Slight dim, and requires considerable effort and rubbing of the eyes to see anything distinctly, a feeling something like snow- blindness, in the afternoon (second day). Vision somewhat affected (after forty-five minutes). Diminished vision. Dimness of vision. Indistinct vision. Very violent twittering before the eyes. Sensation of a dark cloud immediately over the eyes. Vapor before the eyes (sixth day). Appearance of a cloud before the sight.
Ears
Pains in the ears, with headache. Pain deep in the left ear, only for a short time, during the pain in the forehead. Slowly sticking pain in the left ear (after ten minutes). Every stroke of a hammer heart near a blacksmith’s shop is painful in the right ear. Throbbing under the ears at irregular intervals, often only two single beats. Cracking in the right ear, noticed while stroking the right cheek with the finger-tips (third day).
Beating whizzing in the left ear. Singing in the ears, with vertigo. Humming in the ears, with determination of blood.
Nose
Profuse fluent coryza in the right nostril. Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing. Watery acrid coryza, making the nose sore.
Alternations of fluent and dry coryza. Painful coryza, during the fever (fourth day). Dry coryza, as from a sudden cold (thirteenth day). Much sneezing. Sneezing very frequently, with tingling in the nares (after three hours, second day). When snuffed up the nostrils proved sternutatory, and left a sensation of heat for some time. Snuffed into the nose it excites sneezing, and an increased secretion from the Schneiderian membrane. Dull heavy pain at the root of nose, with a dizzy sensation, somewhat like the effect of alcoholic stimulus, with same feeling of lassitude (after six hours). Dull heavy pain about the root of the nose, with considerable coryza; with stinging sensation in the nose, causing considerable rubbing (second day). Dull pain at the root of the nose, with tingling sensation like coryza, in the afternoon (second day). Severe pain about the root of the nose (third day). Sensation of heat in the nose. Odor of roasted onions in the nose. Aversion to the smell of syrup. Loss of smell and taste.
Face
Peculiar haggard expression of the countenance. Face flushed (after twenty-five minutes). Redness of the face. Countenance pale (after forty-five minutes). Face very pale (after forty minutes). Paleness of the face, with disposition to vomit. A worn appearance (seventeenth day). Puffiness of the face, with bright redness and feeling of stiffness. Pale swollen countenance around the eyes and temples, more on the left side (sixth day). Feeling of fullness in the face. Violent burning heat and redness of the face. Severe pain in cheek-bones (third day). Toward evening, swelling of the lips (fourth day). The under lip burns, is swollen, hard, and becomes covered with blisters, which dry up next morning and form crusts, which drop off after four days (fifth day). Sensation of dryness of the lips (in three proves).
Stiffness of the jaws. Jerking in both superior maxillary bones, extending towards the eye.
Mouth
Teeth. Looseness of the teeth. Toothache when picking the teeth.
Pain in the upper teeth. Pain in a hollow tooth, especially when touched by food. In in the right lower hollow molar after cold drinks, two mornings in succession. Awoke with toothache in a right upper hollow tooth, and headache in the right side of the forehead, extending into the ear; the toothache was aggravated by cold water (and also by hot drinks), but relieved by warm water.
A slow short and long-thrilling sensation, ending in a gnawing, in an upper molar (after twenty minutes). Pain in one or several incisors and in a hollow molar (after twenty minutes). Gums.
Sores on the gums and roof of mouth (Fincke, 10). Tongue.
Yellowish-white coating on the tongue, with bad taste in the mouth (second day). Light-yellow coating on the tongue, in the morning (fourth day). Tongue coated yellowish-white (eighth and ninth days). Tongue coated white, with loss of appetite. Tongue feels burnt. Crawling in the tip of the tongue, followed by an astringent sensation that extended over the whole tongue, on waking (first day). Pricking on the tongue and hard palate, as if he had been chewing Mezereum (after twenty-five minutes). Dry and raw sensation of something acrid, beginning in the right side of the tongue and extending over the whole tongue, soon after waking, in the morning. Stitches in the left side of the tongue.
Prickling in the tip of the tongue (after fifteen minutes).
