Ears
Biting sticking in r. Burning pain in external with internal and external heat of it; B. pain in l. external. Drawing in region of r. ear, cheek and side, of neck towards evening, with stitches. Difficult hearing; at 7.30 A.M.; in morning, with ringing in l. Ringing before ears; periodical ringing in r. Roaring, (<) r.
Nose
Tip red and swollen and at root a red, painful pimple. Dry and hot (Aconite).; dry in morning. Stoppage. Sneezing in morning; repeated S., with increase of nasal discharge; violent, after breakfast, then clear water from l. nostril; frequent violent, in morning, with watery discharge. Mucus streaked with blood. Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing (Pulsatilla).
Face
Yellow; and sickly. red. Sudden flush, with yellowish redness of cheeks. Swelling of r. cheek in morning, with sensitiveness to touch. Weary look. Drawing stitches in l. side of upper jaw, rhythmical with pulse, extending upward. Painful pimples on upper lip. Itching vesicles just beneath vermilion border of lower lip, discharging water, then covered with a tough skin, itching somewhat (compare Ranunculus). Burning cutting stitch through l. side of lower lip.
Mouth
Teeth. Sticking in carious, with throbbing. Jerking sticking in l. upper; sticking extending upward into whole l. side of face, a drawing and jerking pain, rhythmical with pulse, with jerklike twinges into ear and pain in eye on moving it; jerking stitches, extending across cheek-bone to ear, a drawing jerking in ear, extending to eye, which is painful so that he cannot endure motion or light, and eyeball is painful to touch. tearing jerking in all upper. Sudden drawing jerking-tearing in l. lower canine at 7 P.M., with sticking, soon extending through whole jaw backward and upward, (>) cold water in mouth. Jerking pain in r. upper hollow molar, (>) rinsing mouth with cold water. jerking sticking-drawing pain now in one, now in another l. upper. jerking drawing pain, (<) smoking tobacco, (>) firm pressure with a cloth. Burrowing in r. back in evening.
Toothache in hollow teeth; toothache during the day, (<) as soon as he lies down in bed, (>) lying quietly; in hollow, at 10 P.M., after reading in bed, sleepless till 1 O’clock; at night, next day elongated sensation, gum loose, swollen and pale, the pain extending on both sides to eye-teeth and preventing chewing; all night, driving him to despair, with tossing about, weakness in limbs and anxious sweat, so that he cannot endure the covers; in last hollow molar, (<) getting bread into it; in hollow, transiently (>) cold water, also (>) expiration which causes a stitch as if something pressed upward into the tooth; unfitting him for work, especially for thinking; extending over temple to vertex. Sensation in last upper hollow molar as if it would ache. Elongated feeling in hollow, with pain on touch and running of much water from mouth. (Compare face-pains with Aconite.)
Gum. Tearing jerking pain where l. upper wisdom tooth was drawn seven years ago, waking at 11 P.M., lasting till 2 O’clock, and again at 4 O’clock, extending to zygoma and temple. Sore pain, (<) chewing hard food; l. lower back, (<) when eating. Sensitive on chewing, and teeth.
Tongue. Coated; on waking; white. Vesicles on surface and r. margin, with wartlike elevations on lower surface and sides of fraenum. Boring sticking at root. Dry; in morning on waking; on waking, and rough; and rough and acid. Speech weak.
Painful cracks across r. arch of palate and on r. margin of tongue, next day those on tongue were surrounded by hard margins. Aphthae in mouth. Sticking in r. arch of palate, impeding motion of tongue. Tension in soft palate. Dry mouth. Mouth cold, (<) inspiration of cold air. Bloody saliva. Salivation. Taste sour on tip of tongue; (<) touching incisors and when stomach is empty; bitter T.; pasty; flat; like melon-seeds; bad, to cigar.
Throat
Swelling of thyroid gland; in r. upper trapezius, just under jaw, with salivation; of submaxillary glands; of submaxillary glands, with tension and throbbing, as if they would suppurate, with pin on touch and causing pain in teeth; of submaxillary glands, (<) in r. triangle of r. side of neck, painful, (<) motion of head. Sticking (<) on swallowing. Burning; with redness, vesicles and ulcers. Rawness; with hoarseness and constant spitting of watery saliva. Dryness. Uvula sensitive. Uvula feels too long.
