Throat
Dryness of the throat (one quarter of an hour after 2 grains). Immediately in the throat and stomach a totally indescribable sensation, as if I had taken a drink of melted lead; it was so overpowering that I was unable to think of any method of relief, but in the most distressing agony leaped out of bed and rolled over the floor, from side to side of the room; at length I was urged to drink copiously of warm water, which produced some vomiting and some mitigation of my intense suffering; the distress slowly subsided, and settled into one of my worst attacks of asthma. Spasmodic contractive sensation in the throat and chest. Dull stitches transversely through the throat into the inner ear. Sore throat. Fauces and Pharynx. Dry burning sensation in the fauces, amount ing almost to suffocation. Fine sticking in the pharynx (after half an hour and one hour). Pain in the pharynx as if it were much too dry, raw, and sore, which is always relieved for one a short time by swallowing saliva or the usual drink (after one hour). Swallowing. Swallowing difficult, as from paralysis of the tongue and pharynx (after eight hour). Pain on swallowing, as if there were a swelling in the pharynx. (After one hour).
Stomach
Thirst. Loss of thirst. Eructation. Eructations (after a quarter of an hour). Eructations every eight to ten minutes, also the following day, with rumbling in the abdomen. Empty eructations. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea (after a quarter of an hour). Nausea, as from the stomach, with empty eructations and accumulation of much saliva (after half an hour). (120). Nausea rising from the stomach with hiccough, only at last disappearing after several pasty stools, immediately after smoking tobacco as usual (after fourteen hours). Nausea, qualmishness. Nausea, qualmishness, and efforts to vomit (after one hour and a quarter). Nausea and vomiting. (Nausea and heaviness in the abdomen). At times nausea and convulsive but ineffectual efforts to vomit. Slight degree of nausea. Distressing nausea. Qualmishness in the abdomen, with incipient colic. Inclination to vomit (1/2 grain). (a quarter of an hour after 2 grains). Great inclination to vomit, several times, at momentary intervals. Severe inclination to vomit (after 4 grains). Vomiting, and a feeling as if he would fall down, on stooping. Vomiting (after half an hour), followed by great inclination to sleep (after 15 grains). Vomiting, repeated three times. Vomiting of food, without previous eructations, on stooping (after one hour and half). (Vomiting of large masses of mucus). (Vomiting of masses of yellow mucus). (Vomiting of green-grass mucus). (Vomiting of green bilious mucus). Vomiting of large pieces of offensive mucus). Vomiting of food; mucus yellow, green, black; empty retching; vomiting of every thing swallowed. Stomach. Rumbling in the stomach (soon). Warmth in the stomach. Agreeable warmth in the stomach, with rumbling in the intestines (after a quarter of an hour). Sensation of emptiness and laxity of the stomach. Sensation as if the stomach hung down relaxed, with a loss of appetite (after one hour). (Excessive pain in the stomach). Violent griping in the stomach (after 4 grains). Dull sticking pain in the pit of the stomach, as from a sharp stick. (150). (Extremely sore feeling in the stomach.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Pinching pain in both hypochondria and in the region of the pit of the stomach (after three hours). Violent stitches in the left hypochondrium (after half an hour). Umbilical and Sides. Cutting pain about the umbilicus with shivering. Cutting pain about the umbilicus, as if menstruation would appear, with chilliness and coldness of the body, while internally heat mounts into the head (after two hours). Cutting pain in the side of the abdomen, in the umbilical region aggravated by touch and external pressure, accompanied by white frothy saliva in the mouth and dilated pupils (after one-eighth of an hour). (Sticking pains in the abdomen, and burning and sticking in the rectum with urging to stool). Violent stitches in the right flank for several minutes. Tearing pains about the umbilicus. Colic in the umbilical region, aggravated by pressure. General Abdomen. (160). Abdomen distended, with constant pain. Distension of the abdomen (4 grains; quarter of an hour after 2 grains). Feeling of extreme distension and enlargement of the abdomen. Uneasiness in the abdomen (after half an hour). Griping in the abdomen (after quarter of an hour). Clawing griping in the abdomen, as if grasped by a hand so that each outstretched finger pressed sharply upon the intestines, relieved by rest, extremely aggravated by the slightest motion. Pinching pain and distension in the abdomen (after 1 grain). Pinching colic (after half an hour). Colic (quarter of an hour after 2 grains). Colic with rumbling in the intestines (after 8 grains). (170). Flatulent colic. Hypogastrium. On coughing, pain in the abdomen as if obliged to urinate and the urine could not pass, as in retention of urine.
Rectum
Sticking, cutting, burning pain on the margin of the anus, as in obstinate hemorrhoids (after three-quarters of an hour). Violent stitches in the anus. Crawling in the anus, as if thread worms would extrude.
Stool
Stools like diarrhoea, as if fermented (after one hour). Purging. Frequent thin stools, with a weak sensation in the abdomen. Stools frequent, of greenish mucus. Soft stool (after two hour). (Thin stool, with burning sticking pain in the rectum and anus). (Stools lemon-yellow). (Porraceous stools). (Grass-green stools). Offensive stools. Bloody stools. Fecal discharge covered with red bloody mucus.
