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Pulsation in the abdomen. Crawling and moving about in the abdomen, as after a purgative (after half an hour). Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Quivering or muscular twitchings in the lower portion of the abdomen when sitting bent (after four hours). Pressure in the lower abdomen as from a weight. A dull pressive pain deep in the lower abdomen, at last with fever, heat, anxiety, and restlessness, so that he could neither sleep at night nor lie; the lower abdomen was painful to touch, as in inflammation of the abdomen. Dragging in both inguinal regions, extending forward with ineffectual urging to urinate, while sitting, lasting half an hour. Stitches extending downward in the right groin, as if a hernia would appear, after breakfast. Bruised pain in the right groin, with stitches;relieved at first by pressure, but afterwards increased (after an hour and a half). Bruised pain in the left groin, when walking, at 2 p. m.

Rectum and Anus.

Hemorrhoids impeding the stool (after 13 days). Large painful hemorrhoids. Swollen hemorrhoids, with itching- sticking and much moisture. Hard hemorrhoids, stinging-burning, extremely painful when touched, when walking, when standing or sitting;relieved after a stool, lasting 14 days (after 19 days). Sensation as if there was something hard in the rectum, like a kernel of fruit. Cramp in the rectum, which made it impossible to walk; she was obliged to sit still (after a few hours). Spasmodic drawing pain in the rectum (anus) after coition. Dragging in the rectum, as if there were faeces in it which should be expelled. Pressure in the rectum, the whole day. Continued pressure in the rectum and anus, worse after the stool. Frequent sudden pressing-piercing pain in the rectum. Sticking in the rectum, during a stool.

Crawling in the rectum (after a few hours). Itching and sticking in the rectum. Severe itching in the rectum and in the genitals. Sore painfulness of the hemorrhoids increased, so as to be unendurable on walking or reflecting. Burning in the anus after the stool, which makes him powerless. Burning in the anus after the stool, with depressed pulse and palpitation.

Severe burning in the anus, with a stool A stitch in the anus (before a meal). Biting pain in the anus after a stool. Sore pain in the anus, with moisture. Itching in the anus. Itching in the anus, after dinner. C Excessive itching in the anus, day and night (2nd day). Crawling-itching in the anus; Pain in the perineum, with pulsation in it. Urging to stool, though the anus spasmodically contracted, so that no stool passes; the pressure. However, continues (2nd day). Urging to stool, with rumbling in the abdomen. Immediate urging to stool after dinner, the stool was hard and passed with pressure.

Frequent urging to stool, without passing more than flatulence (3rd day). Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, with much pain, anxiety, and redness if the face (4th,10th and 30th days).

Stool.

Diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea easily from taking cold in the abdomen. Diarrhoea in the evening. Diarrhoea at night. Diarrhoea, with twinging and burning in the anus. Watery diarrhoea, with stomach ache.

He was obliged to rise at night to go to stool, which was very soft. Faeces passed with sensation as though only flatulence passed Fluid stool. Semifluid stool. Semifluid stool, at 5 A.M.

(second day). semifluid stool, without pain, at 2 P.M. Soft stool, with passage of flatus.

Very solid stool, though without any difficulty. Hard stool (4th day). The stool was crumbly, then the rectum contracted, and only a soft stool was passed, which was thin in form, like a goose quill (after sixteen hours). Bloody stool, with burning and sore sensation in the rectum. Stool, with white mucus (6th day). Painless passage of blood with a soft stool.

Mucus and clear blood are passed with a nodular difficult stool, without trace of hemorrhoids. Passage of a round worm with a hard stool (2nd day). The stool passes better when standing. Constipation. Constipation (after twenty-four hours). No stool (2nd and 3rd days).

Urinary organs.– Bladder.

Pain in the bladder; he can pass no urine; if, however, a few drops pass, he has violent pains in the urinary passages, with constipation and crams in the rectum. Urethra. Pain in the urethra after urinating, in the evening, with dull aching on the top of the head. Burning sensation in the urethra. Burning suddenly in the urethra at night.

