Rectum and Anus
Protrusion of the rectum and burning in the anus, with discharge of much bloody matter; he is unable to sleep at night on account of pain (after a few hours). A sensation in the rectum as after taking cold, with involuntary evacuation of a small quantity of slimy liquid, on waking at night (twenty-fourth day). Sensation as if a foreign substance or very rough hard faces were lying in the rectum, with constant looseness of bowels (after 20th dil.). Feeling of heat in the rectum (after ten days). Burning of rectum, at night. Burning in the rectum, lasting all day, while walking (fourth day). Sensation of contraction in the rectum during a stool; hard faeces at first evacuated with the greatest exertion, that causes tearing in the anus, so that it bleeds, and pains as if sore; afterwards thin stools also are passed; every other day she was constipated. Frequent griping in the rectum, with urging, but with emissions of only flatus and mucus. Dragging in the rectum, after a stool. Pressure and tenesmus in the rectum, as in violent purging (third day). Pressing pain in the rectum. Stitches in the rectum (twenty-sixth day). Stitches in the rectum, with a feeling of soreness, so that he could not sit (third day). Frequent stitches in the rectum, especially in the afternoon (twelfth day). Itching stitches in the rectum in the evening in bed. Scraping in the rectum, during a hard stool. Frequent tickling in the rectum. Itching in the rectum continued, and was relieved by scratching. Redness about the anus (third day). Hemorrhoids, with moisture and stinging pain in the anus. Hemorrhoids swollen, painful to touch. Could scarcely sit still on account of painful protruding hemorrhoids, in the evening. Sensation of heat in the anus and left testicle. Burning pain in the anus. Burning in the anus, after a hard stool. Burning in the anus, after a soft stool. Persistent burning in the anus, especially after being vexed. The anus seems swollen; the sensation of a plug sticking in it constantly drove him to stool; after the second dose there were two attacks of diarrhoea (after 1 1/2 drachm). Spasmodic constriction of the anus (tenth day). Sticking and itching in the anus. Sensation in the anus as if a small, rough pointed plug were sticking in it, or as if the anus were swollen, with frequent ineffectual desire for stool (after 1st trit). In the evening, he cried out, and said that a needle was sticking into the anus; examination showed ascarides; the next day some threadworms were passed; the biting and itching lasted five days; it returned after two weeks, and he complained again of violent sticking, and threadworms were again found; even to the end of the proving he had frequent itching in the anus, though no more worms were emitted. Stitches in the anus, extending up the rectum, when not at stool. Fine transient stitches in the sphincter ani (after 11th dil.). Burning stitches and a feeling of soreness in the anus, especially while walking about, 10 A.M. Anus sore, hot. Soreness about the anus and between the nates. Biting soreness in the anus, after a thin stool. Scratching in the anus, after a stool. Jerking in the anus (after 10th dil.). A feeling in the anus as though small bubbles of air passed through, one by one (after five hours). Much biting and scratching about the anus. Itching in anus, several days. Itching in the anus, after a somewhat bloody stool. Itching in the anus, in the morning, while walking (twelfth day). Intolerable itching in the anus, that seems to extend to the neck of the bladder and prostrate gland, suddenly on waking, in the morning, lasting seven or eight minutes (after 15th dil.). Desire for stool all day, as if diarrhoea would occur (fifth day). Desire for stool after eating (fourth day). Urging to stool, so that frequently he thought he should be unable to retain it; but not followed by an evacuation (second day). Ineffectual desire for stool (seventeenth day). Ineffectual urging to stool. Ineffectual urging to stool, with colic, at 5 P.M. (thirtieth day). Frequent ineffectual desire for stool. Violent ineffectual urging, after a stool. Excessive though ineffectual urging to stool. Colicky urging to stool (after ten days).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea (after 3d trit). Diarrhoea at times. Diarrhoea twice (thirty-first day). Diarrhoea twice during the day (after 5th dil.). Diarrhoea twice without pain, in the morning (thirty-fifth day). Diarrhoea, without pain, about 11 A.M. Diarrhoea after dinner (after 3D trit.). Cutting colic, and twice diarrhoea, after coffee, in the morning (fourth and fifth days). Diarrhoea, following rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening (eighth day). Diarrhoea follows the emission of flatus (twelfth day). Urging to stool and diarrhoea (after one hour, sixth day). Diarrhoea, with loud rumbling in the upper abdomen (eighth day). Diarrhoea at 11 P.M.; at 3 A.M., he woke with urgent desire for stool, that was yellowish-brown, pasty, and offensive; followed by distension of the abdomen, with loud rumbling, and a feeling of sensitiveness; on turning around, there came from the stomach a noise like the croaking of frogs, with