Abdomen
Hypochondria. Throbbing in right hypochondrium; lessened after belching or passing wind. Sticking in the region of the liver during a long inspiration as if from flatus (twelfth day). Stitches or shooting in region of liver, when taking a deep breath. Sharp pain in region of spleen. Umbilical. Emptiness or sinking around navel or in whole belly. Complaint like in the first period of pregnancy; a drawing aching in region of navel, extending to the sacral region; worse in the forenoon. Cutting pain in the abdomen around the navel, a kind of wind colic, and eructations of some herb that he had eaten at dinner; after drinking cold water, the pains are violently renewed, evening (fifth day). Two hours after eating ice cream in the evening, colic-like pains about the navel (sixth day). Aching soreness and pain around navel; lessens after fetid wind passes off. General Abdomen. Much flatulence and rumbling in the abdomen, with some pain, after two doses of the 1st; the same, also much more severe, after a third dose, together with confusion of the head, which soon increased to a dull pain, which was always more sensitive on stooping; this continued more or less severe the whole day, until a thin evacuation followed, preceded by sensitive pain; quite well the next day. Meteorismus, and pain in the abdomen, followed by stool and immediate relief of the symptoms (from the 2d). Wind passes off, with a stench. Difficult passage of flatus, followed by slight relief (from the 2d). Motion in abdomen as if something alive. Abdominal pains, with headache, earache, hot face, pain in groins, looseness of bowels, weary legs, crawls; or in alternation with headache, burning throat, uterine pains, lassitude. Severe pain in the abdomen, with flatulence, with unusually frequent stools, at first natural, afterwards soft (third and fourth day). External wall of the abdomen asleep, numb quivering, aching, etc. Pinching, shooting stitches, running, kicking; moving in left side of belly. On every attempt to eat, bellyache, (G. Bute). Bellyache less after passing wind, after stool, or after leucorrhoea. A pressure in abdomen, with difficulty of preventing escape of urine. After drinking cold water, cutting in abdomen. Cutting pains in the abdomen two hours after eating honey, relieved by passage of flatus (seventh day). Griping in the abdomen and sensation of discomfort after eating fruit (fourteenth day). Before appearance of menses, griping and rumbling in bowels and leucorrhoea. Eating ice-cream in the evening gives him the colic, and he has to vomit and next morning. Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, followed by looseness. Severe pain in region of transverse colon, 3 P.M. Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Over os pubis a drawing pain from right to left; passing of some blood, followed by earache from left to right (female). Warm feeling in the groins; burning aching pain. Aching soreness, cutting, drawing in left groin, later in right. Throbbing, stinging, ticking, sore, aching, pressing, drawing upwards in symphysis, downwards in thighs. Sacro-iliac symphysis in walking, as if separated.
Rectum and Anus
Sore aching in anus when getting up in the morning. After supper pressure in rectum, with a stool; the first hard, the last thin. Stitches in the rectum, evenings (eighth day). Single stitches in rectum towards the anus, or shooting in anus. Itching in the rectum (eleventh day). Itching, sticking, and cutting in the rectum (fourth day). Itching, tickling, prickling in the rectum, with a desire to draw it in very much, without having had a stool all day, evening, in bed (fifteenth day). On the fourteenth day, a hemorrhoidal aggravation as on the eighth day. Protruding piles, aching and itching, sore; oozing out of a yellow fluid. Warmth, burning, pulsating in anus; bearing down towards anus. Sore feeling in anus, worse outside, with stitching, burning, throbbing. Itching in anus; most in the evening. Shooting through perinaeum into the penis (Jones). Heaviness and urging to stool, with costiveness, or after looseness.
