Rectum and Anus
Slight burning with the evacuation of the stool and urine. Long- continued burning in the rectum after a hard stool. Dragging in the rectum, like urging to stool, without real need for it, with slight pain in the anus. Severe stitches in the rectum as often as flatus passed; it seemed to press against the rectum (twentieth day). Itching, jerking-like coarse stitches from the anus into the rectum. Four stitches, with slight tenesmus and scanty faeces. A pulse-like jerk in rectum (second day). A hemorrhoid protruded, which had formed the previous night, an lasted several days (third day). Burning in the hemorrhoidal vessels in the evening. Severe aching in the hemorrhoidal vessels, which renders sitting difficult. Severe dragging an pressure in the hemorrhoidal vessels, with severe transient stitches through the pelvis into the urethra, Pressure in the hemorrhoidal vessels. Severe pressure and burning in the hemorrhoids. Retraction of the anus. Slight discharge of mucus from the anus. A feeling as from a plug in the anus. At 6 A.M., sensation of plug in anus (second day). Burning pain in the anus before a meal. Burning in the anus for some time after a natural stool. Pressing towards the anus. Severe itching an burning in the anus (twentieth day). Drawing-sticking stitches in the perineum, in the evening, for half an hour; they extend to the urinary bladder, and especially to the bulbus urethra, where urination was momentarily prevented (eighteenth day). Urging to stool without result. Ineffectual desire for stool in he afternoon. Urging to stool, an a soft stool, although he had a natural one in the morning (after two hours). Urging to stool, followed by copious pasty evacuations, with relief of all the symptoms, except that the confusion of the head remained. Violent urging to stool followed a scanty passage of firm consistence. Urging to stool without result, twice in the evening; only the day after a stool followed; after great exertion. Urgent desire for stool, but in spite of much urging only winds passed, together with rumbling in the intestines. Much straining in order to finish defecation (sixth and seventh day). With passing of flatus, sensation as though a diarrhoeic stool would come on. Instant and striking is the sensation, as though he must go to stool. It seems to be a sense of pressure, heat, weight, and powerlessness of the sphincter ani and rectum (after three to four hours). He felt well excepting the inclination to diarrhoea, which especially came on from the slightest drafts of air (third day). On the slightest tightening of the clothes, a sensation as if he must to stool, without any pain in the abdomen; stool somewhat soft (third and fourth days). After a crumbly stool, a sensation, with severe urging, as if the faeces could not be voluntarily retained. Urgent desire for stool, at 6 A.M.; the stool was acrid, with compact portions; during the course of the day three or four similar stools (second).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea (after three days). Diarrhoea (for four days in succession every three hours), so sudden that he was not able to retain it; during the following twelve days the usual stool passed just as suddenly. Diarrhoea, without the slightest griping. Diarrhoea, mostly in the morning. Diarrhoea, at 4 P.M. (Diarrhoea at night). Diarrhoea, especially at night, and burning in the anus with every passage (after seventh day). Painless diarrhoea, after eating. Painless diarrhoea of thin slimy fluid, at 1 P.M., after eating. Easy, painless diarrhoea of an greenish- brown liquid, preceded by a pinching pain, extending from the eating. Diarrhoea smelling foul, like old cheese. Diarrhoea, preceded by colic (forty-four to seventy-two hours). Diarrhoea of a green, slimy fluid, followed by loud passage of flatus. Diarrhoea twice a day; makes her so weak that she must keep her bed (after three days). It purges without other symptoms (twenty- four and thirty- eight hours). Frequent stool (after forty-eight hours). Frequent brown stool in an infant. Stool softer than usual, four times in the day, followed by constipation, for several days. Three thin fluid stools, in the afternoon. Three diarrhoea-like stools without pain, but passage of very offensive flatus (after seven hours), (from 200 drops). liquid stool, three or four times a day, followed by a burning in the anus. Diarrhoea-like stool, two or three times a day, for several days. Two profuse liquid stools (after one hour). Two stools a day; after some days constipation. (*More frequent primary action of Bryonia is retention of stool; its secondary action, looseness of the bowels, is more rare; when the other symptoms correspond, it permanently cures constipation, which but few remedies besides Nux vomica and Opium can do. H.