Abdomen
Objective. Retracted abdomen, without colic. Movings in the abdomen, with emission of much offensive flatus (twenty-fourth day). Gases developed in the intestines (third day); causing rumbling (fourth day). Much offensive flatus for several days. Emission of much offensive flatus, in the morning, immediately after rising, followed by copious pasty stools, with violent griping in the abdomen (twenty-first day). Sensation as though diarrhoea would occur, with griping and burrowing in the abdomen; though followed by normal stool (nineteenth day). Slight abdominal pains (third day). Burrowing pains in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would follow, although a normal stool had occurred an hour previously (after half an hour), (eighteenth day). Griping in the bowels, immediately after rising, in the morning, with frequent emission of offensive flatus (twenty-second day). Griping pain in the abdomen, several times in the evening (twenty-sixth day). Some griping pains in the abdomen, in the morning (sixth day). Digging pain in the abdomen as though diarrhoea would follow, in the evening (twenty-first day). Drawing-pressive pain low down in the abdomen (twenty-fifth day). Several dull stitching, lightning-like pains through the abdomen, in the afternoon (fourth day). Colic without result (second day). Some colic. Colic-like pains, with sensation as though diarrhoea would occur, between 10 and 11 A.M. (fourth day). Colic-like pains in the abdomen, with a feeling of nausea as though the breakfast eaten a short time previously still remained in the throat, while walking (twenty-second day). Colic-like pains in the bowels, with urging to stool, which is normal, a quarter of an hour after the dose (sixteenth day). Slight colic-like pain below the umbilicus at 11 A.M. (seventh day). Violent colic-pains attacked me at midnight while riding in a wagon, so that I was obliged to go into the house; when the pains were felt, I was unable to walk, but was obliged to stand quite still and bent over; there followed copious diarrhoea-like stool, with much flatulence and persistent burning in the anus (eleventh day). Hypogastrium. Violent labor-like pains extending from the small of the back into the abdomen, as though menstruation would reappear (eighth day).
Rectum and Anus
The desire for stool, which existed before taking the dose, became urgent, with sensation as though diarrhoea would follow, yet the stool was normal (fifteenth day). Urgent desire for stool, with violent griping pains in the abdomen; evacuation not copious, soft, though not diarrhoea-like; towards evening, another pasty stool preceded by griping and offensive flatus (twenty-second day).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Many stools (after three hours and a half). Two stools in forenoon (first day); three stools in forenoon (third day); two stools (fourth day). Two stools since morning, soft but not like diarrhoea (fourth day). Diarrhoea stool (fourth day). Shortly after vomiting had a loose stool, but no persistent diarrhoea. Constipation. In small doses it seems to produce constipation. Bowels open once; stool extremely scanty, consisting of about a dozen pellets like those of rabbits, and one about the size of a walnut; the latter floated, the former sunk in water. Stool hard and unsatisfactory, although during the last two days I had walked more than usual; the first after two days and a half (twenty-ninth day). No action of the bowels (second day); (third day).
Urinary organs
Micturition. Urine increased (apparently in consequence of the much cooler temperature), (twentieth day). Amount of urine increased, although less than usual had been drunk the previous evening; I was awakened between 4 and 5 A.M. by desire to urinate, with passage of a large quantity, followed by violent erections (twenty-eighth day). Abundant and limpid urine (third night). Urine abundant, and causing heat in passing (fifth day). Urination rather more copious emission of colorless urine; (on the last evening, instead of beer as usual, I had drunk a cup of tea; tea had never caused such an effect, and it had been taken too early and in too small a quantity; I was still more satisfied that the tea was not the cause, since on the next day I was awakened early in the morning without having drunk tea in the preceding evening;) the desire to urinate was every time accompanied by persistent erections, which frequently occurred in the morning, also during the last three days (thirty-first to thirty-third day). Very copious urination, without pain in renal region (after eleven hours). The amount of urine evacuated was large, although very little had been drunk the previous evening; urine clear, but of an unusually strong odor, somewhat like freshly baked bread, in the morning (twenty-first day). With small doses the urine varied just as the pulse had done, being generally increased to a slight extent while I took the drug, but sometimes not, while, with large doses, the diuretic effect was marked; with the larger doses, especially of the powder, there is a marked increase in the amount of urine before intoxication appears, then a sudden fall during its continuance, and another rise of still greater extend after it has passed off, and after the medicine