Eye
Objective. His eyes stood staring and fixed. Eyes wide open and insensible to light. Seemed not to perceive objects, though his eyes were open (after some hours). Eyes fixed (after a quarter of an hour). Eyes fixed, pupils rather large, acting sluggishly to light (after thirty five minutes). Eyes weak (third day). Subjective. Eyes felt heavy (fifth day). Heaviness and dull pain in the eyes, with suffusion for an hour (two hours and a half after second dose, fourth day). Slight heaviness over eyes (fifth day); (after six hours, sixth day). Some little weight over eyes (seventeenth day). Heavy aching over eyes (sixth day). Oppression across eyes, heaviness in the evening (seventh day). Eyes seem constantly to require cleaning with the lids, frequent prickling, slight confused on looking at small print, etc.; have to rub the eyes and look closely at it (eighth day). Brow. Pain in brow (soon, first day). Very fine pricking in left eyebrow (third day). Lids. Eyelids of the right eye, especially the upper, were swollen and livid, the lividity extending to the right side of the nose (after thirty-five minutes). Eyelids puffy, in the morning (second day). Numb feeling of right lid (first night). Heaviness of eyelids (fifteenth day). Heaviness of the lids, with difficulty in keeping them open; on examination, found that the edges of the tarsal cartilages had a very livid appearance, in the forenoon (fourth day). Ball. Pain in the eyeballs, requiring them to be rubbed frequently, and tired feeling on looking at a book, although I have read less that usual to-night (four hours and a half after second powder, fourth day). Hot pain at the back of the eyeballs (fourth day). Vision. Loss of sense of seeing (after ten hours). Unable to see, although his eyes were open (after one hour).
Ear
Felt burning of ears, very soon (second day). Occasional whizzing sound in one ear (the left), with insipid, almost nauseous taste in mouth (third day). Great noise in the ears, as if a mill were going in the head, on waking in the morning (fifth day).
Nose
Objective. Fluid discharge from the nose, with the congestion to the head (seventh day). Coryza worse, with dull headache over eyes (first night). Very severe coryza (third and seventh days). Previous symptoms appeared coupled with a severe cold or influenza, that same being now very prevalent; have desisted from the proving on that account; severe cold in head, fluent coryza in nose and eyes, violent bursting headache, pain in limbs, from the prominent symptoms (ninth day); very bad of same symptoms as yesterday (tenth day). Subjective. Have felt ever since the forenoon as though a sharp attack of influenza were coming on (fourth day). Some time in the forenoon I perceived a considerable stuffing of the nostrils to come on, gradually at first, but more rapidly soon afterwards; very much increased in the afternoon and evening, and greatly aggravated by my going out in the evening and walking some distance through the fine dense fog; on returning home, a free discharge of thin watery mucus came on, and has continued since; it has afforded considerable relief, being more able to breath through the nose (fourth day); the stuffing of the nostrils though present, was so in a much less degree than yesterday, all the morning; nostrils were clogged up this evening (fifth day). Nose feels sore, hot, and discharges thin secretion (fourth day). Soreness and irritation of the left ala nasi (third day). Wing of nostril becoming sore, hot, and tender (twenty-first day); nose worse, swelled and painful; secretion suffused (twenty-second day); nose relieved by an eruption on its edge (twenty-third day). The right nostril is extremely sore, feels as if ulcerated (sixteenth and seventeenth days).
Face
Objective. Countenance expressed some anxiety (second day). Face flushed, in the evening, and burning hot (first day). Face red on rising, and covered with hard knots like in erysipelas; this disappeared after washing (second day). Face generally slightly livid (after thirty-five minutes); the lividity had very markedly increased (after forty minutes). Face of a greenish-yellow color. Looked very pale and ill (after eleven days). Looks thin and haggard in face, dark round eyes (fourth day). Subjective. Sensation of having caught cold in face and limbs, but without any chilliness or languor; at night, pains in face increased (twelfth day). Dull, sticky, deep seated pain in right side of face, for a few minutes (after second powder, third day). Cheeks. Cheeks red, especially on the cheek-bones, patchy (seventh and eighth days). Awoke soon after midnight, with gnawing aching in left upper jaw, sometimes shooting to the eye and temple, continued till half an hour after rising; did not occur throughout the day, or only threatened a few times (twelfth day). Lips. Lips dry, black pores and cracks (fourth day). Lips dry, parched, inclined to crack (seventh day); dry and cracked (eighth day); dry, painful, excoriated (ninth day). Hot sore feeling of the lips (four hours and a half after second powder, fourth day). China Jaws locked (after a quarter of an hour). Jaw so firmly clenched that the handle of a spoon was called in requisition to force open his mouth. Mouth wide open, tongue cold. A drawing, painful sensation in the right jaw (after half an hour, fourth day). Bruised pain of left condyle, severe when moving jaw (fourth day); soreness of condyle of jaw not so severe (twentieth day).
