Throat
Tenacious mucus in the throat (fourth day). Throat somewhat swollen. Paroxysmal constriction and choking in the throat as if one had eaten unripe pears. Contraction of the throat as if caused by the pressure of a swelling. Violent pains in the throat. Pressure in the throat and oesophagus, as far down as the stomach, with burning stinging in the pharynx (fifth day). Drawing and pressure in the left side of the throat. Drawing pain in the throat, thirst and colic. Dryness of the throat, which can not be relieved by drink (after six hours). C Throat dry and burning (fifth day). Scraping in the throat. Scraping in the throat like catarrh. Roughness in the throat. Burning in the throat. Burning in the throat and stomach. Burning in the throat and tongue. Burning scraping in the throat. Violent burning in the throat, oesophagus, and stomach. Extreme burning in the throat, oesophagus, and stomach (after half an hour). Violent burning in the throat and stomach. Fauces and Pharynx. Secretion of mucus in the fauces, but with a sensation of dryness and heat (third day). Distension of the pharynx. Redness of the pharynx with some swelling of the tonsils. Burning in the pharynx and stomach. Sensation of warmth in the pharynx and upper abdomen. A coldness come up into the pharynx ( but a spot far back on the palate is also cold, followed by a large amount of warm, sweetish, salt-tasting, slimy liquid, rising up like water brash, when the coldness in the throat and palate is relieved for the moment, but returns (after twenty-four hours). Oesophagus. Distension of the oesophagus, with a feeling as if he would suffocate. Swallowing. Swallowing impossible. External Throat. The left submaxillary glands swollen, associated with a sore throat internally, especially in the left side, with kind of choking and constriction in the throat on swallowing, which lasts a short time after swallowing (after one hour). Pain in the submaxillary glands as if pinched (after three hours).
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Ravenous appetite without thirst. Ravenous hunger. Hunger and thirst with profuse flow of urine. Violent hunger, as on the previous days (sixth day). Feeling of hunger in the stomach, with undisturbed appetite (eighth day). He eats much, but still complains of hunger and emptiness in the stomach. Desire for eating and drinking with the diarrhoea. Longing for only cold food, herring, sardines, fruit. Appetite for fruit. Constant very greedy desire for gherkins. Desire for citric acid. Desire for acid things. No desire for warm food, at noon, but more for fruit. No appetite and no hunger; when eating nothing is relished. Little appetite; nausea when eating (fifth day). Aversion to warm food, and on eating it he did not relish it, though he had not eaten for a long time; yet desire for fruit. Excessive thirst. Excessive thirst during the perspiration. Much thirst for cold drinks, immediately. Much thirst in the afternoon and evening. Great thirst with hunger. Eructations. Eructations of gas. Violent eructations, mostly of air (after six hours and three-quarters). Frequent eructations (fifth day). Sour eructations. (Eructations even while fasting; sour eructations in the forenoon). Eructations of odorless flatus (first day). Eructations after breakfast, chilliness and weakness (eight day). Bitter eructations. (Eructations tasting of the food). Constant qualmish eructations with terrific cough. Empty eructations of gas after eating. Empty eructations, immediately. Empty eructations in the evening after lying down in bed, followed by a scraping, scratching sensation in the larynx, almost as after heartburn (after twelve hours). Frequent efforts to eructate. Hiccough. Hiccough. Hiccough in the morning with the customary smoke (after twenty- four hours). Hiccough, for half an hour. Long- continued hiccough. A large amount of water suddenly come into the throat (water brash), he cannot swallow it quickly enough and it gets into the air-passages, and frequently chokes him (after twelve hours and a half). Cardialgia. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Nausea, with great thirst, and flow of urine for three days. Nausea, with weakness, so that he was obliged to lie down (fifth day). Nausea, followed by violent and frequent vomiting (after half an hour); constant and bloody vomiting (after one hour). Nausea, pressure, and heaviness in the stomach after eating a little. Nausea, with hunger and pressure in the epigastric region while eating, disappearing immediately after eating. Great nausea before vomiting. Great nausea, with profuse salivation. Great nausea, with red sweaty face. Constant nausea and salivation, with great appetite and thirst. Qualmishness, with a bilious taste in the mouth. Qualmishness arose from the breakfast, which disappeared after eating meat, at noon (after twelve hours). Qualmishness with closure of jaws. Qualmishness in the pit of the stomach. Qualmishness with frothing from the mouth. Qualmishness and hoarseness, much cough. Qualmishness and salivation, with closure of the jaws. Excessive qualmishness, with great thirst. Very qualmish, he would gladly have eaten something but had no appetite. Sick and weak (first day). Nausea after diner (second day); nausea and crawling in the stomach (fifth day). Feels very sick and weak after a short walk. Excessive inclination to vomit, even to faintness. Vomiting; immediately. Violent vomiting of a slimy acid liquid with food, with painful distortion of the face. Forcible excessive vomiting. Attacked with violent and incessant vomiting, and lived only from morning till night. Vomiting and diarrhoea as many as ten times, with pale sunken face, covered with cold sweat (after six hours). If there be vomiting the strength and pulse sink. Two paroxysms of vomiting, in each of which he vomited three or four times; the nausea continued even in the interval of a quarter of an hour between the paroxysms; the ejecta had a sour smell. Long-continued vomiting. Vomiting of food. Violent vomiting. Even of the beginning of the vomiting he was obliged to lie down, and at its close he was so exhausted that it seemed as though the thighs would separate from the hip- joints. Before vomiting cold hands, after the vomiting hot hands, with orgasm of blood. Vomiting of food with green mucus. Vomiting of all food and long sleep. Vomiting of food with mucus and green substances. Vomiting, with heat of the body. Nightly vomiting of very tenacious mucus. Vomiting of mucus, and cold sweats. Green vomiting. Vomiting of green mucus. Profuse throwing off of mucus, with frequent eructations. Vomiting of green mucus, and afterwards of much froth. Vomiting of green mucus, followed by yellowish-green, sour-smelling mucus. Vomiting of green mucus, followed by chilliness. Vomiting of black-green mucus. Vomiting of dark-green mucus with diarrhoea, and yet appetite for eating and drinking. Vomiting of white mucus, at night. Vomiting of white mucus, with good appetite. Vomiting of much mucus, with extreme weakness. Vomiting, at first of bile and mucus, afterwards of black bile, at last of blood. Vomiting at first of bile, then of very tenacious mucus. Vomiting of bitter, sour, brown mucus with food, two hours after coffee, in the evening (third day). Black vomit. Stomach. Painful distension of the pit of the stomach. (Sensation of weakness in the stomach, with internal coldness in the epigastric region, with slight pressure). Fullness in the stomach after eating a little (third day). Pains in the stomach. Pains in the stomach and bowels. Acute pain in the epigastrium. Pain in the stomach as from ravenous hunger. Complained of stomachache, but eats drinks, and sleeps much. Pressure and drawing pains in the pit of the stomach. Violent pressure in the pit of the stomach which extends into the sternum, the hypochondriac region, and as far as the ilia (after eight hours). Pressure in the stomach after dinner (sixth day). Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Burning in the stomach. Heat and burning in the stomach, throat, peppermint drops. A burning pressure in the pit of the stomach and middle of the chest, with cramp in the stomach, and eructations after breakfast (sixth day). Burning ( incendium) in the epigastric region. Burning sensation in the stomach in the evening, and in the chest, like heartburn, with cold shivering over the back. Burning in the epigastrium and along the oesophagus. Pinching pain in the pit of the stomach, more when walking.