Stomach.
Appetite.
An enormous appetite, at noon. Canine hunger. Canine hunger, with particular longing for bread and beer. Diminished appetite, though food has a natural taste. Little appetite at noon.
Little appetite at noon, none in the evening. Little appetite at dinner, although the food tasted well. No appetite for dinner.
Loss of appetite. (260). Loss of appetite, in the evening.
Appetite all gone.
Aversion to food before eating, and inclination to vomit, towards evening. Aversion to food, accompanied by scraping in the throat; it disappeared after drinking a glass of water; but the scraping continued. Strongly marked aversion to the drug.
Thirst.
Unusual thirst. Violent thirst. Unquenchable thirst.
Feeling of thirst in the throat. Great desire to drink, without thirst; the mouth is constantly watery; drink is relished but immediately after every drink there is a flat taste in the mouth.
Eructation and Hiccough.
Eructation, immediately. Eructations of bilious substances.
Violent eructation, immediately. Violent Eructations, lasting about half an hour (soon). Violent eructation, after eating.
Frequent eructations. Frequent, for the most part empty eructations, on rising from stool. Frequent eructations of breakfast.
Sobbing eructations. Empty eructations, etc. Empty eructations, which lasted almost the whole day. Empty eructations, frequently returning. Empty eructations, frequently repeated, and sometimes amounting almost to sobbing. Empty eructations, in the morning. Empty eructations, on rising up. Empty eructations, with burning in the pharynx. Empty eructations that cause palpitation and spasms in the throat, with desire to retch and vomit. Inodorous eructations (soon). Sour eructations (after a few minutes). Bitter eructations (immediately); (soon). Bitterish eructations from the stomach. Rising of a bitter, white, frothy liquid, immediately after breakfast. Hiccough (third day).
Frequent hiccough (after one hour and a quarter). Heartburn, after voracious hunger (after one hour).
Nausea and Vomiting.
(Nausea). Nausea; (soon). Nausea, for two hours (immediately). Nausea for eight hours (after five minutes).
Nausea rising from the stomach, for several days. Nausea for six hours, lasting until going to sleep at night, recurring in the morning, after waking. Nausea and malaise after eating, as from indigestion. Slight sensation of nausea, towards noon. Sudden and severe feeling of nausea, lasting about five minutes, and going off as suddenly as it came (after three hours). Intimations of nausea.
Inclination to vomit. Vomiting, very profuse. Vomiting of all nourishment. Vomiting twice, of only food, without offensive taste or nausea (after ten minutes). Vomiting of a bitter tasting, yellow, serous fluid.
Stomach.
Rumbling in the stomach, after each dose.
Feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Feeling of coldness in the stomach. Sensation as of a hank in the stomach and pharynx. A slight pain in the stomach, combined with headache, and also slight diarrhoea. Transient pains in the left side of the epigastrium. Burning pain in the stomach, even when eating.
Enormous heat of the stomach. Feeling of fullness in the epigastric region, in the forenoon. Transient aching contractive pain in the pit of the stomach, at 10 p. m., during a walk after supper. Compressive sensation in the epigastrium, returning at short intervals, and changing into a sharp pinching, with slight confusion of the forehead. Moderate pinching in the epigastric region. Griping in the epigastric region, after each meal, worse towards evening, lasting fifteen minutes.
Beer (after 11 a. m). caused violent griping in the stomach, coming on in paroxysms, and only disappearing after dinner. Painful griping and movements in the epigastric region (continuing a long time), followed by a soft, almost diarrhoeic stool (after four hours).
Slight cramp in the stomach, at night, rising along he oesophagus into the throat. Painful cramp in the stomach, at night, relieved by eructations of wind. Pressing, spasmodic pain in the stomach, rising up into the throat, in the morning. Stomach ache, for a few minutes, after dinner. Some stomachache, combined with flatulence and headache.
Transient aching in the pit of the stomach and bowels.
Pressing in the pit of the stomach, and constriction of the larynx, obliging him to swallow frequently. Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone.
