He hears frequently a noise as of waves beating against the shore, with a deafening sound, which prevents him from hearing a word.
Sensation as if he had dirt in his ears, or a spongy substance which swells up.
Face.
Face yellowish, or red, enlarged, inflamed, and congested.
Face pale, transparent, and white as wax.
Face gray, cold, and frozen looking, and paralyzed.
Face emaciated, bluish, cyanotic, contracted, shrunken, with hollow eyes.
Face discolored like that of a drowned person.
Deep, red face, with cerebral congestion, vertigo, and stupefaction.
Itching and burning in the cheeks, with sensation as if they were excoriated.
Ulcers and scabs on the face.
Red spots on the face, as if it had been painted with vermilion.
Small pimples on the face, which frequently sting as from needle-pricks.
Intense scaly herpes, with falling off of the eyebrows and bread.
Erysipelatous swelling of the face, with closed-up eyes; fever, delirium, desire to expose himself to the air, and even to throw himself out of window, as from the effects of a sunstroke.
Yellowish pimples and pustulous herpes on the face.
Puffy face, with tense and easily ulcerated skin.
Subcutaneous red spots, as in small-pox.
Red lumps in the face, as from congestion of blood.
Boils and abscesses on the face.
Sensation as if the face had been stung by insects.
Strongly marked red or yellow spots on the face.
The skin of the face is painful and as if excoriated, after shaving.
Swelling of the cheek, with abscesses on the gums.
Burning, pulsative, lancinating pains in the face.
Facial neuralgia from the eyebrows to the chin, with distorted features and grimaces.
Convulsive movements as from tic douloureux, or trismus, with pains in the lips and chin.
Spasmodic movements of the facial muscles, with involuntary grimaces, especially on the left side.
Itching and burning miliary and urticarious eruptions on the face.
Painful swelling, like an abscess, on the right maxillary sinus.
Painful shocks in different parts of the face.
Pain in the facial bones, with sensation as if they were crushed and dislocated.
Ulcers an scabs under the nose and on the chin.
The jaws are spasmodically clenched.
Convulsive agitation of the facial muscles, with difficult biting and mastication.
Great weakness of the facial bones and teeth, as if the least effort would fracture them.
Sensation as if the lips were constantly fully of oil.
Lips enlarged and inflamed.
Lips covered with phlyctenae, which are constantly renewed.
Lips enormously swollen, ulcerated, everted, of a bluish- yellow.
Ulcers, especially at the labial commissures, and resembling a syphilitic affection.
Lips dry, pinched, and contracted.
Mouth.
Lancinating, digging, and drawing pains in the teeth, with sensation as if they forcibly separated from each other, or pulled at with pincers and torn out.
Constant inclination to clench the teeth.
Sensation of cold in the teeth, with heat in the gums and the whole mouth.
Burning in the teeth, gums, and lips, as if they were calcined.
Sensation of uneasiness and pain in the region of the last molars, as if new ones were coming through.
Pain in the hollow teeth, especially at night, in cool air, and when eating, with very bad smell from the mouth.
The gums swollen, inflamed, burning, and as if scorbutic.
Severe pains in the teeth, with cramps in the whole jaw, especially after exposure to a current of air.
Gnashing and grinding of the teeth, they crumble and break.
The teeth feel as if longer and sharper.
Decay of the teeth, with acute, lancinating strokes in heir roots.
Toothache, with sensation as if the jaws were broken.
Toothache, aggravated especially in the afternoon, evening, and night, also by taking anything old, by the least contact, and by changes of weather.
Wine, and especially coffee, aggravate the toothache for awhile.
The teeth are loose and readily fall out.
Pulsative, lancinating, and distensive pains in the gums.
Gum-boils, with swelling of the cheeks and submaxillary glands.
Mouth burning and inflamed, as if erysipelatous and excoriated.
Ulcers like aphthae or thrush, in different part of the mouth.
Exfoliation of the mucous membrane of the buccal cavity.
Inflamed palate, with very painful nodosities.
Itching of the palate, and small burning pimples there.
Fetid breath.
Flow of thick and viscid saliva, with bitter mouth.
Frothy slavering at the mouth, with constant desire to spit.
Very painful pimples on the tongue, with itching and burning.
