Sneezing and tickling in the nose. Sneezing for five minutes, and so violent and long-continued, that the head became quite heavy and dizzy; afterwards a large quantity of thin watery mucus flowed from the nose (second day). Sneezing several times when pounding the root. Troublesome dryness of the Schneiderian membrane (after one hour and a half). Troublesome feeling of dryness in the nose (first day). Great dryness of the nasal fossae, with discharge of a few drops of blood (second day).
Itching in the nose. Smell before the nose, as of a malignant ulcer (after two hours and a half).
Face
Paralytic feeling in the left half of the face (after one hour).
Mouth
Teeth. The lower front teeth are extremely sensitive on inhaling through the mouth cold and damp air. Simple pain in single teeth and the jaws (third day). Slight burrowing in the upper left molars (after three hours). Tongue. White-coated tongue (after three hours and a half). Yellowish-white coating of the tongue (first days). Slimy tongue, early in the morning, and unpleasant slimy taste in the mouth. The middle of the tongue is dry, without any coating (after one hour and a half). Disagreeable scraping on the posterior part of the tongue and in the throat, with frequent accumulation of saliva in the mouth. Creeping under the tongue (after four hours). Slight burning sensation in the tip of the tongue. General Mouth. Putrid smell from the mouth, the first six days. Dryness in the mouth (after two hours).
Dryness in the mouth and throat, with accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat (first day). Excessive dryness in the mouth and larynx, early in the morning and forenoon; continuing for many days. Dryness of the mouth, one hour after increased secretion of saliva. Astringent acridity affecting the mouth, and especially the uvula. The whole of the mouth and fauces were burnt, so that only mild or liquid papescent food could be taken.
Smarting-burning sensation in the region of the palate, as if the skin had become detached. Slight prickling and stinging in the mouth, with accumulation of saliva (first day). Tensive sensation, which had shifted from the palate to the articular fossae of the lower jaw (after a quarter of an hour). Saliva.
Increased secretion of saliva, with contractive sensation in the mouth (after one hour and a half). Frequent spitting and running of saliva from the mouth. When smoking he spits more than usual; the saliva is quite watery (first day). Increase of saliva in the mouth (after a quarter of an hour); (after five hours). Increase secretion of saliva (after seven hours). Ptyalism. Copious ptyalism. Viscid saliva in the mouth (second and third days).
Taste. Diminished taste (first day). To the extremely nauseous taste of the medicine I attribute the sinking of the pulse.
Unpleasant and somewhat acid taste; after chewing, it leaves a sensation of a acrimony in the mouth, and still more in the fauces, if it has been swallowed. Flat taste in the mouth, early in the morning (first days). Nauseating sweetish taste in throat, several days (after four days). Bad taste, and a peculiar rumbling in the stomach. Taste of urine (immediately). Metallic taste (after two hours and a half).
Throat
Early in the morning, he frequently hawks up lumps of gray mucus, accompanied with an irritation in the larynx, inducing a short and hacking cough (first day). Increased secretion of mucus in the throat, inducing a short and hacking cough continuing for three weeks. Secretion of a whitish tenacious mucus in the throat (after two hours and a half). Accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat (first day). Accumulation of mucus in the throat, with dryness in the mouth (after two days). Constant inclination to clear the throat, and to swallow the saliva (after three hours and a half). Scraping and dry sensation in the throat, making it difficult for him to talk, and obliging him to cough (second day). Scraping in the throat and on the back part of the tongue, with accumulation of saliva (immediately). Scraping sensation in the throat (soon), and when pounding the root. Scraping sensation in the throat, which obliges him to hawk frequently (first, second, and third days). Scraping and rough sensation in the throat, accompanied with an accumulation of tenacious mucus (fifth day). Tickling-scraping feeling in the throat, evening (first day). Roughness in the throat almost bordering on hoarseness, in the forenoon, the first four days. Roughness and dryness in the throat, with dry cough (fourth day). Raw feeling in the throat when clearing it (first day). Sore feeling in the throat, for three days (after one hour and a half). Constrictive sensation in the throat (soon). Dryness and roughness in the throat, early in the morning when waking (second day). Great dryness in the throat, which makes speech difficult (third day).
