Stomach
Appetite. Appetite failing (ninth day). Loss of appetite; (fifteenth day). Craving for stimulants, which aggravate the state (eighth day). Great desire for wine (fourth day). Thirst. Thirsty (sixth day). Very thirsty (seventh and eighth days). Eructations. Eructations, tasting like barley water, since shortly after taking powder (after four hours). Hot, foul risings of air from stomach (fourteenth day). Acidity of stomach (seven- tenth day). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea (fifteenth day); (second morning); without vomiting (immediately); all day (soon), (first day); after breakfast and dinner (sixteenth day). Nausea and faintness coming on suddenly after breakfast; removed by acid fruit (second day). Nausea, and a disagreeable sensation in mouth (soon), (third day). Nausea, with very parched mouth, in the evening; frequent inclination to expectorate rather adhesive saliva, yet constant desire to drink, in the evening (seventeenth day). Nausea, with pain of stomach and feeling of prostration; a beating in stomach; relieved in open air (twelfth day). Slight nausea (seventh day); on going to bed (second day). Slight nausea and empty eructations, during the afternoon (first day). Sensible of sickness at the stomach, but did not vomit (soon). Decided nausea (after the dose, third night and fourth morning). Eat a few walnuts, which caused sickness and pain of stomach; they never hurt me before (fourth day). Sick feeling, which, however, she attributes to having taken the powder dry on the tongue instead of in solution, which she did because she was suddenly called away when she was about to take the powder (third night); a little sickish, like last night (fourth night). During the evening felt sick, almost to vomiting (fourth day). Frequent faintish sick turns pass over her (sixth day). Felt “sickish,” from a “feeling in the throat,” opposite the top of sternum (soon); continued sick, and felt a disagreeable sensation about stomach, and headache above the eyes, till past midday, and belching up of water in the throat and flatulence; in the afternoon began to feel pain in the throat again, “like as if she had the cold” (first day). Very qualmish and dull in the evening (first day). Vomiting (in a few minutes); (after ten minutes). Vomited plentifully. Stomach. Uneasiness in the stomach, which soon passed off (after six minutes). Disagreeable feeling in stomach (sixth day). Feeling of indigestion; sensation as if a lump in stomach and upper part of oesophagus (twelfth day). Sinking sensation in stomach (second day). Great heat in the stomach when empty, and hot and foul eructations (eighteenth day). Disagreeable feeling, as of a loaded stomach (second night). Griping sensation in the stomach (soon), (eighth day). Slight pinching sensation in stomach, like incipient gastrodynia (soon), (first night). Slight pinching in stomach, with feeling of rawness in throat (soon), (third day). Slight spasmodic pain in stomach (soon), (second night). Pressure, as from stones in stomach, after each meal (seventeenth day). Pricking in stomach (soon), (fifth day); after dinner (seventh day).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Occasionally, throughout the day, stitchy, evanescent pains from before backwards in both hypochondria; anguishing pain in left hypochondrium and left lumbar region, for an hour or two after taking dinner, and flatulence; aching pains around loins occasionally (second day); after going to bed was very much annoyed for a long time (an hour or more) with aching pain in loins, constant, and with anguishing pain in abdomen, with flatulence (second night). Umbilical and Sides. Uneasiness about the umbilical region (after a few minutes, first day). Frequent sharp griping pain at umbilical region (fifth day). Occasional twisting pain in umbilical region (first day). Frequent cutting in umbilical region and small of back, followed by a rather profuse and sudden leucorrhoea, in the afternoon (second day). Griping pain in the left side of the abdomen, for about ten minutes (soon). Dull, aching, colic like pain along the left side of abdomen, which lasted for more than an hour, and was relieved after several flatulent eructations (ten minutes after second powder, second day). General Abdomen. Swelling in abdomen, with feeling of tightness and flatulence (after second powder, fifth day). Flatulence (second day; considerable flatulence, not so bad as before (third day). Troubled with flatulence (first day), also to-day, but not so much (second day). For some time past have been troubles with flatulence, and mild, colicky pains in abdomen (fifth