Eyes
Eyes rigid, insensible to light, pupils much dilated. Eyes heavy (second day). Burning pain in eyes, worse in left (after two hours). Burning pain in left eye (transient). Orbit. Pain over the right eye, which continued for an hour after being out in the air, then passed off, but returned upon returning to the room and smelling the acid again, but passed off again in the open air. A very slight pain for a few minutes, at two different times, over right eye. Very severe orbital neuralgia over the right eye. Slight pain over right eyebrow; the same kind of pain, but in a milder degree, under right patella, both of short duration (after half an hour). Acute piercing pain in the left supraorbital ridge, in a spot as large as a silver ten-cent piece, lasting only five or ten minutes and ceasing on rising, but leaving the spot where it had been sore to the touch for more than one day (second day). Lids. Eyes open, turned upward. Lids closed. Ball. Neuralgic twitching in eyeballs and through temples (soon after 20 drops). Pupil. Contraction of the pupils, etc. Pupils contracted (after five minutes). Pupils contracted and insensible to light. Pupils dilated, but showed reaction to light (after two hours). Vision. Eyes sensitive to light. Cannot see across room (after five minutes. Reading is impossible, as the letters look blurred and fade one in the other. While writing, the letters seem to run together, so that it is with difficulty I can read what is written (after thirty-five minutes). Swimming before the eyes. Things seem to be moving before the eyes (after three- quarters of an hour). A constant dark spot in front of the left eye.
Ears
Pressing pain in left ear (transient), (after fifteen minutes), returning from time to time (after twenty minutes). Beating pain, with a humming sound, in both ears (after six hours). Roaring in the ears. Troubled all the time with a constant humming-buzzing sound in my ears, although my hearing did not seem affected.
Nose
Both nostrils plugged up (fourth day). When blowing nose the mucus was bloody, bright-red blood (after four and one-sixth hours). Feel as if I had a cold in the head; right nostril plugged up, right eye watery (third day). Nose tight and stopped up, with full tight feeling across forehead. Left nostril stinging, with constant watering of the left eye, and watery discharge from nose. Sensation at left wing of nose as of fine electric sparks; wants to rub the part repeatedly (after fifteen minutes); during first hour same sensation on sternal end of right clavicle; later on middle finger of left hand; later on vertex. This sensation, during the time it was felt, changed slowly to a pricking-itching, with desire to rub the part, and relief from it. Tickling in right nostril, with sneezing (after one hour and one-third). Smell. Sense of smell very acute. Sense of smell exceedingly acute, for five days (after half an hour). Smell more acute, very decidedly; soon after watery discharge from both nostrils while in the open air; when indoors it ceases; comes again after entering a cold room (after twenty minutes).
Face
Objective. Pale and unconscious. The boy was very pale, weak, and cachectic. Face blanched and bathed in perspiration (after five minutes). Face pale. Face pale and covered with cold perspiration. Face pale or livid. Face and neck livid. Face livid, with cold, clammy sweat. Face livid, covered with cold, clammy sweat. Face flushed (second day). Face flushed, and “burns” (after fifteen minutes). Slight lividity of the lips and tips of the fingers (after five minutes). State of intense trismus (after eighteen minutes). At the attempt to examine his throat he closes his teeth tightly. Subjective. Pain in face and neck (after seven hours). Drawing pain in jaw, right side.
Mouth
Teeth. Aching in teeth of right upper jaw (after a few moments). Tongue. Burning on the tongue, especially on the tip. Biting sensation on tongue (immediately). Mouth. Mucous membrane of mouth, lips, throat, white. Swelling and soreness on internal side of left cheek opposite the molars; the cheek is in the way of the teeth when biting (the whole day), (after two days). Strong tarry odor to the breath. Burning mouth. Burning ion lips, throat, and oesophagus, with heat rising up from the stomach (immediately). Saliva. Hypersecretion of saliva, and he could not help spitting all the time, the spittle having a bluish-white, frothy appearance. Constant discharge of saliva from the pale lips. Mouth open, filled with mucus. Taste. Very sharp taste; tongue burned and tingled, and felt as if a thousand pins were sticking in it (immediately). Nasty taste in mouth. Horrid taste in mouth, pungent and metallic, which he could not get rid of; it made him feel sick and equally all over (immediately). Taste of carbolic acid in mouth and throat (after seven hours). Coppery, metallic taste on tongue and upper palate. Speech. Inability to speak or to walk.
