Stomach
Appetite. Great appetite morning, noon, and evening (first day). More hunger than usual. Much more hunger and appetite for breakfast than usual (first day). Hunger for breakfast, but he had scarcely satisfied himself, when there was a pressure in the stomach, and he became ill- humored (twenty-sixth day). He became hungry towards noon, contrary to habit, though he had a eaten a good breakfast; was obliged to eat a piece of bread and butter, when the weak sensation disappeared (third and fourth days). Increased sensation of hunger in the afternoon, when it was quite unusual (first day). Incessant hunger (after fifteen days). Excessive hunger in the forenoon, little at noon. Ravenous hunger in the afternoon (seventh day). Disposed to nibble; as soon as he sees anything eatable, he wishes to taste it (third day). After dinner a great desire for a pipe of tobacco, which had not tasted so good for a long time (fifth day). She has appetite and hunger, but is soon satisfied. Appetite for dinner not as good as usual; meat not at all relished; bread tastes best (first day). She has very little appetite, though the stomach seems empty (seventh day). Neither hunger nor appetite at noon and in the evening (sixth day). Anorexia. She relishes no food, but hence eats nothing. Aversion to meat and fat food (second day). Aversion to milk, ordinarily her favorite diet (first days). Thirst. Thirst even in the morning (seventh day). Thirst in the afternoon (sixth and tenth days); in evening, after going to sleep (seventh and eleventh days); after walking (second day). Much thirst; in forenoon (twenty-third day). Great thirst, only while eating. Excessive thirst (the whole first day). Excessive thirst towards noon, also continuing in the afternoon (sixth day). Violent thirst for cold water a few hours after dinner. Eructations and Hiccough. Many eructations, with excessive vertigo, while eating (after sixteen days). Frequent eructations (after a few days). Frequent eructations in the forenoon (eleventh day). Constant eructations, and emission of much flatus. Empty eructations (third day). Empty eructations, followed by heat in pharynx, at 2 P.M. (first day). Eructations tasting of food, after every meal. Bitter eructations, which he tasted for a long time, in the forenoon (second day). Sour eructations. Frequent sour eructations in the afternoon (eleventh day). Frequent bilious eructations that penetrated into the nose, in the afternoon (third day). Uprisings of water of a sweetish taste, but only as far as the throat, so that he was constantly obliged to swallow it again, at 3 P.M. (second day). Hiccough every afternoon after eating. Frequent hiccough. Violent Hiccough during dinner, making the stomach sore (third day). Such violent hiccough at 6 P.M., that it caused bitter uprisings from the stomach for half an hour (third day). Hiccough so violent and long continued that everything became sore, in the evening (fourth day). Water brash (after fifteen days). Scraping heartburn, after fat food (after three days). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea in the stomach, with a sensation of fasting, that disappeared after soup, in the morning (sixth day). Nausea, aversion, and qualmishness in the morning, with crawling and twisting about in the stomach, accumulation of water in the mouth, and eructations; did not disappear after soup in the morning, but lasted till noon (eleventh day). Nausea in the morning, with uprisings of water in the mouth, nearly all day. Nausea, with shuddering, and a feeling of fullness in the stomach. Constant nausea, with yawning, the whole forenoon (first day). Great nausea in the stomach, though without inclination to vomit, disappearing after eating, in the forenoon (fifteenth day). Qualmishness in the stomach, with tension in the hypochondria after fruit (tenth day). Qualmishness and nausea in the stomach, as if he had taken cold, followed by warmth in the pit of the stomach (immediately). Extreme inclination to vomit, with nausea, heat of the face, excessive hawking of mucus, and efforts to vomit till actual vomiting of frothy tasteless mucus resulted; better towards evening, on eating (sixth and seventh days). Violent retching in the morning, without actual vomiting. Vomiting of offensive sour liquid, like muddy water (while coughing). Stomach. The stomach is weak, and easily disordered. A stoppage from below upward after eating, as if digestion could not go on from above downward, lasting three or four hours, followed by relaxation of the hands and feet. Disagreeable feeling of fasting in the stomach, in the forenoon (fourth day). Feeling of a disordered stomach, that disappears after eating warm soup, but returns (first day). Pain in the stomach, after milk soup (fourth day). Pain in the stomach, with sensitiveness, even to external pressure, and accumulation of water in the mouth; relieved by eating bread, at 4 P.M. (first day). Fullness in the stomach, in the evening, and no desire for