Ear
Copious wax; (<) l.; and viscid, fluid. Sticking in l.; behind l. in evening; in r. concha after dinner; through r. external meatus towards evening in open air; as far as pharynx. Tearing in l., extending into head. Boring, (<) r., and in temples; in meatus. Gnawing in bones in front of l., also on swallowing; G. in l. external meatus, with crawling. Aching in l.; in l. about noon; in r. external meatus towards tympanum in afternoon and evening; on swallowing and sneezing; on cleaning; as if ulcerated, on swallowing; sore in a spot in l. auricle; squeezing, close to meatus, in l., then in r. auricle. Sensitiveness in cavity of r. tympanum. Drawing in bones in front of l.; on swallowing; D. behind ear; in r. after lying down; in l., with eructations.
Sensation as if air were forced into them on blowing nose. Something seems to come before l., so that though he hears everything he cannot understand the human voice. Stopped sensation; on blowing nose. Tingling and pulsation; T. and deafness; at times in one, at times in the other, with difficult hearing. Tickling. Itching in l.; in l. external meatus, with sweat in it; then burning. Asleep sensation in outer.
Roaring; in evening in bed, with rush of blood to head; ringing, in head coming out at ears. Ringing; in morning in bed; during dinner, with deafness; when sitting; (<) lying down, with roaring as from wind; with humming or roaring in head. Cracking on chewing, and in joint of jaw; C. as if a string broke in them; like the bursting of bubbles. Noises; in r.; loud, with distention of head; like boiling water, with frequent painful drawing in r. ear. Fluttering; before l. at 5 P.M. Intolerance of noise. Hearing hypersensitive; to the crack of a whip, with swashing in ears; in one who hears with difficulty, so that playing the piano causes nausea. Difficult hearing in l. ear after dinner. Deafness.
Clinical Deafness, with a variety of inflammations in external and middle ear, and perhaps also in the internal ear.
Nose
Inflammation; of wings, with swelling. Swelling; with pain and internal ulceration; of tip, with shining redness, whereby anterior angle of l. nostril felt thick, hard and painful to touch, afterwards on inside the swollen part a hard, transparent, bright yellow mass, detached with difficulty and pain. Redness of tip in evening, with itching and tickling; R. of R. nostril, with sensitiveness to touch, next day r. wing inflamed and painful to touch, (<) septum, afterwards branlike scales.
A kind of cramp. Tearing after dinner, transiently (>) pressure. Cutting in evening, with thin discharge. Smarting in forenoon, and in l. lid. Aching; at root; in bones; in a spot on l. nostril; in root during the day; in bones during the day; during the day, with fulness as if one of the bones were thickened and loose; during breakfast, extending into frontal sinus; in bones in forenoon; in nostrils towards noon; at noon; in root at noon; in bones towards noon and after dinner; in r. bones in evening; in root in evening; in tip on touch; on touch, (<) its l. outer edge, next morning tensive sore pain in nose, (<) tip, feeling as if nose were swollen, inside covered with scabs; intermittent; intermittent, in bones; raw, on edge or r. nostril. Soreness; of mucous membrane; in a spot in l. nostril; in morning after rising, pain severe at noon and acrid flow from r. nostril; in evening, (<) septum, (<) touch; of mucous membrane on smoking.
Feeling during dinner and all the afternoon as if mucous membrane detached it self from the bone and rose as a blister, with frequent sneezing. Cracking in upper part, or feeling as of the bursting of a bubble. Rush of blood, (<) open air. Crawling as in coryza. Tickling; in l. nostril at 8 P.M. then discharge of bright, thickish blood containing many sulphates. Itching; of nostrils, with burning as if sore; on outside, (<) margins, with swollen feeling. Burning in septum in morning; intermittent, in l. wing in morning.
Dryness (Lycopodium, Natrum mur.); towards tip of borders of wings, with irritation of Schneiderian membrane as if coryza were coming on; in morning; in forenoon in open air, with feeling as if mucous membrane were swollen; in forenoon, with tension; in forenoon, with aching about root; in forenoon, (<) root, with aching; at noon; at noon, with stiffness; at noon, with escape of one or two drops of fluid and aching in nasal bones; in afternoon; in evening; in evening, with burning on outer borders of wings, which are sensitive to touch; dry feeling in evening though it is moist; in l. nostril after a glass of beer, with sensitiveness of mucous membrane on inspiring air of room; in upper part, with aching; with stiffness; with tension; alternating with watery discharge.
