Ear.
Pain in both ears, worse in the right one. Shooting pain in the right ear, very quick. A sensation of obstruction in the left Eustachian tube, with a rushing sound in the ear of the same side, and a feeling as if the hearing were dull, while at the same time it is sensitive to the most minute sounds. Irritation in one of the Eustachian tubes. Increased sense of hearing, with pain in the forehead. Increased sense of hearing; the right is most affected.
Nose.
Pustule in the nostril (fifth day). Flow of mucus from one nostril, while the other is stopped. Discharge of mucus from one nostril at a time, sometimes one and sometimes the other. Coryza.
Severe coryza (after three hours, third day; after four hours, fourth day). Fluent coryza, for two days (after two days). All the effects of a severe coryza. Total obstruction of the nose when riding, so that one is forced to breathe altogether through the mouth, and cannot relieve himself by blowing the nose.
Stoppage of the right nostril. During the night one nostril was stopped up (second day). Sensation in nostril is smarting and stinging, at 9 A.M.; have ridden in open carriage three hours; sensation in throat almost entirely gone, at 1 P.M.; have seen in a warm room about two hours and find symptom returning, but less violent, at 5 P.M. (second day). Sensation in the right nostril as if tickled with a stiff feather (after three hours and a quarter). He felt first a burning sensation in the nose, then dryness in the throat, which soon produced soreness; then, watery discharge form the nostrils, which increased until the nose became “stuffed.” Drawing sensation about the root of the nose.
Drawing sensation above the root of the nose. Feeling in the nose and eyes as if a cold would come on.
Face.
Sickly-looking countenance; sclerotica and face of a dark- yellow color (second day). Expression as though suffering form cholera.
Countenance pale and hippocratic. Paleness of the face, which looked sunken, blue, and suffering. Paleness of the face. Face very red, almost purple, alternately very pale. Face flushed.
Suffering intensely with pains in the joints, and bones of the face and head; her sufferings were such that she had not slept for many nights; the pains proceeded form the “nodes,” especially on the frontal bone, and resembled very much those of periostitis. Pain in the superior maxillary and teeth, at 11 A.M.
(second day). Pain in the superior maxillary (after three hours, third day). Jaws ached awfully the whole time; seemed as though could not open or stir them.
Mouth.
Teeth. Teeth all ache, are very sore, and feel elongated.
Shooting pains in the molar teeth of the upper and lower jaws of the right side. Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth together. Tongue. Tongue coated white. A white coating made its appearance on the tongue the third day; it still continues (sixth day). Tongue coated yellow, and dry (after three hours, third day). Tongue swollen and yellow. Tongue feels rough, with blisters on both sides, and a very red tip; great pain in the root of the tongue when swallowing. Tongue and lips dry. Great pain in root of tongue, fauces, etc. A feeling on the back part of the tongue as if burnt accompanied the heaviness of the head.
Slight feeling of smarting and coldness towards the tip of the tongue. General Mouth. Great congestion and swelling of the soft palate and tonsils;;the right tonsil is half as large again as the left; both are of a very dark red. Swelling of the soft palate. Small ulcers on the inside of the right cheek, like those caused by Mercury. Tenderness and heat in the roof of the mouth and on the tongue. Dryness of the palate, in the morning. Saliva.
Profuse secretion of saliva each day. Profuse secretion of saliva, in the morning (second day). Constant flow from mouth, throat, and salivary glands of a thick, ropy, tenacious secretion (after two hours and a quarter). Secretion of saliva increased.
Mouth fills with water. Flow of saliva into the mouth. The saliva is yellowish and has a metallic taste. Cold, sticky, stringy saliva. No saliva. Taste. Metallic taste in the mouth (fourth and fifth days). Taste like nuts, in the mouth. Taste, bitter at first, but leaving a slight feeling of smarting and coldness towards the tip of the tongue.
