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Generalities
Trembling of whole body. Stitches in various muscular parts. Restlessness, with constant running about, shortness of breath and oppression of chest. Weariness in morning and seemed to have had no sleep, with aching in all bones, especially bruised feeling in thighs.
Mind
Morose. Joyless, satisfied with nothing.
Head
Pressing-asunder pain, so that he almost lost his thoughts; pain beneath skull as if skull would be pressed outward by a plug. Pain as from heat of sun. Painless compression in brain from all sides. Heaviness; and dizziness. Vertigo and obscuration in forehead. Shooting from r. frontal bone through brain and about at occiput. Painful jerks in forehead shooting backward. Pain in r. frontal bone, extending through brain into occiput. Pressure outward in forehead; in r. eminence; beneath l. bone; in sinciput; in r. side of sinciput after dinner; in F., taking away his senses. Sore pain in forepart of head, (>) thinking intently about it. Twinging in r. temporal bone, extending outward; in r. T. bone, extending into ear. Acute nervous pain in upper part of r. temporal bone, (<) pressure. Pressure outward beneath upper part of r. T. bone; P. outward extending from beneath r. temporal bone to frontal bone, (<) pressure. Pain in r. side of vertex as if a sharp corner pressed against it. Jerking sticking posteriorly in l. parietal bone. Jerking thrust through r. hemisphere of brain on motion. Nervous pain in l. side of occiput, that took away his thoughts. Pain in O. on stooping, so that his thought vanished; sore P. in l. side of O., extending forward and into some l. teeth. Pressure outward in l. side of occipital bone. Sticking in scalp on occiput.
Eyes
Pain in r. ball as if inner part of eye would be torn out. Lids closed though she was not weary. Itching in l. inner canthus; in r. outer. (<) margins of lids.
Clinical Ciliary neuralgia, severe pain in the right eyeball, as if the eye would burst, shooting like lightning through the brain, to the occiput, sometimes involving all the parts around the eye. Chorio-retinitis in myopia. Irido-choroiditis. Irido-cyclitis. Opacifies of the vitreous.
Ears, Nose and Face
Pain in l. ear; pressing asunder in r. Pressing-asunder pains above nasal bone. Tickling in middle of r. nostril as if he would sneeze. Irritation to sneeze and sneezing. Itching sticking on upper part of malar-bone.
Mouth
Teeth. Sticking in various; in l. lower incisors. Piercing nervous pain in last upper molar. Nervous pain in last l. lower malar as if it would be taken out. Pain as if teeth would be taken out; the pain also shoots from one to another. Wrenching pain in lost lower malar; in several molar when anything warm is taken into mouth. Bubbling pain in last r. upper molar as if were taken out. Pain in second l. upper anterior molar. Pain as from cold water in mouth; P. in l. lower incisor and canine as from a cold drink immediately after a warm one. Indescribable sensation in several, compelling him to bite them together, which relieved.
Tongue covered with white mucus posteriorly, clean in middle. Sticking in r. side of tip of T. Burning in tongue as if it had been burnt, (>) when eating, but returning. Itching crawling in tip of tongue and in anterior teeth. Taste slimy. Taste bitter in morning. T. pasty after dinner.
Throat
Pinching in r. submaxillary gland. Scraping, causing hacking cough; S. in evening on going to sleep, with rawness, provoking cough. Crawling, causing hacking cough; C. upward in pharynx, provoking cough.
Stomach
Seized with hunger a times, but satiated after a few morsels. Satiated constantly. Nausea, with loathing of food and drink, so that he must lie down, then frequent diarrhoea. Distention of pit; after a few spoonfuls soup; with shortness of breath, so that she rest three or four times on a flight of stairs. Pressure in pit so that she could scarcely breathe.
Abdomen
Ascites, with loss of appetite, scanty micturition, hard, nodular stool discharge with pain in rectum. Cutting transversely through, as before diarrhoea, preventing sleep. Cramps from incarceration of flatus; C. (>) bending forwards, with pain on breathing; obliging careful walking so that A. should not be shaken, other wise aggravation of urinary troubles. Colic, then profuse diarrhoea; C., with desire for stool, as after taking cold; as if he had eaten much fruit and then drunk water; s after cold, wet weather; as before diarrhoea; twisting, with incomplete emission of flatus, as before Diarrhoea. Constriction so that she could not lie on back or sides. Itching crawling beneath-skin.
