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Generalities
Subcutaneous sticking on upper lip, nape, hands and feet. Feeling as after intoxication. Discomfort so that he must lie down. Weakness; as after a journey on foot.
Mind
Lively, talkative. Foolish, talks about every subject, changes from one subject to another, would talk if alone, is delighted with his own frivolity and ridiculous talk. Inclined to be vexed and to relieve himself in a few contemptuous words. Disinclined to mental work.
Head
Sticking in middle and in temples, then weight upon forehead,(<) stooping. Pain, (<) temples; P. on smoking the customary tobacco; (<) thought; feeling as if P. would occur, (<) towards evening in open air; internal, like a bubbling, at night on waking, and inability to sleep again on account of internal restlessness. Pressure outward. Sensation as if puffed up, especially as if temples and eye were forced outward. Sensation as if dura mater were drawn tight over brain, (<) occiput. Tension in meninges and brain, with tension in occiput as if the skin were thick and cold not be wrinkled. Heaviness and sinking forward. Dullness; like vertigo, (>) walking in open air. Vertigo after reading aloud, so that talking and looking intently were difficult, with feeling as if headache would come on and pressure outward in head, all (<) towards evening in open air, also (<) walking; sudden V., (<) sitting; everything whirls around with her.
Forehead. Sticking in l. side, with gnawing, then gnawing in l. lower jaw; benumbing S. in l. side; sensation as if a sharp point were pressed against r. eminence (superficial sticking pressure). Aggravation in evening, the pain in F involved the whole sinciput, it seemed as if scalp were contracted and skin scraped sore, margins of lids red and hot, with pain as if a thread were draw tightly eye to middle of head. Pain deep in r. eminence; P. above l. orbit, that seemed to press down upper lid; stupefying throbbing, in l. side; waving and throbbing, in l. side on ascending stairs. Constriction.
Sticking in l. temple. Pain in L. temple; in r., (>) pressure of hand. Sticking in r. side; to l. of vertex. Bruised pain in l. parietal bone touch, at night. Pain in occiput; intermittent drawing, in muscles of r. side. Hair falls out and is painful on vertex. Scurf. Tension as if scalp of forehead and occiput were adherent to bone and almost immovable. pain in scalp on touch, as if hair were painful. Itching, with burning after scratching.
Clinical Neuralgic headache, with the characteristic feeling as if a thread were drawing through the eye backward to the middle of the brain. Occipital headache, with a feeling of weight.
Eyes
Mucus in morning. Discharge from E. and nose of thin mucus, that causes wheezing. Sticking through middle, with cloudy vision. Burning and lachrymation; B. and biting. Swollen feeling as if orbits were too small (so that he could not move eyes easily), with inability to fix vision, as if objects moved. Painful tension beneath l. coolness in r. Lachrymation in morning after rising. Pupils dilated. Balls seem too large. Tearing on upper surface of r. bal. Painful pressure in upper margin of orbit. Twitching of r. upper lid. Crawling on margin of r. upper lid. Hard matter in inner canthi during the day, with burning pain, (<) touch. Burning in inner canthi. Swimming before eye. Vision unsteady, as after weeping.
Ears
Tearing in l.; in r. as if it would be torn from head. Sudden pain as if a wedge were driven in to meatus in evening when walking in open air, at last (<) r., transiently (>) boring in with finger. Sensation as if heat came out them. Sensation of a mist before them, so that he could not hear well. Ringing in l.; ringing and twinging.
Nose
fulness in upper part, with blowing out of blood-streaked mucus. Stoppage in morning after rising, difficult blowing out of bloody mucus. Stopped coryza; alternating with fluent. Blowing out of red and greenish mucus. Sneezing; violent. Bleeding. Smell altered, milk and bread small like bad meat.
Face
Pallor. Hot stitches in bone of l. cheek, with pain on touch. Scratching beneath malar-bone. Tension in l. cheek, with pressure. Upper lip thick and cracked, with tetter about mouth. Blister within lower lip.
Clinical Facial neuralgia, hot stitches in l. malar-bone, which is very sire.
