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Burning in the eyes, evenings, as if he had studied long by the light.

Pressure on both eyes.

Sense of weight on eyes.

Inclination to press the eyes tightly together.

Dull pressure over the nose and one eye.

Violent tearing between the root of the nose and the right eyebrow, as if some one took hold of her there by the skin; very painful and long-lasting (after half an hour).

Difficulty of moving the lids (second day).

Sticking, like electric stitches, in both inner canthi, and pressure in the eyes.

Burning and biting in the right internal canthus redness of the conjunctiva.

Acute conjunctivitis, with much lachrymation.

Yellowness of the sclerotica.

The eyeball pains as if bruised, especially on touch.

Sudden, rather severe, tensive pain in the upper part of the right eyeball.

Vanishing of sight (ninth day).

Vanishing of sight and hearing.

The sight vanishes when she looks at an object for a long time, 4 1/2 P.M.

Sparks before the eyes.

Flickering before the eyes.

Flickering before the eyes, especially on rising from sitting, several times in an hour, of short duration; she sees only as through a thick veil, with vertigo (several days). Blackness before the eyes.

Ears.

Twitching-tearing in the right concha, in the evening on lying down, which disappears in bed.

Ulcerative pain in the right concha, in the evening (after two days).

Twitching, painful tearing in the right ear, in the morning (second day).

Roaring in the ear (fourth day).

Fluttering before the left ear, as from a large bird; at the same time a warmth passes to this ear, as if she stood near a hot stove; gradually disappearing (after one and a half hours).

Nose.

The corners of the nostril are ulcerated and painful (fourth hour).

Nose pointed.

Violent sneezing, five times. (Twice hearty sneezing).

Sneezing, fluent coryza, and chilliness, with loss of taste and smell.

Fluent coryza.

Fluent coryza and tickling cough, with violent eructations, retching, and vomiting of a tough, watery mucus (eleventh day).

Catarrhal symptoms toward evening (eight day).

Catarrhal stoppage of the nose, with thick, mucous discharge.

Catarrh in the left nostril, with stoppage of the nose and loss of smell (1.30 P.M)..

Now stoppage of the nose, now a fluent catarrh.

Nose-bleed at 3 P.M., followed by fluent coryza, with sneezing.

Stupefying tension across over the root of the nose, as if laced with a band.

A tearing and crawling in the left nostril, as of sudden irritation to sneeze, which, however, does not occur (after half an hour).

Face.

Red face.

Face bright-red.

Face smutty color.

Livid face.

Pale face.

Great paleness.

Remarkably pale face, for an hour.

Pale, sunken face.

Face unusually pale and wore an expression of extreme anxiety.

Countenance livid, bathed in clammy sweat, and expressive of great suffering (one hour).

Cold sweat on face.

Spasmodic agitation of the facial muscles.

Convulsive twitches in almost every muscle of the face.

Countenance distorted, with peculiar tetanic spasms of the jaws, as though she was endeavoring to bite everything within reach.

Burning heat of face.

Tensive feeling in face and neck (second day).

Dull pressure on the left malar bone.

Sensitive drawing, at last dull pressure, on left malar bone.

Lips livid.

Cracked lips, at night on waking (fourth day).

Dry, scurfy lips (third hour).

The right and left sides of the upper lip are full of clear, itching vesicles, which on drying up, are replaced by new ones; the itching is especially violent in the evening.

On the right side of the lower lip several clear vesicles; at the same time the right side of the upper lip is swollen and covered with small pimples, with tensive pain on pressure.

Burning externally on the right side of the chin, which lasts but a short time (after one hour and a half).

Burning on the right of the chin, as if one held a hot coal to it (after one hour and three-quarters).

Drawing form the chin along the right side of the lower jaw.

Mouth.

Violent toothache in the morning (fourth day).

Tearing in three to four teeth of the lower left row, which soon disappears (after an hour and a half).

Pain in a root of a tooth of the right lower row, as if it were being taken out, which frequently returns.

Gums bleed, as if scorbutic.

Several burning blisters on the left side of the tongue, which soon disappear, but return a day later (sixth day).

Tongue dry and red (one hour).

Tongue very red and dry in the centre.

Tongue coated.

Tongue in morning thick yellow, thicker in P.M.

Tongue coated gray.

Tongue thickly white coated.

Tongue covered with a thick, white, pasty coat.

Tongue coated slimy (fourth day).

