Transient dryness of the mouth. Disagreeable sensation of dryness in the mouth, for two days. Complained of great pain and of burning heat in his mouth and throat. Sore pain in both corners of the mouth. Pressure, as with a finger, just above the left corner of the mouth. Burning sensation in mouth, fauces, and gullet. Burning pains in the mouth and throat.-290.) Burning heat of the mouth, pharynx, and oesophagus. Burning pain in the mouth, along the oesophagus to the stomach. Excessive burning pain in the mouth, pharynx, and pit of the stomach. Violent burning in the mouth and oesophagus to the stomach. Sharp burning heat in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach. Violent burning pain in mouth and throat; he spoke with difficulty and with pain. Intolerable burning in the mouth and throat. Violent burning pains in the mouth, pharynx, and pit of the stomach. Saliva. Salivation; (second day). Profuse salivation. Excessive flow of tasteless saliva. Frequent collection of watery saliva in the mouth. Collection of saliva in the mouth, as from hunger, lasting several hours. Collection of much saliva of a saltish taste in the mouth, even in the morning. Collection of saliva, with acceleration of the pulse. Taste. Bad taste in the mouth, in the morning after waking (fifth day). The mouth is insipid and pasty, in the morning in bed, which disappears after rising. Very bad offensive taste in the mouth. Bread has a bitter taste, like bile, and causes great pressure in the stomach. Loss of taste.
Speech. Could only speak in a whisper, and was scarcely able to open the mouth, from which exuded a ropy mucus (after ten hours).
She could speak or swallow only with the greatest difficulty.
Speech short, abrupt, hoarse, with at times hoarse hacking cough.
He could not articulate distinctly, but was quite sensible to what was going on about him. Speech very difficult. Speech scarcely intelligible. Inability to talk or move. Speechlessness.
Throat.
The throat is swollen, as if there were a lump in it. Constant hawking of tenacious masses of mucous membrane. Constant hawking, retching, and vomiting of bloody, reddish-brown mucus, which was so acid that it burnt holes in the linen. Frequent, but slight hawking or cough (second day). Tough mucus, in throat.
Throat near the cricoid swelled and painful (twenty-fourth day); tumor of neck very painful (twenty-seventh and following days).
Redness and painful sensitiveness in the throat, continued fro a long time. Intense constriction, in the throat. Throat sensitive. Pain along the throat and in the chest, as far down as the stomach, aggravated by swallowing, talking, or even by turning the body. Most frightful was felt in the throat and along the oesophagus, and especially in the epigastric region. Violent pain in the throat and stomach. Burning pain in the throat and stomach. Burning in the throat and stomach. Burning in the throat along the oesophagus to the stomach, with icy coldness of the rest of the body. Violent burning in the throat and along the upper part of the oesophagus. Contractive sensation in the throat, especially in the right side, when swallowing and when not. Sore throat on swallowing, in the evening, worse on the left side. Rawness in the throat, after almost every new dose.
Scraping and rawness, in the throat. Scraping in the throat.
Feeling as of mucus in the throat, which neither comes up or goes down, and does not provoke hawking. Sticking in the left side of the throat on swallowing; also in the evening, with pain externally on touch. Acidity in the throat. Uvula and Fauces.
Uvula and root of the palate oedematous. Pain in the fauces and oesophagus. Violent pain in the fauces and ears. Pharynx and Oesophagus. Pharynx very dark red. Powerful constriction of the pharynx (after one hour and a half). Great tenderness from the pharynx down to the epigastrium (after ten hours). Burning in pharynx (immediately). Violent burning pain in the pharynx and upper part of the oesophagus. After seven days the whole mucus membrane of the oesophagus became exfoliated in the form of a tube several lines thick, and about a foot long (the transition from the oesophagus to the stomach could be distinctly seen), the cast was exceedingly offensive. After this the patient seemed to improve; complained of excessive hunger. On the twenty-first day there was vomiting of blood and mucus, and he again took to his bed; about a month after the poisoning he complained again on swallowing, of a pain which he described like a cutting, in the side of the throat. Stricture of the oesophagus, with frequent painful vomiting. Stricture of the oesophagus was consequent upon the poisoning, and was so great that the patient could with difficulty swallow water. Stricture of the oesophagus. Closure of the oesophagus. Oesophagus very sensitive to pressure. Pain extending from the oesophagus to the umbilical and epigastric regions. Excessive pain in the oesophagus and stomach. Great pain in the line of the oesophagus. Burning heat, extending from the oesophagus to the stomach. Excessive burning, extending along the oesophagus to the stomach. Swallowing. He could swallow fluid in small quantities, but with great difficulty, causing great pain and a convulsive cough, and sometimes the fluid returned through the mouth and nares. Difficulty in swallowing, and on examination, a large circumscribed swelling, commencing opposite the cricoid cartilage, and extending down the course of the trachea two inches, was found moving on deglutition (in two weeks). She vainly endeavored to swallow. Inability to swallow.
