Swelling of prepuce; close to its union with glans. Prepuce dark; red spots on inner surface of P., near fraenum; sticking itching on inner surface of P. Scrotum felt like thick hog’s hide; thick and hard, with itching, extending especially towards perineum. Scrotum and penis red at 2 P.M., scrotum flaccid and hanging half way down to knee. Moist eruption on scrotum, with swelling of prepuce and glans; M. eruption where scrotum touched thigh and in perineum. Cutting drawing in l. testicle. Emissions at night; irresistible inclination to E. after 3 A.M.
Female.- Sticking in vagina. Sore pain in vagina in evening; in evening after touch. Labor-like drawing extending down to uterus when standing. Bleeding from uterus at new moon, without pain, in a pregnant woman. Menses caused biting pain in genitals. Menses profuse, they had been long absent.
Clinical Erysipelatous inflammation of the penis. Persistent painful erections, (>) lying on the back, with tenderness in the spine, apparently the result of a s train. Erysipelas of the external genitals, moist eruptions. Eczema of the pudenda, with great swelling, intense itching, (<) night on undressing, followed by soreness and smarting. Prolapsus uteri. Ovarian cyst. Leucorrhoea. Retroversion. Erosions of the cervix, resulting from distended follicles. Membranous dysmenorrhoea, always (<) dampness. Puerperal fever of a typhoid character.
Respiratory Organs
Burning rawness in larynx at 6 A.M. on waking. Hoarseness from scraping rawness in larynx; H. low down in trachea. Tickling irritability in air-passages, as if it would provoke cough, that makes breath short, (>) moderate exertion.
Cough night and morning; about 3 A.M., (<) after waking; at night, preventing sleep; (after eating); (in open air); (<) after waking; with tension in chest; in evening, causing vomiting of food; short, from tickling and irritation behind upper half of sternum, the discouragement and apprehension; short, anxious, painful, waking him often before midnight, with short breath; hacking, in evening after lying down, with bitter taste in throat till he falls asleep, and in morning similar cough and taste till rising; tickling, causing dryness in throat, (<) evening; short, dry at 11 A.M., from tickling behind upper half of sternum when sitting bent forward, with aching in mammary region; dry, hoarse; dry, before midnight, causing s ticking in one loin; spasmodic, shattering head; shattering chest, as if everything in it were loose; with expectoration and coryza; ( (<) morning, with black, glutinous expectoration); fatiguing, day and night, with white mucous expectoration.
Respiration.- Choking sensation at times. Oppressed and anxious. Difficult after walking a little. Obliged to breathe deeply, as if she would suffocate, (<) eating, and inability to sit up. Short at night; S., (<) going to stool. Hurried.
Clinical Paralysis of the muscles of the larynx. Cough racking, (<) before midnight in wet weather, with pains in the back and limbs, restlessness. Typhoid pneumonia. Haemoptysis.
Chest
Milk disappears from breasts. Hot vapor from lungs. Sticking in side; r.; below r. nipple in morning in bed, with itching in front of chest; near middle of r. side after 1 P.M., when lying on that side; below l. ribs in evening, lasting till midnight; in l. when coughing; in l. when talking and on deep breathing; in side when walking in open air; deep on sides of sternum when sitting bent over; at third rib, about three inches to l. of sternum, on inspiration when sitting at close of supper, at which the principal drink was ice-water; tearing. from r. side of C. to l. side of abdomen in evening; pulsating, above praecordial region in evening when sitting; boring, in one of last ribs when standing. Boring in l. side in evening in bed.
Pain in r.; l.; near middle of sternum, on l. side; two inches to l. of nipple and at lower angle of l. scapula, then at l. scapula and l. shoulder-joint; at insertion of a muscle near middle of sternum in morning, then sensitiveness on pressure two inches to r. of middle of sternum at 1.30 P.M.; in r. at 2 P.M., with flatulence and pain in hypogastrium; in l. side mid-way between sternum and angle of ribs at 7 P.M. when walking; at l. clavicle on waking from nightmare; in l., midway between sternum and angle of ribs, soon extending to shoulder, arm and forearm. Burning and pressive pain at middle of lower side of l. clavicle on swallowing cold water; B. and pressive pain behind upper half of sternum at 11 P.M., with excoriation and with short cough excited by tickling in same part. Scraping and burning.
