Throat
Throat inflamed, and covered with plastic lymph (one case), (third day). He draws much tough mucus into the mouth through the posterior nares (in the first hour). The throat dry, without thirst, in the afternoon. Roughness and hoarseness in the throat (third forenoon). Burning heat in the throat soon after. Burning sensation in throat (after half an hour). Sense of burning in throat and stomach (soon after). Burning sensation in the throat, especially at the entrance of the oesophagus, extending to the epigastrium (second day). Burning sensation in throat and pit of stomach, increased by pressure. Sense of constant burning in throat, most intense at top of oesophagus, and descending down towards stomach (third day). Throat feels “on fire” (third day). Throat swollen (third day). Constriction and intense pain at the back of the throat. Burning soreness of the throat, which is inflamed (after three weeks). Intolerable scraping in the throat, with necessity for hawking up mucus after meals. Uvula. Uvula relaxed. Tonsils. The tonsils are somewhat inflamed. Tonsils swollen. Fauces, Pharynx, and OEsophagus. Erysipelatous blush of inflammation and turgid veins run across fauces (third day). The fauces red, painful, with a pressing sensation, which on swallowing changes to a sticking. Fauces abraded and blistered. Aphthous ulcer at back part of fauces, size of a sixpence, covered with a whitish adherent crust; a similar one on side of right tonsil (third day). Dryness in the pharynx, with occasional sticking. With hunger, a sort of pain in the pharynx (the fourth day). Burning in pharynx and mouth (first day). Burning in the pharynx on swallowing. Burning and constriction in the pharynx. OEsophagus felt as if one fire (second day). Constrictive pain in the pharynx (after seven hours), (sexton). Contractive sensation in the pharynx. Burning-scraping sensation in the pharynx, and sweetish, disgusting taste on the tongue and in the whole mouth as far as the pharynx. A large cylindrical mass, apparently the inner membrane of the gullet, was discharged by vomiting (second day). Burning sensation along oesophagus, intolerable while drinking. Burning and constriction of the oesophagus. Swallowing. Dysphagia (second day). Difficulty of swallowing, for several months. Swallowing very difficult (third day). Difficult, or rather impossible, deglutition. Painful and difficult deglutition.
Stomach
Increased appetite (some provers). More appetite than usual. Appetite not diminished during the whole action of the medicine. Hunger immediately after relief of the pains (seventeenth day). Awakened at night by sensation of hunger (which had never happened before), (second night). Without feeling hungry, he would eat now this, now that (first day). Diminished appetite. Loss of appetite. Loss of appetite (after three weeks). Loss of appetite, evening and morning; he relished nothing. Loss of appetite for food. Appetite lost; weakness; she becomes bedridden (eighth day). The appetite, which had been somewhat excited, disappeared after coffee. No appetite (second day). No appetite for supper (third day). No desire for food. Disgust for food (second day). disgust for everything; she cannot bear to see or hear about food; in the evening during the paroxysm. Disgust and ill-humor. Disgust, with frequent gathering of water in the mouth. Constant disgust and nausea. Aversion to tobacco. Thirst. Thirst (first day). Thirst (fifteenth day, A.M). Thirst when not in pain (ninth and tenth days). Thirst during dinner (unusual). Thirst after the shaking chill, 8 P.M. Thirst after the chill. After the chill neither heat nor sweat (second day, 5 P.M). Thirst is very trifling, and appears to come only from dryness of the lips; drink easily dispensed with. Some thirst during the coldness (ninth day). Increased thirst (after six hours). Increased thirst, with much drinking; the urinary secretion does not compare with the quantity of liquids taken; the secretion of quite scanty thin urine occurs first in the evening, four hours after the drinking, and without any unpleasant sensation in the urethra; the prover was usually obliged to urinate immediately, however little she had drank. Much thirst during the day. Great thirst. Great thirst. (one case), (third day). Great thirst, constant. Urgent thirst, with burning pain in throat and stomach. Intense thirst. Intense thirst, but liquids can hardly be swallowed, and are at once vomited up again. At night, intense thirst and fever. Excessive thirst, but could not swallow any liquid without unutterable anguish. Violent thirst. Violent thirst (first day). Unquenchable thirst, etc. Burning thirst. Loss of thirst during the whole action. No thirst; water does not taste good to her. No thirst during the chill, or heat. Eructations and Hiccough. Eructation (after half an hour). Eructations, becoming daily more frequent and violent (eighth and ninth days, afternoon). Eructation, with taste of the food, after dinner. Frequent empty eructation (after three-quarters of an hour). Eructation of air, with relief (fourteenth day). Eructations of air, even on the third day, with relief of the chest symptoms. Eructations of sour, frothy mucus, tinged bright- red. Frothy and acid eructations (two cases), (third day). Hot eructation; heartburn; she has no thirst, and the burning sensation in the pharynx is increased by drinking water. A sort of incomplete eructation, almost like hiccough, which passes backward from the pharynx toward the stomach, before dinner (after three hours). Frequent hiccough (second day). Hiccough in the afternoon. