Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, with cutting pains. Diarrhoea, with burning pain and tenesmus of the rectum, protrusion of the anus, and constant pinching around the umbilicus, sometimes attended with discharge of mucus. Frequent diarrhoea, evacuated with great force, with burning and tenesmus, without pain in the abdomen. Profuse watery diarrhoea, with colic and tenesmus. Fecal diarrhoea, stools evacuated with great force, with long continued burning in the anus, preceded for half an hour by violent cutting in the abdomen, waking him from sleep, about midnight, and relieved by firmly compressing the abdomen, which is small, as if eviscerated; after he had fallen asleep again, he was awakened by a pain in the small of the back.
Repeated diarrhoeic stools, with discharge of green mucus, preceded by pinching in the bowels. Discharge of yellow and green diarrhoeic faeces, mixed with mucus, preceded by excessive cutting around the umbilicus. Frequent soft stools, with rumbling in the bowels, or with pain about the umbilicus, succeeded by tenesmus. Repeated evacuations, rather hard than soft; afterwards, first a hard, then a soft stool. Stool late in the evening, with emission of a good deal of flatulence, which seems to press upon the bladder, occasioning a stinging pain, hardness and tightness in the region of the bladder, occasioning a stinging pain, hardness and tightness in the region of the bladder, and shortness of breath. Constipation.
Constipation. Soft, scanty stool, with sensation as if the passage of the faeces were arrested by a hard body obstructing the anus. Hard stool, succeeded by burning at the anus and passage of a lumbricus, or with sticking in the groins and emission of flatulence. Hard, insufficient stool, with violent urging, pressing and protrusion of the rectum.
Urinary organs
Increased secretion of urine. Frequent micturition, but little at a time. Micturition seldom. Scanty emission of urine. Emission of on or three drops of urine at a time, then intermitting, and finally returning, with burning at the orifice.
Sexual organs
Leucorrhoea. The menses appear too soon and are too profuse. The menses, which had been suppressed for six weeks, reappear.
Respiratory organs
Scraping in the region of the larynx, inducing a dry cough, at night. Cough, especially at night, with soreness in the chest. Frequent dry and hacking cough in the daytime. Very dry cough at night, obliging him to sit up. Cough in the afternoon, with some hoarseness and hawking of mucus. Violent cough at night, with expectoration of loose mucus. The cough is most violent at night after lying down.
Chest
Great tightness and heaviness in the chest, with stitches extending to the back, especially in the lower costal regions. Repeated digging or gnawing in both subcostal regions, in the evening. Pressure upon the chest (without affecting respiration).
Pressure in the middle of the chest, and stitches going from both sides of the chest towards each other. Oppression and heaviness in the chest, with stitches in the back, particularly in the subcostal regions. Weight on the chest, at night, occasioning sleeplessness, two nights in succession. Transient stitches in the chest, axillae. Pain in the chest, as if every of it were sore, even when not coughing. Front. Stitches in the forepart of the chest from time to time, in the afternoon and evening. Stitches deep in the forepart of the chest, frequently alternating with stitches in the right mamma, in the evening. Repeated extremely painful stitches in the forepart of the sternum (in the afternoon and evening). Sides. A painful stitch, arresting the breathing, in the right side, extending from ribs towards the axilla (after carrying a heavy load). Mammae. Stitch beneath the right mammary region. Sharp stitches beneath the breast (lasting five minutes), followed by pressure in the middle of the chest, with want of breath (lasting an hour), after awhile disappearing, in the evening.
Neck and Back
Neck. Tearing in the nape of the neck and in the left shoulder. Lancinating tearing in the side of the neck. Lumbar. Sharp sticking in the region of the left kidney. Sudden painful stitches in the small of the back, relieved by walking. Pain as if bruised in the small of the back, as if sprained. Sacral. Sticking in the right sacral region. Repeated gnawing in the os coccyges.
Extremities in General
Violent burning stitch at times in the fingers, at times in the hand, also in the malleoli, afterwards over the whole body.
