General Mouth.
Aphthae and small gray ulcers at various places in the mouth.
Burning eruption in the mouth. Dry mouth, with constant taste of blood. Burning eruption in the mouth like erythema, followed by gray patches. Mouth burns, as if from holding alcohol in it.
Saliva.
Great salivation; he froths at the mouth when talking.
Froth from the open mouth, during sleep. On waking twitching in the stomach, bulimy, fatigue and painful weakness.
Taste.
Taste usually sour, bitter acrid, or insipid and bloody.
Everything he eats tastes too salt or insipid.
Throat.
Objective.
Congestion of blood to the throat and head, with strong pulsation of the arteries. Obstruction of the throat by viscid mucus, often black. Tubercles in the throat and larynx.
Subjective.
All the muscles of the throat seem paralyzed.
Sensation of great heat in the throat. Burning heat and contraction of the throat, with constant inclination to hawk and hem; he desires milk, and warm, sweet decoctions, especially such as promote perspiration. Sense of fullness and strangulation in the throat.
Sensation, as if the throat was full and strangulation with the throat. Sensation, as if the throat was full and stopped up, with heaviness of the head, and danger of suffocation.
Tonsils.
Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, with lancinating burning pulsating pains, spreading all over the neck.
Abscesses on the tonsils.
Swallowing.
Difficult and very painful deglutition; food and drink often escape through the nose, and into the larynx, making him cough till he raises blood.
External Throat. Swelling of the submaxillary and cervical glands, which burn and are painful.
Stomach
Appetite.
Great hunger which is satisfied, by the 1st mouthfuls, but returns in a moment and is insatiable. Longing for underdone meat, and for milk. Longing for fresh bread, garlic, and onions.
Longing for dainties, oranges and acid fruit.
Thirst.
Unquenchable thirst, with sensation of great dryness in the mouth, although it is constantly bathed by a flow of oily saliva.
Much thirst and hunger, or complete absence of both with feeling of great fullness of the stomach. Desire for strong liquors, especially brandy.
Eructation.
Bitter and acrid risings, with heat and burning in the stomach and oesophagus. Incessant eructations of an unpleasant odor.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Frequent and very painful nausea and hiccough. Nearly all the gastric symptoms are accompanied by nausea.
Vomiting of food, often long after eating. Vomiting of ingesta mixed with blood, with painful weariness, debility, altered features, hanging jaw, moral dejection and delirium. Vomiting of mucus and bile, or of brownish offensive matter. Great accumulation of bile on the stomach, provoking repeated vomiting.
Stomach.
Inflation of the stomach, with hardness, Tympanitic resonance and great sensitiveness. Sensation of intolerable insipidity in the stomach and mouth, with frequent nausea and salivation. Sensation as if live creatures were gnawing and slashing the walls of the stomach. Sensation as if cold worms were wriggling about in the stomach. And rising to the throat with inclination to vomit.
Stomach feels as if full and barred up, with difficulty of breathing. The stomach always feels tense, and full of water.
Contractive pains in the stomach, with sensation of burning and of coldness. Stomachache, with longing for almonds and nuts.
Sensation as if the stomach was falling, and dragging down the oesophagus, with paroxysms, of noisy, dry cough. Lancinating and contractive pains in the stomach, which seems to turn round upon itself. Sensation as if there were ulcers in the stomach, with pains extending to the loins, and making him writhe about.
Pulsating, crampy, and burning pains in the stomach, with sensation of acidity, uneasiness, and hunger.
Abdomen.
Hypochondria.
Lancinating pains in the hypochondria; burning and heaviness in the abdomen, with inclination to lie upon it. Cramps and electric pricking in the hepatic region, extending to the back.
Bruised pains in the hepatic region, and at the same time lancinating pains in the opposite portion of the stomach.
Pulsating pains in the hepatic region, as if from an abscess or calculi. Incisive pains in the splenic region; spleen sometimes swollen and indurated, sometimes shrunken and dried up.
Inflammation and swelling of the liver, with contractive and distensive pains, extending to the stomach.
General Abdomen.
Inflammation and swelling of the bowels, with constipation.
