Stomach
Appetite. Hunger, but no appetite for bread. Before the appearance of the menses there was ravenous hunger in the evening, followed by pain in the stomach. Great appetite for vegetables, but aversion to meat (after twenty days). Inclined to eat fruit and acid things in general. Little appetite and hunger. At times little appetite and speedy satiety; at the times sufficient hunger and appetite. Is satisfied immediately after the first morsel. Immediately satiated and full at noon, with distension of the abdomen after eating. No hunger nor appetite (twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days). Neither hunger, appetite, nor taste (ninth day). The appetite disappears, and then the stomach always seems full. No appetite at noon; it comes only while eating (forty-fourth day). Aversion to food, without qualmishness (soon). Aversion to food and qualmishness, from six to seven P.M. Aversion to food, and nausea, as from a disordered stomach, lasting an hour. Great disgust for food; the stomach was painful and cold (soon). Great disgust for food, with shuddering, followed by eructations (soon). She does not relish warm food, has no inclination for bread and butter. Aversion to green food; rather relishes meat (eighth day). Thirst. Thirst towards evening, she drinks much, contrary to habit; is obliged to rise at night to urinate. Thirst for cold drinks since the diarrhoea, and she drinks much. Thirst for water; she drinks much after one P.M. Thirst with appetite for acid, from eleven till two o’clock (ninth day). Much thirst, with little appetite (after eight days). Excessive thirst in the evening (twenty-ninth day); the whole afternoon (forty-second day). Excessive thirst, waking her at night, on the appearance of the menses (sixty-ninth day). She dreamed that she was excessively thirsty; awoke, and was really thirsty. Eructation and Hiccough. Attempts to eructate (after twelve hours). Eructations and sneezing, towards evening. Frequent eructations, without odor or taste (twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days). Frequent eructations, with some pain in the stomach, in the forenoon. Gulping eructations at 2.30 P.M. Shortly before menstruation, frequent eructations and nausea. Empty eructations (soon); also in morning, after soup. Empty eructations, during which there is a painful tearing or cutting above the umbilicus extending from the left to side (after two hours). Eructations of cold air. Acid eructations. Eructations tasting of the morning soup. Rising of water into the mouth, without eructations (twenty-seventh day). Frequent collection of tasteless water in the mouth, with frequent risings, together with vertigo and qualmishness, after eating plums (twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days). Hiccough at 6.30 P.M., lasting a long time. Hiccough, though incomplete, together with a spasmodic pain in the stomach, soon disappearing. Frequent hiccough, followed by eructations, in the morning after rising. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea and general discomfort in the forenoon, disappearing after dinner (twenty-first day). During the menses, nauseated and qualmish from morning till noon. Nausea with eructations of the odor of bad eggs, all night (fifteenth day). Nausea in the stomach, without aversion to food, with heaviness in the head and ill-humor. Nausea, and a feeling as if the stomach were full of water; she wished that she could eructate. Nausea and qualmishness, with constipation, for three days (after fifty- three days). Nausea in the stomach, even to vomiting, with empty eructations. At noon, while eating soup, she was suddenly attacked with excessive nausea and vertigo, so that she almost fell down; followed by retching, and at last vomiting, at first of salty water, then of the soup, and afterwards again only water, which lasted for a quarter of an hour, with deathly anxiety, so that sweat stood on the forehead; this lasted an hour, was followed by white diarrhoea, after which there were cutting pains in the bowels and distension of the whole abdomen (forty-second day). Qualmishness in the stomach (soon). Qualmishness and collection of after in the mouth, the whole forenoon (third day). Qualmishness, frequent collection of water in the mouth, in the afternoon. Great qualmishness in the stomach after supper, with weakness and sleepiness. Efforts to vomit, at noon, while eating soup; she vomited any bitter water, but no food, after which the mouth remained bitter for a long time. Stomach. Distension of the stomach, disappearing after eructations (soon). Rumbling in the stomach and afterwards in the abdomen, only