Urinary organs
Urethra. (A purulent fluid flowed from the urethra of a child for several days, with biting pain). Micturition. Inclination to urinate, although urine had been passed an hour and a half before, and nothing had been eaten or drunk since. Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge (after two hours, and two hours and a quarter). (Frequent micturition of straw-yellow urine, with great burning and urging before the discharge, without subsequent tenesmus), (after two hours). Urine. Urine red scanty. Bloody urine. Urine became bloody (after seven or eight days). (Urine turbid with a brick dust sediment).
Respiratory organs
Larynx. Rattling noises in the air passages during respiration. Dryness, burning, and scraping in the larynx (after 8 grains). Cough and Expectoration. Cough caused by a constrictive tickling sensation extending from the upper portion of the larynx to the lowest extremity of the bronchi (after four, six, and seven hours). Cough causing inclination to vomit with out nausea (after one hour). Cough incessant after walking in the cold air and after lying down in the morning and evening, caused by deep inspiration; accompanied by pain in the abdomen as if the umbilicus would be torn out, heat in the face (head) and sweat on the forehead. Violent and convulsive cough. Extremely violent convulsive cough 6 and 7 P. M. Suffocating cough, whereby the child becomes quite stiff and blue in the face (after ten hours) Suffocative racking, very exhausting cough, lasting an hour, towards evening. Suffocative, extremely exhausting cough, lasting half an hour, with coldness of the extremities, about 7 P. M. Dry cough caused by tickling in the upper part of the larynx (after two, three. and five hours). Cough with expectoration of blood. Throbbing pain in the head and pit of the stomach, after cough ing. When expectoration became free, and mucus was formed in great quantities by the mucous membrane of the bronchia, in the morning, after resting through the night from the cough, expectoration would commence freely on stirring about a little, and mouthfuls would be thrown up, which any person at first sight would have pronounced to be a mass of small, nearly transparent worms; on close examination I discovered it to be thickened mucus which had collected in the small ramifications of the bronchial tubes during sleep, and was actually discharged so as to be real casts of those tubes; this would sometimes be thrown up in such quantities, in the morning, that it really surprised me that sufficient air could have passed through the lungs for the purposes of life while sleeping. Respiration. Instead of the ordinary wheezing, the muscles of respiration seemed tetanically convulsed, producing a condition not unlike what is denominated “holding the breath,” with slight sighs or catches at intervals barely sufficient to keep the wheels of life from ceasing altogether (in two instances); on the first occasion relief was obtained by swallowing two drachms of Eth. sulph; on the other, where the interrupted breathing had continued fearfully long, where swallowing was impossible, inhaling the fumes of burning paper previously saturated with Nitras. potass, alleviated the symptoms almost instantaneously. In about the usual time for an emetic to operate, there seemed to be a simultaneous efforts to breathe, cough, and vomit, while neither of these functions was performed in any degree of perfection, producing a state of suffering indescribable by words; the whole muscles of the chest and abdomen seemed in a state of violent irregular spasm, every effort to vomit being interrupted by an attempt to cough; and notwithstanding a cold March wind was blowing, it became necessary to open the windows and support me in an erect position for nearly an hour to prevent immediate suffocation; at the end of about an hour, without any previous mitigation of symptoms, I was almost instantaneously and completely relieved; on the appearance of the eruption. Sudden attack of troublesome shortness of breath with a wheezing noise. Attack of suffocation, lasting two to three days Most violent attack of suffocative constriction in the air- passages and pharynx, face deathly pale, with most frightful anxiety for want of air. Cough impedes respiration, even to suffocation. Dyspnoea. Dyspnoea, or suffocating sensation of stricture of the chest, and a most distressing oppression at the Precordial. Dyspnoea for several hours. Dyspnoea in the evening. Dyspnoea renewed after twenty-four hours, from 10 P. M. till 10 A.M. for eight days. Immediately seized with most urgent dyspnoea, with a sense of constriction across the chest, accompanied with violent and convulsive cough, which, together with sneezing, continued for some time, until at length his countenance became anxious and livid. Dyspnoea comes on in violent degree, attended with wheezing and great weight and anxiety about the Precordial (in a few seconds); the attack generally remains about an hour, but I obtain no relief until a copious expectoration takes place, which is invariably the case. A severe paroxysms of asthma, continuing several days (after eight or ten hours). (230). Severe and convulsive paroxysm of asthma; the danger of suffocation seemed imminent in the extreme (after ten or fifteen minutes). The paroxysms usually came on suddenly, preceded by tickling in the nostrils and sneezing, and continued from three weeks, during which I was unable to remain in a recumbent position. Suddenly seized with a violent attack of asthma, attended with the most distressing dyspnoea and oppression at the Precordial; bleeding and active cathartics relieved the attack in five or six days. Spasmodic asthma, with great constriction in the throat and chest, with which a peculiar kind of wheezing noise is heard.
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.