*). Two soft stools in the afternoon. Two mucous stools in the evening and at night (three to twenty-seven hours). (*These symptoms were the more noticeable, since, for some two months, the stools had been irregular, and seldom, so that he scarcely had an evacuation for two days*). Two pasty, offensive evacuations in the afternoon, followed by burning in the anus. Two thin fluid evacuations in the forenoon. Two liquid stools in the evening; rumbling in the bowels; sudden urging to stool the whole day (four and five days). Bilious liquid stool. Two copious watery stools, about 6 P.M., with tenesmus, and slight burning in the anus. A dark, not liquid evacuation at noon. Stool at 6 A.M., very watery, followed by a similar one in half an hour (two days). A very thin stool in the morning (ninth day). Evacuation in the afternoon, with slight burning in the anus. Involuntary stool, at night, during sleep. The irregularity in the stools lasted a long time. Diarrhoea-like stool (after twenty-eight hours). Diarrhoea-like stool after dinner, followed in the hour by a second, with little faeces but much mucus, followed by a burning in the anus. Diarrhoea-like stool followed by prickling and burning in the anus. Diarrhoea- like, bilious, acrid stools, with soreness in the anus, continuing eight days. Diarrhoea-like passage of a thin greenish mass (at 2 1/2 P.M). Soft stool in the morning (second day). A soft, but not otherwise diarrhoea-like stool, at 1 P.M. (second day). Soft stool, with sharp burning pain in the anus. Pasty evacuations. Very offensive, pasty evacuation (soon after 25 drops). (*From the body getting cool, while eating or soon after eating, or from taking cold water after eating soup, or after eating stewed fruit; or from sudden change of temperature while driving, from cold to warm or vice versa; sudden severe griping in abdomen, followed by copious pasty evacuations of a dark greenish black color, and a very offensive cheesy odor, followed by great prostration; the natural course of the attack extending over twenty-four hours, with five or six stools, and ending in a dysenteric diarrhoea; arrested in fifteen minutes by Bryonia (the potency apparently a matter of indifference, the 6th, 30th, 200th, and 50th m., having been equally efficacious). An observation many times repeated on three patients, whose habit was constipated. C.D.*). A brownish, pasty evacuation, in the morning. Soft, pasty stool soon after eating. Copious pasty stools at 2 P.M. Stool pasty, with much flatus, followed by hard portions, and again by soft, so that he believed that he would scarcely finish the evacuation (second day). A pasty evacuation, with burning in the anus, soon after waking; a second fluid stool after half hour. In the morning, a pasty, afterwards a liquid stool, of a strong odor, followed by burning and soreness in the anus (soon after 15 drops). Very offensive, profuse stool, and cutting in the forepart of the bowels. After every meal, very liquid stools. Liquid stool after a meal, followed by transient pain in the sacrum. Watery offensive stool (fourth day). Thin bloody stool (after twenty-four hours). Constipation. Obstinate constipation. Constipation; if an evacuation takes place, it is with the greatest exertion (third day). Constipation, with painful swelling of the hemorrhoidal vessels. Stool retained (first day). No stool (first and second days). No stool, not the slightest desire for one (third morning). No stool, the whole day, which was never before the case (second day). Stool scanty, delayed (from second to thirtieth day). Dry, parched stool, with effort, in the morning (second day). Stool sluggish, with a twitching and sticking in the anus (second day). The evacuations are very sluggish; although the faces are never hard, yet the expulsion of them is only effected with great exertion. Stool copious, pasty, but passed only after a long exertion (second day). A very difficult stool. Stool very difficult (second day). Faeces thick, firm, difficult stool. The stool, which at first was regular, became, during the latter part of the proving, difficult, and was expelled with great exertion, less from the firmness of the faeces than from the inactivity of intestines. Stool very unsatisfactory, only after much straining, which caused a rush of blood to the head, and a feeling of confusion in the head (fourth morning). The stool, during the first days of the proving, was very unsatisfactory, or omitted altogether, while during the latter days, there were daily frequent and very copious evacuations, almost like diarrhoea. Stool hard (second day). A hard stool (evening of second day). Very hard stool. Very hard stool, with pressing out of the rectum, which, however, returns of itself; this is followed by a diarrhoea-like stool, with fermenting in the abdomen. The evacuations became suddenly harder, and passed with more exertion; at first, hard portions, followed by softer (third and fourth days). Hard stool, with great exertion, with confusion of the head (third and fourth day). A hard stool at 3 P.M., with inclination to eructations. Hard, difficult stool, only for two days. Hard, unsatisfactory stool (second day). A hard, unsatisfactory stool (second morning). Two hard, unsatisfactory stools, preceded by colicky cuttings in the abdomen (sixth day). Hard stool, followed by drawing and heaviness in the sacrum. The usual evacuation is hard, and the tense abdomen is not relieved after it (second day). Hard, difficult stool. Scanty, hard stool in the evening. A hard stool, with drawing and pressure in the small of the back (one hour after taking). Stool very dry, large, and hard (sixth and seventh days). Morning stool large, hard, and dry (fourth day). Stool dry, large, hard, and very dark (third day).
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.