Pressure in both upper lids. Pressive pain in the right inner canthus. Pressure in the left inner canthus, as from a stye, with lachrymation. Constriction of the eyelids, with redness of the white of the eyes and a burning sensation. Sensation as of a hard substance behind the right eyelid. Burning pain in the left lower lid. Small violent burning stitches in the lids of the right eye, more towards the outer canthus. Fine sticking burning in the left canthus. Itching in the upper eyelids on each side, with slight swelling (thirty-third and thirty-fifth day). Itching in the inner canthus. Lachrymal Apparatus. Acute itching in the right lachrymal caruncula (thirty-second and thirty-third days). Ball.
Shootings in the globe of the left eye, in the evening (thirty- sixth day). Tensive stitch in the left eyeball, most violent on moving it. Itching in the left eyeball, somewhat relieved by rubbing. Pupil. Pupils first contracted, then dilated. Vision.
Sees a rainbow about the candlelight.
Ear.
Ulceration in the hole for the erring in the lobule of the ear.
Shooting in the cartilages of the right ear (twentieth day). A drawing stitch in the upper part of the left concha. Pressure externally on the bones behind the ear. Griping tearing through the cartilage of the lobule of the left ear, with at times a sensation as if a cold wind were blowing in it (after four hours). Earache; in the outer ear a drawing pain. Boring pain in the right ear, with cold feet. Frequent drawing in the left ear, like an earache. Drawing in the whole right ear externally and internally; painful on moving the lower jaw. Cramplike pain in the whole right ear, lasting eight hours. Tearing in the right meatus, like an earache. Itching in the left ear. Stopped sensation in the left ear, with deafness, which was relieved by blowing the nose, in the morning after rising, lasting four days.
Hearing. Screaming in the ear when blowing the nose. Rushing in the ears as from a stream of blood. Ringing in the left ear.
Creaking in front of and in the left ear, as from a door, in the evening. Rustling noise of a grasshopper in the left ear (eighteenth day). The jarring of his steps (on walking) resounds painfully in the head (twentieth day).
Nose.
Frequent sneezing without coryza. Violent sneezing, in the evening (eighth day). Profuse coryza (after four days). Intense coryza, alternating with stoppage of the nose. Coryza of the left nostril (tenth day). Violent coryza all day (eleventh day).
Diminished coryza (twelfth day). Blood is blown from the nose, in the morning (seventeenth and eighteenth days). Nosebleed, in the morning, immediately on rising from bed. Violent nosebleed, in the morning, immediately on waking. Stoppage of the nose, in the morning (ninth day). Violent stopped catarrh; can get air through only the right nostril, at noon; on the fourth day the nose becomes free. Can get no air through the left nostril, which is excessively swollen, red, and painful to touch. Heaviness and a stopped sensation in the upper part of the nostril. Respiration through the nostrils is impeded in consequence of a permanently congestive condition of the palatonasal mucous membrane (twenty- third day).
Face.
Face pale and sunken, sickly; features elongated. Constrictive pain in the bones of the face and teeth in the right side, as if they would be drawn up shorter. Pressive gnawing in the left side of the face, especially in the malar bone. Stupefying pain in the face, especially in the forehead. Cramplike pressure in the muscles on the left malar bone. Drawing pressure in the bones of the right side of the face, especially in the malar bone and orbits, paroxysmal. Cheek. Painful swelling of the left cheek, with an ulcer on the gum; the pain causes sleeplessness. Burning cramplike pain in the left cheek, in the evening, soon followed by swelling of the cheek, with cutting-pressive pain only on drawing up the face, as if a splinter of glass were between the cheek and the teeth. Pain in the malar bone, on touch, before the menses; during the menses, pain, as from a blow, even on moving the muscles of the face. Tearing extending from the malar bone down into the lower jaw, near the corner of the mouth.
Constriction and pressure internally beneath the right cheek.
Burning pain in the right cheek, beneath the eye. Burning-itching sticking on the malar bones. Pain and swelling of the upper jaw; the cheeks are red, with sticking in them. Lip. A sticking- tearing pain in a small spot in the lower lip. China Broad cutting stitches in the forepart of the chin.
