Heart
Sticking; with cold sweat and faintness; with weakness, difficulty in breathing and cold sweat. Pain, with faintness. Dragging pain so that he tears his clothes, becomes faint and sinks down with weakness, with distress in abdomen, violent vomiting ten times, pallor, coldness of body, blueness and blackness of the bitten finger. Anxiety; at the same time for four years, with soreness of the bitten foot and paralysis of r. arm. Action slow. Action feeble; and no pulsation in radial or carotid arteries, but that in crural was very strong.
Clinical Vipera is a very valuable remedy for varicose veins and for acute phlebitis, the vein is swollen, bordered by an area of inflammation, which is very sensitive to touch, but particularly with the sensation, on letting the leg hang down, as if it would burst from the fulness of the veins. A gold-beater, who had used his r. hand for years in his business, found that the veins of the whole arm had become excessively swollen and painful; he could no longer use his arm or permit it to hang down, but he carried it in a short sling, and when sitting had to rest it on a table or something high, on account of the bursting feeling on letting it hang down; immediately cured by Vipera.
Pulse
Rapid; with unquenchable thirst; R. and feverish; and full and strong in the healthy arm, but small and low in the wounded arm; and soft; and thready; and small; and small, scarcely perceptible; and small, with chilliness and cold sweat; and small, contracted, irregular; and small, intermittent, irregular, contracted, with fever; and small, hard, heart’s action tremulous, with oppression of praecordium; and low, interrupted. Slow, febrile; S. and weak; S., full and hard, with stiffness, coldness and sweat. Febrile. Small; and contracted; and intermittent. Intermittent and thready. Irregular. Weak, with sopor; W., with violent pains; and intermittent; and irregular. Scarcely perceptible.
Back
Sticking in kidneys. Pain in loins.
Extremities
Swelling; and red covered with yellow spots; and blue and black. Livid spots on the bitten limb every years at the time of the bite. Yellowish, livid, mottled. Yellowish-green, with livid spots. Erysipelatous inflammation. Painful trembling. Pain; (<) touch; alternating with pains in abdomen. Benumbed. Relaxed.
Clinical Bursting feeling in limbs, in three cases neurasthenia, an old sprain and varicose veins.
Upper Extremities
Paralysis after a bit on foot. Pain in shoulders; in arm extending to chest. Arm swollen; and of s sickly color; and reddish-blue; and livid red; and red, covered with spots, soft; and painful. Arm deep red. Paralysis of r. arm recurring for years after a bite on foot. Forearm yellow. Swelling of the hand not bitten; S. of hand, not pitting on pressure, with pain as if it would burst, with pain on touch; and stiffness. Hands violet- colored, covered with phlyctenules. Skin of hand and detached in large plates, subadjacent tissues livid. The bitten finger bluish- black. Stitches in finger-tips after bite on arm. Tearing from bitten fingers to chest with uneasiness, vomiting and sleeplessness.
Lower Extremities
Shuffling gait caused by paralysis. Convulsive movements. Cramps. Weakness. Feeling as if something moved up along thigh (after bite on ankle). Tension in knees and ankles. Knees stiff. Leg swollen, cold and insensible; Swollen as if puffed up with air, and painful. Paralysis of leg, with feeling as if dead. Foot swollen and blue. Dragging of foot. Foot seemed shortened, so that he limped. Paralysis of foot, with shuffling gait; P., then ulcers.
Skin
Pale. Yellowish. Jaundiced on face and trunk, with red patches on limbs. Livid; in spots. Black spots on limb and abdomen; reddish-black spots on abdomen and face; bluish-black spots discharging disorganized blood about bite; black petechial spots over whole body, which was cold to touch. Bright blue or almost black spots about the would. Herpetic eruption, with itching about the wound. Roseola-like eruption on inside of arm and down side of body. Pus sometimes at the point of the bite. Ulcers. Blisters; about the bite, bursting and leaving ulceration, muscles were laid bare, were dark red, dry, looked like smoked meat, insensible to touch, the sore was offensive. Gangrenous spots; on limbs; G. slough at the bite. Gangrene of foot, with swelling extending to knee. Crawling in soles, then also in palms.
Sleep
Disposed to yawn. Sleepiness; and heaviness; with inability to sleep and also constant necessity to change the position. Sleeplessness; from pain. Night restless.
Fever
Chilliness; with sweat; with cold sweat; with rigidity and clammy sweat; then fever. Temperature diminished, resists cold badly. Shivering; with flushes of heat; with thirst. Coldness of head and upper limbs; of finger.
Heat; in morning, with thirst, restlessness and moderate pains; towards evening; at night, with delirium; then shivering. Fever of irregular type; intermittent F. Hot skin; and dry. Heat shooting through body when bitten. Burning in the bitten foot; spreading from the bitten part through the whole limb; extending from the bitten spot on arm to chest; B. running up arm; rising from heel to tongue; on chest and abdomen, with longing for cold application though skin was cold to touch; of fingers (from rubbing a stick with which a snake had been bruised), with swelling.
Sweat; after vomiting; after chamomile, except over the bitten limb from abdomen to toes; cold; cold, clammy. Skin dry.
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.