Dull pains in umbilicus; sometimes they are very sharp.
Colicky pain at the umbilicus (following hard, dry stool).
There have been frequent pains in the umbilical and hypogastric regions all day, but not very severe.
Great distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, and very urgent desire for stool, with rumbling in bowels.
Pinching below navel.
Distension of abdomen.
Rumbling of bowels.
Frequent rumbling in bowels.
Rumbling in bowels for a quarter of an hour, without pain.
Borborygmus and flatus, which was fetid.
Much wind in bowels.
Fetid flatus.
Frequent expulsion of flatus.
Discharge of flatus, with griping in bowels.
Constant, very severe burning in (stomach and) bowels, with severe fluttering sensation in pit of stomach, lasting five minutes at a time (came fifteen different days).
Constant and very severe burning in (stomach and, bowels; very hard to endure to burning distress.
Bowels and stomach distress him very much.
Abdomen tender to touch.
Bowels feel as if he had a severe diarrhoea.
Constrictive feeling in the bowels.
Cramp-like contraction of the bowels, followed by a stool (fourth time).
Cramp in the bowels.
At each inspiration, griping of the bowels.
Motions preceded by pinching in the bowels.
Flying pain in bowels.
Rumbling in hypogastrium, with cutting pains around the umbilicus.
Cutting in left inguinal region.
Severe neuralgic pain in right inguinal region.
Stool and Anus.
Fullness of colon; must have stool.Fullness of rectum.
Great pressure in rectum.
Pressure in rectum, with inclination to stool, with empty eructations.
Feeling of constriction in rectum.
Sensation of dryness of the rectum.
Dryness and itching in the rectum, with feeling of stiffness of the skin and adjacent cellular tissue, continuing for several days.
Dryness of the passage for several days, followed by secretion of moisture.
Dry, uncomfortable feeling in the rectum, which feels as if it were filled with small sticks.
Excessive dryness of the rectum, with feeling of heat.
For several days following, there was a sensation as if the mucous membrane of the rectum was thickened and obstructed the passage of feces.
Feeling in rectum as though folds of the mucous membrane obstructed the passage, and as if, were the effort continued, the rectum would protrude.
The dryness of the rectum is followed by increased secretion of mucus.
Dryness and soreness of the rectum.
Soreness of rectum, with increased secretion of mucus.
Soreness of rectum, with increased secretion of mucus.
Soreness, burning, and itching at anus.
Great burning and itching at anus.
Burning, pressure, itching, and fullness at anus.
Burning, itching and protrusion of anus.
Some heat in anus, with itching.
Great soreness of anus.
Anus sore.
Row feeling in anus.
Severe aching pain in the anus.
Dull aching pain at anus.
Fullness and itching at the anus, after walking a mile.
Severe cutting pain in anus, with colicky pain in umbilicus, following after very hard and dry stool.
Itching in the anus.
Rubbing will produce extreme flow of blood to anus.
Prolapsed feeling of the anus after a hard stool.
Feeling as if a portion of the anus was prolapsed, with dull backache.
Prolapsed feeling of the anus, after a stool of about natural consistence. About half an inch of protrusion, which he is unable to push up.
Sphincter ani unable to contract.
Tumors of a hemorrhoidal character, very sore, and of a dark purple color.
Appearance of Hemorrhoids, like ground nuts, of a purple color, very painful, and with sensation of burning (never had hemorrhoids before).
Constant urging to stool (after two hours).
Very urgent desire for stool, and great distress in umbilical and hypogastric region, with rumbling in bowels.
Constant inclination to go to stool, and the rectum seems swollen.
Great desire for a stool.
Desire to go to stool each time wind was eructated.
Desire to remain at stool a long time, with straining.
Desire for a passage from the bowels, without result.
Frequent inclination for, and ineffectual effort at stool.
Great straining, with shivering.
Ineffectual attempts at stool.
Constant tendency to diarrhoea for two days; almost constant inclination to go to stool, but without any, or very slight evacuations.
Constant desire for stool, with pains in right hypochondrium and stomach.
Stool at 2 P.M.
Had two soft stools, without giving relief to the desire for stool.
Stool at noon, very back and soft, without relieving the desire for stool.
Two moderate fecal evacuations (two hours after).
Three moderate fecal evacuations half an hour after taking the drug.
Two liquid motions, preceded by griping.
Four loose evacuations within a quarter of an hour.
