Nose
Nose swollen, red, and covered with pustules. After coryza, crusts in the nose. Liability to cold in the head. Stoppage of the nose, with sensation as if it were clogged up. A great deal of sneezing in the evening, on going to bed. Frequent sneezing in the evening; obstruction, with heaviness in the head and eyelids. He blows clear water from the nose. Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing. Coryza, with great dryness of the nose. Coryza in the morning, with sneezing three or four times in succession. The secretion from the coryza has a bad smell. The coryza ceases after a sweat, in the morning, in bed. Considerable mucous secretion, which is dry or soft, and extremely fetid. The secretion of mucus, of an exceedingly offensive smell, continues for twelve days. Discharge of yellowish, greenish, and grayish mucus, of a putrid odor, especially in the evening and after being in the open air. Blowing of blood from the nose. Epistaxis. Epistaxis, principally morning and evening. He bleeds from the nose nearly to fainting. Heat and great itching in the nostrils; constant desire to bore in the nose. Burning in the nostrils. Burning, lancinating pains in the nose, extending to the forehead. The cold air, when breathed, seems to corrode the nostrils. Ulcerated nostrils, as if burnt. Throbbing and gnawing pains in the nasal bones. Strong odors are annoying, especially that of tobacco. Loss of smell.
Face
Altered expression. Thin, bony face, with large eyes, red, or sunken, and with circles round them. Face pale, yellow, or gray. Face in places white and pale, or red and gray. Face every now and then flushed with heat. After an attack of dizziness the face becomes flushed, the heart feels compressed, the chest seems squeezed in a vice. Red face, as after a vapor-bath. Inflammation and puffiness of the face; the eyes appear lose in their orbits. Inflammation, swelling, and caries of the facial bones. Lancinating pain in the face, with bruised sensation in the bones. Throbbing and heat of the face, as from being too near the fire. Water and dampness are very disagreeable to the face, and cause pricking. Very painful cramps felt from the head to the cheeks, and vice versa. Swollen, thick, hanging lips. Lips contracted, dry, chapped, bleeding, very painful.
Mouth
Teeth and gums. The teeth decay and break easily. The teeth fall out. The teeth feel long and loose. The teeth seem to sink into the gums when eating. Toothache, especially in the evening and at night. Boring pains in the teeth. Pulling pains in the teeth, with contraction of the jaw and compression of the teeth. Lancinating, boring, and digging pains in the teeth, excited by cold air, change of temperature, and movement. Swollen gums, bleeding very easily. Hard swelling of the gum, with pain as if forcing out the back teeth, which seemed too long, with increased secretion of saliva at night; the symptoms prevented sleep; laying the arm hard on the cheek prevented the pain for a short time (after fifty-three days). Inflammation, abscess, and ulcers of the gums. Pains as if the gums were burned. Tongue covered with a loose, pasty, yellowish coat. Black tongue. Tongue cracked, and often of a bluish color. Tongue thick, hard, and full of small burning pimples. Large pimples like abscesses under the tongue, with great difficulty in eating. Tongue difficult to move. Easy biting of the tongue, which bleeds readily. Desire to drink and moisten the tongue, although it is covered with saliva. Mouth in General and Saliva. Cracks and exfoliation of the walls of the cheeks. Erysipelatous inflammation of the entire mouth. The mouth smells offensively. Very bad-smelling breath, especially in he morning. Pain in the palate and in the right margin of the tongue, with complete aversion to tobacco. Mouth burning, as if from an acid. Scraping dry sensation on the palate and back of the mouth, painful on empty swallowing, lasting three weeks (after three days). Cold liquids aggravate all the symptoms of the mouth. Very copious salivation. Abundant, frothy saliva. Mouth full of thick mucus. Taste and Speech. Insipid and disagreeable taste of the food, especially in the morning. In the morning, nauseous, sweetish taste, for a quarter of an hour, with clammy mouth, continuing while he remains in bed. Bitter taste (not of food). Peculiar, biting, bitter taste, as from radishes, in the back of the mouth (immediately, lasting several hours). Salty and bloody taste in the mouth. Constant taste of blood in the mouth. Bitter, sour, bloody, nauseous, coppery, insipid, salty, strong or oily taste in the mouth. Desire for milk, dainties, even brandy, to remove the bad taste in the mouth. Tobacco does not taste as good as usual; nausea and vomiting after long smoking; smoking in the forenoon caused overpowering desire to sleep, lasting six weeks (after three days). Stammering. Difficult, impeded, and unintelligible speech. Hears what is said without being able to answer or move.
Throat
Inflammation and swelling of the throat and tonsils. Convulsive movements and constriction of the throat, with sensation as if there was a stone there. Something seems to come down from the head into the throat. Mucus descends from the nasal fossae into the throat. Accumulation of much viscid mucus in the throat, with constant taste of blood. Constant inclination to hawk. Dryness of the throat in the morning. Raw feeling and lancinating pains in the throat. The air, in passing through the throat, seems impregnated with a corrosive acid. Throbbing pains, as from an abscess, in the tonsils. Inflammation and dryness of the pharynx and oesophagus. Difficult and painful deglutition; he can hardly swallow his saliva. Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands of the right side.