Borborygmi, and a great deal of incarcerated flatulence, with violent colic, which returns at night, and obliges him to leave his bed, in which the pains are aggravated. Sensation as if an itching eruption or worms were in the bowels.
Hypogastrium and Iliac Region.
Colic and grips in the hypogastric region, extending into the loins, impelling him to bestir himself and walk about noisy flatus and frequent. Copious, soft, bilious, black, yellow and sometimes blood streaked stools. Swelling of the inguinal glands.
Rectum and Anus.
Swelling of the rectum preventing defecation., Excessive prolapsus ani, which is of a deep-red color. Bulky tumors at the anus. Flowing hemorrhoids, with discharge of black blood, or of yellow, purulent matter. Itching-burning excoriations, and condylomata at the arms. Distensive and burning pains in the anus, as if it contained a foreign body.
Stool.
Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea, with borborygmi, flatulence, and involuntary stools.
Light-yellow diarrhoea, specked with white,, with much colic and tenesmus. Diarrhoeic and dysenteric stools, with copious discharge of blood, and rapid failure of strength.
Constipation.
Constipation, often lasting over eight days. Scanty, but frequent dysenteric stools, with colic and tenesmus.
Urinary Organs.
Kidneys and Bladder.
Swelling and congestion of the kidneys.
Painful weariness and weakness in the kidneys and loins, accompanied by burning and pungent pains, aggravated by the least movement of the legs. Pulsating and burning pains in the kidneys as if from concretions or an abscess. Bladder full and distended, with obstruction of its neck and ischuria.
Urethra.
Ulcers, tuberosities, and varices in the urethra.
Blennorrhagia, with great turgescence of the penis, violent priapism; cutting and burning pains in the urethra, especially when urinating; yellow-green thick discharge, deeply staining the linen, and sometimes mucous and clear; painful weariness; hypochondria, indolence, indifference, and nervous irritability.
Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty emission in a thin stream, especially in the evening.
Micturition.
Frequent, copious, diabetic urine, with smarting heat in the urethra, hypogastrium and loins, clammy mouth tongue dry and as if burnt, urgent thirst and general decline.
Nocturnal enuresis.
Urine.
Bloody urine, especially after an embrace. Urine bloody, or containing only small streaks of blood. Burning, turbid, thick and red urine. Sand in the urine.
Sexual Organs.
Male.
Very bad smell of the genitals. Ulcers, fissures, and small cracked condylomata on the prepuce. Priapism, with incomplete erection. Absence of erections; sensation as if the prepuce, glans and urethra had been forcibly scraped. Purulent secretion between the glans and prepuce. Itching-burning ulcers and scabs on the scrotum. Burning pains in the testicles., Tardy and difficult ejaculation of semen. Frequent, copious and very debilitating nocturnal, emissions. The genital symptoms are often accompanied by headache, ophthalmia, debility and painful weariness, especially of the spine.
Female.
Uterus swollen and painful, as if from the pressure of a tumor.
Cracked and bleeding excrescences on the cervix uteri.
Inflammation and swelling of the ovaries, with pulsating and lancinating pains, extending into the loins and groins. Drawing pains in the region of the ovaries, as if something was pulling then down.
Lancinations and pulsations in the ovaries are uterus, with heat and dryness in the throat, and twitchings in the breast.
Lancinating and crampy pains in the ovarian region, mostly on the right side. Vagina inflamed and hot. Copious yellow-green very acrid and very offensive leucorrhoea. Menses sometimes too early often preceded and followed by leucorrhoea. Menses retarded or suppressed.
Suppressed menses, with deafness. Too profuse menses; metrorrhagia.
Menses scanty, and consisting chiefly of the leucorrhoeal discharge.
During the menses, headache, cough, angina, otalgia, borborygmi, flatulence intestinal and uterine colic; clothing has to be loosened at the waist; painful fatigue and weariness in the loins and thighs; constant drowsiness; trismus, spasmodic contractions of the limbs, trembling and swaying of the head. Very strong sexual desire in the female especially before menstruation.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi.
Thick grayish false membranes, especially in the larynx. A flow of thick mucus, apparently from the bronchi, which remains in the throat and causes suffocation. Sensation as if there were a miliary eruption in the bronchi and on the lungs.
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.