Throat
Great swelling of the throat that threatened suffocation; the swelling extended to the neck head, and tongue; the throat was so much inflamed that the patient could speak with difficulty and could scarcely swallow; on the third day there was still great heat in the mouth and throat as from a glowing coal; on the fourth day the patient raised some clots of blood and some thin blood, so that the physician thought she might die of hemorrhage; the patient was unable to talk on account of the ulceration of the throat and soft palate, with copious salivation, with frequent headache, especially in the temples; on the succeeding days the patient became delirious, was unable to swallow medicine or food; she expectorated daily clots of blood and pieces of membrane from the ulceration of the throat, with excessive prostration and constant salivation; the sloughing extended to the cheeks, gum, palate, and even the maxillary bone were laid bare; the lips became black, the patient sank and died. Great uneasiness in throat. Pain in the throat, at times in the uvula, not aggravated by swallowing (third to fifth day). Pain in the throat, especially after dry bread. A little pain in the throat (after half an hour). Severe pain in throat (after two hours). Throat very painful and inflamed. Burning in the throat and stomach (third day). Burning sensation in throat (after four hours). Burning sensation in the throat (immediately). Burning heat in throat and stomach, particularly the former (soon). Burning pain in throat (after one hour and a half). Burning pain with a feeling of constriction from the throat to the stomach. Burning pain extending from the mouth to the stomach relieved by a drink of cold water (thirteenth day). Acute burning sensation in the throat while swallowing it. Painful burning, extending from the mouth to the epigastric region. Severe burning pain in throat (after one hour and a half). Intense burning in the throat (immediately). Intense burning in the throat and fauces. Violent burning in the throat (after one hour). Violent burning in the throat and stomach, soon followed by violent vomiting of mucus and water, with great retching. Violent burning pain in the throat and oesophagus, aggravated by the slightest external pressure. Excruciating burning pain in throat and stomach; when she attempted to take anything more than milk warm it was insufferable (after two hours). Intolerable burning in the throat and upper part of the stomach, which she described as gradually sinking down lower (after three quarters of an hour). Suffice it to say my throat was but slightly inflamed before I took the dose, but the living fire that was kindled therein after it, the suffocation I experienced, the pain, and long after, the fiery-red appearance of the whole buccal cavity, and than I had to resort to an antidote before I got any comfort, will not tempt me to repeat the dose, and may, be a warning to other practitioners. Called out that “he was burned, and threw himself on a sofa in great pain (immediately). Sensation of constriction in the throat (immediately). Constricted feeling in the throat (soon). The constriction of the pharynx changed to a severe pain, accompanied by an unpleasant tickling, and coming on in paroxysms only a few seconds in duration (second day). Constriction in the throat, with a burning sensation and difficulty in swallowing (immediately). Considerable tightness and burning sensation in throat and gullet (after half an hour). Throat felt “grown up;” on examination it appeared very red and swollen, shreds of mucous membrane peeling off; could swallow only a very little fluid (after five hours). Pressure on the throat was painful (after five hours). Sticking pain in the upper part of the throat, near the larynx, on empty swallowing, not painful on talking. It was always increased after every dose, and was accompanied by very great hoarseness. Soreness of throat (second day). Soreness of the throat and fauces (fourth day). Soreness of the throat and inability to swallow (fifth day). Sensation of rawness in the throat, immediately (seventh and eleventh days); with catarrh (thirteenth day). Rawness in the throat that makes talking but not swallowing difficult. Throat rough; swallowing difficult (twelfth day). Beer caused scraping in the throat, and heat and redness of the face. Uvula and Tonsils. Uvula swollen and elongated (third day). Uvula much swollen. Uvula much swollen and ulcerated (second day). The swelling of the uvula and of the pillars of the velum almost stops up the entrance of the pharynx (third day). Pillars of the velum palati swollen and dark-red; in the tonsillary folds, on the edges of the pillars, are seen some soft, grayish excrescences like sloughs or false membranes (third day). Tonsils a good deal swollen (after one hour and a half). Fauces, Pharynx, and Oesophagus. Fauces considerably injected (after half an hour). Fauces inflamed. Much fauces inflamed (after one hour and a half). A sense of dryness in the fauces. Fauces sore (sixth day). Soreness about fauces and mouth (second day). Pharynx dark red, pressure externally excites pain (after three days). Violent burning pains in the