Face
Red; and hot; or purplish. Swollen in morning on waking (<) orbital region. Swollen feeling, with heat; S. Feeling in malar- bones. Muscles of mastication stiff and motion of jaw painful. Corners of lips, (<) r., indurated and painful, two days later fissured, (<) r. R. Corner of lips ulcerated, as from a cold.
Mouth
Teeth and gums tender. Tongue fissured, large and moist; F., large and soft; F. and flabby. Blister on r. side of tongue near base. Tongue coated; on waking, at back, and papillae large there, but anterior part fissured; and red, cracked, uneven; and deep red, corrugated, next day papillae stand up on posterior part. Tongue coated white; in morning on rising; along middle from tip to base; except edges and tip; (<) back part; densest near base, in morning; with rough feeling; with metallic taste after drinking water; grayish-white; grayish-white in morning; yellowish-white. Tongue coated yellow; whitish; whitish, posteriorly, becoming lighter nearer the tip, and tongue corrugated. Tongue feels dry as if burnt, not (>) liquids. Sore ulcer in mouth. Salivation, with nausea. Taste bitter; at 9.30 A.M.; T. sour at 9.30 A.M.; clammy; pasty; insipid.
Throat
Pain all afternoon in r side at bifurcation of common carotid, on moving head or on pressure. Stiffness of upper part of sterno- cleido-mastoideus at 11.45 A.M., with tenderness. Redness after trifling exposure to cold, with puffiness; R. of throat and pharynx, (<) fauces, less on soft palate, lost on arch, next day throat purplish-red and raw-looking, next day pharynx and pillars of fauces red, thick and angry-looking, no soreness on swallowing; of fauces and pharynx, with glassy look; of tonsils, uvula and soft palate, and thickness and sore look, without special pain on swallowing. Purple, rough pitted in places and studded with points filled with mucus; tonsils, fauces, pharynx and most of soft palate purplish-red and oedematous and covered in places with a tough; whitish, viscid mucus, tonsils, uvula and pharynx purplish-red, and yellowish or yellowish-gray mucus, color deepest on inner edge of tonsils and uvula. Swelling, with discomfort on swallowing. Rough; and clogged with tenacious, dark slate-colored mucus. Tough yellowish mucus in upper part of pharynx and in posterior nares.
Hawking; all day; in morning; (<) open air; of tenacious whitish- yellow mucus till 10 or 11 A.M.; tenacious white mucus in afternoon; tenacious starchy-looking mucus, tough and yellow mucus; yellowish, consistent mucus from posterior nares; grayish, viscid, tenacious mucus, with rough feeling in throat; semi-solid whitish mucus from throat and posterior nares, (<) lying down to sleep; thick white mucus, (<) inhalation of dust, smoke, etc., with discharge of thick yellow mucus from posterior nares.
Scraping and raw tickling. Smarting in posterior nares in afternoon. Posterior nares feel obstructed, preventing easy and clear articulation. Constriction in afternoon; below larynx in evening and next day; in region of thyroid cartilage, as if pressed between thumb and finger. Heaviness and pain. Dryness; of fauces and pharynx; during the day, and soreness and emptiness; fauces and pharynx all day; fauces and pharynx in morning on waking; fauces and pharynx on waking, with stiffness; of fauces on inspiration and swallowing, (<) morning and after taking cold; with stiffness; fauces and pharynx, with stiffness; with gagging on trying to dislodge stiff, tenacious mucus in upper part of pharynx. Swallowing painful; empty, but not of food and drink. Constrictive, burning feeling in oesophagus.
Clinical In diphtheria, with excessive swelling and great prostration, throat dark purple, uvula excessively swollen like a sac of water, body cool and sweaty, great oppression of heart, feeble, intermittent pulse.
Stomach
Appetite great; poor. Appetite lost at breakfast; and dinner; ate no breakfast, and from 11 A.M. till dinner (12.30) had darting sticking in great cul-de-sac; at noon, but took some food and a cup of coffee, which relieved the head for a time, at supper desired pickles, which gave a relish for bread and butter, of which I ate freely, and by 8 P.M. felt much better; except for juicy food or fruits; for tobacco; afterwards very great. Aversion to the accustomed cigar, and aggravation of symptoms after smoking. Thirst; all day; all day, wanted water often, but little at a time; every day till 10 A.M.; at night; on getting out of bed; but feel worse after drinking; absent.
Eructations caused by breakfast becoming sour in stomach; sour E. after eating. Pyrosis below thyroid cartilage in afternoon. Nausea; in night after a supper consisting principally of fruits, then chills on back; on going to bed; after dinner, (>) soda-water without syrup; after a drink of cold water; passed off with a flash of heat and feeling of moisture on skin, which before was very dry; with pain and urging to stool; alternating with pain in stomach and abdomen. Empty retching. Gagging when the tenacious mucus behind soft palate is brought into pharynx. Vomiting of much sour water; (>) lying quietly; V. of sour fluid at 5 P.M., at the first bite of food, the odor of which is pleasant to him.
