Mouth
Teeth. The front teeth are painful. Pulsating toothache in the left lower eyetooth, in the evening, in bed, lasting half an hour; this symptom was certainly caused by Digitalis, since I have never in my life suffered form toothache, and my teeth are quite sound (third day). Tongue. Tongue coated for several days. Tongue slightly coated. Tongue pale (second day). Tongue white (after four days). Tongue coated, white, in the morning. Tongue covered with a white coat, and slightly swollen (second day). Tongue covered with a yellow coating, and considerably swollen (third day). Swelling of the tongue. He bites his tongue. General Mouth. Offensive odor form the mouth. Mouth moist and thick (first day). Dryness in the mouth. Dryness of the palate and pharynx with the nausea (second day). The mouth is very soft and rough, as if covered with velvet. Stitches in the posterior portion of the palate, and in the beginning of the throat, not noticed on swallowing. Soreness of the mouth, fauces, and oesophagus. (* AScribed by the author to the acrimony of the plant.-HUGHES. *) Scrap in, raw feeling in the palate. Roughness of the palate, as after too smoking. Saliva. Quantity of saliva increased (fifth day). Increase of the salivary and urinary secretions (after twelve hours). Accumulation of saliva. Accumulation of saliva as after vinegar. Accumulation of saliva, with soreness of the mouth, tongue, and gums, for three days. Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, with ptysis and great nausea on swallowing it. Accumulation of very sweetish saliva. Accumulation of watery saliva, which is at first sweetish, but afterwards salty, in frequent attacks. Profuse collection of saliva of a viscid consistence. Considerable and constant flow of saliva. Mouth full of mucus (third day). Taste. Flat slimy taste. Taste as of sweet almonds, after smoking. Bread tastes bitter, with a good appetite.
Throat
Tenacious mucus in the throat, which is loosened by coughing. Dryness of the throat. Spasmodic constriction of the throat. (* Not found.-HUGHES. *) Sore pain in the throat, on swallowing. Sticking sore throat, even when not swallowing. Fauces, Pharynx and Esophagus. Dryness and scraping in the fauces. A peculiar sensation in the fauces, as if the walls of the pharynx were swollen, or as if they were constricted by swelling of the tonsils (fourth day). Soreness of the fauces and posterior nares, especially painful in the morning and evening, for several days. Scraping in the pharynx (third day). Scraping and slight burning in the pharynx, soon (second day). Scraping in the oesophagus, soon (second day). Scraping in the oesophagus, with rawness in the air passages, the latter continuing the whole day (second day). Sharp irritation in the oesophagus, burning and scraping (fifth day). Swallowing. Difficulty of swallowing, continuing six days.
Stomach
Appetite. Slight increase of the appetite (fifth day). Painful feelings of hunger (after twelve hours). At short intervals, a painful feeling of hunger (eighth and ninth days). Longing for bitter food. Appetite less than usual (seventh day). Appetite slight, is immediately satisfied. Appetite light. Appetite for dinner diminished (seventh day). No relish for food, and indigestion when it was taken (ninth day). Loss of Appetite. Loss of appetite, with clean tongue. Loss of appetite, with great emptiness of the stomach. He ate his usual meal without appetite, thinking thereby the sensation of nausea would be relieved (after four hours). Thirst. Thirst. Much thirst (second day). Urgent thirst. Excessive thirst, caused by great dryness of mouth and pharynx; this thirst tormented him the whole night; was not quenched by copious drafts of beer and water (after 3 grs).. Extremely thirsty; desire for cold drinks (third, fourth, and fifth days). Violent thirst and dryness of the mouth. Thirst for sour drinks. Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations, with violent hunger, after dinner. Eructations, without either nausea or inclination to vomit (after 1 1/2 grain, pure). Sour eructations after eating. Eructations of tasteless liquid. Eructations of an acid fluid. Eructations of an acrid fluid, followed by acidity in the mouth like vinegar. Hiccough. Hiccough, which does not rise quite up to the throat, six or seven paroxysms. Frequent hiccough. Very frequent hiccough (after fourth day). Heartburn. Heartburn towards evening (fourth day). Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea, etc. Nausea after eating. Nausea in the epigastric region, with little appetite. Nausea and slight pressure in the stomach (after 1/2 grain). Momentary nausea on going to bed (first day). Occasional nausea (fourteenth day). Continual nausea (second day). Incessant nausea for three days. Slight nausea, although there was a relish for food (fourteenth and fifteenth days). A great deal of nausea, with uneasiness and weight at the stomach (nineteenth and twentieth days (Much nausea, with a pain at the stomach (second day). Great nausea, so that he feared he should vomit (soon after 2 grains, second day). Violent nausea for some minutes in the middle of the night, commencing with a noise in the throat, followed by suffocative convulsions, in which he wakes in the greatest distress and suffering; he then falls into fits of general convulsions and afterwards becomes delirious and remains ungovernable for several minutes. Deathly nausea. Deathly, qualmish nausea in recurrent attacks, with extreme dejection of mind and apprehensiveness. (* Not found.
