Throat.
Pressure, from within outward, in the throat, as from a ball that continued to grow larger and would burst the throat open, on stooping, and especially in the evening. Pressure, like a ball in the throat, when swallowing, and at other times, frequently returning (first day). Scraping in the throat (first day). Sharp sticking scratching in the throat, especially in the evening.
Tearing in the muscles of the throat and nape of the neck.
Pressure in the right tonsil. Hawking, caused by accumulation of mucus in the fauces. Dryness of the pharynx. Burning, and afterward scratching, in the pharynx. A sharp stitch in the pharynx.
Stomach
Appetite. Great appetite (first day). Hunger, soon after a nutritious meal. Smoking tobacco is not relished. Eructations.
Frequent empty eructations, with pressure, extending up into the chest, in the forenoon. Clear tasteless water rises from the stomach, in the morning, without nausea. Disagreeable nauseous eructations. Uprising from the stomach. Hiccough. Hiccough (after three-quarters of an hour). Constant hiccough, after eating.
Nausea. Nausea and acid taste. Qualmishness in the stomach.
General Stomach. The epigastric region was distended, as from flatulence, and was sensitive to touch (first day). Audible rumbling, extending from the stomach to the throat. Violent griping in the stomach, relieved by eructations, in the afternoon. Burning, extending from the stomach into the abdomen.
Burning, like heartburn and nausea, rising from the abdomen into the chest, after breakfast. Pressure in the stomach, relieved by eructations (first day). In the morning, a sensation as of a stone lying in the stomach (second day). Sensation of fulness in the stomach (first day). Warmth in the epigastric region.
Digestion was not as good as usual.
Abdomen
Sticking in the right hypochondrium. Acute pressure, in a small spot to the left, above the navel. Rumbling in the abdomen, below the stomach, as from emptiness (after one hour and a half).
Moving about in the abdomen and emission of flatus. Violent cutting colic, with ineffectual desire for stool. Griping in the whole abdomen, especially about the navel, in the afternoon, while sting, relieved by walking. The abdomen became full and uncomfortable, after eating. Sensation of tension in the whole abdomen. Uneasiness in the abdomen. Pressure pain in the abdomen.
Cramp like tearing in the whole of the abdominal muscles, extending up to the pit of the stomach, worse while sitting bent over than while walking (after a quarter off an hour). Painless rumbling and gurgling in the lower abdomen. Cutting in the left groin, while walking (after one hour).
Rectum and Stool.
Ineffectual desire for stool. He was obliged to go to stool more frequently than usual; the evacuation was always unsatisfactory and somewhat pasty (first and second days); twice (third day).
Stool very offensive, like bad meat. Stool somewhat thin, slimy (after three-quarters of an hour). Frequent stools (after fifteen hours). Stool somewhat hard, difficult (after three hours and a half.).
Urinary Organs.
Tenesmus of the bladder, in the morning, always after urinating (after three-quarters of an hour). Violent burning in the orifice of the urethra, while sitting (after two hours and a half).
Burning in the urethra, above the glans penis, during micturition. Drawing in the anterior part of the urethra (After eighteen hours). Fine stitches in forepart of the urethra (after one hour and a quarter). Desire to urinate every ten or fifteen minutes, with burning during micturition. Micturition delayed; there was urging, but he was obliged to wait a few minutes before any passed. The urine seems to be increased (first day). Urine more scanty than usual (first day). Urine every dark-yellow for several days, that, however, deposited no sediment, even after standing a long time. Urine very pale-yellow (after three hours).
The urine is somewhat acrid. Urine fiery; after standing, a flocculent film in the middle, and later a reddish sediment is deposited, and a thin iridescent film forms upon the surface. The urine becomes very turbid and covered with an iridescent film, after standing.
Sexual Organs.
Increased sexual desire; very hard erection. Increased sexual desire and increased voluptuousness during coition. Nightly emission. Menses three days too early.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx and Trachea. Irritation to hack, in the larynx, as from the vapor of sulphur; on hacking, only a very little mucus is expectorated, and after a very few minutes the irritation returns, an he is obliged to hack anew. Slight burning in the larynx. He was constantly obliged to loosen mucus from the larynx and trachea. Trachea (and mouth) completely dried up, in the morning, on waking, with some hoarseness. Rawness in the trachea, causing a deep bass voice. Voice. Hoarseness so great that he could not utter a loud word, periodically recurring every quarter or half an hour, without any painful sensation in the throat (after one hour and a half). Some hoarseness. Cough and Expectoration. He began to cough immediately on lying on the left side, in bed. Constant hacking and coughing, without expectoration, immediately on lying down in bed; he hacks so violently that he has sparks before his eyes. Constant hacking, in the morning, after rising, without any expectoration; after about half an hour some greenish tenacious mucus is raised.