heard, not felt, with yawning, at 7 P.M. Audible rumbling in the stomach towards noon. Feeling as if the stomach were disordered, after dinner (twelfth day). Pain in the stomach causing nausea, in the morning, without qualmishness, relieved by eating soup (tenth day). Feeling of emptiness in the stomach, with empty eructations in the morning (ninth day). Pain in the stomach, as if empty and qualmish, in the forenoon, disappearing after dinner. She woke after midnight with violent pain in the stomach, like an emptiness. Fulness in the stomach, that disappears only; after frequent eructations (after two hours). Pain and a contractive sensation in the stomach, after dinner. Constrictive pain in the stomach. Constrictive pain in the stomach; she could sleep but little all night (fifteenth day). Pressure in the stomach. Pressure in the stomach, extending up into the chest, disappearing after empty eructations. A dull stitch to the right of the pit of the stomach, extending into the right chest. A sharp stitch in the pit of the stomach, so violent that it made her start. About ten sudden stitches, as with a knife, somewhat to the right of the pit of the stomach, so that she thought she could not endure it, at 2 P.M. (second day). Pain like a soreness in the stomach and both hypochondria, when touched even at night in bed (forty-second and forty-third days). The stomach is very sensitive to pressure, almost like a ulcer, and a feeling internally as if it would fall out, with coldness and prostration; she could not walk across the room on account of weakness; somewhat relieved by drinking coffee (twenty-sixth day).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Paralytic pain in the left hypochondriac region, at 8.30 P.M.; she could not lie on that side account of the pain. Pinching and constriction in both hypochondria, towards the umbilicus, frequently appearing and disappearing, in the forenoon. A fine pinching externally beneath the lowest right ribs, extending upwards into the ribs and disappearing, soon followed by a burning in the face, and taking the same direction. Dull stitches in the right hypochondrium, half an hour after dinner. Sharp stitches in the left hypochondrium, like stitches in the spleen, while standing, at 2 P.M. (second day). Sharp stitch in the right hypochondrium. A violently painful stitch in the right hypochondrium, as with a knife, making her start; on stooping; disappearing on rising, at 7.30 P.M. (fourth day). Fine stitches in the left hypochondrium (after one hour and a quarter). Umbilical and Sides. Audible rumbling beneath the umbilicus two hours after dinner. Pain, griping, and grasping about the umbilicus, in the morning (twenty-fifth day). Griping about the umbilicus with thin, scanty leucorrhoea (thirteenth day). Violent griping about the umbilicus, with distension of the abdomen, followed by a stool, which at first was hard, but at last soft, in the morning. Excessive griping in the abdomen about the umbilicus, followed by a thin stool and succeeded by burning in the anus, at 5 P.M. (third day). During the menses, painful dragging beneath the navel frequently wakes her at night. After micturition, violent twinging beneath the umbilicus, extending into the small of the back and left hip, with a sensation as if an emission of flatus would follow, but it did not; in the open air. Cutting in the abdomen, beneath the umbilicus, with some dragging, as before menstruation (twenty-second day). During the menses, cutting pains about the umbilicus, followed by frequent emission of flatus, with relief, in the forenoon. It seems as though there were something hard in the right side of the abdomen, or in the hepatic region, with frequent griping in the abdomen (after two hours). Frequent griping in the right side of the upper abdomen. Violent, painful griping in the sides of the abdomen. Slight cutting in the left side of the abdomen, soon disappearing. Tearing in the left side of abdomen, especially when walking. General Abdomen. Distension of the abdomen. Great distension of the abdomen, after dinner (eleventh day). Great distension of the abdomen, with tension, from 3 P.M. till evening (twenty-fifth day). Great distension of the abdomen, only somewhat relieved by emission of flatus, in the evening. The abdomen is excessively distended, afterwards also at night; with profuse emission of flatus, with relief. Abdomen excessively distended and tense, in spite of three loose movements, in the afternoon (second day). Movings and slight griping in the whole abdomen, followed by emission of flatus, with relief, and at last a soft stool. Much motion in the abdomen before the