Sticking in r. posterior and lower lobe of liver, which in walking taken away his breath. Pain in hepatic region; (<) standing; beneath r. lobe of liver. Pain in upper A. Pinching in spots in r. side. Pain in r. side at night, so that she could not lie upon it; as if something were forcing through r. side opposite navel; in r. side below umbilicus. Swashing like a bladder filled with liquid in r. side of hypogastrium. Sticking in r. groin, (>) pressure. Cramp in bladder from pressure of flatus, so that he must bend double. Pressure outward in region of r. inguinal ring, as if a hernia would force through.
Rectum and Anus
Bleeding after hard stool. Involuntary discharge of offensive water at night in a case of ascites, then the swelling in r. side of abdomen constantly diminished and the heaviness caused by the swelling disappeared from the side. Cramplike pain as if an angular body pressed inward in r. side of R. an inch above anus. Cramplike bubbling in R. when sitting. Burning in a. as from salt in a wound, after slimy diarrhoea. Itching in a. Ineffectual desire for stool.
Stool
Thin, but sluggish. Hard and not daily. Like that of a dog, in small, broken pieces, with sticking in rectum.
Urinary Organs
Tenesmus of bladder every quarter of an hour. Burning pain in sphincter. Burning biting in bladder and urethra, with efforts to urinate. Cramp in bladder preventing sleep at night. Ulcerative pain in urethra so that he dared not take hold of it. Burning biting in urethra. Burning pains on ineffectual efforts to urinate, so that he must bend up. Momentary relief as the urine passes, but there remains sticking in glans, which causes spasm of urethra, with tenesmus recti. He is hurriedly impelled to urinate, but the urine seems to pass into glans and then to return and cause pain in urethra. Strangury. Obliged to make great pressure to urinate. Micturition six or seven times at night, of half a pint each time, preceded by the opposite condition. Micturition in a thready form, with pressure to stool. (Micturition in two streams, as if urethra had two openings). Urine biting and hot. Urine scanty and brown. U. clear, light wine-yellow, depositing a sediment varying from white to sky- blue.
Clinical Numerous cases of dysuria, usually neuralgic in origin.
Sexual Organs
Prepuce retracted from glans and penis small. Pinching on l. side of scrotum. Agreeable itching in lower part of scrotum, (>) scratching. Painful throbbing in female. Leucorrhoea making her weak; L. excoriating and straining yellow. Discharge of blood from vagina daily for eight or ten weeks, more watery the longer it lasted. Menses watery. Menses recurred profusely every fourteen days, with pain in small of back. Itching tickling in region of ovaries, not (>) scratching.
Respiratory Organs
voice rough and hoarse. Tickling in trachea on inspiration, provoking cough. Crawling in upper part of trachea, causing cough. Cough from tickling beneath larynx, renewed by holding breath. Whistling cough. Respiration anxious, short; r. short and wheezing when walking. R. difficult, with anxiety about heart. Breath seems to remain sticking in pit of stomach.
Clinical Like its relative Laurocerasus, it has been found useful in respiratory and cardiac complaints, dyspnoea, with palpitation, sense of suffocation, etc. Cardiac dropsy. Enlargement of the heart, with oedema of the feet.
Chest
Sticking in middle of l. side, not affected by inspiration; S. in r. lower posterior sides of ribs on pressure, and pain as from internal suppuration; in fleshy part of l. mamma on deep inspiration when walking and sitting, extending to every side and above l. shoulder; intermittent, in middle of r. side, preventing inspiration. Pain from talking, with sensation as if she would become hoarse and lose the power to talk; P. beneath sternum and oppression of chest from fulness of pit of stomach and abdomen; pulling tensive, in l. side, (<) inspiration; externally on l. lower part as if a large pectoral muscles on touch. seemed pressed inward, pain internally on breathing. Tightness in upper part of l. Heaviness and oppression; H. in l., obliging deep breathing; in lower part, with anxiety there, often compelling deep breathing.
Neck and Back
Pain in nape involving occiput on stooping. Stiffness of back as from an injury. Sticking between scapulae on deep breathing, extending to lumbar vertebrae and taking away his breath. Pain near spine as if a plug were forced inward two inches below l. scapula on stooping. Sticking from r. loin towards umbilicus, taking away his breath; piercing deep inward beneath crest of ilium, taking away his breath, (<) lying backward. Sensation as from suppuration in lumbar vertebrae, (<) lying, (>) gentle motion, when it extended to hip-joint and caused a sensation as if ligaments were too short, then he cannot lie on either side on account of pain in hip. Pain in small of back; when sitting.
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.