Urinary Organs
Bladder. Apprehension and discomfort in the region of the bladder, as before a stool; while walking (second day). Pain in bladder (after two hours and a half). Urethra. Gonorrhoea, at first thin, afterwards thick; at last with biting pain on urinating, and stitches extending back through the urethra. Urine burning (tenth day). Burning in the orifice of the urethra (eleventh day). Burning in the urethra, commencing before urinating and continuing violent till the water passed; less while urinating almost entirely disappearing after urinating. Sticking in the forepart of the urethra, with some desire to urinate, and very fine stitches in the left testicle; in the evening while walking (sixth day). Burning sticking in the forepart of the urethra, with a feeling of vigor and lightness after coition (sixth day). Stitches in the forepart of the urethra while walking in the open air (sixth day). Frequent stitches in the forepart of the urethra (after ten days). Slight stitches in the forepart of the urethra, and at the same time in the sphincter ani; in the evening (sixth day). Itching in the forepart of the urethra. Violent itching in the orifice of the urethra, which was a biting while urinating with some stitches through the whole urethra (twelfth day). Micturition. Urging to urinate felt in the urethra, with scanty emission; afterwards no inclination with a full bladder, but after the evacuation of the bladder a feeling of fulness remains (after two hours). Micturition frequent; urine passed in drops with much pain (soon). Upwards of one hundred ounces of urine passed in first twelve hours; no other urinary evacuation until the fourth evening, which was very scanty, and continued so until death. Micturition difficult, infrequent. Ischuria for thirty-six hours. Strangury. Voids a small quantity of water (second day). Very little water passed. Urine. Urine scanty, burning on micturition. Urine scanty, red, with a brick-red sediment (second night). Very small portion of urine secreted (after twelve hours). No urine secreted. Suppression of urine; (sixth day). Partial suppression of urine for forty-eight hours. Has not made water yet (third day); suppression of urine continues (fifth day). Passed some urine naturally for the first time (third night); suppression of urine continued (sixth night). Total suppression of urine for five days. Complete suppression of urine. Complete suppression of urine from the commencement (youngest). On the fifth day, the urine having been retained for some hours, a catheter was used; from one of the patients scarcely any urine was drawn off, from the other a large quantity; the latter passed a very small quantity the next day. No discharge of urine for twenty-four hours; the catheter was passed with difficulty on account of the inflammation and swelling of the urethra and bladder; only a few drops of urine were discharged; on the third day there was no urine found in the bladder; the same on the fourth day; soon after which the patient died. Bloody urine (after two hours and a half); highly colored with blood (after three hours); and during the next six hours the quantity voided was very great, probably not less than two to three quarts; after this though the desire to pass urine was frequent, the quantity rapidly diminished, and at the expiration of twenty-four hours there was total suppression; on the third evening he had passed none for twenty-four hours. I found on introducing the catheter that there was none secreted; none was passed for eighty-one hours before his death. (He had been troubled with his kidneys for many years, and once had a severe attack of gravel). Bloody urine (after eight hours and a half). Urine pale yellow, somewhat turbid, with traces of flakes of mucus; after standing it deposits a pale-gray sediment covered with a whitish coat; urine strongly ammoniacal after standing. Blackish, Albuminous urine. Passed two quarts of pale urine (after two hours and a half); passed a pint and a half of the same kind (after five hours); sp. gr. 1009. Slight turbidity was occasioned by heat, but was instantly removed by nitric acid. For several days her urine contained a considerable quantity of albumen. One specimen presented the following characters; it was turbid, and had a pale-brown color; its odor was urinous; sp. gr. 1028; it was abundantly coagulated by heat as well as by nitric acid. Urine decidedly acid and quite limpid, without a trace of albumen or sugar (after four hours). Urine no longer limpid; rather thick, but acid as before; sp. gr.1016. Flakes of albumen precipitated by heat and nitric acid. Proportion of albumen, according to Mehn’s formula 24 centigr. to 50 grammes urine; i. e., 4.80 grammes per liter. Under the microscope, the urine presented granular fatty tubuli, in large numbers, showing on their surface epithelial cells of the tubuli uriniferi, also in a state of granular fatty degeneration.
