Qualmish nausea and sick feeling like faintness and anxiety, as if she would eructate (especially on moving about), alternating with ravenous hunger and pain as from emptiness in the stomach, as if she ought to eat, with accumulation of water in the mouth, like water brash, in frequent daily paroxysms, lasting five to ten minutes. Great nausea in stomach as if going to retch, but without retching or vomiting, after rising, but before breakfast, lasting till she fell asleep again (second morning). Nausea, with anxiety, without inclination to vomit, under the short ribs, frequently during the day. Nausea about the stomach all day.
Nausea, with anxiety and trembling (after forty-one hours).
Nausea and actual vomiting of mucus and food, caused by the cough; anxiety caused by the cough. Nausea after eating. Nausea after a soft stool. Nausea in the throat immediately after eating, disappearing after moving about a short time. Nausea, as from heat, not amounting to vomiting, for several hours.
Persistent vomiting, caused by drink (after half an hour).
Violent vomiting of thin black blood and of an offensive black fibrous membrane, nearly a foot in diameter, containing large and small blood vessels (after sixteen days). He vomited frequently a ropy white and yellowish substance streaked with blood. Vomiting of a serous brownish fluid, mingled with blood and yellow mucus (third day). Vomitings (after a quarter of an hour); the first efforts to vomit were accompanied by excruciating pain and anxiety. Vomiting of black offensive blood (after twenty days).
Bitter and sour vomiting, with many eructations after eating.
Constant vomiting of tenacious, purulent, and bloody mucus.
Vomiting of a bloody substance (first and following days). Found dead, with a great quantity of blood in the bed about her, which she had apparently vomited (fourteenth day). Vomiting, with burning thirst. The vomiting returned on the sixth day, with restlessness and delirium. Pyrosis to a marked degree, the fluid vomited being neutral to test-paper (after three weeks).
Incessant vomiting of a dark, sanguineous, and gummous fluid, intensely acid. Vomiting (immediately). Vomited a pint of coagulated blood and fluid (seventh day); threw up about a pint of bloody fluid, with a shred of mucous membrane, two or three inches in diameter, smelling offensively (eighth day). Swallowing always followed by vomiting of food taken, together with a quantity of watery fluid (after three weeks). Violent retching, lasting nearly three hours (after nine weeks). Retching and vomiting. Vomiting. Vomiting, and headache over the eyes and in the parietal bones, as if the head would burst, immediately after dinner. Qualmishness; general sick feeling; chilliness after the usual coffee; she was obliged to lie down. Black bread causes a sour taste and vomiting. General Stomach. Violent spasmodic griping in the stomach. Spasmodic constrictive pain in the stomach. Stomach and abdomen tense, and the clothes seem too tight, immediately after a very moderate dinner. Spasmodic drawing pain in the pit of the stomach, with tension, extending to the navel, and making the breathing short. Spasmodic pain in the pit of the stomach (after six days). Pulsation in the pit of the stomach. A painless motion near the left side of the pit of the stomach (eleventh day). Frequently spat up mucus more or less bloodstained. Violent pain in stomach, occurring at intervals of about ten minutes (after three weeks). Constant pain referred to stomach (after four weeks). Tenderness at pylorus (second day).
Pressure in the pit of the stomach and sudden burning, as if he would vomit blood (second day). Orgasm in the region of the pit of the stomach (fourth day). Violent pressure upon the stomach and pit of the stomach, while walking in the open air. Violent pressure above the stomach and pit of the stomach, while walking in the open air. Violent pressure in the stomach, at night.
Pressure in the stomach, aggravated by pressure of the hand. Very painful pressure in the stomach, fasting. Pressure in the stomach, especially before eating, even if he had eaten nothing for an hour; it was relieved by eating, with empty eructations. Pressure in the stomach, as if it were sore, in the morning and during the day. Pressure in the stomach and back, on waking in the morning. Burning extending down the oesophagus to the pit of the stomach, like heartburn. Burning sensation in the stomach.
