Rectum and Anus
Painless hemorrhoids (third day). Soft painless hemorrhoid as large as a nut (second day). With the diarrhoea of black faeces, blind hemorrhoids, which pain severely, which he had for years but were never so painful. They disappeared after Nux and sulphur, but returned in fourteen days very painful, and continued for a longer time; cold and warm washing aggravated them; Nux and sulphur did not relieve; capsicum and the use of saliva relieved. Very frequent but ineffectual anal tenesmus (in three hours). Some fine stitches in the anus. Tickling in the anus (first day). Much itching-crawling in the anus, as if something living were moving in it.
Stool
Severe urging to stool, with which much more wind than faeces is passed at 2 P.M., following the natural morning stool. Frequent desire for stool, with passage of flatus and stitches in the anus. Regular evacuation, with slight tenesmus. Diarrhoea of black faeces and painful hemorrhoids (latest action). Violent diarrhoea relieved by black coffee. Diarrhoea after every meal ceases, but returns after eating oysters. Stool in the beginning more constipated than usual, then two stool in each day thinner and more copious than usual. Repeated pasty stools (after 144 drops taken within ninth day). Several pasty stools throughout the day, twice at night; from daily doses (eleventh day). No action on the intestines from 10 or even 20 drops; if it was omitted the following day; but pasty stools from a dose of 30 drops. Soft stool after he had the usual one in the morning. Obliged to rise twice at night on account of thin stools if he took it after the morning hours (from 20 drops daily), (fourth an fifth days). Thin, diarrhoea-like stool an hour and a half after 13 drops; this is repeated four times till the next morning. Diarrhoea-like stool, bright-yellow, preceded by cutting and rumbling in the abdomen (fifth to seventh day), (from 3d). Mucous, somewhat diarrhoea-like stool, with much wind, the second the following days (from 1st). Thin fluid stool. Soft stool, with disappearance of the hemorrhoids (third day). Stool-like sheep-dung, with pressure in the stomach and abdomen. Stool in the forenoon hard, tough, brown, and glistening; it breaks to pieces like sheep- dung. Hard stool (second to third day).
Urinary Organs
Pain in the region of the bladder and in its sides, with desire to urinate (after half an hour). Some clear droops of mucus flow from the urethra (on different days). Burning in the urethra after urinating. Pressure in the prostate gland when walking (third day). Some fine stitches in the orifice of the urethra. Stitches in the urethra (fifth day). Some slight stitches in the urethra (half a hour). Some stitches in the urethra extending towards it orifice. Stitches in the end of the urethra (fourth day). Pulsation in the urethra behind the testicles. Frequent calls to urinate. Renewed desire to urinate, although he had urinated a short time before (after half an hour). The desire to urinate continues, with tickling sensation in the tip of the urethra. Very little desire to urinate. Dribbling or urine after urinating (from third to tenth days). After urinating some drops of urine continue to flow, which burn very much. Increased secretion of urine (2 drops tinct). The secretion of urine seemed somewhat increased. Diminished urine. Urine scanty (first day). Urine very scanty and dark. Urine scanty and dark (second day). Urine very scanty and dark during the whole day. Urine scanty, dark, and turbid, with a red sediment. Scanty, very dark, and very turbid urine for several days; it deposits a whitish sediment, adhering to the vessel. Urine diminished, dark at times, with a red coating on the vessel (during the whole proving). The scanty urine, which is passed after much desire, is clear and darker than usual. The urine becomes cloudy and decidedly ammoniacal after one hour. The urine contains large flakes of white mucus.
Sexual Organs
Male. Erections in the morning. Erections in the morning from 3 to 8 o’clock; for several days (from fumes). Pressure in the right spermatic cord. Pressive-pinching pain in the penis, more on the right side, in the evening (eleventh day), after repeated doses. Stitches in the glans an in the sides of the dorsum of the penis. Stitches in the glans penis. Long stitches extending through the penis to the glans. Swelling of the left testicle, with sore pain. Increased firmness of the testicles (from 8th). Coldness of the left testicle. Increased sexual desire (fourth day). Early emission during coition. Emissions the third night in a man who had none for three years. Emissions for two nights in succession. Female. Loud passage of flatus from the vagina (from fifth to eighteenth day). Sore pain in the pudenda. Before menstruation pain in the back, feeling of weakness and want of appetite. On accession and during menstruation frontal heads one; a feeling on stooping as if the eyes would fall out. On the appearance of menstruation headache. Menstruation appeared too early and profuse. Menstruation appeared in twenty-one days in one who menstruated regularly. Menstruation was delayed when she took Bromine 30th on the appearance of usual forebodings (Menstruation, which she had every six weeks, passed without any pain; she used to suffer every time after it had continued a few hours from the most violent sticking cramps, which continued from six to twelve hours, so that she could scarcely remain lying, followed by sore pain in the abdomen). Clear blood, with the menses.