Throat
Redness and soreness of the throat (after third dose, second day). Sore throat and swelling of the soft palate, in the morning, with a thick white and yellow mucus about the fauces, after the removal of which the throat feels better, and still better after breakfast. Soreness of the throat, and a feeling when swallowing saliva as if a lump had formed there; the same sensation is felt;on turning the head to the left side. Throat sore; the isthmus congested and of a dark-red color; dryness of the throat, with same swelling of the tonsils. Throat felt sore, fauces congested and of a dark color; dryness of the throat; the tonsils were a little swollen. Sensation of rawness and scraping in the throat and tonsils, as if something had lodged at the root of the tongue (second day). Feeling of rawness and excoriation in the throat (after three hours and three-quarters). Roughness and rawness of the throat. Feeling in the throat as though it was burned (after four hours). Pain and suffocating feeling in the throat and lungs (after three hours, third day). Pain and suffocating feeling in the throat and lungs (after two hours).
While riding, in the forenoon, a sensation of a plug in the throat, not relieved by hawking; this sensation was replaced by an increased discharge of mucus from the posterior nares, which was detached with difficulty, and which continually excited a disposition to attempt to expel it (fourth day). Sensation of a lump in the throat. Sensation as of a lump in the throat, that causes a constant inclination to swallow; sensation as if an apple-core had lodged in the throat. A sensation of the throat being so full that it felt choked; hawking to rid the throat and posterior nares of mucus; the raising of the mucus succeeded the feeling in the throat; a sensation of fullness and as if something had lodged on the left side of the throat came on after bending the head forward in writing, and was aggravated by turning the head to the left. Pressing pain in the right side of the throat. The throat feels very dry and sore, especially on swallowing, in the afternoon. Throat very dry, rough, and sore, with a feeling of a lump therein. Dryness of the throat, which soon produced soreness. Dryness, soreness, roughness, and redness in the throat, all the time (fourth day). Great dryness of the throat. Dryness in the throat, on going to bed. Dryness in the throat, worse in the morning. Felt the medicine all the way from the throat down into and through the abdomen. Tonsils. Tonsils and palate congested, and of a dark-purple color. Tonsils sore and somewhat swollen, in the morning (second day). Tonsils red and swollen (after third dose, second day). Fauces. Eruption in the fauces and oesophagus (after three months). General soreness of the posterior fauces, and apparent extension of the irritation into one of the Eustachian tubes. The fauces experienced an uneasy sensation of dryness, which provoked a hacking and dry cough (after twenty minutes). Slight fullness in the fauces (first day); sensation of fullness in the fauces and upper part of the larynx, and a sensation as of lid there, which lasted until afternoon (soon, second day); the same feeling of fullness that was previously noted, with a disposition to hawk up mucus from the throat, though none could be raised (third day). Feeling as if a ball of red-hot iron had lodged in the fauces and whole length of the oesophagus, when swallowing; the pain was so great that I could eat nothing but fluid for two days; constant choking sensation. Smarting in the fauces (after a few minutes). Dryness of the fauces, most in the morning. Sensation of dryness of a spot in the fauces on the left side, in the morning, continuing until after breakfast. Pharynx. Roughness in the pharynx (constantly). Roughness in the pharynx. Unpleasant sensation of dryness in the pharynx, towards morning, which makes him cough.
Sensation in the pharynx like that caused by eating choke- pears.
Dry sensation in the upper part of the pharynx, disposition to hawk and clear the throat, without affording relief (after three hours and a quarter); dryness of the pharynx and hawking still continues; have raised several small pieces of tough, sticky mucus, at 9 A.M.; have ridden in open carriage three hours; sensation in throat almost entirely gone, at 1 P.M.; have been in a warm room about two hours, and find symptoms returning, but less violent, at 5 P.M. (second day). Swallowing. Difficulty of swallowing, which became so severe that he was unable to swallow even water; every attempt to swallow was attended with excruciating shooting pains through both ears. Could not swallow because the throat felt so dry and rough. External Throat. A very peculiar pressure and tension in the parotids.
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.