Clinical Violent stomatitis, large aphthous patches, with burning pain. Syphilitic patches, with burning pain.
Throat
Swelling of submaxillary glands; with tenderness; of submaxillary region; of external fauces, (<) r. side, and of r. side of neck. Swelling; threatening suffocation (Lachesis), extending to neck, head and tongue, throat, so inflamed that speaking and swallowing were difficult, with heat in mouth and throat, afterwards raising of clots of blood and thin blood, ulceration of throat and soft palate, salivation, frequent headache, (<) temples, afterwards delirium, expectoration of clots to blood and pieces of membrane from ulceration of throat, with prostration and salivation, sloughing extending to cheeks, gum, palate, and even jaw was laid bare, lips black; uvula; of uvula, with elongation; of uvula, with ulceration; of pillars of velum palati, with dark redness, and in tonsillar folds (Lachesis), on edges of pillars are soft gray excrescences; of tonsils; S. with soreness and with grayish ulcers in throat, on inside of cheeks and border of gums, with offensive breath.
Inflammation and pain; I. of fauces. Dark redness of pharynx, with pain on pressure; redness of fauces; redness of fauces; redness, and tonsils covered with bloody mucus. Bloody mucus from posterior nares. Glairy, sticky mucus. Gray coat between pillars of velum palati. Snapping noise when almost asleep, waking her.
Sticking near larynx on empty swallowing, with hoarseness. Pain; on alternate days, extending through Eustachian tubes to forehead; on swallowing, extending up Eustachian tubes; on pressure; (<) dry bread; at times in uvula. Burning pain; in fauces; in pharynx; and in oesophagus, (<) external pressure; and in stomach, (<) taking anything more than milk-warm; and in upper part of stomach, gradually sinking lower. Soreness; of fauces; of pharynx. Scraping caused by beer, with heat and redness of face. Roughness; scraping posteriorly in pharynx, compelling hawking. Rawness; in pharynx, (<) swallowing a liquid; with catarrh; that makes talking, not swallowing, difficult. Constriction; of muscles of pharynx; of pharynx, changing to paroxysmal pain and tickling. Uneasiness. Dryness of fauces. Swallowing, even of fluids, Painful; S. and expectoration painful and difficult; S. difficult; impossible.
OEsophagus. Spasms of O. and stomach on attempting to swallow a drop of liquid, with vomiting of whitish, slimy, tenacious masses, which became mixed with bile if the vomiting continued. Sticking as if distended by morsels of food which could not descend, (<) swallowing and eructations of air. Pain. Burning. Constriction.
Clinical Inflammation of the uvula and arch of palate, with great swelling. Intense inflammation and ulceration of the throat, with burning and suffocation. Occasionally helpful in diphtheria.
Stomach
Appetite great for Cayenne pepper; A. diminished; lost; lost in evening. Thirst; in evening; at night; for cold water; for large quantities of cold water; for hot or cold drinks; and desire for ice; constant, for cold water, which is very repulsive and soon vomited; but every attempt to take liquid was followed by retching and vomiting.
Eructations, with nausea and ineffectual retching. Regurgitations of food and drink through nose. Hiccough; at least movement; with the vomiting; (<) least quantity of water; with great regularity twenty-six times a minute; in violent fits at night. Nausea; in attacks at night. Retching; and head thrown back and tossed from side to side; on attempting to swallow, with vomiting; violent; spasmodic and painful.
Vomiting; at night, with thirst; renewed by cough; (<) pressure on stomach, with pain; incessant; violent; copious; nothing would remain on stomach; water was rejected immediately. Of food, then of serum; ingesta and tenacious mucus then of bile and blood; food and dark matter, then yellow bile. Green; greenish and bloody, with retching and pain; and bitter, with diarrhoea; incessant (Arsenicum), green, bilious. Of bile;l in early part of day; and copious, with copious bilious stool. Of blood; or belching of blood, as she lay on her back she raised blood mixed with water by a peculiar action of stomach without exertion; matter streaked with B.; of drinks mingled with B.; like water mixed with fresh B.; and of white froth; scanty, thick, yellow, frothy matter tinged with B.; frequent, of yellow matter interspersed with B.; of bloody fluid; and water, in evening, with bloody, watery stools. Of the color of coffee-grounds; and coagulated blood. Spasmodic, of serous substance, without previous nausea; dark, copious, mud-looking material mixed with half-digested food. V. and purging of dark grumous matter. Of mucus, then of blood; bloody mucus; V. and purging of bloody mucus and membranous flakes; tenacious M.; frequent, of bluish M.; copious and incessant;of viscid, frothy M.;violent, of M. and water, with great retching; violent, of M. and bile; and violent, frequent, thick, metallic-tasting, with constriction of throat. White, frothy, tenacious masses, with frightful retching. Thick, stringy, albuminous-looking substance. Of pieces of membrane. Of pus. Dark frothy substance, frequently with purging. Slate- colored, semi-fluid. Copious, purulent, salt matter.
