Shootings in the throat on the left side, alike between and during the acts of deglutition.
A violent shooting pain in the throat on swallowing and breathing.
Soreness of throat (after five hours).
Throat a little sore (after reading aloud one hour).
Soreness extending form throat to ears (morning after taking).
Felt great soreness in the throat, which looked very red about the tonsils and palate.
He felt great soreness in the throat, which looked very red about the tonsils and palate. The soreness extended to the ears.
Sore throat, which increases every hour; heat, scraping, narrowing, and feeling of soreness.
Sore throat; during deglutition, scraping in the soft palate and sensation as if the part had been rubbed sore. For a week afterwards he had sore throat, difficulty of swallowing to a great degree, with considerable redness of the mucous membrane of the mouth and fauces; the tonsils slightly swollen (from one dose of gr. 4 1/2 of the extract).
Some tickling now and then in the throat (after ten days).
Tonsils, Fauces, and Pharynx.
Tonsils inflamed.
In the throat, inflammation of the tonsils, which suppurate after four days, during which time he cannot swallow a drop, (Case 25).
Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, and of the entire throat.
Small pimples and abscesses on the tonsils.
Cramp extending from right tonsil to the top of the pharynx (after fourteen hours).
Inflammation of the fauces.
Tenacious mucus in the fauces, (Case 6).
Throwing up of blood, seemingly proceeding from the fauces.
(*It ended in death. Also after death blood flows from the nose, mouth, and ears of those who have been poisoned by Belladonna; they have a blackish-violet hue, either in the face only or on one side of the body, or over the whole surface, or these parts are covered with gangrenous spots; the epidermis peels off easily, the abdomen becomes inflated, and putrefaction sets in sometimes within twelve hours, as Eb. Gmelin and Faber have stated*).
Dryness of the fauces, causing excessive difficulty of swallowing, and alteration of the voice.
About the fauces the sensation of dryness was most distressing.
It induced a constant attempt at deglutition, and finally excited suffocative spasms of the fauces and glottis, renewed at every attempt to swallow.
Burning sensation in the fauces, every time she took a dose.
Long-lasting burning pain in the fauces; food and drinks burn like brandy.
Severe spasms of the pharynx (after six hours).
Dryness of the pharynx. Slight burning sensation in the upper part of the pharynx; must frequently swallow; this was rather more difficult than usual, as if the pharynx were spasmodically constricted; this lasted for some time and returned at intervals (sixth day).
Constriction of the pharynx.
Great constriction of the pharynx. (*See S.1140*).
Great constriction of the pharynx from dryness of the part. Sensation of constriction in pharynx, at the same time the throat feels very dry, and is actually destitute of moisture.
Painful narrowing and contraction of the pharynx; when preparing to swallow it feels tense and stretched, even when nothing is swallowed; during actual deglutition it is not more painful, the feeling of the fauces being narrowed itself amounts to pain (after sixty hours).
Sore throat, shootings in the pharynx, and pain as from an internal swelling, only felt during deglutition, and upon turning the head round; likewise when feeling the side of the neck, but not when at rest or in speaking.
Esophagus and Deglutition.
Contraction of the oesophagus, lasting a short time but frequently recurring, more during deglutition than between, and followed each time by a scraping sensation in the region of the epiglottis, as if the latter were raw and sore.
Constant urging and wanting to swallow; it was as if he would choke if he did now swallow. The throat is painful during deglutition and expectoration, a sensation of swelling, more on the left side.
Swallowing caused a pressive pain in the posterior portion of the fauces.
Impeded deglutition, and many others.
Difficult swallowing.
Difficult and painful deglutition.
Extremely difficult and painful deglutition.
Dysphagia (“on account of want of moisture of the tissue”).
Only with difficulty and by constantly taking liquids is he able to swallow solid food.
He swallows water with the greatest difficulty, and can only get the very smallest quantity of it down.
Deglutition very difficult, so that of drink, taken, even in the smallest quantity, only a part could reach the stomach; the rest was thrown out again forcibly, with general spasms (after one hour).
