The pressure in pit of stomach, and the sensation of aching and heaviness in pubic region, seemed to alternate.
The peculiar, dull, stitching, caecal pains, alternation with a similar pain in the corresponding part of the left side.
Rheumatic pain in left side of pelvis.
Distressing pain in region of pubis.
Heaviness and aching in the pubic region.
Repeated stitching in right groin, almost in the spermatic cords, returning in the evening (after 12 o’clock).
The pain in the course of the crural nerve, extending itself towards the inguinal ring and the spermatic cord.
Itching in right groin.
Jerking, drawing in left groin.
Drawing pains about the lower abdomen.
Stool and Anus.
Pressure on rectum while sitting.
Soft stool.
Soft stool, accompanied by much flatus, after rumbling in the bowels.
After 9 A.M., very unsatisfactory soft stool.
A soft evacuation after partaking of fruit, yet without any sufficient inclination.
Stool soft, but without straining.
Soft stool of dark-brown faeces.
In morning, a pappy stool.
After dinner, at 1.30, he had a pappy, fecal stool, having had an insufficient one in the morning.
After 1 P.M., several pappy stools.
In afternoon, a pappy stool ensued, with rumbling in bowels.
Next day (after 26 grains), the stools were sometimes fluid.
Profuse diarrhoea mucosa (two hours).
Two copious stools.
Profuse mucous stool (follows the chilliness and pains in lower abdomen).
Hard, sluggish stool.
Difficult stool; even when there was a slight sensation of urging to stool, the rectum was so inactive that the stool was only effected by much effort, and with interruptions.
The alvine evacuations were diminished, while the urinary discharge was increased; at the same time the pain in the pubic region, at first but slight, became quite severe.
Stool delayed till evening.
Not till evening did his bowels move (contrary to his usual custom).
The stools were delayed two or three days, and were of firm consistence (after twelve days).
Constipation.
Urinary Organs.
Burning at orifice of urethra, diminishing interiorly.
Several fleeting stitches through the fossa navicularis.
Increase of urine and sweat, but diminished alvine evacuations.
For a couple of days, after urinating, some drops of urine were still discharged.
The urine passed contained much lactate of urea.
Absence of lactic acid and lactate of urea from the urine.
The marked acid reaction of the urine, which continued for several days, arose from the surplus of uric acid, which was deposited for some time.
The urine also contained much mucus.
After a few days, many torulae were formed.
Albumen was not present.
Even when cold, the urine had a peculiar smell, and was more pungent than natural; while evaporating, also, it gave forth a peculiar odor.
Sexual Organs.
Stitches at the root of the penis.
Painful drawing in spermatic cord.
Severe stitches in the spermatic cord, and in the left pubic region.
In evening, drawing pain along the spermatic cord.
Constant drawing in right spermatic cord.
Disagreeable drawing in right spermatic cord.
Stitching in right spermatic cord while walking.
Late in evening, stitching in right spermatic cord.
Slight pains in left spermatic cord, at eleven o’clock.
Drawing in region of left spermatic cord frequently returning.
Dull, aching drawing in testicles, for some minutes.
Respiratory Apparatus.
Occasional tickling in air-passages, which, however, does not induce cough.
Hoarse voice.
Peculiar sensation in the throat that induces a cough, soon after taking; relieved after eating.
For three days past, in morning, coughing up of a slight, soluble, thickish mucus from the larynx.
Expectoration mucous, and more copious than usual (day after twenty-six grains).
Respiration accelerated.
For many days the respiration is shorter and more in the upper part of the lungs, but accompanied with no other unpleasant sensation than anxiety and discomfort.
Chest.
Pain in chest.
Some constriction of chest, with pain (in one hour).
Constriction of lower half of left breast, and soon after a deep-seated pain there.
Some oppression of chest, with stitches in left half of chest, when inspiring.
Slight jerking stitches about the short ribs on left side, more towards the anterior surface of the breast.
Anxiety and oppression of chest (in a phthisical person who had formerly spit blood).
Heart and Pulse.
In the evening, after lying down, violent palpitation in the chest and carotids (the stroke of the heart was stronger and more vigorous, but not more rapid than usual), which made it difficult to get to sleep.
In the evening, palpitations and restless sleep.
