Mouth sore, with little blisters on the mucous membrane. Saliva. Saliva accumulates in mouth; throat dry (while triturating the precipitated dust with Sac. Lac 2 grains to 98). Great flow of saliva from mouth (almost immediately). Salivation, which increased to nearly one pound in twenty-four hours, and continued at the rate of about a pint a day for four days; it appeared to be pure saliva, attended with some swelling of tongue and salivary glands (second day). Abundant salivation (third day).
Collection of water in the mouth (immediately),. Much mucus in the mouth, in the morning,. Frothing from the mouth,. Taste.
Peculiar sweetish taste in mouth,. Sweetish metallic taste,.
Disagreeable and nauseous taste in mouth,. Bitter taste in mouth. Bitter, nauseous taste (after a few days). Sourish taste in the mouth the whole afternoon, as though the tongue had been held against iron. Salty, sour taste in the mouth, in the morning. Coppery taste and troublesome burning in the throat.
Food tastes like simple water. Speech. Loss of speech. The ability to speak returned later than consciousness; she lay in a condition of consciousness, without being able to speak.
Throat
Throat dry. Dryness of throat (while triturating the precipitated dust with sugar of milk, 2 grains to 98). Sensation of a foreign body at the anterior surface of the throat, by which the pharynx was being compressed. Some have a feeling of constriction and an acute pain in throat. Fine sticking pain in the throat (after twenty-two hours). Sore throat (second day).
Slight sore throat. Fauces, Pharynx and Oesophagus. Slight constriction of fauces, attended by a slight sense of nausea.
Audible gurgling of drink down the throat, while drinking. Constriction of pharynx (after a few days). External Throat.
Swelling of the glands of he right side of the neck, painful to touch. Pain in the thyroid cartilage.
Stomach
Appetite. He eats very hastily. Desire for cold rather than warm food. Appetite bad. Very little appetite. Diminution of usual appetite, which at length entirely failed. Loss of appetite, etc. Total loss of appetite. Total anorexia (after a few days). His appetite left him; then his strength became reduced, the whole body emaciated; then he became fearful, showing a want of courage; bowels alternately costive or loose; and finally violent colic about fifth or sixth week. No appetite in the evening, eight hours after dinner. Thirst. Great thirst.
Great thirst; no appetite. Excessive thirst (third day).
Burning thirst (many cases). Eructation and Hiccough.
Eructations the whole afternoon and evening. Eructation and rising up of mucus mixed with green lumps. Constant eructations. (* Not found.-HUGHES. *) Hiccough. Heartburn.
Usually in the afternoon heartburn, followed by bitter mucus in the throat. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea; (immediately), etc.
In all cases there is nausea. Feels very sick (nauseated). For several weeks he experienced nausea whenever he attempted to swallow animal food, although he chewed it abundantly. Nausea, almost in the whole abdomen, extending up into the throat, most violent in the pit of the stomach, together with a putrid taste in the mouth, and sensation as though he would immediately vomit.
Nausea, quickly succeeded by severe vomiting (soon). Suddenly seized with nausea, and instantly vomited a large quantity (more than a quart) of fluid arterial blood (twenty-eighth day).
Bleeding again occurred to a considerable extent, and after throwing up a considerable quantity of dark fluid he became sensible of something passing in stomach, and thence into bowels (twenty-ninth day). Hemorrhage again recurred, and he suddenly sank in a state of complete collapse (thirtieth day).
Excessive nausea. Qualmishness, as if associated with intoxication. Constant retching. Violent retchings and nausea.
Much of the time troubled with vain retchings after (twenty-four hours). Repeated but useless efforts at vomiting. Vomiting; (many cases). In some cases there is vomiting. Frequent vomiting. Frequent vomiting, with colic and diarrhoea, as in cholera. Forcible vomiting. Violent vomiting, with nausea and diarrhoea. Excessive vomiting, with colic and diarrhoea.
Vomiting, preceded by slight nausea, though only of water, therewith much lachrymation. Greenish, bitter vomiting of mucus, preceded by nausea in the upper part of the throat, and accompanied by pressive pain in the stomach (after a few hours).
Vomited every kind of food about twenty minutes after taking it.
