Abdomen
Hypochondria. Sharp cutting in hypochondria and left iliac region (fifty- fourth day). General Abdomen. Flatulence, especially after dinner (one hundred and twenty- ninth day). Very flatulent, during day (fiftieth day). Much flatulence after eating, with rumbling in bowels (one hundred and twenty-third day). Anxiety felt through abdomen, lasting only a few moments. Goneness in abdomen and stomach, with feeling of weight above the ensiform. While at stool, sensation as if a marble dropped in left abdomen (descending colon), two evenings, at 8 A.M. Bloated feeling, worse evening; wind in bowels; must loosen clothing; urging to stool. Colic, as from wind pressing on bladder, causing frequent micturition; urging to stool. Momentary colicky pains, with discharge of flatus, in the evening, while lying (fiftieth day). Slight colicky pains, after breakfast, while walking up and down room (ninety-seventh day); after supper, while walking (forty ninth day); after stool (one hundred and fifty sixth day). Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Colic pains in lower part of abdomen, with desire for stool; much flatus before stool, in evening after supper, while walking (forty seventh day). Momentary colicky pains in hypogastrium, in morning (one hundred and twenty-eighth day). Soreness in hypogastrium, after passing water; better lying on back, worse on belly, in evening (forty- third and forty-sixth days), Pain through right groin day after emission.
Rectum and Anus
Distressing and burning, contracting pains in anus and lower part of rectum; feel it after awakening from a troubled dream. Sticking in anus, as from a splinter, on walking (one hundred and thirty-ninth day). Sore feeling in anus (one hundred and twenty- seventh day). Sore, raw feeling in anus, with desire to retract the anus, which relieves (one hundred and thirty-sixth day). Felt a rawness in anus on waking; desire to scratch it, which aggravated (one hundred and thirty-ninth day). Itching of the anus; soreness. Anus itches and feels raw (one hundred and forty- sixth day). Great itching of anus (one hundred and fifty-sixth day). Urging to stool, two evenings in succession, at 8 P.M. Urging to stool; feels often as if bowels would move, but they do not. Must bring my will to bear to prevent the escape of faeces (after three hours and three quarters, first day).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, colicky pains before morning. Three or four diarrhoeic stools a day, with much flatus; crampy pains in stomach and abdomen; is afraid to pass flatus lest faeces escape also. After rising, bowels loose, rumbling in abdomen; after breakfast, a small dry, difficult, dark-brown stool, requiring much straining (forty-third day); dark-brown stool after breakfast, requiring much straining (forty-fourth day). After coitus, urging to stool and urine; bowels loose; stools small. Two small stools during day (ninety-seventh day). Small stool, watery, yellowish-brown (after six hours); stool profuse, thin, yellowish brown (after ten hours and a half); before each passage, weak feeling in rectum and sphincter; had to forcibly contract the sphincter to prevent an evacuation (first day). Small stool before breakfast, soft, yet with effort; sudden urging while eating; afterwards, watery, yellowish brown painless stool (one hundred and seventh day). Desire for stool, which was scanty, with flatus, at 7.30 A.M.; after breakfast, large, soft stool, with much flatus (one hundred and sixth day). After a light supper, sudden urging to stool, with colic; had to contract the sphincter to prevent the escape of faeces; stool watery, gushing, painless (one hundred and thirty-sixth day). Passage yellowish-brown, watery, containing fecal lumps (after four hours, first day). Sudden urging to stool, which was copious, painless and easy; the first part fluid, the second fecal lumps, at 6.30 P.M. (second day). Sudden urging to stool at 6.30 P.M.; after supper, during a stool, difficult to retain faeces; when stool passed, it was mushy, yellow-brown, with flatus before and during; momentary colic during stool (thirty-eight day). Large, soft stool, in evening (fifty-third day). Large, soft stool, easily expelled, with feeling afterwards as if much remained behind (one hundred and fifty-sixth day). Constipation. Costive. One day costive, next day diarrhoea. No stool (thirty ninth day); desire for stool, at 9 A.M. but only passed, with difficulty, two small lumps; normal passage in the evening (fortieth day); normal stool in the evening (forty first day).