Tongue coated pappy, slimy.

Moist, clean tongue.

Tongue difficult to move.

It is painful to move the tongue about.

Tearing pain on the left side, behind the root of the tongue, noticed on swallowing.

In the morning after rising, the mouth is so sore that she can scarcely swallow, with white tongue and sour taste (second day).

An unpleasant sensation on the palate the whole time.

On the posterior part of the palate, sensation of soreness, and as if a hard body lay against it; without swallowing; it disappears on eating bread (8 A.M)..

Itching below the right corner of the mouth, where, after scratching, three vesicles arise; also under the left corner (second day).

Mouth dry (ninth day).

Increase of saliva.

Saliva increased; must frequently expectorate.

Salivation.

Copious saliva runs from the mouth (fourth day).

Great accumulation of water in the mouth.

Accumulation of water in the mouth, without nausea, though with a qualmish, filthy taste.

Collection of water in the mouth.

Flow of tasteless, clear water in the mouth, which runs out in great quantity, with retching and straining, without fetching up anything beyond a little clear mucus.

Profuse spitting.

Must often spit, even while eating.

Bad taste in the mouth (eighth day).

Very unpleasant taste in the mouth.

Clammy mouth.

Salty taste.

Bitter mouth.

Bitter mouth in morning.

Taste bitter and pasty (fourth day).

Taste dry and pasty (first day).

Sour taste in the mouth, in the morning after waking (sixth and seventh days).

In the morning on waking, very sour taste on the posterior part of the tongue, as of salt, which disappears after eating (second day).

Taste pappy or flat.

No taste to the food (fourth hour).

Tobacco has no taste.

Difficult speech.

Speechless.

Throat.

Increased mucous secretion in the throat.

Much mucus in throat and short breathing (eighth day).

Sharp pain at the throat.

Choking sensation.

Roughness in the throat, with sensation as if a small leaf obstructed the windpipe, on hawking; for one hour (after one hour).

Great roughness in the throat, which soon disappears (7 P.M)..

Throat raw; swallowing difficult and painful.

Itching and dryness in the throat, which provokes a hacking in the morning (seventeenth day).

The soft palate and pharynx very red, covered with vesicles; many are opened, swollen, and covered with mucus.

Rapid swelling of the cervical glands and tonsils.

Sensitiveness of oesophagus, so that unchewed morsels cause much pain.

Swallowing sensitive.

Difficulty in swallowing.

Great dysphagia.

Deglutition is impossible.

Stomach.

Appetite increased (second day).

Canine hunger on walking in open air.

Though food tastes good and he has some appetite, yet he can only gradually get some food into his stomach, from which he feels better, and the pressure in the abdomen is somewhat relieved (first day).

On eating, soon satiated, almost nauseated, must stop eating.

He eats at noon with appetite, but after he is satisfied a kind of nausea attacks him at times.

Some appetite, but food was quickly rejected.

Usually good appetite, only sometimes poor.

Extraordinary appetite for apples, and thirst for cool water; evenings he is soon sleepy, against his usual habit.

No more, desire for tobacco.

Cannot eat, on account of nausea and aversion.

Appetite diminished (third day, et seq)..

Loss of appetite,.

Appetite completely lost (fifth day).

Loss of appetite in the morning.

The child eats little but drinks much.

Thirst (second day).

Great thirst.

Thirst increased (fourth day).

Urgent thirst.

Thirst constant and insatiable.

Much thirst one day, the next none of all.

Thirst, with internal heat.

Thirst for beer or sour milk, with dryness in the throat (6 P.M)..

Desire for strong liquors and acids.

Desire for acids.

Absence of thirst.

Absence of thirst the whole day.

Eructations.

Eructations frequently through the day, slight gagging (fourth day).

Eructation sometimes tasteless, sometimes nauseous.

Bitter eructations (eighth day).

Eructations acid, bitter (fifth day).

Eructations of a salty, nausea fluid (second hour).

Sour eructations.

Eructations of watery fluid, often of sharp, salty taste.

Eructations, with taste of the breakfast.

Empty eructations.

Empty eructations relieve the nausea for a very short time.

In the morning frequent eructations, with yawning, and great ill-humor (fifth day).

First eructations, then frequent rising of fluid (as of food), which she again swallows, after which a sour taste and scrapy sensation down the throat remain.

General hiccough, like eructations of air.

Hiccough.

Violent hiccough, but no vomiting.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.