It appear to him as if his face had become swollen (after three hours).
Sharp pains in the facial bones, with sensation as if they were swollen.
Neuralgic pains extending from the temples to the lower jaw, and accompanied with pulsative and pressive pains in the head.
Cheeks and Lips.
Cheeks very red.
The cheeks purple-red (after one hour).
Redness of the cheeks; the face is turgid, with general heat (after two and a half hours).
On awaking in the morning, a small, bluish-red spot on the left cheek, which gradually increases in size, until the bluish-red swelling occupies the whole cheek, excessively aggravated by movement; after some days the other cheek swelled, and the swelling lasted eight days.
Swelling of the cheek with burning pain.
Swelling, sometimes of one cheek, sometimes of the other night, increased the next day, with heat, and lasted five days, (Case 13).
Pressing below the right zygoma.
A tearing and drawing below the right zygoma (after quarter of an hour).
Pinching pressure on the left zygoma.
The lips, and especially the upper one, crack in the middle, in sneezing and coughing.
Lips enlarged, chapped, full of phlyctenae.
Great swelling of the upper lip; it feels tense on opening the mouth.
Abscess of the upper lip, causing painful swelling, with fever, headache, and loss of appetite, ending in free discharge of pus.
Spasmodic movements of the lips.
A man suffered with a sardonic laugh for years, after Belladonna poisoning.
Dry, burning, swollen, and hardened lips.
At the outer edge of the lips, a burning pain, and small vesicles (after twenty-four hours).
The lips, mucous membrane of the mouth, fauces, and nose, very hot and dry.
Drawing in the upper lip, with subsequent red swelling.
Jaws and China
Jaws firmly closed.
Lockjaw.
The jaws are closed convulsively, and very difficult to open.
She closed her teeth so firmly that it became necessary to break out a tooth in order to pour fluids down her throat.
On attempting to pour down liquid, tetanic closure of the mouth and regurgitation of the liquid (after four hours).
The lower jaw is pressed convulsively against the upper, with a red face, and a peculiar staring look.
Convulsive closing of the jaws, and contraction of the muscles of the face and extremities; next day, increase of convulsive movements, with redness of the face, and profuse perspiration; great rigidity down the spine.
She clenched her teeth together, so that great force could not open them, with startings in all the limbs and chilliness.
Cramp and compression of the jaws.
She feels as if her lower jaw were drawn backwards; it hurts her much to advance it, and biting causes excessive pain.
Clucking (as of a hen) along the under edge of the lower jaw.
Fine shootings in the socket of the maxillary joint (after one hour).
Shootings extending from the superior maxilla into the internal ear.
Shooting and tension of the lower jaw, in the direction of the ears.
On masticating, a violent shooting in the right maxillary joint, extending into the ear, which continues for some time after he had finished, though it then rather resembles a drawing or pulling.
Fine tearing on the inner surface of the corner of the left lower jaw, in the left tonsil and behind the latter, unaffected by contact; the tearing is more violent during deglutition.
A nestling, spasmodic sensation in the chin.
Sharp shootings in the chin.
Mouth
Teeth and Gums.
Teeth turn yellow and decay.
Suction of the hollow teeth with the tongue causes blood to flow from them, without pain.
Grinding of the teeth.
Violent grinding of the teeth.
Grinding of the teeth, with copious saliva running from the mouth. (Case 6).
Grinding of thee teeth and spasms of the right arm, (Case 20).
Gnashing of thee teeth, with much froth from the mouth, smelling like bad eggs, (Case 22).
The front teeth are as if too long.
The child complained of great pain in his teeth (after forty- eight hours).
An indefinite slight pain in both upper middle incisors, rapidly running through them (after five minutes).
Toothache, with swelling of the cheek, especially on the right side.
Cramp like drawing pains in the teeth, as if they were being pulled out.
(A digging toothache, of brief duration).
Toothache rather drawing than shooting.
Unpleasant sensation, as if her teeth would be forced out of her head.
A drawing in the anterior molars of the right upper jaw, remaining unchanged under all circumstances.
Dull drawing in the upper right row of teeth, through the whole night; the pain would not permit sleep; the painful part was somewhat swollen (with burning pain), and felt hot to the tough; sometimes, painful jerkings in the teeth.
