Dry mouth, in the afternoon (ninth day); in the morning (eleventh day). Mouth dry, at 8.10 A.M. (fourteenth day); 9.30 A.M.
(eighteenth day); (third day); (after 70 drops). Mouth very dry; (after six hours). On biting an apple which was quite juicy, he said that it was dry like flour and hurt his throat (soon).
Dryness of mouth and palate. Disagreeable feeling of dryness in mouth, throat, and nostrils, lasting from 1 till dinner at 5 P.M.
(third day). Mouth and tongue dry and the lips bright red.
Dryness of mouth and palate after six hours violent thirst, and such an absence of taste that he drank nearly a pint of vinegar at one draught without tasting it. Dryness of mouth, thirst, dim, vision, sparkling eyes, sweat, and diarrhoea. Remarkable dryness of the mouth and throat. Excessive dryness of the inner mouth.
Great dryness in the mouth, so that he is unable to spit, although the tongue looks moist and clean. Great dryness in the mouth; can hardly take a mouthful of white bread; it tastes to him like straw. Sensation of great dryness in the mouth and want of saliva, while the tongue looked moist and clean. Extreme dryness in the mouth and want of saliva; he cannot spit, although the tongue is rather moist and clean. Great dryness of mouth and fauces. Great dryness of mouth, throat, and nostrils; could not eat bread and butter for breakfast, but was forced to eat sopped bread and milk instead; the dryness prevented salivation, and made swallowing difficult (sixth day). The dryness of throat, mouth, and nose continued; cannot salivate dry food; swallowing such food is difficult; at dinner, obliged to sip frequently to help down the food, which seems arrested in the oesophagus (seventh day). Woke several times with excessive disagreeable dryness of mouth and throat; had to sip water several times (several night). During breakfast extreme dryness of throat and mouth (ninth day). The velum palati feels drawn low down; food and drink pass with difficulty, followed by a scratching pain in the velum. The palate feels parched, so that he is not able to eat a mouthful of bread (wheat). It feels as if the inner mouth were raw and sore (after twenty-four hours). Saliva.
Salivation. Salivation, with hoarseness. Mouth full of saliva (third day). Much saliva in mouth during the whole time (third to ninth day). Drooling from the mouth. Long-continuing salivation and profuse urine. Great salivation. Profuse salivation, with constantly increasing thirst. Excessive salivation; he loses from three to four pounds in a day and night. The salivary and urinary secretions are augmented.
Tenacious salivation. Thick frothy saliva about the mouth (after one hour). Frequent spitting.-Glairy saliva dribbling from the mouth (after eleven hours). Taste. Food has a bad taste.
Twice, metallic-coppery taste on clean tongue (thirteenth day).
During forenoon, constant but slight bitterness in mouth (seventh day). Constant bitterness in mouth, even the food tastes bitter.
Disgusting bitter taste, with yellowish-coated tongue (after 120 drops). Excessively bitter taste. Pasty taste. Flat taste in mouth (after sunset), (fourth day); at 8.30 A.M. (seventh day).
Flat taste in mouth, with sticky lips, for half an hour, at 2.15 P.M. (eighth day). Tobacco has yet some taste, but food tastes like sand, balls together in a lump in the oesophagus, and threatens to suffocate (after three hours). Bread and butter taste like sand; on account of the dryness of the mouth, it sticks in oesophagus and threatens to strangle him. Any kind of food tastes like straw. Speech. Speech stammering. Speech difficult and unintelligible. Articulated with difficulty.
Inability to talk, apparently from paralysis of the tongue (after three hours). Difficult talking for five or six days. The first noticeable symptom was the impediment of speech, as if the tongue were too thick or slightly paralyzed. Soon after, there was total inability to articulate, and only incoherent sounds were made. This condition continued fully six hours, by which time all symptoms were much abated. Can articulate, but the words he attempts are loud and harsh (after four hours and a half).
Faltered in speech. He falters in pronunciation; his tongue is rendered paralytic, or when he attempts to put it out, he imitates the motions of a person who tries to do the same in a nervous fever. Stuttering. Stammering speech and talking between his teeth. Incoherent and rapid utterance, which soon became wholly unintelligible. Speech indistinct. Unable to speak but in a whisper, and then only with considerable effort. A kind of paralysis of the organs of speech; he has to exert himself a long while before he is able to utter a word; he merely stammers and utters unconnected sounds (after four, and five hours). At times, active efforts at utterance. Unable to articulate a word.
