Abdomen
Hypochondria. Indefinite, unpleasant, painful sensation in the region of the left lobe of the liver (second day). Sticking, colic-like symptoms in the hypochondria, after sitting a long time (sixth day). Paroxysmal, sticking pains in the region of the small lobe of the liver precede the stool (fifth day). Jerking- sticking pain, first in the right, afterwards in the left hypochondrium, continuing but a few minutes on either side, aggravated neither by pressure nor by motion, at 9 A.M. (fourth day). Stitch like jerkings in the left hypochondrium. Umbilical. Pinching twinges in a small spot three fingers’ breadth to the right of the navel, lasting half a minute (from the 3d dec. dilution), in the same place where the same sensation was noticed from the 1st dilution. Griping pain in the umbilical region, with urging to stool, followed by nausea and accumulation of water in the mouth. Dull stitches in the right side of the umbilical region, extending into the coecal region, with passage of flatulence in the morning, in bed (second day). Cutting colic about the navel, with slight attacks of nausea, one hour after dinner. Some fine tearings from the right side of the umbilical region to the bladder; they frequently return until dinner. General Abdomen. Distension of the abdomen (after two hours). Distension of the abdomen, with sensation of soreness. Distension of the abdomen, after eating. Abdomen full and tense. Increased peristaltic motion. Increase of the peristaltic motion, rumbling, passage of flatulence. Movings about in the abdomen. Movings, like flatulence, in the abdomen (after a quarter of an hour). Rumbling of the abdomen. Rumbling in the abdomen, without pain. Rumblings and movings in the intestines. Audible rumbling in the abdomen. Flatulence. Much flatulence, and frequent passage of flatus from the rectum having the smell of the drug. Great quantity of flatus both up and down, on waking in morning (second day). Very offensive flatulence. Passage of flatus. Passage of flatus, with sensation of itching in the rectum. Increased passage of flatus. Many and noisy passages of flatus upwards and downwards (second day). Discharge of much flatus upward and downward. Extraordinary discharge of wind both upward and downward, when walking (second day). Sensation of discomfort and slight nausea in the abdomen, followed by a soft fecal stool (second day). Sensation of discomfort in the abdomen by paroxysms, also returning after a stool (second day). Sensation of discomfort in the abdomen, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and paroxysms of slight nausea (after four hours). Pain in the abdomen, after dinner. 10 P.M., feeling in bowels as if about to have diarrhoea. Pain in the abdomen, as though diarrhoea would follow. Pressive constrictive pain in the abdomen, with discharge of much flatus upward and downward (after one hour). Griping here and there in the abdomen, with passage of flatulence (second day). Griping pain in the small intestines, with passage of flatus. Griping, with rumbling and rolling in the intestines, as though diarrhoea would follow. While sitting and writing, pressive pain in the abdomen seemed to cause attacks of nausea; it was relieved in the open air (second day). Slight flatulent twinges in the abdomen (fourth day). Cutting paroxysmal pain in the upper abdomen, by the right false ribs, at 6 A.M. (third day). Jerking-sticking pain in the coecal region (second day). Pinching-sticking in the coecal region (second day). Slight itching-sticking pain on right side of the abdomen below the navel, followed by semifluid stool (fourth day). Dull itching- sticking pain in the coecal region as yesterday, only that the attack continues rather longer, lasting from one to two minutes (after two hours). Stitches here and there in the abdomen. Occasional stitches in the left side of the abdomen (fifth day). Pinching stitches in the right side of the abdomen, frequently during the day (fourth day). Tearing pains here and there in the intestines. Slight colic-like pains. Tearing colic-like pains in the abdomen. Colic. Colic (after three-quarters of an hour). Colic, with movings about like flatulence, aggravated by inspiration, with stitching pain on pressure; the flatulence seems to accumulate in the coecal region, moving from one side to the other; pressing upon the abdomen increases or renews the pain, at 4 A.M., (after two to three days)(400). Slight colic after eating. Frequent slight colic pains. Severe colic. Severe cutting colic, followed by urgent stool, in the evening, after eating a very little salad. Pain in the abdomen on pressure. Abdomen painful to pressure. Sensation of soreness of the walls of the abdomen (second day). Dull jerking pains in the muscles of the abdomen from time to time, during the afternoon. Hypogastrium. Feeling of discomfort in the lower abdomen, with paroxysms of nausea, aggravated by stooping or by motion (after three hours). Slight cutting in the lower abdomen, followed by partly softish, partly crumbly stool, after drinking coffee; the same cutting pain was soon afterwards again experienced without the stool. Slight cutting pains in the lower abdomen; stooping, or resting the arm against the abdomen is unpleasant; the former seemed to cause the attacks of nausea, the latter the colic, even if these symptoms had disappeared. Stitch like twinges in the left side of the lower abdomen. Dull sticking pain on pressing upon the lower abdomen. Slight colic in the lower abdomen, as if diarrhoea would follow, at 10 A.M. (second day).