Oppression; at night, with sticking, (<) breathing; sticking, in sternum, making respiration difficult, with short cough, without expectoration; as after violent weeping. Weight on lower part, with anxiety, so that she breathed with difficulty and sometimes deeply, when it was easier, pulse at one time slow, at another rapid. Pressure inward on sternum in morning, (>) rising. Constriction; with nausea; in sternum, with sticking jerking in it. Pushing in l. side not far from pit of stomach when sitting bent. Tension in evening, with short breath and weakness in limbs. Drawing down l. side when breathing. Fulness, with hunger, without appetite; F. below sternum, with sensation as if appetite had vanished forever. Weakness, so that talking was difficult, after walking in open air. Heat when walking in open air. Numbness.
Heart
Anxiety more in afternoon than in forenoon, sleeplessness half the night on account of anguish, and anxiety so that she perspired. Weak sensation, with trembling of it. Palpitation when sitting still, so that the body moved with every pulse.
Clinical Palpitation from over-exertion. Hypertrophy of the heart in a rheumatic diathesis. Rheumatism of the heart from getting wet, violent palpitation, pains extend into the left arm.
Pulse
Rapid. Slow, at times irregular; S., full and strong, afterwards rapid, small and compressible. Felt in occiput.
Neck
Stinging in upper and lower part of neck and in upper part of back at 4.40 P.M., after drinking cold water. Pain in muscles of nape as if asleep or as after lying in an uncomfortable position towards evening. Pressure in muscles on bending head forward; P. in upper part of nape, with numbness. Drawing over one side of nape when stooping. Weight on nape so that he could not rise again, with rush of blood into brain. Stiffness; of nape; of nape, with tension on motion; rheumatic, of nape (Dulcamara).
Back
Sticking in evening when stooping; worse when walking than when sitting, also on stooping, but (<)rising again. Burning pain about noon, with burning in throat and region of oesophagus. Drawing pain when sitting, (>) walking; D. pain in evening, forcing him to sit upright. Drawing downward, with tension and pressure in rectum, as if everything would press out.
Scapulae.- Twitching in l. side by S. when sitting; rumbling T. in some parts of S. and above r. knee, with contractive sensation. Tearing between S. and at the same time they were drawn together. Tensive cutting a cross. Pain in l. and in shoulder-joint; under r.; below., with drawing upward; rheumatic, between S., (>) warmth, (<) cold; as from pressure of a finger upon l. pressure upon r. Drawing beneath r., with pressure, impeding respiration. Constriction of dorsal muscles when sitting, (>) bending back, (<) bending forward.
Lumbar Region.- Sticking jerking in sacrum when walking. Drawing jerking stitches in coccyx. Cutting in sacrum when standing and bending backward. Pain in region of l. kidney, (<) lying down at midnight; P. behind r. sacro-iliac symphysis and in l. shoulder; above l. sacro-iliac symphysis; in sacrum when sitting, as after long stooping. Bruised feeling in sacrum; when sitting, with heaviness; in S., (>) moving; in flesh on grasping sacrum; and in r. side of lumbar vertebrae. Stiffness of sacrum; with pain on motion.
Clinical Muscular rheumatism in the back, especially lumbago, great pain on attempting to rise, (>) warmth, (<)cold, (>) bending backward. Muscular pains in the back from strain. It seems to have cured locomotor ataxia.
Extremities
Swelling of hands and feet. Readily sprained. Contraction of l. arm and leg, with stiff feeling. Twitching. Unsteadiness during a chill. Trembling after exerting them. Sensation similar to trembling in arms and legs, even at rest. Sticking; in a spot, (<) lying; in joints when the limb is lying at rest, not when stretching it out, not on touch and not when lying down at night. Aching on ulnar side of upper phalanx of l. middle finger in morning in bed, then in posterior phalanx of l. fourth toe on beginning to walk and on pressure, between 6 and 7 P.M.; A. in joints, (<) open air. Bruised pain in limbs and joints on which he does not lie in morning; B. pain in flesh, (<) touch. Drawing when lying.
Weakness. Stiffness (Causticum, Lycopodium); on first moving it after rest; during and after walking, with paralyzed feeling in them and with w eight upon nape; rheumatic, in joints, with pain shooting through knees from side to side, wandering pains, sometimes on one side and then suddenly on the other, pricking in feet and fingers, flesh feels as if it would drop from limbs, the pain is deep-seated, (<) gentle friction, (>) hard rubbing, desire to move limbs frequently, which relieves the rheumatic pains. Falling asleep of those upon which he lies, (<) arm.
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.