Tumefaction of the abdomen, which was very tender to the touch, constipation and weak pulse.
(Extraordinary and preternatural inflation of the abdomen, after death).
Inflation of the abdomen, as by a mass of water around the bowels, especially in the umbilical region, which becomes prominent.
A drawing-in of the abdomen, with pressive pain (in lying).
Violent recurring rumbling in the abdomen.
Loud rumbling in the abdomen, as if everything there were jumbled topsy-turvy (after half an hour).
A rumbling and pinching in the belly.
Borborygmi and flatulence, which extends from the abdomen even into the stomach, with burning and pressive pains in the precordial region.
Discharge of much wind.
Very frequent emission of almost inodorous flatus.
Flatulence without smell, and sometimes having a putrid odor.
Wind in the bowels, tasteless eructation, and urgency to stool, but which amounted to little.
With the desire for stool, feeling in the abdomen as if diarrhoea would set in, with internal heat in the abdomen (after one hour).
Pain in the belly.
Violent pain in the abdomen.
Feeling of heat in the abdomen as if from a hot iron.
Occasional heat in the bowels, chest, and face.
Heat in the belly (with anxiety), in the chest and in the face, with obstruction of the nose.
Burning in the abdomen. (*Not found*).
Burning, compression, and pinching in the abdomen, obliging him to bend double.
Sensation of fulness in the abdomen, especially soon after a stool (seventh day).
Colic, spasmodic tension from the chest to deep in the abdomen, which does not permit the body to be moved in the least (after half an hour).
The abdomen was rather contracted.
Pinching in the intestines.
Violent pinching deep in the abdomen, which becomes much more violent on drawing oneself in, and in bending the upper part of the body to the left side (after six hours).
In the evening, always severe pinchings in the abdomen, followed by a soft motion.
Pinching colic, whereby he is obliged to sit with his body bent double, with ineffectual urging to diarrhoea, and subsequent vomiting.
An extremely severe griping in the right side of the belly, also sharp shootings from thence to the right side of the chest, as far as the axilla.
Colic, as if a spot in the abdomen were seized with the nails, a griping, clutching, clawing.
Colic.
Continual colic, (Case 1).
Colics and cramps in the abdomen and in the loins, with inability to keep still.
Colic, constipation, diuresis, with eructations and inclination to vomit, (Case 12).
Very severe colic, with affection of the head and paralytic weakness of the entire right side of the body.
Colic, constipation, diuresis, with eructations and inclination to vomit. colic and leucorrhoea, (case 14).
(After drinking milk, colic, a few shoots).
Colic as from a heavy weight pressing, only when walking and standing, disappearing every time he sits down.
A dull, irritable drawing in the whole circumference of the pelvis; this pain is alternately felt in the sacrum and the os pubis.
Drawing in the abdomen as from flatulence, rumbling and passage of wind.
Drawing pains in the abdomen, with cold feet.
Heavy, dull, bearing-down pain in the abdomen and pelvis; (symptom repeated several times, and very similar to what prover suffered at every period), (after two and three-quarter hours).
Pressure in the abdomen as from a stone, with pains in the loins, (case 18).
Pressure, digging, cutting, and stitching in the abdomen.
Stitching and burning in the abdomen, as also in the hypochondria and loins.
Fine sticking, as of countless needles, from within outward, in whole abdominal and thoracic cavities.
(Cutting in the abdomen in the evening, a few hours before going to bed).
In the morning in bed, in the left side of the belly on which he is quietly lying, a pressive cutting, which disappears as soon as he lies on the other side.
11.30 A.M., sharp prickling pain in abdomen (second day).
Long-lasting painfulness of the whole abdomen, as if it were all sore and raw (after one hour).
All showed signs of tenderness when pressed even slightly on the abdomen, particularly over the ovarian region.
Raw pains in the bowels, as if they were burnt or scraped.
Excessive tenderness of the abdomen, which cannot bear the slightest touch.
Hypogastrium and Iliac Region.
The hypogastric zone is sunken in, soft, and nowhere painful.
In the evening, feeling of fulness in the hypogastric zone, very white-coated tongue, want of appetite, slight griping in the bowels, rumbling, and feeling of accumulation of flatulence, which, however, will not pass off.
