Mouth
Teeth. Pain in the teeth of both sides, in the morning; in the front teeth in the afternoon (ninth day). Dull aching pain in the right molars, both upper and lower, which is entirely relieved after eating dinner (third day). Severe dull aching in the right molars; relieved by rinsing the mouth with cold water (tenth day). Grumbling-stinging toothache in the right superior molars, while riding in a cold wind, attended with a dull aching in the forehead (after three hours, second day). Dull transient pain in teeth (fourth day). Pain in the under jaw and teeth, in the front teeth, also on the left side, half an hour (eleventh day). Pain in the teeth, in the morning, (eighth day). Pain in the teeth of lower jaw of left side (seventh day). Running pains in teeth; in all the upper teeth (twelfth day). Sharp pain in the teeth (second day). Tongue. Tongue coated white, with the feverish symptoms (tenth morning). Tongue coated yellow (tenth and seventeenth days). Tongue heavily coated (second and fifth days). Feeling of dryness of the anterior part of the tongue, with a feeling in the stomach of repletion, and as if one had eaten spice (seventh day). The anterior part of the tongue felt dry and hot (after forty minutes). Soreness of the right edge of the tongue (after one hour and fifty minutes). Sensation of excoriation at edges of the tongue, which is sore when touched by the teeth, with a feeling as if the anterior part of the tongue had been scalded (twelfth day). Sensation as if the tongue, at night (fourth day). Saliva and Taste. Flow of saliva (within half an hour). Rose in the morning with bad taste in the mouth (third day). Woke with a bitter taste in the mouth (second day). Nasty taste in the mouth (second day). Flat taste in the mouth, on rising, in the morning, was quite frequent during the proving.
Throat
Thick yellow secretion from posterior nares (tenth day). Feeling of dryness in the posterior nares (fifth day). The throat is dry, and deglutition difficult (eighth day); same dryness of throat (ninth day). Sensation as if a lump or ball were sticking fast in the throat, which is not relieved by hawking or swallowing (after half an hour, fifth day). Aching sensation in the throat, as if a lump were sticking in the gullet (twenty hours after fourth dose). Sore throat on the left side on swallowing (sixteenth day). Throat sore, with feeling of lumps in it when swallowing (tenth day). All the morning had feeling of rawness in upper part of throat, with secretion of phlegm (tenth day). Scraping in the throat, with symptoms of slight cold, in the evening (eighth day). Tickling in the throat, soon after taking the drug, then throat a little sore (fifth day). Fauces and Pharynx. Much tough mucus in the fauces, which is very difficult to eject (seventh day). Aching in the pharynx, and collection of tough mucus in the fauces, with a slight inclination to cough, in the evening (fifth day).
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Appetite much increased; feels hungry even after a full meal (fifteenth day). Less appetite than usual (seventh day). Anorexia (eighth and twelfth days). Loss of appetite and nausea. At 7.30 P.M. was very thirty, though this is unusual to him (fourth day). Thirty during evening (eighth day).
Eructations. Belching of wind accompanied the pain in the lungs.
Eructation, empty. Eructation (within half an hour). Eructation and sensation of distension in the stomach; the feeling of distension subsides with motion of wind in the bowels. Eructation of wind (after ten minutes). Frequent forcible eructation of tasteless flatus, in the evening (fifth day). Eructation of much tasteless flatus, with a sensation of distension in the scrobiculus cordis (a quarter of an hour after second dose, second day). Hiccough. Hiccough (after one hour). Pyrosis after dinner (sixth day). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea and loss of appetite (sixth day). In the evening nausea, relieved by eructations, with sensation of fullness in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea was forming (fifth day). Nausea; fullness of the stomach, with eructations with the taste of what had been eaten on going to bed (ninth day). In the morning, on awaking, felt nauseated, with moving in the intestines as from a cathartic (second day). Slight nausea (eighth day). Slight nausea while dressing, in the morning, and vertigo, compelling to lie down again (tenth day). Stomach. Awoke with an acid stomach and eructations of acid flatus (fifth morning). Weight in the stomach, like that which is produced by the pressure of undigested food, with a pressing sensation as far upwards as the throat put; this sensation continued for one hour until falling asleep (after ten minutes, first day). Weight in the epigastrium like that of the previous night, but not so great, though no food had been taken (after ten minutes, second day). For two hours after first dose experienced a sensation as of a hard substance in pit of stomach (third day).