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Nausea (one prover), (after two hours). Nausea (soon after). Nausea (second day). Nausea toward evening. Nausea in the stomach, on walking and standing (after one hour). Nausea, like a weakness in the stomach (after fourteen days), after coffee in the forenoon. Nausea and inclination to vomit. Nausea, increasing to vomiting (second day). Nausea and disgust, when eating. Nausea and disgust for everything (fifth day). Nausea and disgust for all food (eighth day). Nausea and vomiting (first day). Nausea, and vomiting of bloody mucus. Nausea and repeated vomiting without exertion; the matter vomited consisted of mucus and ingesta. Nausea, with trembling of the feet (fourth day). In the morning, nausea with coldness, without thirst; in the afternoon heat, without thirst, and without subsequent sweat. Slight nausea, with insipid taste and dryness of the throat (seventh day). Much nausea, soon followed by vomiting of blood to the extent of half a pint (second day). In the morning, great nausea, almost to vomiting. Violent nausea. She feels remarkably nauseated, as if she would vomit (after five minutes). Qualmishness in the stomach, frequently disappearing and returning (after two hours). Qualmishness and vomiting. Frequent inclination to vomit (eighth day). Great efforts to vomit and excessive gagging. Retching and vomiting. Violent retching, and vomiting of the contents of the stomach and bilious mucus. Vomiting. Vomiting, nausea in the stomach, with pressing, followed by cutting. Vomiting, with strangury, followed by inflammation of the kidney. Vomited and urinated incessantly. Vomiting of ingesta. He could not retain anything, vomited everything. Takes a glass of water, which is returned again. Vomits the water he drinks, with a considerable quantity of blood. Vomiting of greenish, offensive matter. Vomited greenish and peculiarly offensive matter. What was vomited was of a greenish color and an unpleasant smell. Vomits membrane. Vomiting of membranous flakes (a morbid secretion of the alimentary canal). After an emetic, vomit membrane-like fragments, looking as if detached from the walls of the stomach and oesophagus. Vomiting of tenacious mucous, taking the form of the gullet, or often of the mucous membrane itself. Vomiting of bile and ingesta. Vomits frothy mucus, tinged bright-red (bloody), (third day). Vomits, sometimes with, sometimes without, blood. Bloody vomiting (four cases). Vomiting of blood, with strangulation. Frequent vomiting. Repeated vomiting. Constant vomiting. Incessant vomiting. Copious vomiting of bile (after one hour). Severe vomiting. Violent vomiting of bloody and frothy mucus (soon after). Stomach. Inflammation of the stomach. Acute inflammation of the stomach. Weakness of the stomach (third and fourth days). Sensation of weakness in the stomach (second day). An indescribable sensation in the epigastric region; she feels hungry without being really so. On stooping, or an inspiration, a sensation of resistance in the epigastric region. Had scarcely journeyed half a mile, when obliged to dismount from distressing sensation in stomach and strong desire to vomit. Pain in the stomach. Pain in the stomach (sexton). Pains in the epigastrium. Sharp pain in stomach and bladder. Acute pain in stomach and bladder (after one hour). Acute pain in the region of the stomach and bladder, with such exquisite sensibility that the slightest pressure produces convulsions. Severe epigastric pain (cramps in the stomach), (after one hour). Violent pain in stomach and bowels (soon). Violent pains in the epigastric region and in the groins. Such violent pains in the region of the stomach and kidneys that the patient tossed about in his bed, beat the walls with his hands, and scratched off the lime. The most violent pains in the stomach, in the whole abdomen, in the kidneys, in the whole body. Excessive pain at the epigastrium and umbilicus, aggravated by pressure. Cardialgia and sour eructations, especially after drinking. Heat and pain in the epigastric region. Sensation of burning heat in the stomach, and, in a less degree, in the oesophagus. Burning in the stomach. Burning at the orifice of the stomach. Burning pain in gastric region (second day). Violent burning in the stomach. Violent, but not painful, burning in the stomach, with taste of wine in the mouth; the whole forenoon (first days). Fulness, with pressure in the stomach, as if he would eructate, without its amounting to anything (after three-quarters of an hour). An uncommon sensation of fulness in the epigastric region, together with anxiety and restlessness (after one hour). Sensation in the stomach as if screwed together, very painful; before dinner. Violent spasmodic pains in stomach, accompanied by free emesis. Pinching and stitching in the right epigastric region (second morning). Sense of heaviness, heat, and slight smarting at the epigastrium and umbilicus. Violent pressing in the stomach, most when it was empty (second day). Painful pressing in the stomach, extending backward from both sides into the spinal column, where it seems to her as if screwed together; continuing for a long time in all positions (after two hours). Pressure in the pit of the stomach, in the afternoon. A crushing in the pit of the stomach, which diminishes as soon as she takes anything warm or drinks anything cold. Cutting pain in the stomach (after half an hour). Drawing pain in the stomach. Cutting pains at intervals in the pit of the stomach and about the umbilicus. Sharp lancinating pains in the stomach (soon after). The epigastric region is sensitive, internally and externally (second day). The stomach internally sensitive, with good appetite (second forenoon).
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.