a feeling of weakness and uneasiness in the whole body; the tongue and palate were stiff and dry; at 7 A.M., he was again awakened by urgent desire for stool, and diarrhoea, with much flatulence, rumbling, and a feeling of sensitiveness in the abdomen; repeated at 11 A.M. (after 10th dil.). The bowels, in the earlier period of her illness, were much constipated; that, in fact, was almost their normal condition in health; but during the last three months she has suffered much from chronic diarrhoea. Diarrhoea like water. Looseness of the bowels (after 15th dil.); (fourth day). Looseness of the bowels, immediately after waking, followed, after half an hour, by a pasty stool, with emission of much flatus, without the disappearance of the feeling of looseness; after the evacuation of the bowels, another dose was taken, soon followed by violent rumbling, and after two hours by a copious, almost watery stool (fourth day). Four diarrhoea-like stools, with feeling of coldness in stomach (twenty-sixth day). Diarrhoea-like stool, followed by odorless eructations, that after awhile disappear, but return while eating (after one hour). Diarrhoea-like stool, in the morning (after 15th dil.). Stool, almost like diarrhoea, occurring daily, with few exceptions, through the whole proving. Thin, almost diarrhoea-like stool, followed by loud rumbling in the abdomen (third day). Small thin stools, in the morning and after dinner, without tenesmus or colic, the last followed by biting in the anus, that continued all the afternoon (third day). Frequent small stools during the day. Several small, rather watery, stools each day, for three days (second day). Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, followed by seven or eight thin stools, with colic, after which the pains ceased, and I felt better (twenty- fifth day). Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen all the forenoon, followed by four pasty stools (after 30th dil.). Four tenacious slimy evacuations during the forenoon. Three stools, in quick succession, without relief, at 7 P.M. (thirtieth day). Three thin stools (twenty-seventh day). Three normal stools during the day (fifth day). Stool three times a day, digested as usual (eighth day). Stool three times, the last times very tenacious (eleventh day). Two liquid stools, in morning, with burning in anus. Two thin stools, in the afternoon (first day). Two soft stools (2d trit.). Two normal stools (seventh to tenth day). Two soft stools (2d trit.). Two well-digested stools every day (fifteenth day). Stool partly watery, partly pasty (after one hour); followed, after two hours, by a small, thin stool (second day). Soft copious stool, at 7 A.M.; followed, in two hours and a half, by another profuse thin evacuation, with biting in anus (second day). Rather profuse dark brown stool, followed, half an hour later, by a second tumultuous, copious watery stool (after three hours, third day). Urgent desire for stool, with a copious evacuation, at 9.30 P.M. (twelfth day). Copious evacuation of half-liquid faeces, with biting in the anus, at 7 A.M. (thirteenth day). Copious watery stool (third day). Thin stool (twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth days). Thin stool, without tenesmus and colic, in the evening (second day). Thin, scanty stool, with some tenesmus, in the afternoon (fourth day). Soft stool, in the forenoon (fourteenth day). Stools soft, regular. Soft stool, toward morning (2d trit.). Soft stool, after dinner (twentieth day). Stool soft, with tenesmus, followed by stitches in the rectum. Very scanty, soft, easy evacuation from the bowels, after dinner (eighteenth day). Difficult evacuation of a soft stool; she was obliged to make great pressure (after 5 grains of crude). A very scanty, partly soft stool, evacuated with much difficulty, because the rectum did not seem to take any part in the process, at 4 P.M. (third day). Pasty stool (after one hour, fifth day). Stool pasty, orange-yellow, after dinner. Pasty stools, affording relief to the symptoms in the abdomen. Urging to stool, with a pasty evacuation, followed by relief of the pain in the abdomen. Urging to stool, followed by a pasty evacuation, with burning in the anus, lasting a long time. Urging to stool; he could scarcely reach the closet, followed by a very pasty stool (second day). Urging to stool, and an evacuation of a pasty, yellowish- brown, very offensive stool, mixed with small whitish-gray lumps (looking almost like masses of tubercle), in the morning (second day). Stool scanty in the morning, profuse and pasty towards evening, with great distension of the abdomen (eighteenth day). Profuse, pasty stool, towards evening, followed, after half an hour, by another thin stool, though he had had the normal stool in the morning. Excessive urging to stool, followed by a copious, partly pasty, partly watery evacuation (twenty-second day). Thin, pasty stool (eleventh day); morning and evening (tenth day). Suddenly awoke at night, with excessive urging to stool, followed by a thin, pasty evacuation, and then by painful distension of the abdomen, as from flatulence, above the pubis, together with great exhaustion (after 15th