Throat
Objective. Hawking of bloody mucus from low down. Subjective. Feeling of warmth in the throat. Constriction in the throat, with difficult deglutition, at first in the forenoon (after three hours); it begins towards evening (next day). Constriction in the throat; pressure and sensation of fullness in the region of the stomach; frequent stale, disgusting eructations, with inclination to vomit; from 1 drachm of 1/48th solution (about 1 1/4 gr). within one hour and a half, all symptoms disappeared. Constriction of the throat, rumbling in the abdomen, pressure in the stomach and burning, eructations, retching, for two hours, followed by constipation for two days (after 10 drops of the 1/16th solution, about 5/8 gr). Constriction in the left side of the throat, with pressure in the right arm. Sore throat, with difficult deglutition; his throat, as far as below the larynx, felt so sore that the bread, although masticated very thoroughly, could not be swallowed without the greatest pain; after smelling the acid, 5 P.M., until the next morning after breakfast; the same morning, hawking up of much phlegm, mixed with some blood; during the day abatement of the symptoms. A singular sensation as though the passage from the mouth to the nose was wide open, during his walk in the open air. Fauces, Pharynx, and Esophagus. Sensation of heat in the fauces the next morning. Soreness in the pharynx, extending down below the larynx; swallowing bread is painful. In the back of the throat, low down, at the entrance of the oesophagus, more to the left side, a sensation as if it were somewhat raw, or as though an ulcer would form; it was indefinite and slightly painful, yet it seemed very troublesome, and twice, while hawking, he thought that blood would come from it, in the morning and forenoon (eleventh and twelfth days). Swallowing. The greatest difficulty was experienced in getting him to swallow anything.
Stomach
Appetite. Appetite increased. Better appetite than usual (part of S.307). Extraordinary appetite after diarrhoea. Voracious appetite. Excessive hunger. He immediately began to long for coffee, for which he had lost his appetite, on commencing the proving, With his usual good appetite, he nevertheless is soon satisfied (third, fourth, and following days) Very soon satisfied; therewith the food tastes good and is well digested (first week). Very soon satisfied the first week, the second week, he began to eat more in the evening, and the increase of appetite in the evening lasted for several weeks. The same speed satiety, without any gastric disturbances, in winter, spring, and summer, during different provings. He is immediately satisfied after a plate of soup, without the slightest sensation of nausea (fourth day). He eats very little, though his appetite is very good (second and following days). The appetite is diminished, he wants something “piquant”. Aversion to coffee (nineteenth day). He relishes wine no more; the desire for it is decreased for several weeks. Thirst. More thirst (part of S.333). Thirst at night. Eructation. Eructations (part of S.257). Eructations and slight nausea in the evening. Eructations and retching. Eructations and discharge of flatulency, frequently. Eructations of wind and sickness of the stomach, very soon. Frequent stale, disgusting eructations (part of S.206). Frequently flat, nauseous eructations, with inclinations to vomit. Sour eructations. Twenty drops of the 1/48th solution, taken in water, excited frequent sour eructations; sensation of heat and a disagreeable flat taste in the mouth. Frequent acid eructations, with pyrosis and passage of flatulency, in the afternoon (second day). Sour, bitter eructations after dinner (in five hours). Burning eructations (part of S.297). Heartburn. Pyrosis, with nausea (in two hours and a half). Nausea and Vomiting. A frequent sensation as though nausea or a kind of vertigo would set in, but which dose not (after ten minutes). Nausea (part of S.103); (part of S.257). Nausea, without inclination to vomit, with dulness of the head. Nausea and heaviness above the eyes. Some sickness of the stomach (after four hours). Sickness of stomach, continuing from three to four hours, after taking the acid. Sickness of the stomach, with some desire to vomit, soon after second dose. Continual sickness of the stomach, with vertigo and headache (after four hours). Constant great sickness of the stomach, with general heat (after two hours). Inclination to vomit (part of S.206). Retching (part of S.207). Violent and incessant retching and vomiting (immediately). He vomits several times with difficulty a clear, viscid fluid, with coagulated white pieces, having no connection with the burning in the mouth, nor the symptoms accompanying it; the whole day, he felt nausea, eructations, and lassitude (after 30 drops of 1/6th solution, about 2 grains). Rumbling in the stomach. Rumbling in the stomach and urging, as in diarrhoea, after eating (thirteenth and fourteenth days). Decidedly uncomfortable sensation in the stomach in the forenoon (after second dose). Heat in the stomach before his meal, which disappears after it; then heaviness heaviness in the stomach, and after some hours again heat; worse during exercise. Burning in the stomach. Burning-pinching pain in the stomach before diarrhoea. Pressure in the stomach, with burning. Pressure in the stomach (about 5/8 grain), (part of S.207). Pressure and sensation of fullness in the region of the stomach (part of S.206). Sensation, between meals, as of pressure from a weight in the stomach, simulating indigestion (after third day). Sensitiveness of the region of the stomach to pressure.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Pinching in the region of the spleen at 11 A.M. (fourth and following days). (A pain which he has had for six days in the region of the spleen, reaching to the hips, disappears immediately after one drop 30th, and dose not return). Umbilical. Sensation of faintness, like an emptiness, in the region of the navel, with a desire to draw a deep breath; it is relieved by bandaging; in the forenoon before he has eaten anything; it gets better after eating; in the evening, it is more like a slight burning; when occupied, he does not observe it. During diarrhoea, pain more particularly in the region of the navel (after several hours). Pinching in region of navel, inclination to diarrhoea, and a copious watery evacuation, at 2 A.M. (seventh day). General Abdomen. Rumbling in the abdomen; (part of S.207). Rumbling in bowels, with erratic pain, in the forenoon. Much rumbling from flatulency (ninth day). Frequent passage of flatus and eructations; it leaves him immediately more comfortable, and with a feeling as if it was the last, but it is not so, for in a few minutes everything is renewed in the same order, succession, and feeling as before; and so on for two or three days, with the only difference of being at longer intervals than it was at first. Passes much inodorous wind. He passes more inodorous flatus, with much noise (after several days). Offensive flatus, in the morning. Small, very offensive wind precedes the evacuation (second and eighth day). Small, excessively offensive discharges of wind, smelling like a mixture of carburetted, sulfuretted, and phosphuretted hydrogen; the odor was exceedingly persistent in the forenoon, several hours before his meal, and in the afternoon, two hours after eating (second day). Inclination to draw up the muscles of the abdomen, with great appetite. Inclination to draw up the abdominal muscles, with great appetite. Sensation in the left side of abdomen as if a pain were about to arise and wind to be discharged, without either taking place (half an hour after fifth dose). (After eating herring, a very unpleasant sensation in the abdomen, and a very discontented mood), (after several hours). Immediately after par-taking of some pieces of watermelon, some pain in the abdomen, which is not generally the case), (after one hour). Pain in the left side of the abdomen, in the region of the spleen (after one hour). A sensation of warmth in the abdomen, with a pressure towards the bladder, in the night (first day). Feeling of accumulated flatulence. A pressing pain in the abdomen on the left side, and also in the left arm, in the evening. Suddenly an acute pain in the left side of the abdomen, above the hip, hindering respiration (after two hours). Shooting pain in bowels, extending towards the right side, as if from wind, sometimes very acute (evening). Slight colic, immediately after eating fish with vinegar. Jerkings in left side of abdomen (after two hours). The pain is increased after passage of flatulence, before the diarrhoea. Continual dull pain in the inguinal region on both sides, and deeply situated. Burning for a short time in the right inguinal region, in the afternoon. Burning from the left side of the p73 breast down to the groin. Pain from the left side of the chest to the groins, increased by deep respiration, particularly in the groin and back, like a stitch, from 9 to 10 A. m.
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.