night). Much flatulence during the course of the day (seventh day). Much flatulence, and colicky pains in abdomen (after second powder, sixth day). Rumbling and aching in bowels, after dining (seventeenth day). Rumblings and slight cutting pains in bowels, in the afternoon (fourteenth day). Uncomfortable sense of emptiness at abdominal region, relieved by folding the arms over it and pressing (fourth day). Occasional pains in the bowels throughout the day (fourth day). Slight pain in the abdomen (seventh, tenth, and eleventh days). Severe pain in the belly, which, upon examination, appeared tense and much swelled; the sense of tension or tightness spread first towards the heart. Very severe pains of abdomen, occasionally lasting two minutes (sixth day). Griping pain in the bowels immediately after dinner, relieved by a large bilious stool (seventh day). Dull pains in abdomen (after second powder, fourth day). Occasional dull pains in abdomen throughout the day (fourth day). Sharp pains of abdomen (eleventh day). Cutting pains in the abdomen, extending to lower region of back (fifth day). Severe cutting pain of abdomen, lasting a minute (after fifteen minutes, fourth day). Tearing pains of abdomen (first night). Now and then tearing pain in the abdomen (third day). Tearing pains of abdomen, which lasted two hours, in the morning (sixth day). Colicky pains in abdomen (fourth night). Colicky pains in abdomen (slight), (soon), and occasionally throughout the day (third day). After being in bed, and before falling asleep, was a good deal annoyed with flatulent colic (first night). This evening, after dinner, felt a rumbling and aching in the abdomen, as though diarrhoea were going to come on, and frequently, when sitting perfectly still, a heavy pulsation appeared almost to left up the bowels (third day). Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. Griping pain once or twice in lower part of abdomen, with desire for stool during the continuance of the pain (after second powder). Taormina in lower bowels, with desire to evacuate them (after nine hours and a half, third day). Frequent, rather severe cutting pains, shooting from below upward, in lower abdomen, internally (sixth day). Felt a pain dart from left ilium forwards into abdominal muscles; lasted only a moment, in the evening (second day). For two or three days, during the past week, I felt a slight painful sensation about the groins, as if the muscles had been overfatigued or stretched; I could not make this out into a definite symptom of any part; perhaps merely a stretch of muscles in walking or stepping into the gig (fourteenth day).
Rectum and Anus
Feeling of large stool in rectum, which, when voided, was but small (second day). Heat in anal region, with itching and smarting at the anus (fourteenth day).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Bowels more relaxed than usual (fifth, sixth, and seventh days). Infant’s bowels relaxed, slimy, white, or green (fifth day); relaxed (sixth, seventh, and eighth days). At times, bilious diarrhoea, always preceded by sudden urging, griping pains in the abdomen; the desire to evacuate the bowels, particularly during November (second proving), was always sudden, whether followed by a relaxed stool or not. Very sudden and relaxed motion (after eleven hours and a half, third day). When walking in the country, I was suddenly seized with a most urgent desire to evacuate the bowels; the matter was of a light color, and rather watery, and discharged with great force, as if I had taken a powerful cathartic (sixth day); a loose stool, with slight pain in the abdomen (seventh and eighth days); diarrhoeic tendency continued, and I still feel uneasy (ninth day); for two days afterwards, I had no motion in the bowels; the two succeeding days, the motions were partly costive, partly loose, and attended with slight pain in the abdomen. After slight pain in bowels, a rather loose stool with much flatus (after fourteen hours, fourth day). Seized with a sudden urging to stool, followed by a comparatively small bilious evacuation (third day). Very bilious small stool in the morning, preceded by sudden urging (sixth day). Constipation. Scanty action of bowels. I never fail having a free motion after breakfast; for some days found it rather less, and decidedly so this morning (seventh day); bowels decidedly less effectually moved; evacuations rather hard; passed with distress, and feeling as if more faeces remained (ninth day); evacuation still more confined; passed after much straining, and giving very unsatisfactory relief (tenth 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.