Once she attempted to speak, but her tongue failed her. Those who drank it could not speak a word for two or three days, though wide awake. Could not speak for one hour; tried to speak, but could only utter inarticulate sounds; occasional laughing during this time; after the hour she cried, about 11 A.M. He made ineffectual attempts to speak, but not a syllable could he articulate; the mouth was too dry and parched, the secretion of saliva being evidently entirely suspended (after eleven hours and a half). Muttered unintelligible sounds (after twelve hours).
Could not speak at all intelligibly till the end of the next day, and then continually misplaced words, calling his head his foot, his arm his leg, and misnaming the things he required, though ludicrously unconscious of his perpetual misnomers. It was several days ere he could converse without calling something by a wrong name. On the third day he could speak with tolerable distinctness, but thickly, like a person with quinsy, and the throat and tongue were painfully dry, the glands of the mouth not yet fulfilling their natural functions. For the most part dumb; he expresses his wish by pointing to things. Dumb; dumb and answers nothing. (* With S. 264.-HUGHES. *).
Throat.
The throat, which appeared to be the only sensible seat of discomfort, was grasped and torn by the hands, as if the patients imagined it to be oppressed by some foreign body. (Frequent grasping of the throat and moaning). Choking in the throat.- Choking so that the child could scarcely vomit. Feeling of mucus at the back of the throat, causing hawking and hoarseness (after third dose). Feeling of mucus at the back of the throat causing me to hawk, which relieved it (five minutes after second dose, second day); causing me to swallow (three hours and a half after second dose, second day). Feeling of mucus in throat, causing hawking, with hoarseness; once the voice almost failed; after sunset, at 9 P.M. (after nine hours and twenty minutes). Feeling of mucus at back of throat requiring hawking, with hoarseness, after rising from bed in the morning (second day); at 9 P.M.
(third day); brought on by talking, at 10.20 A.M.; some hoarseness when talking, in the evening after sunset (fourth day); feeling of mucus at back of throat, causing hoarseness and hawking, after rising from bed in the morning (sixth day); when talking in morning (tenth day). Immediately feeling of mucus at back of throat. Feeling of mucus at back of throat, causing hawking, after sunset, at 9 P.M. (third day). Feeling of mucus in throat, causing hawking, in the afternoon (fifth day); with hoarseness, in the morning (sixth day). Feeling of mucus at back of throat (five minutes after second dose, first day). Feeling of mucus at back of throat, in the evening after sunset (seventh day). On attempting to swallow the fire bite of food he felt a choking sensation in the throat, which he described as feeling like a broad dry stripe, extending down through the chest, from the mouth to the stomach, which he was trying to swallow but could not get down (after fifteen to thirty minutes). Dryness of the throat, etc. Dryness of the throat and fauces. Dryness of throat and copious micturition. Dryness of the throat with excessive thirst. Dryness of the throat, especially felt on swallowing saliva; this lasted all the evening (first dose, second day). Dry throat for a short time in morning (sixth day).
Feeling of dryness in the right posterior nares, right nostril, and slightly in right Eustachian tube (first day). The throat was dry, though the patient had no impediment in swallowing, but an immoderate thirst, which induced her to drink, in a few hours, large quantities of water, which did not, however, in the least diminish the thirst; the throat burnt as if a hot stone were lying in it (after third dose). Back of throat dry (ninth and tenth days). Throat began to feel intensely dry, which increased to that state that I could not swallow, and with great difficulty breathe (after two hours). Throat very dry, and not benefited by any sort of drink (after four hours). Constriction about the throat. Constrictive burning pain in the throat, with a sensation as if a ball were sticking in it. The throat seems to him tightly drawn together. Spasmodic constriction of the throat, and a kind of paralysis, so that swallowing was very difficult and almost impossible; this sensation of constriction of the throat seemed to be the cause of the frequent pulling at the mouth and throat with the hands. Sore throat (second day); during the whole time (third to ninth day). Complains of soreness in the throat and fauces (after a few 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.