Vomiting (within twenty-four hours); continued to vomit at intervals for eight days; and sometimes it was almost incessant for hours, and in the highest degree distressing. Threw off his victuals and some bile. Vomiting of bilious fluid. Frequent and copious vomiting of green bile, as the nurse thought, colored by verdigris. Blood in the matter vomited. Vomiting of blood without cough, with deep stitches in the left side of the chest (after three hours). Vomiting is relieved by drinking cold water. (* The authority corrected by Hering. *) Stomach. Region of stomach puffed up, sore to touch. Epigastric palpitation.
Weakness of the stomach. Epigastric sinking. Disposition to remove some offending substances from his stomach (unaccompanied by nausea), for the ejection of which he would frequently irritate the fauces with his finger. Sensation as of something bitter in the stomach. Pain in the stomach; (second day). Most of them complain of pain in epigastrium. Excessive tormenting pains in the stomach and epigastric region. Cardialgia. Many suffer from indigestion. Great heat in epigastric region. Cramp in the stomach, with colic, without stool. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from something hard, by itself, but more violent when touched. Violent pressure at stomach, with contractive pains at intervals (after a few days). Occasional sense of weight and uneasiness in epigastric region, and rather towards right side, with sense of distension after meals.
Peculiar sense of weight, weakness, and oppression in epigastric region. Gnawing, fine sticking pain in the stomach, as though he was pierced by needles (on returning to consciousness). Dull stitches near the left side of the pit of the stomach, without affecting respiration. Stomach sore to touch. Irritability of stomach, especially after meals. Morbid sensibility of the epigastric and hypochondriac regions. During recovery the stomach remained sensitive and impatient of any but the most bland and simple milk diet.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Swelling of the liver. The hypochondria are painful. Drawing pain, extending from the left hypochondrium to the hip. Griping pain, extending from the left hypochondrium to the hip. Stitches in hepatic region in axillary line, obliquely through to pit of stomach (second day). Darting from hepatic region to pit of stomach (third day). Umbilical. Often complained of pain in the abdomen, which seemed to be in the umbilical region.
Pressive pain near the left side of the umbilicus. Cutting pains around navel, as if she would get diarrhoea, which, however, did not come (third day). Cutting pains below navel, with three stools like water, the abdomen being painful on touch; recurring several times through the day (shortly after, and second day). Tearing around navel about 10 A.M. (fourth day). General Abdomen. Abdomen large. Distended abdomen. Distended abdomen, painful to touch. Tense abdomen. Abdomen tense, hot, and tender to touch. Abdomen stretched like a board. Abdomen drawn in, and sore to touch. Slight infiltration of the abdominal walls. Spasmodic motions of the abdominal muscles. Inclination to water brash in the abdomen. Constant rumbling in the abdomen during sleep. A feeling in the left side of the abdomen, as if bubbles formed and broke, without pain. Pains in abdomen. Pains in the abdomen, causing anxiety. Great pain in abdomen, which is swelled and hard (fifth day). Intense abdominal pain, with vomiting and purging of green matter (at once). Cramp like pain in abdomen, as if drawn together with a fist, and urging to diarrhoea without effect, at 6 A.M. (second day). Griping in the left side of the abdomen. Griping in the abdomen, after drinking warm milk in the morning. Griping pains in bowels. Constant griping pains in abdomen. Colic like griping in the abdomen, immediately after eating (green vegetables); relieved by rest and lying down, but followed by very great weakness. Cries with bellyache. Sharp drawing in the right side of the abdomen. A pressing together of the intestines, with a feeling of severe pressure from the upper and posterior part downward towards the left lower portion; worse when walking or from pressing upon it; not relieved after a stool, and returning every forenoon.
Pressive pain in the abdomen, as from something hard, worse on touch. While sitting reading, was suddenly attacked with acute pain in abdomen; felt “just as if some one had struck him violently in the belly;” pain not relieved by pressure; on the contrary, it is increased by it. Cutting in abdomen. Cutting tearing in the intestines. Frequent pains shooting across abdomen and under ensiform cartilages. Obscure and colicky pains shooting through abdomen. Colic (some cases). Colic, with remissions. The workman bends himself double to relieve it.
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.