Roaring in the ear (early, in bed). Roaring in the ears, like a draft through a stove (after one hour). Constant roaring and rumbling in the ears, as if she frequently heard the bellowing of cattle. Roaring in the ears causing aching, with painfulness of the whole occiput, aggravated by swallowing. Diminished roaring in the head and ears, and improved hearing, in a girl suffering from difficult hearing for a very long time.
Nose
Objective. Swelling and induration of the left wing of the nose, with tensive pain. Small furuncular swelling in the right nostril. The nose is unusually red and hot. A red itching spot, painfully sore to touch, in the fissure of the right wing of the nose (sixty-ninth day). The nose becomes thick, with alternating scurfy nostrils and much prickling heat, so that air cannot be drawn through it, with frequent bleeding. Some ulceration half an inch within the nose where there is a scab. Nose constantly sore, with swelling in it and in the upper lip. Sneezing (after twenty-eight hours). Frequent sneezing (ninth day). Much and violent sneezing. Long-continued sneezing twice daily, in the forenoon and towards evening, for fourteen days, with commencing improvement. Sneezing, with discharge of thin mucus from the nose (after half an hour). In the evening, frequent violent sneezing, which returned the next morning (eight day); after dinner, frequent violent sneezing without catarrh (a thing very unusual with him), (ninth day); frequent sneezing (sixteenth day); frequent violent sneezing and tickling in the nose, in the evening (twenty-fourth day); in the morning, frequent sneezing again, with increased secretion of mucus, accompanied with frequent dry hacking cough (twenty-fifth day); in the morning, frequent violent sneezing, in a short time ends with dulness in the head (twenty-ninth day); sneezing in the morning (thirty- first day); frequent violent sneezing, at noon (fortieth day); with tickling in the nose, and burning in the eyes, as though a catarrh were coming on, on awaking (fifty-fifth day). Frequent sneezing with obstructed nose and roughness in the throat; these catarrhal symptoms became more severe in the evening, with aching in the forehead and weight and pressure in the eyes, followed by a very restless night (thirty-eighth day); on waking in the morning his throat is entirely coated with phlegm, and afterwards the larynx and trachea are painful; then general malaise, both of the body and mind; the forehead aches, his eyes burn, his nose is obstructed, and his voice is hoarse; at noon he felt better when walking in the open air, but not when at rest the aggravation again returned; there was much flowing from the nose, his feet were cold, and the general feeling of illness sent him to bed early in the evening; it was, however, a long time before he could get warm, and dulness of the head, frequent cough, stoppage of the nose, and, in short, all the symptoms of a slight catarrhal fever set in (thirty-ninth day); in the morning he felt very uneasy and very weak, and lay in bed until 10 o’clock; afterwards he felt better; at noon, buzzing in the head, which feels dull; frequent dry cough; incomparably better in the evening than on the previous day; the febrile symptoms came on at night, but ceased after midnight, and towards morning perspiration broke out (fortieth day); frequent violent sneezing, with cough and raising of mucus, in the morning (fifty-second day); frequent sneezing (fifty-ninth day); sneezing in the morning (sixty-fourth day); two sneezings, which seemed to be excited from a vapor rising from the stomach into the nose (immediately, sixty-ninth day). Very violent dry catarrh, with running of water from the nose at times (seventeenth day). Constant dry catarrh in the right nostril. Catarrh all day (seventeenth day). Very severe catarrh, with increased secretion in the air-passages (thirty-fifth day). There came on without cause, in the evening, a heavy cold preceded by dulness of the head and frequent sneezing (seventh day); the catarrh was troublesome through the whole of the proving, and had this peculiarity, that it often completely disappeared for hours together and then suddenly returned without cause, with renewed severity and with much sneezing; the catarrh, which had remitted, became worse, with frequent sneezing (forty-sixth day); the catarrh lasted over three months, and the prover has much less hesitation in ascribing it to the power of the drug because a catarrh has never lasted him so long before. A feeling of stoppage in the right nostril, with frequent sneezing and chilly feeling in the feet, which were externally warm to the touch (fourth night); the nose symptoms, with dull confusion in the head (fifth day); the catarrh is still present, only somewhat diminished in degree (seventh day); it had vanished, but now showed itself anew by an increased secretion of the mucus from the nose (eleventh day); catarrh worse (twelfth day); it became very severe, and one or the other nostril was almost constantly obstructed; at 3 P.M., sneezing, succeeded by very violent sticking in the lower part of the right lung (thirteenth day); catarrh reduced to a minimum (fourteenth day); the running from the nose is again pretty copious, frequent sneezing (fifteenth day). Catarrh and spasmodic cough, with vomiting of the mucus in the morning, for several days (eighty-seventh day); fluent catarrh every day while sitting at stool, for the last week (ninety-ninth day). Frequent catarrhal discharge from the nose after (two hours); dry catarrh, which becomes fluent by sneezing, in the open air (after ten hours); without sneezing, with mucus in the fauces, obliging to hawk, nothing to be hawk up (after twenty-six hours); with constant headache (after forty-eight hours). Fluent coryza, in the morning (after seventy-hours). Violent coryza, with cough, at night (after thirteen days). Violent fluent coryza and catarrh; the like of which he had not had for many years. Violent sudden coryza. Fluent coryza disturbing the night’s rest (thirteenth day). Coryza and cough, with unusual gray expectoration, repeated at indefinite intervals. Coryza and cough, with stitches beneath the left breast. Coryza, with tickling in the throat provoking cough, with rawness in the chest, griping and burning in the abdomen, diarrhoea, much thirst, and increased leucorrhoea. Violent coryza relieves the general sickness. Unusually violent and fatiguing coryza, with constant running from the nose, hoarseness and a very racking, almost incessant cough, only during the day, not at night, lasting fourteen days (fourth week). Profuse chronic coryza, with purulent, offensive discharge of mucus, and soreness of the nostrils (third month). Especially violent, persistent coryza, with hoarseness, pain in the throat, cough, with mucus expectoration and pain in the chest, back, and sacrum, with extraordinary weakness and increased leucorrhoea, has appeared since the rapid improvement of the previous paralysis, so that now she can walk about as vigorously as usual. Fluent coryza only from the left nostril, with lachrymation of the left eye.
