Countenance pale and haggard. Face tumid and of a livid complexion (second day). Lividity of the face. Look stupid. Face appeared dull and heavy (after one hour and a quarter). The countenance indicated the most pressing danger (after half an hour). Features anxious and pallid. Expression of the face anxious; (eight day); (after fourteen hours), etc. Very desponding look (twelfth day). Subjective. Sensation of fullness in the face, and excitement, with disinclination to conversation (first day). Sensation of fullness in the face. An internal sensation of heat, particularly in the face, for several hours, during the forenoon. Drawing pain, with rigidity, near the angle of the lower jaw, first in the left, then in the right side, but longer in the left. Lips and Jaw. Puffiness of the lips (second day). Lips shrivelled and sore (after nine hours). Upper lip trembling; lower jaw relaxed. Lower jaw spasmodically closed.
Mouth
Teeth. Teeth covered with sordes, similar in appearance to that observed in cases of low fever (eleventh day). Dull pain in the first molar tooth of the right upper jaw, which is very distressing (after fifteen minutes). Dull aching pains of the molar teeth of the right and left upper jaw; worse in the right jaw (lasted nearly all day, but passed away towards evening).
Cutting pains in the hollow back teeth, at noon (seventh day).
Pain in a hollow back tooth, in the evening (eighth day). A cold jerking sensation in a left upper incisor. A pain in a hollow tooth, in the evening (third day). Teeth seem on edge (first day). Set the teeth on edge, immediately (one tablespoonful); the roughness of the teeth persisted a long time. Teeth not only rough when ground upon each other, but they were painful when the air passed in a rush through the open mouth, as is the case during the deep inspiration of yawning; every voluntary deep inspiration produced such an amount of this painful tenderness in my teeth that a so-called goose skin (spasm of the cutis and erection of the papillae) was produced; this hyperaesthesia of the teeth persisted through the following day, although in a less degree. Gums. Bleeding of the gums during friction of them; has had the same occasionally before, but it was this time unexpectedly soon, and much more copious. The gum is painful in several places, as if there were blisters upon it (eight day).
Burning pain in the gum of a left lower incisor, with pustules, surrounded by bright-red areola an swelling (ninth to thirteenth day). Tongue. Tongue swollen, and covered with a thick white coat, as if it had been scalded (soon); natural towards edges, else elsewhere coated (after ten hours an a half); clean an moist t edges, center as yesterday (second day); covered with a white crust (third day); can best be likened to the dry coating of sugar on sweetmeats, interspersed with red patches (seventh day); covered with thick white dry coat (eight day; in patches (seventh day); covered with thick white dry coat (eight day); in patches (seventh day); covered with thick white dry coat (eight day); in patches, with some desquamation (tenth day); reddish-brown and parched (eleventh day). Tongue and throat red and sore (after six hours); remained about the same for three days, when the redness of the tongue was replaced by a slight yellow coating. Tongue and throat were redder than usual, soon; paler, had a dingy whiteness about them; were hot an dry to touch, in the evening. Tongue and fauces very red. Tongue large, oedematous, and covered with thick woolly fur (soon); red at sides and aphthous (second day); much more healthy and cleaning (third day). Tongue and pharynx covered with red and white spots, swollen and painful; swallowing was very difficult. Tongue swollen and red; very firm and tender on pressure (second day). The tongue was red, swollen, tense, and tender (second day). Tongue dry, sore, an excoriated; worse towards the point; continued all day and evening. Tongue livid and swollen, so that he could with difficulty project the tip of it beyond the teeth (second day); tongue has a thin brown coat and red dry tip (fourth and fifth days); covered with a bright yellow coat (sixth day); brown (eight day); dry, has a brown coat, an red dry tip (ninth day). Tongue white (second and fourth days). Tongue and fauces whitened, s if they had been boiled (after one hour). Tongue white and dry (third day). Tongue covered with a coarse white fur, with red interspaces (second day). Tongue coated (after fourteen hours). Tongue, which he protruded slowly when asked to, was slightly coated (second day).
Tongue brown and dry (after four hours). Tongue an lips unusually pale. Tongue of a pale-gray color. Tongue rather cold than hot. A few mouthfuls made the tongue rough an the teeth worse. Roughened the tongue (one tablespoonful). Burning, as from pepper, on the left half of the tongue (after forty-five minutes). Tongue and mouth occasionally become inflamed. General Mouth. Forcible closure of the mouth and drawing down of its angles. Palate vesicated (after fourteen hours). Buccal cavity inflamed (fifth day). Acrid burning sensation in mouth, gullet, and stomach.