dil.). Urgent desire for stool, which threatened to force open the sphincter in spite of the will, followed by a pasty, dark-brown, very offensive evacuation (eighth day). Slimy stool, with tenesmus and burning in the anus, after dinner. Thin slimy stool, for several days. Thin slimy stool, in the evening. Regular and easy stool, instead of the habitual constipation. Stool scanty, though it seemed as though it was copious. Desire for stool, after dinner, with a hard stool. Hard unusual stool, with tenesmus, after dinner (tenth day). Desire for stool, with a feeling as though the rectum would be forced out; the evacuation was hard, crumbly, followed by sticking in the anus, especially when walking (sixth day). Stool, with tenesmus, at 3 P.M., at first hard, then soft, followed by burning in the anus, when walking (sixteenth day). Stool first hard, then soft, with a feeling as though the rectum were protruding; stool followed by a stopped sensation, with nausea, and soon afterwards vertigo; everything seemed turned around, and she almost lost consciousness, in the evening (twentieth day). Stool, with tenesmus and creeping chilliness (thirty-sixth day). Involuntary discharge of some drops of slimy liquid from the anus, at night. Some blood in the stool. Stool mixed with blood. Clotted blood passed with the natural stool. Constipation. Constipation; (third and eleventh days). Constipation for a long time after the proving. Every other day she was constipated. Constipation, lasting three weeks after the proving. Constipation; the first stool occurred in the afternoon, and was harder than usual (tenth day). Stool constipated, for two days. Evacuation of the bowels hard (after eighteenth day). Hard stools (first days); softer (following days). Hard stool, every other day, obliging great pressure (after fifteen days). The stool became harder, more scanty, and less frequent. During the menses, very hard stool. Very hard stool. Stool hard and dry (twenty-third day). Dry, hard stool, like sheep dung, with violent stitches in the rectum (3d trit.). An unusually hard, dry, crumbly stool, without pain (ninth day). Hard, indolent stool. Stool hard, evacuated with effort (thirteenth day). Hard stool, with exertion, and frequently with ineffectual urging, every two or three days. Hard, unsatisfactory stool (after the crude). Stools hard and unsatisfactory (after 55Thy dil.). Hard, unsatisfactory stool, evacuated with much pressure and violent pain, as though the rectum would burst, followed by bleeding of the hemorrhoidal vessels, and pressive pain in the rectum, all the forenoon, with frequent micturition. No stool (fifth day); unsatisfactory stool (sixth day); constipated (seventh day). Stool unsatisfactory (twenty-fourth day). Stool unsatisfactory, in the morning (after 27th dil.). Violent urging to stool, with an unsatisfactory discharge, with much flatulence, in the morning. An unsatisfactory stool, about 4 P.M., with much pressure. Unsatisfactory stool, in the evening. Stool unsatisfactory, with stitches in the anus. Desire for stool, in the forenoon; the stool, though natural, was evacuated with effort (seventeenth day). Frequent urging to stool, with a scanty discharge (sixth day). Stool daily, with great effort. Stool at the right time, but evacuated with great exertion (first days). Stool, only after empty urging. Stool delayed, unsatisfactory, and difficult. Stool delayed till evening, when it was unsatisfactory, followed by bleeding of the hemorrhoids. Stool delayed, occurring only in the afternoon, and after much pressure. One evacuation during the day; formerly he had two perfectly normal stools. Stools either omitted entirely, or much harder and more difficult to evacuate than usual (after 5th dil.). Stool unsatisfactory, soft, evacuated with much pressure; next day, it was entirely wanting (after 30th dil.). Stools daily, scanty, dry, difficult; this became a real constipation, with a hard evacuation only every second day (with general well feeling and especially good appetite). No stool for two days after the proving; on the third day it was hard and unsatisfactory. Stool hard; many days he had no evacuation at all, for nearly six weeks after the last dose. Stool wanting, or else very scanty, during the four days following the proving. Retention of stool; (second day). The usual stool was omitted (after 30th dil.). The usual morning stool did not occur (third day). No stool (first days); (thirteenth day); (thirty-first day). Irregular, unsatisfactory stools. Stools very irregular and of varying consistency during the proving. Stools became very irregular, at times hard, at other times soft, sometimes diarrhoea-like (after 1st trit.). Stools irregular, always difficult, with itching and burning in the rectum, several days after the proving. Stools irregular, sometimes thin, sometimes none at all. Irregular stools, sometimes two or three a day, then constipation. Stools irregular in time and character; sometimes no stool during the day, again one to four evacuations; these were sometimes soft, sometimes quite thin, or even hard, frequently followed by biting in the anus.
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.