Rectum and Anus.
Objective. Swelling about the whole circumference of the anus.
The veins of the anus are much swollen. A thin cord, like a swollen vein, painless when touched, extends from the anus towards the nates. Hemorrhoids in the anus, which cause burning.
Prolapsus of the rectum (with its hemorrhoids), even without urging to stool, as if the anus had lost its contractility and was paralyzed. Discharge of blood from the rectum, with great sticking in it. Subjective. Tenesmus with each stool (after twenty-one hours). Dragging and burning in the rectum and anus. Violent dragging in the rectum, as with hemorrhoids. Pressing in the rectum without stool (after twelve days). Sticking pain in the rectum, as if everything there were indurated. Stitches in the rectum (after two hours).
Burning in the anus, with the stool. Swollen feeling in the anus, though without pain. Cutting in the anus (rectum)? in the morning in bed. Some stitches in the anus. Dull, tearing stitch in the anus, extending up into the rectum. Smarting, sore pain in the anus on wiping it. Itching in the anus (after two hours). Itching and feeling of soreness in the anus. Very sore pain on the right side of the perineum, where there are small pale-red, irregular pimples, which do not have hairs on the tip, but occur here and there between the hairs; touch causes a very acute pain (twelfth day). Provocation to stool; without need therefore. Much inclination to stool; though not hard, still it is evacuated with much exertion, on account of total inactivity of the rectum. No desire for stool; not the slightest necessity therefore.
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, almost without colic, for twenty-four hours, followed by great prostration, of short duration.
Diarrhoea three times, with burning in the anus (seventeenth day). Sudden slimy, diarrhoeic stools, with feeling as though flatulence would pass, preceded by faint sinking feeling and sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Several liquid, diarrhoea-like stools, with discharged mucus, three days in succession. Frequent stools daily for several days, the first very hard and thick, formed, the other soft. Three stools daily the first five days, then two some days, and at last only one. Three soft stools at night, with colic. Stools occur daily at the right times, though previously there had been constipation. Increase of the stool, with passage of faeces, mixed with mucus. Stool very thin, like a round worm. A rather pasty stool, still colored somewhat black, but less dark than the previous stool (twenty-sixth day). Stool dark-colored, half digested, of an intolerable odor. Passage of reddish mucus with the stool. Passage of much white mucus with the stool. In the course of time, the stool becomes solid, while previously there had been diarrhoea. Lumpy stool (after two days). Stool lumpy, conjoined with threads of mucus, and even after the stool there is still mucus in the anus. Hard, lumpy stool.
Stool sour, offensive, soft. Sour-smelling stool, with burning in the rectum. Passage of roundworms with the stool. Passage of threadworms, with itching in the rectum. Blood with the stool (after a few hours). Blood passes with a soft stool. Some blood with the stool, after the cessation of menstruation, every day, with smarting pain in the rectum for seven days (after forty-second day). Constipation. Hard stool, with much urging and sticking in the anus. Stool absent (contrary to custom), (twenty-third day); a hard, blackish stool in the afternoon (twenty-fourth and twenty- fifth days).
Stool frequently omitted.
Urinary organs
Urethra. Burning in the urethra when not urinating. Burning in the orifice of the urethra after urinating. Cutting dragging downward from both kidneys before urinating (the first days).
Raw pressure in the root of the urethra, with desire to urinate. Tickling in the urethra while urinating. Urging to urinate, with dribbling after the usual discharge (first day). Painful urging to urinate in the morning in bed, but only a few were passed, with cutting in the urethra (after five days).
Sudden desire to urinate, though with little urine. Anxious dragging and pressure to urinate at night, with cutting in the abdomen; she was frequently obliged to rise on account of it, though only a little was passed, with cutting pain, for two days. Micturition. Frequent micturition. Frequent micturition at night. She was frequently obliged to urinate.
More frequent, copious urination than usual; even at night she was obliged to rise on account of it, the first days. Obliged to urinate very early in the morning. Nocturnal micturition. Was obliged to rise at night to urinate, contrary to his habit.
