Urinary Organs
Micturition. Urging to urinate during the day (fourth day). Urging to urinate, yet she passed but little, with burning in the urethra (second day). Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty emission. Wakened at night by urging to urinate, but he repressed it and fell asleep (second day). A feeling as though he was unable to retain the urine. Frequent micturition during the day, always in small quantities. Frequent micturition, with burning in the urethra, and frequently with erections (after ten days). She was obliged to rise five times at night to urinate, but passed little. Involuntary micturition while walking, yet on attempting to urinate when standing nothing passed. While urinating he did not feel the urine in the urethra. Urine passed seldom and in small quantities (after three days). The urine passed only by drops, and some always seemed to remain behind. Emission of urine accomplished only by exertion of the abdominal muscles. Urine. Urine pale yellow; micturition followed by burning in the urethra. Urine almost opaque, as if mixed with yeast, depositing a cloud.
Sexual Organs
Male. Erections in the morning in bed, with burning pain in the penis (after seven days). Itching on the glans penis, in the evening on going to bed. The testicles hang down relaxed (first eight days). After violent erections and neglecting to have coition he experienced, after rising and moving or touching the testicles, a dull sensitive pain in them, as also in the spermatic cord and small of the back, lasting all day. Frequent emissions, even two days in succession (last days). Female. Some leucorrhoea, in the morning after urinating (after twenty-seven days). Leucorrhoea, disappearing immediately after a stool (after twenty-three days). Discharge of leucorrhoea, with cramp in the abdomen. Much leucorrhoea, especially on moving the body. Profuse leucorrhoea almost uninterruptedly for eight days (after twenty- three days). Watery leucorrhoea. Thick leucorrhoea; immediately afterwards, discharge of some blood, fourteen days before the usual time and three days before the full moon (after nine days). Stitches in the moons veneris, some stitches towards evening. Discharge of blood five days before menstruation. The menses reappeared in a woman 50 years old; they had been absent seven months; with some pain in the small of the back. Menses more profuse than usual, though without pain, and five days too early. Menstruation two days too early, lasting two days longer, and more profuse than usual. Menstruation delayed four days, with violent pain in the small of the back, and lasting a shorter time than usual. Menstruation eleven days too late, at first watery, then more colored, with dragging in the groins and frequent yawning. The menses are scanty for the first three days, but profuse and continuous the fourth and fifth days. The menses passed in black clots, more while sitting than while walking.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx and Trachea. Heat and dryness in the larynx (fourth day). Violent sore pain in the larynx, worse on swallowing, with coryza. Rawness and dryness in the larynx. Cough caused crawling in the trachea, with expectoration of mucus. Voice. Hoarseness, every morning after rising (after fifteen days). Hoarseness, with a feeling of soreness in the chest (after ten days). She became suddenly very hoarse, with a dry cough and pressure on the chest; on coughing, a violent sore pain in the chest, on account o which she dreaded to cough, although afterwards she felt easier; only after coughing a long time was some mucus loosened (in bad weather), (after twelve days). Cough and Expectoration. Short paroxysms of cough, followed by dull pressive pain in the chest (after seventeen and eighteen days). Dry cough, frequently only in the evening and at night (after ten days). At night she was frequently awakened by dry cough, on account of which she was obliged to rise up (after eleven days). Dry cough, with pain in the pharynx. Cough, with some expectoration (after fifteen days). Cough, with expectoration of gray salty mucus, caused by scratching in the throat, with expectoration of tenacious mucus of a fatty taste. Deep, rough, racking cough, with a rough voice, whistling in the larynx, and easy expectoration of mucus from the chest, having a salty, sweetish taste, also at night, even amounting to retching. Expectoration of blood after sea- bathing. Respiration. Snoring in sleep (after ten days). Tightness of the breath, more after dinner than in the forenoon (second day ). Want of breath on ascending a mountain; she was frequently obliged to stop and take breath (after twenty days).
