Cough; caused by open air; on walking in open air; fatiguing; distressing with whistling respiration and croupy voice; rattling, hoarse; rattling, shaking, interrupted; hacking. Dry C., afterwards loose with improvement; short D., with paroxysms of gasping; in paroxysms; also in morning after rising. Cough in morning with slimy expectoration; C. from irritation in fauces, with white frothy expectoration; paroxysmal, with copious expectoration, at times with vomiting, then diarrhoea, fever and night-sweats, pain in chest dull, expiration prolonged, vesicular and hollow, and a peculiar purring over whole chest, gradual collapse and the patient died in slight delirium, the post mortem showed upper lobes of lungs adherent to oesophagus and an opening from oesophagus to a cavity which occupied nearly all of the upper and part of the middle lobes of r. lung, the cavity was filled with blackish-brown offensive fluid with lung tissue. pleura was almost gangrenous, etc.
Expectoration perpetual; copious; offensive. Haemoptysis when walking slowly.
Respiration. Suffocation; in spasms. Dyspnoea; at night, with cough; at night, with choking in larynx; and larynx moved up and down violently, child lay with head bent backward as in crop, lost consciousness and soon died; with distress and pain about region of stomach and r. lower ribs; with rattling in trachea; rattling; noisy; intermittent; and breathing irregular; causing anxiety. Stertor. Short; and difficult; and rapid. Rapid; with shooting in cervical muscles and movements in wings of nose; and heaving, with spasmodic motion of muscles of neck, and at each inspiration depression of lower jaw, so as to from a sort of gasping motion. Slow and weak. Moaning; and slow. Superficial and rattling.
Chest
Moist rales. Rattling in evening in bed with rapid pulse and short breath; R. in l. lung, then Dullness with bronchial respiration and pneumonia; at base of lungs without Dullness on percussion, with rapid pulse, cough, tenacious sputa, afterwards pallor with circumscribed redness of cheeks, next day oppression of chest, bronchial respiration, in r. side some rales, on l. side moist and rattling rales, respiration 40, headache, next day pallor, clammy sweat and death. Dullness at base of r. lung, then pneumonia, collapse and death, Painful spasms.
Stitches,; in r. breast; in l. side of sternum by costal cartilage; in front of and beneath r. axilla; in front of l. axilla on putting down a heavy weight, then bruised pain over a large part of sternum; in r. costal region during menses, (<) inspiration; in l. side when walking, (<) inspiration and cough, (>) rest; deep in l. side with arrest of breathing, then sensitiveness in a spot to left and ensiform cartilage; in r. breast, extending deeper upon pressure; in r. breast, extending deeper upon pressure; in sternum extending to other side of chest in evening on entering house; sudden, in l. upper part, extending into back; paroxysmal, in lower ribs, extending next day to tract of lumbar nerves, with hyperaesthesia of skin extending over whole body, with rest in no position; paroxysmal, in r. lower part, (<) deep inspiration, with pain near spine between fourth and tenth vertebrae and along axillary line from fifth to tenth to tenth intercostal space and at union of ribs with their cartilages, hyperaesthesia of skin between linea-axilla mammillaris.
Neuralgia in intercostal nerves, between r. tenth and sixth ribs, paroxysmal, from deep inspiration, (<) night. Cutting in front of l. axilla. Scraping deep in middle with burning and tearing. Pain along sternum; P. on inspiration; in middle of sternum, as from a thrust; acute drawing, in middle, preventing deep inspiration; pulsating bubbling, beneath l. ribs. Pressure on l. side and in pit of stomach; inward in r. ribs, worse at intervals. Drawing tension in l. side. Oppression; from catarrh in morning on waking, with irritation to cough without anything to be loosened, after several hours easy expectoration of mucus. Constriction.. Fulness. Burning pain, extending down behind sternum, causing anxiety. Burning in l. side in attacks; B. in l. outer part, as from boiling water; worse at intervals. Weakness so that talking is difficult.
Heart
Stitches through it, then sore pain. Pain in praecordial region. Anxiety in praecordial region extending over whole chest. Palpitation; when upper parts of body is pressed forward resting upon arms, with inclination to take a deep breath. Beat of H. and arteries scarcely perceptible.
Pulse
Rapid; and tense, full; and small; and feeble; and contracted; and intermittent. Slow; and large; and small; and feeble. Hard and full; H. and tense. Small; and thready, irregular, tremulous; and tremulous, with coldness; and weak; and weak, trembling; and scarcely perceptible, at times intermittent; and irregular; and irregular, almost convulsive and tremulous, sometimes rapid, sometimes intermittent. Thready; and almost imperceptible. Weak; in humeral arteries, could not be felt at wrists and temples.