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Excellent appetite. Violent hunger, even after eating, especially in the evening. In the morning after breakfast, often feels hungry, as if he had eaten nothing. Would like to be in the country and eat pot-herbs. Desire for pastry and dainties. Desire for confectionery and acid fruits. Fastidious in eating. Dislike to salted or hot food. Loss of appetite, with thirst. Aversion to food and drinks. Loathing of food. Irregular appetite, which ceases after the first mouthful. Slight thirst during a meal, while the cough continues. Urgent thirst for cold sugared water. Eructations, Hiccough, Nausea, and Vomiting. Incessant eructations, evening and morning. Eructations tasting sour, bitter, or nauseous. Eructations tasting like spoiled eggs for three or four hours, after eating fresh bread and pastry. Sugar-water and milk cause eructations and nausea. Fetid risings. Risings during the day, with some acidity. Regurgitation and heartburn after every meal. Hiccough. Frequent hiccough. Phlegm, followed, especially in the morning, by bitter, bilious vomiting. Abundant phlegm, which rises, especially in the afternoon, and seems to afford relief. Nausea for five minutes, half an hour, or and hour after a meal, three or four times, on different days. Nausea, with weight and pressure in the epigastric region. Nausea, with feeling of intoxication, especially morning and evening. Horrible loathing. Incessant inclination to vomit. Violent vomiting. Yellow, green, or blood- streaked vomiting. Brownish vomiting, and sometimes of bright blood. Vomiting almost immediately after eating. Vomiting after a meal, especially in the afternoon. Vomiting, with urging to stool. After drinking, vomiting of what has been eaten, followed by two other bitter and acid vomitings, during the headache. Vomiting of food, bile, and mucus, with bloody taste in the mouth, and tensive and crampy pains in the stomach and abdomen. Stomach in General. Difficult digestion, especially of the morning meal. Feeling of weakness and faintness in the stomach. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach; also of heat and cold alternately. Burning in the stomach, especially after eating. Burning, crampy, and pinching pains in the stomach. Heat and drawing in the stomach, extending to the back, with scraping in the epigastric region. Fullness, heaviness, and distension of the stomach. Cramps in the stomach. Cramps in the stomach arresting digestion. Cramps in the stomach from the least movement. Pretty severe and prolonged cramp in the stomach, for a quarter of an hour after breakfast. Stomachache, with burning and lancinating pains extending to the liver and heart. Drawing in the stomach, as if from hunger, but without appetite, with very strong beating of the heart, shortly followed by headache. Lancinations, contraction, and shocks in the stomach. Great sensitiveness of the epigastric region. Scraping and excoriating pains in the stomach, with a feeling as if stones were being forced through the cardia. Formication and gnawing sensation in the stomach. Wine aggravates the stomachache, and causes vomiting.
Abdomen
Burning and contraction in the hepatic region. Cramps in the liver, which force him to writhe and to cry out. Digging and gnawing sensation, with neuralgic pains at the liver and stomach especially at night. Throbbing pains, with sensation of swelling and tearing at the liver. Beating and lancinating pains in the liver, as from an abscess, and accompanied with bilious vomiting. Every movement of the body aggravates the pains in the liver. Inflammation and swelling of the spleen, with pressive and lancinating pains, ineffectual urging to stool, constipation, and disposition to be frightened. Inflammation of the bowels, with distensive pains, inflated abdomen, colic, and diarrhoea. Enlarged and hard abdomen. Inflation of the abdomen, with heat and lancinations, especially on the left side. Encysted tumors of the mesentery. Flatulence. Fetid Flatulence. Flatulence and eructations for ten days, especially after a meal. Copious emission of flatulence in the morning, preceded by borborygmi, with empty feeling in the stomach. Sensations as if cold balls were running all through the intestinal canal. Burning in the bowels, as from an eruption. Tensive pains, with extreme weariness at the abdomen, extending into the hypochondria. Daily pain in the abdomen, on the fortieth day after taking the medicine, after the ulcers on the finger and tibia had healed, especially in the morning and after drinking milk, and also from smoking tobacco; it was not very violent, but a very troublesome, digging-cutting pain (so that he thought of being poisoned). Cramps in the bowels, which seem twisted and knotted up. Colic in the daytime, four or five hours after a meal, with borborygmi, at various intervals and lasting several hours. Violent colic, with convulsive movements of the limbs and jaws. Lancinating colic, so violent as nearly to cause fainting, with burning thirst, cold sweat in the hair, followed by four stools, increasingly liquid. Colic, with tearing sensation in the bowels, borborygmi and flatulence, which often rises from the bowels into the stomach. Pressive pains in the abdomen. Great heaviness of the abdomen, with sensation as if the bowels were pressed and crushed. Great sensitiveness of the abdomen; the least pressure causes severe stitches. Accumulation of serum, like ascites, in the hypogastric region. Dull colic in the lower abdomen. Inflammation and swelling of the inguinal glands. Swelling of the inguinal glands. Enormous scrofulous buboes on the groins.
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.