food (ninth day). Feeling of fullness in the stomach, and as if something were rising up, at 4 A.M., in bed (second day). The stomach feels swollen and is sensitive (eleventh day). Unpleasant tension just above the pit of the stomach (seventeenth day). Painful contraction about the stomach in the evening, extending afterwards also to both hypochondria, so that she was obliged to bend up; relieved by stretching up and by walking, aggravated by stooping and sitting; in the evening lasting in bed till next morning, though less severe, together with a jerking in the right side, below the stomach, as if a worm were turning about (tenth day). Internal pain like a griping about the stomach, extending toward the left side, at 1 P.M. (first day). Griping in the stomach after the morning drink. Griping and beating in the epigastric region, as from a worm, at 2.30 A.M. (tenth day). Pain like a pressure and retching about the epigastric region in the morning, lasting two hours, and then disappearing on moving about. Pressure and rumbling in the stomach, disappearing after eructations, in the forenoon (third day). Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone, at 3 P.M. (eleventh day). Pressure and griping in the stomach, while walking, with tremulousness. Violent pressure in the stomach, after dinner and breakfast, for several days (after eighteen days). Lies like a heavy lump in the stomach, after dinner. Feeling as if a hard substance were extending from the praecordial region to the pit of the stomach, and a constriction in the stomach, after dinner (third day). Pain in the stomach, like a cutting, towards the small of the back, in the forenoon (first day). Cutting in the epigastric region while walking, then extending towards the navel, with a feeling as if a stool would occur, at 4 P.M. (sixth day). Cutting and drawing internally and externally in the stomach (the whole twenty-second day). Very painful sticking and feeling of retraction in the epigastric region, in a broad streak extending across to the right side, lasting a long time, in the afternoon (first day). Very sharp painful stitch deep in the left side of the stomach, followed by burning, at 3.30 P.M. (first day). A violent stitch, as with a knife, in the epigastric region before dinner, afterwards a similar one beneath the left breast on inspiration (first day). When talking, the pit of the stomach was very sore, and the saliva was frothy, as if beaten up. Great external sensitiveness of the epigastric region to touch, in the forenoon (tenth day). The stomach was painful to touch (also after forty- eight hours).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. He woke after an hour with a stoppage in the region of the spleen, and oppression across the chest and stomach, as from flatulence. Burning in the left side, near the pit of the stomach, while walking, lasting a quarter of an hour, and not disappearing on rubbing, at 5 P.M. (eighth day). Sudden burning in a small spot near the right side of the pit of the stomach, in the afternoon (eleventh day). Sticking and drawing in the right side of the abdomen, above the hip (after twenty-days). Some stitches in the left hypochondrium, extending into the right pit of the stomach, frequently during the day while sitting, also painful to touch. Stitches as with knives towards each other and a screwing together sensation in the right hypochondrium region, with oppression of the breath (eleventh day). Violent stitches in the region of the spleen, in the afternoon, while walking (fifteenth day). Violent sharp stitches in the right hypochondriac region, followed by griping in the lower abdomen, in the forenoon (tenth day). Pain, on pressure with the hand, in the left hypochondrium (after seven days). Jerking from time to time in the right hypochondriac region, in the evening (twelfth day). Umbilical and Sides. Tensive burning in a small spot to the left of the navel, in the forenoon (seventeenth day). Griping about the umbilicus, in the afternoon (eleventh day). Griping in a small spot at the umbilicus, frequently intermitting, in the forenoon (eleventh day). Pinching about the navel, followed by the usual stool, with clawing in the anus (after one hour and a half). Slow drawing from the umbilicus towards the small of the back, like in urging to stool, with yawning, in the morning (tenth day). Fine intermitting griping in the right flank, rather externally, after dinner (first day). Coarse twitching in the right flank, like a beating, frequently intermitting (fourth day). Sharp stitches in the right flank, extending into the right rib, near the pit of the stomach, and then on deep breathing into the sternum, above the ensiform cartilage, less on inspiration, but returning during expiration, and lasting a long time (first day). General Abdomen. Distension of the abdomen, especially after eating. Great distension of the abdomen, relieved by emission of flatus, in the afternoon (fifth day). Great distension of the