Mouth.-Teeth.
Looseness of the teeth. The teeth seem too long. Jerking toothache in all the teeth soon after eating (cold or warm foot), with heat in the face, only better in the open air. Continual and annoying tingling in the roots of the lower incisors (thirty- third day). Tongue. Tongue yellow. Tongue coated with yellowish mucus (after five days). Burning in the tongue, in the morning (twentieth day). Pretty frequent itching in the tip of the tongue (nineteenth day). During the proving, frequent itching of the anterior third of the tongue. General Mouth. Mouth and fauces wonderfully corrugated; he could scarcely swallow, and his mouth felt hard and leathery. Tenacious mucus in the mouth. Bad odor from the mouth. Sensation in the velum pendulum palati similar to that caused by taking a pinch of snuff, which, by a strong inspiration, is drawn down even to the throat, in the evening (eighth day). Sensation in the velum pendulum as if there were a foreign body there, or some mucus which could neither be hawked up nor swallowed; the same sensation in the posterior portion of the nasal fossa (ninth day). Sensation of disagreeable acidity at the velum pendulum (tenth day), Saliva. Salivation, with bad odor from the mouth. Acid saliva runs from the mouth, in the morning on waking. Accumulation of saliva in the mouth. Taste.
Beer tastes stale and acid bitter. Insipid taste in the throat.
Bitter taste to all food (solid and liquid), but not to water, but no bitter taste when not eating. Bitter sour taste in the mouth. Herby taste to beer. Bitter and sour taste in the mouth (first and third days). Speech. Talking was difficult, because the strength to talk was wanting. Talking was irksome.
Throat.
Bad odor from the throat. Much mucus in the throat. Some mucus sticks in the throat, and the efforts which are made to raise it excite vomiturition (seventeenth day). Thick gray-green mucus, mixed with blood, is detached from time to time in the throat by the efforts to expectorate (twentieth day). Thick, viscid, grayish, blood-streaked mucus adheres to the throat, and is detached with great difficulty (twentieth day). Thick mucus adheres firmly to the throat, and the efforts to raise it excites an almost resistless inclination to vomit (twenty-second day).
During the rest of the day, continual expulsive efforts to detach a thick, grayish, and bloody mucus from the throat, efforts which constantly produce an inclination to vomit (twenty-third day).
Secretion of a mass of thick, viscid, bloody mucus in the throat, efforts to expel which were accompanied by attempts to vomit.
Inclination to hawk up much mucus from the throat, in the evening, followed by a sore pain in the throat. Rawness in the throat (seventeenth day); in the morning (eighteenth day).
Sensation of rawness and of dryness in the throat, without thirst (eighteenth day). Rawness and dryness of the throat, without thirst, in the morning (twentieth day). Sensation of ulceration, of rawness, and of extreme dryness in the right side of the throat, without thirst (twentieth day). Sensation as if the right side of the throat were ulcerated, with such dryness that it seems as if the part had ceased to be lubricated by mucus (twentieth day). Permanent rawness and dryness in the throat, and during deglutition a painful feeling of being denuded (twenty- second day). Extreme rawness and dryness of the throat, without thirst; these sensations are much more painful during deglutition; thick grayish or greenish mucus adheres to the throat; strong efforts are required to raise it, and these excite inclination to vomit (twenty-third day). Scraping roughness below the pit of the throat internally. Scraping in the throat, in the evening. Sensation of dryness and sticking in the throat, in the right tonsil, which provokes cough, and is somewhat relieved by hawking and swallowing. Dryness of the throat. Sore throat, like a swelling, with a sensation of dryness and drawing-tensive pain. Pain in the throat, as if swollen, with sore pain, not affected by swallowing; after hawking of mucus, the voice is much higher than usual. Tickling crawling in the throat (larynx?), with a sensation of dryness, compelling to cough. Scraping in the throat, in the morning. Dull boring stitches extending from the fauces internally to the cervical muscles. Fauces and Pharynx.
Tobacco has a sharp and dry taste in the faces. Stitches in the upper part of the fauces, causing dryness, when not swallowing.
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.