In two hours, several thin evacuations.
Bowels loose; stools brown.
Soft, mushy stool, with a good deal of pain in lumbar region.
Stool of a light-brown color and very soft; frequent, but not to the extent of a diarrhoea.
Stool of a mixed character.
Diarrhoea for twenty-four hours following.
Diarrhoea of ingesta.
Copious, soft stool, followed by burning and feeling of constriction in rectum.
Small stool, at 9.30 A.M., thin, watery, lighter-colored, and some tenesmus.
Rather a difficult stool.
Rather a difficult stool, about noon, followed in an hour by a slight soreness, aching and fullness in rectum, indicating piles.
Difficult, scanty stool.
Very large and hard stool, voided with great difficulty, followed by severe pains in anus, with feeling as if a portion of the anus was protruded, accompanied with dull pains in the umbilical and hypogastric regions; this feeling lasted all night, and until late in morning, with very severe backache in lower part of lumber and sacral regions.
A very dry stool, at 9 P.M., voided with difficulty.
At 5 P.M., a very hard and dry, knotty stool, voided with great difficulty.
Stools hard and dark-brown.
Stool of hard, impacted feces, with great soreness of anus (12 M)..
Stool; first part black and hard; the last part about the natural consistence, but almost white as milk, showing that the secretion of bile is almost completely suspended; the stool was followed by severe tearing pains in anus.
Expulsion of about eight inches of faeces, like a rope, solid, knotty, first half dark, rest, rest quite light in color.
Stool, 8 A.M., very costive; great straining; faeces in balls.
Bowels torpid.
The usual stool did not take place.
Urinary Organs.
Shoots in the orifice of the urethra.Call to make water.
On two occasions, at short intervals, urging to make water.
Frequent urination.
Desire to pass water often, but little at a time.
Urine scanty.
Urine scanty, and of a dark-yellow color, with scalding in passing through the urethra.
Urine scanty, and of a mahogany color, and as it passed through the urethra it burned like hot water.
Urine scanty, and dark-brown; no sediment.
Urine dark and muddy, and passed with much pain.
Retention of urine; passed after several trials.
Urine hot.
Urine hot and clear.
Urine very high-colored.
Urine dark-brown.
Urine very clear, and increased in quantity.
Urine dark; some little sediment. Urine with dark-brown sediment.
Urine yellow, with thick, white, mucous sediment.
Sexual Organs.
Transient pains in genitals.Dull and heavy shooting pain through or near belt of penis.
Soreness of testicles.
Itching of testicles.
Drawing of left testicle.
Leucorrhoea.
Respiratory Apparatus.
Increase of the dry feeling in throat, followed by secretion of mucus, quite like the second stage of catarrh.Sensation of dryness and stiffness of the glottis, and all the pharyngolaryngeal mucous membrane.
Dryness of the larynx with tickling; scraping feeling of the laryngopharyngeal mucous membrane.
Tickling in larynx.
Tickling in larynx cause cough with mucous expectoration.
Throbbing, darting pain in trachea produces titillation.
Hoarse voice.
Coughing.
Repeated cough.
Cough from irritation.
Cough dry.
Slight cough with stitches in left side of chest.
Short cough, increased by swallowing and breathing deeply.
Dry, hacking cough (at 1 P.M)., produced by great constriction of the fauces, with great irritation of the epiglottis (for two hours).
Spitting of blood on getting up in the morning.
Breathing rapid and laborious.
Labored breathing.
Dyspnoea with rapid breathing.
Chest.
Hot feeling in chest, with cold rising up, as after taking peppermint drops.Constant burning distress, with a constrictive feeling of the lower part of the chest.
Heat in throat and stomach.
Warm feeling in chest.
Raw feeling in chest.
Pains in the chest alternating with pains in the abdomen.
Thorax feels constricted.
Tightness of the chest.
Sudden stitches throughout chest.
Burning in the mammae.
Lungs feel very much engorged, feel heavy, and as if engorged.
Taking a full breath causes soreness over and in lungs, with great rush of blood.
On the right side of chest, when respiring, she feels the lung painfully moving up and down.
Stitch in region of lower lobe of left lung; relieved when passing wind.
Twitching from the chest to the left shoulder.
Stitches in left side.
Stitches leave left side and go to right side of chest.
Shooting pain in sternum.
Pains in sternum, as if a piece were torn out of chest.
Heart and Pulse.
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.