Burning, stitching, and pinching in the penis.
Syphilitic-looking pimples on the penis, with intense pains, traversing it from one part of another.
Ulcers and pustulous herpes-like acne rosacea on the penis.
The penis excoriates easily during coitus, and even an erection.
An indurated ulcer, like a chancre, on the penis.
Scabby herpes on the pubis.
Inflammation and swelling of the testicles.
Swelling of the scrotum, as if caused by an accumulation of serum.
Sensation of hard tumors in the testicles and spermatic cords, with severe pains in these parts.
Tumors like buboes or hernia in the groins.
Burning lancination and deepseated pains in the scrotum and anus.
Furfuraceous herpes, with great itching in the scrotum.
Redness and painful excoriation between in thighs.
Great increase of the venereal appetite.
The venereal appetite is increased by every attempt to satisfy it, until it drives him to onanism and madness.
During coitus, all his sufferings cease, only to reappear afterwards with increased severity.
Venereal desire, with attacks of impotence.
Total absence of venereal desire.
Difficult ejaculation, very long-lasting, or incomplete.
Frequent seminal and prostatic losses.
Nocturnal pollutions, without dreams or consciousness.
(Female). Burning pains as if there were a chafing-dish in the region of the ovaries.
Sensation of swelling in the ovaries as if they were stretched, and every instant pinched.
Burning, crampy, pinching, and gnawing pains in the womb, with great debility and general prostration.
Lancinating and distensive pains in the womb.
Engorgement of the uterus.
Hard tumors, like scirrhus, on the neck of the womb.
Burning pains in the uterus extending into the kidneys, with general weakness.
Pains in the uterus, as if it were twisted and compressed.
Stitches passing like strokes of lightning into the womb.
Pressure on the uterus, with feeling as if it escapes from the pelvic cavity.
Prolapsus and displacement of the uterus.
Sterility, as from atrophy of the ovaries.
Swelling of the uterus, as if from a collection of water.
The os uteri swollen, hard, ulcerated, closed.
Menstruation anticipating; very painful and copious; the blood generally bright or light-colored.
Menstruation retarded; the blood dark, thick, followed by fetid, light-colored leucorrhoea.
Total suppression of menses.
Menstruation frequent and painful, as at the critical age.
Menstruation very marked, with bruised pains in the kidneys and thighs, and great prostration.
Vulva inflamed and ulcerated.
Great itching and burning in the vulva, especially in the afternoon and at night in bed.
Whitish and reddish eruptions, like sycosis excrescences, on the vulva.
Leucorrhoea watery, clear, or milky, and of very bad odor.
Thick, purulent, yellow or green leucorrhoea.
Contractions and spasms of the womb.
Stitches and distensive pains in the breasts, with sensation of enlargement.
Erysipelatous swelling of the mammae, with pains in the muscles of the chest, with weight and dulness in the back and hypochondria, and inability to support the upper part of the body.
Heat and pain in the mammae, as if they had been gashed with a penknife.
Inflammation and swelling of the mammary glands.
Congestions of the mammae as from accumulation of milk.
Lancinating, pulsating, and pressive pains in the mammae.
Distensive and crampy pains, with sensation of biting on the breast.
Indurated and ulcerated tumor in the breast, with swelling of the ganglia of the chest and axilla; burning, lancinating, and gnawing pains, as if there were a live animal there.
The chest feels as if bound in a corslet, which prevents its action.
Phlegmonous erysipelas in the breasts, with tendency to attack the head.
Excoriation of the nipples.
Excessive secretion of milk.
The breasts are atrophied, and become soft.
Respiratory Apparatus.
Scratching in the larynx, with great accumulation of mucus, rough voice and rattling breathing.
Heat in the larynx, with sensation as if it were ulcerated and cut.
Sensation as if there were corrosive acid in the larynx.
Desire to cough every minute, in order to breathe.
Voice altered, bass, nasal.
Voice stopped, as if from want of respiration.
Hoarseness and frequent aphony, with symptoms of tuberculous or granular laryngitis.
Very prominent swelling of the laryngeal cartilages.
Raw pain in the larynx, with severe, tearing, scraping cough, with purulent and bloody expectation.
Short, dry, and frequent cough.
