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Generalities
Sticking here and there, in back, groins, etc., if she moves the trunk while sitting. Sensation as if all the vessels were in a tremulous motion when sitting and standing an hour after dinner. Weariness and sleepiness; W. in forenoon, so that she could scarcely move her feet; an hour after dinner, (<) knees; of feet, then of whole body. Amelioration on motion and in open air.
Mind
Excited in evening, and joyous. Lively mood, with facile movements of body and agreeable warmth. Sadness; all the forenoon; all day, with fear as of impending misfortune and weeping. Apprehension; an hour and a half after dinner, with tightness about chest Fretted; by everything, and she had a morose expression. Absorbed in herself and in thought.
Head
Falling back and forth when walking. Sound in brain as if some one were beating on a metal that was swinging freely, waking him at 5 A.M., then gradually dying away. Aching, (<) sinciput, A. in forenoon, with Dullness; after dinner, with sweat on top of head as far as forehead, then coldness of head; with compression in sides of head. Dullness. Heaviness; with fulness; as if it would be drawn backward to nape. Intoxication; in open air, Vertigo; at 1 P.M. with confusion of head; when sitting and moving about; (<) open air, (>) lying down; (<) walking, it seems as if something projected from forehead so that she could not see over it; so that she could scarcely open her eyes; even to falling backward; with heaviness of head, it falls to the side to which she turns it. Amelioration in open air; A. of headache and most of the head troubles during dinner.
Forehead. Sticking in r. side. Tearing; extending to r, side when standing after dinner. Intermittent burrowing in l. side. Movement back and forth in it. Pain in l. side, with warmth in it; dizzy P. in l. side, with heat in head and hands.
Sticking in front of l. temple. Sticking burning in l. temple at 9 P.M. Pressure in r. temple. Tearing in upper part of r. side of side of head on shaking head; T. extending downward in r. side. Sticking in vertex at 3 P.M., with painful throbbing; S. in l. side of V. after dinner, with hot organs from occiput to vertex; in r. side after eating, side after eating, with tearings; sudden, so that it drew the head backward. Burrowing in vertex, (<) l. side. Heaviness as if a hard body were upon V. Constriction in V. extending to sinciput; almost burning C. on V., (<) towards forepart and l. side.
Sticking in r. side of occiput. Tearing in l. Intermittent pain in O. Burrowing in l. occipital protuberance. Almost burning constriction on O. Dullness of O. Stitching like flea-bites on r. side of O., then smarting. Biting like flea-bites in a spot on r. upper part of head, (>) rubbing. Itching, (>) scratching; on r. side of head; on r. side of occiput; on l. temple at 2.30 P.M.; above r. side of forehead at 9.30. P.M.
Clinical Neuralgic headache, a feeling of crushing on the vertex.
Eyes
Dryness and sticking; D. and burning. Frequent biting in l. Itching, (>) rubbing, in r. at 8 P.M.; in l. after dinner; sticking. Lachrymation; in morning; with biting. Intermittent pressure about them. Frequent tearing in upper margin of r. orbit. Lids close from heaviness and sleepiness; twitching, after dinner; tension in a spot on l. lower, with burning; burning in morning; biting burning in l. upper at 9.30 P.M.; biting on l.; itching on l. lower, (>) rubbing; biting itching on l. at 3 P.M. Itching in r. inner canthus, (>) rubbing. Itching-sticking biting in inner canthus. Vision dim when sewing.
Clinical Inflammation of the eyes and headache, eyes only half open, looks as if she been crying for a week, photophobia, lachrymation, inner surface of the lids as red as scarlet, with weight on the vertex and burning shooting in the temples.
Ears
Tearing in r. external meatus; behind l. at 3 A.M.; frequent, in r. after dinner; frequent itching behind l. Boring within l.; deep within l. extending to lower jaw. Itching biting in r., that extended deeper on boring in with finger. Crawling itching externally and internally in r., (>) boring in with finger and rubbing. Singing in r. at 8 A.M., with ringing.
Nose
Itching vesicles in r. nostril, becoming confluent and smarting when scratched off. Stoppage, with rough voice; S. in evening necessity to sit up at night to get air, next morning fluent coryza. Coryza, with hoarseness, redness, burning and swelling of nostrils and swelling of upper lip; fluent C., with hoarseness. Sneezing. Smell lost.
