Ear
External. Inflammation of the whole left external ear, which is glowing hot, scarlet, much swollen, with tensive burning pains. A pimple in the left upper concha, on account of which the whole external ear becomes inflamed, Swollen hot to the touch, with burning pains, therewith the whole left side of the neck become stiff with tensive pain; he cannot turn the head well towards the left, towards the right it is free. The pains extend through the shoulder and down into the middle of the arm, together, with internal shivering through all the limbs, without subsequent heat or thirst, with heat in the forehead and pressure above the eyes, as if they would be pressed together. Ears hot and red they burn as on coming from the cold into a warm room, with cold feet (after five hours). A jerking sticking in the right antitragus, which was somewhat swollen and stiff, with sticking pain on touch (after twenty four hours), Middle Ears. Cramp like pain in the left ear. Aching in the ear (periodic after the sixth dose). (after twenty four hours). A pressing out or dull sticking or ringing in the ears. Drawing sticking in the inner portion of the left ear, extending even over the outer portion (after five days), Stitches in the right ear, some stitches, as with needles, with the left ear, pain composed of several stitches extending from the top of the right shoulder into the lower portion of the ear (after twenty nine hours). Bubbling and twinging in the right ear, frequently repeated. Itching in the ears and in the soles of the feet. A bubbling pressing asunder pain in the right ear. Hearing. Hearing more difficult than usual, for three days before menstruation. Difficulty of hearing during menstruation. A humming before both ears, worse before the left, with difficult hearing, at times the humming ceases for a moment, when she is conscious of a ringing and hissing in the head, Humming and roaring in the head, during menses, with pressing out pain, that was aggravated on stooping. Ringing in the ears.
Nose
Objective. Sneezing. Sneezing five or six times in succession (after half an hour). Sneezing in the morning. Frequent sneezing in the morning, without trace of catarrh (in several persons). Frequent sneezing, with moisture in the nose. Frequent sneezing, the nose was not stooped, and yet it seemed as though there was want of air in the nose (after thirty-six hours). The nose is constantly moist, so that she is frequently obliged to blow it. Fluent catarrh; when she draws air through the nose it feels too sharp in the posterior nares, Stopped catarrh, which after twelve hours became fluent with an acrid feeling of rawness beneath the sternum, Bleeding of the nose, Bleeding of the nose, Several times, Nosebleed of thin bright red blood in the morning, Nosebleed of thick and black blood. Subjective. It seems as though she had catarrh; a sensation as though the mucous membrane of the nose would become swollen (after one hour). Pressive sensation above the root of the nose, for ten days. Smell. On waking in the morning she had an offensive odor in front of the nose (after twenty hours). Offensive odor in the nose. Which she cannot exactly specify, with loss of appetite.
Face
Objective. Pale face, paleness and puffiness of the face,. Countenance very pale. Countenance fuller and more flushed than natural Subjective. Tearing in the right side of the face that commences in the angle of the lower jaw, and extends up into the temple in the evening. Dryness of the lips, as if he had much internal heat, though without thirst. Dryness of the lips; the upper lip desquamates is constantly hot and causes tension. Upper lip feels sore and is cracked, A contractive tension, and burning about the right corner of the mouth, with a feeling as if the right half of the lower lip were drawn towards the right corner of the mouth; in the evening. Tearing in the angle of the right lower jaw at night wakes her from sleep several times, It extends towards the ear and then caused sticking.
