Hypogastrium and Iliac Region.
Very severe pain in lower part of bowels; not increased by pressure (after 2 hours). pressive pain in the lower abdomen and bladder. An undefined pain in the left inguinal region. Tensive pain in both inguinal regions. Pressive pain above the posterior superior spine of the left ilium.
Rectum and Anus.
Rectum.
Feeling within the rectum, as though purging would follow.
Anus. Swelling and burning extending to the anus. Upon pressing upon the umbilicus, a painful sensation is felt down to the anus, where there is constant pressing outward. Burning about the anus, so that, he was scarcely able to sit. Burning and itching in the anus. Feeling of constriction, with, at times, stitches in the anus, on walking. Dragging to the anus, as if diarrhoea would easily ensue. Pain in the anus, as if a plug were sticking in it, and forcing outward. Sore pain, with burning in the anus, after moving about. Stool, followed by very painful sore sensation within the anus, with feeling as though the rectum was swollen and would protrude, with constant desire for another evacuation; compression of the abdomen and pressure towards the intestines, causing pain extending into the genitals and ending in the glans penis as a sticking, so that, on account of the pain, he became very anxious and oppressed, and was obliged to keep as quiet as possible; accompanied by sweat upon the forehead and nausea, with vanishing of sight and hearing; the pain was more violent when the body was bent over than when sitting, riding, or walking, which latter he was scarcely able to do on account of a very sore pain on the outer portion of the anus; the pain was gradually relieved by rest, when the anus seemed to return and become contracted; this latter was followed by general prostration, ill-humor and loss of appetite. Scraping in the anus, immediately after a stool.
Pulsating, sticking, and burning in the anus. Itching at the anus (after 12 hours). Itching at the anus, obliging him to rub.
Urging. Urging to stool, in the morning, in bed; on rising, a stool, rather soft, light-brown, followed by a very sore sensation in the anus. Urging to stool, with fullness in the abdomen and apparent fullness of the rectum; the stool was scanty and difficult to pass.
Urging and tenesmus while sitting at stool, with, however, passage of very little thin stool of a green-brown color, evacuated at three times and very forcibly as if shot out of the rectum. Great urging and pressing towards the rectum. Great urging to stool, the evacuation accompanied by griping, spasmodic pains in the abdomen; stool rather soft, dark-brown, offensive.
Immediate urging to stool on returning to the house. Sudden urging to stool; he was unable to reach the closet, nevertheless was obliged to sit a long time. Frequent urging to stool without result (3rd day); the usual stool followed on the 4th day with some colic, succeeded by slight pains in the rectum. Constant urging to stool, followed by sudden pasty evacuation, which is shot out of the rectum, of a dirty-green color and offensive.
Soon after luncheon, tenesmus and scanty evacuation, mixed with mucus (in 5 hours and a half).
Stool.–Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea, with urging.
Hypercatharsis (larger doses). Free action of the bowels (repeatedly induced by putting two or three drops upon a surface denuded of its epidermis by a blister), (Rayer). Violent purging, with great pain in bowels (after 8 minutes), passages being without pain and apparently involuntary; the faeces had numerous streaks of a white, shiny, emulsion-like substance mixed with a large quantity of clear glairy fluid (after three-quarters of an hour). Recurrence of purging, after the first attack had been relieved (one case), (after 18 hours).