Fluent coryza (after two hours). Violent fluent coryza, with sneezing, lasting as long as he sat at stool and strained; after a meal he smoked, which was followed by another stool, and by renewal of the fluent coryza (fifty-first day); fluent coryza during stool (sixty-fourth day); the most constant symptom is fluent coryza; he uses four to six handkerchiefs daily, with violent sneezing three or four times in succession (after twenty- weeks); violent fluent coryza, with frequent and violent sneezing, hawking of mucus, waking from sleep at night, with profuse discharge of mucus (after twelve months); fluent coryza during stool (after fourteen months). The increased secretion of mucus obliged him frequently to blow his nose (fourth day); in the morning, frequent sneezing, stoppage of the right nostril, alternating with running; this catarrh lasted two hours, then suddenly vanished; it appeared again for a little while in the evening, and ceased suddenly as if cut off (fifth and sixth days). Secretion from the Schneiderian membrane increased (sixteenth day). Frequent blowing of thick mucus from the nose, at noon (seventeenth day); copious secretion of mucus from the nose (nineteenth day). The nasal secretion was tolerably copious, and thick mucus was thrown off by frequent coughing throughout the day (fifty-second day); a watery catarrhal flow came on in the house (fifty-sixth day). Discharge of a very large quantity of thick yellow mucus tasting like old cheese, with constant coryza and cough (first fourteen days). Unusually profuse discharge of thick green matter mixed with pus and blood and pieces, at last mingled with dry brown crusts, which were tightly adherent to the upper portion of both swollen nasal passages, and which also come down from the frontal sinuses, are blown from the nose for eight days, followed by good improvement, in a full- grown girl suffering from leucorrhoea and scrofula since vaccination (ninth week). Discharge of offensive purulent mucus from the nose, partly thick, partly yellowish-blackish green; on blowing the nose it can be felt to come from even the frontal sinuses; partly running out in a liquid form, with increasing improvement of an old asthma (twelfth week). Profuse discharge from the nose of a large quantity of greenish yellowish-white slimy matter, smelling like old cheese, for four months, during which the recovery of the tuberculosis of the lungs, with the excoriating leucorrhoea, proceeds visibly day by day, and the whole appearance improves. Discharge of offensive mucus from the right nostril. Nasal mucus mixed with clotted blood. Bleeding at the nose, in the evening (third and ninth days). Frequent blowing of blood from the nose. Nosebleed daily, only from the left nostril. Frequently repeated nosebleed (first week). Nosebleed on slightly blowing the nose, in the morning after rising from bed, for two days. Nosebleed two or three times every day. Nosebleed in the afternoon, after which the head was relieved (thirtieth day). Nosebleed, especially when becomes heated (after seventy hours). Clotted blood in the nose, for several days. Violent bleeding at the nose, almost every time he blew it (thirty-second day). Subjective. Stoppage of the nose (eighteenth day). Stoppage of the nose, with nasal sound of the voice (thirty-third day). In the morning, obstruction of the nose, from which a quantity of blood was blown during the whole day, with aching in the forehead (seventh day). Obstruction of the nose, which began to bleed as soon as he attempted to expel air through it (second day). Nose stopped by constant dry catarrh, with frequent hawking of mucus from the throat. Sensation of dry catarrh in the upper part of the nose, worse in the evening; the nose seems stopped. Dryness of the nose internally, in the evening; so that the dried mucus had to removed; in the morning the nose was normal; after lying in bed some time the dry catarrh returned (thirty-ninth day).
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.