Rectum
Protrusion of the rectum (first evening). Crampy forcing-down pain in bowels and rectum at 2 A.M. (first night). Sensation as if everything had fallen back against the rectum, accompanied with violent straining and urging to stool, at 2 A.M. (first night). In the evening, a sensation in the rectum as though diarrhoea would occur; it seems as though a part of the rectum were dragged downward; it seems to press down a portion of the rectum; the evacuation, however, did not occur until the next morning, with a slight urging and a kind of tenesmus in the rectum; the stool was scanty and rather diarrhoeic (first day).
Urging to stool, and a sensation as if the anus were swollen, wherewith he was unable to evacuate anything (first day).
Although the faeces were not hard, yet the evacuation was sluggish, and it seemed as though a portion remained behind because there was no power to evacuate it (after twenty-four hours). Stool more indolent than usual (first day).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea towards midnight (after one day). Slimy diarrhoea-like stool, as in worms (second day). Painless diarrhoea all day. Stool indolent (first day); diarrhoeic in the morning after taking milk (second day). (Bloody stools). (* In two women suffering from induration of the liver, and in a boy with enlarged cervical glands. *) Several thin stools, with pressure towards the pelvis; together with a sensation as if an acrid and biting liquid were in the rectum; after the evacuation there continued a sensation as though still more would follow (second day). Evacuation thinner than usual, in the morning. Two evacuations, thinner in one day, in a child six years old (second day). Stool soft, but difficult to pass, with a sensation of fullness and a distension of the abdomen, for several days. Stool indolent, difficult to pass, though soft, or several days. Stool indolent; the evacuation was soft, passed with difficulty, and only after pressure and urging, with a sensation as if a portion still remained remained (after five hours). Several pasty and easy evacuations in one day, contrary to habit (first day).
Constipation. She experienced no real desire for stool at the usual time; the evacuation was hard and difficult to pass.
Evacuation of the bowels so hard that it could only be passed with the greatest effort of the rectum, with sticking as from large needles in it, together with painful constriction in the rectum and anus, both during the evacuation and especially for some minutes afterwards (after twenty-four hours). No stool at all (first day); hard and difficult to pass (second day); a watery evacuation passed instead of flatus (third day). Stools at first were very black and hard; afterwards watery, and then mushy (first evening).
Urinary organs
While urinating, a slight burning in urethra (first day). It always caused painful strangury. (* A drink composed of toasted bread and nutmeg. *) There is some lingering irritability about the bladder during the monthly period, accompanied with frequent desire to pass water, together with bearing-down pains; a sort of strangury accompanies the last few drops of water. Micturition.
Frequent urging to urinate, but no much urine was passed (first night). Frequent passages of light-colored urine, clear like well water, but in small quantities, and with constant desire (first evening). Patient passed water several times during the night, while laboring under spasms, but in small quantities (this was an involuntary act). In spite of drinking much water, little urination (after one day). Urine. The secretion of urine seemed to be diminished; the urine was very much concentrated and clear (after twenty-four hours). Urine scanty and very much concentrated (after twenty hours). It imparts a violet odor to the urine. (The flowers impart their odor to the urine).
