Stitches; on empty swallowing; on swallowing and speaking, (<) moving jaws sideways, extending into ears, with redness of anterior surface of arch of palate; in l. tonsil towards ear, (>) swallowing. Soreness as from a broad substance covered with prickles, impeding swallowing. Feeling as if something were sticking in it when eructating. Feeling of adherent mucus in morning (Kali-c.). Pain; in morning on waking; at palate on waking, (>) open air; on swallowing, (<) moving jaws sideways; with red spots as if ulcers would form on anterior arch of palate. Drawing pain here and there, at first in front between lower jaw and hyoid bone, then in ethmoid bone extending to behind ears.
Sensation of a hair in fauces. Scraping; in isthmus faucium, causing vomiting; in isthmus faucium, in open air, when most severe causing cough on every inspiration; Rawness; of pharynx; in morning; in morning, with frequent hawking from larynx; in night, with burning, causing hawking cough. Raw rasping sensation. Roughness, with hawking of mucus. Constriction of fauces. Coldness, with inability to swallow saliva quickly; C. in posterior wall, gradually increasing to a dry scraping that caused painful cough. Feeling as of rush of blood. Heat; in pharynx; compelling dry hacking. Dryness; in fauces; in morning on waking, with painful swallowing; after midnight, (<) upper part of larynx, a far as hyoid bone, with scraping and burning; with pain on empty swallowing, the D. changing after washing to the usual secretion of mucus, and saliva was salt; obliging her to swallow saliva, on swallowing burning. Difficult swallowing; (>) evening, then rawness and scraping in fauces, with salivation.
Oesophagus.- Choking on swallowing, then a stitch through upper part of r. lung. Sensation as if food remained in it. Burning.
Clinical Catarrhal inflammation of the throat, with tough mucus dropping down from the posterior nares; this mucus is so tough that it is difficult to get it out of the throat. Chronic inflammation of the posterior wall of the pharynx, which is dark and glossy. Ulceration of the posterior wall of the pharynx, with well- defined edges; cheesy exudation. Follicular pharyngitis. Follicular ulceration of the tonsils. Follicular ulceration of the fauces, with tenacious exudation. Diphtheritic ulceration of the palate, tonsils and pharynx, with very tenacious exudation fetid discharge. Numerous cases of diphtheria have been cured. In all these cases we find profound prostration, soft pulse, tendency to perspiration, general lack of acute painful sensations, slight infiltration of the cellular tissue and very tough, adherent exudation.
Stomach
Appetite. Increased. Ravenous on seeing food, the ill humor (>) eating, then shivering and chilliness, (<) limbs, alternating with flushes of heat and general sweat, with eructations tasting of food, nausea and salivation. Good at breakfast, soon changing to disgust, so that he had to leave the table. Hunger, with aversion after the slightest food. Diminished; for breakfast. Capricious. Lost; for breakfast; for dinner, but food was relished. Dislike to meat; to breakfast; to smoking all the forenoon.
Thirst; in evening; but the smallest amount of liquid causes return of nausea; burning; for acids and increased thirst after them; for fresh water; little. Longing for beer; in evening. Aversion to water; which has an unnatural taste.
Eructations; after eating; after breakfast; after breakfast, with nausea; empty; convulsive; salt; sour; offensive, sweet and of bloody taste; with taste of food; tasting of putrid fat. Hiccough; in evening. with waterbrash.
Nausea; in morning, and pituitous vomiting; at 2 A.M., but inability to vomit; in forenoon, (>) soup; towards noon, (<) evening; towards noon when smoking, with frequent spitting; during breakfast. N. after breakfast; with pressure in stomach; with sour eructations, then griping; with heaviness and tension in region of symphysis pubis and malaise; when walking in open air. N. on attempting to eat; after dinner; after coffee with milk, with salivation; after a glass of water, with pinching in abdomen; when smoking after a meal; after smoking; on moving about; from pressure on pit of stomach; (<) sight of food; (<) drinking coffee; (<) pressure on epigastrium or hepatic region, which caused pain; (>) eating; (>) vomiting much food and mucus, with low spirits, pallor, blunted sensibility and weakness; N. in epigastric region; N., with headache; with vertigo and confusion of head; with hot eructations and sweetish flat salivation; with shooting in stomach, then vomiting; with chilliness; with coldness, trembling and hunger; in attacks; intermittent, after breakfast; sudden, after a moderate dinner; sudden, with headache, then vomiting and purging. Retching; violent, causing cracking in abdomen.