Pressure in the pit of the stomach (immediately). Violent pressure in the stomach (immediately). Frequent pressure in the stomach and around the umbilicus (nineteenth day). Sleepless from cramp like pressure in the pit of the stomach, and constriction of the stomach; this latter was so sensitive that he could not endure the lightest covering.
Pressive sensation in the epigastric region, especially after eating, with a sensation as of hunger, which was not relieved by repeated eating; daily. Pressive pain in the stomach. Pressive pain, with dull stitches in the pit of the stomach, which necessitate rapid breathing; it seems as though the lungs could not be sufficiently inflated.
Sore feeling in the pit of the stomach. The gastric pains were always accompanied by pains in the face and teeth.
Abdomen.
Hypochondria.
Violent rumbling, with very severe cutting in the left hypochondriac and umbilical regions, continuing all day (after five hours). Drawing in the left hypochondrium. Pressing pain in the right hypochondrium, at the arch of the diaphragm, oppressing the respiration. A slight throbbing, like a pulse, in the left hypochondrium, as high as the arch of the diaphragm. Transient stitches in the hepatic region. Night restless from transient stitches in the hepatic region. Transient stitches in the hepatic region and sacrum, after dinner. A sudden thrust from behind forwards passed rapidly through the hepatic region, and then in the same direction through the head.
Stitches beneath the last ribs.
Umbilical and Flanks.
Some swelling of the abdomen about the navel, accompanied by some confusion of the head in the forehead and temples. While walking, an unpleasant sensation about the navel, as after taking cold, with urging to stool, which he was obliged to attend to immediately, as the sphincter seemed to have no resisting power.
The discharge was thin, orange colored, and pappy (after five hours). After walking for half an hour a renewed and increased sensation about the navel, as though he had been chilled; more violent tenesmus, to which he has obliged to give way, with a result similar to the former; afterquarter of an hour, during which he was incessantly walking, the same unpleasant sensation returned below the navel, with still greater violence; it increased to a drawing cutting, which darted repeatedly from behind forwards and upwards in a curve to the navel; this ceased on the occurrence of urging to stool, which became exceedingly pressing, and the evacuation ran in a watery stream out of the sphincter, which seemed paralysed; it contained part of the contents of the soup eaten at the noon meal, still undigested.
This was followed by ineffectual urging, which, when repressed by an effort of the voluntary muscles, gave rise to a pressing tension in the lowest part of the abdominal parietes, and an acute pressure at the inferior angle of the right scapula, with tensive pain extending thence downward; on the cessation of the long continued tenesmus a free, protracted discharge took place, the sphincter standing wide open, as if paralyzed. Painfulness of the umbilical region in the evening. Pain in the umbilical region several times (seventh and twelfth days). Umbilical region unceasingly painful, at night.
Acute pain in the umbilical region, increased by walking.
Sensation of inflation in the umbilical region, with compression in the throat and nausea; these symptoms lasted the whole day, and became worse some hours after dinner. Constriction in the umbilical region. Constrictive pains about the navel in the evening. Constrictive pain in the umbilicus, immediately after dinner. Violent constrictive pain in the umbilical region, lasting a quarter of an hour, and which waked him from sleep the following morning at 3 a. m. Seized with terrible, contractive, twisting pains in bowels, immediately about umbilicus, spreading afterwards over the whole upper part of the abdomen, leaving the lower portion perfectly free from pain; this lasted about an hour, when there was a copious evacuation of the bowels, and an immediate relief from pain, which was, however, only temporary, as the pains soon came back again, followed by a copious discharge with temporary relief, succeeded for a third time by a paroxysm of pain, followed by a discharge and partial relief, for the pain kept on, more or less, during the whole night (after four hours). Abdominal pains came on again at 4 p. m., with the same results, keeping up all the evening, chasing her out of bed twice during the night, and early the next morning (second day). Same abdominal symptoms came on again, but in a far slighter degree, although lasting the whole evening (third day). This state of things kept up for six days, wearing off only gradually.
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.