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Generalities
Lying in sleep on l. side, with head on arm (usually sleeps on r. side). Aching when sitting; A. in bones. General soreness in morning, with bruised pain and indisposition to move. Restlessness, with late falling asleep, then lewd dreams, and waking at 4 A.M., with emission. Weakness; in evening, with aching in knees; with disposition to lie down, and flushes of heat along legs. Suffering (<) by all mental excitement. General relief after discharging mucus from throat. Remarkable feeling of being unusually well.
Mind
Condemned, mean feeling, as if guilty of some deed of which others knew, as if he could not look one in the face. Low spirits, thinking too little of himself. Exhilaration. Vivacity; with rapid flow of thought. Desire for study. Indisposition for mental or physical labor. Dullness, with weakness, aversion to mental exercise and necessity to lie down.
Head
Aching on waking and during the day; (<) in a room; two mornings till 10 O’clock and again in afternoon; in morning when rising; in morning, with beating and sore aching all over; all forenoon; at noon, especially in occiput; at noon, with nausea and languor; in afternoon; on walking; increasing from 1 to 8 P.M., mostly in forehead; caused by unrefreshing sleep from dreams; (<) bending forward, especially in occiput; (>) open air; especially in forehead, with sensation of undigested food in stomach. Dullness in forenoon, (<) motion, with pain in temples; D., especially in forehead and temples, in morning, with fulness and bruised pain. Feeling as if it grew large during stool, with dizziness and weakness, headache continues after the stool. Sensation when stepping as if brain went up and down.
Pain in forehead; after rising; (<) stooping; in F. and in back part of eyes; in F., with fulness in stomach as if filled with air. Tearing in r. temple, near orbit, in forenoon. Pain in temples; in l. during the morning, with languor, nausea and sensation as if diarrhoea would set in, but it did not.
Pain in vertex when rising from a seat, with prickling pain in stomach. Top of head feels as if it would come off at every jar. Pain in occiput; in morning; from morning till 3 P.M., (<) open air; beginning at noon. Sore pimples in edge of hair on occiput. Itching of scalp at night; of scalp and in beard under chin, with burning when scratched.
Eyes
Dartings at 2.30 P.M. on entering bright sunlight; when writing, with a feeling when opening lids as if strings were holding them together and were snapping; on going into out-door light. Pain when coming into the light; when writing. Smarting in light; when writing, with almost loss of vision; in l. corner of l. eye as from hot water, with pain in vertex. Burning, especially in upper lids. Lachrymation in cold air, with pain in eyes; L. in open air, with water from nose. Pain in upper lid as soon as he looks at anything steadily, with smarting. Smarting in lids; in evening; as soon as he begins to use them; on inner side of upper. Muscae volitantes, with dim vision, and while reading blurring of letters.
Ears, Nose and Lips
Aching in l. ear; in evening; beating in l. in evening; in l. (like slight humming). Humming in l. ear. Stitches in l. angle of nose, with burning on scratching. Feeling as of a cold in head, headache, with thin nasal discharge and sneezing. Nose feels obstructed with mucus. N. feels dry and filled with dry scales, with itching, especially of l. nostril. itching in l. nostril in evening. Sensitiveness at end of nasal cartilage on pressure. Putrid, sickish smell before nose. Peeling of lips, with soreness and easy bleeding.
Mouth
Pain in a hollow tooth, with feeling as if too long; P. in first l. lower molar (hollow), (<) inhaling cold air, with swelling of gums, tenderness around it and feeling as if it would ulcerate; paroxysmal, in a hollow T. Tongue coated white; with cracks across middle; white mucus, with flat mucous taste; white. Sore on l. side of mouth, opposite stomach tooth. Pricking in roof; extending through to l. ear. Salivation; with frequent swallowing. Taste flat; with rising of sour water, which had an acrid feeling in throat; nauseous, in morning; and mucous. Bad T. in morning, with belching of wind. Sweet T., of mucus, with expectoration of thick, white, frothy mucus, with lumps in it.