Respiratory Apparatus
Larynx, Trachea, and Voice. Much hawking of scanty mucus from the larynx. Cold sensation in the larynx, with a cold feeling when inspiring, after breakfast; better after shaving. Constriction in the larynx. Sticking constriction in the larynx. Pain, as if crushed, in the left side of the larynx. Every time on swallowing saliva a stitch in the posterior portion of the larynx, with a feeling of contraction. Stitches, with pressure in the larynx. Stitches, with itching in the larynx (fourth night). Severe stitches in the larynx, with lachrymation (after five minutes). Scraping and rawness in the larynx provoking cough. Scraping in the larynx provoking dry cough, in the evening (first day). Tickling in the larynx, followed by cough. Frequent tickling in the larynx with dry cough, which is immediately followed by tickling again; during the cough pain in the left side, extending inward from the nipple. Tickling is the larynx, with irritation to cough; constrictive sensation deep in the throat, and dry cough; coppery taste on the back part of the palate; spasmodic sensation extending downward from the throat, with dry cough in the evening, and scraping in the throat (first day) (510). Dryness in the trachea. Contracted sensation internally in the trachea, or a feeling as if the pit of the throat were pressed against the trachea; it lasts two days (from 6th). Tickling in the trachea on inspiring, which causes a cough. Hoarseness. Hoarseness is worse in the afternoon than in the forenoon (from 6th). Hoarseness, loss of voice; he cannot speak clearly; the voice is weak and soft, with a feeling in the throat as if scraped raw (in the evening), (from 7th).
Cough.
Cough, with pain in the chest. Cough excited by scratching and tickling (from 6th). Cough excited by deep inspiration. Cough, with paroxysms of suffocation suddenly on swallowing (from 5 drops in half an ounce of water); respiration is very short; is obliged to catch for breath. Short cough without expectoration, with sore pain in the chest. Slight hacking cough. Hacking cough several times in the day. Violent cough, and sensation of sulphur fumes, followed by confusion of the head and dull pressive headache (from fumes). Rough cough. Dry cough several times. Frequent dry cough, soon after taking. Dry cough, from a continued slight tickling rawness in the throat (from 7th). Dry cough, in the morning (second day). Now and then a dry cough, with pain in the left side of the chest. Dry cough, with sticking in the left side, extending from the left nipple into the chest. A rough, hollow, dry cough, with great fatigue (from 3d). Respiration. The glottis had closed with a spasm, and did not yield willingly. Spasmodic respiration (in four hours). Deep breathing becomes a yawning. Quick and short breathing (in half an hour). Necessity for breathing deeply (first hour). Deep expirations now and then (after an hour and a half). Frequent deep breathing (first day). Frequent deep expiration, when sitting (soon). Deep forcible inspiration is necessary from time to time. A feeling as though he could not breathe enough, and must voluntarily breathe more strongly (soon after taking). Oppression of breath immediately after taking it, with deep inspiration, together with sensation as if he did not get enough air into the chest. On account of which he elevates the thorax and inspires forcibly. Difficulty of breathing; he cannot inspire sufficient; when walking, even rapidly, better; worse in the morning, better in the evening and at night (third day). Short, difficult breathing, with prolonged inspiration and mucous rale (in two hours). Difficult painful breathing. Frequent difficult breathing. Frequent difficult respiration (after half an hour). Respiration is very much embarrassed; he is obliged to catch for breath. Respiratory troubles; it seems as if inspiration was prevented by an impediment in the middle of the chest (from 3d), (even after six weeks). Impeded respiration, as from a slight pressure on the lower end of the breast-bone (from 8th). Impeded respiration, from a slight pressure in the pit of the stomach. Inspiration of very concentrated fumes causes dyspnoea; for a long time the saliva, etc. is increased; it is followed by cough and pain in the chest; after some time pain in the abdomen; after two hours a pasty stool, which is repeated three times in the afternoon, becoming very thin; a slight backing cough remains for several days. If a large quantity is inspired it causes severe oppression and cough, together with a very full pulse, which, however, is not faster than usual. The secretion of saliva markedly increased; it is followed by vertigo, frequent bleeding of the nose, and finally a headache remains. All the conditions disappear within four to six hours. ( An asthma, in a girl of sixteen years, had remained for ten years after measles, so that the girl was never able to walk rapidly nor ascend stops without being very much exhausted; disappeared after five doses of five globules of the 30th, which she took for proving.
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.