At first, he pushed away a glass of sugared water; when, on being coaxed, he attempted to drink it, only a few drops passed down, the rest was forced out of the mouth by spasmodic contraction of the muscles of deglutition.
Painless inability swallow.
His throat was contracted so that he could not swallow.
He chewed his food without being able to swallow it, because his throat seemed to him contracted.
He cannot swallow on account of the dryness in the mouth, the fauces, and the nose.
A constant but unsuccessful attempt at deglutition was observed, at every renewal of the attempt the muscles of the throat pharynx would be thrown into violent spasmodic action.
External.
Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands, also of those of the neck and nape of the neck.
Strong pulsations of the carotid.
Shootings in the parotid gland.
Violent shooting in the right parotid, extending into the external ear, where it becomes cramp like, and then disappears (after two hours); it returns again the following day, also at the same hour.
Stomach
Appetite.
Unnatural appetite; he wants to eat all the time and relishes everything. Violent longing for food, and greedy swallowing of
it.
Decided hunger, but no inclination for any one kind if he eats
it.
Appetite for thin broth, and for bread and butter, but for nothing else.
Appetite very much diminished.
Diminished appetite, animal food is especially disagreeable to him.
Loss of appetite.
Complete loss of appetite. (*In connection with S. 980*).
Loss of appetite in the morning, with disgust for all food, especially meat and acids.
Loss of appetite, with increased thirst.
Loss of appetite, with feeling of emptiness and hunger; if he begins to eat, he relishes the food, and eats as usual.
Want of appetite.
Want of appetite, with headache, (Case 10).
He ate without appetite or taste; swallowing was somewhat difficult on account of dryness in mouth and throat, with a feeling of fulness in the abdomen; repeated gripings around the navel, as if he were obliged to go to stool; relieved after passing wind.
All his appetite goes away after smoking tobacco.
No appetite; he loathed everything.
Aversion to food.
Aversion to food, lasting a long time.
Entire aversion to all kinds of food and drink, with frequent, weak pulse, (Case 16).
Repugnance to acids.
Thirst.
Great thirst.
Anxious seeking for drink.
Excessive thirst for cold water (after four hours).
Excessive thirst, with preference for cold water.
Considerable thirst for cold drinks, without heat (after seven hours).
Desire to drink from large vessels and a great deal at a time.
Extremely troublesome thirst.
Violent thirst.
Violent thirst (after one hour).
Violent thirst, which he is unable to satisfy on account of inability to swallow.
Great thirst and difficult swallowing.
Excessive thirst; repeated vomiting, after she had drunk with large swallows.
Great thirst, frequent micturition, copious sweat, (Case 22).
Unquenchable thirst, with uncommonly slow pulse (after ten hours).
Desire for beverages, without appetite for drinking; he scarcely put the drinking-vessel to his mouth before setting it down again (after eight hours).Tormented with burning thirst and heat in all parts; she craved drink from time to time, but repelled it when offered.
Aversion to milk, which she generally and very readily drinks; it appears to her to have a loathsome, a very disagreeable smell, and (bitter, sourish) taste, which disappears, however, after continuing to drink.
Most astonishing thirst in the evening, with watery taste, though all liquids are loathsome to her.
Great thirst during the catamenia.
After a long sleep, violent thirst, (Case 19).
After the sweating at first induced had diminished, the thirst increased, and the appetite fell off. (Case 10). thirst very slight, notwithstanding the general heat.
No thirst.
No desire for drinks; absence of thirst.
Aversion to all fluids, so that she behaves frightfully at the sight of them.
The forcible administration of fluid medicine makes her furious.
Coffee is disagreeable to her.
Repugnance to beer.
Eructations and Hiccough.
Ineffectual inclination to eructate.
Half-suppressed, incomplete eructations.
Slight eructation.
Frequent eructations from the stomach.
Sobbing eructations a spasm composed partly of eructation and partly of hiccough.
Tasteless eructation and flatulence in the bowels, with transient stitches in the left breast; the following night he awoke at 1 o’clock, on account of distension and griping in the hypogastric zone, with troublesome nausea; passing wind relieved (after five minutes).
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.