Mouth
Teeth. Gnashing in sleep. Twitching in a loose tooth after drinking water. Lancinations in lower incisors, with drawing, the lancinations continued towards l. angle of lower jaw. Tearing in l.; in lower, (<) cold; in all upper, waking at 1 A.M., Gnawing in upper molars in afternoon, then itching in l. ear, then toothache. Pulsation in l. upper molars in afternoon, with tearing. Grumbling in l. upper. Drawing in lower incisors. Elongated feeling in incisors, (<) evening. Toothache in l. molars; in roots of. l. upper teeth, involving upper incisors; in upper incisors after looking out of window in cool air, with drawing; drawing aching in lower incisors; drawing cutting in hollow molar, while abdominal symptoms disappear, and vice versa; drawing and tearing pains in teeth and side of head, disturbing sleep, with stupefying vertigo and palpitation, (>) rising from bed, but returning violently, with frequent chilliness.
Gums.- Bleeding. Swelling. Pain, with acrid taste to saliva. Sensitiveness.
Tongue.- Pale. Painful ulcer at the side of fraenum. Coat in morning; white; white, with dirty yellow aphthae at tip, with feeling as if the skin would peel off after a meal; yellow; yellow at back; dirty yellow; slimy; tough, in morning; tough mucus, (<) morning; thick, tough mucus, especially in morning, with fuzziness and prominence of papillae, especially towards the back, and with a dry, astringent feeling. Stitches at tip. Biting in back part of l. edge, with an acrid sensation behind tongue on same side. Soreness; at tip, (<) touch and lasting all the evening; at tip, where there seemed to be a blister. Burning at tip; at r. lower side, with sore spots, which seemed furred; burning as from sharp tobacco. Dryness; with contraction. Itching, pricking in l. half.
Foam at mouth; at corners. Black blood-blister. Splinter-like stitches in l. sublingual salivary glands, then salivation. Soreness, especially of roof; of roof as if skin were off; of hard palate, with blisters. Dryness; and in fauces, with sensitiveness to air in those parts; of palate, especially uncomfortable when swallowing, with stitches towards r. ear and r. salivary gland. Saliva acrid. Salivation, in forenoon, with nausea; after stitches in l. sublingual salivary gland; with pain in abdomen; with dryness of throat; sudden, on moving mouth; flowing from mouth. Constant spitting. Breath bad; in morning, with foul taste; nauseous and sour; smell as from horse-radish.
Taste.- Foul in morning; on smoking; (<) after breakfast. Bad at root of tongue, with nausea. Clayey. Insipid; when stomach is empty. Pappy. Astringent. Metallic. Rancid. Biting in l. half of tongue. Slimy, glutinous. Bitter; morning; before dinner; sharp bitter at root of tongue; sweetish bitter when smoking, especially at root of tongue. Sweet; (<) afternoon; sweetish acrid; sweet gummy, offensive, after breakfast, with distention of abdomen. Salt; to a cigar, especially at root of tongue.
Clinical Neuralgic toothache (<) in open air. Neuralgic, splinter-like pains in tongue, with salivation.
Throat
Tension externally in region of thyroid gland, (<) evening. Distention, with feeling as if the cravat were too tight (Lachesis). Hawking of masses of mucus from fauces and posterior nares. Stitches internally on external touch; towards parotid and submaxillary glands; extending along Eustachian tube towards r. ear (Gelsemium) Tearing; as if something were torn on swallowing saliva. Aching in r. side; as from a foreign body, also (<) while vomiting. Sensation as if a particle of food stuck there. Scratching; behind root of tongue. Roughness; mornings. Burning; extending into l. side of chest, with scratching; scratching burning, and in posterior fauces; cool burning, and in stomach. Coldness as from a pungent cress, from pharynx to stomach. Dryness; palate to pharynx in morning on waking; of pharynx, with stitches towards parotid and submaxillary glands; contractive dry feeling in fauces and palate mornings on waking, extending to pharynx, causing extraction there as after an astringent drink. Contraction. Paralysis of muscles of pharynx and gullet. Swallowing impaired. OEsophagus. Choking after eating. Burning along after breakfast; cool burning.
Stomach
Appetite, Excessive; morning; towards evening, with sweat and with weakness and trembling of limbs; soon after eating. Much hunger but no relish; in morning. Sudden hunger; towards evening. Hurried eating. Lost; for breakfast; for dinner; lost, with thirst. Quick repletion at dinner, even before hunger is satisfied. Little appetite; for dinner; mostly for bread and butter. He does not eat bread with pleasure. Aversion when eating; to taste of food and drink; to roast meat; to food, with pressive pain in stomach and nausea; to tobacco.
