Sticking pressure in the pit of the throat. Pressure in the upper part of the throat, extending down to the stomach. Pressure in the throat, with swelling of the tonsils, touch of which causes a hacking cough. Sensation of pressure in the pit of the throat, with nausea, and a feeling as if he could not vomit on account of this pressure, with frequent accumulation of water in the mouth, so that he was often obliged to spit (a few hours after a dose).
Constriction of the throat (second day). Feeling of tightness about the throat. Oppressive feeling of the throat-pit (after six hours). Sticking sore throat, on swallowing. Crawling in the throat, that afterwards, while talking in school, changed to scratching. Tonsils. Great swelling of the tonsils. Great swelling of the left tonsil, on swallowing, and impeding motion of the head (after eleven hours). Redness and swelling of the tonsils. Enlarged tonsils, with much dysphagia (after seven to eight days). Momentary sensation, as if the left tonsil were swollen and would drop into the throat. Pharynx and Esophagus.
Pharynx, uvula, and tonsils swollen, red (second day). Sharp bitterness in the pharynx, with rawness. Frequent collection of mucus in the pharynx (after three weeks). Fulness in the upper part of the pharynx, as if the food stood high up and must be vomited, without nausea. Dryness of the pharynx and fauces. Pain the length of the pharynx and oesophagus (second day). Burning in the pharynx. Sensation of heat in the pharynx and oesophagus (second day). Pain along the pharynx and oesophagus, and in the epigastrium (second day). Sensation as if little lumps rolled up the oesophagus to the throat, relieved by swallowing, then returning again, with slight nausea. Burning in the oesophagus and stomach. Severe burning pain along the course of the oesophagus and about the stomach (first and second days). Violent burning in the oesophagus and pharynx. Acute pain in the oesophagus, stomach, and abdomen (soon). Pain, somewhat below the oesophagus. Twinging in the upper part of the oesophagus.
Swallowing. Deglutition painful; the mucous membrane of the pharynx appeared normal (fifth day). Deglutition difficult; (second day). Difficult swallowing, with pain, towards noon.
External Throat. Parotid glands tense, especially on stooping, and painful to touch. Throbbing in the carotids. Burning, at times, in the parotid gland.
Stomach
Appetite. Violent appetite, amounting to ravenous hunger (after second dose). Appetite ravenous, but the smallest quantity of food, the moment it enters the stomach, produced vomiting and passages from both bowels and bladder (after twenty-three hours); could eat but little food, as a few mouthfuls satisfied my ravenous appetite (third day); could eat nothing but the most easily digestible food, spiced food and pastry invariably producing looseness of the bowels (after two months). Great appetite, with ravenous hunger. Ravenous hunger, at night, that no eating quiets, followed by weakness, with heat and sweat, afterwards chill, with external coldness and chattering of the teeth. Increased hunger and appetite (first and second days).
Ravenous hunger. Patient complained of great hunger (fourth day).
Appetite is greater than usual, and food has a more natural taste. Ravenous hunger, preceded by pressure in the stomach. When eating, I do not know whether I am satisfied or not, and so eat less than usual. In the evening, he is satisfied with eating only a little, but immediately he feels uncomfortable in the pit of the stomach; sleep restless, and no appetite the next morning. A comfortable feeling of satisfaction, after eating, that he usually never really experienced. Appetite impaired and irregular. Diminished appetite; (second day). Little appetite, and also no satiety. No appetite for breakfast, dinner, or supper. Diminished appetite, with weakness. No hunger all day; when she eats, has an appetite. In the morning, he not only has no appetite, but after eating breakfast he feels full and uncomfortable, as if overloaded. No relish for breakfast, with a natural taste. Want of appetite from the very commencement of their work. Could eat no dinner (third day). Loss of appetite, in the morning, with a white tongue and fulness in the pit of the stomach, with natural taste to food. Loss of appetite and no hunger; he was very indifferent to eating, and would not have eaten had it not been the usual time; no natural taste to food or drink; all food has but little, not an unnatural taste, and almost everything tastes alike; alcoholic drinks taste watery, and he has not his usual desire for smoking. Loss of appetite, with nausea. Loss of appetite, etc. Great loss of appetite, for several days. Complete loss of appetite; (fourth day). No appetite (second morning); utter loathing of food, and it was with difficulty that he could be induced to take even the lightest nourishment (sixth day); nourishment of every kind was refused (eighth day). No appetite and no thirst. No appetite, no hunger (after three days). Complete anorexia. Great longing for acids and spicy things. Easily satisfied with tobacco; he can smoke but little, though it has not a bad taste. I was repeatedly obliged to lay aside the cigar that I had scarcely begun, because I became so averse to it, and it caused such a feeling of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen, as if I had smoked too much; this disappeared after sleep (fifth day). Was obliged to lay aside a cigar in order to avoid vomiting (first day).
