Mouth
Toothache. Drawing in the teeth of the lower jaw from before backwards, and in the upper jaw from behind forward. Shooting pains in the teeth. Feeling of dryness in the tip of the tongue, for a quarter of an hour, without thirst, early in the morning (after three-quarters of on hour). Constriction of the tongue (after a few minutes). Dryness of the mouth and pharynx, followed by salivation. Gradually increasing sticking pain in the region of the velum pendulum palati, accompanied towards the end with a bitter taste in the mouth and accumulation of saliva, inducing cough (after three-quarter of an hour, from the vapor). Profuse and offensive salivation, immediately. Bitter taste on the tip of the tongue, a quarter of an hour after eating meat and vegetables, when licking the lips (after three hours). Previous to dinner he has a taste and smell as of fetid tallow, at noon (second day). Early in the morning, after waking, he has a flat slimy taste in the mouth.
Throat
Dryness of the throat. Scraping feeling in the throat. Scraping in the throat, lasting several minutes (soon). Scraping sensation in the throat, with an ineffectual desire to hawk (after half an hour). Great dryness of the pharynx.
Stomach
Appetite. Violent appetite at dinner, affecting the stomach with a sort of nausea (canine hunger); although he remains indifferent when thinking of eating, yet he eats with much relish and a large quantity, at noon (after three hours). Great hunger (after a few hours). Loss of appetite. Great aversion to tobacco (the prover was a great smoker). Disgust for food, from large doses. Eructations. Frequent eructations. Frequent eructations tasting of the drug. Insipid eructations. Early in the morning, immediately after waking, risings tasting of Hepar sulphuris. Eructations tasting of the drug. Tasteless eructations (after a quarter of an hour). Warm rising from the epigastric region, arresting the breathing. Frequent empty eructations. Offensive eructations. Frequent empty risings before the meal (after two hours). Gulping up of a rancid fluid, not rising into the mouth (heartburn), at 4 P.M.
(after seven hours). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea (third day). Slight nausea (after a few minutes). Long-continued nausea. Nausea amounting to vomiting. Nausea and eructations. Nausea and inclination to vomit, on rising in the morning, relieved after eating and in the open air (second day). Nausea, with desire to vomit, as if a thread were hanging in the throat, arising from the region of the umbilicus and gradually rising to the fauces, and exciting a copious accumulation of saliva. She feels nauseated, faint, her lips are white, and the body is icy cold, followed by vomiting of bile and mucus, with violent shaking chill. Transient nausea, as if one would vomit (after one-eighth of an hour). Disposition to vomit. Disposition to vomit and vomiting. Vomiting. Nightly vomiting. Stomach. The epigastrium and the region of the liver are painful to touch, at 11 P.M. (second day). Weakness of the stomach. Fullness of the stomach, (first day). Feeling of fullness in the epigastric region. Feeling of greater fullness in the stomach (after half an hour). Sensation of fullness in the stomach and whole abdomen, and also rising up through the oesophagus. Sensation of fullness in the stomach, without eructations, changing after awhile to ravenous hunger. Heat in the epigastric region. Increased warmth in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour). Sensation of warmth in the stomach. Burning and cramps in the stomach, in the epigastric region. Heaviness in the epigastric region. Pressure and heaviness in the stomach. Pressure in the epigastric region. Slight pressure in the epigastric region. Pressure, which suddenly rises in the pit of the stomach and disappears speedily, with gurgling in the abdomen. Shooting cutting from the pit of the stomach to the umbilical region (after half an hour).
