Ears
Some pain in left ear, with pain over and at side of left eye all day (fifth day). Ringing in the ears (after one hour). Surring of the ears. Tinnitus aurium. Roaring in the ears.
Nose
Sneezing. Paroxysms of sneezing. Peculiar tickling sensation in the nose, oesophagus, and larynx, as when one has to sneeze, felt after every injection. Coryza.
Face
Looked very heavy (after forty minutes). Appeared very wild (after nine hours). Wild, confused expression after sleep. Countenance looked haggard and eyes watery, like one who had been dissipating (second morning). Face flushed (after two hours). Face slightly flushed. Face intensely flushed (after a few minutes); followed by vomiting, and then a dead faint and struggling for breath, the pulse scarcely perceptible. Her face was reddened. Face red (soon). Face and lips red (after half an hour). Face red, lips pale. Face red, puffy. Face red, puffy, lips livid (after fifty minutes). The usually pale face became red, with drops of perspiration on it (after thirty-five minutes). Face very red (immediately). Intense but evanescent redness of the face. The face became red, almost cyanotic. Face almost livid (after one hour). Bluish look. Face of a dark-blue color. Face cyanotic. Face and extremities cyanotic. The face became violet. Pale face. Face and lips pale (after fifteen minutes). Face pale and anxious (one hour and three-quarters 1/12 grain). Face pale and sunken. Pale and cold, for four hours (after two hours). Very pale, with contracted and painful expression of the face (after four hours). Face swollen; (after two hours). Face very much swollen (immediately). Face somewhat puffy. Cheeks. Cheeks red. Circumscribed redness of the cheeks (after fifty minutes). Lips. Lips discolored (after nine hours). Lips livid; (after eleven hours and a half). Lips pale. China Mouth rigidly closed. Mouth closed, the jaws pressed together as in tetanus. Muscles of the jaw strongly contracted, so that the mouth could scarcely be opened at all (after eleven hours and a half). Teeth clenched, so that he could not be made to swallow a drop (after two hours). Slight trismus. Mouth and eyes wide open. Feeling as if the teeth of both sides of mouth were clenched. Feeling that teeth in both sides of mouth were clenched (after two hours); had a similar feeling from Cannabis indica, but at no other time.
Mouth
Tongue. Dry brown tongue. Redness of the tongue; (after twenty minutes), etc. Tip and margins of the tongue red. Tip of tongue red, palate scarlet-red, somewhat painful. Tongue red on the margin, violet in the middle. Tongue red at the tip and margins, and violet at the middle. Tongue livid. Tongue pale (second morning). Tongue foul (second morning). Tongue clean and moist (before the injection); moist, a slight whitish fur, indented (after two hours). Tongue heavy, pale (after fifteen minutes). Tongue dry, with thick dirty mucus. Anterior part of the tongue dry (three hours and a half after 1/2 grain). (The tongue symptoms, for which Quinine was prescribed, a thickened feeling, and inability to articulate distinctly, disappeared entirely). General Mouth. Some mucus in the mouth. Dryness of the mouth and throat. Mouth dry, in the morning, and after eating (fifth day). Mouth and fauces dry, after sleeping. Mouth pasty. The mucous membrane of the mouth is usually dry, the patient complains of thirst, nausea, vomiting, aversion to meat, loss of appetite. The tongue at times trembles on extending it. The stool is almost retarded, diarrhoea is seldom. Saliva. Discharge of watery saliva from the mouth. Taste. Perverted taste. Mouth bitter, sticky (second day). Speech. Made a strange noise in his mouth (after nine hours). Speech hasty. Disturbances of speech, for example, stammering. Speech embarrasses and feeble. Muscles of tongue so much affected that articulation was almost impossible (after fourth dose).
Throat
Dryness and constriction in the throat (after half an hour). Pain and obstruction (?) in the posterior portion of the throat (second morning). Irritation in the throat. Peculiar sensation about the fauces (almost immediately). Fauces and Pharynx. Burning in the posterior portion of the fauces (after five minutes). Paralysis of the pharynx. Muscles of fauces and glottis so much affected that deglutition was almost impossible (after fourth dose). Swallowing. Complained that he could not swallow. External Throat. Jugular veins swollen. Violent pulsations in the cervical and temporal arteries.