Mouth
Teeth. Drawing toothache diffused itself over the temporal region. Drawing toothache in the upper and lower incisors the whole day,. Drawing toothache commences in the left lower back teeth, and then involves the upper back teeth; as soon as the pain ceases here it begins in the upper front teeth. She woke at 5 A. m. with drawing tearing toothache in the left upper jaw afterwards involving the muscles of the face and temple of the same side, and lasting till noon. Therewith the teeth are swollen and seem too long. Dull throbbing pain in the third upper back tooth, which is beginning to decay. Jerking pains in a somewhat hollow back tooth of the left lower jaw, with frequent yawning. Gums. Drawing pains in the gum of the left upper jaw, the gum looks inflamed. Tongue. Tongue coated white. Tongue clean, but pale, and as if withered, with thin saliva in the mouth, no appetite but much thirst, much (after twenty four hours). General mouth. Mouth and throat white, having the same appearance as parts to which the drug had been intentionally applied (after two hours). Burning in mouth, throat, and stomach (after three hours and a half). Saliva. Accumulation of the evening. Frothing at the mouth. Taste. Flat taste; taste of straw in the mouth,. Bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning (after twenty four hours). Bitter taste in the throat, in the evening, on account of which she cannot relish her food (after twelve hours). A sour taste on the back part of the tongue, as if he had muriatic acid in his mouth (after ten minutes). Taste on the tongue like cubebs, and a feeling of coldness. No taste in the mouth. Everything that she eats tastes bitter, on swallowing.
Throat
Throat presented a diphtheritic appearance; the burnt parts sloughing away (after twenty four hours). Some sensation of dryness in the throat, with scraping, lasting for several hours. A feeling as if mucus were seated in the throat which constantly provokes hawking after a time expectoration of whitish sweetish tasting mucus (after half an hour). Pain in the throat (after twenty four hours). A retching painful sensation low down in the throat, extending through the chest as far as behind the dorsal vertebrae. Burning in the throat. Pressure on the right side of the throat when swallowing. A sore pain on swallowing on the left side of the throat internally, with a feeling as though something were hanging there, which he could not swallow easily, Scraping in the throat, as after brandy containing fusel oil. Scraping and rawness in the throat,. Scraping in the throat when coughing with thick, lumpy expectoration in the evening. Tonsils. Soreness of the left tonsil on swallowing (after six hours). Fauces and oesophagus. Dryness in the fauces, they seen agglutinated the whole afternoon. Burning pain along esophageal tract. It was almost impossible for her to swallow (after twenty four hours).
Stomach
Appetite. Great appetite. Gnawing feeling of hunger (after two hours). She has an appetite, but no relish for food, together, with a feeling of fulness as if she had already eaten a great deal (after twenty four hours) Desire for tobacco at an unusual time. Loss of appetite (after three days). Complete loss of appetite. The hunger which he had before taking the drug disappeared afterwards, for several hours. Thirst. Thirst after the chill. Eructation. Eructations (after quarter of an hour). Violent eructations soon after a dose. Empty eructations. Eructations of air (after half an hour). Eructations of air after dinner, followed by spitting of frothy saliva, and a scraping raw sensation in the throat, lasting a quarter of an hour. Eructations of tasteless white froth one or two days before menstruation; if these eructations do not occur, a mucous vomiting follows, Acid, eructations. Nausea and Vomiting. Stomach inclined to be sick. Nausea and efforts to vomit. Nausea immediately as if she would vomit (which she did not do), with burning in the mouth. She becomes nauseated, with spitting of saliva and chilliness through the whole body, without subsequent heat and thirst. Retching. Violent urging (to vomit), every few minutes nothing but saliva resulting. Retching (like that she had formerly had during the first months of pregnancy), in the morning fasting (after half an hour), retching of water and mucus without taste, with dryness of the nose, heat in the forepart of the head, as if everything would press out at the forehead coldness of the hands and feet, with thirst in the morning, on rising. Vomiting. Vomited and brought up the piece of lint, with some food (after a few minutes). Vomiting of sweetish water, in the morning fasting (after a quarter of an hour). Ejecta bore a strong smell of creosote. Stomach. Burning pain in stomach. She was obliged to wear her clothes very loose, on account of tightness in the stomach and pit of the stomach. Pain in the pit of the stomach, at 3 p. m. as if a thread were drawn through it, or a small muscular fiber were torn out, which shoots through all her limbs, during rest (after five hours). Pressure in the epigastric region. If she does not breakfast, she is attacked with gnawing in the stomach, followed by retching, which disappears after eating.
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.