Slight anaesthesia of the left cheek. Slight diminution of sensibility in right side of face. Two tearings in the right upper jaw (after three-quarters of an hour). Lips. Frequently moves his lips, as if smoking a pipe. The hair falls from the moustache. Lips cyanotic. Dry and fissured lips. Lips and tongue blanched (eighteenth day). Lips, teeth, m and tongue covered with thick fissured scabs. Desquamation of the lips every day without pain, indeed with unusual dryness. Lips covered with thin, brown scabs. Sharp drawing in the flesh of the upper lip beneath the right wing of the nose (first day).
Trismus. China Violent loud movement of the lower jaw, with frightful grating of the teeth. Boring in the left side of the lower jaw and in three corresponding teeth (after one hour and a half). Boring in the right angle of the lower jaw, lasting a long time (after one hour and a half). Frequent violent tearing in the lower jaw, near the chin, and in the corresponding tooth (after one hour and a quarter). Tearing in the right side of the lower jaw near the chin; after rubbing, it extends into the right lower ribs, where it disappears of itself; it then returns in the former place and in the corresponding teeth; afterwards deep breathing causes a sticking below the right scapula, and when this ceases, a stitch in the upper part of the right scapula (after two hours). Tearing in the left side of the lower jaw extending upwards towards the left ear (after a quarter of an hour), disappearing on rubbing; while rubbing feels a beating in the left side of the occiput, that lasts a long time. Tearing in the lower jaw and lower teeth, not relieved by rubbing. Sticking and tearing in the right side of the lower jaw (after one hour and a half).
Contractions of the jaws (first day).
Mouth
Teeth. Violent grating of the teeth at night, with frequent waking (first day). Grinding of the teeth. Hard chattering of the teeth, as in violent ague. Usually, in cases of saturnine discoloration of the gums, the teeth are dark brown at their bases or necks, while their edges are of a lighter brown, with a shade of yellow or green. This appearance should not be mistaken for the ordinary deposit of tartar. The incisors and canines are most liable to this discoloration, but it may occur on all the teeth, though they are seldom affected in an equal degree. When the process of gingival absorption has resulted in a loss of substance, the discoloration of the teeth becomes more decided. The teeth thus affected finally deteriorate; they become brittle, break off, decay, and fall out long before the usual time. The coloring matter adheres firmly to the osseous substance of the teeth, with which it appears to combine, so as to be detached with difficulty, as is the case also with that of the gums. In general, when the blueness of the gums is very decided, the discoloration of the teeth is also strongly marked, and vice versa. The discoloration of the teeth and buccal mucous membrane, by contact with lead molecules, my take place in five or six days, or after months or even years of exposure, the time varying in different classes of workmen. Teeth in a very bad condition, all brown, and most of them, broken.
Characteristic saturnine discoloration of the teeth and gums. Teeth and gums discolored. Most of the teeth destroyed, blackish; deep, slate-colored border on the gums; oxygenated water caused a whitish track of sulphate of lead. Teeth and gums black. Teeth black with the lead line on the gums. Teeth black, etc. Teeth black at their necks. All the teeth black, especially the incisors and canines. Teeth black; partly destroyed. Teeth black, and mostly destroyed. Teeth all black; gums blue next to the teeth. Black teeth; gums slate-colored.
Teeth of a strongly-marked yellowish-black. Teeth brown. Teeth brown at the base, yellow at the tip. Teeth greenish-brown, especially on their necks. Teeth and gums bluish-gray. Teeth dark-brown. Teeth dirty-gray. Yellowish color of the teeth was quite apparent. The teeth become covered with yellowish mucus.
Yellowish coating at root of teeth, and slate-colored border round several. Teeth and gum, s covered with sulphate of lead.
Teeth covered with sordes (eighteenth day). The teeth were covered with a dark incrustation. Large accumulation of tartar. Teeth partly laid bare; blackish and somewhat decays (they were sound previous to exposure). Teeth laid bare. Teeth mostly destroyed. Most of the teeth decayed or destroyed, blackish. The teeth partially destroyed are brown at their bases and yellow at their summits. Teeth decayed.
