Ears
Pain and singing in left ear. Burning in the ears. Stuffed feeling of the right ear (after forty-five minutes). Aching in both ears. Boring pain immediately above and back of right ear (after three hours). Boring pain in right ear. Tearing pain in the right ear, ameliorated by pressure. Throbbing and fulness in both ears. Jerking or electric shocks in the ears. Hearing. Great acuteness of hearing. Sensitiveness to noise. Increase in power of hearing, whereby slight noises became as loud as thunder. Sounds seems unusually loud. His own voice seems intensely loud. Believes he has been talking indecently loud, when he has not spoken at all. Music of any kind is intensely agreeable to him. Difficult hearing. His own voice sounded to him a long way off (after one hour). Noise in the ears like boiling water. Buzzing in ears, lasting some time (after one hour). Buzzing in right ear. Buzzing in ears, with slight giddiness (after two hours and a quarter). Singing in ears (after one hour). Singing in ears, while lying down, dozing, which went off when he got up (after one hour and two-thirds). Periodical singing in the ears, that always ceased as soon as he came to himself, and renewed itself when a dreamy spell came on. Singing in left ear. Ringing and buzzing in the ears.
Nose
Sneezing (after one hour and three-quarters). He blew coagulated blood from his right nostril. Dry, feverish feeling of left nostril (after three hours). Pain at the root of the nose. Fulness and aching at the root of the nose.
Face
Objective. Thinks his expression must be altered, as people look at him more than usual (after three hours). Wearied, exhausted appearance. He looks drowsy and stupid. He looks as if thoroughly intoxicated. Pale face (first day). Face a little pale (second day). Face pale and anxious (after one hour). Paleness of face, as in fainting, ameliorated by fresh air. Face flushed, from mounting the stairs. Redness of the face, as during intoxication. The face and eyes became very red. By a great exertion moved his hand and felt his face, and it felt hard; there was no sensation in the face, but to the hand and it felt stony. The skin of his face, especially of his forehead and chin, feels as if it were drawn tight. Feeling of pressure on both cheeks, in corresponding spots, about posterior border of malar bone. This did not last long (after one hour and one-sixth). Stinging in right side of face as though stuck with pins; leaves on scratching, but comes again immediately on another part of body. Drawings in the muscles of mastication. Sensation as though the muscles of the face were drawn tightly around the jaw. Pain in right upper jaw, at root of first molar tooth (after four hours). His lips are glued together. Jerking of the lower lip. A well-marked burning line from lip to chin, straight down left side, as though it were a cicatrix (after nine hours). Cold burning (like turpentine) in vermilion border of lip and point of nose, left side. Before falling to sleep, the lower jaw was very stiff and immovable. Some had tetanus at the moment water was taken; others had some froth at the mouth.
Mouth
Teeth. Gritting and grinding of the teeth while sleeping. The teeth of right side of mouth seem to him to be clenched. (This condition was not noticed by his friend, and was probably subjective). Aching in all the teeth of the upper jaw, which felt as if they were loose. Pain in lower molar teeth, right side. Boring pain in right lower molar teeth, better from pressure, worse from grinding them together. Dull pain in right lower molar teeth (after three hours). Heavy throbbing at the roots of the teeth. Soreness at the union of the front teeth and gums, especially on the inside, with sensitiveness to the touch of the tongue. Cessation of toothache (after one hour). Felt no pain, while quite conscious that the toothache was present (after one hour). Tongue. White-coated tongue (second day). Tongue white and sickly-looking (second day). In morning, tongue white and foul, with a bad taste, as if he had been intoxicated over night (second day). 6 A.M. Before rising, a considerable collection of thick mucus on tongue (second day). Tongue feels dry, as if scalded (second day). Tongue and throat have a dry feeling, but no particular desire for water. Peculiar, somewhat metallic sensation on right half of tongue. Tongue as if covered with pepper (after forty-five minutes). Stinging-burning, as of a blister, on back part of tongue, right side, at anterior pillar of fauces (after three hours). General Mouth. Some dryness of mouth, without thirst (after one hour and a half). Dryness of the mouth and lips. Dryness of the mouth, which was not thirst. The dryness radiated from the back of the throat, opposite the nape of the neck. Dryness of mouth, with thirst, for some time (after half an hour). Dryness of mouth, with thirst, all day (second day). When in bed, had dryness of mouth lasting until next morning, with thirst (after one hour). Very dry mouth and fauces, so that he could hardly speak or swallow (after half an hour). Mouth dry and frothy (after four hours). Saliva. Foaming at the mouth. Increased flow of thick, tasteless saliva. Slight exudation of resinous saliva, or rather mucus, from tongue. Viscid mucus from tongue, over its whole upper surface. White, thick, frothy, and sticky saliva. Taste. Every article of food is extremely palatable. Bitter mouth (second day). Taste of copper in the mouth. Metallic taste on tongue. Metallic taste on tongue, with dry sensation and exudation of gummy mucus. Speech. Stammering and stuttering. His lips failed of utterance as if paralyzed.
