Clinical Deafness from working in water. Scrofulous inflammations of the ear, with muco-purulent, otorrhoea, enlarged glands etc. Chronic inflammation of ear, thickening of the drum. Polypi, which bleed easily.
Nose
Intermittent swelling, especially at root; of r. wing, with pain on motion. Inflammation of forepart, with redness and swelling. Pimple in r. nostril, painful on moving muscles of face and nose the wing of the nose is red and itches internally and externally; painful P. in l. nostril, with itching-stinging. Sore ulcerated nostril, precede by frequent sneezing (N-ac). Sore, painful, swollen, erysipelatous-looking, hard to touch, with frontal headache and fluent coryza. Soreness of r. nostril.
Twitching in external muscles. The almost sore nostril stings and pains on touch. Sore pain on border and especially in septum. Tensive pressure above bones as if swollen. Dryness; at night, with moisture during the day. Itching internally and externally. Sneezing; in morning; without coryza. Stoppage; in morning on rising.
Coryza; with headache and oppression of chest; with heat in head and cough; with pain in hypogastrium; which changed to colic; affecting every limb. Stopped; with sneezing; with headache. Fluent; with ulceration of l. nostril; with weariness; after ineffectual sneezing. Profuse mucous discharge while nose is stopped. Bleeding; in, morning, at night; almost to faintness. Blackish blood is blown out. Smell blunted; very sensitive. Offensive smell in nose. Smell before nose as of bad eggs or of gunpowder.
Clinical Coryza, clear, watery secretion or chronic ozaena, with a thick purulent, fetid discharge, with swelling at root of nose and ulceration. Nasal polypi. Inclination to nosebleed in fat children.
Face
Yellow. Pale, lean, with deep-seated eyes surrounded by dark rings; P., with blue rings around eyes. Red and hot; and swollen. Swellings, with stitches her and there; of cheeks in morning on rising; of r. side, which was covered with pimples. Twitchings of muscles; r. cheek drawn spasmodically sideways, with pinching, contractive pain. Stitches in r. cheek. Tearing in bones of F. and head; in l. cheek-bones. Pain, then swelling of cheeks. Prickling, and in neck. Swollen feeling, especially under eyes and around nose, without visible swelling. Sensation in various parts as if a spider’s web of delicate substance were lying on skin.
Lips – Swelling of upper in morning (Phosphorus). Eruption in red portion of lower. Pimples on upper; scurfy P. on border of red portion of lower. Cracked, with a cracked, smarting tongue; upper C. Ulcerated corner; r., and paining as if sore. Drawn together spasmodically, so that she could not open them. Drawing in lower, then white color, numbness and feeling as if it would-be thick and would hang down. Stitching-itching about upper and lower.
Jaws – Swelling on l. side of lower, with drawing pains. Tearing in lower.
Mouth
Teeth. Offensive smell. Protrusion, with pain when biting. Looseness of an old stump, with swollen gum and with soreness and sticking when touched. Inclination to gnash, as in a chill. Stitches; in last back after eating, then boring, (>) eating; in all, (<) entrance of cold air, waking him at night; only during the day, extending to r. eye and r. temple, with inclination to touch the tooth with the tongue, which always causes a stitchlike jerk in the tooth, so that she starts and it shakes her; boring, extending to eye and ear, (<) riding in a wagon. Tearing; in first l. upper molar; extending to head, to temples, (<) night; in hollow ones at half-hour intervals, (<) taking anything warm, and at night T. through cheek; as if roots would be torn out. Drawing-cutting. Gnawing, (<) evening. Boring, with stitches extending to nasal bones, and swellings of gum and cheek; B. in hollow T. during menstruation, becoming a pulsation on stooping. Toothache in evening as soon as she lay the head down; when cold air or drinks enter the mouth; from heat and cold, (<) current of air, with running of saliva from mouth and ticking from out ears and eyes, preventing sleep at night; while eating; on slight touch; during menstruation; (<) noise. Jerking toothache in incisor when eating. Toothache nights on lying down, more like a pressure or rush of blood. Biting. Tickling pain in hollow tooth. Toothache after menstruation, drawing and sticking (Amm-c.), (<) inclining head to r. or l., or backward preventing sleep or walking her. Boring drawing pain in most molars at night. Paroxysmal drawing pain in incisors. Drawing; in first l. upper. Feeling as if too long; in hollow back. Thrust as from a fist.