Burning sensation in the mouth, throat, and oesophagus, immediately. Severe burning sensation in the mouth and throat.
Burning sensation in mouth and throat for several days. Soreness of mouth and tongue (second day). Mouth sore all over (after nine hours). Considerable soreness of mouth and posterior nares (second day). Dryness of mouth. Dryness in the mouth, with ulcers in it. Disagreeable sensation of the soft palate and uvula (after 1 pint of gruel). Saliva. Profuse secretion of saliva, immediately (after one tablespoonful). Increased flow of saliva.
Mucus in the mouth and expectoration, with clean tongue (third day). Accumulation of water in the mouth, after yawning (fourth day). Much mucus in the mouth (ninth day). Taste. Strong acid taste, immediately. Intensely acid and astringent taste. Taste quite acid. Taste strongly acid. The sour taste increased with every mouthful. Sour taste while taking the drug, lasting about ten minutes, and leaving a scraping sensation in the fauces, that obliges hawking (first and leaving a scraping sensation in the fauces, that obliges hawking (first day). Sour taste while taking the drug, lasting about ten minutes, and leaving a scraping sensation in the fauces, that obliges hawking (first day). Sour taste in the whole mouth, in the morning, as if the drug were still in the mouth (third and fourth days). Sour taste in the mouth, during a nap, in the forenoon (second day, after thirty- six hours). In rinsing the mouth, a sour taste in it (first day).
Very sour taste. Sour taste. Dry and burning taste in mouth and fauces (after twenty minutes). Taste highly disagreeable, acid, and astringent. Water has a sweet taste. No taste to fool, with nausea and a coated tongue (fourth day). Taste of the drug in the mouth, in the evening (third day). Speech. Speech labored, but a word or two being articulated at a time (second day).
Throat.
Occupied herself in pulling from her throat strings of ropy mucus. Increased secretion of mucus in the throat, during the first hours. Augments in the first hour the secretion of mucus from the throat. A natural secretion of mucus from the throat is diminished. Great head and sense of burning about throat and fauces. Burning sensation and pain on pressure in throat. Burning sensation in the throat; (in evening, first day). “Horrible feeling of burning at the throat an stomach,” soon. Intense burning pain in throat and stomach. Burning pain in throat and epigastrium, directly. Burned her throat and mouth very much.
Violent pain in throat; (after one hour). Violent pain in the throat on swallowing, in the morning, after rising; better at noon (sixth day); on the next day swallowing is almost painless, but there begins a scraping in the upper part of the throat, that continues to the eighth day. Dryness and pain of throat on swallowing. Scraping sensation in the throat, with difficulty of swallowing; the tonsils and arches of the palate seem slightly red, and are covered with adherent mucus, that can be expectorated only after hawking a long time (nineteenth day).
Throat raw, with scraping in it, in the morning, on rising (fourth day). Throat very rough, scraped, on rising; can speak only with effort (fifth day). Great constriction of the throat (after one hour). Uneasiness and constriction in the throat (after nine hours). (The chronic sore throat, to which he is subject, feels much better). Had had, for several days past, sore throat, resembling cancrum oris, attended by ptyalism, but no fetor of breath (after three weeks). Tonsils. Scraping and biting sensation in the tonsils, as if the uvula were swollen, always most severe after a dose (eleventh day). Fauces and Pharynx. A sensation in the fauces as if there was acidity in the stomach (second day). Constant scraping sensation, as from mucus, in the fauces, though nothing could be seen (seventh day). Great irritation in fauces. Soreness of the fauces on swallowing, for two hours, in the morning. Pharynx inflamed (after fourteen hours). Dryness in the pharynx, in the forenoon, after diarrhoea (third day). Burning in pharynx and oesophagus (after fourteen hours). Esophagus. Sense of constriction about the oesophagus (after twelve months). Swallowing. Swallowing difficult, on account of burning pain in mouth and fauces (after one hour and a quarter). Difficulty of swallowing; for several days. Pain in swallowing and burning in oesophagus. Empty swallowing is painful, in the evening (third day); swallowing of food, in the evening (fourth day). Complaints on swallowing anything that was not perfectly bland (after twelve days). External Throat. In the evening, after walking, during sitting, a violent itching in a small spot on the neck, the right side of the hairy scalp, and on the left side of the trunk.
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.