-HUGHES. *) Sickness in the morning, in a female. Inclination to vomit. Retching. Almost convulsive efforts to vomit. Vomiting (after eight hours), etc. Vomiting day and night. Vomiting in the morning. Vomiting in the night. Vomiting renewed by drinking. Vomiting, with nausea. Vomiting, with extreme nausea. Vomiting and purging, with severe pain in the abdomen. Vomiting, with retching, excessive nausea, great anguish in the pit of the stomach, and external heat, mingled with shivering, followed by sweat, with chilliness, for several days in succession, in the afternoon about five or six. Long-continued vomiting. The vomiting, which came on, it might be said, without precursory signs, lasted a day and a half; and solid food was not retained until the sixth day. Vomiting for six days, not quieted by anything till death. Frequent vomiting. Vomited severely (second morning). Vomiting severe and incessant. Immoderate vomiting, with incessant nausea, coldness of the limbs, and cold sweat for two days. Violent vomiting (after some hours). Violent vomiting, lasting four hours. Violent vomiting, followed by cold sweat. Violent, continued vomiting, like seasickness, with irregular, feeble pulse, for some weeks. Terrific vomiting. Vomiting at 5 A.M. of a large quantity of the infusion of Digitalis (second day). Vomiting of food, enveloped in white, tasteless mucus,;with increased nausea and relief of the colic. Vomited freely; at first merely alimentary matter, then a greenish liquid (after six hours). Copious vomiting, first of ingesta, then liquid, and finally greenish-yellow (after three hours). He tried several times to induce vomiting by mechanical irritation, and threw off a large quantity of saliva, mucus, and acid food (evening of first day). Greenish vomiting. Vomiting of greenish fluid (second day). Vomiting of green fluid, like the infusion of plants, several times, with relief of the symptoms. Vomiting of mucus, followed by bile, without food, on rising in the morning and several times in the course of the day (eighth day, while taking). Vomiting twice a large quantity of mucus (second day). Bilious vomiting (soon). Bilious vomiting for several days.
Bilious vomiting and diarrhoea. Vomiting of green bile, with excessive nausea. Some were so violently affected as to vomit blood. Stomach. Intense gastritis, with great sinking of the vital powers, and double vision. All the symptoms of violent inflammation of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, as well as of the brain (fourth day). Difficulty of digestion (fifteenth day). Digestion difficult, but no actual nausea (eighth day, while taking). Weak digestion for a long time. Functions of the stomach considerably weakened (sixteenth day). Symptoms of a disordered stomach (tenth day). Symptoms of disordered stomach did not disappear until after about twenty-three days. Faintness or sinking at the stomach, as if life was becoming extinct. Frequent sensation of emptiness in the stomach before going to sleep. An unpleasant sensation in the epigastric region. Uneasiness at the stomach (second day). Some uneasiness in the stomach after a moderate quantity of food (eleventh day). Great uneasiness in the stomach (third day). Sense of extreme anxiety, referred to the epigastrium (after six hours). Heaviness in the stomach. Heaviness in the stomach, alternating with weakness. Pains in the stomach. Pain in epigastrium, extending to abdomen (fourth day). Pain in pit of stomach, aggravated by pressure. Painful feeling at the stomach, analogous to hunger, although I had taken as much food as usual (first day). Great pain in epigastric and umbilical regions. Severe pain in the epigastrium soon set in, followed by evacuations, both by vomiting and stool, of a dark yellow color and offensive smell, for six days. Very violent pain during the vomiting, which recurred frequently and reduced an evacuation of a large quantity of mucous matter (third day). Burning in the stomach. Burning in the stomach extending up the oesophagus, continuing through the day (first day). Burning and pressure in the epigastric region. Sharp burning, extending from the stomach up the oesophagus, in the afternoon (second day). Great heat of the stomach, with painfulness of it. (* Not found.-HUGHES. *) After eating, the stomach and upper abdomen are constantly full and distended, with heaviness and disinclination to work. Feeling of fullness in the stomach, as though the breakfast would be eructated (second day). Sensation of fulness in the stomach (three hours and a half after dinner), as if the food remained in the upper part of the oesophagus, without nausea (second day). Constriction across the epigastric region, towards the liver. Spasmodic pain in the stomach (seventh day). Cramp in the stomach. (* Not found.-HUGHES. *) After dinner, dull pain and distension of the stomach; felt as if I had eaten too much (fifteenth day). Stomachache (eighth day, while taking). Pressure in the stomach, as from a heavy weight, on straightening up the body. Pressure in the stomach and copious secretion of saliva two hours after disappearance of the vertigo (second day). Frequent pressure in the stomach and upper part of the abdomen. Constant pressure on the stomach. Slight pressure in the epigastric region (after one hour, first day). Some pinching pressure in the stomach, by paroxysms (after half an hour). Cutting pressure in the pit of the stomach, with nausea in it. After eating, the food presses in the pit of the stomach while sitting, not while standing. Slight cutting pain in the stomach (second day). Pinching stitches in the pit of the stomach, unaltered by respiration and aggravated by touch only when standing, not when sitting. Soreness at the epigastrium. Epigastrium rather painful on pressure (after sixth day). Extreme sensitiveness in epigastric region, producing frequent deep sighs (second day). Suffered much after dinner from severe bruised pain in the epigastrium and over the sternum, with feeling of languor and indigestion, going off on taking a little weak tea (fourteenth day).
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.