Pharynx. Tickling in the pharynx.
Swallowing. Frequent swallowing of saliva, with sensation as though the neck were compressed, without dyspnoea. Deglutition impeded to some extent (after twenty-six hours).
External Throat. Larynx is painful to touch (second day).
Stomach.
Appetite. Appetite bad (first and second days).Thirst. Thirst during the fever. Great thirst was an attendant symptom from the first, so much so that previous to my arrival she had allayed it with an immoderate quantity of water.
Unquenchable burning thirst.
Eructation. Eructations tasting of the food. Eructations of a sour, acrid fluid, after eating white bread (fourth day). Rancid eructations the whole afternoon (fourth day). Scraping rancid sensation, extending down the oesophagus to the stomach, with pressure in the pit of the stomach.
Heartburn. Heartburn after the usual light supper. Heartburn at 4 P.M., lasting the whole evening. Heartburn the whole day, especially in the afternoon, with a feeling as if the whole oesophagus up to the mouth were full of rancid food, with eructations tasting of the food.
Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Nausea, relieved by vomiting.
Nausea, soon after taking it, coming on by paroxysms, lasting till noon, especially while walking or standing, relieved by sitting. Nausea and vertigo with the headache. Nausea with headache.
Nausea, with sensation as though he must vomit, which, however, he is unable to do in spite of efforts (first day). Nausea amounting to vomiting (immediately after a bite). Nausea and vomiting. Nausea and vomiting very decided, and always coming on very soon after the bite.
Nausea, with a sensation as though something rancid rose in the oesophagus, and remained in the upper part of the chest. Nausea with coldness of the body. Nausea with cold skin. Extreme nausea and vomiting on the least exertion (after twenty-six hours).
Vomiting preceded the faintness. Vomiting follows violent pains in the forehead. Vomiting with vertigo. Vomiting with headache.
Vomiting, with thirst. Sudden vomiting. Constant vomiting.
Vomiting severely. Vomiting of food. Violent vomiting of food for several days after a meal. Green vomiting. Vomiting of a green fluid, with great pain in the chest. Vomiting of very bitter bile. Vomiting of blood. Stomach could retain only jellies, brandy, and coffee (fifth day). Stomach so irritable that it is unable to retain anything.
Stomach. Intolerance of the clothing about the epigastric region and beneath the hypochondria, not noticed previously or subsequently with the same clothing. Painfulness in the pit of the stomach.
Pains in the stomach. Pains in the stomach after breakfast and dinner (fifteenth day). Burning pain in the epigastrium for half an hour, when it ceased after a stool (tenth day). Fulness and pressure in the stomach were relieved by the medicine (first day). Pressure in the stomach, with discomfort in the epigastric and praecordial regions, as though he had eaten too much, similar to the sensation experienced before fainting (after a few minutes). Weight on stomach and chest (third and subsequent days). Breakfast lies heavy all day (third day). Sticking in the pit of the stomach. Stomach sore and tender on rising in the morning (fourth and subsequent days); worse after food (eleventh day). Soreness returned in the epigastrium, extending upwards under the sternum (fifteenth day). Throbbing at the pit of the stomach, with rancid sensation in the stomach.
Abdomen.
Hypochondria. Pain in the left side of the abdomen, like cuttings through the spleen after violent running, aggravated by deep inspiration (first day); the same pain remains on the second day after a larger dose, but is not so severe.Umbilical. Pains internally in the umbilical region, like a violent burning (first day). Pressive aching in the middle of the abdomen, beneath the umbilicus, as though it were too full.
General Abdomen.
Swelling of the whole abdomen. Inflammation of the viscera of the abdomen. Flatulency and eructations (third and subsequent days).
Violent pain in the course of the colon at 11:30 A.M.; (next day). Burning pains in the abdomen, lasting several days, with great sensitiveness, especially to touch. Violent burning pain in the abdomen. Tension in the abdomen, painful to touch, with burning pain.
Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. In the night she was awakened by violent burning pain in the hypogastrium, going through to the sacrum (tenth day). The inguinal glands on that side were much enlarged (after twenty-six hours).
Rectum and Anus.
Bleeding from the anus and other openings of the body.
Stool.
