Pupil. Pupils dilated (in two hours). Ball. Pressing in ball of the eye, evenings, while reading by candlelight, with red shine of paper. Vision. Flickering before eyes, and headache. Mist before the eyes and dulness. Great dimness of left eye, as if a gauze were spread over it, afternoon (sixth day). Dimness of vision, as in a fog (first day). Dimness of vision. Blackness and headache.
Ears
Inflammation and swelling of a gland under the right ear, which begins to suppurate on sixth day. Drawing and visible twitching in the lobule of left ear, later either in the right or left.
Painful constriction about external right ear. Stinging beneath and in front of left ear, as with a bristle, in the morning (sixth day). Tearing upwards behind left ear, frequently in the afternoon. In the ear violent pressure and compression, up into the temple, where it also presses. Tearing in right ear, mornings (fourth day). Tearing pressure in right cartilage and external meatus of ear. Contracting sensation in right ear. Ulcerative pain deep in left ear and around the anterior part of the same, morning (sixth day). Violent dull stitches, deep in right ear, forenoon (ninth day). Tolling of bells in left ear, for some time, afternoon (sixth day). Ringing in left ear. Every word reverberates in his head, cannot speak, with headache.
Nose
Coryza, especially on right side (tenth day). Coryza and cough.
Stuffed coryza, without sneezing, no air passes through the nose.
Very thick mucus from the nose. Frequent nosebleed (sixth day); at night, after dream of fighting. Epistaxis, with feeling as if small bubbles were bursting in the nose (third day). In the evening, bleeding from right nostril when blowing nose, light- colored blood (fourth day). Bleeding from left nostril while blowing nose (eleventh day). Bleeding from right nostril.
Nosebleed. Sneezing in the morning, after rising. Sneezing, fails in the attempt (eighth day). Sneezing and running coryza, only in the morning (second day). Stoppage of the nose in the forenoon, a short time. Stoppage of nose and gloomy mood. Woke with dry obstruction of right nostril (sixth day). Burning in the nose, on blowing it. In the nose burning on blowing it, with a dry cough.
In the tip of the nose, pricking as if caused by a needle.
Face
Twitching of right side of upper lip (after three hours and a half). Violent pain in the face, as if bruised, about both inferior orbital margins, on waking in the morning, but only on pressure (twenty-first day). Drawing, stinging, tearing in the masticatory muscles of right side, which seem to have spasmodically contracted. Pressing-stinging pain on lower inner edge of right lower jaw, but only on touch, and on bending the head back. Stiffness and tension in masseter muscles and joints of the jaw, on moving the part, thirty minutes, forenoon (sixth day). The jaws pain as if they would break.
Mouth
Teeth. Chattering of teeth, with chill. Toothache on the right side, with creeping, crawling, tingling in the roots of the teeth; after picking them until they bleed, the pain, which had been much more severe for awhile, ceases, evening (thirteenth and fourteenth days). Drawing toothache in the right lower row, with heaviness of the head, particularly on the right side, from 4 A.M. till evening (third day). The right upper teeth are very sensitive on biting on them (fourteenth and fifteenth days).
Tearing in the teeth from cold draft of air or cold drink. Molars of left side and one on the right begin to ache. Toothache, on two successive evenings (eighth day). Stinging in a tooth which had been painful for a long time, forenoon (ninth day). Gums.
Swelling and sore pain of the gums of the inner side of lower maxilla. The gums of the left lower row are painful on smoking tobacco, afternoon (third day). Stinging tearing in the gums and the root of the last right lower molar. Tearing in the gums of the right lower row, in the evening (fourth day). Tongue. Whitish coating on the tongue, in the morning, with natural taste (third day). Aphthae on the tongue and palate (seventeenth day). Tongue is rough several mornings on waking, passing off after eating.
Stitches in the tongue. General Mouth. Offensive breath. Slimy mouth in the morning (sixth day). Dry mouth, after stool, at 3.30 A.M. (seventh day). Dryness in the mouth, without thirst, forenoon. Dryness in mouth and throat, mornings in bed (seventh day). Woke with dry mouth (twenty-second day). Pressing-drawing pain in soft palate. Saliva. Frequently tasteless water collects in the mouth, forenoon, till 1 P.M. (second day). Salivation.
Taste. Woke with fishy disagreeable taste in mouth (sixth day).
Metallic taste for two days. Sweetish taste in the mouth, while smoking tobacco. Insipid sweetish taste. Taste in throat is always sweetish, like liquorice, several days. Herbaceous taste in mouth. Nauseous herbaceous taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning, after rising, soon abating. Bitter taste on the under lip, mornings (eighth day). Bitter taste of rye bread. Disagreeable, very sour, and slimy taste in the fauces, mornings, like sour dough (leaven).
