Vision. Obscured. Illusion as if everything were very large, (>) touching the objects (coffee an antidote), with anxiety.
Ears
Sticking in r.; coming out of l.; in front of l. Tearing extending into r.; coming out of l. and behind it. Pinching; in l. Boring in r. external concha. Pain in r.; burning, in l. Distended feeling in r. Drawing in muscles behind r. Crawling in l.; deep; in r. after dinner as after going to sleep. Itching in r., not (>) boring into it; in l. at 3 P.M., (>) boring into it. Whizzing in l.; with roaring.
Nose
At one time sticking in root, at another pressure inward; S. externally in r. wing at 2.30 P.M. Cramplike pain in r. bone. Pressure asunder in bones. Pressure forward in upper part. Drawing through N. Feeling as before catarrh. Fulness. Stoppage at 5 P.M.; S. in upper part. Tickling in r. nostril. Crawling on l. outer wing, with itching, and when touched on inside pain as if ulcerated. Itching in nostrils; (>) rubbing; in l., not (>) rubbing; in upper part of nose. Coldness near wings of nose. Sneezing; at 2 P.M.; 4 P.M.; with yawning; violent, at 5 A.M., then fluent nasal mucus; ineffectual attempts at. Catarrh loosened; stopped C. in morning on stooping. The secretion of mucus is suppressed, without sensation of catarrh. Smells the medicine in the open air.
Face
Pale. Yellow, earthy; stopped yellow. Liver spots more distinct than ever. Puffy. Sleepy look. Spasmodic distortion. Stitch near l. side of chin in afternoon. Tension in l. zygoma as if pressed with a nail, with itching. Jaws, sticking from r. lower through head and out of r. ear; in l. lower when walking in open air; tearing in angle of l. lower and in lower molars; gnawing on r. side near chin; bruised pain in lower at 7 P.M.; pain in articulation as if it would be dislocated; inclination to close as in tetanus. Lips, itching pimples, (>) scratching; boil in r. corner, smarting on touch; vesicles on margin of upper; clear vesicle in l. corner; itching in middle of upper, (>) scratching.
Clinical It has been used successfully in lockjaw.
Mouth
Teeth. Sticking; now in lower, now in upper; in r. lower. Tearing in l. upper eye-tooth, (>) pressure; T. in l. lower, (>) cold water, and in gum. Intermittent gnawing in r. lower during supper, with boring. Boring and digging, drawing back and forth, in l. lower molars, during dinner. Pain, in l. molars, (>) biting teeth together. Jerking pain in l. lower in evening. A l. lower molar seems larger and longer than usual.
Tongue. L. side swollen in evening, stiff and painful as if something were sticking in it. Coated white; C. with dirty white mucus in morning, with, flat taste, and emptiness in stomach. Sore pain on margin. Burning in tip as from a cut. Feeling after eating as if burnt, causing sensation as if blunted. Back part sticky, with watery saliva in forepart of mouth. Dryness; after eating, with rawness and salivation. Loss of speech
Dry; in morning, and slimy. Salivation; with dryness of throat; with nausea; with nausea, (>) eructations; thin; thin, of feverish taste; sourish. Taste insipid; T. feverish; slimy and pasty; offensive, with feeling as if he had an offensive breath; T. and odor of peach brandy in M.
Throat
A piece of watery mucus comes into throat, which is expectorated without hawking. Hawking; frequent, on account of rawness in throat; of mucus; of mucus in morning; tenacious mucus every morning when fasting; sweetish mucus at 2 P.M. Choking pain in upper part of pharynx, involving chest and causing oppressions in it, the pain then extended over neck and face, with sticking in teeth and feeling as if some of them would be pulled out. Gurgling. Sticking, as from a lump, extending to l. side of back. Painful drawing downward, (>) eating soup. Scraping; before and during cough; and in larynx, with hoarseness and frequent need to cough; on swallowing, with roughness. Rawness; in morning, causing cough; frequent, in afternoon; with hacking; with scraping, provoking cough; making speech difficult. Burning; and pain; and hoarseness; and on palate. Tickling. Able to swallow only after consciousness had somewhat returned.
Stomach
Appetite great; A. in morning less; lost, afterwards better than formerly. Thirst; at 4 and 8.30 P.M. Eructations; empty; empty after breakfast; incomplete; of the breakfast; tasting of the porridge that had just been eaten; tasting of food at 2 P.M.; sweetish; rancid; bitter during and after breakfast; tasting of bitter almonds. Hiccough. Nausea; in morning, with colic; in morning, with hunger, yet food nauseated him; in morning in bed; after dinner, with stomachache; (>) eructations of tasteless water; in epigastric region; about heart in afternoon, with anxious warmth, as if he had taken an emetic and could not vomit; with feeling as if stomach were full of water; faintlike, in morning. Heaving. Vomiting.