Urinary Organs
Urethra. Burning during urination; urine apparently normal. After coitus, burning and itching at meatus urinarius. Micturition. Constant urging to urinate. Awoke in night with distended bladder (thirtieth day). Obliged to urinate, but pressure not thereby relieved. Frequent micturition; from wind pressing but little at a time (one hundred and twenty-eighth day). Passed a large quantity of urine in the morning, after arising (fifty-first day). Bladder seems incapable of properly expelling its contents; flow soon stops, and requires straining; each effort resulting in a small spurt of urine (forty-seventh day). Desire to urinate, but compelled to wait almost a minute before urine will flow; had to strain at the end of micturition (one hundred and twenty- fourth day). Same bladder-atony remains (one hundred and twenty eighth day). Urine. Urine dark red, no sediment. Urine increased and pale (fifty-ninth and one hundred and second day). Urine greatly increased and pale in the afternoon (fiftieth day). Urine scanty and dark (fifty-third day).
Sexual Organs
Male. Erections almost every night (married man), preceded by slight pains in the testicles, mostly left. Pain in the left testicle, and about chin. Dull drawing in testicle and cord. Pain in left spermatic cord. Great sexual excitement. Sexual desire diminished. Sexual desire, but no erections; later, total absence of desire. Seminal emission at night, with dreams (one hundred and twenty fourth day). Seminal emission at night, with vivid dreams (one hundred and thirty-ninth day). Emission of semen, some hours after coitus; no dream or erection. Emissions every other night. Three emissions in one week; unconscious thereof until morning. Emissions every night; no lascivious dreams; semen thin, watery, smells like stale urine. Seminal emission during night, without dreams (forty-second day); seminal emission during night, with dreams (forty-third day); another nocturnal emission (forty-fourth day); still another emission, at night, without dreams (forty-fifth day). Seminal emissions, without erotic dreams, two in one night. Female. Menses five days too early. Menses five days too early (always regular before); feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed; flow pale (dark in health), with pressure over right eye, and desire to take a long breath, as if room was too close. Three days later, headache over left eye; all 3 to 4 P.M. Fifth day, flow dark as usual. After menses, much worse. Trembling about the heart, worse walking upstairs; pressure in pit of stomach, better eating; headache returns every afternoon, now over one, now over other eye; sleep restless, tosses from side to side. Next period three days too early. Same symptoms as before but flow stopped two days and returned with headache, chilliness, restless sleep, and paralytic aching in right wrist; knees felt as if the chords were shortened. (Was under treatment eighteen months before symptoms were all removed).
Respiratory Organs
Voice. Hoarseness (following pain from clavicle to stomach). Cough. Cough, after drinking water. Cough, from tickling in throat. Irritation in throat. Irritation in throat; dry, tickling cough (one hundred and sixth day). Constant cough, and hawking pain in chest, in the mammary regions (one hundred and sixth day). Respiration. Constant tendency to sigh (menses). Desire to take long breath, as if room too close (during menses).
Chest
Empty feeling in the chest and abdomen, after a meal. Empty feeling in chest and abdomen, after dinner. Pain through chest and in left shoulder. Pain through chest, after dinner, especially left side. Pain from right clavicle, diagonally, to stomach, so intense that it made her start, followed by hoarseness. Burning, deep in chest, worse right side, evening in bed. Sudden feeling of fullness in upper part of chest. Contracted feeling in walls of right chest, lasting only a few moments. Dull aching pains in chest (one hundred and fifty-ninth to one hundred and eighty-sixth day). Sore, pressing pain as after a contusion, about cartilages of fourth to six ribs, right side, worse from deep breathing, deep pressure; later in evening, cannot breath deeply, or move arms, or bend body backward. Intercostal muscles feel sore, and as if drawn, when sitting erect or moving chest, not in ordinary breathing. A spot in right side feels bruised. Front. Like a weight above the ensiform, with empty feeling in stomach and abdomen. Lower third of sternum pains, as if torn in two.
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.