Stool
DIARRHOEA. Diarrhoea (2nd day). Serious diarrhoea, unattended by febrile action. Diarrhoea stools mixed with gory matter, bile and blood, with anorexia, great weakness, emaciation, and strong and painful beating of the heart. Purging and vomiting at the same time (after 4 doses); purging lasted several days, notwithstanding the exhibition of demulcent and opiates. Red, dark, semi liquid stools, as if caused by intestinal hemorrhage. Light green and yellow watery stools. Slimy and bloody stools. Stools with constant tenesmus, and spells of weakness. Stool hard (5th day). First hard, then soft stool, preceded by some colic (3rd day). CONSTIPATION. Constipation. Obstinate constipation followed by diarrhoea stools. Stool very hard; it is only with extreme exertion that she can pass a few small faces (1st day); after five days the stools became more natural and occurred more frequently. Stool omitted (2nd day).
Urinary organs
KIDNEYS AND BLADDER. Burning and throbbing pains, as from an abscess, passing from the kidneys into the abdomen. Cramps in the kidneys, with yawning, nausea, vomiting, raising of phlegm, urging to urinate and desire to remain in bed. Digging in the kidneys, with heat and distensive pains. Lancinating and burning pains in the kidneys, ineffectual urging to urinate, and tenesmus. Nephritic colic, with inclination to ease the pain by clenching and grinding the teeth, digging and weakness in the spine, and complete retention of urine. Sensation of congestion and heaviness in the neck of the bladder, with priapism. Contraction of the neck of the bladder just as urination begins, and during its continuance. Irritable bladder. URETHRA. Muco-purulent discharge from the urethra, of a gummy consistency, with inflammation of the penis. Discharge resembling blenorrhagia, menorrhagia, with tearing and burning pains in the penis, constant priapism, colic, and feeling of exhaustion. Burning and tearing pains in the urethra, frequently with emission of blood. MICTURITION. Frequent urging to urinate. Painful urging to urinate (5th day). (The urging to urinate which usually accompanied menstruation was wanting). She is obliged to rise at night to urinate (after 4 days). Frequent and profuse discharge of urine as clear as water (after 3 days). Greatly increased discharge of urine (16th day). The emission of urine was materially increased, the patient passing from forty to fifty quarts in the course of twenty-four hours, drinking in the same proportion; each time the Ioduret of Potass was suspended this accidental supersecretion ceased, but it was reproduced as soon as its use was resumed. The absolute quantity of urine discharged was not increased unless, owing to the dryness of the throat, more water was ingested. The bladder is full and swollen, but cannot be emptied. URINE. Urinary secretion is more abundant, that is, the patient passes more than he drinks (1st day); this symptom is almost constant; the urine is clear and transparent; the patients urinate more by night than by day; sometimes, however, the urine is not increased. The most remarkable of its effects are a rapid and very considerable increase of the urine, and what is quite remarkable is, that gradually the uric acid sediments entirely disappear, while those of the ammonio-phosphate of magnesia decidedly increase. Profuse urine, with sediment. Excessive secretion of urine, sometimes with pain in the kidneys. Considerable diuresis (in 3 cases). Clear, limpid urine. Bilious-looking urine, almost black. She frequently passes very pale and watery urine (after 5 days). Blood-streaked urine, and flow of blood from the urethra, especially in the evening. The urine smells very badly, and decomposes almost immediately. White flocks in the urine. Yellow or gray deposit, adhering to the sides of the vessel, like calcareous concretions. Urea eliminated, from 325 to 372 grains daily (before the proving); fell to between 201 and 294 grains (after the proving). Passage of calculi with the urine.
Respiratory organs
LARYNX, TRACHEA, AND BRONCHI. Accumulation of mucus in the larynx and bronchi. Considerable accumulation of mucus, and of what seems like false membranes, in the throat and larynx, with difficult respiration and rattling. Affection of the mucous membrane of the air- passages. All the symptoms of severe spasmodic croup (4th morning). Sticking in the air-passages and a feeling of rawness in them, which obliges hawking, where by she expectorates mucus. Raw pain in the larynx, as if from granulations. VOICE. Occasional and trifling alternation in the sound of the voice. Voice in catarrh. Hoarseness and frequent aphonia, with much obstruction in the throat and larynx, and weakness of the chest. Her voice is short, like her answers. Voice feeble, at times rather tremulous. Loss of voice (3rd night). For a long time. COUGH AND EXPECTORATION. Inclination to cough. Constant provocation in the larynx to a dry cough (after 6 days). Cough worse in the evening or at night and preventing sleep. Severe cough, especially towards evening. Short hacking cough caused by rawness in the throat (soon). Whistling cough, as in croup, as in hooping cough. Dry cough, several mornings in succession (after 6 days). Dry cough, with a feeling of soreness in the larynx, in the evening (after 14 days). Dry cough, morning and evening (after 16 days). Deep, hollow cough, with whitish and greenish expectoration, and tearing-out pain starting from the ensiform cartilage. Hoarse cough, with great obstruction of the larynx, sensation of tearing in the chest, and dark-red expectoration. Spitting of blood. RESPIRATION. Shortness of breath. Patients generally experience well- marked difficulty of breathing, and bring up a large quantity of expectoration similar to that observed in the first period of simple bronchitis; the expectoration ceases as it began, that is to say, without passing to the purulent state. He awoke during the night with great difficulty of breathing and loss of voice (3rd night).
