Weakness; all day, with heaviness; (>) walking, returned in the house; with trembling on motion; so that she could find no comfortable position in bed. Feeling as from long illness. Heaviness in bones of arms and legs; H. after dinner, (<) lower. Pressure as if they would fall asleep. Falling asleep on lying down; F. asleep, (<) pressure. Paralytic feeling on outside of l. leg and l. forearm. No sensation when sitting.
Clinical Synovitis, especially when there is considerable exudation, particularly in the knee. Rheumatic gout, especially beginning in the feet and extending upward, with burning heat in feet at night.
Upper Extremities
Axilla. Swelling of glands, purulent; oozing in r. Sticking beneath r. Tearing in l. in afternoon when knitting or sewing.
Shoulder.- Tearing jerks in S. or elbows, extending through limbs, (<) joints, making him wrinkle his forehead and draw up his eyes. Sticking in evening; S. on motion, extending into chest; from joint into arm when lying upon it and on inspiration and expiration. Tearing in r.; in l. joint in morning after waking; in l. S. and in r. upper arm in morning in bed, (>) walking in open air, with shooting in l. shoulder; in r. till noon; in S. or S. joints, (<) night, at first (<) then (>) moving arm, with gnawing or bruised pain and sticking; in joints, (>) motion; in r., (>) morning, leaving a weak paralytic feeling; in l., with drawing; in joint, extending into humerus; sudden, in l. S. and first joint of l. index about 5 P.M. Frequent cutting in r. in forenoon when walking. Pain in r. on breathing; rheumatic; rheumatic, in l.; as if dislocated in joint, night when lying; attacks of shooting throbbing, in l. in morning in bed. Throbbing in bone of l. Drawing pain; in joint and arm; in r., (>) rubbing, alternating with scraping in fauces. Drawing in r. joint and thumb; in l. in evening, extending to elbow. Tension from r. towards back in morning, impeding movements of arm. Weight on walking in open air.
Arm.- Cramp after midnight. Shooting through it in evening. Tearing; in r., with paralysis; in arms and hands, with drawing; in bones of r. during the day, with gnawing. Sudden pinching. Pain (<) motion, especially stretching or raising it, with drawing; bruised P.; sprained, (<) raising it. Drawing in r. in forenoon; jerking, from one joint to another at night in bed, (<) joints. Weight in r. towards noon. Paralytic feeling in r. in morning on waking. Falling asleep; (<) work.
Upper Arm.- Shooting from r. deltoid to middle of upper arm; twinging S. in r. Tearing in l. in evening; on anterior surface of l. humerus; jerking, in r. in evening and in l. fingers; drawing, in r., (<) rest, (>) motion, alternating with paralytic feeling. Cutting at motion, alternating with paralytic feeling. Cutting at 3 A.M., darting from deltoid to middle of r. upper arm. Pain in humeri; jerking in deltoid; cramplike, in flexors of l.; bruised, in l., with sensitiveness to pressure; drawing, in humeri after midnight; drawing, above r. elbow. Drawing in r. Weakness. Heaviness; in humerus; humerus, with tension. Paralytic feeling in evening and next morning on rising.
Elbow.- Tearing in and above r., (>) moving arm; T. extending into upper arm and forearm. Pain on motion; bruised, about r. on lifting arm and on clenching hand; burning, in skin of flexor surface of l. Painful drawing in nerves, extending to wrists; acute D. in r. Tension in tendons; T. in bend of r. on flexing and extending forearm. Paralyzed feeling in r. in afternoon.
Forearm.- Tearing in bones, sometimes (>) pressure and motion. Aching boring in bones, with rigor. Boring-squeezing pain in r. at 3 P.M. Sensitiveness of l. to touch and exertion. Burning pain below bend of elbow, and on touch it felt dead. Drawing in r. Tension in a spot on r. as if skin were raised by a needle, changing to itching after rubbing. Heaviness of r., with sensation of falling asleep. Paralytic pain in l. all day. L. felt paralyzed and insensible at night when lying on l. side, (>) rubbing.
Wrist.- Stitches outward through it. Tearing; in r. in forenoon. Sprained pain; in r., (>) violent motion. Pain in l.; in l. at 7.30 A.M.; in ulnar side of l. on touch. Sensitiveness in morning, (<) moving them and in finger-joints. Drawing in r. Weakness of r., with feeling of dislocation. Stiffness, (<) morning, (>) during the day.
