Retraction of prepuce. Excoriation on margin of prepuce, with ulcerative pain and itching. Sore pain on fraenum of prepuce as if excoriated. Biting itching pain on inner surface of prepuce. Swelling of scrotum in evening. Itching sticking as from numberless fleas on scrotum, (<) rest. Sweat on scrotum. Strangulated sensation in testicles in evening in bed. Pressure in testicles. Desire lost. Impotency, with weakness of hips; I., with lasciviousness; I., with lascivious fancies, sudden sexual excitement, weakness of genitals and external heat of body. Irresistible desire for emission, with relaxed penis. Profuse emission at night.
Leucorrhoea. Constriction of uterus like labor-pains, then purulent corrosive leucorrhoea. Menstruation promoted; delayed; scanty, black, offensive; discharged in clots. Lasciviousness, with prominence of clitoris, weakness and relaxation of rest of genitals and cool temperature of body.
Clinical Morning sickness of pregnancy, with weak, sinking feeling in stomach, (>) eating. Labor-like pains during pregnancy brought on by emotional excitement. Nervous spasms amounting almost to convulsions during labor. Suppression of menses from grief, with the peculiar mental symptoms of the drug. Dysmenorrhoea, with great bearing down, menses dark. Neuralgia of the ovaries. Menorrhagia in a woman of 62 years, brought on by sudden grief.
Respiratory Organs
Tearing in larynx, (<) swallowing, breathing and coughing. Scratching in upper part of larynx in evening, as from heartburn. Provocation in larynx to hacking cough in evening after lying down (Sanguinaria, Silicea), not (>) cough, (>) suppressing cough. Inability to talk loud. Desire to cough in evening on falling asleep. Short, frequently dry cough, as from feathery dust in pit of throat, not (>) cough, (<) allowing himself to cough, (<) towards evening; short forcible C. in evening from sudden interruption of breathing in trachea above pit of throat; hollow dry C. in morning on waking. Difficult expectoration from chest; E. from chest, yellow, of the odor and taste of old catarrh. Inspiration impeded as from a load on chest, expiration is just so much easier. Inspiration is slow, expiration rapid; I. slow, he must draw it from deep in abdomen. Short respiration alternates with long, light with violent. Breath fails when walking, and if he stands still, he is attacked by cough.
Clinical Nervous spasms of the glottis. Hysterical aphonia. Nervous, irritable cough, which becomes extremely annoying and almost constant, caused by tickling in the trachea, not (>) coughing, but (<) the more he coughs. Cough sympathetic, with remote affections especially of the uterus or ovaries, or from worms.
Chest
Milk disappears from breasts. Catarrh, air-passages full of mucus. Sticking in l.; in r. when not breathing; in side in region of last rib, when not breathing, rhythmical with pulse; in nipple on deep inspiration, with flatulent movements in abdomen. Pain at both sides of sternum in morning as if ribs rubbed against each other. Pain in sternum as if beaten, even caused by touch. Pressure; in l., then r., then in ankle; in l., then sticking in r.; behind sternum in evening; in middle of sternum after eating; (>) deep breathing; in region of middle of sternum, as with a sharp instrument. Tensive pain across on standing upright; T. pain in forepart if when sitting he straightens up. Oppression; after midnight, impeding respiration; and oppressed respiration; with pressure in pit of stomach, (<) inspiration and suddenly changing to sticking in pit of stomach. Fulness. Anxiety, with pressure waking him, he must often breathe deeply and can only sleep after an hour. Throbbing in r.
Heart and Pulse
Sticking in praecordial region on expiration. Palpitation; after noonday nap; during dinner; when in deep thought. Pulse accelerated; and small; slow and small in afternoon.
Neck
Swollen glands. Sticking in nape. Sticking tearing in nape. Tearing in nape as if strained on moving neck. Sharp pain cervical vertebrae in morning in bed. Painful pressure upon neck above l. shoulder. Stiffness of nape (Silicea).
Back
Sticking in spine when walking in open air; S. near l. side of spine where true ribs are divided from false; in tip of scapula in morning. Tearing deep in middle of spine, towards l. side. Pain in scapula, (<) moving arm or letting it hang down. Sticking in sacrum. Pain in small of B. like a clawing, sticking, drawing and working altogether. Drawing pain in l. loin. Pain in sacrum in morning when lying on back; bruised P. in sacrum in morning when lying on back; (tensive P. in sacrum and chest on standing erect). Throbbing in sacrum.