Violent cough, sensibly felt in the back, chest, and abdomen, with deep seated pains in the head.
Obstinate, paroxysmal, shaking cough, with scratching, burning, a great deal of phlegm in the larynx, and aphony.
Cough, especially in the evening and during the night.
Hard, noisy cough, as if the lungs would be torn.
Paroxysms of cough, often lasting half an hour, not allowing him time to breathe, and ending with copious mucous expectoration.
Hoarse cough, as if the chest would be shattered, with expectoration of blood, palpitations, and fainting fits.
Short cough and tussiculation, with heaviness and stitches in various parts of the chest, and oppression.
Burning and raw feeling in the whole chest and larynx, with severe dry cough and bloody expectoration.
Paroxysmal cough, with vomiting of food and bile; humming and ringing in the ears.
Cough, especially at night when lying down, and even during sleep, with scratching, and accumulation of much mucus in the larynx.
Rough, sibilant cough, with obstruction in the larynx, as from false membranes.
Spasmodic cough, like hooping-cough, with vomiting and involuntary urination.
Sensation during the cough, as if a very rough cord were drawn through the bronchi.
Cough generally dry and painful, and aggravated by heat.
Cough, with congestion of blood, stitches and tearing pains in the chest, and spasmodic movements of the limbs.
Cough, with fever, shivering, and coldness; copious sweat of a putrid smell, especially in the evening and at night.
Great debility before and especially after the cough.
Expectoration of blood, with stitching pains in the chest, especially in the left side an in the region of the heart, accompanied by severe, suffocating cough.
Expectoration of mucus, mixed with blackish and rusty- looking blood.
Haemoptysis of coagulated blood.
Expectoration of whitish, glairy matter, or of thick yellow or green mucus.
Expectoration of pus mixed with blood, or of matters like that from tubercles.
Lancinating, tearing, or compressive and distensive pains in the chest, with crepitation and crackling.
Stitches and heaviness in the pleura, with cough and oppression.
Rales of different kinds.
Respiration quick, anxious, and often interrupted by spasmodic contractions of the chest.
Asthmatic sufferings, with cough, and difficult, whitish, flaky expectoration.
Contraction and obstruction of the chest, so that he can neither eat nor breathe.
Cough, with vomiting of black or light-colored decomposed blood.
Sensation as if the whole chest were tightly laced.
Great oppression of the chest, with continual fear of suffocation.
Sensation as if he had a heavy weight on the chest, and it were all engorged and on fire.
The symptoms of the chest are increased by the fever, with coldness and shivering, very disturbed pulse, great irritability, desire for dainties, head heavy, weak, and dull.
The pains are more severe on the right side of the chest, but more persistent on the left side.
Scraping and ulcerative pains in the chest, as if there were boils or herpes in the lungs.
Sensation as if there were tubercles in the whole upper portion of the chest.
Excoriative pains in the bronchi, as if they had been rasped.
Heart.
Burning and sensation of weight in the heart, with sadness, anguish, and fear of death.
Stitches and formication in the heart, with great anxiety.
Lancinations, cramps, and weakness of the heart, which seems too full of blood and unable to beat, with oppression; pulse slow and full, then accelerated, hard, and dicrotic.
Sensation as if the blood vessels of the heart and larynx were contracted.
Violent palpitations, with suffocative attacks from the least emotion.
Stitches and cramps in the heart, with sensation as if its apex were pinched very hard.
Trembling of the heart, with sensation as if it shook.
Sensation as if the great vessels of the heart were distended in various parts.
Heavy and painful heart.
Heart seems paralyzed, as if it could not beat any more, with deathlike weakness.
Skin.
Heat and moisture of the skin, with redness and itching.
Excessive itching all over, especially in the evening, and at night in bed.
Pruritus, with stinging and heat of the skin.
The skin is very tender, it breaks, ulcerates, and suppurates readily.
Burning heat of the skin, with stitches, pricking, and miliary eruption.
Sensation as if he wore a hair shirt, which pricked him everywhere.
Blotches and swellings on various parts of the body, as if he had been beaten.
A great many pimples form on the pores of the skin, with little stitches like pin-pricks, and leave scabs, chiefly on the face and thighs, with burning, chills and fever.
Many boils and abscesses on different parts of the body.
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.