Face
Cheeks. Cheeks red (first day) Oppressive tearing pain in the right upper jaw and in the crown of the right eye-tooth (seventh day). Lips. Dry lips, without thirst. Numb sensation or a feeling as of an induration in the upper lip. China Biting together of the jaws (fifth day). Tearing in the left submaxillary articulation (first day).
Mouth
Teeth. Pain in the right lower row of teeth (seventh day).
Pressive tearing pain in the left upper row of teeth (seventh day). Slight jerking through the upper teeth. Sore pain in the right upper incisors, chiefly in the crowns, extending into the walls of the upper jaw (after fifteen hours and a half). Tearing pain in the three left back teeth, as if they would be torn out. Tearing sticking jerking in the two first right upper back teeth (second day). A pre-existing dull drawing toothache, which had lasted the whole night, disappeared in one minute). Tongue.
Tongue white. Tongue coated very white for three days (after eight hours). Tongue yellowish-white (seventh day). Tip of the tongue red, burning, covered with small yellow blisters.
Increased redness of the tip of the tongue, with several small blisters, with violent burning in it; speaking or chewing was painful, with increased saliva. Tongue very much coated (fourth day). Burning in the tip of the tongue in the evening. Burning and stitches in the left side of tongue. Fine stitches in the tongue (after two hours). General Mouth. Mouth and fauces redder than in the morning, when they were pale (sixth day).
Mouth pasty and watery (ninth day). Rough, slimy sensation in the mouth, as if he had not washed it in the morning. Sensation of swelling of the palate. Great dryness of the palate in the evening, with thirst and hunger. Saliva. Much water in the mouth (tenth day). Much mucus in the mouth. Collection of water in the mouth (after eighth day). Very frequent collection of water in the mouth, with incomplete eructations tasting of the food, in the evening and during the whole day. Accumulation of saliva and mucus in the mouth (fifth day). Accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth, with pasty taste (third day). Accumulation of mucus and watery saliva in the mouth, with frequent hawking (soon), (seventh day). Secretion of saliva diminished since yesterday; when expectorated it is in the form of yellowish-white consistent lumps, s large as a pea or bean (this condition was noticed after every dose, and continued during five or six days), (second day). The saliva has a salty taste, which is communicated to all the food eaten. Taste. Taste flat, though everything taste natural (third day). Bitter taste (fourth day). Taste nauseous (first day). Sudden nauseous offensive taste in the mouth. Food has a flat and almost no taste. Salty taste of all the food, for several days.
Throat
Objective. Much hawking (third day). Subjective. Burning in the throat (after two drops, second day). Constant burning in the throat, with accumulation of saliva and mucus in the mouth and at times eructations, with an unpleasant sensation in the stomach (immediately after six drops), (sixth day). Great contraction in the throat (soon), (fourth day). Constriction in the throat (seventh day). Constrictive pain in the throat, even from smelling the medicine (immediately), (second evening). Sore pain in the throat (second day). Scraping in the throat, with eructations tasting of the drug (immediately). Burning scraping in the throat, lasting an hour. Jerks and painfulness in the throat (second evening). Uvula and Tonsils. Uvula and tonsils very much contracted and white (sixth day). Fauces. Fauces red.
Fauces very red, painful on swallowing, with much tough mucus.
Much mucus in the fauces. Scraping in the fauces nearly the whole day. Scraping in the fauces, lasting the whole day (soon).
Frequent scraping in the fauces, with pain on swallowing.
External Throat. Pressive drawing pain in the submaxillary glands on bending the neck forward.
Stomach
Appetite. Great appetite (second day). Greatly increased appetite (third day). Unnatural hunger, at times followed by complete loss of appetite (eighth day). Alternations of ravenous hunger and loss of appetite. Diminished hunger and appetite. Loss of appetite (third day); (fifth day). Almost complete loss of appetite and thirst (seventh day). Complete loss of appetite; especially he does not relish his breakfast and supper; as soon as he begins to eat at these times he becomes satiated.