Face
Pallor. Sticking like a flea-bite on r. side between chin and lower lip after eating. Tearing in a spot on l. lower jaw. Pinching on l. cheek in open air, with tearing to and fro, a kind of twitching. Tension in skin of l. side, with heat; T. in a sport on l. cheek, (>) rubbing. A pimple that had previously existed on upper lip began to burn.
Clinical In a very nervous coffee-drinker, it cured attacks of intense livid redness of the face.
Mouth
Tearing in the cavity of a r. upper tooth; in last l. upper molar at 1.30 P.M., (<) touch of tongue, with sticking; in last r. lower molar in evening in cool air, (>) in the house; in cavity of l. lower molars at 8.30 P.M.; itching T. in the roots of a r. upper and opposite lower molar during dinner. Redness posteriorly of gum of l. lower incisors, with swelling and ulcerative pain on pressure. Tearing in gum of r. upper back tooth. Biting, almost like a burning, on inner surface of gum of anterior lower incisors.
Red, burning vesicles on r. margin of tongue towards tip. Biting burning, as from blisters on tip of tongue. Burning prickling on tip of tongue. Mouth and throat dry at night, so that swallowing is difficult. Salivation. Frothy saliva, which she must spit out often after dinner. Taste slimy; T. like cheese; bitter to beer; sweat after drinking water half an hour after dinner.
Throat
Mucus provoking hawking; and cough. Hawking of mucus in evening on account of rawness in throat. Chokes easily when drinking in evening. Sticking at 4 P.M., (>) eating bread, but returning; S. from 4 till 7 P.M., (>) eating, with pressure; from 4 till 6 P.M. on empty swallowing and swallowing of saliva, with pressure, compelling hawking, then swallowing in painless; S. (<) swallowing. Rawness; with hoarseness; R., with short breath; intermittent R. Dryness in morning, (>) breakfast, with thirst, returning that night, at night, and thirst for beer in morning, especially for fresh milk. Burning in oesophagus, extending downward.
Stomach
Appetite increased; lost, stomach seems full constantly. Easts only soup at noon without appetite. Thirst in morning; with desire for acids; for milk in morning, temporarily (>) soup, with aversion to water; in forenoon and after eating, with aversion to and dread of water, though liquid food agrees with her; at 5 P.M. for milk and beer, with aversion to water.
Empty eructations at 8 P.M.; E. tasting of the dinner eaten an hour previously; with odor almost like bed-bugs; ineffectual, with pressure in stomach. Nausea; with desire to eructate; with emptiness in stomach and movements about intestines; then pressure in stomach, (>) empty eructations; so that she was often obliged to spit. Loathing of the veal that had been eaten in the evening.
Stitches above pit. Pinching in epigastric region, with cutting. Sensation as if an acrid, pungent exhalation arose form it, with ineffectual effort to eructate. Sensation as if full of water that would rise, up, then sensation of a large, round body twisting about in stomach, that afterwards fell downward, then rumbling in stomach, Oppression, (>) rising. Burning. Emptiness. Discomfort.
Abdomen
Distention. Rumbling and gurgling. Movements; causing coldness. Emissions of flatus at 1.30 P.M.; frequent E., with nausea in abdomen and thin stool, without tenesmus. Cutting at 7 P.M., (>) soft stool. Griping before and during stool, with flatulence, then tenesmus in anus. Pinching, (<) about umbilicus, with soft stool; P. at 3 A.M., with cutting, as before diarrhoea, (>) hard stool, afterwards return of the pains with tenesmus, (>) liquid stool. Pain caused by flatus that is not passed, in morning. Anxiety rising into stomach waking her after midnight (she had eaten potatoes and vinegar in the evening), with nausea, then diarrhoea twice, with pressure and tenesmus, then sore pain in anus. Burning extending into stomach.
Incarceration of flatus by ribs and in sacral region in morning. Constriction i r. hypochondrium when eating, extending in a straight line to l., where it became a sticking, (>) rising form the seat and walking. Biting internally in r. hypochondrium. Sudden burning in r. hypochondrium. Short movings back and forth in upper. A., causing coldness. Pinching in upper A. an after dinner, with desire for stool, but emission of only flatus. Pain in upper A. and about umbilicus 2 A.M.; intermittent, in upper A. at 2 P.M.
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.