Sweetish coppery taste in the mouth. Coppery taste in the oesophagus (third day). No taste in the mouth.
Throat
Objective. Inflammation of the throat, preventing swallowing.
Swelling of throat (second day). Throat very much swollen (second day). Throat hard and swollen; could swollen; in course of day, the difficulty of deglutition had increased so much that the patient did not wish to swallow any more (second day). Spasm of the throat, which prevents speaking. Dryness of the throat, with thirst. Burning sensation in throat (after twelve hours), (one case). Burning heat in throat (soon). Sense of constriction in throat. Pressive pain in the throat. Pricking sensations in throat. Uvula. Diffuse redness of the velum, with croupous exudation on the tonsils. Velum palati and posterior wall of the pharynx dark brownish-red, dry, without a trace of mucus, with great difficulty in swallowing, and rough voice.
Fauces and Esophagus. Spotted redness of the fauces.
Constriction of gullet (soon). With ineffectual attempts at vomiting, they suffered from a distressing feeling of constriction in the course of the oesophagus, and across the chest, in the direction of the diaphragm. Swallowing. Swallowing difficult (third day). Swallowing painful; (second day).
Stomach
Appetite. Disinclination to eat. Loss of appetite. Loss of appetite, even aversion to food. Appetite completely lost. No appetite; although stomach felt empty, as if wanting food (third day). Anorexia. A very great desire for acids; they want nothing else, for several days. Thirst. Thirst, etc. Great thirst. Great thirst for cold water. Thirst urgent. Intense thirst. Severe thirst (after twelve hours), (one case). Violent thirst. Very violent thirst. Extremely violent thirst.
Unquenchable thirst. Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations.
Constant eructations. Frequent eructations of sourish bitter water preceded by hiccough (sixth day). Frequent bitter and sourish eructations, as from heartburn, rising into the throat, so that it was spasmodically constricted, and swallowing was prevented (sixth day). Hiccough (after three hours). Hiccough, with spasmodic contractions of the pharynx. Violent hiccough (after three hours). Frequent singultus, often loud enough to be heard all over the house, the patient being unconscious. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea; (soon). Feeling of nausea (after twelve hours). Nausea and vomiting; (after twelve and twenty-six hours). Nausea and frequent vomiting. Nausea and vomiting of green substances. Nausea and vomiting of greenish liquid.
Nausea, and in many cases, at times yellowish-green vomiting. Became sick (two women; after fifteen minutes). Desire to vomit.
Inclination to vomit (two cases). Great inclination to vomit.
After the discharge of the contents of the stomach, and small quantities of bile, dry retching commenced. Violent retching, vomiting. Vomiting, etc. Vomiting, with colic. Vomiting of ingesta (soon after). In one case, vomiting of what had been eaten for breakfast, though at no other time; for several days.
Vomiting of an offensive odor, tasting like copper, preceded by constant hiccough. Vomiting of green fluid (after one hour).
Vomiting of frothy fluid, mixed with blood (second day).
Vomiting of blood and mucus. Vomiting of porraceous and bloody matter. Vomiting very frequent and violent, consisting of food and much greenish bitter fluid. Vomiting of green slimy substances of a bitter taste, at one time of clear, very tenacious saliva, of a sweetish taste. Vomiting of viscid, glairy matter, of a greenish color, and tinged with blood (fourth day). Vomiting and diarrhoea became bloody (in three cases), excessively bloody in one instance, though these cases had but little pain in the bowels, and much more cramping in the limbs. Vomiting attended, in each case, by a burning nausea arising from the stomach to the throat. Vomiting several times during the night. Frequent vomiting of an almost brownish-yellow, in part blackish-green substance. Very frequent vomiting, usually after drinking (in a boy). Constant vomiting. Constant vomiting, with most frightful pains in the abdomen. With the cramps, a constant vomiting of greenish and yellowish-green bile. Constant vomiting and purging. Forcible vomiting. Violent vomiting, frequently. Violent vomiting and copious diarrhoea (after a quarter of an hour). Violent vomiting of green bilious substances, together with frequent liquid stools. Violent vomiting of greenish water, coming on suddenly, and attended by copious greenish diarrhoea and violent pain in the bowels. Excessive vomiting, with constant pains in the stomach and tenesmus. Greenish vomiting. Vomited violently, and threw up all the poison (immediately). About 2 pounds of a distinctly greenish fluid, with some blood, were ejected (second day). Stomach. Epigastric region somewhat distended, and painful to touch. Stomach weak.