Neck
Swollen. Pain in l. side on pressure; as from a weight between side l. shoulder. Drawing beneath r. ear.
Back
Sticking in spine and l. side of nape. Pain as if sore and beaten; drawing, on motion and on stooping. Stiffness in morning, (>) during the day on motion. Lumbar pain; bruised, when sitting and standing; on movement, like a soreness or like a spasmodic drawing; burning. Weakness in lumbar region and lower limbs so that he could scarcely stand alone.
Extremities
Livid. Swelling of wrists and other large joints, with pain. Convulsive movement of arms and legs. (Twitching of tendons). Inclination to cramps in hands and feet. Tearing during menses, (<) evening. Pain in during sleep. Sensitiveness.
Upper Extremities
Pain as from an ulcer in l: axilla, extending into chest, (<) ascending stairs and walking, forcing her to sit down. L. axillary glands sensitive. Shoulder, jerking in r. on writing; stitches on raising arm; sticking tearing in l.; cutting, with burning, as if it would cut through; intermittent, tremulous sensation in l. Arm, stitches in joint; intermittent drawing and spasmodic constrictive, paralytic pain in r. when writing; heaviness. Tearing posteriorly beneath r. shoulder-joint and extending up about it. Cutting extending down l. arm. Tensive pain in elbows. Smarting as if bruised on outer side of l. elbow. Sudden bruised pain in l. ulna close to wrist every three seconds, extending up into arm. Drawing in wrists, with weariness.
Hand. Jerking in metacarpal bone of r. index extending into arm; painful, in joint of metacarpal bone of thumb, extending into wrist and at times into arm. Tensive pain in r. metacarpus when walking in open air with arms hanging down, with heaviness as if blood accumulated in it, Painful beating in metacarpal bone of r. index.
Fingers. Stitches in middle of joints; burning or smarting S. on r. side of middle. Tearing in first joint of r. thumb; beneath nail of index, as in a whitlow, (<) cold water; jerking, extending from r. thumb to chest when sitting. Jerking pain in tips; through r. thumb, starting from tip. Burning stinging crawling as if asleep in tip of little and in a spot on middle.
Lower Extremities
Staggering and falling in the street, then collapse. Stretching. Heaviness. R. inclined to numbness. Cramp in r. hip.
Thigh. Sticking externally in middle of l. Tearing in varicose veins of T. and leg in morning in bed; T. up and down in l., (>) rubbing. Cutting. Intermittent pinching in a spot on inner side of l. Acute pain as from a blow obliquely above l. knee in wavelike intervals. Pain in l. near knee, feeling as if it would soon become cutting. Intermittent pressure on upper and inner part of r. Constriction low down, extending at intervals into leg. Spasmodic constrictive paralytic pain in r. T. and leg.
Knee. Stitches like thrusts in middle of r. when sitting, then pain; pricking s. in hollow of l.; burning, in l. Painful jerks like thrusts in inner side of l. Burning pain in hollow of r. Painful weakness when standing, with jerking in them.
Prickling stitches in l. tendo-achillis. Pain in calves more when sitting then when walking. Crawling in l. tibia; in calves when walking, with cramp. Falling asleep of l. leg when sitting still, (<) walking. Intermittent pain like thrusts or jerks beneath l. outer malleolus. Stiffness of malleoli when walking. Stitches in a corn; burning S. in heels. Tearing in l. heel in morning on waking; T. in a corn, forcing him to draw up the foot. Bruised pain on l. sole, at first increasing, then jerking, then suddenly disappearing. Acute pressure in r. instep, increasing and decreasing. Falling asleep of l. foot in evening when sitting. Prickling stitches beneath great toe. Intermittent jerking griping in toes.
Skin
Jaundice. Pale, cold and covered with sweat. Livid, dry and desquamating in small scales. Bluish spots on forearms as from settling of blood. Lower lip, cheeks, back of hand and forearm swollen, red and painful, as after a scald, next day, cuticle of hands. etc., black, dry and rough, on third day the pellicles of tongue, lips and cheeks had fallen off, all mucous membranes of mouth bright red. Red patches on forearms, (>) pressure, but returning immediately on its removal. Eruption on head, face and nape; on hands and between fingers, itching (<) after midnight. Chilblains on fingers, with acute pain.
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.