Sexual organs
Male. A spasmodic pain in the penis, extending from below upward (first day). (Pressure and drawing in the spermatic cord, from above downwards, on the same side where the testicle had been bruised some years before). Want of erections, even with voluptuous thoughts, for several days. Although there seemed to be some inclination to coition, yet the erections were weak and of short duration. Inclination for coition, with great relaxation of the genitals (first day). It causes lack of sexual desire for coition, and less voluptuous sensation, in a man. Female. There still remains considerable irritability about the pelvic viscera, particularly during each returning menstrual period, when the ovaries and womb are much swollen and sensitive to pressure. Most distressing dysmenorrhoea, accompanied with clonic spasms, delirium, and stupor, being an almost invariable accompaniment of each returning menstrual period, during which time (seven to ten days) the patient has no use of her lower limbs. Clonic spasms with the dysmenorrhoea. Stupor with the dysmenorrhoea. No use of her lower limbs with the dysmenorrhoea. Menses four or five days too early, associated with dragging in the abdomen, from the navel downward, and with drawing in the limbs; also the next period appeared too early and was generally irregular. The menses appear two or three days too late; preceded by pain in the small of the back, as if a piece of wood were lying across the back pressing outward, with headache ( a concealed aching on the top of the head), weakness, pressure in the stomach, with running of water from the mouth, and pain in the liver; the menstrual blood was darker, thicker, and when dry more glutinous than usual; at the time when menstruation should have appeared there was a discharge of only mucus. Upon inquiry I found that the menses had ceased entirely; an examination over the lower portion of abdomen revealed the fact that the womb and ovaries were tumefied and much swollen (there is and has been considerable tenderness over both ovaries, but especially the left, ever since). In Georgia, I was told that the young ladies when they want to go to a ball, and have their catamenia, eat one-quarter or one-half of a nutmeg, and the flow immediately stops for twelve or twenty-four hours; sometimes it returns again of itself; if this is not the case, the damsel becomes very sick. A pregnant woman took six nutmegs (at least), daily, and was attacked with a troublesome diarrhoea, that continued after her labor, which was premature on account of it. Pains similar to labor-pains, at 2 A.M. (first night).
Respiratory organs
Larynx and Voice. (A sore sensation in the larynx, with some inclination to cough), (second day). The sound of the voice was altered, and was more like that of a sheep; the morbid sensation in the larynx seemed similar to that in the mouth, namely, a sensation of dryness without actual dryness (second day). (* From the flowers. *) Voice suppressed, so that he could not call for help, after waking from sleep (after a few hours). Voice lost and unsteady (second day). Voice hoarse, not clear (third day).
Hoarseness. Cough and Respiration. He coughs up some blood, partly mixed with mucus, partly clear; together with stitches in the chest (second day). The dry cough becomes moist, and he expectorates much mucus (second day). Respiration very rapid and sighing (second day). Respiration 18 (before taking), remained unchanged. Respirations about 10 per minute, during the spasmodic condition. Breathing slow and heavy. Want of breath after eating.
(A melancholic, choleric man, suffering with bleeding hemorrhoids in the fall and spring, took with nearly all his food and drink Nux moschata, as a preventive for the fall dysentery; the hemorrhoidal flow was stopped; he became out of breath, and panted when at work, and at last went into dropsy). Desire more of less all the time to sigh or take a long breath, which she cannot accomplish satisfactorily.
Chest
Oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest, starting from the pit of the stomach. Oppression of the chest and rush of blood to the heart (first day). Oppression of the chest and difficult respiration. (Oppression of the chest, as if it were fatty, or as if there were a piece of perforated bacon in the throat (trachea), which did not allow the passage of enough air; he feared that he would suffocate; this condition appeared toward the evening, while walking in the cool air, lasted eight minutes, and was unaccompanied by anxiety), (first day). They all were attacked the next day with such oppression of the chest and tightness of the throat that it seemed as though they would choke; the mouth was dry, the lips swollen, and stuck together, as if covered with glue; they breathed with the greatest difficulty; the bowels were hard and constipated; the head heavy, dizzy; memory lost. (* Observed in several persons from a cold punch, containing eight nutmegs. *) A sudden pain round about the chest, in the region of the diaphragm, on inspiration, in the forenoon (third day). Pain in the chest as if raw, when coughing (third day). Pain in the region of the pectoral muscles as from a blow, on moving the arm, very much aggravated by touch and pressure (third day). Painfulness of the anterior part of the chest, making respiration difficult, in the evening; at times associated with a pressive pain, in the right side (though rather anteriorly). As often as he chews a nutmeg, he feels a constriction in chest; also in the sternum and in the whole abdomen, as if everything were being drawn in a knot; he does not exactly know where the centre of the knot is, but asserts that everything is being drawn together; this lasted several hours.
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.