Nose
Throbbing burrowing from l. side to root. Feeling as in incipient catarrh. Itching in l. nostril in evening, with irritation as in coryza. Sneezing, with dryness of nose. Fluent coryza; in morning; with frequent sneezing; (constant dropping from nose, (<) in open air).
Face
Twitching of muscles of chin during rest of the parts. Muscles relaxed and pale, and eyes sunken. Tearing in cheeks. Constriction in l. malar-bone, extending into l. eye, with pressing. Pain in l. cheek; r. malar bone and eye. Burrowing burning pain in cheek, (<) rest. Painful drawing. Tension in l. side, extending to ear and into head, with tearing. Prickling as if an eruption would appear in region of r. cheek-bone. Sticking in upper jaw. Boring in r. lower jaw; in lower at 10 A.M.; in r. joint in evening. Drawing in lower jaw. Pustule on l. corner of mouth. (Bleeding of a liver-spot on upper lip). Burning of under lip; with swollen feeling. Burning pain in r. corner of mouth.
Clinical Facial neuralgia about eye, (<) l. side, great soreness and yet relief from pressure (Magnesia m.).
Mouth
Painful looseness of a lower incisor. Toothache in r. teeth; l.; all upper; a hollow tooth; upper hollow; in lower teeth as if nerves were torn or stretched; twitching from l. lower molars to l. elbow; sticking throbbing, in r. lower back teeth as from beating with a wire. Drawing toothache in lower incisors; in all teeth in afternoon. D., with tearing; in r. upper teeth, with swollen feeling in upper lip. Incisors sensitive. Teeth feel as if on edge in evening and next day. Heat in roots of r. lower teeth, with swollen feeling.
Tongue red; coated white, with rawness as from too much smoking; rough as if sandy; sticking in tip when sitting; scalded sensation. Burning on anterior surface of tongue; on tip of T.; on apex at the beginning of every exacerbation of symptoms. Biting in middle of tip as if sore. Border of tongue sensitive when eating. Scraping in palate. Biting in r. cheek and on side of tongue. Burning, (<) hard palate. Salivation. Taste bitter; after drinking beer; to beer at noon; and disgusting; T. metallic, astringent, on upper part of tip of tongue; insipid T. after dinner; nauseous T., more in throat than in mouth.
Throat
Constant hawking; H. up of salt mucus; of bitter mucus. Angina. Sticking as from a bristle on upper part of arch of palate; biting S. in fauces, (>) swallowing. Scraping; and on hard palate, with burning; in region of uvula, with redness of whole throat and difficult swallowing. Pain. Rawness. Roughness; in pharynx and soft palate, (>) afternoon, with burning. Sensation of a foreign body, as if he had to swallow over a lump. Sensation of a ball as large as a fist rising in pharynx, with oppressed sensation. Dryness; and of hard palate, as if the parts stuck together.
Stomach
Canine hunger; especially for bread and beer; then heartburn in throat; at noon. Appetite diminished; at noon; for dinner. Appetite lost; in evening. Aversion to food towards evening before eating with nausea. Thirst; unquenchable. Desire to drink without thirst, the mouth is watery, drink is relished, but there is a flat taste after every drink.
Eructations; on rising from stool, mostly empty; violent; violent after eating; sobbing; sour; bitter; of the breakfast; of bilious substances; of a bitter, white, frothy liquid after breakfast. Empty eructations; in morning; on rising up; with burning in pharynx; causing palpitation and spasm in throat, with desire to retch and vomit. Hiccough. Nausea; towards noon; after eating, with malaise, as from indigestion; till sleep at night, returning in morning on waking; with scraping in throat, the N. (>) a glass of water; rising from stomach. Vomiting of a yellow, bitter, serous fluid; V. of food without nausea; profuse V.
Rumbling. Griping in epigastric region after every meal, (<) towards evening; G. in E. region, with movements, then soft stool; paroxysmal G. in stomach from beer (after 11 A.M.), (>) dinner. Pinching in pit, preventing sleep, with constriction of stomach, and sensitiveness of S. so that it could bear no covering; P. in epigastric region. Intermittent compression in epigastrium, changing to pinching, with confusion of sinciput. Cramp at night, (>) eructations; C. at night, rising along oesophagus into throat.
