Throat
External. Swelling of glands; submaxillary (Calcarea); S. on l. side, painful to touch, with hoarseness, her voice gave out when speaking, throat raw as far as into chest, scraping in throat, (<) cough, at the same time pressure on vertex so that she could not press upon it. Goitre increases; pressure in G. Sticking in parotid gland, with pain on touch; S. in thyroid gland, anteriorly and externally, in forenoon.
Inflammation morning and night, with swelling of r. tonsil, and sticking and choking on swallowing, as from a swelling, (<) l. side, where tonsil was not swollen. Violent hawking of thick mucus, that constantly collects again (Pulsatilla); easy H. of mucus in morning. Adherent mucus, causing scraping; a piece of M. at night, waking him in morning by tickling and irritation, but he easily raises it, soon a second piece, which is easily raised, with rawness of chest, which is (>) rising.
Sticking in l. side in morning on swallowing, with redness; S. in afternoon; in r. side in afternoon, in open air; at 6 P.M., on yawning and swallowing; with rawness and dry cough; as from mucus at 4 P.M. Pain in l. side on yawning. Soreness, and in trachea; pressing S. after stooping, with difficult swallowing, several days afterwards sensation as if something were sticking in T. Rawness; (<) evening, with scraping; (>) eating, with scraping; (>) hawking, with dryness, as if hoarse; felt even in brain, with scraping. Dryness of T. and tongue at night, without thirst; D., he hawks much without raising anything; scraping, in fauces by posterior nares, (<) open air. Rancidity; at 6 P.M. Sensation as if something arose in it on rapid running. Tickling in afternoon, (<) swallowing, with sticking; T. causing inclination to cough. On swallowing the morsel descends only by pressing with the mouth. Pressure in oesophagus.
Stomach
Appetite. Great; for breakfast; for breakfast but he had scarcely satisfied himself when there was pressure in stomach and he became ill-humored; towards noon; forenoon, little at noon; in afternoon; for a pipe of tobacco after dinner, tobacco had not tasted so good for a long time. Disposed to nibble, as soon as he sees anything, eatable he wishes to taste it. Little, though stomach seems empty. Not as good as usual, for dinner, meat not relished, bread tastes best. Lost; at noon and in evening. Aversion to milk; to meat and to fat food.
Thirst great; T. even in morning; in forenoon; to wards noon; in afternoon; in evening after sleep; after walking; only when eating; for cold water a few hours after dinner.
Eructations; in forenoon; when eating, with vertigo; sour; sour in afternoon; empty; at 2 P.M., then heat in pharynx; tasting of food, after every meal; bilious, penetrating nose, in afternoon; bitter, that he tasted a long time, in forenoon; of sweetish water, only as far as throat, at 3 P.M. Waterbrash. Hiccough; every afternoon after eating. Violent hiccough from 6 till 6.30 P.M., so that it caused bitter eructations; and so prolonged in evening that everything became sore; during dinner, making stomach sore.
Nausea nearly all day, with eructations of water; N. in morning, (>) soup, with sensation of fasting; from morning till noon, with crawling and twisting about stomach, salivation and eructations; in forenoon, with yawning; in forenoon, but without inclination to vomit,(>) eating; after fruit, with tension in hypochondria; (>) towards evening by eating, with hat of face, hawking of mucus, retching till vomiting of frothy, tasteless mucus; with fulness in stomach and shuddering; with looseness in stomach, as if he had taken cold, then warmth in pit of stomach. Ineffectual retching in morning. Vomiting of offensive sour liquid, like muddy water (when coughing).
Rumbling in forenoon, (>) eructations, with pressure. Sticking deep in l. side at 3.30 P.M., then burning; in epigastric region, in a broad streak across to r. side in afternoon, with retracted feeling; in epigastric region before dinner, then beneath l. breast on inspiration. Cutting towards small of back in forenoon; in epigastric region at 1 P.M. when walking, then extending towards umbilicus, with feeling as before stool; internally and externally, with drawing. Griping after the morning drink; in epigastric region in morning, (>) moving about, with pressure; in epigastric region at 2 P.M., with beating, as of a worm; when walking, with pressure in it and with tremulousness; extending towards l. side at 1 P.M.
