Ear.
Flow of blood from the ears. Sore pain behind the left ear.
Sore sensation behind the left ear, as after a bruise or blow. Pain behind the right ear, such as would remain from a bruise or blow. Hearing. She does not hear well unless one speaks loudly to her, and she pays attention. Cracking in the right ear, on swallowing. Violent ringing in the left ear. Roaring in the ears. Roaring in both ears, worse in the room than in the open air.
Nose.
Very frequent sneezing, without coryza (after twenty-nine hours). Nose stopped. Stoppage of the nose. Stoppage of the nose, together with profuse secretion of mucus in it. Yellow discharge from the nose. Discharge of bright-red blood from the right nostril (three teaspoonfuls). Slight touching of the nose renewed the bleeding from the right nostril. Dryness in both nostrils, as if they were stopped, without any mechanical hindrance. The right wing of the nose pains, as if sore, as after a blow or bruise.
Face.
Objective. Anxious expression. Redness of the face. (* With S.
450.-HUGHES. *) Face red. With the spasms, the face became dark-red, lips blue with bloody froth from the mouth. Flushed countenance. Cadaverous paleness (two children). Face pallid. Face pale and drawn. Face puffy. Face (and throat) swollen. (* Not found.- HUGHES. *) Muscular movements of the face (in a boy of fourteen). Cheeks. Pressure beneath the right malar bone. Lower Jaw. Gnashing of the teeth. Teeth clenched, lockjaw. Lockjaw. Firmly closed mouth, with froth from it.
Mouth.
Teeth. Toothache in the nerves of the lower row of teeth. Tongue. A whitish sore (sore place) on the margin of the tongue, very painful to touch. General Mouth. Sensation of dryness in the mouth. Saliva. Much salivation. Frothing at the mouth. Froth in the mouth. (* Not found.-HUGHES.*) Mouth full of froth. (* Post-mortem.-HUGHES. *) Water, tinged with blood, flowed involuntarily from his mouth. Speech. Tried to speak, but could not move the tongue. While speaking a few words, he can articulate the first five or six words without hesitation, but while speaking the rest of the words he is seized by slight jerking of the head backward, even noticed by others, sometimes also the arms jerk, so that he seems compelled to draw backward and swallow a syllable, and to articulate almost as in hiccough. Completely dumb.
Throat.
Dryness of the throat. Dryness and scraping in the throat. Great dryness of the throat (after half an hour). Fine stitches in the throat. Sensation in the throat and chest, as if something as large as the fist were lodged there, and were pressing the throat asunder, impeding respiration, worse while sitting than while walking. The throat seems grown together internally, and is painful externally, as if bruised, on moving or taking hold of it, becoming worse for several hours, with eructations from noon till evening. Swallowing. Unable to swallow. Entire loss of power of swallowing.
Stomach.
Appetite. Constant hunger and appetite, even if he had just eaten. Appetite for eating at noon, but the appetite disappeared with the first mouthful. Great longing for coal; he swallowed it. (* Not found.-HUGHES.*) Loss of appetite on account of a dry sensation in the mouth; food has not a bad, but still not its complete, taste. Does not relish his breakfast; it filled up his abdomen, as if had eaten too much. Thirst. Thirst. Great thirst for cold water in the afternoon. Great thirst (with the cramps). Eructations and Hiccough. He raises, as by eructations, a very bitter yellow fluid, while stooping in the open air; it rises from the stomach to the mouth, and causes a burning in the throat, the whole forenoon. Hiccough. Frequent hiccough. Loud sounding hiccough. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea; (after half an hour). Nausea in the morning, with sticking-tearing headache. Nausea while eating. Nausea with stitches in the forehead, the whole day. Vomiting. Vomiting, without relief of the lockjaw. Copious vomiting. Difficult vomiting followed by relief. Vomiting of blood. Stomach. Gastritis. Anxiety at the pit of the stomach. Sensation of water brash rising up from the stomach; is qualmish and hot all over, and accumulation of saliva rises from the stomach to the mouth (after nine and thirteen hours). Burning in the stomach. Sensation as of hot water in the stomach. Tightness in the pit of the stomach and anxiety for eight days. Pressure in the pit of the stomach immediately after eating, which compelled her to take a deep breath, with inclination to eructations. Burning pressure in the stomach. Sticking pain and burning in the pit of the stomach. Sudden tearing in the epigastric region. Scraping sensation in the stomach. Burning-scraping sensation, extending from the throat into the epigastric region. Throbbing in the pit of the stomach, which was raised up, of the size of the fist. Unusual throbbing in the pit of the stomach. Shock in the region of the pit of the stomach, as with the finger, immediately spreads, and then only he becomes collected and returns to his senses.