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, after cider (crude). Diarrhoea, in which there were many small white points, or flakes, like pus, scarcely perceptible (third day), (crude). Very offensive diarrhoea (from the 4th). She was taken with diarrhoea and pain in the ball of the thumb (from the 4th). Diarrhoea after vexation. During first dentition diarrhoea, with much wind. Juicy fruit or cider causes diarrhoea. Watery looseness day and night, with an urging after the stool, every fifteen minutes. Stool, etc., morning and evening. Two stools, mornings and evenings, the last with much blackish blood, mucus, and some bloody fibrinous, membranous pieces (twenty-seventh day). Two stools in the morning with but little blood and much less mucus than usual (tenth day). Three stools with excessive protrusion of haemorrhoids that are sensitively sore and throbbing. After the third evacuation tenesmus and urgency as if more were to pass; no stool the two following days (fourteenth day). Mornings, copious, soft stool; renewed urgency directly on wiping, after which a little more was evacuated. Dull drawing in the nape of the neck, in the afternoons (fourth day). Pappy stool mornings after awaking, with dark, at first clotted, afterwards liquid blood; a half hour after diarrhoea with tenesmus. Three hours later urgency to stool again, when nothing was passed but some mucus tinged with blood, with much greater protrusion of haemorrhoids than during the previous six days, with scraping, cutting, and itching pain in them; they do not recede for some time (distinct aggravation, eighth day). Must go to stool directly after rising; on previous day two hours later, with much less discharge of blood than before (sixth day). Unusual but scanty stool in evening, with very much flatulence (crude). Evenings after driving a whole day, a second stool, with somewhat more blood than usual (thirteenth day). No blood with the light properly formed stool, only so from colored mucus (seventh day). Stool soft, mixed with blackish blood, more than formerly (after an hour). After omitting stool for two days, an evacuation, with more blood than for some time past (seventh day). Bleeding after stool, or with a soft stool followed by slime; protrusion of piles after short buzzing in ears; very weak feeling in male sexual parts. After the copious morning stool with blood, renewed urgency when wiping himself, upon which he passed a few soft small pieces without blood (second day). Diaper reddish-yellow (Boecker). Constipation. No stool (ninth to twenty-first day). No stool, and scraping sore pain in the anus, especially when walking in the evening (twelfth day).
Urinary Organs
Kidneys and Bladder. Pain in the region of the kidneys, when lifting, digging, blowing the nose, frequently so violent as to cause crying out (from the 4th). In region of kidneys, violent pain when lifting and when blowing the nose. Pain in back, jerking, rending, cutting, shooting. Violent pain in bladder, and all neighboring parts. Sore aching in bladder, worse after micturition. A painful sensation in the neck of the bladder, like that when having the stream suddenly stopped. While urinating, drawing in bladder upwards (female); burning in urethra, hardness (male). Frequent pressure in the bladder; he is often compelled to pass a little clear, pale urine (fourteenth day). Pressing pain, most on right side of bladder. Before urinating, cutting in bladder, pressing down, cutting in urethra. Shooting in the mouth of the bladder. Urethra. Orifice of the urethra somewhat inflamed and agglutinated. A quantity of urine spurts out after urinating (fourth day). When urinating, the urethra expands very much swells and grows hard, with burning, towards evening (third day). Cutting pains in urethra. Cutting pain in the urethra, when not urinating (fourteenth day). After urinating, cutting and burning in urethra (male); pressing and cutting in bladder, deep into the left (female); relaxation and weakness of the organs (male). Sticking in the urethra when not urinating. Frequent urging to make water (Cate). Frequent urgency to urinate; always some dropping of urine afterwards (sixth day). Micturition. Passage of urine more copious than usual (third and fourth days). Frequent, copious passage of urine, with weakness and weariness. Frequent urinating, evenings while in bed (fifteenth day). Large quantities of urine, with sensation of weakness (G). Urinating at 2 o’clock in the night; he believed it was morning; clean taste in the mouth, followed by slumbering till morning, when he awoke with an insipid, disgusting taste in his mouth. When urinating, fine streams spurt sideways in every direction, from the vigorous stream; together with slight cutting in the urethra (fourth day). Urine. Dark urine, warmer than usual, and of penetrating odor. Urine dark-colored, hot, smelling like strong tea (from the 4th). Very dark urine in the afternoon, something very unusual (from the 2d). More urine, with flocculent sediment.
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.