Extremities
Jerkings on falling asleep (Chamomilla). Tonic spasm of all, like a stiffness. Isolated twitchings. Sticking about or above joints; burning S. in external prominent parts of joints, with itching. Sprained pain in shoulder, hip and knee-joints. Pressure as with a hard substance, painful as a bruise, here and there in periosteum of middle of shafts of bones, (<) evening, by lying on side, (>) lying on back. Weakness; of arms and legs. Crawling, asleep sensation.
Upper Extremities
Griping, pulling, kneading, in part drawing pain in shoulder- joint during rest, on motion becoming a sticking. Dislocated pain in shoulder; in joint on moving arm. Pain in shoulder-joint on bending arm back as after violent exertion or as if bruised; rheumatic or bruised pain in joint, when walking in open air. Twitching of deltoid. Drawing pain in arms. Pain in shafts of bones and joints of arm on which he lies in morning in bed, (>) lying on other side; in shafts of bones and joints of arm on which he does not lie in evening, (>) lying on painful side; in biceps on turning arm inward. Arm of side upon which he lies falls asleep. Painful drawing above r. elbow. Pulsating drawing extending from upper arm to fingers. Bruised pain in head of humerus of side upon which he lies in morning in bed, (>) lying on other side or upon back; B. pain in head of l. H. in evening when lying on r. side, (>) lying on l. side; B. pain in muscles of humerus, if arm hangs down or is raised.
Jerking in forearm as if a mouse were crawling under skin in one part of muscles, in evening after lying down. Tearing in wrist and fingers; on wrist in morning after waking. Paralytic, pain on l. wrist as if sprained. Drawing in r. carpal bones. Stiffness of r. wrist and feeling as if asleep. Yellow hands. Sticking on touching a hair on hand. Cramp extending to middle finger when exerting fingers, (>) stroking it. Spasmodic motion back and forth of index in evening after lying down. Sticking in last joint of thumb. Tearing in joint of thumb as if sprained, in morning when slumbering. Sprained pain in metacarpal phalanx of index on motion.
Lower Extremities
Totters when walking, falls easily and stumbles over slightest obstacles. Paralytic stiffness and jerking. Sticking in hip- joint; and knee, from 4 to 8 A.M. when walking, on moving leg. Bruised pain in posterior muscles of thigh when sitting. Intermittent deep internal pressure above l. hip; violent deep P. in middle of l thigh. Thigh and leg fall asleep when sitting after eating. Knees crack. Knee drawn upward, preventing walking, (>) sitting. Knees give way from weakness. Sticking on inner side beneath l. knee. Knee stiff after ascending steps.
Cramp in calf in morning in bed on bending leg, (>) stretching or pressing it; C. in calf when sitting at dinner; when walking, (>) standing and rest. Sticking in tibia. Tearing in backs of legs, (<) tendo-achillis and its muscles, as if the parts would be cut off, (<) standing after walking. Grasping beating, tearing in anterior tibial muscles, (<) motion. Pain in tibia when walking. Paralytic pain in whole l. leg from walking, continuing when sitting. Painful drawing in whole l. leg in bed before sleep. Tension in calves on stretching legs or walking; T. in leg extending above knee, with heaviness of limb. Heaviness of legs on walking in open air, (>) in the room, with anxiety, then depression of spirits. Leg falls asleep when sitting after midday meal; as far as above knee in evening when sitting.
Sticking beneath malleoli on motion. Pressure in l. ankle (with internal tickling), (>) tremulous motion of foot; intermittent P. above r. external malleolus. Sprained pain in ankle in morning on walking. (Ankles stiff). Attacks of cramp in muscles of foot and under toes when sitting. Sticking in heel in morning; intermittent S. on inner margin of foot; burning S. in side of foot, or a burning cutting. Tearing on back of foot. Itching jerking pain internally in ball of heel, (<) morning in bed. Bruised pain in ball of heel, or rather in periosteum of astragalus. Internal soreness in ball of heel, or rather in periosteum of so calcis, when walking. Burning pain in a corn when sitting; B. pain in a corn on pressure upon it; tearing burning P. in bone of heel in morning on waking. Soles sensitive when walking. Drawing in r. foot. Burning itching pain in spot on back of foot during rest. Itching burning in heel and other parts of foot. Feet weak; at twilight, and mood quiet. Feet heavy; one foot H. Feet stiff in morning. Crawling in bones of feet, not like a going to sleep. Deadness (as if asleep) of ball of heel when walking. Pain in upper part of toes from pressure of shoe.
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.