Aversion to meat and especially to fat (fifth day). Very averse to cooked milk. Thirst. Thirst intolerable; drink did not quench it, but caused drops of cold clammy sweat to exude from the pores of the skin the moment the water entered the stomach. Constant excessive thirst, which was rather increased by drinking water.
Excessive thirst; he drank, during the night, six quarts of water. Excessive thirst, only momentarily relieved by copious draughts of cold water (first night). Constant and excessive thirst (second day). Excessive thirst, and many others.
Unquenchable thirst; (third day). Increased thirst; (after eight hours). Abnormal thirst began to be developed (second day); the thirst was intolerable, and large quantities of water were taken at a draught (fourth day); the thirst was fairly consuming, being more urgent at night than during the day (tenth and eleventh days). Burning thirst (after fifty-one hours). Burning thirst, in the afternoon (second day); thirst increased (third day). Thirst, with burning in the throat (after ten days). Intolerable thirst (seventeenth day). Frequent thirst for small quantities. Great thirst, at night. Lively thirst (second day). Constant thirst.
Thirst, etc. Much thirst for water. Thirst, at noon, before eating. Thirst, after eating. She has no relish for food, but wishes to drink constantly. Constantly wanting drink (fifth day).
Thirst, in the morning, immediately after rising. Thirst for large quantities of water, at rather long intervals. While eating supper, great thirst. Eructations. Eructations. Frequent eructations (after first dose, second day). Frequent eructations, and she declared there issued from her mouth fumes of a strong garlicky taste, which were luminous in the dark (immediately); painful regurgitations, with expulsion of gas having an alliaceous odor (third day). Violent eructations, followed by pain in the chest (after a few hours). Regurgitations of food, after supper. Frequent eructations; the stomach seems distended by gas. Constant eructations, with fermentation in the abdomen (after twenty-four hours). Uprisings of food and eructations, without bad taste. Regurgitations of a mouthful of bile, on stooping low down.) Burning uprisings from the stomach into the chest, while sitting, with anxiety, and precipitation on the forehead and chest (after two hours). Frequent eructations and yawning (after six hours). Eructations, with burning. Frequent loud eructations. Eructations, with pain in the stomach. Many eructations (fourth day). A pressive rising up, as in eructations. Frequent eructations of white tasteless mucus.
Constant inclination to eructate, with nausea, in the stomach.
Four eructations. Eructations of tasteless water (after one hour). Frequent eructations, tasting like bad eggs, with a feeling as if diarrhoea would occur. Eructations, with accumulation of water and constriction in the mouth, increasing to retching, with mucus expectoration, followed by eructations and yawning (after a few hours). Eructations, tasting like bad eggs, at night. Belching of large quantities of wind, tasting like rotten eggs. Eructations of the odor of olive oil, and a rising up through the nose, from which a white vapor issued.
Uprisings of bitter water. Bitter eructations. Uprisings of bitter rancid water. Frequent eructations, tasting of urine.
Eructations, tasting like oranges. Uprising of water from the stomach into the throat, as after taking saltpeter. Eructations after eating, at first empty, afterwards of food, as if there had been no digestion. Frequent eructations, tasting of the food (twelfth day). Eructations, in part tasting of the food and in part acid. Eructations, tasting of the food (fifth day). Frequent eructations, tasting of the food, even several hours after eating, without other symptoms of indigestion (eleventh 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.