Jaws – Periostitis of lower. Necrosis (Phosphorus). Inflammation of lower progressing to caries, with falling out of teeth. Atrophy of alveolar processes of lower. Exfoliation of alveolar process. R. lower very thin. Sticking near l. eye. Tearing in lower towards evening. Pain in lower; beneath lower; P., with almost complete immobility; mastication painful and even impossible. Tension in joints on opening mouth. Cannot separate; and tensive pain in r. side of hyoid bone, bitter taste to all food except milk, tearing and difficult hearing in r. ear, loud emission of offensive flatus and moist eruption on head; almost unable to move lower or to chew.
Lips.- Whitish-blue spot on inside. Lower rough and dry, as from cold, raw air. Papules, with biting on touch, beneath red of lower and towards corner of mouth. Herpes oris. Fissures in corners (Graphites). White patch, bordered with red, inside upper, near r. corner, and inside of lower covered with gray patches bordered with red. Eruption on upper; (<) margin, with yellow crusts and biting burning pain. Swelling; internal, of upper. Spongy swelling of mucous membrane of lower, with pustules like swollen mucous glands, also spongy appearance to mucous membrane of cheek and upper lip. Soft, red swelling of upper, separating from gum, where it looks shaggy, and on its inner and outer surface deep suppurating sores, with sticking, at times with itching. Red swelling of upper lip and lower part of cheek, in which holes an inch deep penetrate, looking as if painted with grayish-yellow matter, with watery, yellow discharge, offensive odor and bleeding of margins on touch. Ulcers in corners, with painful soreness (Hepar); painful U. on inside of lower, opposite incisors; dirty white U., easily bleeding, with livid borders; whitish, deep, easily bleeding, with elevated, livid margins. Distorted to one side at 3 A.M. Trembling about corners, (<) talking. Pain on touch, as from nettles; P. in corners as if they has been cut. Dryness.
Clinical Neuralgia of the face from taking cold, pains tearing, (<) night, associated with salivation, etc.
Mouth
Teeth. Decayed; and became loose in succession, and fell out at the slightest shock, especially the molars were gone, those that remained were black, laid bare, loose and various; and greenish- black; all lower incisors, and chipped, pegged, flat on top, centre brown; crowns of all except incisors lost, gums very red and soft. Gray; coating; blackish-gray, black. Covered with tartar. Loose; and black (compare Staphysagria); (<) molars, and black, denuded of gum, with nightly pains in teeth, jaws and head; and painful on touch of tongue; and discolored; and yellow; and dirty gray; (<) anterior molars; (<) lower incisors. Falling out. Grating at night in sleep, and biting them together so violently that the pain wakes her. Sticking; in evening; in incisors on drawing air into mouth. Tearing in all roots all day; T. after midnight, and (<) morning; (<) eating; shooting into ears, (<) night, so that he must sit up all night. Incisors feel as if out of their sockets. Jerking pain, (<) night; pulse-like, from lower into ear, and from upper into head, (>) lying down and sleeping, with pain of gum from 9 P.M. on. Neuralgia in a r. dental nerve, radiating upward over side of face. Aching; in incisors; in l. lower sound molar; r. lower (decayed) molar at 4:30 P.M.; in l. lower molar, passing to upper molar, both sound, at 6 P.M.; at night, then general chilliness; in anterior incisors on drawing cold air into mouth or taking warm or cold drinks; with swelling of gum and salivary glands; as from teeth on edge; as if corroding, (<) eating. Drawing in l. lower (sound) molar; in anterior teeth in morning. Disagreeable sensation. Weak.
Gums. Red; bright red margin; and elevated, with grayish-red margin. Red and swollen; and livid; and covered with thin, white patches, easily removed from a non-ulcerating surface, and to left of and behind second molar a red patch which has been covered with a white film; and covered on the free borders with a dirty yellowish-white substance, which extends to the tooth- cavities, on removing this the surface is seen to be spongy and bleeding, without ulcerations; and worn away, covered with white film, free edges coated yellowish-gray. Purple margin. Margin bluish-gray and inflamed. Gingival line. Blue line on lower. White line on margin. Upper margin jagged, white and ulcerated. Inflammation. Swollen; only in morning; every night; and separates from teeth; and sore, bleeding, pain on eating bread and food was bloody when chewed; and painful; and livid red; and sore, with tearing in various places; with violet margin; S. and copper color of gum and mucous membrane of mouth, then excoriations on inner surface of lips and gums and salivation. Atrophy, (<) lower anterior part; (<) lower, leaving necks of teeth bare; and coated dirty yellow; and teeth grayish-brown. Loosened from teeth; and discolored and white at tip. Spongy and partly destroyed; S. and covered with a pultaceous exudation; and ulcerated, loose, offensive; and bleeding, loosened from teeth, with tearing in them and in roots of the denuded teeth almost all day and in morning on rising, (>) evening by smoking tobacco. Bleeding; from slightest touch; and spongy; and soft. Ulcerated. Suppurating; between G. and teeth. Boils close to roots of teeth, then teeth fall out. Sore. Pain; on touch and on chewing, (<) hard food; burning throbbing, (<) afternoon, (>) lying down and in night; burning, at night on falling asleep, waking him. Itching.