Pressure in the throat when swallowing the foot (after three hours and a half). Burning in the throat. Burning and scraping sensation in the throat (immediately). Burning-scraping sensation in the throat, obliging him to swallow frequently (soon). Fauces.
Inflammatory swelling of the whole of the fauces, especially the uvula (after one hour and a half). Tenacious mucus in the fauces, early in the morning (after two days). Contracts the fauces).
Dryness in the fauces, with transient stitches, especially in the uvula (after half an hour). Scraping sensation in the fauces, obliging one to clear the throat frequently and to swallow the saliva (after a quarter of an hour). Scraping in the fauces (immediately). Burning sensation in the fauces. Sensation of constrictive irritation in the fauces. Oesophagus. Sensation in the oesophagus, which he compared to a burning, with a considerable discharge of mucus from the trachea (in ten minutes); constant in a slight degree (after one hour and a half). The sensation in the oesophagus, mentioned in the preceding experiment, was very considerably felt, accompanied with a large discharge of mucus by hawking (immediately). Same irritation in oesophagus mentioned hitherto. A great deal of irritation and roughness in the oesophagus, which a good deal of nausea (immediately); some irritation in oesophagus (in forty minutes). Disagreeable sensation in oesophagus (in ten minutes); irritation in oesophagus still remained (in forty minutes).
Sensation in the oesophagus as if the membrane had been abraded, this continued upward of an hour (in five minutes). Irritation in the oesophagus.
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Diminution of appetite (first day). Want of appetite; at breakfast (after half an hour); (second day); (third day). Complete want of appetite, the first three days. Increased thirst (first days). Much thirst, with roughness and dryness in the fauces (third and sixth days). Thirst, with dryness of the palate (after eleven hours). Eructations. Tasteless eructations.
Rising of air. Eructations; several times (first day).
Inclination to eructations. Nausea and Vomiting. Much nausea (in ten minutes); nausea so much increased as to be quite distressing, and the medicine was with difficulty retained on the stomach (in twenty minutes); somewhat diminished (in thirst minutes); still more so (in forty minutes); quite gone (in sixty minutes). Great nausea, with retching (immediately). Considerable degree of nausea (in ten minutes); nausea subsided (in forty minutes). Nausea (in thirty minutes); increased (in forty minutes). A good deal of nausea (immediately); some nausea (in forty minutes). Nausea after dinner, with inclination to vomit (fifth day). Nausea, caused by small doses. Nausea. Nausea, in the stomach. Some nausea. Qualmish feeling in the stomach, with accumulation of water in the mouth (after five hours). Retching and vomiting, with discharge of much watery mucus (first day).
Retching after small doses. Most violent vomiting and purging, which lasted the whole night, accompanied with profuse diaphoresis. Copious vomiting (in five minutes). Vomiting and diarrhoea. Emetic, in large doses. Vomiting and anxiety. Vomiting and purging, from strong doses. Sometimes excites vomiting.
Inclination to vomit during the siesta (first day). Stomach.
Rumbling in the left side of the epigastrium. The sleep is disturbed several nights in succession, at 3 A.M., by an aching, almost cramp-pain in the stomach. Colicky pains in the epigastric region, towards noon (sixth day). Aching, almost spasmodic pain in the stomach, the first night, returning for several nights.
Warmth and oppression in the epigastrium, during inspiration.
Feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Pain in the stomach, from large doses. Gnawing sensation in the epigastrium, before a meal, although he has no appetite (third and fourth days). Sensation of gnawing hunger below the pit of the stomach (third day). Feeling of pressure in the pit of the stomach. After supper, a painful- digging pressure below the pit of the stomach, with discomfort in the whole body (eighth day). Pressure in the pit of the stomach and umbilical region (third day). Disagreeable oppressive sensation in the stomach (second day). Disagreeable pressure at the stomach, the whole day. Digging pain in the epigastrium, with disposition to flatulence and sudden outbreaks of ill-humor, evening (seventh day). Painful and repulsive sensations in the stomach. Some cutting in the epigastrium (the first hours).
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.