Unusual dryness in both nasal cavities (thirteenth day).
Troublesome dryness in the nose, lasting half an hour (soon); dryness in the nose (fourth day). Troublesome dryness and sensitiveness of the nose, at the commencement of catarrh. This extended by degrees into the frontal sinuses, and the eyes also became sensitive; these symptoms disappeared in the afternoon (fifteenth day); after rising, the same feeling in the left nostril and right frontal sinus came on that had been experienced two days before; but now the right nostril was entirely free from it (seventeenth day). Troublesome dryness in the nose up into the frontal sinuses, in the evening (forty-first day); troublesome dryness in the nose (forty-second and forty-third days); with tickling; in the forenoon, the dryness and pressure in the nose and frontal sinuses so increased that he was very much incommoded by it in his lecture at noon a catarrhal flowing came on and disappeared again entirely in an hour after; soon after the pressure on the root of the nose and copious secretion of mucus returned; the pressure afterwards drew off towards ears, where it produced tension in the auditory passages and stoppages of the ears (forty-sixth day); dryness and tension in the nose, with a feeling as if the whole mucus membrane were swollen (immediately, forty-seventh day); the familiar troublesome dry feeling in the nose appeared at noon, while sitting quietly in the room; was much ameliorated in the open air, but returned, though less violently, on coming into the house again; the nose first became moist after he had smoked a cigar (forty-ninth day); dryness of the nose (sixty-sixth day); on smoking a cigar (sixty-eighth day). Sensation of tension above the right wing of the nose, disappearing after rubbing (after twenty-four hours). Dull pain at the root of the nose, with a feeling of warmth, as if a cold would set in, in the forenoon (first day). Painful pressure at the root of the nose (third day). Burning in the lower border of the right nostril, which was sensitive to touch (for half an hour), at noon (fifty-fourth day). Burning and dryness in the right nostril, up as high as the frontal sinuses (sixty-eighth day); burning in the whole nose, which feels swollen, with increased sensitiveness on the septum, on which several vesicles are to be seen; the vesicles are dried up in the afternoon (seventy-seventh day). In the right nostril, a feeling of soreness or ulceration, which was aggravated by pressure upon the ala, but disappearing on the following day (fifty-sixth day).
Stitches in the left wing of the nose. Corrosive crawling on the nose. Crawling in the nose, as in coryza. Smell. Dulness of the senses of smell and taste (seventh to thirteenth day).
Face
Objective. Looks very ill, and is somewhat bloated in the face (twenty-first day); looks pale and earthy (twenty-fourth day).
Suffering expression. Bad, sunken appearance (seventh day). The face is wan, and the appearance bad all day (sixty-sixth day).
She looks very much disturbed, with a pale face, rapid emaciation, and great weakness, which, together with her derangement, she makes great effort to conceal from others. The hitherto earthy expression becomes brighter (first four weeks).
The pale look in a fourteen-year-old girl gradually gave way to fresh red cheeks (during the first six weeks). Pale yellow color of the face. Constantly hot, fiery red face, with small fine varicosities itching very much. Redness of the face, with cool extremities, in the afternoon (twenty-sixth day). Looked pale (eighth day). Constant paleness of the face. Looks pale and sickly (eighty-fourth day). Skin of the face unclean, as if dirty. Face, oedematous, puffy for a long time. Glistening white erysipelas of the face. Subjective. The face and lips feel swollen by paroxysms. The face seems burnt by the sun, though it is not. Pain in the face, at first daily at 7 A.M. and 8.30 P.M., afterwards more dull and lasting all day, commencing in the left cheek-bone, near the ear, extending through the teeth to the nose, and through the eye and eyebrow to the temple and into the head; about 8.30 P.M., a dull electric shock through the dental nerves and thence suddenly spreading out, with burning like fire in the painful parts, which are very sensitive to sunlight; the left eye is also very much affected, smaller and very sensitive to every change of air; previous to this there had been many very large boils and pimples on the face and neck (tenth month).
Burning tearing in the whole left side of the face apparently in the periosteum, at dinner (sixteenth day). Slight drawing in the right masseter, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth (seventy-second day). Soon I perceived a slow drawing, sometimes darting pain, in the right half of the face, from the temple to the teeth; then the whole became sensitive and increased in sensitiveness with the subsequent symptoms, in the coarse of the afternoon. Drawing pain between the mouth and nose, as if the periosteum were tense; a pain extended over the nasal bones, as if a saddle were upon them. Acute drawing pain in the face through the left cheek, teeth, ear, and down the side of the neck, worse when lying down at night, relieved when walking about and by warm covering. Violent tearing in the face at night, with swelling of the cheeks, ending with an ulcerated tooth. Tearing pain in the face, constantly increasing with swelling of the left cheek, lasting five days (after second day). Lightning sticking pains in the face, extending into the left jaw, which has no teeth, through the ear, and into the head, by paroxysms. Cheek.
