Rectum and Anus
Much incarcerated flatus, in the rectum (seventh day). Distressing sensation, as from an incomplete stool, with stitches in the rectum. Burning in the rectum, after a stool (after three days). Pain in the rectum, as if hard lumps were in it, during the evacuation of stool and flatus. Cramp like pain in the rectum and below the umbilicus (after thirty-one days). Pressure in the rectum, with itching, as if hemorrhoids would occur (twenty- eighth day). Itching in the rectum. Anus. Burning and biting in the anus, after a stool (after eleven days). Pressive twinging about the anus. Stitches in the anus (first day). Biting and burning itching in the anus. Crawling in the anus (eleventh day). Violent crawling in the anus, as from worms for an hour (second day). Itching in the anus (after twenty-four hours). Urging. Ineffectual desire for stool, with sticking in the anus (fourth day). Frequent ineffectual desire and urging to stool. Urging to stool and urine, with colic; after long pressure some urine passes, wherewith the penis becomes erect, and this pressure with erection continues even after the discharge, in the afternoon (twentieth day). Constant urging to stool, with flatulent colic in the abdomen. Pressure to stool, and desire, partly ineffectual, partly with a slight discharge of a natural stool, with constant fullness in the abdomen, frequently during the day (after fourteen days).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, after drinking milk. Profuse diarrhoea, at first of thick mucus, for four days, and at last it becomes more and more covered with blood, without pain; but preceded by transient pain in the stomach. Stool small, soft, thin-formed, with pressure. Stool pasty, preceded by a quiet discharge of flatus, without pressure, with burning hot cheeks. Stool with pressure, followed by pain in the rectum. Difficult eructation of a stool that was not hard; he was obliged to make great effort before it could be discharged. He is unable without much effort to evacuate a stool that is not hard (first day). The morning stool was harder than the usual, especially very hard at first, so that he was obliged to make a great effort; the last was tenacious, and freed itself from the anus with difficulty; after dinner he was again obliged to go to stool, but the evacuation was insignificant, and soon followed by tenesmus in the rectum, that lasted some time (third day); violent pressure and urging to stool; but only a little discharge resulted; with a feeling as if much remained; the colic that had existed previously, ceased after the evacuation (ninth day); stool, with a straining, after dinner, followed by burning in the eyes and urethra, with remarkable voluptuous irritation; the burning about the eyes returned, with heat of the head and perspiration on the forehead, during the approach of a storm (tenth day). Hard stool, with burning in the anus (eleventh day); very hard crumbly stool with pressure, preceded by movements and griping in the abdomen (first three days); urgent desire for stool, that was soft and of the usual amount, followed by rumbling in the abdomen, cutting below the navel, and constant urging, only once, however, resulting in a slight evacuation (second day); after an interval of half an hour, during which the straining never entirely ceased, excessive urging, and a thin yellow stool with burning and tenesmus in the anus, also with pain about the navel (second day); stool hard, coated with some blood, with stitches in the rectum, and followed by burning in the anus (second day); stool first hard, then soft, mixed with bloody mucus, and followed by burning in the anus (second day); urging to stool; a few small pieces, like sheep dung, are passed only after great straining, with burning (third day); she woke at 3 A.M., with desire for stool, that was at first soft, then thin, with burning and tenesmus in the anus, and the evacuation of a piece of tapeworm two inches long, followed somewhat later by two thin stools (fourth day); stool with small balls of mucus like peas (fourth day); cutting and movements in the whole abdomen, followed by four thin stools, in half an hour (fifth day); stools very hard, then soft, followed by burning (seventh and eighth days); stools always very soft (after eight days); hard stool, with straining (ninth day); violent pinching in the abdomen, followed by a very soft, and then by a diarrhoea- like stool, with sore pain in the anus (eleventh day); such violent urging to stool, that he had hardly time to reach the closet; there resulted a thin stool, that forcibly spurted from him (fifteenth day); three thin stools, with burning like fire in the anus (fifteenth day); stool two or three times a day; that last usually with pressure in the rectum and tenesmus in the urethra, and evacuation of a little crumbly mucous stool, at times only flatus, for several weeks; stool not hard, but causing cutting during the evacuation (nineteenth and twentieth days). Stool spotted with blood (after twenty-one and thirty-six days). Discharge of blood during the stool (after fourteen days). Constipation. Constipation or diarrhoea. Stool omits (fifth and eleventh days).