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Tearing pain in the hypochondria, as from flatulence. Pain in the hypochondria and in the chest, on account of the non-emission of flatus. Sticking in the region of the spleen while walking, after a moderate meal (after twenty-four hours). Umbilicus. Colic in the umbilical region. Region, before pains in the back. Cutting pains in the umbilical region, increased flow of urine and thirst. Colic about the navel, as from flatus, without marked tension of the abdomen or pain when touched (after six hours). General Abdomen. Distension of the abdomen. Distension f the abdomen, with salivation. Swelling of the abdomen, with colic and emission of flatus. Rumbling in the abdomen (first day). Loud rumbling in the abdomen. Loud rumbling in the abdomen, with Diuresis. Painless rumbling in the abdomen, as from flatus (after three-quarters of an hour). Flatulent rumbling and griping in the abdomen, infrequent and scanty emission of flatus. Rumbling in the abdomen, as if he would have diarrhoea, with frequent emission of flatus (after six hours). Emission of flatus (after seven hours). Frequent emission of flatus (first hour). Frequent emission of odorless flatus (first day). An unusual amount of flatulence in the evening (second day). Emission of much odorless flatus, with noise, at night (third day. Flatulence after dinner (fourth day). Emission of flatus, after dinner, unnoticed with a thin stool; afterwards diarrhoea, of acrid faces, with tenesmus (after one hour). Flatus passes upward and downward with knives, immediately. Twitching in the abdominal muscles with a not disagreeable warmth in the chest (after half an hour). The intestines are sore as if bruised, because the refuses to pass. The patient complained of terrible pains in the abdomen. Pressing in the intestines. Painful pressure in the cecal region, as from spasmodic incarcerated flatus (after one hour). Drawing pressing colic in the evening, while walking. Feeling of drawing in the intestines, as from a purge (first day). Drawing tearing pains for minutes deep in the lower abdomen, mostly above the pubis (after one hour). Twisting in the abdomen and back, preceded by great weakness, before the stool; after the stool he felt easier and more vigorous. Griping in the abdomen, as in diarrhoea, through without desire for stool (after two hours). Drawing griping colic, followed by emission of flatus and evacuation of tenacious faces, which greatly adhered to the rectum. Griping in the abdomen, at times above, at times below the navel, in the afternoon, soon after eating, which while standing changes to another place then while walking, and the reverse. Colic with a feeling as if the intestines were twisted into a knot. Colic, thirst increased flow of urine. Colic, from the back towards the navel. Colic, with loud rumbling. Sudden colic (griping?) in the morning in bed, after waking, immediately followed by desire for stool; an evacuation of yellowish-green, pasty faces, the last part of which consisted of mucus; the desire continued even after the evacuation, after which almost clear mucus followed; there remained in the intestines above the pubes a feeling as if they had been beaten, and there was an unsettled feeling in the pit of the stomach (after twenty hours). Flatulent colic, which involves the intestines and whole abdomen, here and there; the longer delayed the emission of flatus the more difficult it is to pass (after six to twelve hours). Nightly colic, with sleeplessness. Dull colic, from distension of the abdomen by flatus, as if there were constipation, with uneasiness. In part sticking colic, in part sticking pains here and there in the body, with peppery biting in the throat. Cutting pain in the abdomen (after twelve hours). Cutting colic, with diarrhoea, very early in the morning (about 4 o’clock). A stitch extending from the abdomen through the abdominal ring along the spermatic cord, when coughing (after three hours). Frequent sensation in the abdomen as if diarrhoea would come on, without desire for stool, but only a qualmishness and rumbling in abdomen. Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Cutting-sticking pain in the lower abdomen, soon after eating (after twenty-nine hours). Pressing dull pain as from a bruise in the viscera, in the pubic region, all the morning, together with a sensation in the left groin, as if hernia would form, mostly while sitting. Sensation low down in the abdomen, as of impending faintness, before stool. Protrusion of an inguinal hernia. Violent and painful protrusion of the intestines; an unusual hernia protrudes, with rumbling of flatus (third day). Symptoms as if a hernia would become incarcerated.
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.