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, with nausea, anxiety, and thirst. Attack of diarrhoea; after which the bowels were costive and the evacuations hard during a week. Frequent diarrhoea-like stool with colic, extending downward from the umbilicus. Diarrhoea-like evacuation in the afternoon. Involuntary evacuation of the bowels, of a dark bilious color, next morning. Pasty stool. Has had several bloody passages from the bowels.Constipation. Bowels were rather constipated.
Urinary Organs
Urethra.Haemorrhage from the urethra.
Micturition. Urine somewhat increased in quantity, and very high- colored, reddish-yellow (second to fifth day). Urine scanty and red (eleventh day).
Urine.
Urine looks like that in jaundice. No blood in the urine; (blood in the urine is common in these cases).
Sexual Organs.
Male.Sharp cuttings in the glans penis twice (without any other symptoms in this part). Unusual sexual excitement during the day, with complete relaxation of the genitals; apparent impotence.
Female.
Catamenia a week too soon (twenty-five days after last dose); free, preceded by weight in the head and ears, accompanied by pains in the abdomen and back and cold feet. The period lasts some hours longer than is usual, and goes off after two days with intense frontal headache, which lasts from 10 to 1 o’clock in the night.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx.Bruised pain, extending from the larynx to chin, and at times into the lower teeth; it appears by paroxysms; its seat is in the larynx, where it originates every time and is sharper than in the chin, up to which it shoots (second day).
Voice.
Hoarseness, with weak, rough voice.
Cough and Expectoration. Cough; a stitch in the left side, with bloody expectoration from the lungs. Moderate cough, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Spitting of blood.
Respiration.
Respiration 14; labored. Difficult respiration.
Dyspnoea, with symptoms of inflammation of the lungs and intestines.
Dyspnoea, with anxiety, thirst, nausea, diarrhoea.
Chest.
Inflammation of the lungs. Severe pains in the chest, with vomiting of a green fluid. The lungs seem passive; respiration in the evening in bed is difficult; the chest feels tight.Oppression of the chest while sitting, almost amounting to faintness (second day). During several days there was some soreness in the chest and cough in the morning. A severe sore pain and a sticking, as if in the bones of the chest, in the middle of the chest, somewhat to the right side; worse on touch, but not on deep inspiration (first day).
Front.
Constant dull stitch in the forepart of the chest, extending into the bones of the left shoulder (after a quarter of an hour), returning next day.
Sides.
Pain in the right side below the arm; afterwards also in the left. Pain beneath the left arm, extending into the left side of the chest, with very great pain on deep inspiration. Pressure in the right side of the chest; on the previous day pain in the left side.
Stitches in the right side of the chest, quite near the sternum.
Stitches in the right side of the chest, on sneezing.
Mammae.
The milk of the mother became deadly poison to her five months’ child. Sudden pain above the left nipple, as from a blow, lasting two minutes, repeated after a few minutes (first day).
Heart and Pulse.
Precordium. Pain in the heart.Heart’s Action.
Palpitation during the fever. Heart-beat feeble (55 per minute).
Pulse. Pulse rapid and full, at first. Pulse at first full, hard and rapid. Pulse weak, rapid, with fever and exhaustion. Pulse at first hard, rapid, then weak and slow.
Pulse 100, with cold skin. Pulse weak, rapid, 102, 80, intermitting.
Pulse small, 130, in the evening. Pulse low, and about 60 strokes in a minute (after twenty-six hours). Pulse strong and full, after the formation of an abscess. Pulse at first hard, afterwards weak. Pulse tremulous. Pulse scarcely noticed, with loss of motion and speech.
His pulse was almost imperceptible and threadlike, the next morning.
Pulse scarcely perceptible with faintness. Pulse not perceptible at the wrist. Pulse imperceptible.
Neck and Back.
Tensive pains, extending from the shoulder to the neck, worse on moving the arm. Drawing-tensive pain, extending from the right shoulder up along the neck, as if some one were pulling on a tendon extending from the shoulder to the neck, and drawn tense under the skin; moving the arm, especially bending it backward, and also pressure upon the affected part aggravated the pain.Drawing on the left side of the neck, posteriorly, extending to the shoulders.
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.