pharynx. Constriction of muscles of pharynx (second day). Extreme soreness of pharynx, with deglutition; when swallowing any liquid, the raw sensation extremely acute. Extreme soreness of pharynx, with complete dysphagia. Scraping roughness posteriorly in pharynx, compelling frequent hawking (first day). Pain down oesophagus into stomach (after four hours). Complained exceedingly of pain and sense of constriction along the course of the oesophagus (soon). Burning sensation in oesophagus (second day); (fourth day). Burning heat in oesophagus (after three days). Sensation of warmth and burning along the whole of the oesophagus (after five hours). Constriction of oesophagus (soon). Acute pain, like a sticking, deep within the chest, and lower down as if in the oesophagus, as though morsels of food remained sticking in it, which distended the oesophagus and could not descend; yet food and drink could be swallowed without hindrance; the pain, however seemed somewhat aggravated by swallowing, as also by eructations of air (sixth day). Swallowing. The act of swallowing was attended with a violent spasm of the glottis. Difficult swallowing; (after one hour and a half). Difficulty of swallowing, so that at breakfast he could not eat bread, with increase of pain in the lower jaw (second day). Constant difficulty in swallowing (tenth day). Considerable difficulty in swallowing (after two hours and a half). Swallowing very difficult; (soon); (second day). The act of swallowing gave rise to much pain (after four hours); much greater difficulty of swallowing (second day). The act of swallowing, even fluids, produces great pain (third day). Great difficulty of swallowing (sixth day). Deglutition so difficult and painful that the least attempt to swallow a drop of liquid caused spasms of the oesophagus and stomach, with vomiting of whitish, slimy, tenacious masses which became mixed with bile if the vomiting continued any length of time (after five hours). Could not swallow, as her throat was drawn together, and sometimes entirely stopped (after ten minutes). Impossible to swallow; the attempt only caused retching and vomiting. Dysphagia. Complete dysphagia. External Throat. Much swelling of the throat. Throat enormously swollen. The external fauces, particularly of the right side, and also the right side of neck, much tumefied (soon). All glands of the jaw, etc., swelled (third day). Submaxillary region much swelled (after four hours). Submaxillary glands enlarged. Submaxillary glands enlarged and tender (fifth day). Submaxillary glands swelled considerably (after forty-eight hours). Salivary glands very much swollen.
Stomach
Appetite. Strong propensity to eat Cayenne pepper since her illness. A little less appetite than usual (second day). Appetite wanting (twelfth day). No appetite for some hours after a dose. Loss of appetite in the evening (tenth day). Thirst. Thirsty (second day). Some thirst, in the evening (tenth day). Thirst and desire for ice (after two days). Considerable thirst. Considerable thirst, so that she stopped to drink water almost at every ditch (soon). Much thirst (second day). Great thirst (first night); (second day). Great thirst, with bad appetite (thirteenth day). Thirst very great (twelfth day). Urgent thirst (second day). Thirst so incessant that he asks for milk every two or three minutes, notwithstanding the distress he experiences in getting it down (second day). Excessive thirst. Extreme thirst; (after twelve hours). Thirst Intense (soon); (after one hour and a half); (after four hours); (after five hours); (for four days). Violent thirst. Violent thirst; but every attempt to take liquids was followed by retching and vomiting (fifth day). Unquenchable thirst. Insatiable thirst (after one hour). Burning thirst (sixth day). Great desire for cold water. Called for water in large quantities. Eructation and Hiccough. Frequent eructations, with nausea and fruitless efforts to vomit; after some time, very violent vomiting, repeated at short intervals; the substances vomited were mucous, thick, and had an extremely sharp metallic taste, and were accompanied by disagreeable constriction of the throat. Hiccough, at the least movement (fifteenth day). Hiccough with the vomiting (third day). Occasional hiccough (after two days). Troublesome hiccough (fourth day). Hiccough very troublesome (after two hours); occurs with great regularity twenty-six times a minute. Hiccough frequently, which the least particle of water increases (fourth day); distressing (fifth day). Severe hiccough (seventh day). Several violent fits of hiccough (first night). