Colic, attended with slight constipation. Acute colics (many cases). Violent intermittent colic. Colicky pains. Two-thirds of the number stated that they had at one time or other suffered from pain seated at the upper and middle abdominal region. This painful sensation, which they termed colic, was increased by pressure; in some cases it was limited to the pit of the stomach, in others it was seated a little lower down, between the epigastrium and umbilicus, somewhat about the position of the transverse colon. Unbearable soreness of whole abdomen, worse in paroxysms; remissions, however, only for a few minutes; abdomen much distended, and sensitive to the slightest touch; during this time one tooth after another fell out in a row, particularly in the upper jaw, without salivation. The next year the same colic and loss of teeth, and with it a trembling of limbs; after the third attack a perfect lameness; paralysis of right hand.
Abdominal tenderness on pressure (third day). Abdomen tender on pressure. Abdomen slightly tender over its whole surface. Many suffer from enteritis. All the symptoms of most acute enteritis (after three days). Hypochondrium and Iliac Region. Dulness of the hypogastrium on percussion. Violent cramps in the lower abdomen and upper and lower limbs, with piercing complaining cries. Pressing downward in the lower abdomen, as from a stone.
A drawing pressure in the lower abdomen, as from something hard, aggravated by touch. Pain in left iliac region increased by pressure (after three months).
Rectum and Anus
Tickling in the rectum, as from pin-worms. Sharp sticking just above the anus. Tenesmus. Suffered greatly with tenesmus, with scanty, dark, pulpy motions.
Stool
Diarrhoea. Many suffer from diarrhoea. In a very few cases, diarrhoea. A kind of diarrhoea, though the faeces were not very thin. Violent diarrhoea. Diarrhoea or constipation. Diarrhoea alternating with constipation. Bloody diarrhoea. Eight or nine discharges from the bowels in an hour. The first alvine evacuations are often of a green color. (Castor oil produced several stools, some of them green), (second day). The bowels not having been relieved, Castor oil was given, which produced free evacuations containing traces of green matter. Painful green stools, with violent cutting and tenesmus (after a few days). Three very offensive and copious stools, which were uncommonly green. He derived some relief from these evacuations (fifth day). Quantities of bright blood passed from the bowels.
Constipation. Constipation, which ultimately became very obstinate. Obstinate costiveness, lasting from twenty-four to thirty-six hours (many cases). Slow bowels. Bowels difficult to move. Stoppage of the bowels or excessive evacuations. Bowels alternately costive and loose. No stool for forty-eight hours (fifth day).
Urinary organs
Urethra. Burning-sticking pain in the meatus urinarius, when urinating and when not. Urging to urinate, with scanty discharge and burning stitches or cuttings, especially in the meatus urinarius. Micturition more seldom and more scanty than usual.
Difficulty in passing urine, consisting in a painful inability, requiring considerable time and effort to relieve the bladder.
Urine scanty.
Sexual Organs
The glans penis is inflamed, the penis swollen.
Respiratory organs
Voice. Voice trembling, stammering. Hoarseness, immediately on breathing the dry air. Constant hoarseness, so that he cannot speak a word, with inclination to lie down. Cough and Expectoration. Cough. Cough, with interrupted, almost suppressed, respiration. Occasional cough. Occasional paroxysms of coughing, without any physical signs of lung disease. Frequent cough. Very violent cough at night, followed by great hoarseness and chilliness, from morning till evening. Very fatiguing cough, with blowing of blood from the nose. Short cough. (Dry cough.) (* From inhaling the pulverized metal.-HUGHES. *) Dry cough, without interruption, on account of which he is unable to speak (immediately). Short, dry, straining cough. Hard, dry cough, and night-sweats. Cough, with expectoration of an offensive taste, in the morning. (* Authority corrected by Hering. *) Slight cough and mucous expectoration. Frequent cough, with scanty expectoration, afterwards becoming obstinate and incessant, with purulent sputa. Cough, accompanied by viscid expectoration, occasionally tinged with blood. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Expectoration slightly purulent. Dark- colored, purulent expectoration. Attacks of hemoptysis.
Respiration. Vesicular murmur weak, absent, or replaced by a subcrepitant rale. Subclavicular region comparatively dull on percussion; in this region muco-crepitus is audible. Very rapid respiration. Very rapid respiration, with rattling in the bronchi, as if they were full of mucus. Shortness of breath.
