Sensation as if there were a smell from the mouth (after six hours).
Burning in the palate.
Saliva.
Water collects in the mouth, without nausea (after one hour and a half).
Taste.
Taste in the mouth, as if he had fasted a long time. Slimy taste in the mouth, though food has a natural taste. Metallic taste at the root of the tongue. Metallic taste, with loss of appetite.
Coppery taste in the mouth. Sour taste in the mouth, on coughing.
Sour taste in the mouth, after eating. Bitter taste (third day). Bitter taste posteriorly at the root of the tongue. Nauseous taste in mouth (soon after). Food does not have a natural taste, it seems uncooked and unsalted. Tobacco tastes bitter when smoking (after two hours).
Speech.
(On speaking she experiences a kind of contraction of the mouth, and is obliged to speak slowly).
Throat.
Objective.
Carotid arteries beating violently (third day).
A kind of paralysis of the throat; the oesophagus does not seem to permit swallowing. Dryness of the throat. Dryness of the throat, with sensation of heat in the pharynx and stomach (after two hours).
Dryness of the upper and back part of the throat, as if it were raw, and the tongue rough. Pain in the upper part of the throat, with sensation of swelling at the root of the tongue, which makes swallowing painful. Burning in throat and stomach, which afterwards spreads over whole abdomen (soon after). Burning like fire in the throat, extending into the palate, together with shivering about the head, in the evening. Sensation in the pit of the throat, as if something arrested the breathing; it constricts the throat. A kind of choking contraction in the upper part of the throat, which impedes breathing and provokes cough (after one hour). Great sensitiveness within the throat; all food seems as sharp and biting as if it had been excessively salted or peppered. Scraping in the throat, disappearing on swallowing.
Tonsils.
Pressive pain in the tonsils, much worse on swallowing saliva than on swallowing food.
Fauces.
Dryness and roughness in the fauces and throat, especially noticed when swallowing, without thirst (after two hours).
External Throat.
Painless, swollen glands beneath the jaw (after eight hours).
Swollen hard glands beneath the lower jaw, with nodes on the forearm, which are painful if one passes the hand over them.
Swelling of the parotid glands.
Stomach.
Appetite.
Sensation of hunger in the pit of the stomach, little diminished by eating, nearly the whole day. Loss of appetite; food has no taste. Aversion to eating and drinking. The greatest disinclination for all food and drinks (after six hours. Extreme aversion to food, even the smell of food causes it, although with hunger. He is averse to sour things; bread tastes sour (after three hours). No desire for breakfast; he seems full.
Thirst.
Great thirst at all times, but especially after eating.
Unquenchable thirst (third day). Thirst for cold drinks, especially beer.
Eructation and Hiccough.
Eructations of musty bad air (after eight hours).
Eructations tasting of the food (after eighteen hours).
Empty eructations, which leave a bitter taste in the mouth and throat (after twenty four hours). Frequent empty eructations (after three hours and a half). Offensive eructations, in the forenoon.
Bitter eructations (after a quarter of an hour). Very bitter eructations, immediately. Sharp scraping eructations, especially in the evening. Attempts to eructate, with incomplete ineffectual eructations, instead of which there is hiccough, lasting an hour (after three hours). Inclination to hiccough.
Hiccough (immediately); (after one eighth of an hour); (after ten minutes).
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea, immediately. Nausea, extending from the right side of the abdomen towards the navel, without inclination to vomit; immediately. Nausea, in the afternoon after every drink, it seems to be mostly in the mouth. Nausea, on eating. Nausea, as after overloading the stomach. Nausea, amounting even to vomiting, when smoking, to which he was accustomed (after four hours). Unusual nausea and inclination to vomit, while riding in a wagon. If he became cold or took cold, he was nauseated, which caused a profuse accumulation of saliva. In the morning she is scarcely able to rise on account of sickness and inclination to vomit (after forty eight hours). Inclination to vomit (after six hours). Inclination to vomit, associated with headache, and pain in the intestines as if bruised (after half an hour). Frequent inclination to vomit (after several hours).
