Pupils somewhat dilated and rather sluggish. Slight dilatation of the pupils. Pupils greatly contracted, in a girl eight years old.
Spasmodic contractions of the pupils. Pupils contracted, almost entirely closed, with frightful distortion of the eyes. Vision.
Weakness of vision. Sight impaired (fourth day). Dimness of vision. Greatly diminished power of vision. Dimness and confusion of sight (after half an hour), soon followed by double vision and then entire blindness. Troubled vision (soon after second dose).
Vision imperfect, at times almost total blindness (second and third days). Partial blindness, after the chill. Eyes blurred, with dimness of vision (eleventh day). Dimness of vision, especially when rising or moving in bed (tenth day). Great darkness before the eyes. Objects seen double. Objects seen double and triple. Frequent double vision. Photophobia.
Blindness. Amaurosis. Veil before the eyes. Everything looks black when moving the head (tenth day). When rising up in bed everything turns black before her eyes (seventh day). Sparks appeared to flash before her eyes. Frequent flashes of light in the eyes (after forty-five minutes). Flickering before the eyes.
Mist and sparks before the eyes. Sees stars.
Ears
Sensation as if the ears were stopped. Roaring in the ears, with great difficulty of hearing. Roaring in the ears. Difficulty of hearing. Hearing impaired (fourth day). Transient deafness, with insensibility of the fingers of the whole hand; frequent falling asleep of the limbs. Deafness (soon after second dose).
Nose
Constant nosebleed. Nosebleed, (fourth day), (eleventh day).
Hemorrhage from the nose (third day); worse than before (fourth day); epistaxis (fifth day). Dryness of the nasal mucous membrane. Olfactory nerves very sensitive (tenth day).
Face
Shortly the palpebrae began to swell, likewise the lips and fauces; the tears flowed copiously; the Schneiderian membrane seemed much stimulated, and there was coryza, great difficulty of breathing through the nose, and injection of the vessels of the conjunctiva. The lips and palpebrae began to puff, as if stung by a bee, and gradually assumed a livid appearance. The power of deglutition was nearly lost; the voice became feeble; she said her jaws were fixed, and shortly after it was with greatest difficulty than an answer of yes or no could be elicited.
Previous to arriving at this point, she had complained of pain in every nerve, and a sensation of emptiness of the head. The face and head suddenly became intensely congested, being of a purplish red color, after stimulants and warmth were applied. Face and abdomen swollen. Face puffy. Face sunken, often discolored.
Features sunken. Face drawn. Risus sardonicus. Suffering expression. Face hippocratic, discolored. Stupidity of expression (soon after second dose). Countenance had a remarkably heavy idiotic expression (after second dose). Expression of face most anxious. Face pale and haggard. Face pale and collapsed (next morning); ashy (fourth day). Face pale. Face very pale. Face pale, sunken, hippocratic. Transitory paleness (in one hour).
Face flushed and livid at times (first day). Flushing of the face. Faces warm and red. Redness of the face. Face red, with thirst and some delirium, in children. Face dark red. Face yellow. Face yellowish, sunken and distorted. Livid face (in six hours). Countenance generally more livid at birth. Cheeks pale (after three-quarters of an hour). The lips were retracted so as to expose the teeth. Lips bluish. Distortion of the mouth.
Trismus.
Mouth
Teeth. Gnashing of the teeth. The teeth became loose and fell out. Bloody sordes (tenth day). Sordes on the teeth (seventh, eighth, and ninth days). Toothache, to which he had been subject, on exposure to cold (after one hour). Tongue. The patient frequently bites the tongue. The tongue is often torn during the most violent convulsions. Tongue a good deal swollen (second day). Twitching and swelling of the tongue, with a suffocated voice and a constant flow of saliva. Tongue heavy, tremulous, white, difficult to protrude between the teeth, so that speech was almost unintelligible. Tongue dry, scarlet at the edges, crimson and black in the middle (second and third days). Tongue white. Tongue white and moist. Tongue heavily coated white at noon, dry and brown at the tip (first day); coated with a heavy brown fur and pointed at the end (second day); heavily coated with a brownish fur, dry at the tip, edges stiff and swollen (third day); dry and brown (fourth day); dry, brown at the tip, and lead-colored at the root (fifth day); covered with a brownish lead-colored coat in the center, red at tip and edges (sixth day); clean, very dry, and red at the tip (seventh day); dry, glazed, and stiff, appearing as if baked, to the touch, with a hard crust formed on the surface (eighth day); clear, red, and somewhat more moist than last night, pointed at tip (ninth day); red and dry (tenth day); red, dry, cracked and bleeding (eleventh day). Tongue covered with a whitish-yellow, dry, thick coating (next morning). Tongue discolored brown, and at last quite black.