Swelling of the glands on the side of the left cheek. Over night the left cheek becomes thick, with tension in it, and drawing in the teeth, which increased till the next day, rose higher, to the eye, under which oedematous swelling appeared, then extended over the nose, and gradually spread over the other cheek, and after the second day it diminished, with aching in the gum, very general weak feeling, and a drawing nervous pain in all the limbs (a kind of oedematous erysipelas, in one who had never been subject to it), (seventh month). Circumscribed burning redness of the cheeks, daily in the afternoon, with internal excitement and increased pains in the head and teeth. Sensation as if spot under the right nostril would become indurated (after three hours and a half). Cramp like pain in the right cheek when the part is at rest (after half an hour). Jerking, fine-sticking pain in the muscles of the cheeks, only when walking in the open air. Boring pain in the left malar bone, relieved by touch (after seven, and twenty-nine hours). Burrowing painful itching in the left malar bone (after half an hour). Tearing in the jaws, with swelling of cheeks, nose, and under the eyes, with heat and stinging and bruised feeling in them. Crawling drawing in the left zygoma, which left behind, for a long time, a feeling of dulness (seventeenth day); appeared again on the same, and afterwards on the right side (eighteenth day). Crawling and drawing in both zygomata, and in the left upper maxillary bone, came on instantaneously, and disappeared again as rapidly as it had appeared (first day). Crawling drawing in the zygomata for six weeks. In the evening, while chewing a piece of bread, an intense sticking pain between the left ear and zygomatic arch, as if the jaw-bone had suddenly become dislocated, extorting a scream; this pain was experienced every time he attempted to chew, continuing the whole evening, and was still felt the next morning (second day); the before mentioned pain in the muscles of mastication, on chewing, in the evening (third day). Crawling and twitching extending towards the zygoma. Stiffness of the left masseter muscles, painful on opening the jaws (after four days).
Transient drawing in the left upper maxillary bone at 1 P.M.
(sixth); drawing in the left superior maxillary bone, at 5 P.M.
(tenth day); in the right superior maxillary bone, in the forenoon (eleventh day). Drawing tearing in the left side of the upper jaw by paroxysms. Repeated gnawing – boring pain in the left upper jaw (after one hour and a half). Violent tearing in the left upper jaw, extending towards the eye (after two hours).
Lips.
The whole of the lips, the gums, and the frenum of the tongue are covered with a number of large and small white flat ulcers. The lips are heated and cracked, and pain very acutely when eating.
The lips, gum, and tongue are very pale. The upper lip, which has been thick for a long time, becomes still more swollen (second week). The thick scrofulous upper lip becomes smaller (third week). Blisters on the upper lip. In the forenoon, on the upper lip, an elevated, red violently itching spot, which compelled him to scratch, but was gone without a trace, at the expiration of an hour (twenty-eighth day). Slight heat and redness, with burning on the upper lip, in the morning (fifty-fourth day); upper lip somewhat swollen and burning (sixty-seventh day); violently itching tubercle makes its appearance upon the upper lip, near the right corner of the mouth (seventy-first day). On the edge of the upper lip two small, dark red, burning spots, of the size of a lentil; on which, during the three following days, little elevations were developed, which dried up, and fell off (after ten days); later two new spots appeared, which ran the same course (tenth day). The lower lip swells and becomes scurfy. A large blister on the inner surface of the lower lip. The lips are painful, as if burnt. Twitching of the upper lip. In the evening, sudden cramp like twitching of the under lip, and here and there in circumscribed spots on the skin (thirty-first day). Jerking sensation in the upper lip, near the corner of the mouth. Dryness of the lips without thirst (after eleven hours). The upper lip is sensitive (seventy-seventh day). Burning on the red of the lips and palate. Cutting in the left side of the upper lip. A cutting through the left half of the under lip, from below upward (second day). (Stitches in the lips). Fine itching in the inner side of the upper lip. China The joints of the lower jaw crack when he yawns, a wholly unusual occurrence (thirty-seventh 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.