Clawing in the stomach in the morning after rising, extending into the chest, followed by slight attacks of griping in the abdomen. Gnawing in the stomach, in the morning, fasting. A constant stitching anteriorly beneath the pit of the stomach.
Tearing sore pain in the oesophagus, chest, and stomach after drinking at the beginning of the meal. Violent pain in the stomach. Pain in the stomach during sleep at night, disappearing on waking. Pain above the stomach, on account of which he did not dare to stretch out straight, relieved by eructations. Pain in the region of the cardiac orifice of the stomach on swallowing food. Pain below the stomach during and caused by cough.
Constrictive cramp in the stomach; very distressing griping and pinching in paroxysms (after twenty-four and forty-eight hours).
Cramps in the stomach, and excessive pain and tenderness, which was partially relieved by opiates (thirteenth day). Cramp in the stomach, as from taking cold. Sensation of heat in the stomach.
(* Soon after ingestion.-HUGHES. *) Feeling of coldness and pressure in the stomach after eating. Feeling of coldness in the stomach. (* Ascribed to the acid being too little diluted.- HUGHES. *) A sense of warmth in my stomach and chest, soon (first day). She woke at night with stomachache (after fifty hours).
(Post-mortem showed scars in the region of the pyloric orifice, with great induration of the surrounding membrane, so that the orifice was very much contracted; the walls of the cardiac portion of the stomach were thin, with slight stricture of the cardiac orifice). Epigastric region somewhat painful to touch.
Pains in the epigastric region (after sixteen days). Pressure on epigastrium occasioned slight uneasiness (after three hours).
Epigastrium and ileo-coecal region, and region of the S. Romanum, painful and very sensitive to pressure. Burning heat in the epigastrium and throat, immediately, and augmenting rapidly.
Epigastric region distended, sensitive to pressure (though the abdomen was painless). Violent pain in the epigastric region.
Epigastrium very tender on pressure. After about ten days he began to have violent pains in the region of the oesophagus and stomach; nausea, vomiting, colic, and constipation returned; he became very much emaciated, offensive eructations, excessive distension of the epigastric region, tongue pale, moist, breath offensive, pulse 66 to 68. In spite of various remedies the abdomen became more and more distended, especially in the left hypochondrium, extending as far as the umbilical region; dulness on percussion, with evident fluctuations; pressure painful; the strength sank more and more each day; pulse very rapid and small, tongue dry, features drawn, followed by sudden death. (* Post- mortem showed enormous distension of the stomach, filling the whole left side of the abdomen as far as the iliac fossa, containing a large amount of thick chocolate-like, very offensive substance; the mucous membrane in the pyloric region softened, and in many places completely destroyed; near the pylorus there were ulcers with small hard edges; the walls of the pylorus and duodenum were indurated and hypertrophied, feeling under the knife like scirrhus. *).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Stitches in the hepatic region, causing loud cries on the slightest motion. Violent pressure in the hepatic region during the menses. Pressure in the left hypochondrium, more towards the front (fourth day). Sticking in the region of the spleen on every motion (fourth day). Pain in the hypochondria on cough. (Could lie for a length of time on my left side, which, from some disease in my liver, had not been the case for many months before), (second night). Sensation of swelling of the spleen. Pressure and tension in the hepatic region. Pinching- pressive pain in the right side, during the afternoon nap.
Pressure in the left side of the abdomen. The place of a hernia is very much distended. Umbilical and Sides. Pressure in the umbilical region, with a sensation as if it would cease, after a stool. The umbilical region became the seat of violent pain (after three hours). Constrictive pain in the umbilical region.
Sensation of distension in the umbilical region. Cutting and tension in the right side of the lower abdomen. Drawing and griping in the umbilical region, especially on moving and bending the body. Burrowing colic below the navel. General Abdomen. A congenital growth on the abdomen like a wart becomes sensitive, sore, and scabby. Distension of the abdomen during the menses.
Distension of the abdomen, in the morning, on waking. Distension in the abdomen from flatulence, with rumbling from morning till evening, for many days. The abdomen became distended (fifth 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.