Pain after breakfast and dinner; after milk soup; (>) 4 P.M. by bread, with sensitiveness, even to pressure, and salivation; then at 1.30 P.M. sticking in region of l. lower ribs; as from a stone at 3 P.M.; about epigastric region like a pressure and retching, (>) moving about. Painfulness to touch; epigastric region in forenoon. Sensation of a lump after dinner. Soreness of pit when talking, and frothy saliva. Painful contraction in evening, afterwards extending to hypochondria, so that she must bend up, (>) stretching and walking, (<) stooping and sitting, lasting till morning, with jerking as if a worm were turning about in r. side below stomach.
Fulness in evening; at 4 A.M. in bed, with feeling as if something were rising. Swollen feeling and sensitiveness. Tension above pit. Stoppage from below upward after eating, as if digestion could not go on from above downward, then relaxation of hands and feet. Fasting sensation in forenoon. Disordered feeling, (>) warm soup, but returning. Weak and easily disordered. Burning in l. side near pit at 5 P.M. when walking; sudden, near r. side of pit in afternoon. Scraping heartburn after fat food.
Clinical Indigestion, mostly acid, with palpitation and distress about the heart.
Abdomen
Distention in afternoon, (>) towards morning; in afternoon, (>) emission of flatus; in evening, (>) lying down, with emission of flatus; (<) eating; slight, (>) emission of flatus; with frequent urging to stool, partly ineffectual, partly slight discharge of natural stool; here and there as by gas; painful, in morning, during menstruation, (>) slight diarrhoea after rising. Rumbling; at 6.30 P.M.; with gurgling and with distention in places; griping, (>) open air. Movements, even in morning in bed, then two thin stools. Flatus of the odor of bad eggs; sour-smelling; offensive, in afternoon. Incarcerated flatus, wherupon it mounted into his head, and he had twitching in face.
Cutting in morning; nights, with tensive colic in upper abdomen and diarrhoea; before somewhat hard stool, and in small of back; with movements, then four thin stools in half an hour; in attacks in afternoon, with griping as before diarrhoea. Griping after eating; after stool; with movements, then hard, crumbly stool; intermittent; as before diarrhoea, in morning, with nausea. Pinching, then soft, then diarrhoea-like stool, with sore pain in anus.
Colic towards morning, abdomen hard and umbilicus retracted; C. at 11 A.M., (>) soup; in afternoon, with urging to stool and urine, after long pressure some urine passes, wherewith penis is erect, and this pressure with erection continues after the discharge; at night; on touch and on walking; before soft stool; (<) 11 A.M., (>) eating; in a child, (>) sleep, with nausea, pallor and necessity to lie down; twice daily, (>) vomiting; with urging to stool, (>) scanty stool, then feeling as if much remained; waking her at night; waking him, (>) stool; flatulent, with constant urging to stool; bruised, when riding horseback, with sticking in r. side of chest; sore, (>) external warmth, with pressure downward, as before menstruation. Jerking contraction, with an affection of small of back. Painful tension, and in testicles. Heaviness.
Hypochondria. Jerking at times in r. in evening. Sticking in r. in forenoon, then griping in hypogastrium; in region of spleen in afternoon when walking; in l., extending into pit of stomach, during the day when sitting, with pain on touch; as with crossed knives in r., with screwing-together sensation and oppressed breathing. Pain in l. on pressure. Stoppage in region of spleen waking him, with oppression across chest and stomach as from flatulence.
Sticking in l. side, with drawing, as from incarcerated flatus. Upper A., distention; griping rumbling in afternoon, (>) emission of flatus; cutting in middle in morning; inflated sensation. Umbilicus, griping about, in afternoon; intermittent griping in a spot in forenoon; pinching about, then usual stool, with clawing in anus; drawing towards small of back like urging to stool, in morning, with yawning; tensive burning in spot to l. of U. in forenoon.
Hypogastrium. Swelling of inguinal glands: (generally painful) and of axillary glands. Intermittent twitching like a beating in r. flank. Sticking above r. hip, with drawing; S. in r. flank, extending into r. rib near pit of stomach, and then on deep breathing, into sternum, above ensiform cartilage, (>) inspiration, returning during expiration; in r. groin, so that she must bend
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.