(Pain in neck of bladder like a warning to urinate.). Frequent micturition. Micturition in a thin stream. (Inability to retain urine.) (Urine frothy like yeast). Clear, bright yellow urine, depositing on standing a yellow sediment. Thick grayish white sediment.
Sexual Organs
Drawing stitches in body of penis, out through glans. Itching on scrotum and body of penis, with burning; voluptuous I. on tip of penis. Spermatic cord swollen, painful (Pulsatilla). Testicles, painful swelling (Arsenicum Clem., Rhododendron); pinching (Clem), bruised (Rhododendron), squeezing pain in T.; sticking extending into spermatic cords; pain; pain on touch. Menses too early and profuse.
Respiratory Organs
Region of thyroid gland seems indurated (Conium, Iodium). Jerking sticking externally in region of larynx. Pain in region of larynx, when singing; P. above thyroid cartilage, (<) touch. Scraping in larynx, with burning and constriction. Dryness in region of larynx, (<) hawking (Belladonna). Sensation in region of thyroid and cervical glands on breathing as if air forced in and out. Hoarseness (Iodium, Bromium). (Cough at night, with fretful look); C. from low down in chest, where it pains as if sore and bloody; from coughing (seek Sanguinaria); dry C; dry, day and night, (>) eating and drinking, with burning in chest (Carbo-v.); hollow, day and night, with expectoration.
Respiration difficult as if a plug were sticking in larynx and the breath could not get through on account of constriction of larynx (compare Lachesis). (Dyspnoea). Rapid panting after dancing. Respiration slow, deep, as after exhaustion.
Clinical Goitre; hard, with suffocative spells at night, sometimes with hoarse cough or staring eyes. Laryngitis, harsh, croupy cough, with suffocative spells rousing from sleep, larynx sensitive to touch, (<) turning the head; (in croup Spongia is always indicated by the suffocative attacks, resembling Brom); it is not useful in the acute febrile stage, but it follows Aconite; it is possible, however, now to prescribe Iodine or Bromine, as occasion demands, with great accuracy, and thus avoid the necessity of giving Spongia (which combines in a feeble way some properties of both these drugs). It has been used for phthisis of the larynx and for diphtheritic croup. Chronic hoarseness, especially if the voice gives out in talking or singing (Phosphorus). Oppression of breathing, (>) eating a little. Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing asthmatic cough, (>) eating or drinking, (<) cold air; sometimes in bronchitis, with profuse expectoration and suffocative attacks, (<) lying with the head low and in a hot room, (>) eating. It has been prescribed with success in the dry suffocative cough associated with aneurism or with enlarged bronchial glands. Occasionally useful in whooping cough, (<) midnight and cold air.
Chest
Sticking in l. side, with pressure; S. in r. side, and on rubbing the place sensation as if a weight were drawing downward under skin; in muscles of l. side of C. and back, with sudden pain as if a broad pointed substance were forced up; intermittent, in l.; outward, in r.; boring, in r. costal muscles during inspiration and expiration; drawing, beneath l. second ribs when walking; drawing, in l. side when sitting with back bent, (<) deep, slow inspiration.
Cutting in l. side on deep inspiration. Pain when coughing and in trachea, with rawness in throat (compare Causticum Stannum). Painful pressure beneath short ribs on coughing. Pinching jerking outward in l. side. Sticking-pinching crawling in region of l. sixth and seventh ribs, (<) external pressure.
Clinical Occasionally prescribed in pneumonia (see Iodine); in pneumonia, when the patient cannot lie down. It has also been prescribed in pulmonary consumption, particularly the form following pneumonia, characterized by the suffocative spells of coughing, (<) dry, cold air.
Heart
(Pain about heart, palpitation, with dyspnoea, cyanosis and fear of death.
Clinical Rheumatic endocarditis, inability to lie down, wakes with suffocation, etc.
Pulse
Rapid and full.
Neck
Jerking in r. muscles when lying. Cracking in nape on stooping. Sticking in l. side; in r. muscles on waking, (>) swallowing, but returning; drawing, through l. side. Cramp in muscles, which drew jaw downward after opening mouth wide and biting teeth together hard, with heaviness in joint of jaw as if dislocated. Frequent cracking pain in nape close to l. scapula. Intermittent pressure in r. side as if skin were pressed between fingers and pain on touch in region of jugular vein. Sensation as if glands were swollen. Tension in muscles, (<) r. on bending head backward. Stiffness; in l. side on turning head to right.