Mouth
Toothache almost like a tickling, (<) afternoon and night, and by cold and warmth. Drawing and throbbing in teeth. Drawing pain in a hollow tooth; hollow molar,(<) forenoon,(<) walking, and cold causes jerking pain. Pain in teeth as if hollow and as if open air penetrated them and caused coldness, with wrinkled sensation in gum and pain as if burnt. Cutting in gum every morning. Loose sensation in gum. Tongue rough and dry; rough and coated white, as if covered with millet-seeds; T. brown at root in morning after rising; seemed too large and broad.
Tense, almost painless swelling on hard palate, near last molar. Pain in skin of palate, next day desquamation. Denuded sensation on palate. Dryness in morning on waking; and in trachea, with hoarseness; D. on hard palate, with ticking burning; at times sudden D. Far back on palate with scraping there and with much tasteless water in mouth, as in hunger. Salivation after breakfast; astringent s. Frequent spitting of watery saliva. White, slimy froth in corners of mouth in morning. Taste flat, slimy; T. bitter, with dryness and roughness of tongue; T. and odor of cresses and onions in mouth.
Throat
Hawking caused by mucus in fauces. Sticking in pharynx. Sticking scratching, (<) evening. Burning, then scratching. Scraping posteriorly. Pressure as from a ball; that continued to grow larger and would burst the throat open, on stooping, (<) evening. Pressure in r. tonsil.Dryness of pharynx.
Stomach
Appetite great. Smoking tobacco in not relished. Eructations; empty, in forenoon, with pressure extending up into chest; nauseous; of clear, tasteless water in morning. Hiccough; after eating. Nausea; and acid taste. fulness; flatulent, in epigastric region, with sensitiveness to touch. Rumbling extending to throat. Griping in afternoon, (>) eructations. Pressure, (>) eructations. Sensation of a stone in it in morning. Warmth in epigastric region. Burning extending into abdomen. Digestion not as good as usual.
Abdomen
Fulness after eating, with discomfort. Movements and emission of flatus. Cramplike tearing in muscles, extending to pit stomach, worse when sitting bent over then when walking. Cutting after dinner, with ineffectual desire for stool; C. and rolling, with two stools. Griping in afternoon when sitting, (<) about umbilicus,(>) walking. Pain. Tension. Burning, like heartburn and nausea, rising into chest, after breakfast. Uneasiness.
Rumbling below stomach, as from emptiness. Sticking in r. hypochondrium. Pressure in a spot in l. side; in a spot in l. side above umbilicus, as from something hard. Rumbling and gurgling in hypogastrium. Cutting in l. groin when walking.
Stool
Ineffectual desire. Frequent urging, stool always unsatisfactory and pasty. Diarrhoea; twice in one day; thin, slimy. Hard, difficult. Offensive, like bad meat. Frequent; two normal stools in quick succession.
Urinary Organs
Tenesmus in morning after urinating. Urging, but necessity to wait a few minutes before any passed. Desire every ten or fifteen minutes, with burning micturition. Sticking in forepart of urethra. Burning in orifice of urethra when sitting; in urethra above glans during micturition. Drawing in anterior part of urethra. Urine dark yellow; Pale yellow; acrid; turbid on standing and covered with a fatty film; fiery, and after standing a flocculent film in middle, later a reddish sediment and iridescent film on surface; copious.
Sexual Organs
Nightly emission. Desire increased and hard erection; D. increased, and increased voluptuousness during coition. Menses too early.
Respiratory Organs
Hawking and expectoration of greenish, tenacious mucus from larynx; H. of white, tenacious mucus from upper part of larynx. Constantly obliged to loosen mucus from from larynx and trachea. Burning in larynx; and posteriorly, so that he could not speck a loud word. Rawness in trachea, causing bass voice. Frequent inclination in larynx to hack, as from sulphur fumes, with scanty expectoration of mucus. Hacking, he tries to loosen tenacious mucus from back part of larynx; H. in morning after rising, without expectoration, after half an hour expectoration of greenish, tenacious mucus. Cough as soon as he lies on l. side; c. on lying down, without expectoration, with such violent hacking that he sees sparks. Expectoration of lumps of mucus from upper part of trachea, without much hawking. Frequent deep inspiration. Oppressed respiration.
Clinical Catarrh of larynx, with green, tenacious expectoration. Catarrhal bronchitis, expectoration of viscid mucus, in morning and evening. Hoarseness, with constant hawking of mucus and with burning in larynx.
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.