Umbilical.
Pains round the umbilicus, and extending up to the epigastrium, at 8.30 p. m. (twenty first day). Acute sore pain extending across the abdomen, just across the umbilicus, affecting the breathing, lasting several minutes, also slight bubbling in the abdomen, and very much wind there, and emission of hot flatus, at 9.30 p. m. (twentieth day).
General Abdomen.
Discharge of flatus, with desire for stool (after ten minutes).
Still a good deal of flatulence with noisy eructations upwards and discharge of flatus (tenth day). Some uneasiness in the bowels (after ten minutes). Constant uneasiness and pain in the bowels (after nine hours and a half). Abdomen feels swollen. The abdomen seems unusually full and bloated, with some pain (after nine hours and a half). At times dull pain in the abdomen; clothes too tight. Pain and rumbling of flatus in the left abdominal region, from thence extending over the abdomen (after one hour). Continual throbbing like a thumping in the left posterior side, in the region between the spleen and kidneys, not painful but very singular. The throbbing in lower left side, which was from twitching of the tendons, occurred at times during the night (first night). Colic pains in the abdomen, especially during eating (seventh day). Colic pains in the abdomen and distension, with rumbling and discharge of flatus (eighth day).
Frequent returns of colic pains in various parts of the abdomen, sometimes mounting up to the axilla (after nine hours and a half).
Frequent returns of colic pains through the day, more noticed and more severe after eating. Quite severe colic pain in the right ilio cecal region, coming on like a thrust (fourth day).
Colic pains still come on by turns, more in the right abdomen, and when sitting indoors (fifth day). Quite unpleasant colic pains, all the evening (eighth day).
Hypogastrium.
Slight shifting pains in the hypogastric region, lasting about six minutes, at 9 p. m., after lying down in bed (twelfth day).
Dull pain, gurgling and uneasiness in the intestines, in the hypogastric region and accompanied by emission of odorless flatus in the night (tenth night).
Stool.
Diarrhoea.
Stool loose, but normal (ninth day). Loose stool in the morning (sixth day); loose urgent stool, with aching at the anus (seventh day).
Constipation.
Bowels sluggish. No stool, which is very un usual (after three hours and a half).
Urinary Organs.
The urine discharged yesterday and during the night is covered with a thin pellicle and has a cloud of mucus suspended in it; fair quantity and color (second day); rather scanty and no cloud (third day).
Respiratory Organs.
Cough.
Slight cough from irritation, at night in bed (first night).
Respiration.
The breath is continually oppressed. Difficulty in breathing, worse in the morning while in bed, better while moving about and in the open air (third day).
7.15 P.M., after a walk in the open air and on seating myself in a warm room, an itching in the right side of the trachea, producing a dry, hacking cough.
Soon after an itching in the left side of the trachea, causing a dry hacking cough (fifteenth day).
Chest.
Feeling of fullness and tightness across the lower part of the chest and upper part of the abdomen, as if nothing could move, and causing great difficulty in breathing (the prover said she swelled in those parts), (third day). Sharp pains in the superior region of the chest on taking a deep inspiration, at night in bed, for two nights in succession, apparently in the pleura, lasting for some time (seventh day). The whole chest feels sore on contact; flannel irritates without much soreness.
Front.
Occasional digging sensations in the center of the sternum, without pain, from within outward. Stingings for a few moments beneath the sternum, more towards the right side (fifth day).
Sides.
Cannot draw a long breath on account of sharp pain felt at the center of the thorax on the left side. Sharp, stitching pain in left chest, just below the apex of the heart, not worse on motion or inspiration (after three hours and a half). Stinging pricking pain between the nipple and axilla of the left side. Fine prickling in the costal cartilages of the eighth, ninth and tenth ribs, in the right side (twelfth day). Soreness in a small spot just below the ribs on the right side; also and first on the left side but worse on the right side, at 7.30 p. m. (twentieth day).
Mammae.
