Stomach
Appetite. Great increase of appetite. Sensation of hunger, about 11 P.M., though he had eaten three time during the afternoon, at 12, 2, and 7 (first day). Little appetite t noon, with thirst; on appetite, in the evening (third day); no appetite, at noon (fourth and fifth days). Loss of appetite. Aversion to tobacco- smoking, in the morning, with longing for it in the evening (first day). (Coffee is not relished at noon), (first day).
Thirst. Intense thirst; (after one hour); (after six hours), etc.
Unusual thirst, at 3 P.M. (second day). Thirst, for several days.
Thirst, with white-coated tongue and nausea (fourth day). Thirst, in the morning, with weariness and vertigo (fourth day). No thirst, an rather a repugnance to water. Eructations. Eructations (after three-quarters of an hour). Very sour eructations, an hour after coffee, at breakfast (fifteen hours after 1/2 grain). Many eructations of air and emission of flatus, with rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, at noon (fourth day). Many eructations of gas (fourteenth day). Many tasteless eructations, especially after a dose (fifteenth day). Painful eructation (eight day).
Acrid eructations, for several days. Sour eructations, with pains and loss of appetite. Eructations of gas, in the afternoon (second day). Eructations of wind, tasting of the food he has eaten. Eructations of tasteless wind after each meal. Eructations and passage of flatus downwards. Eructations and discharge of flatus per annum. Hiccough. Hiccough, at 11 A.M., lasting some time, though he had eaten nothing solid; as soon as he thinks of it the hiccough returns (first day). Singultus (after second day); frequent during the day, with painful hawking (third day).
Nausea. Qualmishness of the stomach, with sickness (after six hours). Slight sickness of the stomach. Qualmish sensation of emptiness and nausea in the stomach (after the solution). Nausea, after eating (second day after 1/2 grain). Nausea, at 10 A.M., succeeding diarrhoea (third day); the same in the morning after diarrhoea (fourth day). Nausea, with cutting in the abdomen, in the morning (fifth day). Nausea, qualmishness, thirst (fourth day). Nausea (after three-quarters of an hour); (after one hour); (after a dose, eighth day). Nausea an frequent vomiting. Nausea, during dinner; he would be obliged to vomit, though he did not (third day). Nausea and occasional vomiting (after nine hours).
Very sick (after fifteen minutes); vomited blood (after one hours). Sense of sickness at scrobiculus cordis. Immediate repugnance, strong desire to avoid deglutition an to spit the fluid out. Vomiting. Vomiting; several times (second day); (soon), etc. Violent vomiting (after seven minutes). Violent vomiting, like beer, only much redder (after ten minutes).
Violent vomiting follows the accession of pain, either immediately or in a few minutes. Vomiting and irritability of stomach, for several days. Vomiting soon; later the matter vomited became tinged with blood. Slight vomiting of food (second day). Vomiting and purging incessantly till death, which occurred in twenty-five minutes after the poison was taken. Repeated violent vomiting, with frequent desire for stool. Immediate burning pain and bloody vomiting. Vomiting “drops of blood.” Frequent vomiting, with bloody (first day). Vomited blood, mixed with mucus, every half hour for five hours. Frequent bloody vomiting and diarrhoea. Vomited bloody matters, as well as some white fluid, which did not contain any crystals. Vomited copiously a fluid of a dark bloody color (after ten minutes).
Matters vomited were tinged with blood, and very soon they consisted, to all appearance, of pure blood, of a bright arterial color, an fluid; two hours and a half later it began to take, and gradually took the form of coagulation, and ceased towards night.
Vomited a pint of mucus tinged with blood (after fifteen minutes). Vomited matter having the appearance of bile with clots of dark blood. Vomiting of a fluid of a dark bloody color (after ten minutes). Vomited a dark-colored fluid (after half an hour).
