Strong fetor in breath. Peculiar (saturnine) fetor of the breath. Fetor of breath so great that a fellow-servant, who slept in the same room, could scarcely endure it. Breath fetid, etc. Breath extremely offensive; he is himself aware of it. Offensive metallic odor of breath. Foul breath from the mouth. Peculiarly offensive and nauseating smell of the breath. Offensive odor in the mouth, from the hollow teeth, white eating (second day). Breath had a peculiar smell so often noticed in patients suffering from malignant disease of stomach (eighteenth day). The breath has usually a characteristic odor.
Its offensiveness is indescribable; it can only be called a saturnine breath. My mouth was usually more dry in the morning than at evening, though the thirst was rather less.
The mouth and nostrils are dry. Dryness of the mouth. Great dryness of the mouth. There was for four or five days an almost constant feeling of constriction of the mouth, especially of the lips, which I was prompted frequently, and, as it were, involuntarily, to extend. Burning pain in mouth, throat, and stomach (soon). Heat and burning in the mouth and tongue (fourth morning). Mouth and lips are dry. Saliva. Excessive salivation; the saliva dropping from the mouth, immediately relieved by Mercurius sol. Profuse secretion of mucus in the mouth. The saliva is not usually increased; as some subjects say that their mouths are dry, it would seem that in certain cases the amount of this secretion is abnormally diminished.
Sometimes there was a temporary salivation and a slight (if I mistake not) metallic taste. Secretion of saliva diminished.
Bluish, sweet saliva. Much sweetish, slimy-tasting saliva collects in the forepart of the mouth, with dryness at the root of the palate posteriorly and in the fauces, disappearing on swallowing saliva (first day). Bloody sputa (third day). Sputa lumpy, bloody (second day). Spitting of blood. Saliva alkaline. Froth in the mouth. Taste. Sense of taste very much diminished. Sense of taste much diminished, especially in the right half of the tongue. His sense of taste was perverted, so that he no longer recognized ordinary articles of food. Taste perverted. The workmen, whose gums and teeth show any considerably amount of the sulphate of lead deposit, often complain of a peculiar taste. This is described by most of them as saccharine, styptic, astringent, i.e., exactly like that caused by holding a preparation of lead in the mouth. Others says that it is both offensive and styptic. Sweetish taste in the mouth, with dryness. Sweetish taste, etc. Styptic taste (second day). Horrible taste in her mouth. Taste astringent (second day). Bad taste in the mouth, a sort of bitterness, especially at night. Nauseous taste. Disagreeable taste in the mouth. Sweetish, sour taste in the mouth, which is a constant annoyance. Metallic taste. Disagreeable metallic taste. Taste pasty. Coppery taste in the mouth, when she first awoke, in the morning. Dry and bitter mouth. Peculiar taste in mouth. Bitter taste, etc. Bitter taste in the mouth, every morning. Decidedly bitter taste. Constant bitter taste. Taste flat. Acrid taste in mouth and throat. Speech. The utterance was panting and puffing, as in diaphragmatic pleurisy.
Speech is slow. Speech is dragging and slow. Speech hindered.
Difficulty in speaking. Speech difficult (with albuminuria).
Speech slow and difficult. Speech is hurried and abrupt. Speech hasty, can hardly be understood. Articulation somewhat stammering. Stammering, broken, shaky articulation. Stammering.
Speech falter and hesitating. Articulation imperfect, often even incomplete; sometimes, on attempting to speak, he uttered only confused sounds, more or less intelligibly. His speech is rather impaired; he cannot utter his words so freely as in health.
Impeded utterance. Difficulty of speech, showing itself in articulation, but the tongue was not drawn to one side. Speech faltered. Words indistinctly pronounced. Incoherent speech. Speech almost inarticulate. Tries to speak, but only mutters unintelligibly. Some want of power of speech, two or three times, after a night attack. Sudden loss of speech, with short, rapid respiration. Inability to talk.
