She was averse to meat at noon, when at last she ate it had no taste (second day). She had no desire for anything except bread; she was averse to meat, and the thought of anything except bread gave rise to the sensation of the hateful taste and odor of the drug, at 2.30 P.M. She is averse even to bread, however she can eat it; soup she cannot (second day). Thirst in the evening.
Thirst all day, though not excessive. Hiccough and Eructations.
Violent hiccough, at 9 P.M. (third day). Violent nauseous eructations, in the evening. Frequent burning eructations.
Frequent empty eructations (after an hour and three- quarters).
Eructations from time to time, usually tasting of the drug or of urine (after three-quarters of an hour). Eructations of a quantity of tasteless water (after half an hour). Eructations tasting of the drug, followed by burning in the oesophagus (after three-quarters of an hour). Empty eructations, during dinner.
Ineffectual inclination to eructate, in the morning (second day).
Nausea and Vomiting. Frightful nausea and aversion to food during dinner. Constant nausea and inclination to vomit, with paleness of the face, after eating, lasting all the afternoon, even in the open air. Very much nauseated and qualmish; a rising from the stomach up into the throat, an hour after dinner. Nausea and sensitiveness in the stomach, at 8 A.M. Nausea amounting even to vomiting, after dinner (after a quarter of an hour). Nausea in the stomach, with eructations of a urinous taste (after half an hour). Nausea and pressure upon the chest; sensation as if one had swallowed too large a morsel, and rising of gases towards the throat, almost as in heartburn. Nausea, with constrictive pain in the intestines, extending to the stomach, with dry cough and stitches beneath the sternum. Nausea and qualmishness in the stomach. Nausea and qualmishness, disappearing after 4 P.M., after coffee; the distressing eructations and the taste, however, continued till 5 P.M., and the cheerfulness and natural color of the face returned. Nausea and qualmishness, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth (after three-quarters of an hour). Slight nausea during dinner. Sudden inclination to vomit; the stomach seems to turn over; after eructations twice it disappears (after an hour and three- quarters). General Stomach. Distension in the stomach and abdomen, with frequent eructations and emission of flatus. The stomach is sensitive to external pressure. Rumbling in the stomach, followed by eructation (after five minutes). The stomach and abdomen seem eviscerated, in the morning (second day). Contraction and constriction in the stomach. Sensation of pressure in the stomach, that does not last long (after two hours). Pressure in the stomach, with a sensation as if she would eructate, at 3 P.M. Pressure in the stomach and oesophagus, disappearing after eructations (after three-quarters of an hour).
Frequent pressure in the stomach, followed by offensive exhalations, at times with, at times without eructations into the mouth (after an hour and a half). Pressure in the pit of the stomach, after drinking fresh water (first day). Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, disappearing on external pressure (after one hour and a half).
Pressure and burning rising up from the stomach, in the open air (after an hour). Burning sensation in the pit of the stomach (after half an hour). Sensation of burning in the stomach, with general discomfort (after two hours). Painful stitches in the epigastric region three or four times, with rising of warmth and disappearance of the coldness in the stomach (after three hours).
Some dull stitches in succession in the left side of the epigastric region, and immediately afterwards under the left Mammae (after three-quarters of an hour). Sensation as if something were twisting about in the stomach, with inclination to vomit (after an hour and three- quarters). Acute fasting sensation in the stomach (after an hour and three-quarters). It seemed to her as if something twisted upward from the stomach, half an hour after dinner. Bruised sensation in the left side of the stomach, where it is also painful to pressure, disappearing on rubbing, a quarter of an hour after eating. Bruised sensation in the epigastric region (after two hours). Soreness in a very small spot in the stomach, lasting a half hour (after five minutes). The stomach is sore internally, not externally (after three- quarters of an hour). Sensation as if the stomach were filled full of water up to the throat (after half an hour).
Sensation of great warmth in the epigastric region, with a feeling as if sweat would break out, 1 P.M. (third day). Heats as if fire were in the stomach, extending into the pectoral region (after a quarter of an hour). Feeling of coldness in the stomach, as if ice were lying in it (after three hours). Feeling of coldness in the stomach (immediately).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Pain as if ulcerated, in the right hypochondrium; on ceasing there it extended to the left side. Sticking-pressive pain in the region of the liver and spleen. Dull stitches in the hepatic region, on walking in the open air (after one hour).
Umbilicus and Sides. Pinching about the umbilicus, in the evening (second day). A sudden, fine, cutting pain around the abdomen above the umbilicus, as if a sabre were drawn from the left to the right side (after one hour). Violent cutting colic, extending from the umbilicus to the pit of the stomach, and somewhat acrid eructations, after dinner (fourth day). Painful piercing stitch deep in the right side of the abdomen, opposite the navel, extending like lightning to the right side and making her start, at 2 P.M. Transient burning in a small spot below the left side of the navel, in the morning (third day). General Abdomen.
Distension of the abdomen, only slightly relieved by the emission of flatus, in the morning (third day). Abdomen distended by gas after the morning soup (after one hour and a half). Great fullness in the abdomen; it seems distended by gas, at 8 P.M. The abdomen seems tympanitic (after one hour and a half). Rumbling and moving in the abdomen preceding every eructation (after a quarter of an hour). Rumbling and movements in the whole abdomen (after four hours and a half). Slight rumbling, rather severe griping and distension in the abdomen after supper, followed by emission of flatus and relief of the symptoms, several days (after ten days). Slight griping and rumbling in the abdomen (first days). Frequent emission of flatus, followed by the usual stool, with pinching in the whole abdomen, and after the stool pressure, without result, and some eructations (after three- quarters of an hour); (she had had a stool previous to taking the drug). Frequent emission of flatus affording relief, at 7.30 P.M.
Emission of offensive flatus, especially in the evening. Hot risings from the abdomen into the chest; the sensation seems to vanish towards evening (first day). Emission of much offensive flatus in the evening, preceded by some griping in the abdomen (third day). Accumulation of flatus in several places in the abdomen causing griping, after supper. It always causes renewed flatulence in the abdomen, which is very much distended thereby.
Movements in the abdomen preceding, accompanying, and following the usual stool. Movements in the abdomen extending below the left breast, almost like a bubbling, as if diarrhoea would occur, half an hour after dinner (third day). Cutting colic for some minutes before the stool (first day). Cutting colic, in the evening, before going to bed (sixth and seventh days). Cutting colic, relieved or removed after the emission of flatus.
Pressure, here and there, in the abdomen and in the lumbar and sacral regions, as if distended by flatulence, in the morning (third day). Slight griping in the abdomen after warm food and drink. Burrowing and griping in the upper abdomen, especially while sitting, with some eructations (fourteenth day). Burrowing and cutting pain in the upper abdomen, usually an hour after eating or drinking. Cutting movements extending from the abdomen into the chest (fourth day). Cutting pain in the abdomen, with watery diarrhoea and tenesmus (relieved by Chamomilla), (thirteenth day). Awakened by cutting pains in the whole abdomen, at 4 A.M., followed by a liquid stool without relief; she had two stools within ten minutes, after which the pains were relieved (second day). Pinching pain in some small spots in the abdomen.
The bowels are painful as if beaten, after the stool, at 7 A.M.
The intestines are painful, as after long constipation, on every motion of the trunk, with great distension of the abdomen, lasting a long time. Hypochondrium and Iliac Region. Burrowing and cutting pain in the lower abdomen, aggravated eating and drinking, and also while walking and standing, relieved by sitting bent over. Burning in the left flank (after two hours).
Pain like a pinching in the right inguinal region, not wholly relieved by rubbing, but only by standing up (after one hour).
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.