Toothache, a sharp drawing from the ear down to the hollow tooth of the upper jaw, wherein the pain becomes boring, easier while eating, more violent afterwards, never entirely ceasing during the day, but most violent at night, and completely preventing sleep (after drinking coffee, the pain becomes a dull jerking and bowing).
Tearing pain in a loser hollow tooth and in a sound molar adjoining; the pain becomes excessive from contact with air or food (after four hours).
A fine shooting pain in one of the upper hollow molars during thee whole day, in consequence of which he can hardly sleep at night, followed by swelling of the cheek.
He wakes up after midnight with violent tearing (?) in the teeth.
On admission of the open air, a steady pain in the teeth, a simple toothache, like a soreness.
Toothache in the evening after lying down, and during mental occupation, a dull pain in the nerve of the fang of the tooth, almost as if it were sore, and, when worse, like a continual cutting.
The teeth are painful in biting anything, as if the roots were ulcerated and would break short off.
Several very painful jerkings or bubbling in the nerves of the fangs of one or more teeth.
Toothache, worse in the evening, at night, after eating, in the open air, and by any contact.
The toothache does not come on during a meal but in the first few minutes after; it increases gradually to a high degree, and as gradually diminishes; it does not follow drinking.
Constant inclination to pass the tongue over the teeth, in order to relieve the pains.
Frequent bleeding of the gems.
The gum bleeds near to a hollow tooth (after six days).
Vesicle in the gum below one of the front teeth, with pain as if it were burnt.
Extremely painful swelling of the gums on the right side, with fever and sense of chill, (Case 20).
Heat in the gums, with itching and throbbing.
The gum, on being touched, pains as if ulcerated.
Scraping and scratching in the gums, unaffected by external influences.
Pulsation and pain as from an abscess in the gums, which are inflamed and swollen.
Itching of the gums (after half an hour).
Extremely troublesome itching in the gums, with pain in the throat.
Tongue.
The tongue is white-coated (after a quarter of an hour).
Tongue covered with a tenacious white coating, which comes off in shreds.
The tongue is white-coated; appetite very slight.
Whitish, yellowish, or grayish coating on the tongue.
The tongue is covered with a quantity of tenacious yellowish- white mucus.
The vessels beneath the tongue are bluish, and injected with blood.
Tongue rather dark, but moist (after twenty-eight hours).
The tongue and palate dark-red; she complains of dryness of the throat, and of difficult swallowing (after half an hour).
Furred tongue.
The tongue is moist and white-coated.
Tongue rather moist, rosy red.
The papillae on the tongue are of a deep red color, inflamed and much swollen (after three days).
Cracked, white-coated tongue, with much flow of saliva.
The tongue is swollen (after six hours).
The swollen tongue is pressed close behind the lower incisors.
The swollen tongue projects beyond the lips, and is turned, now here, now there.
Cramps at the base of tongue (after fourteen hours).
Trembling of the tongue.
Stammering of the tongue.
Tongue heavy, thick, and as if paralyzed.
Impaired mobility of the tongue; consequent impeded speech and difficult swallowing.
Tongue is if paralyzed; dry and cracked.
Tongue felt paralyzed; difficulty in articulating.
Vesicles and small burning pimples on the tongue.
Dryness of the tongue.
Tongue parched.
The tongue dry, as if covered with a crust.
Tongue dry, of a yellow-brown color.
The tongue hung dry from the child’s mouth, and was swollen thick; it was scarcely possible to get some drops of mild into the mouth (after ten hours).
Tongue dry, cracked, difficult to move.
Dryness of the tongue and throat, becoming so great as to interfere with speech.
He noticed that his tongue and throat were extremely dry, and that his tongue was covered with a white clammy fur, which he could pull off in strings.
He drank some water, which seemed even to increase the sense of dryness of the tongue.
Tongue, mouth, and fauces devoid of moisture, as if they had been composed of burnt shoe-leather.
The secretions of the glands of the mouth, and the saliva, were entirely suspended.
A drought of water, instead of giving relief, seemed only to increase the unctuous clammy state of the mucous membrane.
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.