Constant desire to blow it though there was no mucus in forepart, and difficult discharge of viscid, long, narrow pieces. Stoppage; of r. nostril; and on blowing it discharge of clots of blood. Stopped sensation at root in morning, with catarrhal voice; in upper part in afternoon and evening, with fluent coryza, burning soreness, discharge of biting water and rough bass voice.
Sneezing, in evening and morning; in morning, with sensation as if a cold were coming on and frequent blowing out of mucus mixed with blood; at noon; in forenoon; in afternoon; preceded by nausea; always relieving head.
Coryza; with chilliness and cough; with rawness in chest, cough and much expectoration; with headache; sudden, at noon, during dinner; paroxysmal; dry, causing obscuration of head, (<) eating; stopped, during the day, with dry cough and stitches in r. side of abdomen. Fluent coryza; in morning; and on blowing nose bloody mucus; mucus must be drawn through nares. Discharge; from l. nostril at noon. Copious discharge in morning; in evening; with dryness of nose. Frequent blowing in morning; after dinner, with burning in septum. Blood-streaked mucus; in morning.. Blowing out of thick mucus; in morning, with expectoration; in forenoon; in forenoon in open air, later in the room nose dry and its borders stiff, in afternoon profuse secretion; yellow, purulent. Watery discharge; from r. nostril; from l. nostril; at noon; after dinner; in evening; with dry cough hoarseness and dryness of throat; trickling; dropping of yellow, glutinous strong-smelling liquid mornings and evenings, without coryza; burning; burning, at noon. Acrid, watery discharge; in evening; at one time, then dryness and stiffness, the next moment blowing out thick phlegm, them dryness.
Bleeding; in morning on blowing; two days in succession at 3 P.M., then pain in nose on touch; third evening of menses; just before and after menses; on blowing; blowing out blood at night; clotted, always on blowing.
Intolerance of odors. Offensive odor of mucus on blowing nose (Pulsatilla). Odor of old, offensive mucus (Pulsatilla); of burnt horn; of sulphur; of soaked peas; of soapsuds; of flowers; sharp biting, as from smoke; bad, to the dinner, which tastes well; like lime to food, but it has a good taste; blunted; lost.
Clinical Catarrhs of various sorts, according to the symptoms above.
Face
Pale; and suffering as after long illness, with discomfort; and collapsed, expression anxious. Redness at 3 P.M.; after dinner, with sweat; in spots on r. cheek; on cheek-bones, with burning; dark, on walking in open air, with heat. Yellow. Dirty, earthy. Distorted, as from long suffering. Swelling in morning; S. of checks, with sticking and pain on touch; red, of cheeks. Roughness of cheeks, with heat and sensation as if they had been exposed to severe cold, then branlike desquamation. Looks ill; and has double rings around eyes. Twitching, at times on malar- bone, at times on chin.
Shooting in r. cheek-bone at 11.30 A.M.; in l. zygoma, with drawing. Tearing in r. half; in malar-bone and at other times in lower jaw, as if they would be torn out; in r. cheek in evening; flying, in cheeks. Pressure and burning in cheeks and cheek- bones. Painful pressure on malar-bone and beneath eye. Bruised pain in r. malar-bone, even at night. Drawing pain in skin of l. side, above eye, on on temples and on malar-bone as far as lobule of ear, (<) morning. Tension in skin around mouth in morning on waking; around mouth, with dryness and branlike desquamation; as if beginning to swell.
Jaws.- Glandular swelling of lower; painful S. of upper above gum; painful, on lower beneath gum; painless on lower, tender on chewing. Cracking in joint on chewing. Drawing jerking in l. lower. Sticking in lower, extending out of ear. Tearing in r. upper in evening; occasionally in l. lower during the day. Pain in l.; in l.; lower in morning after waking, with swelling around a tooth, as if a gumboil would form; ulcerative, in l. upper. Cramplike pain in l. lower; in l. angle of lower. Drawing-tensive pain in r. Drawing in r. upper; in l. lower in morning after rising; in l. lower towards joint about noon; in l. lower in afternoon; in l. upper about 5 P.M., and in zygoma; spasmodic; sudden, in r. lower in evening.
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.