Tongue covered with mucus. Tongue clean. Prickling in the tongue.
The tongue was often terribly bruised and bitten. Tongue slightly creamy on the surface. Very painful crawling in the tongue, the tip of which was spasmodically moved about. General Mouth. Fetid breath and exhalations, so that it was almost impossible to remain in the room even with a constant circulation of air (eleventh day). Fetid breath (tenth day). Mouth either spasmodically drawn or closed. Mouth sore and bleeding; passive hemorrhage (ninth, tenth, and eleventh days). Dryness of the mouth and nose. Scalding and burning in the mouth, throat, and stomach (eighth day). Sensation as of boiling water running from the vulva up to the mouth (seventh day). Mouth sore, as if salivated (ninth day). Frequent running of water from the mouth.
Froth the mouth bloody, yellow, or green. Flowing of frothy bloody mucus over the lips. Constant inclination to spit (after half an hour). Taste. Fetid taste in the mouth (tenth day).
Nauseous taste; (after one hour). Taste very much blunted. Taste flat, disagreeable. Much sour-tasting salivation (fourth day).
Taste bitter, spoiled. Nauseous bitter taste. A peculiar taste in the mouth, as if he had smoked tobacco for a long time, or taken some ethereal oil (after a quarter of an hour). Inability to taste or bear food. Bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning (second day). Speech. Stammering and hesitation in answering questions (first day); the same hesitation still observable, but mind clear (eighth day). Stammering speech. The patient stammered unintelligible words between the teeth. Speech difficult, stammering. Inability to speak distinctly. Speech slow and weak, with a feeling on every motion as if there were always some resistance to be overcome. Speech difficult.
Throat
Hawking up of tenacious mucus, with pressive pain in the right tonsil. Dryness in the throat. Great dryness and irritation of the throat, which was intensely injected with blood, and on the left side of the soft palate was a dark patch looking as if blood was effused beneath the mucous membrane. Throat sore, with difficulty of swallowing, at 10 A.M.; esophagitis; inability to swallow while lying down, at 8 P.M. (second day); not as sore (third day). Soreness and tightness about the throat (second day). Violent burning in the throat. Intolerable crawling in the throat. Burning in the fauces and along the oesophagus to the stomach (second and third days).
Stomach
Appetite. Excessive appetite; ate enormously of whatever was given him. Very great appetite in girls, two, five, and eight years old. Ravenous appetite. Insatiable appetite. Unusually great appetite. Unnatural appetite, even when dying from exhausting discharges from the bowels. Increased appetite.
Ravenous hunger, with improvement after eating. Ravenous hunger.
Constant ravenous hunger after the spasms, special desire for bread. A kind of ravenous hunger and mental weakness for a long time. Greediness; anything satisfied him; constant longing for food. Extreme greediness, especially for acids. Patients eat a great deal without being nourished. Bulimia. Increased hunger.
Desire to eat through the whole illness. The appetite is either natural or ravenous. Ate more than usual (second day). Appetite moderately increased. Loss of appetite, etc. Great aversion and inclination to vomit (after two hours). Aversion to food.
Complete disgust for food, with an occasional feeling of coldness at the stomach that thence pervaded the whole frame. Loathing of food and drink (tenth day). Anorexia, for two days. Thirst.
Constant and intense thirst. Intense thirst, with no abatement by iced water or lemonade (second and third days). Great thirst.
Great thirst, but unable to drink much on account of its causing distress in the stomach (eleventh day). Great thirst and dryness of the mouth and throat, with burning and tingling of the tongue (seventh day). Urgent thirst, with a desire for acidulated drinks (first day); loathes everything except sour drinks; desires acids (third day); great thirst and desire for sour drinks (fourth, fifth, and sixth days); thirst (seventh day). Unquenchable thirst. Excessive thirst, for two days. Violent thirst. Thirst.
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.