Gum – Bleeding, even at night; of teeth on slightest hawking. Swelling near a hollow tooth; (and of jaw), and especially near a broken tooth a pimple wells, from which pain extends into ear; painful S. without toothache, with swelling of cheek, which is painful to touch. Pustules above molar, like a dental fistula (after taking cold?). Ulcer. Tearing at night and on biting feeling as if teeth were loose. Soreness, with pain in roots of teeth. Pulsation; in the swollen G. Itching.
Tongue – Coated white; and thick, with feeling as if raw and sore. Swelling of one side, impeding swallowing. Blisters impeding eating. Sticking in evening. Pain beneath T. when swallowing, on l. side behind hyoid bone; along side and on its lower surface, (<) chewing, swallowing or spitting. Burning pain in tip as from soreness, (<) taking anything warm into mouth. Dryness in morning on waking. Burning and in whole mouth. Difficulty of motion. Speech difficult. Mouth moved as if he would speak or scream, but he could not utter a word.
Thick nodule inside r. cheek, with drawing-tearing every evening. Blisters inside cheek where teeth touch it; B. (after anger?) (also after taking cold?) which open and form ulcers. Swelling of palate, with inflammation of it while the uvula is dark red and full of blisters. Slimy; in morning, not, (>) rising S., with dry sensation. Sticking in palate. Dryness; and of tongue, with a raw sticking sensation; dry sensation in palate, forcing him to hawk up mucus. Salivation; in forenoon, with nausea. Constant spitting of sour saliva. Hot breath, with heat in mouth without thirst.
Taste – Offensive in morning, as from foul stomach. Sour; with much tough saliva; to all food. Sweet, as of sugar. Salt, with much thirst. Bitter; in morning after rising; in back part of throat. Inky in morning on rising. Of iron. Of lead in morning. Faecal, and in fauces. Unsalted, to everything. Flat, watery, and the taste of food very sensitive. Blunted.
Clinical Delayed dentition. Toothache in pregnant women, excited by cold or a draft of air. Epulis above upper incisors.
Throat
Swelling of submaxillary glands (Baryta carb.); as large as hen’s eggs, and hard, with painful tension when chewing and sticking when touched; of tonsils, with elongation of uvula and feeling when swallowing as if throat were too narrow, with soreness and stitches; of uvula and dark redness. Whitish yellow ulcers on r. tonsil. Mucus which tastes like iron; hawking of M. in morning. Spasmodic contraction of pharynx.
Stitches when swallowing with inability to swallow bread; S. on swallowing, with pressure; when swallowing, extending to ear, (<) speaking. Tearing. Gnawing, as of a worm form 4 P.M. till she goes to bed. Pain on swallowing; as form internal swelling, extending to ears; as if uvula prevented swallowing, even on empty swallowing, (>) speaking none when lying. Feeling in pharynx in afternoon as if food stuck in it, with nausea (Zincum met.). Feeling of a foreign body in pharynx, which obliged him to swallow constantly. Feeling as if something were sticking, as in globus hystericus, and in oesophagus and cardiac orifice of stomach. Sensation as if something rose up and stuck. Obstruction on swallowing a from a pressing substance. Pressure in pharynx after swallowing.
Soreness; with difficulty in swallowing; of uvula on swallowing; in pharynx on swallowing during menstruation, and on uvula and behind it; when swallowing as form a lump. Rawness; and of uvula, with soreness of them; R., with burning and sensations as if whole oesophagus were raw and sore. Dryness, (<) morning, with bitterness. Burning during menstruation, with hoarseness; B. after meals, with and without eructations. Swallowing difficult, as if tongue were swollen posteriorly. Inclination in oesophagus to choke, with waterbrash, without nausea.
Clinical Many cases of goitre.
Stomach
Ravenous hunger (Iodium, Lycopodium, Natrum mur., etc.), with weak stomach, R. in morning. Great appetite in evening, with great weakness; great A. for salt things. Relishes milk. Loss of appetite; but when he began to eat he relished food. Daintiness. Slight appetite; with acidity in stomach. She will eat nothing cooked. No relish for his accustomed tobacco, smoking causing headache and nausea. Thirst; in afternoon, for wine; for beer. Eructations in morning even on walking; at night on waking; at night when lying, (>) rising; after eating. Empty. Tasting of food (Ant-cr.); after every meal. Of food (lyc.). Tasting of bile in afternoon. Bitter; of bitter, acrid fluid. Rancid, with scraping heartburn. Sour, in morning; in evening; of the milk taken in the morning; of brownish sour fluid, with burning extending upward from pit of stomach. Of tasteless fluid in evening. (Pulsatilla). Waterbrash after milk, W., with colic. Hiccough-like. Hiccough all day till evening.
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.