Chest
OBJECTIVE. Emaciation and debility of the right side of the chest, as from pulmonary disorganization, with very copious purulent expectoration. Inflammation of the chest, with sensation as if the lungs were swollen and obstructed, fever and great dyspnoea. SUBJECTIVE. Pains in the chest, as if the lungs contained large tubercles or cavities. Oppression, with cramp like pains in the chest, and suffocative paroxysms; inability to remain lying, especially at night. Constant oppression of the chest. Pains in the chest as if cut to pieces, in the evening (3rd day). Dull sticking in the middle of the chest, disappearing on moving about (after 5 days). Sharp sticking in the left side of the chest, in the evening (15th day). Fine transient stitches deep in the middle of the chest. Sharp stitches in the upper part of the left chest, while sitting bent over, disappearing after becoming erect. Sharp stitches in the right costal region, behind the breast. An extremely violent stitch in the middle of the chest, while walking. Sore pain with sticking low down in the chest, in the lowest right ribs, at 8 p. m. FRONT. Sharp sticking and pressure in the middle of the sternum, in the afternoon (6th day). Violent stitches in the middle of the sternum, extending to the shoulders. SIDES. Several sharp stitches in the right side of the chest. Pain in the left side of the chest, as if sore externally, worse when touched (after 12 days). MAMMAE. The breasts began to diminish in size, but the supply of milk was especially diminished. (soon).
Back and neck
NECK. Hard, painless tumor, like a wen, on the nape of the neck. Stiffness and swelling of the neck, with cramp like pains and great difficulty in moving the head. Sticking in the right side of the nape of the neck, while lying down. BACK. Curvature of the back, with weakness of the chest. Lancinating and burning pains in the back, with inability to remain lying. DORSAL. Throbbing several times between the shoulders (after 17 days). LUMBAR. Pain in the small of the back like that before menstruation, with two diarrhoea-like stools (after 14 days). Violent pain in the small of the back, so that she could not lie quietly anywhere (after 16 days). Feeling as if screwed in in the small of the back, very painful (after 3 days). Constant pain in the small of the back almost as if beaten, especially when sitting bent. Violent pain in the small of the back the whole night as if beaten, so that she does not know how she shall lie (after 5 days). Digging in the kidneys and loins as if they were stroked with hot iron rods. SACRAL. Pain in the coccyx as if she had fallen upon it (after 6 days).
Extremities
Burning, red swelling of the arms and legs, with great tendency to suppuration. Gouty swelling of the joints, with inability to move them. Rapid growth of the nails. Tremor of the limbs. Trembling of the limbs and unsteadiness of the extremities, as in an intoxicated person so that the patient was obliged to down. Spasms and convulsive movements of the arms, hands, and legs. Jerking of the limbs, especially violent in the left arm, also in the whole of the face, especially on the left side, with great anxiety, apprehensiveness, and palpitation; this attack was repeated six times on the first day and twice on the second day, but was more violent and lasted an eighth of an hour and with vomiting and violent headache; on the second day violent rolling of the left eyeball, both pupils contracted, the facial muscles contracted, the left corner of the mouth drawn downward. The mouth opened and closed numberless times while uttering unintelligible words; violent palpitation, short rapid respiration, pulse hard and full, fore-head, neck, and chest covered with perspiration, face fiery red, with loss of consciousness; after the paroxysms, trembling, weeping, complaints of heaviness of the left arm, abdomen small, soft, tongue white, rather than yellow; efforts to vomit relieved by vomiting; these attacks were repeated on the two following days, after which there were no spasms, only cramp in the throat with a sensation of dryness. SUBJECTIVE. Pains in the joints as if dislocated and bruised. Sprained pains in the joints of the arms and legs. Tearing just above the right malleolus, in the left index finger and right arm, though not in the joints (10th 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.