Their teeth are usually carious in the extreme. Carious teeth; teeth break easily. Teeth much decayed and loose; the edges of his gums are red and raw and ragged, and frequently bleed, and there is a slight blue line. After working thee weeks, obliged to quit on account of a curious affection of the mouth. His teeth became loose, and there were small abscesses on the right gums. The teeth become loose. The teeth fall out. A tooth becomes hollow, has an offensive odor, and breaks off; the side which was thickest had become very brittle. Toothache in the sound teeth, as after eating sour fruit. Tearing in two right lower back teeth (after two hours and a half). Jerking pain in the right lower back teeth, in the morning, aggravated by cold (third day). Gums. The first and most frequent indication of the presence of lead in the system, is a peculiar discoloration of the gums and teeth. The gums bordering on the teeth, to the depth of one or two lines, are usually blue or slate-colored, their remaining portion being of a very light bluish-red, passing gradually into the natural hue of the buccal mucous membrane. Sometimes the discoloration spreads all over the gums, or even over the entire buccal mucous membrane. In a good many cases only the gums immediately bordering on the teeth become slate- colored, in strong contrast with the natural appearances of their remaining portion. They at first assume a violent-red tinge, becoming decidedly slate-colored, sooner or later. The discolored portion of the gums quite often becomes considerably thinner, sometimes as this as a sheet as of note- paper; or else, as more frequently occurs, it dwindles in superficial extent. In the latter case the interdental partitions gradually disappear, and the concavity of the gums is increased, in consequence of molecular absorption, which takes place within the substance of their tissue, without visible solution of continuity. When this process of absorption is complete, the teeth are stripped of a portion of their gums, and are laid bare. The gums thus form, quite frequently, only a more or less projecting pad, sometimes marked by vertical incisions. This change in the nutrition of the gums always follows upon their discoloration. The latter, however, often disappears, in proportion to the shrinking of the gums from interstitial absorption, so that what is left of them is only slightly tinged with blue. Usually the discoloration and loss of substance do not take place in both alveolar borders to the same extent. The twofold change is generally most marked in their anterior portion. The lower gums are apt to show rather more of it than the upper; and it sometimes happens that the gums of only two or three teeth are thus affected. The above described discoloration of the gums and teeth we have never observed, except in those whose buccal mucous membrane has been brought in contact with lead particles. We have examined the mouths of seven hundred and eighty-five persons who had not worked in lead compounds, or ingested them in any way, and in not one of them could we discover the least trace of the specific discoloration produced by sulphate of lead. The peculiar blue line of the gums, the edge of the gum where it is attached to the neck of the teeth, was fringed with a very distinct blue line, about one-twentieth of an inch in width, so that three or four of the molar teeth on each side in the upper jaw were thus half surrounded towards the roof of the mouth with a blue crescent. The fatal line was more or less present in the gums of all; in two cases a slate-colored line was well defined, and in one of these the mucous membrane of the mouth was strewed with spots of the same color. Gums blue, etc. Distinct blue line along the margins of the gums, etc. Dark-blue line on the gums. The gums bordering on the teeth exhibit a narrow and a well- defined grayish-blue line. Distinct blue line along the edge of the gums, and a blackish stain on the teeth. Blue line at the junction of the gums with the teeth. Distinct blue line along the lower border of the gums of the upper incisors. Gums. with the exception of a slight reddish-blue discoloration beneath the left lower canine tooth, were natural; later the bluish line extended beneath all the lower incisors and canine teeth. A blue line on the margin of the gums was always present, which varied in depth, in some cases involving the gum to the extend of one-eighth of an inch, in others being a more trace, most observable opposite the bicuspid teeth. Gums show a very remarkably blue line with the interdental processes much shrunken. Blue line along the alveolar border. There was a distinct dark-blue line, especially on the upper teeth, which were greatly decayed. Distinct blue line on the gums and around the incisor teeth of both upper and lower jaws. Dark-blue line around the teeth and gums, both of the upper and lower jaws.
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.