Stomach
Appetite. Loss of appetite; for dinner (sixth day). Great aversion to his coffee and tobacco, even their odor was disgusting. Eructations. Incessant, extremely distressing eructations of the odor and taste of the drug, with great nausea, so that he thought he would vomit every moment, which, however, he did not; this was accompanied by much spitting of the saliva, which constantly accumulated in the mouth, and which was very watery (after twenty minutes). Empty eructations, at first without taste, afterwards having the taste and odor of the acid, relieving the nausea (soon). Eructations of the odor of radish (after a few hours). Nausea and Vomiting. Sensation of qualmishness and discomfort, in the abdomen below the navel, with a feeling of weakness (after a few hours). Feeling of qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, while riding, in the open air (second day). Qualmishness and extreme discomfort, with dull pain and heaviness in the pit of the stomach, after eating.
Nausea, without accumulation of water in the mouth, and without retching. Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth; obliging frequent spitting (immediately). Frequent attacks of nausea without any cause (after several days). Nausea, without vomiting. Vomiting of much watery mucus, of the odor and taste of the acid, with numerous blackish-green flakes of mucus, looking like the deposit that the acid causes when brought in contact with organic substances; vomiting paroxysmal, at first of water, afterwards of yellowish and tenacious substances; after vomiting eructations of gas of the odor and taste of the acid, with continued salivation (after half an hour). General Stomach.
Distension of stomach and bowels, with difficult passage of flatus, in the evening (third day). All the evening had distension of stomach and abdomen, although the dinner was only plain roasted mutton and potatoes (first day). At 6 P.M., weakness of stomach, almost amounting to nausea, and aversion to cocoa, usually so well relished; this, by-the-by, occurred during the digestion of meat pudding, and requires a glass of brandy an water, at 10.30, to set matters right (after three hours and a half). All day yesterday and to-day there has been uneasiness in the stomach, increasing to anxiety and contraction; worse after food, and much aggravated by stimulants (eight day). Constrictive pain in the stomach, in the forenoon (seventh day). Before dinner (which I take at 12.30), felt contractive pain and weight in epigastrium; this is often attended by a feeling in the stomach as if I has swallowed a lot of stones from a newly laid road (sixth day). During the proving my digestion suffered a good deal, and during about nine or ten days, I felt no attraction to the pleasures of Venus, although at all over times very easily excited thereto. My suppressed report ran thus: “Venereal appetite suppressed for eight or ten days; the conjugal act when performed was done by a sheer act of volition, and the usual thrill in ejaculation was absent (in a letter to the Editor, Aug.
3rd, 1877”).
Abdomen
Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, as if in the intestines air were mixed with water, indeed one can feel the bubbles of air passing through the intestines, though there is no pain. Rumbling and moving about in the abdomen (after a few hours). Slight griping in the bowels, at night (second day). Abdomen very sensitive, and distended all the afternoon (fourth day); again troubled with distension, all the afternoon and evening (fifth day); bowels distended, in the afternoon (sixth day). Sensation like great weakness in both groins towards the spermatic cords (soon). Pressure on both inguinal rings (sixth day).
Rectum and Stool.
Urging to stool, but only passage of flatus, in the afternoon (second day after 1st dec.). Stool very hard, then soft, preceded by violent urging, followed by frightful burning in the anus preventing sleep, with desire for stool after drinking coffee), (1st cent.). Diarrhoea-like, bloody, as much as two or three centimeters every time (did not suffer from hemorrhoids).
Evacuation soft, almost pasty, though formed thin, otherwise normal, at 9 P.M., following a normal stool, at 10 A.M. (first day). Mushy stools in the morning, afternoon, and evening (1st dec.). In the morning, first hard, then thin soft stool, of a striking orange-yellow color (after olfaction, third day). The bowels were not moved till 4 P.M.; the evacuation was passed hastily, with burning at the anus; it was bilious and partly fluid (second day); no evacuation to-day, only a small lump, like a marble, passed, after trying very hard to relieve myself (fourth day); no evacuation to-day until 10 P.M., it was dry and full of air (sixth day); bowels relieved at 10 A.M., it was small in volume and quantity (seventh day); the bowels remain costive (eleventh day). The bowels are confined, but move daily.