Vomiting of bloody frothy mucus. Pain and vomiting of thick slimy mucus. Vomiting of dark grumous bloody matter (after fourteen hours). Vomiting immediately; ejected matter consisting of a frothy watery fluid; after standing a short time, a brownish precipitate fell to the bottom of the vial, leaving above a clear transparent fluid of a brownish tinge. Vomited a greenish-black matter. Vomiting of a dark liquid, followed by death. Vomiting of a bilious liquid with black clotted blood. Vomited a fluid of a yellowish color (fourth day). She vomited instantaneously almost all the poisoning material; the vomited matter was like milk when seen on the floor, and when she vomited into the bucket, it appeared to turn the water into milk; death in ten minutes, or very shortly after. Had vomited twice; at first only the solution she had taken, and subsequently a dark-colored, bloody-looking fluid, in which were numerous white membranous patches in (twenty minutes). After thrusting a leather strap into the fauces and drinking warm water, vomiting took place, and the acid was so strong as to change the black color of his vest to a red-brown where it flowed upon it; great jactitation and distress, with incessant vomiting; the matter evacuated by vomiting was of a thick grumous and jelly-like fluid, of a yellow-green, mixed with white flocculi. I learned that the first spontaneous vomiting, and that produced by the action of the Ipecac., brought up a quantity of dark-brown matter like chocolate (first day); he vomited through the night (first night), a yellow thick fluid (after twenty-five hours and a half); a grass-green fluid with mucous sediment and white flocculi (after thirty-nine hours); still vomiting a little yellow fluid (fifth day); matter thrown up was grass-green, with grumous sediment (seventh day); desire to vomit, but does not (tenth day). Effort to vomit. Retching (after one hour). General Stomach. In the evening, after tea, pyrosis, with much emission of flatus, and pressing downwards.
Every evening, pyrosis. Burning heat in the stomach (immediately), Soreness of stomach (second day). Feeling of emptiness in stomach, so that he was obliged to eat something between meals (eleventh day). Emptiness and qualmishness in the stomach (fourteen day). Griping and twisting pains in the stomach, (fifteen day). Violent pains in the stomach and abdomen, obliging him to sit bent over; these pains seem to be aggravated by the sugar in the coffee and tea (nineteenth day). Gnawing sensation in the stomach, like hunger; it was scarcely possible to eat a morsel at dinner; even the first spoonfuls of soup caused urgent desire for stool, which was diarrhoea-like, yellow, slimy, serous, and associated with tenesmus (nineteenth day).
Slight gnawing burning in the stomach, and eructations (after one hour and a half). Gnawing pain in the region of the stomach.
Burning pain in stomach, and generally also in throat (immediately). Terrible burning pains in the stomach. Intense burning pain in the stomach and throat. Intense pain in the stomach; (from 7 drachms); (immediately); (after one hour), etc.
Excessive pain, heat, and oppression in epigastric region (after twenty minutes). Great pain in stomach, after use of stomach-pump (first day). Great pain in stomach and tenderness on pressure (second day). Severe pain in region of stomach (after seven minutes). Terrible pain in the stomach, so that the patient cried aloud. Pain in stomach (instantly). Pain in the stomach, eructations, acidity, and loss of appetite. Pain in the stomach and belly. Pain after food (second day). Pain and oppression at stomach, with continual efforts to vomit. Slight pain in the stomach (first night). He wakes up at night with a most violent pressive pain, like a heavy weight in the pit of the stomach; it comes and goes at intervals of fifteen minutes, but diminishes in force at each renewal; it lasts altogether about two hours; discharge of flatus relieves the pain (after 5 drops of Oxalic ether, taken in the morning). A great deal of burning at the pit of the stomach. Pain, heat, and soreness at pit of stomach (after ten minutes). Griping sensation in the pit of the stomach (sixth day). Held his hands without pressure, and with a look of agony, to the pit of the stomach. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach, similar to hunger, disappearing after eating. “Gathering at the stomach. Warmth in the stomach (after half an hour). Great irritation in stomach. Pressure in the stomach (after a few minutes). A sensation of grasping in the stomach, very transient (after a few seconds). The acid sensation extends to the stomach, on taking the drug. (His natural weakness of the stomach is much diminished), (second day). Cardiac extremity of stomach and epigastrium very tender (after fourteen hours). Tenderness upon pressure of stomach and bowels (after six hours). Epigastrium.
Considerable tenderness over the epigastrium, which was resonant on percussion (second and third days). Rolling about on the floor, complaining of agonizing and burning pain at the epigastrium, extending to the oesophagus and pharynx, accompanied by violent but ineffectual to the pharynx, accompanied by violent but in effectual effort to vomit (after half an hour). Evidently suffering much pain, which was increased when pressure was made in the epigastric region. Every touch of the epigastric region caused a most violent pain. Severe pain at the epigastrium, increased on the slightest pressure. Excruciating pain in the epigastrium. The slightest pressure on the epigastrium occasioned pain. Burning sensation and pain on pressure in epigastrium. Pain at epigastrium (first day). Burning pain in the epigastrium and right hypochondriac and iliac regions, and tenderness on pressure in those situations, especially over the cardiac end of the stomach; the abdomen generally felt hot to touch (after nine 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.