Yellowness of the face, with weak eyes, as if exhausted (after twenty-four hours). Swelling of the left side of the face, in the morning, after rising. Incipient paralysis of the left side of the face after some swelling of it and some toothache; the muscles of the right side of the face suddenly become distorted, the mouth drawn to the right side, and its motion as well as speech impaired; the left eye frequently becomes closed involuntarily, while the right one could not be completely closed, but frequently remained open in bright light, wind, and dust (after eighteen days). Subjective. Constant sensation as of a cobweb on the face. Pain alternately in all the bones of the face. Cheeks. A kind of cystic swelling of the cheek. Spasmodic twitchings in the masseter muscles. She is unable to close the jaws when eating, on account of pain in the left upper jaw. Tearing, very painful, in the left zygoma, so that she had to cry out, in the evening in bed. Lips. Blisters as large as poppy seeds on the vermilion border of the lower lip of the left side, which rub off on washing, but form anew after four hours (fourth day). The left corner of the mouth is ulcerated. A scaly painless ulcer in both corners of the mouth.
Twitching of the upper lip. The lips are dry. Burning and a feeling of heaviness in the lower lip. Stitches in the upper lip, as if a needle and thread were drawn through it, in the evening. Soreness and cracking of the lips and nostrils, as from cold. Sore pain in the left corner of the mouth. China
Swelling of the glands beneath the chin. Sticking tearing in the left side of the lower jaw.
Mouth
Teeth. Erosion in the cavities of the teeth. Black acrid blood frequently comes from the hollow teeth. Pain in the right back teeth, on biting them tightly together. Pain as from looseness of the lower teeth, when chewing. Toothache at night, lasting till morning. Toothache, especially at night, with heat in the face, or in the evening, with sore pain on the palate and swelling of the cheek. Burning toothache, as from looseness in the teeth, now in another tooth, mostly at night, in bed, or in the evening, while sitting leaning backward, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth; the pain is aggravated by chewing.
Drawing toothache. Drawing pain in the back teeth, when walking in the wind. Drawing pain in a hollow tooth. Painful pressure in the teeth, aggravated by touch. Pressive pain in all the teeth and in the jaws, at night, lasting two hours, and during the day renewed by chewing or biting. Sticking toothache (after six days). Dull jerking-sticking in a tooth.
Several burning stitches in a left upper back tooth, after a meal. Dull jerking stitches in a hollow back tooth when walking in the air (after four hours). Pain shooting about in the teeth.
Tearing in the root of a tooth. Nightly toothache; tearing pain in the teeth, aggravated by food increased the pain. Tearing pain in all the teeth, aggravated by warmth, renewed when lying down in bed, so that there was no rest before midnight.
Sore pain in the teeth when eating, which is aggravated after eating. Crawling toothache, and, on taking cold water, sticking in a tooth. Gum. Swelling of the gum, in the evening.
Swelling of the gum, with dryness of the mouth. Painful swelling of the gum, with swelling of the cheek, and weakness of the whole body. Painful swelling of the gum over the teeth of the upper jaw, as if sore, even when touched by the cheek, with pain in the corresponding back teeth, as if the cheek would become swollen. Sensitive swelling of the gum. Rush of blood to the gum, so that he would willingly cut into it. The gums bleed easily when rubbing them. Offensive odor from the gum and mouth.
Sore pain of the gum on the inner side of the teeth, as after eating hot things (after ten days). Sore pain of the gum of the upper incisors, when touched with the tongue. The gum is painful, with sore sensation on the palate, and running of water from the mouth. Ulcerative pain in the gum. Itching gnawing in the gum. Tongue. Tongue white. Painful pimples and blisters on the back of the tongue, which are painful, mostly after eating and on spitting, also bleeding at times. Burning blisters on the lower side and tip of the tongue. Whitish painful ulcer on the under surface of the tongue. Sore pain on the left side of the tongue on moving or extending it. The tongue (after a meal) feels rough, raw, and scraped, and the papillae are very sensitive, as if they rubbed against the teeth. General Mouth. Offensive smell from the mouth. Sourish offensive odor from the mouth. Great dryness of the mouth and throat at night. Saliva. Saliva runs from the mouth, in the morning, on stooping. Much spitting of saliva (after second day). Running of water from the mouth, with swelling of the upper lip, and painful pimples upon it, with painful gum and sore palate. Green, bitter water comes into the mouth, in the morning, after drinking, or immediately after eating, four days in succession. Mucus in the mouth, in the morning; it was so sticky he could scarcely open the mouth. Salty, burning mucus in the mouth, in the morning, on waking.