Sexual Organs
Male. Penis and testes swollen enormously (second day). (When touching the os uteri during coition a sensation of a pressive pain followed by pressure). Violent erections, with great sexual desire (sixth day). Violent erections during sleep, continuing after waking; during coition delayed and very slow emission (second night). Sticking pain in the right testicle (eighth day). Fine but acute stitches in the middle of the left testicle, continuing the next day (first day). Sexual desire very much diminished (secondary action); scarcely ever an erection (after ten days). Female. Intense inflammation of the vulva. Vulva in a sloughy state (after death). Slight hemorrhage from vagina (second day). Leucorrhoea pale yellow, of a nauseous sweetish odor. Almost immediate local pain of a most severe kind, with a sense of burning heat; urgent forcing downwards, as in labor; and profuse discharge of mucus as thin as water; on examination, the entrance and lower part of vagina were found greatly swollen, red, hot, and discharging profusely; on the third day the discharge continued, and was tinged with blood. Alarming increase of catamenia.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx. Great irritability in the larynx (ninth day). Voice. Voice hoarse. Voice rough and hoarse. Almost complete aphonia. Cough and Expectoration. Paroxysms of cough during the night (third day). Frequent attacks of spasmodic cough (fourth day). Several paroxysms of spasmodic cough (sixth day). The tickling in the throat gave rise to a convulsive cough, with very severe pain – a pharyngeal cough, such as is caused by thrusting the finger into the back of the mouth. The paroxysms of cough were followed by the expectoration of the bloody mucus; then by a feeling of suffocation, with great anxiety; they recurred at short intervals (second day). Dry cough. Great inclination in the larynx to cough towards evening; dry cough; the larynx dry (eighth day). Hollow, dry, fatiguing cough (after two hours). ( Coughed up a considerable quantity of mucus tinged with blood (after eight hours and a half). Spits up thick pellets of mucus mixed with blood (sixth day). Respiration. Breath extremely offensive. Breath fetid (after forty-eight hours). Breath fetid, but the mouth is by no means sore, and there is no ptyalism (sixth day). Breath extremely fetid (eighth day). Mercurial fetor of breath (fifth day). Well-marked mercurial fetor from his breath (third day). Strong mercurial fetor of breath (third day). Mercurial fetor of breath very perceptible (eighth day). Respirations quick and catching (after half an hour). Respiration slow (after five hours). Respiration slow, interrupted; at times, deep and sighing. Respiration uneven, 20 (after four hours); 29, at 8.30 A.M.; 20, at 5.30 P.M. (second day); 18, at 8.30 A.M.; 16 at 5.30 P.M. (third day); 18, in morning; 20 at 7.30 P.M. (fourth day); 28 (sixth day); 16, in morning; 20 in evening (seventh day). Inspirations deep and heavy (third day). Breathing labored (sixth day). Respiration impeded. Difficulty of breathing (seventh day). Respiration deep, difficult. Respiration by the aid of the intercostal muscles was difficult and irregular. Respiration very difficult. Great difficulty in respiration (soon); (after one hour). Oppressed somewhat for breath, and has continual rattling in the throat (fifth day). Dyspnoea. Dyspnoea was a constant symptom from the first attack of vomiting until she was able to retain liquid in the stomach. Dyspnoea increased on account of the excessive swelling of the mouth and throat, so that the physician opened the trachea just below the larynx, which afforded some relief.
Chest
Objective. Rattling in the chest. Sonorous rales in all parts of the chest. Subjective. Sensation of constriction over the whole chest. Oppression of the chest. Shooting pains in the chest. Nightly sticking pain transversely through the whole chest. Itching-sticking pain in the muscles of the right lower costal region (eleventh day). Stitches internally in the upper part of the left chest on deep breathing (first day). Frequent stitches shoot through the thorax (eighth day). Frequent tearing pain in the lowest cartilages of the right ribs (first day). Front. Burning pain beneath the sternum (after eight hours and a half). A kind of tearing in the middle of the sternum, after midnight (second night). Sides. Sticking in the upper part of the right side of the chest deep internally, scarcely aggravated by deep inspiration (fifth day). Some sticking pain in the lower portion of the right side of the chest (twelfth day). Frequent dull stitches in the upper part of the left side of the chest, especially on deep breathing (first day). Fine transient stitches through both sides of the thorax, after rising in the morning (seventh day). Burning stitches in the right side of the chest, as if in the muscles (first day). Mammae. Painful glandular swellings about the nipple.
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.