For several days an unusual sensation of heaviness in the epigastrium; it occurs immediately after eating, and disappears in the course of half an hour. Feeling in the stomach of repletion and as if one had eaten spice, with the feeling of dryness of the tongue (seventh day). Fasted all day until evening, feeling empty and sunken, but without appetite (tenth day). Previous sensation of undigested food returned (after three hours, first day); same pressure in stomach continued through afternoon, but disappeared in the night (first day).
Sensation of undigested food in the stomach, with upward pressure to the throat-pit; every empty swallowing carried it downward towards the stomach, but it immediately returned (after fifteen minutes, second day). Sensation as of a hard body, somewhat increased after food, and continued for four hours (second day); same sensation as of a hard body in the stomach, ascending upwards to the throat-pit; the sensation at the throat-pit descended towards the stomach upon every empty swallowing, but immediately returned; continued for two hours, but gradually abated; returned after dinner and continued for two hours or more (after eight minutes, fifth day). Severe pain in the digestive organs on waking, in the morning, and frequent (fifth day). Pains severe in the gastric region (third day). Pain dull and heavy toward the cardiac orifice (fourth day). Pains severe in the stomach (eighth day). Pain in stomach on waking (eleventh day). Two hours after breakfast felt as though his food had not digested (second and third days). Pain in the stomach accompanied the pain in the lungs. Dull pains in stomach (seventh day). A burning pain in the pit of the stomach, for a short time (soon after first dose). During the day a burning pain in the stomach and abdomen (fourth day). A cutting pain in pit of stomach, for a short time (soon after first dose). During the day a burning pain in the stomach and abdomen (fourth day). A cutting pain in pit of stomach, for five minutes, while riding in the open air (half an hour after first dose). Acute momentary pain in the pit of the stomach (fourth day).
Abdomen
Pain above umbilicus (within half an hour). Sensation of distension in the scrobiculus cordis, with eructation of much tasteless flatus (a quarter of an hour after second dose, second day). Dull pain and sensation of fullness, as if from flatus, in the left side of the abdomen, about midway between the umbilicus and crest of the ilium, while riding; continued two hours (after three hours and a half, second day). Frequent passages of small quantities of fetid flatus (seventh night). Much flatus moving about in the abdomen, during the night (twenty-second day). Borborygmus (within half an hour).
After meals flatulency (sixth day). Flatulency in the morning on waking, with emission of flatus, and sensation as if the tongue and mouth were burnt. Rumbling in the bowels and colic pains above the hypogastrium (fifth day). Rumbling in the bowels and eructation of wind. Rumbling in the bowels, with yawning (after one hour and ten minutes). A relaxed sensation, with rumbling, continued for some hours, as if another evacuation would follow, nevertheless it passed off without another stool (fourth morning). Moving in the intestines, with nauseous feeling, in the;morning on awaking (second day). Sensation of fullness of abdomen on going to bed (ninth day). Sensation of fullness of in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea was forming, with the nausea (fifth day). Towards evening an aching pain commencing in the right side of the umbilicus (tenth day). Dull pain in abdomen, in the evening (seventeenth day). A dull pain in the abdomen before rising; it continued a short time after rising, and was followed by a diarrhoeic stool (third day). Awoke the next morning with pain in the bowels; relieved by emission of flatus. Pain in the abdomen, about the seventh rib, on the right side; a gone feeling and a weakness on each side of the umbilicus; the pains about 5 P.M. Griping pain in the bowels, below the umbilicus, which is partially relieved by discharge of very offensive flatus, after breakfast (fifth 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.