Eyes
Full, pressing, heavy feeling in eyes, with slight headache (first day). Aching in left eye, while riding in omnibus (after second dose, second day). Severe shooting suddenly- stopping pain in left eye (a few minutes after second dose, fourth day). Brown and orbit. On going to bed, had a intense, painful itching in middle of left eyebrow (twenty- fourth day). A dull heavy feeling over left eye, worse when stooping, at 2 P.M. (second day). A distinct ache, directly over right eye (immediately, after first dose, fourth day). Aching in upper part of right orbit (twelfth and sixteenth nights). Slight transient pains above the right eye (after half an hour, twenty-third day). Pain in upper half of right orbit (after first dose, thirty-eighth day). Lids. Feeling of fullness about the eyelids, as if he had been crying a good deal, with increased secretion of tears (ten minutes after third dose, first day). Eyelids heavy and sleepy, with soreness (fifth day). Lachrymal Apparatus. (Increased tears), (fifth day). Profuse secretion of tears at 2 P.M.
(third day); at 1 P.M. (forth day). Pupil. Dilated pupils. Vision. Dimness of slight. (Dimness of vision; green circles around the gaslight), (fifth day). Cannot walk; if I attempt it, I am very faint and completely blind; obliged to keep in the horizontal position, at 2.20 P.M.; cannot walk across the room without becoming blind, at 4 P.M.; can walk about ten rods, when I become blind, and am compelled to sit down, at 5 P.M. (third day), 12. Can walk about four rods, I then become blind and faint, but can sit up without any trouble, at 1 P.M. (forth day). Photophobia and vertigo, relieved by closing eyes and resting head, in the morning (third day). If I assumed the erect position for even a minute, dimness of sight and partial syncope supervened, which obliged me to resume the recumbent posture (after four hours); the inability to assume the erect position continued for an hour and a half, 25. Unsteady vision (second day). Cloud before the eyes, chiefly during vomiting (first day). A little dazzling of the eyes. Immense circle of green color appeared round the candle, which, as vertigo came on and I closed my eyes, turned to red.
Ears
A fullness in the left ear, with a continued beating of the carotids, I could hear it beat distinctly, during the proving. Fullness and throbbing in the carotid in the left ear; this came on soon after beginning to take the drug (fourth day). Ringing in the ear; moving quickly makes me very deaf; at 2 P.M.
(fourth day). (Hears noise in ear), (fifth day). (Humming in ears and sensitiveness to noise; ears feel cold with spells of deafness), (fifth day).
Nose
Nose looks pinched and blue at 2 P.M. (third day). For the third time noticed nasal catarrh and sneezing, soon passing off (shortly after third dose, thirty-second day). With the vomiting, running from the nose and eyes. Profuse secretion of mucus from the nose at 2 P.M. (third day); at 1 P.M. (third day); at 1 P.M. (fourth day).
Face
Features sunken. Face pale (second day). Face very pale at 2 P.M. (third day), 12; (after seven hours). Very pale, with cadaverous look (after half an hour). ( Face flushed), (fifth day). Face blue. Blue hippocratic face for three hours. Stinging pain in right jugum malar (forty-fourth night). Distinct pain in right angle of lower jaw (after third dose, thirtieth day). Dry lips and mucus of much thick (third day); dry mouth and lips all day (fourth day); mouth less dry (fifth day). Jaw rigid, and nothing could be put into her mouth.
Mouth
Teeth. (Toothache cured). Tongue. Tongue white, not coated; looked as if bleached (second day). Tongue white in the center, with re edges and white tip; it dose not look like a coated tongue, but as if the blood were pressed out, in the morning (third day); edges red, tip white, and center almost a pure white (fourth day). (Tongue coated yellow, especially along the base and center), (fifth day). (Tongue coated yellow along the center, in the morning (third and fourth days). Tongue bright red at tip and edges, and white in center (second day). Tongue red on the edges, grayish from the tip half way back; the back part gray, with red spots of the size of a pin’s head. Strawberry tongue (fourth day). ( Tongue feels as if he had been drinking hot tea; scalded, coated yellow at base and edges; somewhat red in center), (fifth day). ( Tongue feels as if it had been scalded, coated yellow, with red streak in center), (first and second days). Tongue feeling as if it had been scalded, at 9 P.M. (second day); at 8 A.M. (fourth day). Acrid, burning sensation in the mouth. Saliva. Great increase of secretion of saliva (first day). With the hiccough there was copious secretion of saliva and discharge of mucus from the stomach and nose. Profuse secretion of saliva at 2 P.M. (third day); at 1 P.M.