Swelling, with pain so that she could scarcely speak so to be heard; S. of epigastric region, with sensitiveness to pressure; S. of epigastric region, with burning sticking, (<) pressure; S. of l. side of E. region, with sense of weight and hardness. Sticking; in pit in morning; in epigastric region after soup. Tearing in pit, waking from afternoon nap, (<) region of stomach and extending thence over whole diaphragm, (>) bending up, abdomen sunken and painful to pressure in epigastric region. Pinching. Griping, and in abdomen.
Pain; in pit; in region; in epigastric region; along alimentary tract; all night, with frequent vomiting and painful retching; (<) drinks; caused by anything liquid or solid; in pit, (<) pressure and coughing; and on pressing hand firmly on it felt wind rolling about under it. Sensitiveness to pressure; in epigastric region; in region. Burning (Arsenicum); in pit; with griping, tearing and nausea; with constriction extending into intestinal canal, congestion of heart and anxiety, then soft stool; with pain and vomiting of everything she took, always most, (>) when after several efforts she had vomited something that tasted like milk which had stool in a brass pan. Burning pain (Arsenicum); in epigastric region; in pit. Sensation of a lump in pylorus, with pain. Obstruction and anxiety in epigastric region and praecordia, then palpitation. Uneasiness in epigastrium and abdomen, (<) pressure. Sweet apples have a good effect, but sour ones distress.
Clinical Dyspepsia, with soreness, distention, burning pain, desire for cold food, aversion to hot food.
Abdomen
Swelling; at night; and pain on touch; and hardness and pains at regular intervals, like labor-pains. Tympanitic on percussion and painful and tender on touch. Rumbling at night; R., with sharp pain and profuse bilious stools. Emission of flatus. Flatulence after milk. Griping; at times without distention, (>) emission of flatus, with sudden attacks of weakness and confusion of head. Cutting, with chilliness in open though warm air; C., then thin bilious stools, with straining. Tormina. Pain; in afternoon after potatoes, with desire for stool; at night, with tenesmus an six stools; from slightest cold; after eating various things, fruit, (<) potatoes, cherries, etc.; (>) bending double; then several bilious stools, with tenesmus. Smarting pain. Bruised sensation, (<) caecal region and along transverse colon, and bruised sensation in caecal region and transverse colon on moderate pressure. Tenderness. Burning.
Pinching sticking in muscles of upper A. Pain in upper. Sticking in hepatic region; in middle of liver. Cutting in r. hypochondrium. Pain in hepatic region.
Umbilical Region. Itching sticking. Cutting below umbilicus after sour apples, when walking in open air, (<) evening, with desire for stool. Griping at right of umbilicus at noon after sugar. Pain at umbilicus at night; about and above U., after bread and unsalted butter; at U., then in lumbar region; in region, then three thin stools, with tenesmus. Constrictive jerking pain in some fibres in inner side of r. rectus muscle. Pressing down in front below umbilicus after stool. Tenesmus on pressure. Discomfort.
Jerking in r. rectus abdominis. Inflammation of large intestines, with ulceration as in severe dysentery, yet slight dysentery. Pain in l. side in morning. Pain in l. region of caecum. Bruised sensation in caecal and mesocolic regions, (<) pressure. Pain in hypogastrium; in r. inguinal gland as if it would swell, in morning, (>) rising; tensive P. in l. groin at 5 A.M., with sensation as if gland were swollen. Sticking drawing in l. groin. Apprehension in hypogastrium.
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.