Distention. Rumbling; then sour eructations. Gurgling. Movings. Sticking in pit; through pit into small of back; cramplike, above pit. Pain; in epigastric region; in epigastric region when urinating; similar to faintness, in morning. Cramplike pulling pain in pit in evening on getting into bed and lying on side, (>) lying quietly on back, with small, weak, contracted pulse. Contractive feeling at 2 P.M.; C. feeling in epigastric region. Disordered feeling after dinner, (>) eating bread. Peculiar feeling in epigastric region, not exactly nausea, but similar to the sensation that precedes vomiting. Feeling of weakness. Emptiness. Discomfort as from fasting. Burning; in pit; in morning after beer, with warmth in abdomen; cool, and in abdomen; rising from S. Feeling as if hot vapor arose to shoulders. Agreeable warmth and in abdomen.
Abdomen
Distended and hard; D. by all food, and he feels stuffed. Retracted, and if he presses it out there is a stitch externally towards r. clavicle. Drawn tightly together, with general comfort. Rumbling; from below upward at 2 P.M.; with coldness. Movements during supper; M., with burning. Emission of flatus; after stool, after dinner; loud.
Cutting in afternoon when walking; C., then diarrhoea at 2 and 4 P.M.; C. and contractive pain, waking at 2 A.M., (>) diarrhoea twice. Pinching, (<) middle, at 2 P.M.; P., (<) l. side, then soft stool. Pain. A feeling extending into small of back as if something fell down. Burning; in evening till 1 A.M., with sleeplessness, without thirst, with necessity to put her hands out of bed, where even she could not bear to have them long. Sensation as if hot vapor arose into shoulders. Warmth, with drops of sweat on nose after dinner; W. extending into shoulders, with sweat on back and in axillae.
Upper. Movings, with sticking in stomach. Sticking in middle, then in r. hypochondrium. Cutting, with stitching in l. hypochondrium; C. about middle, coming from sides, at 9 P.M. Pinching, then a stitch in middle of it; P., with contraction, then sticking in l. hypochondrium near back.
Hypochondria. Distention in hepatic region, with pain as if suppurating and as if an ulcer would burst. Sticking in l.; in liver; in r., with burning and pain on touch; in r., then burning extending backward; in r. extending towards back; in r. extending backward, then a stitch in nates; in r. at 1 P.M., extending towards axilla at 2 P.M.; in l. at 2 P.M., extending forward; burning, in r. towards back, which after rubbing goes to middle of scapula. Twinging extending to umbilicus, where it is most painful; T. in l. Pain; indescribable, in r., extending towards small of back. Paralytic bruised pain in liver on inspiration, extending to shoulder (Chelidonium). Beating and bubbling in liver as in a sore finger. Burning in r. at 3 P.M.
Sides. Moving about from r. to l., where it becomes a sticking. Rumbling in r. Sticking in l. after morning beer-soup; in l. at 3 P.M.; pinching, in l., that chiefly spreads upward. Cutting, (>) emission of flatus. Pinching, sticking, flatulent pain in r., (>) emission of flatus, but returning. Griping extending towards centre, then diarrhoea twice, with tenesmus. Drawing pressure in r. Contraction in abdomen from sides at 2 P.M., with pinching.
Umbilical Region. Distention; distended feeling below umbilical region. Sticking in r. side coming out at l. groin. Sticking drawing in r. side above umbilicus. Tearing at 6 P.M., extending towards r. groin. Feeling at 2 P.M. as if something had been torn loose. Feeling below umbilicus as if intestines were cut to pieces, then movings in abdomen, (>) emissions of flatus at 3.30 P.M. Twinging at 3 P.M.; above umbilicus at 10 P.M., with sticking in small of back. Griping, with two pasty stools. Pinching at 2 P.M., with tearing. Pinching about middle of abdomen.
Hypogastrium. Flatus presses upon bladder. Flatus accumulates towards perineum and causes pressing outward. Fulness (>) emission of flatus. Stitches in l. groin; r. groin; in r., on ilium, at 1.30 P.M.; in l. at 2 P.M. if she inclines to left, (>) becoming erect; in r. after dinner, extending towards thigh; in l. on stooping, (>) becoming erect; in r., then moving about in stomach; above r. pubis, extending along spermatic cord when lying and on moving about, (>) sitting up; like a flea-bite in groin during dinner. Twinging from sides towards middle, then stitches in r. hypochondrium. Pinching in sides extending into small of back. Contractive pain on both sides above pubis at 7 P.M. and in bed; in r. groin after dinner; in groins at 4 P.M., extending downward, so that she must bend up. Bubbling pain above l. ilium. Pressure beneath Poupart’s ligament, with tension as if the part would press through. Feeling of a swelling in l. side at 2 P.M., with sticking if she presses it with the fingers when stooping, (<) becoming erect. Weariness in r. flank.
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.