Clinical Detachment of the retina. Amaurotic symptoms and illusions seeming to result from disturbed circulation. Anemia of retina and optic nerve.
Ears
Painful swelling of glands behind E. Sticking behind E. Jerking in outer and middle. Drawing pain beneath r. mastoid process, (>) pressure. Tension in l. Constriction internally, he hears the pulse in them. Intermittent fulness as if suddenly stopped, (<) excitement, with flush of heat over face. Sudden obstruction of hearing, with ringing in ear. Hissing, as of boiling water. Ringing. Noises. Buzzing.
Nose
Much sneezing without coryza; violent S., which seemed to start from orifice of stomach and rise as a nauseous sensation till it affected the nerves of sneezing, waking at night. Stopped coryza in morning; in evening and night, fluent during the day; fluent C., with much sneezing, then stoppage of nose; (C., with loss of smell, with catarrh of larynx and trachea and expectoration of greenish mucus without cough, sometimes with fever). Bright blood from both nostrils.
Face
Pale; with greenish, livid tinge. Livid. Red and hot, Swelling of cheek from ear to corner of mouth, painful to touch, with eruption on it. Sickly expression. Convulsions of l. side. Cramp beneath r. zygoma on moving jaw, which on biting is drawn upward spasmodically, Cramplike drawing pain in zygoma, (>) pressure. Paralytic drawing beneath l. zygoma, in front of ear. Sticking in lower jaw. Lips anaemic. Eruption on upper lip. Swelling on inside of lower lip. Lips dry.
Mouth
Pain in incisors; pulsating P. in l. lower eye-tooth in evening in bed. Gums anaemic. Tongue white; pale; moist T., with grayish- white coat; T. coated; coated white and swollen; coated white in morning; coated yellow and swollen; swollen. Full of mucus. Sticking posteriorly in palate and in beginning of throat, (>) swallowing. Palate rough after much smoking. Scraping raw feeling in palate. Soreness, and of fauces and oesophagus. Feeling as if covered with velvet. Dryness; of palate and pharynx, with nausea. Moist and thick. Salivation; with soreness of mouth, tongue and gums; with nausea on swallowing the saliva; as after vinegar sweetish; intermittent, watery, sweetish, then salt. Fetid breath. Taste bitter (Bryonia), top bread, with good appetite; flat, slimy T.; T.as of sweet almonds, after smoking.
Throat
Tenacious mucus loosened by cough. Sticking. Scraping in pharynx; in oesophagus; in fauces, with dryness. Scraping and burning in pharynx; in oesophagus. Rawness in pharynx, with burning. Dryness. Spasmodic constriction. Constrictive pain, and along oesophagus. Sensation as if walls of pharynx were swollen or as if constricted by swelling to tonsils. Choking sensation. Sore pain on swallowing; soreness in fauces and posterior nares, (<) morning and evening. Swallowing difficult.
Stomach
Painful hunger; at intervals. Longing for bitter food. Appetite diminished; for dinner; lost; lost emptiness of stomach; no relish for food and indigestion when it was eaten. Thirst (Bryonia, China); unquenchable; for cold drinks; for sour drinks. Eructations; after dinner, with violent hunger; of tasteless liquid; sour, after eating; of a sour fluid; of an acrid, then acidity in mouth like vinegar. Hiccough; in paroxysms, not quite rising to throat.
Nausea; in morning, in a woman; in middle of night, beginning with a noise in throat, then suffocative convulsions, in which he wakes in great distress, then general convulsions, then delirium and ungovernable mood, biting of his tongue, full pulse, noise in head, the fits often preceded by frequent but ineffectual desire to urinate; after eating; on going to bed; with pain at stomach; with uneasiness and weight at stomach; with relish for food; with headache and flashes of light before eyes; occasional; in epigastric region.
Retching. Vomiting; every day at 5 or 6 P.M., with retching, nausea, anguish in pit of stomach and external heat mingled with shivering, then sweat, with chilliness; renewed by drinking, after meals when seized with fit of coughing, violent, also with irregular feeble pulse (compare Tabac.); violent, then cold sweat (Tabac., Coccul.); of blood; bilious; bilious, and diarrhoea; greenish; of greenish fluid; of much mucus; frequent, of mucus, then of bile; in evening, of much saliva, mucus and acid food; of ingesta, then greenish liquid; of ingesta, then liquid, then greenish-yellow; with purging and colic.
