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Generalities and Mind
Trembling with the fever. Bad effects vexation. Aggravation from mental excitement. Amelioration after discharging mucus from throat. Cheerfulness after supper, till bedtime.
Clinical Has been used for swollen glands in general, which become inflamed, indurated or ulcerated. Herpetic eruptions, scrofulous ophthalmia, offensive discharges. All the cases are extremely sensitive to cold.
Head
Aching, (<) towards evening, and lasting all night; oppressive, all day; A. in sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner, (>) after eating. Pressure above eyes. Weight above eyes. Aching in r. side, with piercing pain in eye.
Eyes
Stitches in l. Feeling as if something were passing around in it, with stitches. Pressure in glabella. Spasmodic piercing pain in middle of upper rim of r. socket, with headache on that side.
Ears, Nose and Face
Inner swelling in ears; with discharge. Discharge from ears of water and bad-smelling pus. Swelling of parotid glands. Tip of nose painful. L. side of nose painfully inflamed and swollen. Burning in l. nostril. Sneezing, without cold in head. Facial muscles feel as if they would be drawn to one side.
Mouth
Twitching stitching in a decayed l. upper molar. Gums scorbutic, swollen, separating from teeth, bleeding easily, putrid, disgusting. Tongue sore, as if raw. Tongue and roof of mouth dry. Breath impure.
Throat
Swelling of glands. Hawking of mucus; of mucus which is lodged at head of windpipe. Inflammation and dryness, without dry feeling, with hawking, (<) morning, of tough, gumlike, thick, tasteless mucus. Tearing when coughing. Stitches when ever mentally agitated, causing cough. Pain on inhaling cold air; sore, in morning, with dryness of tongue. Feeling of sand. feeling of softness. Dryness, (<) at night; (>) eating; with heat. Tickling, with soreness. Periodical itching.
Clinical It has been used for sore throat, mostly subacute, with intolerable dryness, cold air, (>) swallowing liquids, great swelling of uvula and tonsils. Sore throat, with a small dry spot, has to rise at night to sip water, feeling as if it were glazed with strips of tough mucus.
Stomach
(Inclination for acid food.) (Desire for cheese.) Thirst with the fever. Eructation, with feeling as if it would relieve; cool E. Nausea. Pain after eating. Cold feeling before and after eating.
Abdomen
Puffed up, with flatulency in evening. Flatulence towards evening; at night; with discomfort. Emissions of flatus; in evening, as when air-bubbles rise in water. Internal coldness. Much flatulence in hypochondria, with pain. Stitches in l. hypochondrium. Bruised feeling under hypochondria in morning, with flatulence.
Stool and Sexual Organs
Urging to stool, stool pappy. Diarrhoea; in morning; after fruit; after drinking coffee; thin, till daybreak, squirting, grayish yellow, then there more discharges before noon; (thin, hot). Itching of scrotum.
Clinical Diarrhoea from coffee, thin, yellow, urgent, (<) early in morning. Dysentery.
Respiratory Organs
itching in larynx at night, with scratching, and with anxious dreams. Pain in windpipe. Cough, (<) mental anguish. expectoration of bitter mucus.
Clinical The windpipe feels narrow, has to open the window to breathe fresh air, (<) lying down, a kind of asthmatic attack.
Chest
Pressure on. Pain, and in throat; P., and in shoulder. Fulness. Rawness, extending into throat; in upper part, extending into throat.
Clinical Induration of the mammary gland.
Back and Extremities
Burning bruised pain in os coccygis. Pain in all joints. Bruised pain in all limbs, as from fatigue. drawing in joints, especially in knees and fingers, with tearing; involuntary D. in muscular parts of hands and lower limbs, with trembling feeling in them and with pain in wrists, fingers and knees.
Upper Extremities
Pain in front of r. shoulder; in l. S. in evening, and in chest, with feeling as if an eructation would relieve the pain. Piercing drawing pain in arm, extending periodically to tip of little finger, so as to draw up the finger. Sensitiveness to touch on r. arm and dorsum of hand. Sprained pain in wrist, drawing, scraping. Pain in hand; in r. in evening, and in l. shoulder; in r. H. in afternoon, so that he cannot use it. Drawing trembling feelings in H. Tearing in finger-joints. Pain in r. fingers when writing; in joints. Sensitiveness of finger-tips to cold, the pain (<) cold.
Lower Extremities
Drawing, trembling feeling. Pain in l. buttock as from a blow or shock, extending down inside of femur, distinctly felt in knee, with spasmodic drawing together of calf. Pain in r. thigh while walking. Pain in knees; in evening; when walking and sitting, and in r. thigh. Piercing pain in r. great toe evening.
Clinical Has cured white swelling of the knee.
Skin
Swelling, beginning at ear and extending half way up cheek. Inflamed spot below r. scapula, extending round to front of body, with soreness to touch, then burning pimples, then rheumatic pain extending to l. hip and into groin, the pain (<) motion. Eruptions like zoster on back. vesicular erysipelas in face. Formication evenings after lying down, (>) rising and opening window, with anxious, difficult breathing, both returning on lying down again. Itching all over body; on outside of throat near larynx; of abdomen and umbilicus; on back.
Sleep
Restlessness at night; with pain from flatulency, he could move the wind with his hands and hear it. Anxious dreams.
Fever
Chill, then heat; with trembling and with quick swelling and redness of glands below ear and in throat. Coolness especially in threat; on forehead; in nose. Cold feet. heat, with thirst; in facial bones; in face in flushes. Moisture of skin in a warm room, with internal and external coolness in forehead.
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.