abdomen, with emission of flatus in the evening, disappearing after lying down (seventh day). Great distension of the abdomen in the afternoon, as if she had eaten very much, without emission of flatus; in the night, as it still continued, she rose, thinking to obtain relief by a stool, which, however, did not follow; only towards morning the flatulence disappeared, without an evacuation (tenth day). Excessive distension of the abdomen, as if it would burst; only slightly relieved by the emission of flatus (seventeenth day). Painful distension of the abdomen, as if it would burst, in the morning after waking; after rising slight diarrhoea, followed by disappearance of the distension, during menstruation (twelfth day). Swellings on the abdomen, as if intestines were here and there distended by gas (after twenty-days). Movings about in the abdomen, even in the morning in bed, followed by two thin stools without any difficulty (sixth day). Rumbling noise in the abdomen (fifth day). Audible rumbling in the abdomen, without pain, at 6.30 P.M. (second day). Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, with distension in certain spots. Griping rumbling in the upper abdomen, followed by emission of flatus with relief, in the afternoon (fourth day). Violent griping rumbling in the whole abdomen; relieved in the open air (sixth day). Profuse emission of offensive flatus in the afternoon (third day). Sour-smelling flatus. Flatus having the odor of bad eggs. Incarcerated flatus, whereupon it mounted into his head, and he had twitchings in the face (after twenty days). Heaviness of the abdomen. Violent pain in the abdomen, disappearing after eating soup, at 11 A.M. (third day). Feeling of distension in the upper abdomen. Jerking contraction in the abdomen, with an affection of the small of the back. Griping in the abdomen, continuing after the stool (sixteenth day). Griping in the abdomen, like colic, immediately after eating. Cutting griping in the abdomen, in every position. Griping colic in the morning, with qualmishness, as if diarrhoea would occur. Frequent attacks of griping and cutting in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would occur, the whole afternoon (seventh day). Frequent violent griping in the abdomen at long intervals (the whole tenth days). Cutting in the middle of the upper abdomen, in the morning (third day). Cutting in the abdomen and small of the back precedes the somewhat hard stool (after ten days). Cutting colic in the morning (third day). Sticking and drawing in the left side of the abdomen, as from incarceration of flatus (after eighteen days). Colic woke her from sleep, at night. A kind of colic towards morning; the navel became retracted, and the walls of the abdomen as hard as a board, yet he fell asleep while it lasted (sixth day). He woke with colic, that ceased after a stool, for three days (after ninth day). Colic preceding the evacuation of a soft stool. Colic, that recurs twice daily, only relieved after vomiting. The child complains of colic and nausea, looks very pale, and is obliged to lie down; after an hour’s sleep it passes away. Violent colic, at night. Tensive colic in the upper abdomen, with cutting in the abdomen and diarrhoea, for several nights (after twelve days). Sore pain in the abdomen, with pressure downward, as before menstruation; relieved by external warmth. The abdomen is painful to touch and on walking. Bruised pain in the intestines, with stitches in the right side of the chest, while riding horseback (twenty-eighth day). Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Pain in the lower abdomen above the left groin on yawning and deep breathing, but not when touched. Tension in the lower abdomen below the umbilicus, especially while walking and on stooping. Paroxysmal violent griping in the lower abdomen, frequently (sixth day). Violent dragging in the hypogastric and inguinal regions. Pressure in the lower abdomen, extending to the genitals, as if everything in the abdomen would fall out and the menses would come on. Pressive pain in the lower abdomen and sides of the abdomen, with pain when touched, and still more on walking. Cutting in both sides of the lower abdomen, towards the navel, then in the whole abdomen, as after taking cold, in the forenoon, while sitting (third day). Cutting pain low down in the lower abdomen at short intervals, before menstruation, in the afternoon (nineteenth day). Tearing in the lower abdomen, extending through the genitals to the urethra (fifth day). Biting as from worms in the lower abdomen, in the afternoon (twelfth day). Swelling of the inguinal glands. Swelling (generally painful) of the glands of the groin and axilla. Terrible dull pressive sticking in the right inguinal region, so that she was obliged to bend double, while hawking, after rising from a seat, lasting a minute (tenth day). Pain, as if beaten, in a small spot on the right ilium, on pressure (third 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.