Desire to vomit. (Vomiting toward midnight with attacks of suffocation; he vomited food and mucus, with bitter and sour taste in the throat). Excessive vomiting. Frequent vomiting of a thin, greenish fluid (third day). Vomited ten times, without relief (soon after).
Stomach.
Sensation in the stomach as if he had not eaten for a long time, and the hunger had passed away. Sensation as though a worm were moving in the stomach. Pain beneath the stomach immediately after eating). Attempts to eructate cause pain in the stomach (after half an hour). Pain in the pit of the stomach on every eructation, as if he had received a blow or bruise. Constrictive pain in the stomach, preventing sleep. Cramp in the stomach; pinching in the stomach. Cramp and tension in the pit of the stomach, when walking. Violent cramp in the stomach, griping. Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, which impedes breathing (after one hour).
Pressure in the stomach, after eating.
Pressive pain in the stomach, pit of the stomach, and hypochondrium, several hours after a meal, or at night in bed.
Pain in the pit of the stomach, almost like a stitch, on eructations. Pricking and gnawing beneath the pit of the stomach.
Stomach exceedingly painful to touch (third day).
Gurgling beneath (in) the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen.
Hypochondria.
Pain the hypochondria, as from a bruise (after twelve hours).
Excessively pressive pain beneath the last true ribs of the right side, aggravated by bending the body forward, coughing or by inspiration, but not by external pressure.
Umbilical.
Intermitting dull stitches in the left side near the navel.
Fine twinges in the right side above the navel.
General Abdomen.
Great distension of the abdomen. Whole abdomen distended, hot, and exceedingly painful (third day). Abdomen excessively distended (seventh day). Flatulent troubles soon after supper; flatus moves here and there in the intestines, and is passed with difficulty (after five hours). Flatus presses upward.
Emission of hot flatulence previous to diarrhoea. It seems as though the abdomen were empty and hollow, as though she had no intestines.
Burning in the abdomen. Pinching constrictive pain in the upper abdomen after eating, which extends to the left side of the abdomen and chest (after one hundred hours). Pinching in the abdomen (after three quarters of an hour). Pinching pain in the left abdominal muscles.
Griping in the upper abdomen (epigastrium), taking away the breath. Drawing pain in the intestines. Pressure in the upper abdomen.
Continued stitch in the right side of the abdomen. Stitches in several parts of the abdomen, only when stooping (after fifteen hours). Several stitches pass through the abdomen to the lower part of the back, in the morning, in bed. Several needle like stitches in the left side of the abdomen. Tearing in the intestines. Violent colic after dinner, while walking, with sensation of chilliness and vertigo (eighth day).
Flatulent colic about midnight; awakened by incessant accumulation of flatulence, which distended the abdomen, causing oppressive pain here and there; some was passed without remarkable relief, whilst new flatus constantly collected for several hours; he was obliged to lie on one side and on the other in order to obtain relief (after twenty hours).
Hypogastrium.
Audible rumbling in the lower abdomen. Constrictive pain in the lower abdomen, with pressure towards the genitals, together with qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, and inclination to water brash. Drawing pain in the lower abdomen from the right to the left side (after four days). Cutting in the lower abdomen, extending to the upper abdomen, relieved by standing. Everything internally in the groins seems full and too thick, as if stuffed; only in each side, not in front; when stepping forward it seems as if this thickness were at the same time pushed forward, and everything would fall asunder (after a few hours). Drawing pain in the groins, as from menstruation.
Continued stitch in the right inguinal region.
Paralytic pain in the right abdominal ring, as if something would force itself through; a pain, as from hernia, only while sitting, relieved on rising. Tendency to and premonitions of a hernia (after eight hours). The left abdominal ring becomes dilated, a hernia inclines to protrude, with sore pain (after fourteen hours). Painful inclination to a hernia, especially after rising from sitting.
Rectum and Anus.
Rectum.
Crawling and itching in the rectum, as from ascarides.
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.