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Generalities
Weakness; when walking, with heaviness of chest and limbs, so that often she must stand still; (>) eating, with heaviness of limbs. Aggravation after sleep at night, at noon and in rainy weather.
Mind
Delirium. Excitement. Apprehension; in evening, with anxiety. Ill humor. Depression; after 5 P.M., with irritability.
Head
Pain and confusion; P., with dullness of it, roaring in ears and flickering before eyes; gnawing P. Fulness. Rush of blood; after 5 P.M., with pain below forehead; and to face, with sweat. Vertigo; on motion; in a warm room, with confusion and heaviness of head; on walking, with staggering of limbs; (<) walking about the room; (>) a glass of water, with nausea; with heaviness, dullness and heat of head. Pain in forehead; in morning and evening, and in orbits; above l. brow, with sticking. Jerking tearing in r. temple, extending into head. Boring outward in r. temple. Pain in l. side of head after dinner. Pain in occiput; in morning; and in nape. Heaviness in occiput.
Eyes
Red and watery. Pain in l.; becoming a tearing, with inflammation, injection of conjunctiva, difficult opening of eye on account of pain and photophobia, with lachrymation. Dry, smarting, not easy to open. Burning, itching and dryness; burning of eyes and lids. conjunctivitis of ball and lid, with lachrymation and contracted pupils. Inflammation of l. ball, with pain as if a grain of sand were under upper lid. Sticking in r. upper lid, towards inner canthus. Itching in r. upper lid at short intervals.
Ears, Nose and Face
Sticking outward in r. ear. Pinching behind r. ear. Pinching behind r. ear. Ringing in ears; in l. Stoppage of nose in evening; in morning in bed, with dryness. Face red and puffy. Pain extending from articular fossa of lower jaw through inner ear,(>) keeping jaws open for a long time, as, for example, when drinking, (<) pressing them together. Crawling in upper lip.
Mouth and Throat
Tongue red. Biting posteriorly in palate in evening. Hawking caused by tenacious mucus in throat, with scanty expectoration. Scraping in throat, necessity to cough and hawk to loosen it, and feeling in posterior nares as if full of mucus. Sensation as if an acrid, burning vapor ascended throat. Heat in fauces extending to pharynx; in throat and oesophagus, (<) hawking. Swallowing difficult.
Stomach
Appetite lost. Thirst. Nausea; (on entering a warm room after a moderated walk, with seething in head, vanishing or obscuration of senses and attacks of faintness). Vomiting and painful diarrhoea. Periodical sticking upward from middle of epigastric region, Cutting in region of stomach and transverse colon, then soft stool. Burning in epigastric region at night.
Abdomen
Rumbling. Griping in forenoon, preceded and especially followed by anxiety, trembling of limbs and arms, as frightened, and apprehension when any one spoke to him, unpleasant news affected him exceedingly. Cutting; in umbilical region. Colic; with diarrhoea; transversely across upper A. Sensitiveness, (<) along transverse colon and epigastric region, that were hard and retracted. Crawling in A.
Anus and Stool
Biting itching in anus in afternoon, the orifice seems swollen. Diarrhoea five times; sudden pasty D., with faintness in abdomen and burning in anus after stood, returning after six hours, then internal chilliness generally a few hours after he felt the worst. Stools thin, frequent.
Clinical Pasty diarrhoea, followed by burning in anus and internal chilliness. Haemorrhoids, with ulceration; the anus and surrounding parts are purple and covered with crusts, ulcers within the anus, exquisitely painful, the whole mucous membrane studded with ulcers and cracks. Fissures of anus; stools followed by burning and biting, lasting several hours, has to walk the floor on account of the pain, with exudation of offensive moisture (Sulphur in part, Ratan.).
Urinary and Sexual Organs
Constriction in region of neck of bladder, so that urine passed only in driblets. Frequent and copious micturition, disturbing sleep at night. Micturition burning and urine scanty. External genitals swollen and painful.
Chest
Sticking in l.; in l., parallel with axis of body, on every inspiration from 3.30 to 5 and at 9 P.M; in r. side near sternum, on a level with nipples, at 4 P.M.; near r. nipple, (<) walking; to right of ensiform process, with pressure; downward in l.; backward, as if through heart; though whole l. half, beginning beneath clavicle and extending to diaphragm, (<) region of heart at the moment of expiration and (<) walking. Cutting in l. side when sitting bent over. Sharp pain in ribs above hepatic region, in morning. Pain; near middle of sternum; beneath manubrium in morning; near both sides of lower part of sternum when eating; in middle of sternum, (>) night, (<) next morning and recurring all the forenoon; beneath heart, as from anxiety. Throbbing extending r. side and from posterior part to nape, where it ended in intermitting pinching. Rush of blood. Heat.
Pulse
Contracted.
Neck and Back
Periodical sticking in last cervical vertebra vertebra; S. in scapulae; in places in back,(>) scratching. Pinching now in dorsal, now in abdominal muscles. Griping now in dorsal, now in abdominal muscles. Boring in l. scapula, (>) motion.
Extremities
Jerking and tearing. Paroxysmal tearing, then numbness. Weakness in evening. Aching in r. upper arm, extending to region of elbow, (>) motion. Tense feeling in muscles across elbow on flexing arms. Cramp in ulna at wrist. Sticking griping in l. wrist, behind thumb. Pain, almost a tearing, in l. finger-tips. Dead felling in one finger. R. ring finger, which received four weeks previously a blow from a blunt rapier, seems as far as the first and second phalanges dead, cold, devoid of blood, shrivelled, yellow, and without sensation, in afternoon.
Lower Extremities
Cramp in r. knee when sitting. Sudden thrusts outward on inner side of l. knee. Sensation in lower part of calf as if aponeurosis of muscles and tendons were tense or bruised, making walking difficult, towards evening. Weary pain in ankles when sitting. Pain in corns. Swelling of toes, with contraction, intermittent sticking through them and burning itching. Sticking in skin of r. great toe, as if pressed by shoe, in evening. Pain in l. little toe as from pressure.
Skin
Painful ulcer, oozing offensive moisture, on perineum, near anus. Crawling in tip of nose; in a spot on l. forearm, with a bristling sensation; sticking, in the fingers, in the sides; drawing, beneath umbilicus, (>) scratching. Itching in concha; on calves, (>) rubbing; on head, chest and limbs, with burning biting as from nettles; prickling in open air, with sticking; prickling, on chest, then in axillae and arms down to sides of chest.
Clinical Abscess below the coccyx. Obstinate ulcer on the jaw. Ulcer on r. instep from blistering the foot. Large ulcer on lower part of leg. Ulcer on the breast of an old lady, from an abscess which had never healed.
Sleep
Sleepiness all the afternoon. Starting on falling asleep, even during the day. Sleep restless and dreams unremembered; restless, disturbed the first night by burning in epigastric region afterwards by voluptuous dreams with emissions, or by anxious, sad and vivid dreams of death, etc. Sleep unrefreshing, disturbed by many and Unrefreshing dreams. Dreams unremembered; frightful, of the death of relatives, etc.; quarrelsome; anxious; vivid, wonderful and amorous; amorous, with emission; amorous after midnight, disturbing sleep; of a ghost sitting upon his chest and oppressing his breath, so that he often woke groaning; of a figure sitting upon his chest, making respiration anxious.
Fever
Shivering. Coldness of one ear at 5 P.M., with heat of the other. Coldness of limbs, with heat in face, back and chest. Heat at night disturbing sleep; general, waking after midnight, with heat in region of stomach. Hot skin. Heat in head; in face; as from nettles, on chest, neck, back and shoulders.
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.