Griping colic, only immediately after stool. Cutting colic in the morning, after chilliness for two hours, with headache and nausea. Colic after eating in the morning, with great fullness of the stomach and of the chest the whole day. Cutting colic deep in the bowels, with good appetite and sleep at night. Cutting colic, with diarrhoea (twelfth day). Most violent colic like pains. ( * A woman could not take more than 4 grains a day without this.–HUGHES. *).
Drawing bruised pain in the intestines (after nine hours and half). Pulse like jerks on the abdomen and small of the back.
Some shocks in the abdomen against the abdominal muscles, from within outward, as from a child in pregnancy.
Hypogastric and Iliac Region.
Aching pains in the hypogastric region, like menstrual colic.
Forcing down feeling in the hypogastric region, like menstrual or labor pains. Contractive pain in the lower abdomen after the appearance of the menses, which disappears on walking in the open air. Contractive pain in the lower abdomen like after pains, with urging to stool. Cramp in the lower abdomen (sixth day).
Griping deep in the lower abdomen after every meal, with good appetite. Drawings in the lower abdomen pressing up towards the upper abdomen, in the morning while sitting. Pressure in the lower abdomen, followed by fermentation. Constant pressure in the lower abdomen as from something heavy, when not eating.
Stitches in the lower abdomen, as with a knife. Tearings in the lower abdomen above the pubis, extending to the abdominal ring.
Drawing colic in the lower abdomen after dinner, while sitting.
Pain in the right groin as if swollen and feeling as if suppurating. A dragging outward sensation of the right groin.
Sticking in the right groin, while walking. Stitches in the groin on rising from a chair. Distending pain in a place where there is a hernia (second day). Dragging outward in the place of hernia.
Dragging towards the location of a previous inguinal hernia, without the protrusion of hernia.
Rectum and Anus.
Rectum.
Heat in lower portion of the rectum (not in anus).
Burning in the rectum and anus. Burning in the rectum during a stool. Stitches in the rectum. Itching in the rectum follows itching in the chest and abdomen.
Anus.
Heat in the anus. Drawings towards the anus and abdomen.
Frequent attacks of dragging towards the anus and sacrum (first days).
Frequent stitches in the anus when not at stool (fifth day).
Itching in the anus. Violent itching in the anus, nates, perineum and near the scrotum, so that he was obliged to rise.
Urging.
Great urging to stool daily with diarrhoea three times.
Frequent urging to stool without result. Frequent urging to stool, daily, thereby some, although very little, is passed every time. Frequent urging but scanty passage of soft faeces, followed by still more distended abdomen. Constant ineffectual urging to stool.
Constant desire for stool; he, however, is able to accomplish it but twice daily; it is then thin. Straining at stool.
Stool.
Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea. Frequent diarrhoea; stools like water with many eructations, and copious passage of urine (after twenty four hours). (Exhausting diarrhoea). (* See note to S. 562.–HUGHES.
*). Very frequent diarrhoea like stools, like water, together with undigested portions, with griping in the stomach, which extended through the abdomen (second day). Involuntary stool during sleep (second day).
Four liquid stools with hard lumps (sixth day). Stool softer than usual (third day after 30 drops). Pasty stool, twice daily, with burning in the rectum. Liquid stool mixed with hard portions, passed with many loud emissions of flatus, together with colic (seventh day). Undigested stool (ninth day). Undigested portions pass with the stool. Passage of very offensive mucus with the stool. Passage of blood with the morning stool.
Constipation.
Constipation. (* In the original, ” irregular stools, attended with gripings.”–HUGHES. *).Stool every second day, the first portion is only passed with pressure. Solid stool with pressure; only every second day. Scanty stool.
Urinary Organs.
Bladder.
Sharp pressure upon the bladder. Cramp like pressure in the neck of the bladder soon after urinating, extending from within outward, with sharp stitches, lasting several hours, worse while walking than while sitting. On two occasions, once after taking one of the largest doses of the American and once after one of the largest doses of the British extract. I felt an acute, lancinating and transient pain in the region of the neck of the bladder, similar, as I suppose, to strangury. Having never experienced a sensation of the kind, either before or since. I believe it to have been caused by the medicine.