Taste. Acidity in the mouth, after breakfast. Sour taste, especially after eating and drinking. Sour taste in the mouth, and no desire to drink. Bitter taste in the mouth, with sour eructations. Salty taste in the mouth. Unpleasant taste difficult to describe, which frequently caused shuddering from disgust (from doses larger than four grains). Taste as of bad eggs in the mouth, in the morning, after rising. Bitter taste of the food.
Throat
Objective. Much mucus low down in the throat. Much hawking of mucus, with dryness of the palate from talking. Subjective.
A sensation in the throat as though catarrh and coryza were approaching. She was unable to speak a loud word on account of burning in the throat, as though everything was sore. Pain in the throat, as from a swelling of the glands. Feeling as of a plug in the throat; at times much difficulty of swallowing.
Feeling in the throat as of a growth or firmly adherent mucus, so that when he attempted to swallow anything small (a crust) it remains sticking to this place. Sensation on the left side of the throat as though he had to swallow over an elevation, with scraping in it, not worse on swallowing food than on empty swallowing. On swallowing, a sensation as though there were a lump in the throat, and especially on empty swallowing a constrictive retching from the oesophagus up to the larynx. Feeling in the throat as if it were sewed together; constant scraping in it. Pinching pain in the throat (after five days). Cramp in the throat, with nausea (after three days).
Constant cramp in the throat, obliging him to retch, as if the food would not go down (after twenty-four hours). Pressure in the region of the pit of the throat, as if he were too satiated, or had swallowed too large a morsel. Pain in the throat in the morning on rising; a pressure and sticking.
Sticking in the throat, when not swallowing. Sticking and retching in the throat, on swallowing, with sensation of dryness in the back part of the left side of the throat, on the palate. Severe stitch in the throat, when swallowing, with ulcerating pain and retching. Sudden jerking stitches in one point low down in the right side of the throat; only when swallowing. Raw throat (after six days). Rawness in the throat, only noticed on speaking. Rawness and scraping soreness in the throat. Scraping in the throat (after twenty-four hours).
Scraping in the throat, which provokes a dry cough. Scraping in the throat, with rawness and roughness (after a meal). Scraping in the throat, with feeling in the fauces, behind the arch of the palate, as if it were dry, which was only relieved after the detachment of some adherent mucus; in the morning on waking, several days in succession. Intolerable scraping and scratching in the throat. Tonsils. Swelling of the tonsils, with pain on swallowing. Fauces. Much mucus in the fauces, for several days, which he is obliged to expectorate by hawking. External Throat. Inflammation and swelling of the right submaxillary gland, which, after a few days, becomes indurated and desquamates. Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with pain when touched, and stiffness of the neck. The glands in the side of the neck down the shoulder are swollen and painful when bending the neck to one side, or lying upon it, as if tense and stiff. Pressive pain in the submaxillary glands.
Stomach
Appetite. Appetite increased. Ravenous hunger and after eating nausea and vertigo (third day). Great appetite for meat at supper-time, when he usually had no desire for animal food. No appetite in the evening. Little appetite of warm food. Aversion to salt food. Aversion to animal food, when thinking of it; though it tastes tolerable while eating, but bread tastes better. Aversion to meat and fish. Sweet things are disgusting and nauseous. Unusual thirst, in the morning, for several days in succession. Thirst. Much thirst, after eating (thirteenth day). Great thirst, even in the morning. Great desire for beer-drinking, without remarkable thirst, only desire for its internal cooling. Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations at night of the soup taken at noon (seventh day). Many eructations, tasting of the food (after four days). Constant eructations, with nausea, the whole day, and loss of appetite (immediately). Ineffectual eructations, he desires to eructate constantly, but cannot. Sour eructations, with bitter taste in the mouth. Sour uprisings of the food. Acidity in the stomach, with ravenous hunger. Regurgitation of much mucus in the morning, with otherwise natural appetite and stool. Water brash. Water brash, at night in bed. Hiccough, in the morning after rising, and after dinner. Hiccough, in the evening, for an hour (fourth day). Hiccough, after every meal, whether warm or cold. Hiccough, after a meal, with a dull, heavy head or sleepiness. Heartburn. Rancid heartburn. Rancid heartburn, after a meal. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea for several hours, immediately. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, the whole day, immediately. Nausea, in the morning, with weakness and trembling during the day, during menstruation. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, in the stomach, for two minutes in the morning immediately after rising, first eight days. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, in the morning after rising, with dizziness as from obscuration of the eyes; he thinks he will fall while walking; with paleness of the face; for two weeks.
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.