Clinical Violent toothache in back teeth, transiently (>) holding cold water in the mouth or drawing in cold air, greatly (<) at night on lying down, warmth of bed and tobacco; with the toothache there are often free salivation and soreness of gums, teeth feel too long (compare with Mercurius).
Stomach
Appetite increased; for dinner; towards evening; ravenous towards 2 P.M., then discomfort after eating; with hurried eating; then diminished; little for supper; lost; at breakfast; lost at noon; lost at noon on account of weakness. Does not relish the accustomed tobacco. Thirst; in afternoon; in evening; with longing for ice, which does not refresh him.
Eructations; empty; tasting like melon-seeds. Nausea; towards 11.A.M.; when smoking; after smoking, causing weakness of lower limbs, so that they seem to totter; with general sick feeling. Vomiting from smoking the accustomed cigars.
Distention, and of abdomen. Pain; after dinner; in epigastric region after dinner. Pressure on after dinner; P. in epigastric region, with tension over abdomen. Constriction, then also in abdomen, which was tense and hard, then difficult vomiting of bitter fluid more watery than slimy, with streaks of pale blood. Oppression. tensive sensation in epigastric region. Heaviness in pit. Satiety, relishes the dinner, but immediately feels that he has eaten too much. Faintness, with yawning. Coldness.
Abdomen
Distention, with rumbling. Rumbling in afternoon; R., as if empty; extending into hernia. Flatulence. Emission of flatus. Sticking up into chest on urinating, (<) inspiration. Cutting. Cutting contractive pain. Griping. Drawing pain, (<) umbilical region, (<) pressure. Fulness in afternoon; F. and tension; F. and T. at 4 P.M., (<) till 9 P.M. Tension in muscles on attempting to walk in the room, (<) coughing; painful T. in parietes, (<) touch. Contractive cutting in r. abdominal and kidney region on walking.
Hypochondria. Sticking; in l.; in liver and spleen; in spleen, (<) pressure, with tensive sensation in fundus of stomach; with tension, impeding respiration; periodical, in liver and spleen; intermittent, in hepatic region, (<) pressure; alternately in region of liver and spleen on certain motions. Bruised pain in liver when touched, and on stooping (Aconite)
Hypogastrium. Swelling of inguinal glands, (<) r., when at rest after continued walking; swelling of l. glands, with sensitiveness on walking, the r. glands become more swollen, with prickling pain in them, (<) walking and in bed, afterwards with tension in them, (<) walking; S., in r. inguinal region, painful to touch. Periodical sticking in inguinal region; intermittent burning S. in l. inguinal ring, with swelling of glands. Pain, then diarrhoea; P. extending into penis; in r. inguinal canal, with protrusion of a hernia (which he had always had). Sensitiveness of inguinal region (Ran-b.). Pricking in r. inguinal glands. Sensation in ring and inguinal glands as if a swelling would form. tension in l. inguinal glands; in inguinal region when walking, with swelling of glands, afterwards especially l. glands swollen; T. in l. inguinal region, extending into thighs, (<) on walking; T. in inguinal glands and rings, with pain.
Clinical Swelling of inguinal glands, which are sore on walking and are painful at night (Mercurius).
Rectum and Anus
Burning in rectum; and in genitals; during and after stool; sudden, then urging to stool. Urging to stool, which was pasty and accompanied by flatulence; U. after eating, stool profuse and thin, with burning in anus; ineffectual U. Haemorrhoids swollen and covered with mucus. itching of haemorrhoids in evening, with discharge of mucus; I. of anus. Burning in anus during stool and swelling of haemorrhoids; B. after stool, with itching.
Stool
Diarrhoea; copious; frequent. Pasty; with burning in rectum; and increased. Constipation; then diarrhoea. Solid; after much urging; with exertion and, scanty. Knotty and scanty. Blood with the stool. Stool every three days. Twice daily. Omitted.
Urinary Organs
Sticking in bladder. Frequent tense pain in prostate during the day. Urging to urinate; frequent, at night, then burning in orifice of urethra; frequent, with slight discharge, urine clear, reddish. Inability to evacuate all the urine at once, it frequently stops, the remainder trickles, during the stoppage there is jerklike tearing in forepart of urethra. Micturition slow and in a thin stream (Pulsatilla); as if urethra were constricted, then burning in urethra and tickling, itching and sticking in orifice. Frequent micturition; at night; then prickling burning in orifice.
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.