Chest
Violent burning in the chest, while coughing. Violent burning and throbbing here and there in the whole chest. Rush of blood to the chest, from a sea-bath. A feeling of rush of blood to the chest, on walking in the open air (after nineteen days). Tensive pain in the thorax, most acute on taking a deep breath, lasting several days, with tightness of the breath. Constriction in the chest, tightness of breath and stitches, as with a dull instrument, in the chest, tightness of breath and stitches, as with a dull instrument, in the right side of the chest near the nipple, after supper (second day). Constrictive pain in the chest and scapulae. Violent pressive pain in the chest. A feeling low down in the right chest as if a sharp body were sticking there, without affecting respiration (after three hours). Fine sticking externally in the upper part of the left chest (second day). A sharp stitch in the right lower rib, towards evening (fifth day). On coughing, a pain in the chest as from ulceration, in the evening and at night. The chest feels worse in the open air, every inspiration provokes cough (after twelve days). Front. Dull pressive pain on the the ensiform cartilage, externally. Sides. Tension extending transversely from the right axilla forward to the chest (after twelve days). Stitches as with a needle between the ribs of the right side. Stitches internally in the left side of the chest, with pain as if sore on pressing on it. Stitches deep in the left side of the chest, not affecting respiration (after one and twelve days). A dull stitch in the right lower ribs, close to the back (after four hours). Some dull stitches beneath the right breast, not affecting respiration (after six days).
Heart
Precordium. Stitches in the heart, taking away the breath (after twelve days). Heart’s Action. Palpitation (after eight minutes). Palpitation while sitting, for three days (after twelve days). Palpitation while sitting and on rising from a seat, disappearing on moving about, in the afternoon. Violent palpitation, with pulsation in all the arteries. Depression of the heart (immediately).
Neck and Back
Neck. Painful tensive drawing in the right side of the neck as if in the tendons (second day). Tearing in the nape of the neck, in the right shoulder, and down the outer side of the arm. Back. Pain in the back and small of the back, disturbing the morning sleep, and constantly renewed when he fell asleep. Burning and still more a sticking, as if in the spinal cord, lasting a quarter of an hour, followed by coarse sticking as with a borer between the shoulders; relieved by motion. After the evening coition, there occurs in the morning a burning pain in the back that wakes him from sleep, always more violent during rest, relieved by motion and completely disappearing after rising. Violent burning pain, and constant itching on the back. Severe bruised pain in the whole spine, at night (after twenty-eight days). Severe bruised pain in the back, during menstruation. Pain over the whole spine, as if beaten to a jelly, in the morning on waking, while lying on the back (third day). Gnawing pain in the small of the back and whole back, as if in the spinal cord, extending up to the neck, in the evening after lying down: she was unable to sleep on account of the pain and constantly tossed about (after five days). Dorsal. Burning and a bruised feeling between the shoulders (seventh day). Tensive feeling between the shoulders and down the back (second day). Pressive pain upon the right scapula, which extends across the shoulder to the clavicle; worse on moving the arm or head, and relieved by pressure. Tearing between the shoulders. Tearing, at first in the right scapula, then in the hip (after thirteen days). Violent tearing in both scapulae. Lumbar. Paralytic feeling in the small of the back, in the evening. Pain in the small of the back. Contractive cramplike pain in the small of the back. A sudden dull pain in the small of the back, caused by suddenly turning the body during the day; it is more noticed while sitting and lying (first day). Drawing pain about the loins after a stool. Frequent stitches in the left lumbar region. Tearing and burning in the small of the back and hips, in the afternoon and night (fourth day). Pain in the small of the back, as if sore and beaten (after nine days). Pain across the small of the back, and both hips as if bruised; the parts are also sensitive to touch, for several days (after fourteen days). Pain as if broken in the small of the back, on stretching and stooping (fifth day). Sacral. Cutting and pressive pain in the sacral region. Dull sticking tearing in the sacral region, disappearing on pressure.
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.