Urinary Organs
Bladder. Repeated transient pain as of suppuration in the region of the right kidney, in the morning in bed. After urinating a feelings in the bladder as if he had not finished, and a few drops still pass involuntarily. A sensation as though the bladder were not entirely empty, and even after urinating, there remained a feeling of heaviness in the region of the bladder, with various cramp like motions in it (second day). After he has urinated, contraction in the bladder and feeling as if there was a little more urine to pass. Urethra. Bright-red spots around the orifice of the urethra, and in many places on the glans and on the inner place of the prepuce; they were very sensitive and burned severely; the secreting gland of the prepuce became swollen, and secreted a profuse, yellowish smegma; this balanitis increased from the third to the sixth day, then gradually disappeared, with fine itching and biting on the prepuce and glans. Burning in the urethra. Burning and cutting before the urine passes (third day). A pain in the forepart of the urethra when not urinating, consisting of an itching-burning and sticking. Sensation on urinating as if the urethra were too narrow. (A pressive pain in the urethra). Fine sticking pain in the urethra. A severe stitch in the anterior portion of the urethra in the evening. A drawing- tearing in the forepart of the urethra when not urinating. Desire to urinate, and frequent urinating, when walking in the open air (after five hours). He is not able to retain the urine long, and when he is urged to urinate, and does not immediately attend to it, there is a feeling as if the urine passed involuntarily, though this does not happen. Micturition. Frequent urination. Frequent and profuse urination (second day). Urination more frequent than usual. The secretion of urine is decidedly increased; the desire to urinate comes very suddenly. Frequent urinating, with burning in the urethra comes very suddenly. Frequent urinating, with burning in the urethra and a sensation as if all the urine had not been evacuated. Frequent urinating at night; the urine was scanty and hot. Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate. Great urgency to urinate; he is obliged to rise at night. He is compelled with such haste to urinate, even when the bladder is not full, that he is scarcely able to hold it for a moment (twelfth hour). A few drops of urine pass involuntarily when moving about. Urine scanty, seldom. The urine passes hot. Urine burning. “Every time on urinating it seemed like a partial crisis. Urine. Urine profuse. Urine profuse, sometimes clear, sometimes high-colored. An unusual quantity of urine, clear yellow, nearly every half hour. Urine copious, pale-colored, especially at night. Urine unusually scanty. Urine scanty and hot. Urine rather scanty and red (second day). Urine scanty and darker than usual. Urine hot. Red urine. Urine dark, almost brown. Urine brown, like beer. Urine brown, without sediment. The urine showed a thick brown could. The urine passed through the night deposited a white sediment; its color was reddish-yellow (third day).
Sexual Organs
Male. A sticking, burning-itching on the border of the prepuce. Stitches in the right spermatic cord (fifth day). Painful tension extending from the right spermatic cord into the groin. Some stitches in the testicles (immediately) when sitting. Sexual desire rather increased. Increased sexual desire; after coition there followed in the night an emission and in the morning almost painful erections (second day). Emission and strong erections in the night. Female. Very severe pain in the region of the right ovary, as though there were a sore spot which caused an irritation and a dragging; this pain extended down to the thighs, while at rest. Pain in the right ovary aggravated by touch. Swelling of the left labia majora, on which a black, hard pustule rises, like a little button, without pain or inflammation. (Increase of leucorrhoea). The menses appear eight days too early. The menses appear fourteen days too early. The menses appear three weeks too early. The menses follow within a few hours, sometimes eight days too early. (*This is the primary action; Bryonia may be therefore effectual for metrorrhagia. H.*).