Distention after dinner, with pain; D. in A. and upper abdomen after eating, with heaviness and disinclination to work. Fulness as if the breakfast would be eructated; F. as if food remained in upper part of oesophagus. Pinching stitches in pit, (<) touch only when standing, not when sitting. Cutting; in pit, with nausea in it. Paroxysmal pinching. Gastritis, with weakness and double vision. Pain; in pit (<) pressure; in epigastric region; epigastric and umbilical regions; in epigastrium, then vomiting and stool of dark yellow color and offensive odor; in epigastrium. extending to abdomen; spasmodic; sickening, rising up line of sternum to throat. Bruised pain in epigastrium and over sternum after dinner, (>) by weak tea, with languor and feeling of indigestion. Anxiety in epigastrium. Soreness; in epigastrium, also causing frequent deep sighs. Constriction across epigastric region towards liver. The food presses in pit when sitting, (>) standing. Weight on straightening up body. Uneasiness; after moderate eating. Difficult digestion. Unpleasant. sensation in epigastric region. Heartburn; towards evening. Burning; extending up oesophagus, also in afternoon; in epigastric region, with pressure. Faintness as if dying (Tabac.). Frequent emptiness before sleep.
Clinical Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
Abdomen
Contracted, hot, dry and rough to touch. Fulness. Hardness. Noises. Rumbling; with gurgling and pain; with gurgling and feeling as if bubbles of air moved along colon. Flatulence; causing tension. Emission of flatus; profuse, in afternoon. Moving, with colic, then the pain extended into pubic region, changed into pressure and dragging, extending into testicles, then frequent urging to urinate, with itching of penis. Sticking in whole. Tearing on bending forwards; cutting T. in evening as after taking cold, (<) rising from a seat, with pain in vertex; pain more tearing than sticking, in morning in bed, then diarrhoea and tenesmus. Cutting; with urging to stool; by jerks; almost causing nausea. Griping; with sticking and attacks of nausea. Tormina after going to bed, till 3 A.M. Pain; in morning; towards evening, then sudden liquid stools; before and after diarrhoea; (>) vomiting of food enveloped in white tasteless mucus; now pressive, now cutting, (>) diarrhoea of faeces mixed with mucus; ulcerative, on moving but not on touch. Constriction; pinching, as from a cold, when sitting.
Sticking in l. hypochondrium, with sensation as if parts thereabouts were asleep. Pain in a spot beneath third l. false rib as if everything internally were torn. Anxiety in hypochondria, with tension and constriction. Pressure in l. hypochondrium; in upper A.; paroxysmal and cramplike, in upper A. Sticking in r. side during expiration while standing and walking; S. in l. side, (<) expiration. Boring in forepart of l. side, with dragging downward. Feeling in l. side as if something were forcing itself through. Sticking in umbilicus; above region of U., with burrowing; dull, almost pinching S. in r. side above U. when eating. Tearing about U. in morning; sticking T. in region when walking. Movings about lower A., with gurgling and pressure. Jerklike tearing from mons veneris towards l. groin when leaning backward. Griping in lower A. as from purge. Frequent gnawing in lower. Sore pain in l. ring as if a hernia would protrude. Dragging in pelvis, extending into testicles, with pressures.
Clinical Jaundice, with vomiting, soreness over the region of the liver, irregular pulse, Enlargement of the liver frequently associated with a jaundiced hue, when calling for Digitalis, is generally accompanied or caused by disease of the heart, stools may be white and urine high-colored (compare Myrica). Ascites, with attacks of faintness, etc., especially associated with hepatic diseases. Incarcerated hernia has been relieved.
Stool
Urging to S. Diarrhoea; violent; ash-colored; painful; sudden; frequent; then urging. Thin, frequent. next morning constipation. Liquid and profuse (Bryonia, Apocynumc.); L. and frequent and mucous; B.and frequent. Constipation. Dry and indolent; D., difficult and copious, at 11 P.M. Grayish white, nearly white, with liver symptoms (China). Containing many thread-worms. Copious; and containing much bile. Frequent. Involuntary. Scanty; and green. Retained, then yellowish-white.
Clinical Stools, clay-colored. Diarrhoea associated with dropsy, intermittent pulse, cold sweat, etc.
Urinary Organs
Contractive pain in bladder when urinating, with difficult Micturition. Dragging in bladder as if distended, not (>) frequent micturition. Urging; at 3 A.M. and scanty urine; U., but difficult M. as if there were almost no urine in bladder, after M. pressure in bladder and burning in urethra (Apoc-c.). Frequent urging; with dribbling of reddish urine, with burning in urethra and glans. Constant urging at night, also vertigo on rising in consequence; C. urging, with large amount of urine though not much at a time. Ineffectual efforts to urinate. Involuntary micturition. Frequent micturition of watery urine; and copious; F. at night and copious. Rare micturition, urine scanty, then frequent M., with cutting drawing in bladder. Painful micturition of scanty red urine. Urine retained, with distention of bladder, which could be felt above pubis. Function of kidneys suspended. Pressing burning in middle of urethra as if too narrow, when urinating, (>) even while urinating.
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.