Throat
Drawing pain in l. submaxillary gland. Filled with white mucus in morning. Soreness in morning when hawking; when hawking, as if raw. Sensation of something sticking in it, causing him to hawk. Rising of heat, as if from stomach. Dryness in morning on rising; with soreness in swallowing, feeling as if something dry had collected in it; with soreness and rawness. Discomfort, with pain on empty swallowing and gaping. Hawking of mucus in morning in lumps, afterwards thinner; H. and spitting of thick white mucus.
Stomach
Appetite lost; for supper; diminished. Eructations of wind; of sour water; of sour bitter water; of bitter water on hour after dinner; of bitter water, with pain in stomach, then dryness of throat; of hot bitter water in afternoon. Hiccough after dinner; till 6 P.M., renewed after supper; with shooting in forehead till midnight. Nausea, with pain in forehead. Sourness, (<) at 11 P.M., with bursting headache, and after supper necessity to lie down, at midnight watery diarrhoea with tenesmus, then till sleep sour taste and nausea.
Pain; in morning after rising, with headache; after eating; dinner; after dinner, with pain in abdomen, (<) pressure, and with uneasiness; in S. and in abdomen, with sensation as before diarrhoea; as from wind; as from hunger, before dinner, partially (>) by eating. Soreness in region in morning on inspiring deeply; in pit caused by constant hiccough. Sense of fulness and hardness, as if filled with wind.
Abdomen
Rumbling; with feeling as if diarrhoea would come on. Cutting before stool. Pain at 4 P.M., (>) after a watery stool, having had no stool for two days; on waking at 5 A.M., then watery stool, with tenesmus; in evening and at night; during stool; as from fulness, after a light dinner. Strange but not unpleasant sensation, as after diarrhoea. Stitching from liver region to thigh at 3 P.M. Pain in l. hypochondrium, with sour eructations. Sharp pain in region of spleen, (<) deep inspiration. Feeling in l. side above spleen as if it would drop down, (<) walking, (>) sitting still. Pain in umbilical region an hour after eating, (<) contracting walls of abdomen. Feeling of emptiness at umbilicus. Pain in hypogastrium; in evening; in l. groin and in small of back.
Rectum and Anus
Burning in R. during stool and long afterwards. Pressure in R.; towards anus, (<) till stool. Urging to stool while walking, (<) standing still, with cutting, stool profuse, watery, spouting, in an hour another stool. Stinging during and after stool.
Stool
Large, thin, with tenesmus and pain in lower part of abdomen as if the bowels would protrude, with pain in sphincter ani continuing after stool and tenesmus. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus and colic. Soft, with stinging during and afterwards. Small and hard; at 9 A.M., small, soft and painless at 9 P.M.; having had none for two days; with scratching in rectum; and lumpy. Small, with tenesmus. Scanty. Twice a day.
Urinary Organs
Frequent micturition and in small quantities; with flocculent sediment and pungent smell; with necessity to urinate at night, urine yellow. Pain in urethra, with emissions; P. in urethra while standing, with bruised feeling in back and loins towards latter part of day. Burning in urethra during micturition. Smarting in end of urethra during Micturition. Frequent desire to urinate; after drinking coffee, (<) forenoon, with copious pale urine. Urine scanty; and light-colored; and more saturated. Greasy pellicle on urine; with yellow flocculent sediment. Deep red urine, with a flocculent red sediment. Sediment of yellow-red flocks.
Sexual Organs
Pain in r. testicle, (>) after Micturition at 10 A.M. Emissions without erections; emission during evening nape, lying on his back, with a vivid dream; E, at night, with headache; in sleep, with partial erections. Impotence. Desire in morning.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
Stitching in front of larynx in forenoon, next day at 9.30 A.M., with general warm sensation, flushes of heat and sweat. Cough, with soreness of throat and rawness when hawking; hacking C., with expectoration of blood, which according to the sensation comes from the larynx.
Expectoration of mucus in morning, (<) open air; of white mucus in morning, with bubbles of air in it, (<) in open air; of frothy white mucus about 9 A.M., with lumps in it; of thick, tough mucus mixed with blood in morning, with scratching as if something had lodged in throat, inducing swallowing; of thick, tough mucus mixed with blood, in morning, with fulness and pain in larynx, (<) pressure, empty deglutition and cold water, with scratching, rawness, occasional burning pains and disposition to keep jaws tightly closed.
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.