No appetite (fourth day). After eating only a little food, the rest becomes repugnant and nauseates him; the nausea is felt in the throat and palate (after twenty-seven hours). For eight days he could eat but very little, and had a constant feeling of satiety. No appetite for breakfast and was followed by nausea and vomiting (eighth day). Soon satisfied at dinner, which, however, had the usual relish (ninth day). Very little appetite for dinner, followed by constant empty eructations, lasting two hours (fifth day). Aversion to bread and butter; warm food, however, goes down more easily. Thirst. Thirst (fifth day).
Thirst after eating, which had been absent nearly five days (seventh day). Great thirst (first night); (third day). Thirst so great that she drank eight glasses of water (sixth day). Very great thirst during dinner, usually none (third day).
Unquenchable thirst (seventh day). Absence of thirst, for four days, after which it returned and was at times greater than in health. No thirst the whole day, but it occurs in the evening as the face and hands become warm. Remarkable aversion to his usually agreeable drink of beer (ninth day). Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations (second evening and sixth day); (fourth day), etc. Eructations; pressure in the stomach, ending in eructations (fifth day). Eructations, in the evening after eating, which always end in hiccough, wherewith a rancid fluid rises up into the throat. Eructations immediately after breakfast, which consisted simply of a cup of coffee (fifth day). Eructations, with oppressive sensation in the stomach (fifth day). Frequent eructations (fourth day). Frequent eructations smelling of the medicine, with corrosive taste in the pharynx, after a few minutes (first day), Frequent eructations, with unpleasant sensation in the stomach (fifth day). Frequent eructations, with pressive feeling in the stomach (fourth day).
Profuse eructations (seventh day). Empty eructations, soon after eating (after seven hours and three-quarters). Eructations of a fatty smell (seventh day). Frequent sour eructations (after eighth day). Frequent, at times sourish, eructations. Acid eructations. Burning and rancid eructations frequently, not affected by eating. Hiccough (second day). Hiccough after eating (after fourteen hours and a half). Food has a good taste, but while eating and for some time afterwards, he has hiccough, or hiccough-like eructations. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea (fifth day). Nausea the whole afternoon (fifth day). Nausea the whole night (sixth day). Nausea, with headache (soon), (first day).
Nausea, with a collection of water in the mouth like water brash (after one and five hours). Nausea and inclination to vomit (after two last doses). Nausea and diarrhoea. Nausea and diarrhoea, preceded by rumbling and colic (first day). Nausea and fulness of the chest, together with unusual hunger, in the morning after the accustomed smoke (after three hours).
Qualmish nausea after dinner and supper, and an uneasiness and qualmishness in the epigastric region, as after eating too much fat. Inclination to vomit (fourth day); (sixth day). Inclination to vomit, with vertigo, weakness, and ill-humor, towards evening (third day). Inclined to vomit, for nearly an hour (third day).
Great inclination to vomit (fourth day). Great inclination to vomit, towards morning (fourth day). Great inclination to vomit, followed by vomiting (fourth day). A cup of coffee taken in the evening without relish was followed by inclination to vomit, and sour eructations (ninth day). Vomiting (immediately), (first day); (after six hours, second day). Vomiting, immediately after taking, and again in the night, also accompanied by quite severe diarrhoea; she vomited again towards morning, then had refreshing sleep (fourth day). Vomiting, followed by weakness, vertigo, dim vision and frontal headache (fifth day). Violent vomiting, followed by inclination to sleep, immediately (first day).
Vomiting of food and mucus, with vertigo twice, immediately (third day). Vomiting of mucus twice (second day). Vomiting of mucus, followed by uneasy sleep, interrupted by starting up and unpleasant dreams (fourth day). Vomiting of watery mucus twice, followed by dizziness, so that she was obliged to lie down on the bed (soon), (second day). Vomiting a greenish liquid, followed by headache, vertigo, and dim vision (sixth day). Stomach.
Distension of the stomach, with rumbling in the hepatic region.
Constant distension of the stomach and abdomen, although wind was raised from the stomach; especially distension like a ball in the intestines on the right side beneath the liver; this distension could be distinctly felt, together with a sensation of creeping and crawling, as from something living in the abdomen, which she tried to alleviate by rubbing or pressing with the hand, then the crawling changed into the breast and she had a feeling as though air streamed out of the nipple (eighth day). Great distension of the stomach (fourth day). Pain in the stomach and bowels (third day). Fullness of the stomach, as though overloaded, and six hours after a meal incomplete eructations tasting of the food.
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.