Throat
Hawking of sourish mucus (after half an hour). Hawking up of a sourish sputa. Mucus is expectorated from the throat with easy hawking, it is frothy like saliva, transparent, lumpy, and in yellowish-green tenacious masses (first day). Very tenacious mucus. Choking, when swallowing. Choking sensation in throat (after one year). Sensation of dryness in the throat, in the morning. Dryness of throat (after five hours). Roughness of the throat, with somewhat hoarse voice (fourth morning). Rawness of the throat (after six hours). Swollen sensation in the throat, that obliges frequent swallowing, and does not disappear (after two hours). Swollen sensation in the throat, on swallowing. with retching (fourth day). Constriction of the throat. Constriction of the throat; (fifth and sixth days). The patient continued to suffer from constriction of the throat for three months after the poisoning. rendering deglutition difficult. associated with general muscular feebleness. Spasmodic constriction of the throat. Sense of constriction about the throat and epigastrium. Violent constriction of the throat. Sensation as though the foreign body in the throat slipped downwards, afterwards tearing in the right scapula (after two hours and a half). Sensation as of a foreign body in the right side of the throat, with a sulphurous odor; the sensation afterwards extended towards the ear and lasted a long time. Sensation as if something in the throat moved suddenly up to the base of the skull and thence to the left orbital region, where it became a sticking; while smoking (first day). Sensation of a foreign body in the throat that provokes sneezing, on swallowing it extends far down, but immediately returns, it often disappears for awhile of itself, lasting the whole forenoon; it is not painful. A small body frequently rose into the throat, which she thought she must swallow again, by paroxysms (after three-quarters of an hour). Rising of a ball into the throat (globus hystericus). Pains in the throat. Retching in the throat (after two hours). Heat in throat. Offensive taste of lead in the throat (second day). Sulphurous and sour taste low down in the throat. Uvula and Tonsils. Uvula inflamed. Tonsils inflamed and indurated. Tonsils swollen. Dryness of the fauces. Fauces and Pharynx. Sense of heat and tickling in the fauces (second day).
Pharyngeal muscles almost paralyzed. Paralysis of the pharyngeal muscles, and inability to swallow food.
Constriction and cutting in the pharynx, extending as far down as the stomach, before and after eating. Frequent contraction of the pharynx. OEsophagus and Swallowing. Feels food descending into the oesophagus and reaching the stomach (tenth day). When the colic is coming on, drinking is difficult, owing to a sensation of constriction extending from the epigastrium all along the oesophagus to the pharynx, which prevents the barley- water from passing; if he goes on trying to swallow, it is rejected almost immediately. Drawing sensation in the oesophagus, while eating, as if the oesophagus would be torn off (sixth day).
Sensation of crawling in the oesophagus. Heat along the whole oesophagus. Difficult swallowing. Swallowing difficult, at times almost impossible. External Throat. Throbbing in the carotids and also in the crural arteries. Left parotid gland swollen and painful; skin hot and red. Right parotid somewhat swollen. Submaxillary glands somewhat swollen and painful.
Stomach
Appetite. Great appetite, in the evening (first day). Sensation of violent hunger in the throat, extending down to the stomach, returning after eating (third day). Excessive hunger, he eats an unusual amount (after five days). Great hunger; eating a biscuit considerably aggravated the pains, and caused vomiting.
Great desire to eat bread and biscuits the whole time; occurring even an hour after a meal, also late in the evening and early in the morning. Sensation of hunger and nausea, in the evening before going to sleep (sixth day). Appetite generally craving. Appetite indifferent. Appetite poor, (after one year). Appetite very poor. Diminished appetite (second day).
Appetite much diminished. Loss of appetite before the colic. No appetite nor thirst. Loss of appetite, for two months. Loss of appetite and sleep. Loss of appetite, etc. Great loss of appetite, and even aversion to food. Complete loss of appetite.
Almost complete anorexia; perhaps some malacia. Anorexia, etc.
Prolonged anorexia. Anorexia before the colic. Anorexia, with considerable sickness. Anorexia, without loathing. Complete anorexia. Great relish for tobacco (first day). Aversion to food. Thirst. Thirst inextinguishable (after one day).
Distressing thirst and desire for cold water. Great thirst; but liquids are returned, with much straining, as soon as taken.
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.