Throat
A good deal of hawking of clear white mucus while in the open air (second day). Pain in throat on swallowing (after one and five- sixths hours). Choking feeling in throat, with disposition to hawk up phlegm. Irritation of throat (for some days). Irritation of throat causing short, dry cough (after one hour and five- sixths). Burning in throat and oesophagus (immediately). Sense of burning in throat on swallowing the draught. Pricking-burning in throat, as if she had eaten something strong (after half an hour). Very sharp stitches in throat; the pain grows worse and worse; it is sharp and pricking (after fifteen minutes). Weather chanted (?); throat sore, felt some hoarse, as if had taken cold (second day). Evening, throat some sore, right side (second day). Soreness of throat on empty deglutition (after fifteen minutes), passed off after one and one-sixth hours, except when swallowing and pressing on the upper larynx; worse on the right side. Throat sore only when swallowing (after two hours and five-sixths). While smoking, after tea, throat better for a time; not so sensitive to pressure (after two an a half hours). Fauces, Pharynx, an OEsophagus. Much mucus in pharynx (fourth day). Hawking from pharynx and posterior nares of much white mucus (third day). In morning, on waking, pharynx and posterior nares very dry indeed (fifth day). Burning in the oesophagus and stomach. Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus. Spasmodic contraction of the oesophagus prevented the insertion of the stomach-pump. Spasmodic and painful contraction of the oesophagus just behind the pomum Adami; while drinking ice-water, was painful for several minutes. Feeling of constriction about midway of the oesophagus (from 20 drops). Spasmodic stricture of the oesophagus prevented the patient from swallowing, and caused great difficulty in introducing, the tube of the stomach-pump. Swallowing. Inability to swallow. Could not take medicine. External Throat. While walking rapidly after dinner had spasm of carotid artery (common, left), (third day).
Stomach
Appetite. More appetite, but not normal yet; more appetite in morning (fourth day). Unusual appetite for supper. Wanted to smoke a cigar, and though that would relieve him. Diminished appetite. Loss of all appetite. Total loss of appetite, which had previously been excellent. Anorexia. Not so much appetite for dinner (second day). No appetite for tea. No appetite for tea (supper), (after half an hour). No appetite for supper. Thirst. Felt as if a little more whisky would do him good (habits perfectly temperate). Eructations and Hiccough. Eructations. Eructations of tasteless air (second day). Eructations after a light breakfast (second day). Headache disappears while moving about, but the eructations became more frequent (after one hour). Constant disposition to rift up, but could not (from 20 drops). Belching (after three-quarter of an hour). Belching up of wind (after a few moments). Belching up of wind (after one hour and a half). Belching of wind from stomach (after ten minutes). Constant belching (after fifteen minutes). Constant belching up of wind from stomach (after two and five-sixths hours). Constant belching up of large quantities of wind (after twenty minutes). Regurgitation from stomach, which tastes like buttermilk and cabbage. (At dinner drank glass of milk; milk never disagrees with him), (after thirty-five minutes). Ate heartily at lunch, but, though the stomach is full, the heat keeps rising from the stomach, with the taste of Carbolic acid. In afternoon, after dinner, long-continued hiccough. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea at stomach (after fifteen minutes). Nausea most of the morning (second day). After tea, nausea returned, and was increased by taking a little sherry wine. The nausea lasted until noon next day. After tea, the nausea was much better, but she was very drowsy, which was unusual (after twenty-five minutes). Nausea, with desire to eructate (very soon). Nausea and vomiting. Slight nausea in throat (after thirty-five minutes). Slight nausea, with prostration. A great deal of nausea; shuddered and shook her head, made wry faces, spat frequently, etc. Intense nausea (immediately), which continued with but little abatement for nearly an hour, and until he had drank several copious draughts of water (from 1 drop). Again the nausea followed, and a almost reached the point of vomiting (from 5 drops). Aggravated feeling of sickness about stomach (soon after 10 drops). While eating a little breakfast, felt every now and then as if he had to get up and vomit (from 20 drops). Vomiting and dysphagia. Stomach. Slight gastritis (for some days). An attack of acute gastritis followed the immediate symptoms. Slight gastric catarrh, for several days. Wind in stomach very troublesome; better after raising a sort of sweetish-sour liquid. Dull uneasy feeling in stomach (after one hour and a half). Uncomfortable feeling in region of stomach and liver (soon after). Distress in stomach, as from indigestion. For about two days, his feelings represented a first-class type of acute dyspepsia (from 20 drops). Instead of feeling hungry at meals, an empty, gone feeling in the stomach, with a fulness in the throat, and a constant desire to swallow. A great deal of gastric irritation (after seven hours). Pain and dragging feeling in stomach and low down in abdomen. Warmth in the stomach. Sensation of warmth in the epigastrium. Burning in the stomach. Burning in the stomach (after twenty minutes). The burning feeling in the stomach, as from a corrosive acid, is felt all the time; still the appetite is good and food digests well. Burning feeling in stomach, steadily increasing, with heat rising up the oesophagus (after three hours). Burning, ulcerating feeling in stomach and oesophagus, with nausea; this sensation reminded him of lobelia or tobacco; in fact, he had been smoking his pipe before going to bed. Stomach seems full of wind (after a few moments). Sensation as if stomach was filled with wind which ought to come up. Aching pain in stomach (after a few moments). Felt as if he had eaten too much, and was suffering in consequence. Appetite good, but food lies heavily on the stomach (second day). Feeling of pressure at pit of stomach (very soon). Heavy weight in the epigastrium, as though burdened with flatulence, with a constant inclination to relieve himself by fruitless efforts at eructation, or by pressing the hand into the pit of the stomach.
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.