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Attacks of nausea in the night. Nausea and qualmishness during and after a dose (third day). Nausea and inclination to vomit all day (fifth day). Nausea and retching (after two hours and a half). Nausea, sick stomach, and vomiting (after half an hour). So great a sensation of nausea, that she was obliged to go to the door, where she vomited (after twenty-three minutes). Distressing nausea (second day). Violent retching of stomach. Spasmodic and very painful retching. The great distress it caused produced ejection of much of it from the stomach. Could not retain what she drank, for any length of time (second day). Nothing would remain on the stomach (second day). Vomiting, etc.; (immediately); (soon); (after twenty minutes); (after one hour). Nausea and vomiting, with violent spasmodic action of the muscles (after two hours). Retching and vomiting (second day). During the night vomiting came on, with great thirst (first night); in one case (sixth day). Occasional vomitings and retchings, which nearly approached convulsions (after one hour). Frequent attacks of retching and vomiting (after one hour and a half). Vomiting continually (soon). Constant vomiting and retching. Excessive sickness and retching, followed by incessant vomiting. Violent vomiting. Violent sickness and vomiting (soon). Vomiting and retching violently. Violent vomiting and purging. Vomited all the food and liquid in her stomach (after one or two minutes). Repeated vomiting, first of food, then of serum (soon). Twice a spasmodic vomiting of a serous substance, without any previous nausea. Retching and vomiting of tenacious mucus. Copious vomiting of a dark frothy substance, and purging came on in about an hour, and continued at intervals during the night and part of the succeeding day. Vomiting a thick, stringy, albuminous-looking substance (soon). Vomiting and purging of a dark grumous matter. Vomits freely a large quantity of dark muddy-looking material mixed with half-digested food (after half an hour). Vomiting of green matter (after forty-five minutes). Vomiting of bitter green substances, with diarrhoea (soon). Incessant, green bilious vomiting, soon amounting to four basinfuls (immediately). Continued vomiting, but the contractions of the stomach are less forcible (after seven hours); vomiting every quarter of an hour (second day); retching continues; vomiting renewed by coughing (third day). Frequent vomiting of a bluish mucus, similar to the blue pill in solution (third day). Large quantities of bilious matters were thrown off the stomach, as well as by stool (after three hours). Vomiting of bile continues and occasionally large pieces of curd are brought up with it (after three days). Vomits largely and incessantly of viscid frothy mucus. Nausea and vomiting of white, frothy, tenacious masses with frightful retching. Vomiting of small pieces of membrane (fourth day). Copious vomiting of matter which resembles pus, and has a saltish taste (twelfth day). Vomiting of pus (after three days), Followed by death. Vomited, With much retching, bringing up a bloody-looking fluid. Vomiting a clear fluid like water, mixed with fresh blood. Too much liquid makes him sick; in the evening vomits blood and water, which has the same appearance as that from the bowels (second day). Frequently sick, vomiting a thin, bloody fluid (after eight hours and a half). Vomited freely (soon); during the day he brought up a thick yellow frothy matter, tinged with blood, in small quantities (first day); a slate-colored, semifluid substance (second day); some greenish biliary liquid (fourth day). Vomiting of bloody mucus. Vomited (soon), only bloody mucus (after two hours and a half). Retching and vomiting of bloody mucus (eighth day). Vomiting and purging of vomiting of bloody mucus (eighth day). Vomiting and purging of bloody mucus and membrane our flakes. Vomited (after ten minutes); (an emetic was administered, also two eggs); he had vomited several times, in all about 6 ounces; the matters appeared to consist of mucus and the egg swallowed, with some dark masses resembling sputa, except in having a dull leaden tinge (after half an hour); vomiting continued, the matters ejected consisting principally of the substances swallowed (eggs, flour, and water), (after one hour and a half); vomited twice, portions of blood were mixed with the matter thrown off; the flaxseed tea (after three hours and a half). Vomiting of a little mucus mixed with blood (after three hours and a half). Vomited and continued retching violently (after three minutes); threw up scanty mucus streaked with blood (after eleven hours); water was rejected immediately. Vomiting of mucus, and afterwards of blood. Began to retch (immediately); still retching and bringing up mouthfuls of thick mucus mixed with blood (after two hours). Streaks of blood in the matter vomited (after half an hour). Vomited several times, and brought up a quantity of yellow colored matter, interspersed with blood. Vomiting at last greenish and bloody, with excessive retching and pain. Vomiting of ingesta and tenacious mucus, afterwards of bile and mixed with blood. Vomiting blood (after half an hour). Incessant vomiting. first of milk (taken to allay thirst, half an hour after the poisoning), then of almost pure blood (after four hours). Vomiting violent and incessant, parting with blood, and coffee-grounds colored matter. Coffee-grounds- colored vomiting, with coagulated blood (after twelve hours). Vomited some pure blood. Profuse vomiting of blood (soon). Has thrown up a large quantity of blood from stomach (seventh day). Extremely sick, and discharged the contents of her stomach (in less than half an hour); the retching however, continued and she threw up a considerable quantity of