Respiratory Apparatus
Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi. Slight hawking of mucus from the larynx. Sensation as of apple-seeds lodged in upper larynx, or rima glottidis (after half an hour to two hours). At 7 P.M., while sitting, sudden scraping in larynx with dry cough several times, without apparent cause (first day). Tickling in the larynx, with dry hacking cough. Tickling in the larynx, with a violent shaking cough, lasting several minute (ninth day). Tough mucus in the trachea, which is loosened only after frequent hacking. Irritation to cough, as though some mucus were in the trachea; after he has coughed some time a pain is felt there mingled with pressure and soreness; the pain is worse while talking or smoking (after four hours). When he goes into a warm room from the open air a sensation as if vapor were in the trachea, which causes him to cough; he feels as though he cannot inspire enough air (after two hours). A scraping sensation at the lower portion of the trachea, provoking a dry cough, in the morning. Scraping irritation in the trachea causing dry cough. A scraping sensation at the bifurcation of the bronchi, which caused a dry cough. Voice. Voice somewhat higher than usual. Voice rough and hoarse (after four hours). Hoarseness (second day). Hoarseness lasting twenty-one days. A kind of hoarseness together with an inclination to sweat. Some hoarseness, an only one tone of the voice, on walking in the open air. The hoarseness which he commonly had disappeared in the course of the day, and showed itself in the evening only after long reading aloud (second day). At times, loss of voice.
Cough and Expectoration
Scraping, painful, hacking cough in the throat, as from rawness and dryness in the larynx in the evening after lying down in bed. (Cough, especially after eating). (Nausea excites cough). Dry cough. Several attacks of dry cough. A hacking dry cough from the upper part of the trachea. Dry cough, in the morning, with coryza. Continued dry cough, especially in the morning, together with coryza. Continued dry cough, especially in the morning, together with collection in the mouth like water-brash. A dry hacking cough; single spasmodic, forcible shocks towards the upper part of the trachea, which seems to be covered with dry tough mucus; even tobacco-smoking causes it. Dry cough, with sticking pain under the sternum. Dry cough, as if coming from the stomach; together with a crawling an tickling in the pit of the stomach. He awoke after a restless night with a violent dry cough and feeling of soreness in the chest; this cough returned several times during the day, but disappeared at night; it caused a thin greenish mucous expectoration (eleventh day, gradually decreasing till thirtieth day). Cough with expectoration (immediately). Cough, from a constant crawling upward in the throat, followed by expectoration of mucus. Sudden cough, as if caused by irritation in the abdomen, with expectoration of yellowish-green mucus (eleventh day). In the morning, in bed, a severe cough, which lasts a quarter of an hour, and causes a profuse mucous expectoration. Cough, with expectoration of gelatinous mucus, in the morning. Slight, hacking cough, with sensation of soreness and swelling in the pharynx and air-passages in the morning; expectoration of mucus difficult to loosen. Cough, with expectoration, in the forenoon, for four days in succession (after thirty-four hours). Frequent expectoration of thick mucus. Frequent easy expectoration of thick mucus in the morning. Expectoration of thick mucus, almost without cough, which almost causes vomiting. He expectorates clots of blood (after three hours). Respiration. Respiration more rapid while walking, with a sensation as if the upper part of the chest were too narrow. Frequent sighing. Deep sights in quick succession. Frequent catching for breath immediately before a paroxysm of coughing, a quick spasmodic gasp, as if the child could not catch the breath, and on this account could not cough; a kind of suffocative attack, which is followed by cough; especially after midnight. Constant disposition to sign, and sigh deeply (first day). Impeded respiration. Asthmatic breathing (after one hour). The breathing is short; he is obliged to expire quickly. Anxiety in the morning which seemed to rise from the abdomen, as if a purge had been taken, and as if the breathing were too short. Sudden, anxious, almost impossible breathing, on account of stitches in the chest, at first below the shoulder-blades, then below the pectoral muscles, which hinder breathing, and cause her to sit upright, and followed by stitches in the vertex. Oppressed respiration. Oppressed breathing, with heaviness in the chest half of the sternum, with sticking pain in the anterior wall of the chest, caused by every movement of the truck, lasting several minutes. Oppression of breathing for a long time in the forenoon, Breathing difficult; it is relieved by walking. An attack as if nausea rose up and took away the breath, and stitching. Dyspnoea, so that he could not utter a word.
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.