(fourth day). Taste. Flat taste in the mouth, in the morning (third day). Flat, bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning (fourth day). Taste bitterish, disagreeable, peculiar, reminding one of the odor of spermatic fluid. (Food tastes bitter), (fifth day). Water tastes like lime- water (third day). Speech. Almost speechless. Total loss of speech for some time.
Throat
Dryness of throat for one hour, causing short dry cough (one hour and a half after first dose, second day). In the throat and fauces a sense of dryness and heat, which finally reached the stomach; in the course of an hour this dryness and burning sensation in the throat and stomach became intense, and a disposition to hiccough was excited, which commenced, gradually increasing in frequency until it reached fifteen or twenty times in the minute; this was attended with some sickness and retching until vomiting took place; this was violent, and seemed to come on about every ten or fifteen minutes for the space of an hour, 15. Burning in the throat. Burning sensation in throat, oesophagus, and stomach (after ten or fifteen minutes). Ever since swallowing the dose there has been a persistent, peculiar numbness in the fauces (after twenty minutes); after second dose the numbness of fauces was for a while very marked; not so much so now (after thirty-five minutes); numbness still persistent (after one hour and a third); numbness of throat not noticeable (after three hours), 30. With the hiccough, violent and constant spasms of the upper part of the oesophagus; cannot swallow, at 2 P.M. (third day); at 1 P.M., lasting two hours (fourth day). Sensation of something like a ball rising in the oesophagus, which seemed to extend up as far as the top of the sternum, as if propelled by a gradual tonic contraction of the stomach (after one hour). (Inclination to swallow, with burning pain along the oesophagus), (first and second days). Submaxillary glands swollen, sore to touch (fourth day).
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Ravenous appetite on waking, in the morning (second day); at noon (fourth day). Very thirsty, drinks little, which relieves for a short time (third day). Thirst, with slight nausea, an hour after rising, in the morning (third day). Eructations. Frequent eructations of wind. For several days the patient was troubled with an acrid, sour rising from the stomach. Hiccough. C Almost constant hiccough. If causes excessive and painful singultus. Hiccough, with the frontal headache, at 2.20 P.M. (third day). Constant hiccough, with violent and constant spasms of the upper part of the oesophagus, at 2 P.M.
(third day); at 1 P.M. (fourth day). Hiccough, with constant and severe spasms of the upper part of the oesophagus, at 1 P.M. (fourth day). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Some nausea (after four hours); considerable nausea (after six hours and a half). Nausea, which passed off on eating (after fifty-five minutes). ( Great nausea and vomiting, with cold sweat), (fifth day). (Nausea with the frontal headache), (fifth day). Nausea and dizziness, followed by heat of surface (fourth day). Nausea, with desire for stool (first day). Nausea and vertigo, with pain in bowels; had these symptoms four times in succession, about fifteen or twenty minutes apart, and each lasted three to five minutes (second day). Stomach feels mawkish and slightly nauseated (after twenty-five minutes); slightly nauseated (after one, and hour and a half); nausea marked, relieved by eructations of wind (after two hours and a half). Began to feel nauseated, and should have vomited had I not made an effort to restrain myself (after four hours); vomiting, with great pain, which continued for about half an hour, requiring all my strength to support myself (after four hours and a half), 17. Uneasiness at the stomach. Slight uneasiness at the stomach (in ten or fifteen minutes), 3; (after four hours). After one hour a slight sense of uneasiness at the stomach, but not amounting to nausea; this continued with very little inconvenience for half an hour, when vomiting commenced. The contents of the stomach were thrown off without nausea, but with a sense of rising in the oesophagus, which perhaps might be compared to the rumination of animals. Judging from my sensations at the time, should suppose the muscular fibres of the stomach contracted gradually and steadily upon its contents until they were expelled, the diaphragm and abdominal muscles remaining entirely inactive. Nausea and severe vomiting on rising in the morning (seventh day). Extreme sickness and distress at the epigastrium (after thirty or forty minutes). Nausea