Frequent hacking; he endeavors to loosen tenacious mucus that seems to be firmly adherent to the posterior part of the larynx.
He hawks and expectorates greenish tenacious mucus from the larynx. Constant hawking of mucus, as if much mucus were lying in the upper part of the larynx, which he was obliged to loosen, followed by expectoration of white tenacious, tasteless mucus.
For several days together he constantly expectorates, without pain, lumps of mucus from the upper portion of the trachea, even without much hawking. Respiration. Frequent deep inspiration.
Respiration somewhat oppressed.
Chest
Frequent stitches through the lungs. Collection of mucus in the chest, without any inclination to expectorate it (after four hours an three-quarters). A biting-gnawing pain on the sternum (after half an hour). Very violent drawing-cutting pain in the left side of the chest and abdomen, upon which he was lying, that commenced above in the diaphragm, seeming to extend through it and down into the abdomen, and then continued as a cutting pain through the small intestines, till at last it extended to the entrance of the true pelvis, where it disappeared, but almost at the same instant it appeared again in the chest; with this, respiration was difficult and only superficial, in the evening, after lying down, gradually relieved after lying upon the back (after twelve hours). Very violent, at one time cutting, at another sticking, sensation in the right side of the thorax, near the ensiform cartilage, the pain seeming to the midway between the back and sternum, as if in the middle of the chest, though more towards the right side. Dull pressure in the right side of the chest. Dull stitches in the left side of the chest. Stitches in the right side of the chest, extending thence into th right clavicle and into a right back tooth, an lastly into the right calf. Transient cramp in the left sternocleidomastoid muscle.
Violent pressive sticking in the left nipple, during inspiration (after five hours and a half). Pulsating painful sensation, with painful sticking when touched, in a small spot beneath the left nipple.
Heart and Pulse
Pinching pain in the heart and lungs, several times; when stooping it seemed as though a stone were lying upon the back.
Palpitation during rest and motion, in the evening. The pulse is diminished a few beats (after two hours).
Neck and Back.
The neck feels stiff and swollen if turned around. Tension in the muscles of the neck and nape, so that the head was almost involuntarily drawn forward. Paralytic pain in the left side of th nape of the neck, when bending the head to the left side.
Sensation as if a great weight were lying upon the nape. Stitches through and through both sides of the back and nape of the neck.
Stitches, extending into the back, while sitting. Long-continued stitches beneath the left scapula. Fine painful stitches close to the spine, between the four last right ribs, aggravated during inspiration (after three hours). Sharp pulse like stitches in the coccyx. Tearing in the coccyx, while sitting.
Extremities.
Distressing heaviness in all the limbs, with internal coldness, in the evening. Sensation on every motion, as if the joints were broken, an on stretching them out as if they had been pressed in; on turning about, a sensation as if they were swollen and sprained. Cramp like twinging pains in the joints, almost continually. Constant stitches in all the joints, especially in the evening. Several tendons are sore to touch.
Superior Extremities.
Shoulder and Arm. Tearing in the left shoulder. Stitches in the shoulders, as if in the bones. Tearing in the shoulders, extending into the fingers. A burning sensation in the left shoulder, as if the bone. Drawing in the upper arm. Heaviness of the right arm. Sensation of heaviness in the arms, even during rest (after a quarter of an hour). Elbow and Forearm. Tearing in the right elbow and malleolus of the foot. Pain in the forearm, as if he had been writing a long time, worse when the arm hangs down. Violent tearing in the right forearm in every position (after four hours sand a half). Wrist and Hand. Cramp like pain above the left wrist (after one hour). Trembling of the hands (second day). Drawing in the metacarpal bones. Stitches in the palm of the left hand. Tearing in the right palm. Fingers. The fingers often feel asleep. A paralytic sensation in the finger- joints, afterwards in the arm, and also in other joints. Drawing pain in the thumb and index finger. Tearing in the thumb. Violent tearing in the whole left index finger, without impairment of its motion (after two days). Violent tearing in the first joint of the right middle finger. Pain like a suppuration or like congestion of blood in the tip of the middle finger. Drawing deep in the middle finger. Dull stitches on the back of the index finger. Bubbling-like stitches in the bone of the index finger.
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.