Nocturnal enuresis. Involuntary micturition. Very thin stream of urine, as if the urethra was contracted. Urine. Dark- colored urine, which, after two hours, deposits a reddish sediment. Very dark-brown urine, with a small stitch in the urethra during micturition. Acrid, sourish odor to the urine.
Urine clear, but after four or five hours, covered with an iridescent film (thirty-sixth day). The urine becomes turbid, and deposits a white sediment. The urine becomes very turbid after two hours, with reddish sediments; biting in the urethra while passing it.
Sexual organs
Male. The prepuce swells to a large water blister, without pain.
The glans penis becomes covered with thick mucus, even when he washes every two or three days. Erections, without lascivious thoughts. Strong erections (after forty-eight hours); (eighth day). Strong erections, immediately after coition (after twenty- seven day). Voluptuous irritability of the genitals.
Tension and unpleasant sensation in the genitals, while walking, and on the slightest touch of the clothing. Pinching pain in the penis. Drawing pain in the glans penis. Bubbling sensation in the penis, during erections. Jerking pain on the penis, for two minutes. Swelling of the scrotum (in the coverings of the testicles? hydrocele?). Itching within the scrotum. The right testicles seems swollen. Drawing sensation in both testicles. Sticking pain at times in the right testicles. Jerking pain in the left spermatic cord. Revival of the sexual desire and fantasies. Extremely lascivious thoughts, which tormented him so that he feared he would be insane, with restless running about; with heaviness in the perineum and tensive pain in the penis, without erections. His thoughts about coition were quiet cold. Very indifferent to coition, with little inclination thereto. All desire for coition gradually left him. His usual great and almost inordinate sexual desire disappeared suddenly and completely for several days. Absolutely no desire for coition, the first thirty days after taking Graphites; even his fantasies, which were usually very lively, were cold, and there was no inclination to erections; but after this everything became aroused to so great a degree that even the touch of a woman caused great sexual excitement and trembling in all his limbs.
Emissions nearly every night. Emissions nearly every night, the first seven days. Emissions seem to cease after twenty days. No ejaculation follows coition in spite of every exertion. Female.
The left indurated ovary swells up, with stony hardness, with violent pains, partly when touched, partly even on inspiration or hawking, when the most violent stitches shoot into it, so that she is beside herself, with profuse general perspiration and continued loss of sleep. A painless pimple on the internal labia. A vesicle on the labia, with itching-biting pain. Leucorrhoea; (after three days). Leucorrhoea, as much as two ounces during the day and night, for eight days, especially in the morning after rising from bed. Profuse leucorrhoea (after five days). Profuse leucorrhoea of very white mucus (after seven days). Profuse leucorrhoea with weakness of the back and sacrum, when walking and sitting (after a few hours). Thin leucorrhoea, with distended abdomen (after eight days).
Pressure sometimes towards the female genitals, when standing. A painful pressure towards the female genitals.
Biting in the vagina. Soreness of the pudenda. Itching of the pudenda, before menstruation. Great itching of the pudenda, a few days before menstruation. Sticking in the labia, frequently. Menstruation three days too soon (secondary action) (after twenty-nine days). Menstruation two days too early, very thin, of short duration, with severe and very unusual pains in the back, which disappear on motion. Menstruation does not come on properly at first. Menstruation does not appear at the proper time, without other symptoms. Menstruation delayed three days (primary action, after four days). Menstruation seven days too late (after twenty-nine days). Menstruation nine days too late, with heaviness in the abdomen and dulness in the head, during the first days. Menstruation eleven days too late. Suppressed menstruation, with heaviness of the arm and legs.
Respiratory organs
Larynx and Trachea. Frequent tickling in the larynx, causing hawking and short cough, mostly in the evening in bed. Scraping in the trachea. Voice. Hoarseness, every evening. During menstruation, hoarseness, violent catarrh, and catarrhal fever (after twenty days). Cough and Expectoration. Cough, which fatigues the chest, in the morning and during the day, but not at night, before and during menstruation. Cough, which fatigues the chest, with pain low down in the chest. Cough, with catarrh, coryza, and heat of the head (after eight days).
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.