Rectum and Anus
Passage of much mucus from the rectum, for several days in succession. Discharge of acrid, corrosive moisture from the rectum (after twenty-four hours). Discharge of pure blood from the rectum, with tearing pain for several days (in a young woman who had never had the like before), (after seven days). Sensation as if the stool would come, with burning in the anus and passage flatus. Tenesmus in the rectum. Gnawing in the rectum, when not at stool. Crawling in the rectum and complaints of ascarides. Swollen, painful hemorrhoids. Tickling-itching in the hemorrhoids. Moisture of the anus, with tenesmus, when urinating. A glutinous moisture of a musty odor exudes in considerable quantity from the anus, at night. Bleeding from the anus, during stool. Rush of blood to the anus. Burning in the anus after a stool. Burning and sticking in the anus. Burning in the right side of the anus (after six hours). Burning in the anus, during the stool, which consists of small, hard, fecal masses. Burning in the anus, with unpleasant sensation of dryness in it (after seven days). Pinching in the anus, when not at stool. Pressive pain in the anus. Cutting in the anus, during stool. Cutting pain in the anus, with a hard stool. Sticking in the anus, during stool, as with needles. Stitches towards the anus. A few stitches in the anus, in the evening. A very painful stitch through the anus and rectum, starting from the coccyx, as with a hot needle (after six days). Biting in the anus. Soreness of the anus. Itching in the anus, in the morning, in bed, aggravated by scratching, and followed by burning. Itching in the anus, increased by scratching, and changing into a burning, on waking from a long sleep (after thirty-two hours). Itching in the anus, and, after rubbing, burning in it. Stitching pain in the perinaeum, near the anus. Soreness of the perinaeum, with painful itching when touched. Soreness, with itching and moisture of the perineum at night Urging to stool, after breakfast, which though not hard is only evacuated with much pressure. Sudden urging to stool, as from fulness in the rectum, but little passes, however. Great urging to stool, which is scanty and difficult to evacuate. A feeling of urging to stool, from a sensation in the abdomen and small of the back, without result. Ineffectual urging to stool (after eighty hours). Ineffectual urging to stool, in the evening (after thirty- six hours). Ineffectual urging to stool; only wind passes with painful pressure in the rectum. Excessive desire for stool, with crawling in the anus, and pressure in the bladder towards the small of the back, like a hemorrhoidal colic, at intervals; instead of a stool, violent bearing-down pains in the lower abdomen, in front and back, with burning in the anus, and sensation as in diarrhoea; after the pain, a scanty passage of faeces, consisting of soft pieces, with great exertion, with relief of the pains.
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea (after forty-eight hours). Stool twice (after fourteen hours). Stool at 10 P.M., unusually late in the day, with rumbling in the abdomen (after forty-four hours). Stool thinner than usual, with urging thereto. Stool tenacious, scanty, not cohering properly, with inactivity of the rectum (after six days). Hard stool. Hard stool, for two or three days. Stool hard, delayed, with much exertion (after thirty hours). Acrid stool, with coated tongue. The stool passes with loud passage of flatus. Passage of stool with burning in the rectum. Mucus precedes the stool, followed by hard, then by soft faeces, with cutting colic; during the first week. Much passage of mucus with the stool. Passage of mucus, with urging in the anus. Filamentous yellowish mucus envelops the stool; this mucus is entirely bloody in the last portions of the faeces. Discharge of blood with every stool. A child cries aloud, for six or seven minutes, whilst bloody mucus passes from him, instead of a stool. Passage of ascarides. Constipation. Complete constipation (after sixty-seven hours). The first week, stool seldom and hard, only for two or three days. One day no stool, the next day two stools.
Urinary Organs
Bladder. Pressing pain in the bladder, frequently during the day, though she was able to retain the urine. The urine is passed with pressive pain in the bladder. Urethra. Burning in the urethra, when urinating. Extremely painful burning and twinging in the urethra, when urinating. Contraction of the urethra, every morning. Pinching pains in the urethra (almost immediately). Frequent tearing in the urethra, when urinating; the last drops consist of mucus, and are painful to pass. Tearing and drawing in the urethra, after urinating, in the morning. Was awaked very early in the morning, by desire to urinate. Urging to urinate, nearly every hour. Frequent inclination to urinate, though it passes slowly. He was obliged to rise frequently at night to urinate. Micturition. Passage of much urine, after drinking a little (after six hours). Urine very scanty (after forty-eight hours). Some thick, milky urine is passed at the close of urinating. Urine. Very strong odor of the urine. Profuse, clear yellow urine (after twenty-four hours). Dark-colored urine. Profuse, clear yellow urine (after twenty-four hours) Dark- colored urine. Reddish, turbid urine. Dark-red urine, as if it was mixed with blood (after two days). Dark-red urine, with roughness of the throat. Red sediment to the urine. The urine remains clear, though it deposits some gravel.