Urethra.
Discharge of mucus from the male urethra, even after urinating (fourth, fifth and sixth days). Discharge of pus from the urethra, preceded by itching in it. Great pain in the urethra on passing urine, which is always mixed with a tenacious turbid mucus. Burning in the urethra. Burning while urinating.
Burning in the urethra during micturition (eleventh day).
Burning in the urethra in the morning, immediately after urinating, lasting half an hour. Cutting drawing through the urethra during micturition. Cutting during micturition. Cutting in the orifice of the urethra during micturition (first days).
Sticking in the orifice of the urethra. Much sticking in the urethra, at times increasing with every beat of the heart.
Stitches in the urethra. Many stitches in the urethra.
Severe stitch in the urethra, extending to the orifice.
Jerking stitch in the posterior portion of the urethra. Constant tickling and burning in the urethra.
Micturition.
Frequent urging to urinate, every half hour, with scanty urine every time. Frequent urging to urinate with slight strangury and burning in the course of the urethra. Calls to urinate more frequent. Very frequent urging to urinate. Constant urging to urinate, with heat in making water, which continues all day, more or less. Constant urging to urinate; during the first four hours she was obliged to urinate as many as thirty times, the amount of urine varying from a few drops to a teaspoonful at a time; with this urging there was a most violent burning pain at the neck of the bladder and along the urethra; the urging was so violent that it seemed like labor pains. Frequent micturition, at night (after ten hours) Frequent micturition, without being able to retain the urine. Nocturnal enuresis. Was obliged to rise at 2 a.
m. to urinate, several nights. Copious urination. Profuse urine.
Profuse urine with great pain. Urine scanty, dark colored, frothy, depositing a red sediment. Strangury. Biting strangury after urinating (after half an hour). Several drops of urine are discharged after urinating; they cannot be contained nor forcibly expelled. Suppression of urine, ischuria.
(Haematuria).(* In a gouty subject–HUGHES. *). Frequent haematuria, with dyspnoea. A few drops of bright red blood were passed with the first portion of the urine; the rest of the urine was clear.
Urine.
Red urine. Urine turbid, with red sediment. Urine turbid, with red sediment.
Sexual Organs.
Male.
Inflammation of the prepuce. Many erections during the night.
Painful stiffness of the penis in the evening before going to sleep. Feeling of compression at the root of the penis.
Cutting pain in the glans penis. Tearing through the penis, when not urinating (fourth day). Itching in the penis, prepuce and glans, not relieved by rubbing. Pain for several hours in the testicles, especially after erections (first day). Griping and tearing in the testicles in the evening (fourth day). Drawing pain in the left testicle. Pressive pain in the left testicle for several hours. Pain as if a knife were cutting through the middle of the scrotum, between the testicles, backward to above the root of the penis, frequently repeated. Fine stitches, then burning, on the outer side of the left testicle. Drawings in the spermatic cord. Drawing in the left spermatic cord. Sexual desire, without erections. Sexual desire greatly excited. (Inordinate sexual desire). (* Inordinate excitement was present, but nothing is said as to its being sexual.–HUGHES. *). Sexual desire is completely wanting, for several of the first days, in spite of the most enticing caresses. Emission (first night). Emissions without dreams, three nights in succession. Emissions, three nights in succession, followed by awakening of sexual desire. Emission even while frolicking with a woman. Discharge of prostatic fluid.
Discharge of prostatic fluid on every change of emotion, without voluptuous thoughts, with itching of the prepuce.
Female.
Pressure upon the uterus, and cutting during micturition.
Cutting between the labia, when urinating. Severe stitches in the pudenda. Tearing in the mons veneris while sitting. Severe itching in the pudenda, also in the vagina, worse immediately after menstruation; she was obliged to rub it, whereupon there is no pain in the uterus like a pressing downward. Severe itching deep in the vagina. Leucorrhoea (second 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.