Fulness at 9.45 A.M., with pain; F. after moderate eating, and of abdomen. Cramp in forenoon; at 1.30 A.M., and in chest. Feeling in epigastric region as if some irritating or burning substance were in it. Epigastric region tender; on pressure; on pressure in morning; (<) below ensiform; on pressure extending to upper part of ensiform; on deep pressure, and in umbilical region. Tightness. Heaviness after a moderate dinner. Discomfort; so that he cannot sleep late. Distress in epigastrium on walking about the room, soon extending through abdomen. Sinking in epigastrium at the same hour that he had had headache, with yawning and Dullness in supraorbital and frontal regions. Sickening feeling, not nausea; (<) eating. Sourness. Indigestion, with sore feeling in stomach, and anything warm or heating causes burning and can be felt on entering stomach.
Abdomen
Distention at 11.20 A.M., with pain and escape of gas; D. (>) passage of gas, with pain, but straining pressure on walking caused sharp pain; (>) 5 P.M. by passage of gas and sour urine, with pain; compelling opening of clothes. Rumbling when pressed; R., with pain; in morning, as before diarrhoea. Emission of flatus; when abdomen is pressed. Cutting waking him at 3 A.M., Z (>) emission of flatus. Occasional griping. Pinching and soreness. Pinching-burning pain at 10 A.M. Cramplike pain at 10.30 P.M.
Pain; through A.; on early waking, with headache; in morning, with diarrhoea, the returns of pain farther apart and less severe each time till 1 P.M.; in afternoon, (>) loose stool, with burning; on pressure; through A. on sudden pressure, (>) emission of flatus; before normal stool, (>) emission of flatus; (>) emission of flatus; (>) stool; (>) diarrhoea; with urging to stool; with urging to stool, stool soft and large, later a small thin, dark, slimy stool, next day stool dark, large and lumpy, an hour later felt weak and nervous, hands trembled, then scanty stool, then burning; waking him, then copious, lumpy, urgent stool, then at 8 and 11 A.M. loose lumpy stools with wind; flatulent, (>) stool or escape of flatus; occasional, through A.; shifting, through A. in morning on getting, out of bed and at times through the day; making him sick. Discomfort. Symptoms (<) during the day.
Umbilical Region. Distention and pain, and in hypogastrium. Pain in morning, (>) free discharge of flatus; P. at 9 P.M. from distention by gas; before stool; and in hypogastrium, with frequent discharges of flatus; occasionally through U. region in morning, with frequent emissions of flatus.
Borborygmus in l. side between costal cartilages and anterior part of crest of ilium, with sharp pain. Shooting over liver in morning; S. in l. hypochondrium before stool; occasionally in spleen. Sharp pain in ilium at 4 P.M. after rising. Frequent crampy pains through small intestines. Pain through small intestines before escape of gas. Flatulent pain in region of transverse colon.
Hypogastrium. Shooting once from l. groin across umbilicus to costal cartilages. Cutting at 1.30 A.M., then large stool, in ten minutes another stool preceded by cutting, and at 8 A.M. a yellowish, watery stool; periodical C. long both Poupart’s ligaments at the same time, after each pain sickening bruised sensation in l. testicle, with sensitiveness of testicle to touch, the pain more frequent by day. Pain in afternoon; P. in l., groin; in groins after going to bed; occasionally in morning.
Rectum and Anus
Excoriation of A., (<) at stool. Tearing in A. during stool. Gnawing in lower part of R., as of worms, at 11.45 A.M. Ineffectual urging; all the evening, with burning in region of A. Dragging in perineum and lower part of scrotum.
Stool
Liquid, large, pungent, at 6 A.M., preceded by pain. Diarrhoea; at 10 A. M. (usually have stool before going to bed at night), with griping and burning at anus; with flatus and tenesmus; painless; forcible, with tenesmus; dark, then burning in anus, three times daily, relieving pain; scanty, three times before 9 A.M.; copious, brownish, painless, with much flatulence; last part laxative and pungent, twice in one day, with desire for stool twice besides, (>) emission of flatus; alternating with constipation. Soft, dark, then burning in anus, three times in a day; first part of morning stool soft, another in evening thin and lumpy. Mushy; and frequent, with flatus. Pasty and dark; and small, twice a day; P. and copious; P., small, light brown, preceded by pain through abdomen, followed by burning in abdomen, afterwards frequent desire for stool, (>) passage of gas or urine.
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.