Abdomen
Hypochondrium. Painful jerks in the right hypochondrium. (Pressing sensation in the left hypochondrium, just beneath the last short ribs, while in bed in the morning; on coughing or deep breathing it became a cutting pain). Sides. Two evenings in succession, after 10 o’clock, he is attacked with violent colic in the left side of the abdomen, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration (second and third days). Dull sticking, intermittent pressure on the left side and over the pit of the stomach, in the region of a cartilage of the ribs. Single stitches in the left side, below the short ribs (after a quarter of an hour). General Abdomen. Bloated abdomen. Distension of the abdomen. Great distension of the abdomen, causing restlessness at night. Abdomen moderately distended (first day). Hard abdomen. Much very offensive gas from the intestines. Rumbling and gurgling in the intestines, with some cutting pains, followed after half an hour by a normal evacuation. Rumbling and colic in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour). Constant rumbling in the upper abdomen (second day). Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. Feeling in the abdomen as if it would become excessively distended, even to bursting. Pain in the abdomen when drawing it in, like a pinching and cutting. The whole evening he feels a pain in various parts of the abdomen, which is at one time felt as a pressing in the umbilical region (second day). Aching pain in the abdomen. Dull aching pain in the abdominal muscles, as if bruised, or as if from a cold, worse during an inspiration. Colic in bed, in the evening; a pinching in the lower abdomen (first day). A sort of twisting in the abdomen, with a sort of nausea, as if the menses would come on. Drawing pain, as if bruised, in the left iliac region, spreading to the middle of the abdomen, soon followed by rumbling in the bowels, at 2 P.M. (second day). Great inclination on draw in the abdomen; he does it even involuntarily (alternate effect). Cutting pain in the intestines, in the region of the navel. Hypogastrium. Severe aching-drawing pain in the hypogastrium, from 10 to 11 P.M. (second day). Pain in the left side of the hypogastrium, as if he had sprained the part, when sitting, at 7 P.M. (second day). Pressing crampy pain in the left side of the hypogastrium, when sitting, at 11 P.M. (second day). Bruised pain in the hypogastrium, especially in the parts covering the os pubis, increasing in paroxysms, as a painful pressure or drawing. Drawing pressure in the inguinal glands, only when spreading the light; the place is painful to touch (after one hour).
Rectum
When emitting flatus the baby presses very hard, causing the dark-red rectum to protrude, when a few drops of blood fall out. Boring pain in the left side of the rectum, when standing, apparently in the sphincter, at 1 P.M. (second day). Boring in the rectum, at 10 P.M. (second day). Stitch in the rectum, when standing (after one hour). Violent tearing in the anus, when moving a little while sitting,; at 2 P.M. (third day). On getting up from stool he perceives a severe tenesmus in the anus, as if diarrhoea, would set in; this disappears gradually, but returns with great violence in a few hours, obliging him to go to stool again, when he has a natural evacuation. A bubbling pressure above the anus, in the region of the os coccyges, apparently close to it, at 9 A.M.
(second day). A bubbling pressure over the anus, in the parts covering the os coccyges, at 9 A.M. (second day). (When emitting flatus the baby cries and presses; occasionally he passes a little blood by the rectum).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea twice, with tickling at the anus, in the evening (second day). Violent diarrhoea, in the morning (third day). Two diarrhoeic stools, preceded by rumbling and cutting in the intestines (after seven and nine hours). Frequent evacuations. (The baby, who had had frequent loose stools, has row many more looser and more watery discharges, in which solid particles, resembling pieces of curdled milk, are floating). Pasty stools. On the first day the stool looks natural; after twenty-four hours he has a greenish papescent stool, with some blood. Stools more frequent than usual, always evacuated with some effort.
Urinary organs
Stitches in the region of the kidneys, when sitting down (after two hours and a half). Transient clawing in the region of the bladder (second evening). Constant desire to urinate, which he insisted upon doing through the window of the room. Frequent emission of urine. Frequent emission of urine the first three hours. Increased secretion of urine; on standing the urine deposited a sediment of brown flakes. Increased secretion of urine. Very abundant, highly-colored urine, etc. Urine very abundant, more highly colored, and of a stronger odor than natural. Urine dark brown. The urine seemed to contain bile. Urine turbid, depositing a whitish sediment (fourth morning); depositing a turbid sediment (fourth day). White sediment in the urine, in the morning. Urine dark red and turbid, depositing a vermilion-red sediment. Urine brownish and turbid, with a brick dust sediment. Brownish flakes in the urine. Urine turbid, depositing a slimy white sediment. Urine deposited a cloud. Urine depositing a sediment. Very copious sediment to the urine, the upper part of which was pale, the lower thick, turbid, and reddish. Mealy sediment in the urine.
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.