blood; on the following day, the sickness had not abated, though the hemorrhage had ceased; sickness continued till death, on the sixth day. Occasional vomiting or belching of blood; as she lay on her back, she would raise considerable quantities of blood, mixed with water, by a peculiar action of stomach, without any exertion (fourth day). Considerable quantities of fluid blood occasionally escaped from his mouth without any effort like vomiting (after nine days). Drink frequently regurgitates through the nose. Stomach. Stomach swelled, and was violently painful so that she could scarcely speak to be heard (after nine days). Swelling in epigastric region of left side, and a sense of weight and hardness (eleventh day). Epigastric region somewhat distended, very sensitive to pressure. Pain in the stomach, in creasing for some time; on pressing my hand firmly to the part affected, I felt wind rolling under it (third day). Some pain in the stomach (after three doses). When asked where the pain was, pointed to the epigastric region (soon), (after one hour). Pain and heat in the stomach (after three minutes). Immediate pain at the scrobiculus cordis. Suffering much pain in the region of the stomach. Great pain about the scrobiculus cordis (after four days). Great pain, referred to the pit of the stomach, and tenesmus (after two hours). Severe and constant pain in epigastrium increased on pressure (soon). Violent pain of stomach; (soon). Violent pain at scrobiculus cordis. Violent pain in the stomach, attended with vomiting and painful retching, which continued with little interval the whole night (seventh day). Violent pain in the epigastric and hepatic regions. Agonizing pain in stomach and bowels (second day). Frightful pains in the epigastric region (immediately). Violent heat and pain in her stomach, with continued vomiting of everything she took for a week; at some times more violent than at others; always most relieved when after several efforts she had vomited up a small quantity of something which as she expressed it, tasted like milk which had stood in a brass pan, Burning in the stomach; (soon); lasting half an hour (fourth day). Burning and pressure in the stomach, followed by frequent eructations (fifth day). Burning in the pit of the stomach, throat, and mouth. A feeling of burning heat at the stomach. Burning and heat in the stomach, with constrictive pains that extended down into the intestinal canal, with congestion of the heart and anxiety followed by soft stool. Burning pain in the stomach (after one hour). Burning pain in stomach and bowels (second day). Burning pain at pit in stomach, soon followed by copious and frequent bilious vomiting (after five minutes). Burning pain in epigastric region (after eight hours and a half). Burning pain at epigastrium (after half an hour). Slight burning in the stomach (first day). Great heat or burning of stomach (fourth day). Great burning heat in the epigastric region. Great pain in the stomach and up the oesophagus to the fauces; a burning sensation was complained of, as if the parts were on fire (soon). Intense burning in the stomach (immediately). Violent burning sensation in the stomach (immediately). Violent burning and horrid distress in the stomach (after five hours). Painful pinching in the stomach (after fourth dose). Griping pain in stomach and bowels (after two hours). Violent griping pain in the stomach, extending through the whole course of the intestinal canal (soon). Pressive sensation in the epigastric region and in the chest. Distressing pressure in the stomach (eleventh day). Very painful pressure in the stomach (twelfth day). Violent burning-sticking pains in the epigastric region, which was distended, excessively aggravated by the slightest pressure. Pricking sensation in stomach, like sword-points sticking in it (fifth day). Acute stitches in the epigastric region (after taking soup), (first day). Fine stitches in the pit of the stomach, in the morning (third day). Awakened from the afternoon nap by very severe pain in the pit of the stomach; these pains became worse rapidly and were tearing, somewhat relieved by bending up the body, especially involving the region of the stomach, and seeming to extend thence over the whole diaphragm; the abdomen was somewhat sunken and very painful to pressure in the epigastric region. Tenderness on pressure of the epigastrium (second day). Slight tenderness on pressure in epigastrium (after one hour and a half). Great pain upon pressure over region of stomach (second day). Stomach very sensitive (twelfth day). Great sensitiveness in the epigastric region. Epigastric region very sensitive to touch, and the slightest pressure caused very acute pain. Gentle pressure on pit of stomach gives pain (second day). Epigastrium painful even from the least pressure (after five hours). Stomach so very irritable that she could hardly bear to be touched with the hand or even sustain the weight of the bedclothes (fourth day). Pain much increased by pressure on pit of stomach. also by coughing. Sweet apples have a good effect, but sour ones, distress. Pains increased by drinking (second 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.