General Mouth. Mouth clammy and feverish (second day). Mouth clammy, with very disagreeable taste, with abundant accumulations about the teeth, and very fetid breath (third morning). Burning in the mouth and fauces (first day). Burning in the mouth and stomach (after two hours, first day). Burning in the mouth and fauces, immediately (fourth day); lasting four hours a half (fifth day). Saliva. Flow of saliva and looseness of the teeth; it seems as if they would fall out. Spitting, with nausea. Taste.
Fatty taste in the mouth. The cake has a bitter taste, followed by burning in the fauces. Slimy taste in the mouth. Taste very much impaired (second day). Awoke in morning with disagreeable taste in mouth (fifth day).
Throat
Feeling of swelling in the throat on swallowing. Sensation as if the throat were completely closed by swelling, with pain on swallowing, as if he would suffocate, with loss of voice (after three hours). Pain, with sensation of swelling, in the throat, worse on the right side, and especially on swallowing. Throat very dry, with tickling cough (after three hours, second day).
Dryness in the throat, with a teasing dry hacking cough, in the afternoon (second day). Dryness of the throat, nor relieved by drinking. Throat feels raw; some difficulty in swallowing; mouth and throat feel almost denuded of mucous membrane; in the morning, at 12.30 P.M., mucous membrane of mouth, fauces, etc., very sensitive, as if having held very hot water in the mouth, making it quite difficult to masticate food (fourth day). A spasmodic constriction directly beneath the lower jaw and across the throat, very distressing in character, lasting for two or three hours, in the afternoon (second day). Tickling in the throat, with hacking cough and headache, in the evening.
Transient, very peculiar feeling in the throat, as though he had swallowed something sharp (after twenty minutes). Heat in the throat; inspiration of cold air is very agreeable; in the evening, from 6 to 7 P.M. Burning in the fauces, after eating sweet things. A small quantity dissolved in the saliva and swallowed, produces considerable irritation in the fauces, which continued for several hours. Burning sensation in fauces, especially on soft palate, extending downward to about center of the sternal region, in the afternoon (second day). Warming sensation in the fauces, and especially on soft palate, with slight relaxation (after fifteen minutes). Burning in the pharynx.
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Craving appetite; could not eat enough to satisfy my hunger; in the morning (fourteenth day). Appetite craving, in the morning (twelfth day). Ate quite heartily in morning (eighth day). Longing for indefinite things, with loss of appetite. Longing for spiced food. Appetite poor (sixth day).
Appetite very much impaired (second day). No appetite for breakfast (seventh day). Almost a total loss of appetite (third morning). Loss of appetite, with uncertain cravings. No desire for food (fourth day). Loss of appetite; (sixth day). Sometimes violent, though transient, gastrodynia. Aversion to butter, which leaves a sweetish taste. Tormenting thirst. Eructations. Frequent eructations of a bad odor, with some qualmishness and paleness of the face. Spasmodic eructations of air. Eructations of gas, followed by tickling in the throat, provoking cough, immediately.
Regurgitation and disposition to vomit. Flatulent eructation.
Eructations of wind from his stomach (after forty-five minutes).
Hiccough. Hiccough on smoking. Nausea and Vomiting. Deathly nausea, with much salivation. Nausea while sitting at the breakfast table (thirteenth day). Nausea, in the evening, before going to bed (first day). Nausea and pain in the stomach, in the evening (third day). After eating, nausea (fourth day). Nausea and water brash (sixth day). Several times during the forenoon sick feeling; she has to lie down; it comes from the stomach, with vomiturition (ninth day). While in church, where she was surrounded by various odors, she suddenly became sick, as if she would faint; the feeling disappeared after smelling eau de Cologne (thirteenth day). Nausea (from large doses). Nausea with much spitting. Nausea after eating. Nausea on stooping. Long- continued nausea, with chilliness. Nausea. Nausea, with salivation and constant spitting. Nausea with headache, with chill and heat, Nausea, without vomiting, then headache. Great nausea (after thirty minutes); it operated most violently as an emetic, producing six or seven full vomiting (after thirty five minutes); he drank a considerable quantity of warm tea, with the view of assisting the operation and to allay the violent irritation which was produced in his throat; all the contents of his stomach, as well as the tea, on being discharged, were of color similar to the decoction of the root. In larger doses it strongly nauseates. Much affected with nausea (after thirty minutes); shortly after relieved from every disagreeable sensation by discharging the contents of his stomach.
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.