and vomiting. Frequent efforts to vomit (after half an hour). Several ineffectual attempts to vomit (after thirty or forty minutes). Severe itching (after ten or fifteen minutes). Retching and vomiting incessantly. An effort to vomit after the second dose, but without ejecting anything from the stomach; efforts to vomit were made every few minutes, but without success, except once, when a small quantity passed from the mouth. Retching attended with intense pain, at times almost amounting to agony (after four hours and a half). Painful retching. Ineffectual retching with the vomiting. Constant and ineffectual retchings. Retching for three-quarters of an hour, vomiting food, mucus, etc., not getting any relief until I threw off same bitter stuff, with the characteristic taste of Veratrum (after four hours and a quarters). Vomiting. Vomiting without effort or nausea (after three-quarters of an hour). Vomiting very freely. Commenced vomiting (after a few minutes); vomiting kept up, with severe retching, every few minutes, when it gradually subsided; the matter vomited was a white, ropy mucus; the interval between vomiting, for three hours, was not any time longer than five minutes, and most of the time did not exceed one minute, 13. Repeated vomiting, with some hiccough; considerable bile thrown up (first day). Profuse vomiting of thick, glairy mucus and water, at 2 P.M.; violent vomiting, with the frontal headache, at 2.20 P.M. (third day); violent vomiting of dinner, and then of a thick, glairy mucus, at 1 P.M. (fourth day). (Severe vomiting with the violent headache, 11 A.M.; continued violent, with collapse and cold sweat, at 4 P.M.), (first and second days). (Vomits food, if ever so little is taken), (first and second days). Vomiting of bile, and then of mucus and dark-colored blood; then severe retching and moaning, with great fear of death; this stage continued about an hour, when I gave a dose of Arts. 3; soon afterwards the retching and vomiting ceased. Vomiting; the vomited matter appeared to consist at first of the food and contents of the stomach, afterwards of a glairy mucus. Free vomiting, accompanied with an increased flow of saliva and general perspiration; the vomiting continued at intervals for upwards of an hour, and until considerable bile and had been thrown up (after three-quarters of an hours). Vomiting, attended with very little inconvenience, at first, but after continuing for a short time, became more severe, the ejections consisting principally of bile (after one hour and a quarter). Stomach. Great prostration of digestive functions, subjecting the experimenter to a temporary but severe attack of dyspepsia. At 6.1/2 P.M. I took supper, although food was repugnant to me, and I ate but little. All through the evening I suffered from decided dyspepsia, partially relieved by a glass of whiskey. A feeling of tightness, stomach wretchedness. Distress at the stomach. The symptoms of globus hystericus are sometimes present, but very rarely, in nervous females. Dull aching pains in the epigastrium, at 9 P.M. (second day). Dull pain in epigastrium. Spasms of the stomach and respiratory organs frequent and severe (in three persons), (after three hours). Excruciating pain in the lower part of the stomach, the pain extending to about the size of my hand; the feeling of the seat of the pain was, that all the warm tea, water, etc., that I took to provoke the vomiting, went under the stomach, as if the muscles were contracting, relieved by bending forward, for ten minutes; almost directly afterwards pain in abdomen, as if drawn in, for half a minutes (five hours after second dose, second day), 33. C (Twisting-tearing pain in stomach, aggravated by least motion), (first and second days). Feeling as if the stomach were slowly contracting on its contents, and forcing them into the oesophagus, producing a sensation as of a ball rising up to the top of the sternum (first day). Sensation in the epigastric region, as though a full dose of calomel were operating (first day). Sharp flying pains in the epigastric and umbilical regions, in the evening (first day). Sharp pains in the epigastric and umbilical regions, and passing down to the pubes, at 11 A.M. (second day). Very frequent neuralgic pains in the cardiac portion of the stomach, at 7 P.M. (first day). Such great irritability of the stomach that it seemed for a while that he must die, from the impossibility of retaining the necessary stimulus. On waking a second time, felt as if waves were rising from the stomach into the chest (first night). Slight glow in the stomach (after two grains).
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.