Urinary Organs
Urethra. Prostatic fluid passes with a difficult stool. Prostatic fluid passes with the urine (after five days). Burning and smarting in the urethra, in the evening (twenty second day). Burning in the urethra, when not urinating (fifth day). Burning and sticking in the urethra, during micturition, at 3 P.M. (fourth day). Burning in the urethra, during and after micturition. Tearing in the urethra, during micturition (second day). Tearing in the urethra, with tearing in the testicles, periodic, lasting an hour. Smarting in the urethra during micturition (twenty-second and twenty-third days). Jerking in the urethra. Micturition. Frequent desire to urinate, with copious discharge. Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge. Frequent desire to urinate, though there was never much urine passed at once (first seven days). Frequent urging continues after urinating, though there is always a spoonful passed (eleventh day). Constant desire to urinate, and during the last drops cutting in the bladder, and discharge of mucus from the urethra. A sudden desire to urinate, with stitches in the urethra, from behind forward (after three hours). Nocturnal, involuntary micturition. The child wetted the bed, at night. Frequent and profuse micturition, together with discharge of yellowish leucorrhoea (eleventh day). She urinates frequently, but little at a time (second and third days). She urinates frequently and profusely (after fifteen days). Frequent discharge of watery urine, without special thirst (after eleven days). He was obliged to rise three times at night to urinate, without having drank much (after six days). She was obliged to urinate excessively at night, even every half hour (after three days). She is obliged to rise three times at night to urinate, with burning in the urethra (thirteenth day). Discharge of urine very much increased (twelfth day). Profuse emission of urine, as though she had passed none for several days (first day). Dribbling of urine immediately after micturition. Urine. Urine was very much increased; he was even obliged to rise after midnight to urinate (thirteenth day). Urine very much increased; the evacuation preceded and accompanied by burning (fourth day). Two pounds of lemon-yellow urine passed daily, in the morning, for ten days (after twenty days). Offensive urine. Sour-smelling, bright yellow urine. The urine becomes turbid, soon after passing (eleventh day). The urine becomes turbid, and deposited yellow mucus.
Sexual Organs
Male. Inflammation of the glans penis and prepuce. Inflammation of the prepuce. In the morning, the prepuce was retracted and the glans uncovered. Swelling of the glans penis. Much smegma behind the corona glandis (third day). Erections occasionally during the day (after two and three days). Frequent erections during the day (seventh day). Erections nearly every morning, though without sexual desire, for three weeks together. Erections three times, the last time painful, in the morning (fifth day). Violent persistent erections, in the morning on waking (after eight days). Almost painful erections, lasting ten minutes, in the morning in bed (fourth day). A kind of priapismus towards morning, followed by an emission without any sexual desire, with tensive pain and cutting in the penis; this pain lasted as long as the erection, over an hour; even on leaving the bed he still felt a very disagreeable tension in the penis (seventh day. Incomplete coition, transient erection and speedy emission (second day). Weak erections (fifth day). Erections ceased in the latter part of the proving, and did not return. Pain back of the glans penis, with erections after coition. The glans penis easily becomes sore. Itching on the glans penis (after three hours). Itching on the glans penis, provoking scratching. Violent itching, that provokes rubbing, on the glans penis, in the forenoon (third day). Soreness between the scrotum and thighs. Sticking beating in the scrotum, lasting an hour (eleventh day). Itching on the scrotum, not relieved by scratching (fourth day). Sensation of numbness in the testicles. Pain in the left testicle after twenty-eight days). Painful tension in the testicles and abdomen (after twenty- four hours). Heavy pressive drawing in the testicles and spermatic cords, more in the morning than in the evening (after forty-two days). Pain as from a bruise, in the testicles. Great desire for an emission after dinner, and also in the evening, without real sexual desire; after dinner, this desire returned while the legs were crossed, but disappeared on walking about, it returned in the evening, while lying down (ninth and fourteenth days). Sexual desire, in the morning after drinking beer, followed by a flat, sweetish taste in the mouth (twenty-fifth day). Excessive sexual desire on even touching a girl (tenth day). Great sexual excitement while in a warm bath, and on leaving it, burning in the palms of the hands (seventeenth day). Emission without lascivious dream. Emissions without erections. Emission at night with pain though the sleep was so sound that he could not entirely wake; all next day he was extremely fretful and ill-humored, discontented and out of sorts with everything, and persisting at nothing; he had scarcely commenced anything, when he wished to leave it (after eighteen days). Frequent emissions, in an old man (nineteenth, twenty- second, twenty-ninth and thirty-seventh days). Female Movement in the uterus, like the motion of a fetus. Leucorrhoea. A little thick leucorrhoea, after urinating, for four days (after two days). Profuse discharge of leucorrhoea, always after frequent paroxysms of cutting colic and twisting about the umbilicus, day and night, in every position, for five days. Pressure toward the genitals, before a stool. Tearing in one side of the pudenda (after six days). Soreness of pudenda between the thighs. Pulsation in the genitals, after coition. Menses seven days too early (after seven days). Menses three days too early (after forty-eight hours). Menses one day too early. Menses three days too late (first day). Menses too scanty, and like water from meat, towards evening, and two days late. Menses more profuse and longer lasting than usual.
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.