Throat
The carotid and temporal arteries beat slower and weaker than usual. Hawks up in the morning glairy lumps with a spot of blood in each. Dryness and roughness in the throat. A dryness in the throat led to a request for water. Feeling of uneasiness, as though from dryness of the throat, or rather a sensation that the tongue and throat were covered with a dry, soft body. The attempt to smoke a cigar in the open air had to be abandoned on account of the dryness and rawness of the throat. The throat is parched, accompanied by intense thirst for cold water. Sensation as of a fleshy body at the pit of the throat, impeding deglutition. Sensation of a plug rising in his throat, causing him to choke. Burning sensation in throat. Pressure in tonsils (after one hour and three-quarters). Scraping of the pharynx, eructations, and slight nausea (soon).
Stomach
Appetite. Appetite increased. Increased appetite. Enormously increased the appetite. Increased appetite at dinner (second day). 1.30 P.M., increased appetite; had a good lunch (had no breakfast), (second day). One effect to which all patients testified, and without being interrogated, was that it improved their appetite and general health, and seemed to improve all their secretions. Appetite strong (second day). Great appetite. Excellent appetite for supper at 6, but mouth still very dry. Great hunger for several days (second day). Ravenous hunger. Ravenous hunger, which is not decreased by eating enormously; he ceases eating only from fear of injuring himself. Bulimia. At tea, ate voraciously. At tea, ate ravenously, without feeling satisfied. Pastry and fat food, which previously he never ate without suffering from rancid risings and headache, are now digested easily. He eats large quantities of bread, declaring it to be delicious. Little appetite (first day). Loss of appetite (in about thirty provers). Loss of appetite (second day). He has intense thirst, and yet he fears to drink, for he will be suffocated by the magnitude of the stream as it passes down his throat; and again it is not water, but the most delicious metheglin that he swallows with superhuman delight. Desire for and dread of water (in about thirty provers). Had a great craving for water, but a single swallow passing down the throat gave the sensation as of holding his mouth under a cataract; a spasm came upon him, with a sensation of fear or dread, but this was only for an instant (after four hours). Eructations. Eructations reminding him of the extract (after forty-five minutes). Eructations when moving (after one hour and three-quarters). Eructations of tasteless wind, which relieve a dull pain in the epigastric region. Slight but continual eructations of wind, tasteless. For one hour, frequent empty eructations of wind, flavored with Cannabis (after two hours). Nausea. Nausea. Slight nausea (after four hours). Stomach. Sinking at the stomach. Cold feeling stomach, very disagreeable, as though he had drunk cold water (soon after). Sensation of warmth in the stomach, changing to an aching pain, accompanied by oppression of the chest. Burning sensation in stomach, for some time (within one hour). While eating, his stomach felt so swelled and his chest so oppressed, as if he would suffocate, that he was forced to loosen his clothes. Crampy pain in the stomach. Agonizing clutching in the stomach. Sensation of weight at stomach. Cutting-griping pain in the stomach. Pain in pit of stomach; nervous grumbling sensation in stomach, coming on every few moments, and extending up into the thorax. Slight pain at pit of stomach, followed by a very marked pricking sensation; these pains cease after a meal (first day). Pain in the cardiac orifice, relieved by pressure.
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.