Burning of the urine (after 16 days). Burning urine after am emission. Burning when urinating. Burning in the urethra when urinating. Burning in the urethra, or in the root of the urethra, when urinating. Burning urine, when urinating, in the urethra, in the region of the fra0enum. Cutting urine.

Itching in the orifice of the urethra (8th day). Urging to urinate after walking. Urging to urinate, without passing anything; she was obliged to wait for along time, and then only a very little urine passed, but the urging was soon again renewed, without pain, at 8 p. m. Frequent urging to urinate. Frequent urging to urinate, and afterwards shivering in the open air; it disappeared in the room (after half an hour).

Frequent urging to urinate, without passing any, then, while sitting, involuntary flow of it (1st day). At night frequent urging to urinate, which wakes her from sleep. Frequent urgent desire to urinate, which is passed in much larger quantity than the amount of drink taken. Very frequent urging to urinate, with involuntary dribbling of urine. Micturition. Enuresis, with violent erections, without desire (8th day). Increased, flow of slightly acid urine, which contains the whole of the potash; organic matter differing considerably from that of ordinary urine, and a relatively large proportion of sulphuric acid;the phosphoric acid and the chlorine are less changed.

Unusually profuse passage of the urine (5th day). After the increased flow of urine, the quantity passed per hour falls slightly below the standard. Scanty urine, with great thirst.

Frequent urination. Frequent passage of much urine. He is obliged to urinate frequently at night (15th day). Frequent and very much increased micturition in the urine soon deposited a sediment like yeast Quite frequent micturition of scanty urine, without pain or urging. He was obliged to rise twice at night to urinate;the urine was copious together with diarrhoea, which was repeated in the morning. He urinates so easily that he is not sensible of the stream, and can scarcely believe in the dark that he is urinating until he makes sure with the hand (after one hour). Involuntary passage of urine while coughing or blowing the nose. The urine stopped at intervals in the evening (2nd day). (* Meaning that while urinating, the flow intermitted. – T.F.A. *). The urine passes at night, in sleep (7th day). The last drops on the urine are delayed. Ineffectual attempts to urinate; when a few drops were passed, he had violent pain in the bladder and also (after walking much in order to relieve it) cramps in the rectum (21st day). Urine. Urine clear, like water. Urine reddish without sediment. The urine is often dark-brown. The urine becomes turbid and cloudy on standing. Much tenacious mucus in the urine.

Sexual Organs.

Male.

Increased smegma; a very large amount is secreted on the corona glandis. Itching scurf on the inside of the prepuce. Erections the whole forenoon (2nd day). Erection, with desire for coition, in the morning (2nd day). Frequent incomplete erections, in the morning after coition. No erection on attempted coition; he was impotent (27th day). Burning pain in the penis.

Voluptuous itching of the penis, with incomplete erection.

Itching on the inner surface of the prepuce, at one time tickling at another biting. Itching on the frenum. Pressive pain, as if crushed, in the right testicle. Pressive pain in the testicles, at noon. Itching cutting pain in the septum of the scrotum. Stitches in the right testicle (after 6 days). Tearing in the testicles. Sexual excitement (after few hours). Increased sexual desire (1st day). Very much increased sexual desire, with disinclination for any work.

Sexual desire very little excited (after 32 days). Desire for emission. Emissions, followed by burning urine. Emissions for several nights in succession, also during the afternoon nap, in one who was impotent (after 3 days). Frequent emissions, in an old man (after seven days). Frequent emissions and constant incomplete erections, at night and the following forenoon (after fifty hours). During coition, blood is discharged from the urethra with the ejaculation of semen (21st day). Passage of prostatic fluid after the stool. Female. Attack of uterine spasm, pains now in the lower abdomen, now in the stomach, now in the chest, now in the small of the back, which obliged her to bend forward; she was unable to keep erect without the most violent pain; could not endure clothing on the epigastric region, and die not dare to eat anything, even the most digestible food, on account of most violent pains in the abdomen and stomach; the application of warm stones caused immediate relief; everything seemed as if pressed and obstructed in the abdomen; so full that it seemed as if it would burst, with constant ineffectual desire to eructate (after a few days). Burning in the female genitals.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.