Tongue inflamed, and enormously swollen, with great difficulty in speaking.
Severe pains at the root of the tongue, as if it were cut off.
Swelling of the salivary and submaxillary glands.
The tongue fissured, lacerated, and as if cut on its edges, with copious salivation and debility, as if from the effects of mercury.
Grayish, yellowish, bloody or brick dust coating on the tongue.
Difficult speech, stammering.
Throat.
Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of fullness and obstruction, as if it were plugged.
Burning in the throat, as if it were full of mustard, with violent and convulsive cough.
Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils.
Frequent and stubborn abscesses on the tonsils.
Angina with almost impossible deglutition.
Raw pains, tumors, and a great deal of tenacious mucus in the throat, with great difficulty in swallowing even the saliva.
Debility and attacks of constriction of the throat, with danger of suffocation.
Burning and stitches in the throat, with constant feeling of strangulation.
Sensation as if he had a burning stick in the throat, reaching down into the stomach.
Liquids pass frequently into the larynx and through the nasal fossa, with violent, jerking cough.
Considerable accumulation of mucus in the throat, with granulations, and grayish ulcers like false membranes.
Inability to drink, in spit of great thirst, on account of spasms in the throat, which contracts and feels tight as soon as he hears anything said about water, or sees shining objects.
Sensation, sometimes of burning heat, sometimes of icy coldness in the oesophagus.
Tickling sensation, as if some live thing were moving about in his oesophagus, with fits if suffocating cough.
Ulcerated spots on the throat, aggravated by cold.
Taste and Appetite.
Bitter or bloody taste in the mouth.
Taste bitter, acid, and sometimes sweetish, extending into the stomach, with epigastric burning and hunger at the same time.
Bitter, bilious taste.
Flat taste of the food; it also seems frequently too salt, or over seasoned.
Morbid hunger in the afternoon, evening, and even at night, when he wakes up to eat.
Hunger even after eating; he thinks of nothing else.
He likes everything, except what is insipid, watery or sweet; prefers salted or highly seasoned food.
Hunger, as if he had fasted a long time, with empty feeling, burning, and sensation, as if he had a tape-worm.
Hunger, with excessive weakness which seems to come from the stomach.
Burning, stitches, and roughness in the oesophagus.
Intense hunger, still he cannot eat.
Hunger, with sensation of fullness in the stomach; even the little he eats causes clenching of the teeth and contraction of the throat.
Contraction of the stomach and chest, so that he can take nothing and almost suffocates.
Burning, unquenchable thirst.
Desire for cold water, strong liquors, cider, and sour drinks.
Love of strong odors; desire for garlic, laurel, sweet basil, and all sorts of spices; he even longs for aromatic drinks.
Anorexia; excessive repugnance to all food.
Stomach.
The stomach feels full and as if ulcerated.
Very frequent empty eructation, especially after eating or drinking.
Obstinate and painful eructation, especially after eating vegetables.
Regurgitations, with taste of the food or of saffron, and sometimes acid or ammoniacal.
Obstinate, convulsive hiccough.
Burning in the stomach, as if it were on fire.
Excessive and almost continual secretion of phlegm.
Much secretion of phlegm, especially when waking in the morning, before eating, when walking, and sometimes at night.
Much phlegm is formed, with nausea, insipidity, or acidity, and heat in the stomach.
Incessant nausea and inclination to vomit.
Vomiting of the food and of bile, with hunger even after eating.
Vomiting of food, and often of blood, after meals.
Vomiting of acrid, burning matter, followed by bile and blood.
Vomiting, with horrible pains in the stomach.
Watery, acid, or insipid, and sweetish vomiting, with burning and stitches in the stomach.
Vomiting of pure blood, as if from the rupture of a blood vessel in the stomach.
Vomiting, bilious and black.
Vomiting mixed with bile, blood, or water.
Watery vomiting, with whitish particles in it, and most foul eructations; stitches and cramps in the stomach and extremities; urging to stool, and very liquid diarrhoea; painful icy coldness over the whole body; excessive thirst; pressure and constriction in the epigastrium; spasms; agitation; cold perspiration, especially on the head; a state like intoxication, prostration and emaciation.
Vomiting, with constant dread of death.
It seems as if the whole force of the organism was concentrated in the stomach to produce an infinity of suffering.
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.