Difficult, labored respiration. Oppression of breathing. Great oppression of breathing. Complained of being choked. Constant sense of suffocation, increased by walking and by fatigue, also worse in damp weather. Dyspnoea. Spasmodic attack of dyspnoea; the chest feels constricted, respiration is difficult, even to suffocation; on remission of this spasm, spasmodic vomiting, followed by remission for half an hour. Asthmatic difficulties.
Chest
Rattling in the chest while awake. Rattling in the chest, with discharge of bloody mucus from he nose and mouth (ceasing during the epileptic attack). Constriction of the chest. Feeling as of excessive accumulation of blood in the chest, without palpitation. Sharp drawing pain, not affected by touch, in the cartilage of the sixth rib (after eleven hours). Pressure as from something hard on the cartilage of the third rib, worse when touched. Sides. Diminished elasticity on both sides of the chest, posteriorly. Pinching pain in the left side of the chest, extending to the hip. Pressive pain on the right side of the chest. Stitches in the side, preceded and followed by screaming, which interrupted sleep. Sharp stitches immediately beneath the heart, on the left side of the chest.
Heart and Pulse
Precordium. Considerable fullness on percussion of the precordial region. Anxiety about the heart. Boring pain in the precordial region. Heart’s action. Interval between the first and second sounds of the heart shortened by one-half; “bruit de rappel,”. Very rapid action of the heart, lasting a quarter of an hour; soon after a light supper. Palpitation of the heart.
Contractions of heart weaker. Pulse. Pulse frequent. Pulse frequent and weak. Pulse small, frequent, and intermittent.
Pulse quick and thready. Pulse 90. Pulse ranged from 58 to 62, rather slow moderately full and regular, but weak. Weak and small pulse.
Neck and Back.
Neck. Considerable enlargement, with induration of right cervical glands. Tensive pain in the nape of the neck. A pain arises in the muscles at the point where the neck and back unite, on moving the head backward. Intermitting sticking-tearing in the cervical muscles. Back. Sharp cutting drawings in the left side of the back. Dorsal. A violent pressive pain in the back beneath the right scapula, which on respiration changes to a sticking pain. Board knife-like stitches beneath the scapula, on the left side near the spine, not affecting respiration. Lumbar.
A stitch transversely across the small of the back. Most of them complain of pain in region of kidneys.
Extremities in General
Objective. Weakness of the limbs. Difficulty of moving the limbs. Subjective. Numbness in different parts of both the superior and inferior extremities, which, under certain circumstances, was attended by intense pricking pains in various parts of the body. Feels sick in all the limbs, as though a coryza would come on. Great painfulness of the limbs.
Superior Extremities
Objective. Paralysis of upper limbs not distinguishable from that of lead (some eases). Subjective. Pains in joints of upper extremities. Pain in the arms, especially the right, while at rest. Stitch through left arm, especially from elbow-joint to fingers’ ends (fourth day). Shoulder. Pains in shoulders.
Drawing pain in the shoulders. Pains, as if swollen and sore in right axillary joint; afternoon (second day). After rising in morning, pain as if beaten in right axillary joint, as if she had fallen upon it. Later same sensation from right elbow-joint into fingers, lasting all day (fourth day). Arm. Pressive pain in the upper arm, as if something were broken or bruised. A thrust or jerk in the left upper arm. A sensation in the upper arm as if bubbles of air were issuing forth. Forearm. Jerking in the arms and hands. Drawing pain, first in the right, then in the left forearm, extending to the thumb. Pain, as if something were broken in the left forearm. Tearing in the ulna. Hand. The internal or flexor muscles of the hand remained in a contracted state. Complete lameness of right hand; right forearm in constant pronation, hand bent at right angle to arm, thumbs drawn into palm, fingers flexed; motion of elbow remains good, but in the hand, and especially the joints of fingers, extension is impossible, flexion only partial; upper extremities much emaciated, right more than the left; right hand nothing but skin and bone. Weakness and paralysis of the hands. Peculiar sensation of right hand and forearm, consisting in a sense of the different parts, and of great increase of size, it seeming to him at times to be larger than his whole body, and its motions not fully under the control of his will. Twitching in the hands, in the morning, after rising. A hard pressure in both metacarpal bones, aggravated by touch. Pain in the ball of the hand, as if something were through it. Fingers. Numbness and shrivelling of the fingers. Tensive pains in the balls of both thumbs. Fine tearing in the tips of the fingers. Jerking tearing in the metacarpal bones and first joint of the thumb, worse when touched. Pain as if dislocated in the joints of the thumb. A shoot in palmar surface of ungual phalanx of right middle finger.
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.