Thirst in forenoon; while walking in forenoon; for beer in forenoon; in afternoon. Unquenchable. No thirst.
Eructations after dinner, with nausea; with nausea. Frequent; in afternoon. Violent. Imperfect; dying away in lower part of esophagus; rising to region of larynx. Empty; alternating with hiccough, also while smoking. Watery, with nausea. Salt fluid. Tasting of rotten eggs. Tasting like apples; in forenoon. Rancid. Sour; in forenoon. Tasting of food; in morning. Hiccough; afternoon; frequent.
Nausea; at 1 A.M., with difficult vomiting of undigested food; in forenoon; towards noon; after break-fast; after dinner; after eating, also (>) eructations; after drinking cold water; when coughing; (>) open air; (<) morning, with emptiness in stomach; with pain in stomach; with crawling in pit of stomach; with vertigo, as if about to lose consciousness; with anxiety rising from abdomen; with cutting in abdomen; with faintness and anxiety; as far as mouth; sudden from smoking a cigar, with vomiting of food.
Ineffectual retching. Vomiting. Frequent, with frequent stools. Violent. Food. Breakfast, with the odor of alcohol. Watery, with shock to the whole body. Mucus. Spongy matter, with stools, which relieve. Bitter; fluid; bitter, with shuddering creeping in over body.
Gurgling in stomach. Rumbling in epigastrium. Painful retraction during diarrhoea, and of abdomen. Trembling, then of whole body. Stitches in pit. Tearing in pit. Pinching; in epigastrium towards evening, with cutting; in pit, as with tongs. Pain; in region mornings on waking; after breakfast; after eating a little, not (<) by continued eating; with inclination to sigh; in epigastric region; in pit; in pit and along sternum. Pain causing patient to roll on the ground and utter sharp cries; at midnight, as if flatus were pressing it out, (>) emission of offensive flatus; tensive pains from pit to left clavicle, towards evening during deep breathing. Painful tension in epigastrium. Cramplike constrictive pain in pit, extending far into abdomen. Cramplike compression in pit, with shooting. Cramp at noon. Boring. Boring in epigastrium in afternoon, (>) evening by emission of flatus. Gnawing in pit.
Sensation as if a stone lay in it. Sensation as if it were sinking like a heavy weight towards abdomen. Oppression after eating; with sharp pains; with inclination for stool; at pyloric orifice; in pit; extending to sternum; in pit after breakfast; in pit after dinner, with drawing and pressure in eyeballs and indolence; in upper and lower border when standing and walking. Heaviness; in pit, with tightness. Fulness, with a flat feeling and feeling as if fastened to pharynx, fulness, with inclination to vomit rising into throat; feeling of fulness and flatus after dinner; with pressure and flatulence. Feeling as if he would eructate, resembling distending pressure in orifice of Stomach. Drawing and pressing, (<) pressure of hand; drawing downward after breakfast, (>) passage of flatus, with pressive pain; spasmodic drawing in region of pit towards evening, extending as far as chest. Burning; after meat; after breakfast, with twisting sensation; with aversion; in pit; cool burning. Coolness. Shuddering, extending over whole body. Crawling at pit, with nausea. Discomfort; after breakfast. Digestion bad. Empty feeling; in pit; with repletion. Faintness; with an empty feeling that sometimes alternated with pressure as of a heavy body. Feeling of flabbiness; in forenoon.
Abdomen
Painful retraction during diarrhoea, and of stomach. Twitching; of walls. Meteorismus. Distention; after breakfast; after food; after light food; after supper, with fulness and with oppression of chest; after scanty stool; making sitting and breathing difficult. Feels distended, but is not. Fermentation; feeling of fermentation. Rattling; as if peas rolled about. Rumbling; morning; after stool; with pain deep in umbilical region, (<) pressure like distant thunder in evening, with inclination for stool. Gurgling; after breakfast, with rattling; after a pappy stool, with rattling.
Flatus troubled him at night. Urging of flatus towards anus. Sensation of flatus after breakfast, with searching. Emission of flatus; before hard stool; during stool, with pinching in abdomen, with warmth in abdomen, with feeling as in diarrhoea; much inodorous; fetid; smelling garlic; cadaverous during stool; painful, or preceded by colic.
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.