Drawings in the hypogastric region on the right side over the horizontal ramus of the pubis, occasional by wind, which also passed away.
Pressure very low down in the abdomen, as from a heavy weight, (Case 26).
(*Apparently a symptom of the patient’s disease*).
Violent cutting pressure in the hypogastrium, now here, now there (after one hour).
(In the morning, a pressing, as if everything would be forced outwards the organs of generation, with distension of the abdomen; after the pressing, the abdomen contracted, and this was followed by a discharge of white mucus from the vagina).
In the morning, immediately after getting out of bed, a violent, tensive, pressing pain in the whole of the hypogastrium, but especially in the region of the os pubis; it appears as if the hypogastrium (rarely the epigastrium), were spasmodically constricted sometimes as if it were distended (although not really so); pains which gradually increase and gradually decrease (after twenty-four hours).
In the hypogastrium, immediately below the umbilicus, a feeling as if the intestines pressed outwards chiefly in standing umbilicus, a feeling as if the intestines pressed outwards, chiefly in standing (after six days).
Cutting in the whole of the hypogastrium, yet most violent in the left side.
When rising from his seat, he feels a pain in the crests of the ilia, as if a sharp body were protruding there.
Swelling of the inguinal glands.
Fine shootings in the left groin.
Severe shootings in the inguinal glands.
In sitting with the trunk bent forwards, a feeling in the right groin as if a hard body pressed outwards.
In the right groin, at the inguinal ring, in sitting with the trunk bent forwards a feeling as if a hard body pressed from within outwards without the part feeling hard to the touch (after six days).
Rectum and Anus
Hemorrhoidal flow for several days.
Hemorrhoidal discharge of decomposed blood, even when not at stool.
Sense of constipation.
Squeezing, constrictive pain in the lowermost intestines, alternately with dull shoots or jerks in the direction of the perineum (after thirty-six hours).
Contractive pain in the rectum, then ulcerative pain in the epigastrium; thereupon rapid evacuation of mucous diarrhoea; lastly, tenesmus.
Pressing in the rectum towards the anus.
A sort of tenesmus, a constant pressing and urging towards the anus and genitals, alternating with painful contractions of the anus (after twelve hours).
Distinct, rapid, severe shootings in the rectum, during stool (after three hours).
Raw feeling with burning and constrictive pains in the rectum.
Voluptuous tickling in the lower part of the rectum.
Itching in the lower part of the rectum.
Violent, sudden, painful itching in the rectum and anus.
Prolapsus ani during stool.
Intolerable itching at the anus.
Violent itching, at the anus externally, when walking in the open air.
Itching and moisture at the anus and perineum.
Stool
Urgent inclination to go to stool. Constant desire for stool.
Urging to stool, which is thinner than usual, but passes in proper quantity.
Urging to stool and colic.
Frequent urging to stool, without result, or with a very scanty and hard evacuation.
Frequent urging to stool, sometimes ineffectual, and with tenesmus.
Ineffectual urging to stool, followed by vomiting.
Straining to stool; the evacuation is undoubtedly diarrhoeic, but very little is voided, and immediately after follows much- increased straining (after three hours).
First, a soft diarrhoeic stool; subsequently, however, frequent desire for stool, of which little or nothing comes.
Frequent evacuations.
Diarrhoea.
At times, diarrhoeic evacuations.
When taken by the mouth in poisonous doses, Belladonna sometimes causes diarrhoea.
Copious and frequent stools.
Very frequent small stool; one evacuation is hardly finished before an urging is felt for another.
Small, loose stools, with sharp, stitching pain above the umbilicus (after one and three-quarter hours).
Stools often with sweats and flow of urine.
Frequent thin stools with tenesmus; frequent desire for stool, obliging him to go every quarter of an hour (after forty-eight hours).
Several watery stools, immediately after profuse sweat.
Frequent watery stools, studded with small white flocks, with colics, cramps in the stomach and limbs, chills, headache, debility, and restlessness.
An offensive, greenish diarrhoea (after nineteen hours).
Diarrhoea with dark discharges (second night).
Diarrhoea, inclination to vomit, and pressure at the stomach, (Case 14).
Diarrhoea, with pressure at the stomach, burning in the abdomen, and inclination to vomit.
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.