Numerous evacuations, the first flocculent, the others yellow and green. Very frequent stools (two cases). Twelve diarrhoeic stools, without colic (2nd day). Bowels were opened freely (after one hour and a half), and at intervals for the ensuing thirty hours; in all, some 13 movements. Stool at first modular, mixed with many white points, the second containing many white long (3″) worms as large as threads; the remaining nine evacuations offensive and bilious, or slimy and at last watery. Ten copious, mucous stools, with some colic, but without tenesmus (after one hour). Five stools, with profuse sweat, especially on the forehead. Five soft, slimy evacuations, without griping, with some tenesmus. Four forcible evacuations. Three watery stools (2nd day). Acts upon bowels as a drastic purgative, causing three or four copious watery evacuations (1 or 2 drops), (after one or two hours). Bowels very freely opened, twice (after one and two hours). Two rather scanty diarrhoeic stools. Two dirty-yellow, mealy stools. The usual stool in the morning was followed by a second, after three hours. Solid stool (soon), followed by a liquid stool with slight borborygmi and slight colic, in the epigastric region and hypochondrium; a third stool, also liquid (after two hours and a half); a fourth stool (liquid), (after 3 hours and a half); and a fifth stool, also liquid (after 6 hours and a half). A pasty light-brown stool covered with mucus, with frequent urging, followed by rumbling and gurgling in the left side of the abdomen; after another hour, a second, very soft, pasty, mucous, and urgent stool, of a grayish-green and dirty- brown color, which is evacuated forcibly.
Soft stools, without tenesmus, and without heat in the anus.
Watery stools, in the afternoon (2nd day). Stools exceedingly large. Profuse stool, with rumbling in the abdomen. Stool diarrhoea-like, light-yellow, accompanied by sweat, crawling in the occiput, pressure upon the larynx, especially the left side.
Soft stool. Pasty stool, with burning in the anus. A thin stool every day at the accustomed time. Thin stool, with scratching on the posterior left wall of the anus. Thin stool, with passage of flatus, in the afternoon; in the evening, urging to stool reappears, but without result. Stool very thin, like yellowish water, forcibly evacuated. Thin liquid stool, with passage of flatus (2nd morning). Watery, painless stool (after 3 hours and a half). Slimy stool, with tenesmus. Stool with some rumbling and colicky pains in the epigastric and hypochondriac regions. Stool at first fecal, afterwards watery, with slight sticking pain in the abdomen.
Constipation.
Constipation (2nd day). Constipation followed after some days.
Constipation (absence of the usual daily evacuations), and, at length, in seven hours, a scanty evacuation, caused by the efforts of the abdominal muscles, unaided by the peristaltic action of the bowels. The usual morning stool did not occur, but in the evening an unsatisfactory soft stool passed slowly and sluggishly (3rd day). Stool crumbly, solid, passed with exertion.
Stool tenacious.
Urinary Organs.
Urethra.
Burning in the urethra, while urinating. Micturition caused burning in the urethra. Urging to urinate.
Micturition. Frequent micturition. Micturition nearly every half hour. Increased secretion of urine. Increased secretion of urine, which was turbid and cloudy. Great increase of urine. Urine greatly increased in quantity. Passage of much yellow urine.
Profuse secretion of urine. Profuse micturition, at least equal to the amount of drink.
Urine.
Urine pale, frothy. Urine pale, depositing a white sediment.
Urine standing over night is pale orange-yellow, with a slight turbid sediment, which is at first somewhat flocculent. Urine which had stood through the night looked almost blood-red, and had deposited a thick mucous sediment. Urine, at night and in the morning, dark fiery red, depositing a very flocculent, turbid sediment, with some clearer substances; the surface covered with an oily pellicle.
Foaming urine, in the morning. Turbid urine. Urine burning, soon becoming turbid, and depositing a copious brown sediment. The urine has a cloudy deposit, which, however, gradually disappears, after 24 hours brownish crystals form, which seem to float where the clouds have been, and adhere to the walls of the glass.
Sexual Organs.
Male.
The inner surface of the prepuce is slightly inflamed and irritable, with some secretion. Constant painful erections. No erection in the morning during the proving, contrary to custom.
Burning in the glans penis, while urinating. Burning in the glans penis on urinating, immediately followed by renewed desire to urinate.
Painful sensitiveness of the penis, with redness of the glans, and stitches in the urethra. Frequent corrosive itching on the glans penis and on the scrotum. Scrotum shrivelled, with severe itching, especially disturbing the sleep; relieved by scratching, which, however, caused a voluptuous sensation; this itching was troublesome for several days. Corrosive itching pain on the scrotum, lasting all day, worse while walking; there was no eruption, only redness of the part (3rd day). Left testicle retracted, the right relaxed.
Drawing in the left spermatic cord hindering walking.
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.