Very acute pain in the left mammary gland, about an inch above the nipple, while sitting in the house, and lasting about five minutes; this pain, I think, I cannot describe intelligibly; sometimes it seemed to be a throbbing sore pain, at others as if a sharp edge of a small knife blade was pressing on the spot and with great force, increasing in intensity and with a sore bruised feeling of the ribs beneath when pressed with the hand; relieved by walking about, particularly by deep inspiration; aggravated by expiration; at 3.3.30 p. m. A return of this pain at 5 o’clock, immediately after eating supper.
After leaving the mammary gland it passes down the side as low as the spleen. At 6.30 a return of the pain in the mammary gland.
Immediately after leaving the mammary gland, a sensation of a lancing pain passing down the right side of the chest and inner side of the right upper arm, then to the elbow, down the lower arm and along the dorsal surfaces of the second and third fingers, after which, pain in the left carpus; it returned at 7.25 and 9.20 (twentieth day).
Heart and Pulse.
Palpitation, hard beating of the heart on slight exercise, all the morning (second day). Pulse somewhat accelerated for several days, at 9 a. m. (eleventh day).
Neck and Back.
Continual burning pain in the left scapula, just above and posterior to the spine of the scapula. The back and right half of the abdomen and outer part of the right thigh presented a streaked appearance of alternate red and white (the former the broadest); this redness vanished by pressing with the fingers but returned immediately on taking away the pressure; the streaks extended as high up as the scapulae; the redness seemed to be of a dull hue; at 9 o’clock, on retiring to bed (seventeenth day).
Chronic ailments of the spine much aggravated, especially between the scapulae.
Superior Extremities.
Shoulder.
Easy trembling in left arm and shoulder, on reclining and supporting the body with that hand (after three hours and a half). More pain in right arm but more tremulous sensation (and loss of power?) in the left (after three quarters of an hour).
Drawing or cramp like pain in the right axilla, lasting half an hour (third day). Heavy aching drawing pain in the left axilla, extending through the shoulder, with a sensation as if the shoulder would be drawn towards the neck, lasting half an hour (fourth day). Axillary glands feel swollen and sore, especially the left.
Forearm.
The arm feels numb when holding anything with the hand (seventh day). The right forearm continues slightly numb, especially along the ulnar nerve to the end of the last two fingers, and prickles on resting on the elbow (after three hours and a half). Numb tensive pain of the forearm and rheumatic stiffness of the shoulders and elbow joints, lasting three hours, at 6 p. m.
(second day). Dull aching pain extending from a little above the elbow down the posterior portion of the arm, dorsum of the hand, to the ends of the fingers, lasting two hours and a half; relieved by exercising the arm (seventh day).
Hand.
Trembling in left hand and forearm, when even holding the paper to write (after three hours and a half). Painful weakness of the right hand; especially the two last fingers are inclined to numbness on writing (third day). Drawing crampy pain in the middle of the palm of the right hand, extending to the tips of the fingers (not the thumb), as if the fingers would be drawn towards the palm of the hand, lasting three hours and a half (fifth day).
Finger.
Pain in the palmar surface of the last phalanx of the third finger, at 3 p. m.; a recurrence of the pain at 7 (twenty first day). Burning and aching in the ends of the fingers, more of the right hand (after nine hours and a half). Severe aching pain in the little finger of the right hand, while sitting quietly reading; continuing some time (sixth day). Return of the crampy sensation in the first phalanx of the ring finger of the right hand, lasting ten or fifteen minutes; at 5 p. m. a similar sensation in the first phalanx of the index finger of the right hand, lasting ten minutes, at 6.30 p. m. (thirteenth day).
Drawing crampy sensation in the first phalanx of the ring finger of the right hand and as if the third finger would be flexed on the palm; this drawing sensation seemed to move towards the metacarpophalangeal articulation, lasting about ten minutes (twelfth day).
Inferior Extremities.
Thigh.
Twitching of the tendons of the right buttock, at 8.30 p. m.
(seventh day). At 10 p. m., numb tensive pain on the inner part of the thigh, extending from the scrotum to the condyle (second day). (Aching tensive pain in the anterior and lower part of both thighs, at 8 p. m., the right worse than the left; lasting over an hour in the left, and until I went to sleep in the right; by pressing on the parts with the hand the periosteum feels bruised and sore) (twentieth day).
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.