Evacuation delayed, small and constipated (fifth day).
Urinary organs
Urine. Urine very albuminous. In the evening perceived the urine to be strongly scented, somewhat like violets, very highly colored, and apparently full of bile (fifth and sixth days).
Urine brown an scanty all day (second day); this morning the urine was scanty, and strongly scented, but not so dark as before (third day); scanty and dark-colored urine (fourth day); now begins to be more free and less colored (eleventh day). Much bright-red sediment in the urine, in part deposited on the bottom, in part adhering to the sides of the vessels.
Sexual organs
Male. Pain in the spermatic cords, especially in the left (the same which he had after phosphoric acid), (soon after triturating; the same again after 1st dec.). Pain in the spermatic cords, extending into the testicles, with inflammatory swelling of the right inguinal glands, as large as a pigeon’s egg; this lasted ten days. Glans penis reddened, on the left side; during coition a longer lasting emission of semen (1st dec.). Throbbing, stinging, pricking, pinching pain on the left side of the glans penis (after trituration). Violent yet undefined pain at the tip of the glans penis and in the foreskin (1st cent.). Pain in the right testicle (immediately after olfaction). Pain in the testicles, so that he could not sleep the whole night. Very hard erections (sixth and following days after 1st dec.). Very hard erections; frequently soon after midnight, always on awaking in the morning, without exception, either before or with it; later, they continue longer, even after rising; moderate sexual desire (tenth and eleventh days, after 1st dec). Erections every morning, earlier and harder.
Respiratory organs
Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi. Small lumps of phlegm easily loosened from the larynx. The mucus hangs in the larynx like a thread, irritates to hawking and cough, causing retching and almost vomiting; after sneezing it is loosened very easily (eleventh day after 1st dec.). With a slight cough and coryza a very severe pain in the larynx; it pains her to talk, every word she speak hurts her. Sore pain in the larynx. Burning irritation in the larynx and trachea. Irritation in the larynx, with hacking cough. Tickling in the larynx,. Scraping in the larynx, provoking cough. Slight rawness in the larynx (eleventh day);increasing until the thirteenth day, when it was a very severe laryngeal catarrh, the voice hoarse, weak, and low, and almost extinct; lay in bed all the morning, and took three doses of Mercurius sol. and two of Bell which carried off the attack, in the afternoon. (* I am not positive that the laryngeal affection was medicinal, but I am very much inclined to think it was. *) Scraped, raw sensation, and prickling in the larynx, not provoking cough. Scraped, raw sensation in the epiglottis.
Sensation in the larynx, causing frequent hawking. Profuse secretion of mucus in the air-passages, with constant inclination to cough. Tedious secretion of phlegm from the air-passages (after inhaling vapors of Osmium). Very extensive bronchitis.
Voice. Hoarseness, with pain in the larynx, for eight weeks; she was hoarse when talking, but particularly when sighing, so much so, that she could not sing at all; the hoarseness was much worse each time after going into the open air (riding out or walking), as soon as she came home. Hoarseness.
Paroxysms of convulsive coughing. Frequent cough. Cough, with sensation of constriction in the air-passages. Cough, only in the morning (after three days). Cough, on rising violent short bursts of cough, without expectoration (fourteenth day after 1st dec.).
Cough short, dry accompanied and followed by pain in the larynx and trachea, extending to the middle of the sternum, as if raw and sore; very violent, as if the mucous membrane would be torn off with every paroxysm of cough. Cough dry, racking, difficult to loosen. Dry spasmodic cough. Hacking cough, relieved by deep inspiration. Constant hacking cough. Hacking cough an irritation in the larynx, aggravated by motion, in the open air. Cough, with secretion of colorless mucus (after several hours). After a cold, while nursing a sick child, and losing sleep at night, slight cough with pain in the larynx, she had also some coryza, but continued to take Osmium 6th cent.; The tongue became very sore, the pains in the larynx very severe; she was taken with hoarseness; she was afraid she would get the croup, and took Spongia and Hepar, which relieved somewhat. After coryza, the cough returned during the day, very severe and disturbing sleep until midnight; a slight but irresistible tickling irritation in the larynx, causing short bursts of cough, increasing in violence; after repeated sneezing something is loosened, like a little round lump, which he is compelled to swallow (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.