Mouth
Teeth and Gums. Teeth and jaw-bone, left side, begin a gnawing and aching (ninth day). Pain in stumps of decayed teeth, towards evening; at night gums become painful and swelled (twelfth day); teeth loose and gums becoming more swelled and painful, in morning on waking; two hours after rising, gums become hotter, teeth on right side got very loose; gums hot, swelled, and painful to touch (thirteenth day); swelling of gums extending to other side of face (fourteenth day); pains in teeth not much influenced by heat and cold (fifteenth day); mouth still sensitive, and gums swollen (sixteenth day); gnawing aching in second teeth of left side (seventeenth day); drawing aching in teeth of left side, worse when stomach is empty (eighteenth day). Tongue. Tongue coated with a thick yellow fur (sixth day). Tongue coated white (sixth day). An ulcer on the frenum of the tongue (seventh day). Tongue very dry, in the morning; no thirst (third day). At the spot of the tongue where the powder fell, there is sense of rawness, as if it would rise to a blister (after half an hour, fourth day). General Mouth. Sore on under lip opposite left canine tooth; gum much swollen and inflamed (seventeenth day); ulcer of lip disappeared in about twelve days after finishing the medicine. Dry mouth; this continued more or less all day (sixth day). Dry mouth (second to third day); more than usual dryness of mouth (fifth day). Mouth dry on waking in the morning (second day). Dry mouth and throat, disagreeable taste, as if breath was offensive (after two hours, fifth day). Mouth very dry (second and third mornings). Great dryness of mouth, frequent expectoration, as if from throat, at 8.30 A.M. (eighth day). Clammy mouth, in the morning (second day). Acid rawness in the palate all day (fourth day); has increased rather, to-day, and has remained (fifth day); considerable rawness of palate (sixth day). Saliva. Salivated. He foamed at the mouth. Foaming at the mouth (soon). Foamed at the mouth a little (after one hour). Taste. Insipid, almost nauseous taste in mouth, with the whizzing in the left ear (third day). “Horrible taste” (second day). Bitter taste in mouth (second day). Sour taste in the mouth (fifth day). Sour taste in the mouth, with nausea, and roughness of the tongue and palate, in the evening (third day). Sour, raw kind of taste in the mouth (sixth day). Cuprous, metallic taste in mouth (thirteenth day). Speech. Ceased to speak intelligibly (after twenty minutes). Could not speak articulately (after some hours). Soon speechless and insensible. Unable to speak (after thirty-five minutes); (after one hour). Unable to speak; he was unconscious and could give no answer (after two hours). It was twelve hours after he began to show signs of returning to life before he recovered his speech.
Throat
Objective. Spasms of the throat (after one hour). (Secretion in upper part of throat more abundant than usual; very hoarse), (third to fourth day). Accumulation of tough mucus at top of throat (eleventh day). Great hawking of mucus from throat (seventeenth day). Subjective. Throat dry on waking (second day). Disagreeable feeling in the throat, a good way down, like indigestion, for about two hours (first day). Had complained, it was said, of constriction in the throat. Constricted feeling and dryness in the throat (after one hour, sixth day). When dozing, I was roused by a sudden sense of choking, a sensation I never experienced in my life before, a sort of grasping of the throat (soon); a few minutes later, felt a sudden jerking of the masseter muscle of the left side (first morning). Pressure and gagging in throat, with sad thoughts, for ten minutes, in the morning (eleventh day). Has had a sore throat all day, worse since taking the powder (fifteenth day); is subject to an attack of tonsillitis every winter. Awoke with some soreness of the left side of the throat (twelfth day). Rawness in the throat for several hours (fourth day). Feeling of rawness in throat, with slight pinching of stomach (soon), (third day). Slight feeling of rawness in the throat (fifth day). Roughness in the throat from reading aloud only a short time (ten minutes after second powder, second day). Sense of scraping in throat (soon), (second night). Scraping sensation in throat, with the hoarseness, towards night; more effort required to swallow than usual (third day); towards night, scraping in the throat, and an accumulation of tenacious secretion at top of throat, inducing frequent inclination to swallow (fourth day); only a slight formation of mucus, easily detached by hawking, and then always swallowed (seventh day). Tonsils. Left tonsil inflamed and painful, at 8 A.M. (ninth day). Slight pain in one tonsil (soon), (second day). Slight shooting pain in left tonsil (after two hours, third day). Fauces, Pharynx, and Oesophagus. Some little dryness about fauces (seventeenth day). Uneasy dryness of the fauces (soon), (second day). A peculiar stringent sensation in the pharynx (fifth day). Kind of burning pressure on a point at back of pharynx, several hours this afternoon (first day). After a considerable fast, dull pricking in the left pharynx (after one hour, third day); slight pricking in the left side of the pharynx (three hours after first powder); soreness in the left side of the throat much worse (eleven hours after second powder, fifth day); left side of the throat is red, with considerable pain on swallowing; in the morning; throat very painful (after twelve hours, sixth day). The stricture of the oesophagus increased so much that nothing could be forced down the throat. Swallowing. Deglutition was so much impeded that hardly anything could be got to pass into the stomach (after ten hours). Power of swallowing gone. External Throat. Startings about his throat (after some hours). Felt a pressure on upper part of right sternomastoid muscle, extending over the skin to angle of jaw, for five minutes (first day). Increased tenderness of the throat and over sternum, lasting all day (sixth 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.