Tongue. Black, with red edges. Red, swollen. Pale. White, tremulous. Coated; and showing impress of teeth on edges (Arsenicum). Coated white; (<) morning; with whitish swollen gums that bleed on touch. Swollen; and showing imprint of teeth in scallops, which looked ulcerated; and its movement difficult; and painful, covered with foul ulcers, oozing of blood, the ulcers make swallowing difficult; with painful ulcerated margin; and hollow internally, suppurating; (<) l. side, movement difficult, dirty yellowish coat on its upper surface, with gray patches on its edges; (<) r. side, which was covered with superficial ulcers, the swollen part of T. and mouth hard to touch, T. and palate bright red, painful, and submaxillary and cervical glands swollen and sensitive to touch. Inflammation. Roughness. Cracked, with dirty white coat; fissure lengthwise, with sticking in it. Anterior half so hard that it rattled when struck with the finger-nail, and was dry. Gray patches on edges, and a dirty yellow coat on upper surface. Instead of gray patches on edges a granular surface stands out upon the healthy mucous membrane, which bleeds on touch and has the white border of a true cicatrix. Ulcers; on l. margin and on r. cheek; long pale, on edges near tip; as in diphtheritis, upon r. side of mouth and T., with swelling of r. submaxillary glands and fetid salivation; on edges, cicatrized in their anterior third, but a granular surface on posterior two- thirds of l. ulceration, the r. ulceration has a granulated surface rising above the healthy mucous membrane, later a white border around the raised granulated surface, cutting it transversely in several places. Trembling; when protruded. Wavy from nervous debility. Vibrating like a pendulum as soon as it is put out, at first in small arcs, which rapidly enlarge if it is kept protruded. Psellimus (paresis tremens of organs of speech). Sticking in tip. Pain, with blisters on margins developing into ulcers; burning, as if cracked. Soreness at r. side of hyoid bone, with stiffness. Sensitiveness to open air. Crawling. Insensibility and fuzziness. Motion difficult.
Speech. Stammering. Difficult; on account of trembling of mouth and tongue. Tremulous. Impeded. Unintelligible. Could scarcely speak intelligibly from the agitation into which they were thrown as soon as they were addressed or attempted to articulate. Embarrassed, indistinct and hurried. Slow. Lost; on excitement; desired to speak, but could not make a sound, (>) Hyoscyamus, with sunken face, weeping about her condition, sleeplessness, weakness, with desire for all kinds of food and then for beer.
Mouth in General. Salivary glands swollen and painful; orifice of excretory duct between last teeth S., white and ulcerated; r. sublingual glands S. and hard. Trembling of sublingual glands. Swelling of mucous membrane; with pain; of mucous membrane of palate, with redness; of inside of cheeks, (<) r., where there is a red patch that has been covered with a white film, and palate shows some of these films, and on mucous membrane of lower lip white patches bordered with red, these last are replaced by red elevations with a gray coat between them, this granulated surface stands out in bold relief upon the healthy mucous membrane, leaving blood on cloth when touched, contact is painful; S., with redness; and on cheeks, gum and palate white patches that were easily detached from a non-ulcerating surface, and on lower lip, (<) l. side, yellowish patches that could not be detached, the gray patches on lower lip and inside of cheeks and on edge of tongue were bordered by a red line, later on removing with a cloth the patches that extended from lower lip over inside of cheeks the mucous membrane was seen to be rough, the cloth was stained with blood and pain was caused, the gray patches left red spots, afterwards reddish-gray elevation on inside of r. cheek near corner of mouth, the red spots were true granulations. Partly covered with thin white patches, but in some places thick layers which cannot be wholly removed by the nail, afterwards patches on inside of cheeks bordered with red, changing to grayish-red and granulations. Palate almost covered with a thin, white, false membrane, which can be removed from a non-ulcerating surface. Pale and eroded. Roof of palate and uvula copper-colored. Livid. Bluish, (<) inside of cheeks. Roughness of hard palate, with biting soreness on touch of tongue. Pimples. Aphthae. Bluish-red in places, and spongy, next day these spots are whitish, with dissolution of mucous membrane, the whitish-gray substance changes to a fetid ichor, flows off and shows a shaggy, flat ulcer with an almost spongy base and sharply-indented edges, the ulcer spreads without penetrating into flesh, and pains, if left to themselves the ulcers appear dirty, foul and become phagedenic and ooze blood, the bottom of the ulcers often present unequal elevations, often with these sores irregular and quick pulse, sleeplessness, restlessness, night-sweats, nervousness and impatience (compare Kali chlor.). Stomatitis; sometimes with swelling of cervical and submaxillary glands. Ulcers; inside cheek; to left of uvula, with red palate; with fissures and burning biting, (<) evening; which as soon as cured appeared in another place; in back part, as in syphilis; foul, with copious, offensive sanious discharge; and ribbon-like U. on borders of tongue, in form of a half moon, erosions on free edges of gums, and small cryptiform losses of substance on cheeks; superficial, in angle in front of arch of palate, sometimes l., sometimes r.; deep, on inside of cheeks, with inflammation; deep, inside of lips and cheeks, with elevated, eroded margins, with swelling of tonsils and cervical glands; deep, on inside of r. cheek, descending as far as tonsil, and as mouth healed tremor so that she could not leave her bed nor speak. Pigmented scar on r. side between hard and soft palate, with a mercurial ulcer. Blisters; round, elevated, white, on inside of cheeks, from which the skin loosened, with burning pain.
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.