Clinical Aphonia. Cough is usually dry day and night, (<) lying down, especially at night. Larnygeal and bronchial catarrh with attacks of suffocation. Whooping cough (it is said to “kill” the disease if burned in the room of house). Chronic asthma, with suffocative fits in the forepart of the night, and with burning in the chest.
Chest
A swollen gland on ensiform cartilage is painful to touch. Swelling of r. nipple in morning, with pain on touch and on deep breath, afterwards sensitiveness. Twitching in one breast, with swelling as if milk rushed into it. Cracking in sternum on motion. Mucus; obliging hacking. Rattling at night; R., (>) expectoration, with snoring.
Sticking; in l. side; in sternum; beneath sternum; under l. breast; in pleura; externally in r.; in walls, r., then l., then on r. side of abdomen; and in dorsal muscles; between l. fourth and fifth ribs in morning after waking; in r. side in forenoon; l. side in forenoon, (<) walking quickly and ascending stars; l. pleura at 10 A.M.; under sternum at noon on full breathing; side in afternoon; under heart about 3 P.M.; in evening; r. ribs in evening; r. pleura in evening; under r. breast at 10 P.M.; in side at 10 P.M. and at night; in r. or in region of heart at night on motion when lying on back; in l. on breathing; beneath r. breast on coughing; in region of ensiform cartilage on coughing; pectoral muscles on moving arms; on moving chest forward and to the left, and on deep breathing; in bend of l. false ribs on movement of body and on deep breathing, (>) washing with cold water, with pain; l. intercostal muscles when walking and once on speaking, forcing him to hold his breath; in r. till dinner-time; in r. after dinner; in l. before sleep; in l. ribs before sleep; in sternum, (<) touch; in l., transiently (>) deep breathing; S. or twinging in middle of sternum, more externally; in muscles, with drawing; extending to back; extending from r. side into scapula; in l., extending towards heart, taking away the breath, with thirst; in r., through stomach and pit of stomach; r. ribs, extending to shoulder, at night in bed; outward like blows, where mediasternum is attached to r. side of sternum, in direction of diaphragm, ending inside chest, on exertion of chest, (>) noon; shattering in r.; in l. side towards heart, taking away her breath, at night, with thirst; in l. side, not affecting respiration; paroxysmal, in l. side during the day.
Cramp at times; C. in evening in warm room, (<) motion, (>) lying down in bed, with difficult breathing and palpitation. Tearing in l. pectoralis major after dinner, (<) pressure. Cutting in middle, extending to pit of stomach; in l. lower ribs, with burning; deep in after walking in open air, with burning. Sticking griping on last rib and above hips. Sudden pinching in r. half in afternoon, went off with a shoot towards front of chest. Shattering when coughing, and in abdomen.
Pain in sternum; in r. side; deep in r. side; in morning; in ribs, dorsal vertebrae and muscles in morning after rising, so that he could scarcely bend forward, (>) holding himself upright; beneath sternum towards noon; l. side at 6 P.M.; sides at 8 P.M.; on moving arm; after breakfast, with sore feeling; in sternum on walking; upper part of sternum on walking in open air, (>) continuing to walk; r. side on coughing, with soreness on touch; after a bruise, (>) evening; under wall, (<) sneezing; r. ribs, (<) touch; in a spot beneath r. wall near sternum. (<) deep breathing and bending forward; on beneath sternum late in evening, (<) deep breathing, moving body and rough handling, with sore feeling; in sternum, with oppression of breath; sudden, in middle of sternum frequently during the day; periodical, posteriorly in r. lower part, proceeding from the inside.
Raging pain in middle of sternum frequently in afternoon. Pain deep in in evening as if some one would grasp it, twist it, lift it up, rub it to pieces or burst it. Squeezing pain in upper part after rising, (<) r. side. Bruised pain in upper part; in upper part on touch; under sternum on leaning forward, felt next morning on deep breathing, (<) forenoon, (>) afternoon; in l. pectoral muscles, (<) motion, breathing and touch, with drawing or tearing in l. shoulder and muscles of upper arm. Sore feeling; in a spot deep in centre all day, (<) movement on waking. Lungs feel as if resting against back when coughing.