Superior Extremities
Shoulder. Stitch from time to time in the top of the right shoulder. Repeated very acute stitches under the left axilla, disappearing on rubbing for a short time. Tearing in the shoulders, or in the axilla, in the tendons of the extensor muscles of the fingers, in the ball of the thumb and index finger, and between the metacarpal bones of the index and middle fingers, so that the skin is thereby drawn backward. Arm. Pinching in the right humerus. Hand. Sharp sticking through the palm to the back of the hand, followed by burning in the hand. Fingers. Sharp stitches in the last joint of the left index finger. Stinging and numb feeling in the ball of the right thumb and middle finger, followed by stitches in the palm of the hand going to the dorsum of the hand, and extending to the forearm, attended with a feeling of heat.
Inferior Extremities
Spasmodic conditions of the lower limbs. Hip. Violent tearing in the left hip. Thigh. Frequent drawing and tearing in the bend of the left thigh. Sharp stitches in the bend of the left thigh, lasting an hour. Knee. Violent pain, as if bruised, below the left patella; the part is painful to touch, as if ulcerated. Leg. Violent pain and feeling of stiffness in the right leg along the tibia; the foot could only be stretched out by great exertion, in the afternoon the evening, in bed. Cramp and tearing pain above the calf, attended with contraction of the toes (going off by rubbing). Several stitches in the left calf. Tearing in the bone from the middle of the right tibia, extending above the knee. Tearing and drawing in the tendo Achillis, as if too short. Ankle. Painful spasmodic constriction in the region of the right malleolus externus and great toe, compelling him to limp, especially while walking. Pressure as with the hand above the left malleolus externus, and sensation as if gone to sleep, going off when pressing the foot to the ground. Foot. Great heaviness and languor of the feet. Painful pinching in the dorsum of the right foot towards the toes. Violent sticking in the sole of the right foot, relieved by rubbing. Cramp in p73 the right great toe (when walking, and again in the evening, in bed). Some stitches beneath the right great toe. Spasmodic tearing in two smaller toes of the right foot.
General symptoms
Objective. Congestions of the head, chest, uterus. Faintness. Subjective. Feeling of ease, great lightness in all his motions (primary effect). Burning (eyes, tongue, fauces, abdomen, region of the liver, anus, hands). Constrictive or contractive pains (stomach, umbilicus, foot). Pinching (abdomen, groin, humerus, dorsum of the foot). Drawing (head, bend of the thigh, leg). Gnawing (stomach, subcostal region, umbilical region, os coccyges). The sticking pains appear for the most part at night, or are then worst. Stitches resembling a slow fine pinching over the whole body. Tearing, particularly in the bones and tendons (head, ears, dorsum of the nose, malar bone, lower jaw, teeth, cervical tendons, nape of the neck, shoulder, wrist, fingers, hip, head of the thigh, leg, toes). Pricking (head, stomach, chest, region of the kidneys, hands, fingers, bend of the thigh). Stinging (ears, goitre, neck, groin, anus, chest, small of the back, shoulder, thumb, middle finger, calves, toes). Burning stinging (hand, malleolus). Pain as from soreness (gums, neck, stomach, chest). Pain as if bruised (head, small of the back). Beating or throbbing (ear, teeth, stomach). The symptoms of the right side predominate. The symptoms are particularly apt to occur in the evening or night. The majority of the symptoms come on while sitting and go off during motion in the open air.
Skin
Objective. Small pimples on the inner surface of both forearms, with redness and itching, in the evening. A small pimple above the upper margin of the orbit, with tensive pain. Itching blisters on both hands, first pale, then red, for several days. Subjective. Biting as from ants over the whole body, especially in the evening and at night, even waking from sleep. After scratching, a burning ulcerative pain generally remains, with swelling and redness of the scratched part; the itching is generally experienced in the evening and night. Itching of the ball of the left thumb. Intolerable itching here and there, head, left side of the forehead, eyes, eyelids, canthi, face, upper surface of the lower arm below the elbow-joint, ball of the thumb, index finger, bend of the foot, dorsum of the hand. Violent, very voluptuous itching here and there over the whole body, usually with burning, at times followed by redness and swelling, especially in the evening and at night, and then even waking from sleep.
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.