimes weak, sometimes vibrating; when recumbent, quickened by trifling exertion weak. Forcible beating in aorta shaking abdomen. Throbbing in carotids and crural arteries. Full and turgid. Hard; in temporal arteries; and tense; and full; and full, tense, vibrating. Intermittent. Tremulous. Vibrating. Irregular; in frequency and force; in frequency, and soft; and deep and easily compressed. Dicrotic. Small; and soft; and feeble; and slender, soft, easily compressible. Weak; and thready, sometimes imperceptible.
Neck
Tearing in nape, (>) standing and rubbing, then it appeared in l. shoulder; T. from r. side into shoulder. Pain in region of last cervical and first dorsal vertebrae on pressure. Acute drawing in nape. Tension in nape, (<) r. side, extending into ear, on turning head sideways. Sensibility diminished. Stiffness. Paralysis of muscles.
Back
Neuralgic pain. Pain in muscles; in spine extending into occiput; with lameness and weakness; with sensitiveness of spine occasionally extending up neck to occiput. Spinal irritation. Rheumatism of B., hips and lower limbs. Weakness; and of lower limbs. Locomotor ataxia, (<) shutting eyes, strength undiminished, leg cannot be bent upon thigh. Sticking in middle of spine; in middle of back in forenoon when standing.
Scapulae. Sticking; between S.; in r., with burning. Tearing in r.; in lower part of r.; in r., with feeling as if something rose up in it, then burning in abdomen, then sticking in r. scapula. Pain between S.; sprained, in r. Dorsal region of spine tender to pressure.
Lumbar Region. Sticking in l. in afternoon on laughing; in afternoon, (>) pressure; S. in after noon, (>) rubbing, with sensitiveness on leaning it against a chair; in l. and in r. hypochondrium in afternoon on bending towards l., (>) rising and sitting erect; worse by paroxysms, (>) pressure, (<) movement, with cramps there. Tearing in l. in afternoon when standing; T. in renal region worse at the same time as the abdominal sufferings, and like them (>) friction and pressure. Pain; in sacro-iliac synchondrosis; (<) stooping; with warmth in it; usually lancinating, and in nates, posterior part of thigh, knee, sole and toes, equally severe on both sides, felt somewhat on inner surface of lower lib, with attacks of cramps; rheumatic, and in limbs, extending into knees; drawing. Dragging pain; and in epigastrium.
Clinical Spinal paralysis, rheumatic. Infantile paralysis. Symptoms of multiple sclerosis, posterior spinal sclerosis; if this drug has not actually cured this disease it has been found valuable for many of its distressing symptoms, especially for the violent sciatic pains, the colic, constipation, dysuria, etc.; (its ally Thallium, which is even more poisonous than Plumb., has been found to act well in the terrible neuralgias of this disease after Plumbum seems to have lost its its effect).
Extremities
Oedema. Emaciation; with sensitiveness to cold; of r. leg and l. arm, with increased sensibility. Bluish. (Dilated veins on legs and feet, and on upper third of outer surface or r, arm a serpentine varicose vein, and on patella a patch of varicose veins). Gout; in hands and feet; without redness of tumefaction, a tumor on dorsal surface of wrist, in some cases coincident with paralysis of extensors, extends along tendons, is not changed in color, consistence or mobility, it is caused by hypertrophy of tendinous expansions, never begins in joints. He always lies with them drawn up. Legs flexed upon thighs and forearms on arms, and body doubled together. R. fall back more easily than l.
Trembling; of legs and hands, (<) r.; after colic; (>) resting them against something; of l. lower, then l. upper, with pain and difficulty in moving them; of hands when stretched out, (<) r., r. ring finger semiflexed, paralysis of extensors, (<) last phalanx, on l. hand only ring finger is paralyzed, grasp weak, (<) r. hand, lower limbs weak, cramps in last three r. fingers and in calves. Constantly thrust out of bed and then covered up again. Jerking. Contractions; of joints, spasmodic, (<) night, with pain. Spasmodic flexion of arms and legs, so that backs of hands rested on chest, then gradual relaxation till arms hung by the side. Convulsion; and of hands, with tightness. Cramps; in joints and surrounding muscles, with pain; hands and feet; hand and r. leg from lying in bed, (<) extending them; knees and arms, with pains; l. middle finger and successively in knees, popliteal spaces, calves, soles, etc., sometimes with pain.
Sudden shock so that he feel to the ground, with spasmodic flexion of legs, so that heels touched nates, on trying to extend legs cramp in thighs and calves, abdomen retracted and sensitive to touch, even of his shirt, with constipation, week later a similar shock in arms with spasmodic pains, hands flexed and fingers spread aparts, the pains lasted several weeks and during this time he could sleep only on his back with r. arm clamped between legs, afterwards use of r. arm impaired and fingers hanging down, next year l. hand similarly affected, skin of arms rough, dry and cracked.
Lancinations in aims, forearms and lower limbs; legs, arms and fingers; in elbows and knees; along inner surfaces, with cramps. Tearing; knees, calves, soles and palmar surfaces of forearms, (<) movement, (>) pressure, worse by paroxysms, during which there are cramps. Neuralgic pains.
Pains
Arm and legs; hands and feet joints; lower joints of r.; large joints, (<) knees; joints and muscles of elbow, write, fingers and their tendinous sheaths, knees, popliteal spaces and insteps, spontaneous or excited by movement or pressure; during movement and pressure; on forced movement; in flexor muscles on motion; (<) muscular parts of thighs, then in muscles of arm; knees, with weakness and lameness; (<) legs and l. arm, with swelling of l. knee, the weakness of l. knee; on inside, (<) about inner angle of elbow and knee; (<) night; (<) evening and night, so that he rubbed one foot against the other; in wrists and ankles, (<) morning on going to work, with stiffness, lameness and weakness of them; large joints, (<) heat of bed; in joints, with cracking on motion; hands and feet, with numbness of hem; beginning in fingers and extending through elbows and upper arms, then beginning in feet and finally affecting whole body; across arms and legs; in joints extending through limbs; sudden; paroxysmal, so that he cries out, also (>) pressure, (<) movement; vague wondering; now in arms, now in feet, with drawing, removing their activity; as if broken.
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.