stool, and he became hot before the stool passed. Pinching movings in the upper abdomen, somewhat to the left side, at 5.45 P.M. Rolling and gurgling in the bowels on inspiration, as in cramps, disappearing after eating, in the evening and the following morning (tenth and eleventh days). Audible though not perceptible rumbling in the abdomen, as in cramps, at 9 A.M. Audible rumbling and gurgling, on motion, without even knowing where, in the forenoon. Violent audible rumbling, gurgling, and moving back and forth, with fine cutting in the abdomen, all day. Painless rumbling and movements in the abdomen, at 1 P.M. Emission of flatus while walking, soon followed by the usual stool. Frequent loud emission of flatus, in the afternoon and at night. Very loud emission of flatus. Frequent emission of flatus of a penetrating odor (twenty-eighth day). The abdomen seemed empty in the morning after rising; the intestines seemed empty and contracted, together with a pain as if they had just been torn out. Great heaviness in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen, followed by leucorrhoea, like water, in the forenoon (twenty-fifth day). Pain in the abdomen, with dragging towards the genitals, in bed; next morning, the menses appeared, six days too early, at first very scanty and without pain, in the afternoon more profuse. During the menses violent pains in the abdomen, in the forenoon. Violent pain in the abdomen, especially about the umbilicus, in the morning while in and out of bed, relieved after warm soup. Cramplike pain in the abdomen, like a constriction, followed by diarrhoea and relief, at 8 P.M. (twenty-second day). Griping in the abdomen, three days in succession (after eighteen days). Griping in the whole abdomen, at 10 A.M. (seventh day). Griping in the abdomen, even in the forenoon, and only transiently intermitting; in the afternoon it became worse, and in the evening worse still, with distension of the abdomen; emission of flatus afforded relief (twenty-eighth day). Griping or grasping in the whole abdomen, as before menstruation, with produce emission of offensive flatus, at noon; the griping was worse in the evening, and preceded by rumbling in the abdomen. Griping and rumbling in the whole abdomen, followed by diarrhoea, thin and green, without tenesmus (after one hour); renewed after an hour and half, and also a quarter of an hour after dinner, and about 1 o’clock. Frequently intermitting griping and movings in the abdomen, with the usual stool; on moving the body to and fro she at last got into a position in which the pain disappeared for a time; it also occurred in the morning in bed (thirtieth day). Pinching in the forepart of the abdomen, in the morning, without stool. Violent pinching in the middle of the abdomen, relieved by emission of flatus, and followed by stool, the first part of which was very scanty and as hard as stone, with great pressure, but the last was soft and passed without pressing; after the stool burning like fire in the anus, at 2 P.M. (fifth day). A feeling as if everything were twisting about in the abdomen, with stitches beneath the umbilicus, at 2 P.M. (second day). Cutting in the intestines, in the evening, lasting till falling asleep. Cutting and griping in the abdomen, before the stool. Violent pain in the abdomen, as if the intestines would be ton out, lasting three days not relieved by smelling Camphor, but completely relieved by smelling Hepar sulph. (twenty-ninth day). Colic and distension of the abdomen, after eating. Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. Fulness in the lower abdomen, relieved by walking, at 2.30 P.M. (second day). Painful griping in the lower abdomen, beneath the umbilicus, frequently intermitting; afterwards the pain extends to the stomach, in the afternoon. Pains and griping in the whole lower abdomen, and dragging towards the genitals, at 9 A.M., that continually became worse till 11 A.M.; during which, after 9 o’clock, the menses reappeared, but disappeared in the afternoon (sixty-seventh day). During the menses, violent dragging pains in the lower abdomen, every morning in bed, ceasing after eating (after twenty days). Violently cutting colic, extending from the small of the back to the pubis (after four hours). Acute constricting griping pain, as with pincers, in the right groin, so that she was obliged to cry out, at 11 A.M. (twenty-eighth day). Pinching pain in the right groin, disappearing on rubbing, while waling, at 3.30 P.M. Painful cutting and dragging in the abdomen, in both groins; it woke her from sleep at night (after forty-eight hours).
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.