Pain; in pit; l. epigastrium; after dinner; in epigastric region, (<) eating, with hunger, which was not (>) repeated eating; with flatulence and headache; with headache and diarrhoea; always with pains in face and teeth; in pit, with constriction in larynx, obliging frequent swallowing; in pit, with sticking, obliging rapid breathing, it seems as if the lungs could not be sufficiently inflated; burning, even when eating; spasmodic, rising into throat, in morning; contractive, in pit at 10 P.M., during a walk after supper. Pressure as from a stone. Sore feeling in pit. Full feeling in epigastric region in forenoon. Sensation of a ball in S. and pharynx. Emptiness. Heat; in epigastrium. Coldness. Dyspepsia.
Abdomen
Distention and pain (Magnes-c.); towards noon, when walking; after supper, with heaviness; with tension and sensitiveness to touch, the pain (>) by two watery stools; D., with tension. Collapsed. Croaking as of frogs. Rumbling; early in bed; towards 9 A.M.; in forenoon, with griping; after dinner; with deep-seated pulsations; with excitement as before diarrhoea, but discharge of only fetid flatus; as from bursting of bubbles. Gurgling; then light-yellow, fluid stool. Movements; towards noon, then two brown, almost watery, painless stools; in evening, then pappy stool; after dinner, then copious soft stool, then griping, (<) vesical region, (>) thin stool; in afternoon, as if he had fasted; in various parts, as from the breaking of bubbles. Discharge of flatus; offensive; offensive after dinner, (>) after stool, with movements in hypogastrium; noisy in morning; noisy, when walking, causing rectum to vibrate; long, rapid and smooth discharges of bubbles of inodorous gas; ineffectual desire to pass flatus, then profuse discharge. Incarcerated flatus (Diosc.). Flatulence, with tension.
Sticking deep into abdomen. Drawing tearing in whole A. Pinching; as if bowels were pressed inward, (>) by pressure and bending inward, with cutting extending towards pubic region, so severe below navel that facial muscles were distorted and eyes drawn together; as if squeezed between stones, and threatened to burst outward, at times with rush of blood to head and face and sweat on them, which on relief of pain seemed blown upon by a cool wind; threatening of P., (<) forenoon, with insipidity. Griping; (<) below navel; obliging him to band over, (>) pappy stool; (<) walking; (>) thin stool, with discharge of flatus upward and downward; so that he could not lie nor sit, and could only walk bent over, (>) violent motion and rolling about; waking in morning, with tenesmus, then normal stool, the G. (>) black coffee, but returning in forenoon with rumbling and movement; ending above mons veneris. Gnawing after moving about in forenoon, (>) towards noon; G. (<) after dinner, with boring, obliging him to sit down or lie and bend forward, tenesmus, copious, pappy, offensive stools, then watery, scanty and almost inodorous stools, the colic (>) black coffee at 4 P.M., (<) supper, then with confusion of head and aching in sinciput, (<) bending forward. Cutting; in afternoon, (>) evening in warmth of bed, with tenesmus; after eating; after dinner and supper; from flatus which cannot be passed, with sticking, waking him; like an electric shock through whole A. to anus, towards noon. Cramplike pain, preventing sitting quietly, lying or walking, with empty urging after eating. Pain as from taking cold or from improper food.
Pain; in morning on waking, with tenesmus; at noon and evening after eating; in evening, with heat in stomach, the pain (>) 9 P.M. by diarrhoea; at night; at night, with discharge of flatus; when walking a few steps; when walking at noon, (>) standing still; after eating a potato, with sudden stool; when lying, with rumbling, urging to stool and general shivering; before and during a light-yellow, fluid stool; in integuments, (<) walking; (>) diarrhoea; (>) diarrhoea, with uneasiness; (>) a cup of coffee, but then he must go to stool; (>) by smoking, which left a sensation in abdomen as if he had taken cold; with urging to stool, which was subject to control; with feeling of gnawing diarrhoea; with general uneasiness, and shivering in cheeks, which seems to rise from abdomen; paroxysmal, obliging him to bend forward, (>) soft stool.
Flatulent pain after midnight from sudden incarcerated flatus here and there. Bruised pain combined with pressure. Tensive pain, (>) pressure; T. pain as if intestines were gathered into a ball, had fallen down and were lying like a heavy weight in hypogastrium, it seems as if the anterior parietes of A. were wanting and the intestines were in danger of falling out. Pressure outward in r. side. Sensitiveness; in afternoon, with griping and commotion; with constipation. Constriction of viscera, (>) pressure (Magnes-m.). Feeling of looseness. Coldness. Heat; rising towards chest; pleasant warmth ending in griping, (>) walking, with sweat on chest and abdomen. Emptiness; (<) eating, stooping forward when sitting and in evening; as after copious diarrhoea.
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.