Sexual Organs
Male. Frequent erections (after twenty-four hours). Frequent continuous erections, for three days together. He awoke every hour, with erections. Constant erections, at night, without voluptuous sensations or fancies. Great itching soreness, and a vesicle on the inner side of the prepuce. Itching and soreness of the prepuce. Swelling of the scrotum, which feels hard. Crawling in the testicles, and on the scrotum. Increased sexual desire (after forty-nine days). Complete loss of sexual desire, in the morning, not even excited by sensual thoughts (after twenty-four hours). Frequent emissions, without much sensation. Emissions, without dreams. Emission too soon on coition, followed by roaring of blood in the head. Excessive emissions, which painfully shake the nerves, followed by violent burning in the forepart of the urethra, with severe cutting and burning when urinating, which continues a long time and is renewed on slight external pressure. Discharge of prostatic fluid, when straining at stool. Female. Discharge of white mucus from the vagina (after four days). Leucorrhoea appeared after urinating (first day). Much very thin leucorrhoea, in the morning, on rising, and not again during the whole day. Milky leucorrhoea, which is excoriating (twelfth day). Red sore places on the pudenda, looking like ulcers, which do not pain, only itch, with leucorrhoea. Aphthae of the pudenda. Burning in the pudenda. Heat and redness of the pudenda. Sticking in the pudenda, when urinating. Itching in the pudenda and anus. Itching in the pudenda on urinating. Great soreness in the pudenda, towards the forepart, in the evening. During the leucorrhoea, soreness and rawness in the pudenda. Smarting pain in the pudenda, with leucorrhoea, for two days; followed by appearance of the menses, which have been suppressed for many months; they flow for three days, but are quick back, followed by little leucorrhoea, without smarting. Great itching on the mons veneris. Menses five days too soon (after twenty-one days). Menses six days too soon (after two days). Menses five days too late (secondary action), (after fifty-five days). Menses six days too late; they are biting and make the parts sore. The menstrual blood is too thick, and of a strong odor.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx and Trachea. Great roughness in the larynx, with deep rough voice, which failed if he exerted it, though without pain in the throat. He is obliged to clear his throat so often, in the evening, that the larynx becomes raw and sore. When coughing, severe pain in the larynx and in the region of the thyroid cartilage, as if ulcerated. Crawling and itching in the larynx, with whistling when breathing; with tightness of the chest and a dry cough, in the evening after lying down. Unusual sensation of dryness in the trachea, not relieved by hawking, for several days (after three days). Pressure in the trachea, on inspiration. Crawling in the upper part of the trachea, as if something were tightly seated there, provoking cough (after three hours). Irritation to cough, frequently returning, in the back part of the throat, with short cough. Irritation to cough, as from sulphur fumes, with retching. Voice. Slight roughness of the voice, as if oppressed by fatigue, by speaking (after three days). Hoarseness and roughness in the larynx, so that she could not speak aloud without great exertion. Hoarseness in the evening (after twelve days). Suddenly great hoarseness in the evening, so that he could scarcely speak a loud word, with great dyspnoea, so that he was scarcely able to breathe, when walking in the open air (after sixth day). Paroxysm as follows: The boy became hoarse, distorted his eyes (as if something were sticking in them) when he wished to speak, with lachrymation; this was followed by red cheeks, pain on swallowing, loud breathing when asleep, cough, vomiting of milk; he was obstinate and screamed frequently (after a few hours). Almost voiceless in the morning. Cough and Expectoration. Cough after the slightest cold, in the morning on rising from bed, or if she goes from a warm room into a cold one. Cough, from irritation and crawling in the throat, in a few deep paroxysms, on account of which the chest is painful, as if pressed in. Cough, which causes vomiting and retching, in the evening. Cough in the evening, in bed, before going to sleep. Cough every time as soon as she has eaten sufficiently. Frequent cough caused by irritation in the upper part of the chest with roughness and scraping in the throat (after three days). Slight attacks of cough, in a few shocks (after five minutes); repeated on the third day at the same time. Repeated paroxysms of cough at night, with constantly returning irritation thereto. Short cough in the evening. Frequent paroxysms of short cough. Spasmodic cough in three or four paroxysms daily. Spasmodic cough in the evening for five hours (from walking too rapidly?), (after sixteen days). Half-involuntary, rough cough, caused by constant roughness and crawling in the throat. Violent tickling cough, with whitish expectoration, in the morning after waking. Fatiguing cough, with dyspnoea and burning in the chest. Dry cough after every expectoration, with causes warmth and sweat. Rough cough, without any expectoration, which causes warmth and sweat. Rough cough, without any expectoration. Severe cough, with much yellowish, purulent expectoration, and sticking pain in the left hypochondrium on breathing, followed by severe stitches in the upper part of the left side of the chest. Cough, caused by itching in the larynx (with tenacious, salty expectoration), in the evening on going to sleep, and in the morning after waking. Expectoration of mucus from the larynx, caused by short, hacking cough. Expectoration of entire pieces of green mucus. Respiration. Desire for deep breathing, with moaning. He was obliged to fetch a deep breath, with exhaustion of the chest, of the abdomen, back, neck, and head, together with lifting of the feet. Shortness of breath, with anxiety on the chest; he was unable to sit, and was obliged to walk about constantly for ten days. If the tearing-drawing, burning pains attack the external chest, even for a short time, they are constantly accompanied by a sensation of oppression of breathing. Great dyspnoea, on account of which she was obliged to walk slower than usual. Difficult breathing, worse when sitting. Difficult breathing from oppression of the chest. Difficult breathing in the evening when lying, with throbbing of the head. Difficult breathing, fulness of the chest, and palpitation on the slightest motion, mostly towards evening. She gets out of breath on turning over in bed. Respiration stopped entirely on falling asleep, with increased vertigo.
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.