Stomach
Appetite. Diminished appetite. Loss of appetite; (second day). Complete loss of appetite. Entire aversion to food (second day). Thirst. Much thirst. Great thirst; (after one hour). Burning thirst; (second day). Eructation and Hiccough. Eructations and vomitings for two days. Frequent eructations and nausea, with uprisings of some acid mucus. Violent eructations. Hiccough; lasting three-quarters of an hour. Long-continuing singultus (frequently). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea; (after four minutes); (after a quarter of an hour), etc. Nausea and eructations (after two hours and a half). Distressed with nausea, faintness, and constant retchings, with alternate flushes of heat and cold, for five hours (after two hours). Nausea and inclination to vomit (after four hours). Awakened from slumber by nausea and inclination to vomit. Nausea and inclination to vomit soon after eating. Constant nausea (after four hours). Slight nausea, with increased warmth of the face. A little nausea (at first); gone (after one hour and twenty minutes); (between five and six hours after injection). Sick and faint. Slight sickness (after seven hours). Very sick, after a large quantity of warm water (after two hours). Very sickish and drowsy (after two hours). On rising in morning my stomach gave way and I was forced to throw myself on the bed to keep from vomiting; felt perfectly well in bed, but it was not till 4 P.M. that the stomach would suffer the head to remain erect (second day). Inclination to vomit; (after quarter of an hour). Vomiting; rarely. Vomiting half an hour after fresh milk (second morning). Nausea and vomiting; (after a few doses); (after two hours). Retching and vomiting; for six hours (after 1/2 gr.). Vomiting for three days. Obstinate vomiting. Vomiting and diarrhoea. Had suffered constant nausea, and vomited twice (after two hours); continued in this state for four hours; did not recover from tendency to nausea for a week. Vomiting of coffee. Became nauseated and vomited a small amount of frothy liquid (after four hours). Vomiting of green matter. Nausea and qualmishness; and after some hours, actual vomiting of a sour, bright-green fluid, followed by transient relief of the nausea. Vomiting of bile. Stomach. Irregular digestion. Dyspepsia. Pain in stomach; immediately; for three days; aggravated by taking food. Pains in the stomach, umbilicus, and bladder, in the evening (first day). Pain in the pit of the stomach; immediately; (after five minutes); (after two hours). Pain in the epigastric region; (second day). Pain in the epigastric region, and afterwards about the umbilicus, and then about the loins. Painful sensation in the pit of the stomach, extending as far down as the bladder (immediately). Painful sensation in the stomach, navel, and bladder. Violent pain in the pit of the stomach (after four hours). Violent pain in the pit of the stomach, or in the intestines. Violent pain in the pit of the stomach, and in the bladder, waking from sleep (after four hours). Violent pain in the stomach after eating, so that he had to go to bed. Feeling of constriction and pressure in the stomach. Awoke with cramp in epigastrium, as if clenched by a hand (fourth day). Colic like pains in the stomach. Crawling in the stomach.
Abdomen
Umbilical. Pain in the umbilical region; (after four hours). Violent pain in the umbilical region. General Abdomen. Moderate meteorismus. Rumbling in the abdomen (after twenty minutes). Frequent rumbling in the abdomen (after half an hour). Pain in the bowels (after half an hour). Acute pain in the abdomen, and along the spinal column, on every inspiration. Colic; relieved by turning on back, in morning (fifth day). Awoke with severe colic (third day).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, etc.; (second morning); second and following days; (evening, first day). The acetate generally produced diarrhoea. Watery diarrhoea (after two hours); (second morning). Bowels had acted loosely twice (after two hours). Two painful stools (second day). Desire for stool for two hours, then small stool with great straining, in the morning; soft, loose stool at 2 P.M., with horrid tenesmus, straining, and burning in the rectum, almost causing frenzy (fifth day). Copious evacuations of the bowels. Constipation. Constipation, etc.; (second day); (third day). Morphia always caused constipation. Constipation for a long time. Constipation often followed by diarrhoea. Retention of stool. Almost complete stoppage of the evacuation of stool and urine. No stool, contrary to habit (second morning); but at 2 o’clock there occurred a very indolent evacuation of a little faeces, with painful urging.
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.