Abdomen.
Objective. Abdomen distended. Abdomen distended by gas, with passage of much flatulence. Rumbling and roaring in the abdomen (after a quarter of an hour). Much accumulation of flatulence; constant anxiety and fretfulness. Much persistent moving of flatulence in the abdomen. Frequent emission of flatus. Profuse discharge of flatus. Subjective. Sick feeling in the abdomen in the morning, and as this disappeared in the afternoon, headache, sticking in the right side of the head, extending from the right eye and nose (in both of which it was most violent) to the occiput, lasting three days, followed by running from the nose and discharge of yellow mucus (after nine days). Dull, painful sensation in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen and sleepiness, immediately after eating. Most fearful pains in the abdomen. Tearing pains deep in the abdomen, increased by pressure. Most violent colic. Hypogastrium. Distension and painfulness of the lower abdomen (second day). Griping in the lower abdomen, immediately after eating. Sudden, sharp stitches, extending from the navel to the neck of the bladder. A kind of sore pain in the right pelvic region, in the margin of the ilium, as after a violent blow, a pulsating, drawing sensation.
Sensation in the right groin as if an ulcer would break through (while sitting).
Rectum and Anus.
Protrusion of the rectum, with thin stool. Sensation as of liquid stool in the rectum. Itching internally in the rectum, just above the anus; after rubbing, pain as if burnt; the pain always causes shuddering; after walking, while sitting still and during a stool. Swelling on the right side of the anus, as from hemorrhoidal tumors under the skin, whereby the orifice is contracted, with annoyance during stool. Burning in the anus, with soft stool. Sudden urging to stool, without warning; he was scarcely able to retain it, together with bruised pain in the back and general loss of strength; the stool was passed suddenly, and was followed by urging, with great desire to urinate.
Stool.
Diarrhoea. Stool almost hourly, consisting of black offensive mucus in small portions, with urging at 2 P.M. Stool softer than usual. Thin stool (at 2 and 5 A.M)., with violent urging to urinate, which could not be withstood. Thin slimy stool at 7 and 8 P.M. with profuse urine. Constipation.
Urinary Organs.
Urethra. Sticking in the navicular fossa of the penis. Dull sticking pain in the navicular fossa of the urethra. Stitches in the urethra. Dull stitches in the urethra.
Tickling in the navicular fossa, with frequent erections. Violent urging to urinate. Frequently repeated desire to urinate, with difficulty in retaining the urine. Micturition. Frequent micturition. Very frequent micturition. Involuntary micturition. (*Not found.-HUGHES. *) Violent spurting out of the urine. Urine scanty and dark. Urine more scanty than usual during the night. Difficult passage of urine at night. (*Not found.-HUGHES. *) Retention of urine. (* With S. 266. *).
Sexual Organs.
Male. Erections, without desire. Frequent erections, without desire. A sore drawing pain beneath the penis, extending to the glans, which compels him to urinate (after twelve hours). Testicles drawn up against the abdomen. Testicles drawn up tightly into the abdominal ring. Emission, without voluptuous dreams. Three emissions in the night. Female. Menstruation delayed.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx. Pressure below the larynx, while sitting (after four hours). Voice. Hoarseness. (* Not found-HUGHES. *) Cough and Expectoration. Cough, with much expectoration, especially during the day. Respiration. Respiration stertorous. Slow, difficult respiration. Respiration deep, labored. Deep inspiration, while sitting. Deep inspiration at times, more while sitting than while walking. Respiration feeble and rattling. Respiration very weak and scarcely perceptible. Respiration uneven, stertorous, at times interrupted by hiccough. Oppression of breathing. Want of breath the whole day (immediately).
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.