Pressure (Phosphorus); in morning, (>) rising; at 8 A.M., so that she could hardly breathe; in afternoon; declining on rumbling in abdomen; transversely across middle, as from swallowing to large a morsel. Oppression; all day, often obliged to rise hurriedly from a seat; in forenoon; from 9 A.M. till 3 P.M.; in after at 2 P.M., deep inspirations cause pain towards to sit up; with strained pain; of upper part, with sensitiveness. Constriction; in forenoon; on deep breathing; after rising; on motion; on walking; in a spot in sternum, rather externally, with burning; sticking, in pectoral muscles, with soreness on touch; spasmodic. beneath sternum when sitting.
Tension; in muscles after dinner; in muscles on breathing deeply, and contracted feeling in anterior wall of chest; on r. lower rib, (>) pressure, with throbbing; r. side and r. shoulder; externally, now below sternum, now under arms, now in back; chilly. Tightness; l. half; in morning fasting, (>) eating, the hindrance to breathing seemed to be in pit of stomach; in evening; after breakfast; after walking, often obliged to breathe deeply till evening; as if something had grown fast. Fulness before menses, forcing a deep breath; F., and at first insipid and clammy, but suddenly a sweetish taste, sensitiveness of uvula, tickling in throat spitting of slimy fluid mixed with bright red blood, repeated several times (he had had something similar six or seven years previously). Heaviness; in l. side; towards evening, with fulness.
Anxiety (Phos); in afternoon; so that he can hardly expand it during inspiration. Trembling in C. and pit of stomach towards noon, with throbbing. Throbbing deep in at night; T. in sternum as in an ulcer; crackling, in l. side when sitting and lying, (>) holding his breath. Sensation of mucus after the raising of which respiration was freer. Rush of blood; in morning on walking; with qualmishness amounting to faintness, and trembling of r. arm. Heat; in morning on waking; deep in middle of r. clavicle, extending to sternum; in r. side, coming and going suddenly. Coldness, and in abdomen. Emptiness during dry cough. Weakness at night, (<) getting into bed so that he cannot lie long on one side and longs for morning; W. when talking (Phosphorus, Stann.); on reading aloud; with difficulty in breathing.
Clinical Valuable in the later stage of pneumonia, when the inflammatory process fails to resolve, the lung continues dull and the cough dry the patient begins to have fever at night, hot hands and feet and hot head; a few doses of Sulphur will then generally cause the cough to loosen and the hepatization to resolve. In hydrothorax it follows Bryonia well. In the earliest stage of tuberculosis, need of fresh air, feet and head hot, hands and feet burn at night, palpitation, atonic dyspepsia, with need to eat at 11 A.M., etc.
Heart
Sticking in praecordial region; after dinner Strange motion in praecordial region. Pain in praecordial region towards evening. Sensation as of it had not room enough. Hollow sensation in praecordial region. Palpitation; every forenoon; at noon after a short walk with trembling of hands; on lying down for midday nap; in evening; at night in bed; at night on turning in bed; at night on falling asleep; with the first movement of a child, with heat of face, then burning in abdomen; during stool; after walking in open air; at the moment of rising; after dinner; with anxiety as if he would faint; anxious. Rush of blood. Sudden beating in evening after turning in bed. Irregular action. Increased pulsations of aorta from heart to clavicle, with a purring noise, when he lay on l. side the pulsation was troublesome along back. Pulsations diminished in number.
Clinical It seems as though the blood rushed to the heart, causing a gasping and need of fresh air, heart feels too large. Sometimes useful in cardiac dropsies.
Pulse
Rapid; in evening; and hard, full; and small soft. Pulsation in l. carotid. Feeble and intermittent.
Neck
Inflammation of a gland on nape close to hair with itching. Painful swelling anteriorly and externally. Cracking in vertebrae; on bending head backward and pressing it upon the pillow; on bending head backward, with stiffness of nape. Drawing jerking in muscles. Sticking; in nape on stooping; in nape on sitting bent over, with tension. Tearing in l. side after waking before midnight, (<) moving head, (>) rest, with tension and feeling as if too short. Pain if she talks much; in r. side on bending heat to right; rheumatic, in nape in morning. Bruised pain and tension in nape and between scapulae, which on moving head go to shoulder; tensive, in nape, extending to over eye, where it is a sticking. Drawing pain in r. side; in nape and scapulae. Drawing on l. side to shoulder; up nape. Stiffness; and paralytic sprained pain in nape.
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.