Strong, distressing throbbing of the heart, which extended itself below the pit of the stomach, at night when going to bed; it was more violent when lying on the back, or on the left side; less when lying on right side; preventing sleep for a long time.
At night, when lying down, throbbing of the heart and arteries; unusual weariness of the eyes after reading.
Pulse more frequent.
The pulse was evidently accelerated.
The pulse somewhat quick, frequent, and hard.
The pulse was small and tense, without being accelerated.
Pulse tense.
Neck and Back.
Heaviness and aching at the end of the lumbar vertebrae.
Fleeting stitches in left lumbar region, increased when expiring.
Extremities in General.
Weariness of extremities.
Heaviness of the limbs (in evening).
Repeated tearing pains in wrists and ankles.
Before he went to bed he experienced tearing, but, for the most part, very fleeting pains in the right shoulder, knee, and ankle; also in the left tarsal bones, but less severe.
Pains, like rheumatic pains, were felt in the left shoulder, the knee, and right ankle.
Upper Extremities.
Rheumatic pain in the whole right arm, about twelve o’clock.
Single, rheumatic, fleeting pains in the right arm, now at one point, now at another.
Sensation in right arm, as if bruised (principally above the elbow).
Tensive, aching, transient, dull, itching pain on fleshy part of extensors of right arm and elbow-joint.
Sensation of paralysis in left arm.
Stitching in shoulder and axilla, extending down to the elbow, during ten or fifteen minutes. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder.
Acute stitches in the right shoulder.
Stitching and tearing in left shoulder.
Stitching in left shoulder-joint.
Pricking in left shoulder-joint, extending over the deltoid muscle, almost disappearing when pressing upon it.
In the evening, stitches in the glands of the right axilla.
Dull, drawing pains in right deltoid muscle, at 9 A.M.
Drawing and tearing in right wrist.
Sensation as if bruised in left wrist; afterwards, in the right also.
Short, rheumatic pains in the metacarpal bones of the right hand, in elbow, and shoulder.
Rheumatic pain in the index-finger of the left hand.
Drawing in right middle fingers.
Lower Extremities.
At evening, weariness in both hip-joints for several hours.
Stitching in right hip-joint, while sitting (10 A.M)..
Next day, before nine o’clock, he experienced, while walking, acute stitching pain, somewhat above the right hip- joint, almost compelling him to limp; the pain, which chiefly occurred when sitting bent up, diminished during the day, and by morning disappeared almost entirely.
Sensation of uneasiness in right trochanter major.
Dull, drawing pain in right trochanter, at 4 P.M., continuing an hour.
From 3.50 to 5.30 P.M., dull stitching pain in right trochanter major, with weariness of leg.
In evening, drawing pain in right trochanter and left knee.
Sensation of weariness in right thigh.
Jerking pain in left thigh, in the course of the crural nerve (in evening).
Undefinable pains in the left knee.
At 9 P.M., while sitting, a sensation as if the left knee were swollen, with increased heat of the knee, and pricking in the bend of the knee.
Tension in the right knee-joint, when walking.
Towards morning, there was stitching in the left side of right knee.
Constant stitching and aching on the left leg at the left knee, at the protuberance of the tibia.
Pain in right leg, above the knee, which made it difficult for him to walk.
The pain below the knee returned again when walking.
Tearing pain in right shin.
Tearing pain in both ankles.
Pressure above the right ankle.
Late in the evening, cracking in the left ankle, when moving.
Painful drawing in left foot.
Pain in middle of sole of left foot.
Heaviness in right sole, so that he trips up when going upstairs.
Tearing and drawing in the sole of the left foot.
Burning in left metatarsus.
Pricking and burning in left metatarsus.
Repeated pricking in right metatarsus.
Pricking below the right metatarsus.
Burning, then, five minutes after, stitching in right great toe.
Gouty pains in left great toe, so that he cannot walk; this is repeated several times.
About 10 A.M., drawing in the middle toe of left foot.
Stitches in the little toe of the left foot, at the left of the joint, where the skin was somewhat thickened.
Generalities.
Pulsation and restlessness in whole body, not permitting him to go to sleep at night, though he had drank less than usual.
Weariness, even upon the least motion. Weary, and as if beaten.
Immediately upon rising he felt a sluggishness and drowsiness, with depression of spirits, which manifested itself in the body as heaviness and weariness.
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.