Pain in the stomach. Pain in region of stomach (after twelve hours). Intense pains in the region of the stomach (after two hours). Violent pains in stomach and belly. Violent pains in digestive organs (almost immediately). Violent pains and cramps in stomach and bowels (after a few hours). Violent cardialgia. Acute pains in stomach; in some cases very intense (soon). Burning in stomach, rising into throat and mouth (third day). A constant burning pain, or a sensation of internal heat in the epigastric region. Stomach at times contracted. Cramp in the stomach. Violent griping and pressure in the stomach, followed by vomiting. Severe griping and colicky pains in stomach and bowels. A constant pinching pressure in the stomach, which at times extended up into the throat, and at times down into the intestines. Violent tearing pains in the stomach.
Violent tearing pain in the pit of the stomach. Violent colic in stomach and bowels (soon after). Colic like pain in stomach (after half an hour). Stomach tender upon pressure (after three hours). Epigastric region sensitive (many cases). Epigastric region exceedingly sensitive to touch. Vomiting aggravated the distress in the stomach and bowels.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Pains in the right hypochondrium, extending to the right shoulder, on the fifth day. Left hypochondrium tender to pressure; (after half an hour). Umbilical. Dull pain in the umbilical region (after one hour). Violent pain in the umbilical region. Very violent pain in the umbilical region, less noticed in the epigastric region, not aggravated by pressure. General Abdomen. Distension of abdomen (soon). Distended abdomen (second day). Abdomen distended, painful to touch. Abdomen distended, somewhat hard and painful to touch. Abdomen greatly distended. Rapid swelling of the abdomen. Abdomen tympanitic and painful on least pressure (second day). Tympanites; in one case very distressing; her abdomen becoming tense as a drum, which, however, was not very long in subsiding. Abdomen meteoric, painful to pressure. Abdomen flattened, but sensitive (second day). Abdomen contracted, slightly painful to pressure.
Belly contracted, hard, and very sensitive all over to the slightest pressure (second day). Retracted abdomen. Hardness of the abdomen, with great painfulness when touched. Abdomen hard, retracted (in a boy of ten years), drawn backward, almost to the spine, not sensitive to pressure. Violent spasmodic motions in the intestines and in the stomach. Chronic gastro-enteritis.
Pains in the abdomen, etc. Pains in the abdomen during digestion. Pains in the abdomen, with internal sensation of burning heat. Abdomen painful and distended (second day).
Abdomen painful, hard, and distended. Pains in the intestines.
Internal heat in abdomen. A feeling of tension, although the abdomen was neither distended nor retracted. Feeling as though all the intestines were constricted. Griping. Occasional griping pains in abdomen. Violent gripes (soon). Continuous dull pain, like a cramp, in the middle of the abdomen, and in one or the other side, most frequently the left (third day).
Occasional cramp in the bowels, for several days. Violent spasmodic pains in the abdomen, which is distended. Bellyache and internal heat in abdomen. Drawing sensation in the left side of the abdomen, from below the false ribs to the bend of the thigh (second day). From time to time very transient drawing pains in the abdomen. A feeling as if the intestines were drawn into knots, in most cases continuous, in some paroxysmal, with inclination to draw the knees up, and press;hard upon the bowels.
Acute pains and swelling of abdomen (soon after). Pressure made with the palm of the hand over the different parts of the abdomen; in the epigastric region, and over the transit of the arch of the colon, in general caused a pungent pain. Tearing- cutting pain in the abdomen. Corroding stitches and internal ulcers in the intestines. Colicky pains, with feeling of distension of abdomen (after half an hour). The symptoms began with colic like pains extending transversely across the abdomen, remitting at times, but not intermitting, and not remarkably increased by pressure, with a hard and retracted abdomen. Colic, etc. Colic, with violent vomiting. Colic, with almost constant urging to stool (third day). Colic, with diarrhoea, every ten minutes, together with retching. Pretty severe colic (two cases). Violent colic, with vomiting. Very violent colic.
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.