Hand.- Swelling; of veins. Smelling of sulphur; palms. Trembling of r. in morning; T. on writing; and (<) r. thumb. Involuntary grasping, (<) afternoon. Cramp in l. Sticking in l. palm about 10 P.M., S., alternating with drawing; burning, suddenly on back. Tearing in knuckles; in joints and fingers of l. in evening on moving them; on radial side of l., extending to little finger; on back of r., at times in bones, at times in extensor tendons. Cramplike pain in l. metacarpus in evening in bed. Burning gnawing in l. beginning in articular end of radius and extending in bone to phalanx of index, late in evening, (<) touch, lasting till sleep, returning in morning, (<) after dinner, (<) touch, (>) evening by exercise. Drawing pain through metacarpal bone of l. index in forenoon. Tearing contraction in r. Tendons in palms above two first fingers seem short and hard, so that hands cannot be stretched out flat. Tenderness as on entering a warm room after hands have been chilled. Tremulous sensation. Anxiety, forced to grasp something. Weakness in morning after rising; W. of r., with tearing in thumb. Falling asleep after immersing in water, with crawling.
Fingers.-Swelling in morning; of three middle of both hands; of joints, with stiffness and redness as if swollen and with crawling. The lanula of thumb nails almost gone. Semi-lunar furrow across thumb nails near their roots, afterwards on l. little finger. Jerking; burning, in l. middle. Cramp in three middle; in l. ring in evening extending along common extensor to elbow, with stiffness and coldness. Sticking in tips (Petrol.); on flexor surface of r. middle; in tips at night; through tip of l. little at night and in morning; tearing, above nail of l. ring, (<) evening; intermittent; in ungual phalanx of r. index, at the end of which an almost cartilaginous wart had existed for years, pain (>) next day; sudden, in middle joint of r. little at night; burning tearing, on back of middle. Tearing; in first joint of l. thumb; in second phalanx of l. little in morning; in l. joints in forenoon; on inside of phalanx of l. little in forenoon, (<) pressure; in r. ring and little in forenoon, then creeping in them; under nail of l. thumb at night in bed; in joints before middle joint and over half of back of hand. Pinching in ball of l. little, every five minutes when resting upon elbow, streaming into arm, with pressure and chilliness, during the day the pain changed to sticking, with chilliness and with feeling in all limbs as after hard work. Pain in joints; in tips in morning, as if nails had been cut too short; sprained, in first joint of thumb. Bruised feeling in metacarpal joint of r. thumb in morning; in middle joints of third and fourth during menses, with cramplike and swollen sensation. Swollen sensation. Painful contraction of last r. Drawing pain in single short jerks in afternoon; D. pain through first phalanx of l. index in evening. Drawing in thumb; sudden D. almost all the evening; semi-lunar painful D. in root of nail of r. little at night in bed. Sensation, (<) l. thumb, as if tendons were too short extending them and grasping anything, causing a paralyzed sensation. Falling asleep of two last in evening in bed; when playing the piano, (<) l.; of little, with numbness. Deadness in forenoon; in morning, with wrinkled skin on tips. Numbness.
Lower Extremities
Uncertain gait in afternoon, (<) ascending stairs. Tearing, forcing him to put then out of bed; T. in l., with drawing. Tearing thrusts in r. and in hip-joint in evening when walking, forced to stretch the limb and cannot sit upon a low seat without pain. Pain in r., (>) forenoon by walking. Bruised sensation after walking in open air; in evening, with drawing. Drawing pain; in morning and evening in bed; in muscles of r., so that he could scarcely move it. Tendons seem too short on standing. Uneasiness in evening till going to bed, so that she could not remain in the house. Tingling as form weariness. Weakness in morning, (>) rising, with heaviness; in evening; after dinner; after a short walk, with heaviness; in r. when walking, with anxiety in it; with pain as if there were no narrow in the bones; sudden after a short walk, (<) legs. Heaviness; in morning in bed, with falling asleep; thighs. Falling asleep of l. evenings. Numbness of r. even when lying.
Hip.- Jerking deep in l., (>) motion; sudden cramplike, painful, about joint. Sticking in l. joint at night before sleep; in l. joint at night, with weakness of l. foot; above l. extending into small of back, when coughing; in r. joint, extending through r. half of pelvis down r. femur, avoiding knee and appearing in foot, in morning, keeping him in bed, as it was difficult to move, then tenderness in these joints; in l. extending to upper third of thigh in evening, (<) rest, (>) motion and pressure. Pain in joint, inability to step, pain at night even on touch. Sprained pain in l. in morning on walking; in l. joint in forenoon on walking; in l. in forenoon when walking and standing; in r. joint on motion in bed, so that he cannot tread in the morning, pain even on touch; in l. when walking, and at head of l. fibula, causing limping. Bruised pain on motion and on touch; even on sitting, and in pubic region; in r. on sitting down and on moving body to one side. Tensive pain in joint on walking; drawing, in r. in afternoon, extending down thigh. Drawing pain in l.; in afternoon, and in thigh. A kind of paralysis above nates.
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.