Swallowing difficult; it seems as though there were an obstruction at the pit of the throat. Some difficulty in swallowing (second day). Great difficulty in swallowing.
Violent dysphagia. Complete dysphagia. Spasmodic dysphagia. Great pain in attempting to swallow, and an extreme sensation of heat and dryness, and constriction in the throat.
External Throat. After four days there came on swelling of the parotids, with salivation, lasting eight days, and constipation.
Very circumscribed and painful swelling of the left parotid, with suppuration, the pus being evacuated by incision (sixth week).
Swelling and inflammation of the submaxillary glands, at times with stitches in them. Pain in the submaxillary gland, as far as into the tongue; the tongue feels burnt.
Stomach.
Appetite and Thirst. Great appetite and good taste to food; but qualmishness after eating, so that he is obliged to stop eating before he is satisfied. Distressing hunger, but the patient was unable to retain the smallest quantity of nourishment. Increased hunger and appetite (first day). She is hungry, but as soon as anything is taken into the mouth it nauseates her. She is hungry, and yet eats without appetite, with discomfort in the stomach after eating, for several days). Desire for fresh plums.
Loss of appetite. Loss of appetite and discomfort; food has a natural taste, yet is disagreeable. Aversion to eating, which disappears towards evening. Thirst. Thirst, after vomiting.
Constant terrible thirst. Thirst and dry tongue during the menses. Excessive thirst etc. Excessive thirst, with inability to drink. Burning thirst. Eructations. Frequent eructations. Eructations at first empty, then bitter, slimy, in the morning after coughing. Bitter eructations, frequently after dinner. Bitter eructations. Eructation like onions. Frequent long-lasting empty eructations (soon). Uprisings of water, frequently disappearing after dinner. Rising of water from the stomach. Uprisings of salt-water in the mouth before vomiting. Sweetish gulping of water. Sour eructations. Sour eructations, even when walking in the open air. Sour bitter uprisings (fourth day). Regurgitation of food. Food rises up again, after coughing. Hiccough. Hiccough. Hiccough at night.
Constant hiccough. (* Repeatedly occurring after clysters containing the acid.-HUGHES. *) Hiccough while smoking, as usual.
Violent hiccough. Violent hiccough and vomiting, especially after drinking. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Nausea and effort to vomit from the slightest liquid. Nausea, with chilliness.
Excessive nausea; everything turns around in the stomach, rises up and will come up; is obliged to swallow it down again. Nausea and collection of saliva in the mouth, with constrictive pain in the stomach and abdomen frequently (eighth day). Nausea in the mouth towards noon, although food and drink are relished.
Qualmish nausea, without aversion to anything, disappearing on eructating, soon. Qualmishness, and a feeling as if the stomach were disordered. Obliged to make great effort to avoid vomiting. Qualmish nausea in the stomach, with a feeling of mucus in the throat. Frequent retching. Retching and vomiting. Constant retching; he threw up a glairy fluid, mixed with numerous small shreds of coagulated membrane. Frequent retching and vomiting of small quantities of dark coffee like liquid. Retching and vomiting almost incessant. Violent retching and vomiting, especially of blood. Constant retching and vomiting of bloody mucus, with black fibres. Retching and vomiting of blood.
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.