Vomiting; with violent retching, also after breakfast; in evening after black coffee, with effort, with vertigo, burning pain in stomach, general anxious sweat and shivering, the ejecta in forenoon consisted of food but in evening of bilious fluid; of a pinkish glairy fluid; of clear watery fluid; resembling the rice fluid in cholera; milk is ejected (pink), with very sour smell; of white mucus containing a clot of bright blood; of mucus and blood, also violent; sour, on stooping or moving, with pain at epigastrium; of undigested food; of contents of stomach, with painful constriction of stomach, then persistent retching, then relief; sudden, forcible, of contents of stomach after breakfast; greenish V. and purging; greenish bile, then watery mucus; of a pea-green, bitter liquid, with sensation as in seasickness, bursting sensation in blood-vessels of head, smell and taste keen, the nausea (<) Ipecac, (<) Camphor, with general chill and shivering, trembling, cramps in stomach, then soreness and aching at pit of stomach; of a brownish-yellow pappy matter; light yellow, insipid fluid when walking in open air; frequent, of pure yellow bile, with mucus, preceded by nausea and retching, then hiccough; frequent, preceded by ineffectual efforts, yellow, sweetish, at last bruised pain in upper abdomen, then difficult ejection of a dark brown, bitter substances; violent, yellow with violent purging; repeated, violent, of yellow, bitter, bilious matter, with headache, fine scorbutic eruption covering face, taste bitter and salt, thirst, external flushes of heat and internal chill; difficult, from the mildest beverage, mucous, bilious, yellow, sometimes bloody.
Distention; in evening after eating a little, also (<) motion, (>) rest, with pain on pressure and inability to bear clothes tight. Incarceration of flatus in S. and hypogastrium. Stitches after dinner in epigastrium, breast into nipple (male) and in r. hypochondrium. Cramp; alternating with griping in umbilical region, preventing sleep after midnight. Gastralgia in a spot a hand’s breadth above navel after dinner, (>) towards evening, with anxiety in pit of stomach and sweat on upper lip. Gnawing in epigastrium in morning, with emptiness. Pain; in pit; in region; in epigastrium; in morning, with discomfort; in morning on waking; in forenoon, and in upper abdomen; in epigastric region in evening; after eating, with burning; in epigastric region after dinner; in epigastrium and abdomen, (<) pressure; (>) tobacco- smoking, but returning and lasting till going to bed; (<) pressure of clothes; at greater curvature, with weight; agonizing, in epigastrium, with dizziness, sparks before eyes and weakness of legs; in pit, increasing to cutting, with bruised sensation in epigastrium and retching.
Frequent sensation in epigastric region like the last stage of seasickness, a twisting and constriction, (<) every step, (>) rest, with intermittent rush of blood to head and with exhaustion and indifference. Burning constriction in anterior surface before dinner, (<) pressure, with nausea and salivation. Wavelike contraction at 4 P.M., extending to chest. Tightness in evening fasting, extending to chest. Oppression in pit, with smarting burning pain, then tough, light-colored sputa. Load; in pit, then pressure, with nausea, rancid eructations and griping in upper abdomen. Sore feeling in pit, with pain on pressure.
Indigestion. Disordered by meat; by anything but the mildest food; D., with general heat at night, yellow-coated tongue, gnawing at epigastrium. Discomfort in epigastric region, increasing when walking in open air to nausea, and almost faintness. Uneasiness; about greater curvature, as if overloaded; waking him, with soreness and tenderness, (<) a spot towards l. of xiphoid cartilage, with dry mouth, nausea, restlessness and wakefulness, heat of hands and feet, then sweat of hands, feet and legs, Heartburn; in evening after tea; on waking in middle of night; after dinner. Burning pain; in pit. Burning; in afternoon; after dinner; with salivation; extending into throat; extending into mouth, or soreness, also on waking. Coolness; and in bowels; uneasy, in epigastric region, then constriction, impeding respiration.
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.