Throat
Constant hawking of mucus in the morning; the mucus is constantly reproduced in abundance (second day). Phlegm in throat all day, which she could not detach or swallow (tenth day). Tough mucus in throat, mornings; cannot be removed by hawking, for several days.
Mucus in throat tastes like blood (eleventh day). Hoarseness in the throat, every other day (after six days). Hoarseness in the throat frequently returning (after three hours). Constricting feeling in the throat and chest, with difficult breathing, frequently in the day (fifth day). Spasmodic constriction in the throat; he is forced to loosen his clothes, the cravat, the shirt, in order to get sufficient breath, but without avail (sixth day). Sensation of constriction in the posterior portion of the throat. Irritation and constriction in the throat.
Roughness in the throat excites cough. Rough, hoarse, and dry in the throat, in the morning, on awaking, for a quarter of an hour.
During cough, roughness in the throat, mornings (second day).
Dryness in the throat and stinging on swallowing, morning (seventh day). Spasmodic urging or straining in the throat through the whole night, but frequently vomiting. When swallowing, a pain in the throat; a feeling of rawness on the larynx, a pressing sensation moving about in larynx, with a cough at night and in the morning, with a colorless tasteless expectoration; when he coughs the larynx pains most. Pain in right side of throat, as if caused by a sharp pelt of barley or wheat, up along at the side and about at the ear, only passing off in the afternoon, after lying down (first day). Irritation in the posterior portion of the throat. Stinging from throat out of ear. In fauces tickling ulcerative sensation, causing a cough. In the morning very much burning in the oesophagus (fourth day). In the swallow acrid sensation. Throat swollen, with falling down unconscious. At 10.30 A.M., transient tensive feeling (not pain) in region of right submaxillary gland (thirteenth day).
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. More appetite than usual, for several days.
He longs for his dinner, with an ardent desire. (Wants nothing but juicy fruits). Gnawing hungry sensation. No appetite for smoking tobacco, the taste of which seems to him to be entirely changed (fifth, sixth, and seventh days). All his appetite is gone. No appetite for breakfast (sixth day). No appetite and no hunger; food had not enough flavor, and after a meal it seemed to him as if he had eaten nothing; as if the stomach were without sensation. No hunger or appetite; he ate but little at noon (second day). Loathing at the thought of the food eaten. Ability to go about all day fasting. Thirst, even in the morning, continuing all day, with general warmth (third day). Thirst, frequently throughout the day, with one who is usually not thirsty. Thirst for water, in the afternoon, 2 o’clock, after chill before dinner (first day). Absence of thirst during meals, contrary to his habit (first to fourth day). Entire absence of thirst during the whole proving. Eructations. First bitter and sour then empty eructations. Sour eructations before and after attack. Continual eructation, with shuddering. Eructation, with taste of the food, after dinner (fifth day). Bitter eructation in the morning, after rising, with bitter taste in the mouth (second day). Bitter eructation during dinner; ceases after the meal (second day). After eating the usual wasser, and drinking a little cold water after it, the soup eructated with a bitter taste (fourth day). Belching up of bitter sour matter, evenings; he had to spit it out three times. Belching of sour water, afternoon. Continuous sour eructation. Frequent empty eructation, forenoon and evening; evening (second day), and forenoon (fifth day). Belching of bitter water, before and once after dinner (fourth day). Sour eructation after breakfast. Constant imperfect eructations. Ineffectual inclination to eruct, with spasmodic twisting in stomach, immediately after dinner, lasting one minute. Hiccough. Hiccough after dinner, three spells (second day). Hiccough, 6 P.M., for a long while. Hiccoughing eructation (soon). Nausea and Vomiting. Constant nausea, without inclination to vomit, afternoon (third day). Nausea. Nausea, with an acrid sensation on the tongue and in the swallow. It has nauseating effects. Much nausea, with constant ineffectual inclination to vomit, the whole forenoon (first day). Severe nausea, mornings, increased to vomiting, with increased herbaceous taste in the mouth. Nausea after breakfast. Nausea, with vertigo. Nausea, with headache. Nausea, with constriction of the stomach. Nausea and exhaustion after dinner. Nausea in the throat, caused by the rising of a nauseous vapor into the mouth, with affection of the head. Nausea and inclination to vomit; it comes up constantly (third day). Constant inclination to vomit. Efforts to vomit. She has to vomit often, and each time her nose bleeds. Vomiting of bitter substances with great efforts. He said it made him as sick as death and broke all his bones. Sick stomach and prostration, kind of coryza, had to lie down, and could not move; pulse somewhat retarded. Vomits her breakfast after pain in the stomach. Sour vomiting; with headache. Stomach. It he eats ever so little, it nevertheless distends his stomach as much as if he had eaten a great deal. During menses griping in pit of stomach, extending towards the sacrum. Spasmodic twisting in 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.