Rectum and Anus
Burning and itching in the rectum. Transient stitches in the rectum. Violent burning and itching in the anterior commissura ani, which is found to be sore to the touch, in afternoon, after a stool (second day). Urging to stool. Urgent desire for stool, at noon. 8 P.M., urging to stool, which was pappy and accompanied and followed by a feeling of weakness and tremulousness (second day).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea at night of a yellow, frothy, sour-smelling fluid, with colic-like pain in the abdomen, especially in the umbilical region, with which the navel was drawn inward; with tenesmus, which soon disappeared without returning (this returned every four or five weeks, and lasted one or two days). Sudden diarrhoea set in after dinner, with colic; this was twice repeated during the afternoon. Slimy diarrhoea, in the afternoon (second day). Watery diarrhoea twice. Transient, offensive diarrhoea, alternating with constipation. Diarrhoeic stool breakfast (second day). Two stools in quick succession. Two small pastry stool at 11 A.M. (fifth day). Two stools, the first in part pasty, in part crumbly, the last one thin, fluid, between 9 and 10 A.M. (third day). Stool, with relief of colic. Stool, preceded by griping colic, which was relieved after the stool. Stool, followed by pinching-sticking pain in the coecum (fifth day). Stool, with mucus, and discharge of cherry-red blood (in the morning, two days after, connected with the headache), (fifth day). Immediately on waking, at 5.30 A.M., was obliged to go to stool, and had a copious, thin, yellowish evacuation, with subsequent burning at the anus, as if from acridity. Stool at first solid, then soft, followed by rumbling in the abdomen, as if another stool would occur. Stool soft. Stool soft, having the peculiar odor of the drug. Having been three days without an evacuation, on going to stool, in the morning, after breakfast, without any special call, had a soft stool, with a considerable discharge of cheery-bed blood (third day). Soft, pasty stool, preceded by colic, soon after breakfast (second day). Insufficient soft stool at 10 A.M. (fourth day). Pasty stool (second day). Stools always pappy and scanty. A pappy stool escaped involuntarily when making water in the afternoon. Thin, pappy stool after breakfast (third day). Semifluid stool at 10 A.M. (fourth day). Insufficient, soft, liquid stool, preceded by slight colic. Stool at first solid, afterwards liquid, with burning in the anus (after one hour and a half), followed (after three hours) by another stool, with burning in the anus (second day). Very watery stool, as after a purge (after three hours). Considerable discharge of blood with the pappy stools. Stool scanty, small, and even if fluid, still evacuated with difficulty in consequence of the inactivity of the bowel, in the evening. Stool dryer than usual (after five hours). An insufficient hard stool, with a slight urging towards evening. Constipation. Constipation (second day). No stool during the day. Three days without an evacuation or going to stool. Some workers suffer from constipation, some from diarrhoea.
Urinary Organs
Bladder. Violent stitchlike, crampy pain in the bladder and neck of bladder, at midnight, when making water, on coming home, after taking a glass of wine, extending forwards into the urethra, and accompanied by a similar pain in the anus and rectum; this pain is hardly bearable while it continues. Urethra. Slight irritation of the mucous membrane of the urethra. Tickling in forepart of urethra, an sensation as though something were about to run out of it (after dinner). Desire to pass urine. Great desire to pass urine. Sudden transient desire to urinate, arising form the fossa navicularis, without real urging or necessity for urinating. Micturition. Involuntary passage of urine. Urine. Urine smells of sulphur. Increase of carbonates and sulphates in the urine.
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.