General Action
An active cathartic, stimulating peristaltic action. Catharsis followed by constipation.
Stomach
A version to ordinary food, yet with certain desire to eat, but food is repulsive. Fulness, as if he had eaten to satiety. Nausea, with colic.
Abdomen
Griping pain, particularly in the umbilical region, with ineffectual desire for stool, (>)bending over after the stool.
Rectum and Anus
Frequent urging and ineffectual straining, (<)motion.
Stool
Stool pasty or brown, frothy, always of a very sour, fermented odor, preceded by colic and chilliness; constriction in the bowels, accompanied by shivering, often followed by tenesmus. Diarrhoea of varying color and consistency, usually frothy and of a sour odor.
Back
Cutting pain in the lumbar region, with digging pain in the bowels.
Fever
Easy perspiration, particularly of the forehead and scalp. Cod sweat on the face, particularly about the mouth and nose, with the abdominal symptoms.
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.