had been discontinued; the actual increase in the amount of urine may to some appear small, but when it is considered that the amount of fluid ingested is the same, and that, in a normal condition, very rarely has a large amount of urine been passed on more than two consecutive days, the distinct and persistent diuresis is remarkable. Digitaline produces in the physiological organism a diminution of the quantity of liquid secreted by the kidneys. Urine diminished (eighth day). The urine seems to be diminished in quantity; that passed in the evening is unusually dark but clear (third day). No marked increase in total quantity of urine, and in one case a diminution. Urine was remarkably diminished on the eleventh day. Urine seems to be decidedly diminished; from 4 to 10.30 P.M., passed only once at the latter hour, although much more than usual had been drunk; even the urine passed in the morning was small in quantity, and the discharge was associated with rather severe urging; micturition was difficult, and was followed by burning in the urethra and pressure in the region of the bladder; also in the evening smarting in the urethra was noticed after urinating (tenth day). The amount of urine was markedly diminished during the period of intoxication, when the gastro-intestinal canal was most affected; and in the case of Daniel G., when the pulse was most affected, it fell from an average of between 40 and 50 ounces to 30 ounces, 25, and 26 ounces on the two next days, and 18 ounces on the two following days, again slowly rising for four days, till it rose from 25 to 44 ounces, and then remained at its normal standard. Urine small in quantity (although a glass of beer had been drunk in the evening), almost as brown as beer, though not turbid (fifth day). Urine scanty and red (after twelve hours). Urine scanty, reddish-brown, with much brick dust sediment. Urine has been passed only three times to-day, and in a very small quantity (ninth day). No action of the bladder (second day). Urine entirely suppressed (after fourteen hours). In very large doses it occasionally causes not only diminution, but total suppression of urine. No urine in the bladder (after seventy-two hours). Urine. In every case a falling off in the quantity of urea, and chlorides, and salts, which resist calcination, but invariably an increase of the phosphoric and sulphuric acids. It brings on a diminution of the main constituent parts of the urine, such as urea, chlorate of soda, phosphates, and sulphates; uric acid alone is increased in quantity, but the degree of acidity of the urine remains the same; the specific weight of the urine is decreased. Like the pulse and the amount of urine, the urinary constituents varied considerably when small doses were taken; but when the dose was large, the pulse fell, the urine increased, its specific gravity was diminished, the urea was increased, and the PO5 and Cl were diminished.
Sexual organs
Male. It exercises an energetic influence upon the sexual organs by depressing them, and it may momentarily arrest entirely the activity of the sexual system. An emission at night, without waking (fourth day). Female. Menstruation two days too early, and without the usual premonitory pains in the abdomen and back (first day). Menstruation seemed to be more produce than usual (second day).
Respiratory organs
Voice. (During supper on the eleventh day I must have suddenly taken cold; I became so hoarse that I could scarcely speak, with violent sticking pains in the larynx). Voice extinct (40 gram., second day). Cough and Expectoration. Some cough the last two days, with expectoration of consistent mucus (tenth day). The cough which had been previously noticed became more decided, short, with hard, whitish-yellow expectoration (ninth day). Hacking cough, with easy expectoration, continues to be more and more troublesome (fourteenth day). Frequent hacking cough, with easy expectoration, in the evening (twenty-sixth day). Respiration. Respiration slow and embarrassed (second day). Shortness of breath, in the morning while walking, with hawking up of much mucus; also afterwards while sitting, the breathing was very much mucus; also afterwards while sitting, the breathing was very much impeded, though without pain (eleventh day). The shortness of breath remained while walking at noon; this was rather a necessity to take a very deep breath than real dyspnoea, without satisfying the sensation, which I would call a hunger for air (twelfth day). Attacks of shortness of breath, increasing in the afternoon, while walking (precisely similar to those noticed during the proving of Digitalis), (sixth day). Great shortness of breath, in the morning on waking, with a feeling of weakness and prostration in the chest (twenty-fourth day). Sudden tightness of the breath, lasting several minutes, in the morning while rising, and also once on stooping (sixth day). Several attacks of constriction of breathing, in the afternoon and evening while walking and sitting (eighteenth day). Oppression of breathing, while sitting, with several times a sensation of congestion to the chest (sixteenth day). Dyspnoea after a cup of coffee and food (after eleven hours); and in the night repeated (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.