Back
Pain, then palpitation all day, before menses; pain extending up and down through spine when sitting erect. Sticking on r. scapula; in scapulae, with soreness; in r. lumbar muscles; in sacrum. Tearing from r. side of sacrum to l. and upward when sitting. Pain in sacrum when walking, (<) stepping with l. foot; at union of sacrum and r. ilium when standing; flatulent, in lumbar region during stool. Numbness of sacrum and nates.
Extremities
Stretching. Jerking like drawing pressure in hollow of l. knee on bending knee, alternating with similar sensation in axilla. Weakness, (<) muscles of lower, with bruised sensation.
Upper Extremities
Twitching about l. shoulder-joint. Sticking in axilla when sitting. Stretching of arms. Sticking drawing through upper arm. Stitches in elbow on motion; in tip on flexing arm, then tearing in joint while arm was bent. Pain in tip of l. elbow. Forearms and hands tremble; boring outward stitches in internal muscles of r. F.; cramplike pain below elbow, (<)leaning on arm, with slow bubbling; drawing pains; pain in l. as if bones were compressed; heaviness. Wrist, stitches in r. during rest; tensive pain in l.; drawing pain upon r.; drawing in l.; tired sensation in and above them.
Swelling of hand, with inability to bend fingers. Pinching drawing inward in middle of palm. Middle joint of l. middle finger was thick, red and stiff. Sticking in distal joint of thumb, with sore pain. Cramplike pain in ball of r. thumb all day, and on moving hand extending into thumb; in ball of l. thumb all day on moving hand. Pain in proximal joints of r. fingers. Painful drawing in proximal phalanx of l. thumb extending into forearm. Tips of index fingers insensible.
Lower Extremities
Weariness. Stiffness. Sudden jerking in muscular fibres of r. nates. Sticking in inner side of r. thigh; above r. knee when sitting, with pain; pulsating, above r. knee in morning in bed; drawing, below l. groin, (<) walking; boring outward, near r. hip. Tension in upper end of thigh, as if a muscle were too short, on every step, with sticking. Pressure extending backward on inner side above r. knee. Drawing in thighs and legs during menses.
Knee, sticking in l. in evening; pain in external tendon of flexor of r. popliteus, (<) walking; drawing in l. at night, then sweat; weakness when walking; heaviness when walking. Sticking in r. calf when walking. Tearing in tibia all the afternoon. Uneasiness in legs. Tearing heaviness in l. tibia close to ankle. Sensation in lower part of l. tibia, as if a weight were hanging upon it when walking rapidly. Falling asleep of r. leg after a nap at noon, then of l., with spasmodic drawing of l. towards thigh when walking and sitting.
Tearing in malleoli, with heaviness of feet extending into tibiae; drawing T. extending from r. ankle to knee. Heel, (sticking when sitting after a long walk); S. extending out of r. when standing; extending upward in r. when sitting; intermittent, extending outward in l. when standing, (>) motion. Pain in r. heel, (<) walking. Drawing pain extending from r. foot into thigh.
Skin
Eruption on tip of nose and on lips. Itching eruption and itching red spots. Red swelling of r. antitragus, with a pimple discharging like an ulcer, ear painful to external pressure. Pimples painful to pressure beneath chin. Inflamed node in l. concha at entrance to meatus, at last covered with a scab and painful to touch. Boils painful to touch on l. ear. Blisters on r. forearm. Yellow crusty eruption, painful to touch on l. eyebrow.
Sticking externally on chest and arm; in various parts, provoking scratching; itching, here and there, not (>) rubbing. Crawling on neck; in l. foot; in different spots, then redness and heat, then biting itching, then urticaria-like blisters, (<) scratching.
Itching on l. cheek; on ball of l. thumb, not (>) rubbing; if he scratches the itching spot the I. occurs in many other places; as at the outbreak of sweat in morning on waking, recurring after rubbing; voluptuous, of backs of r. toes in morning on waking; tickling, on l. thigh close to groin; burning, at night, (<) back, he only slumbers and tosses about constantly, with thirstless heat over whole body, (<) towards morning. Sticking itching in l. cheek; on chest towards l. shoulder; beneath l. eye, somewhat (>) rubbing. Prickling itching in l. axilla when sitting; in hollows of knees when walking. Biting itching on chest, (<) cold, on pit of stomach, on back, lower part of upper arms, at other times only on feet, the biting (<) rubbing, then redness of the spots, then blisters.
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.