Unusual irritability of the genital organs. Sometimes excitement of the genital organs. Painful heat of the genitals after the emission of turbid highly colored urine (after ten hours).
Tearing pain in the genitals, as from a sore or ulcer, during or after walking in the open air. Severe pain in the uterus and vagina (after half an hour); the pains in the back, uterus, etc., have increased greatly, and resemble very much real labor-pains, particularly in the lower part of the abdomen (after seven hours). Drawing and dragging downward towards the pudenda and rectum, as before menstruation, with at times ineffectual desire for stool. Bearing down and painful feeling of the uterus and bladder, with a smarting sensation, when walking (after six hours). Stitches through the female pelvis. Menses two days too early, formerly very thick, now very bright-red. Menses two days earlier than usual, and scanty. Menses two days too early (after eighteen days). Menses three days too early (after eighteen days). Menses three days earlier than usual, more scanty, and the discharge darker than usual. Menses four days too early and too scanty (after seventeen days). Menses five days too early, sudden; ceased on their third day, in the morning; returned again slightly in the afternoon, and lasted till the next day. (* She usually menstruated five to six days; this weak and short menstruation was very remarkable and entirely unusual. *) Menses nine days too early, immediately. Phosphorus causes a delay of the menses (secondary action). Menses two or three days later than usual, very profuse, and lasting longer than usual. Menses four days to late (after seventeen days). Menses five days too late (after forty-one days). Menses six days too late (after twenty-two days). Menstruation delayed seven days, ushered in by pain in the small of the back and colic, lasting a short time and very slight. (* During the previous proving the menses had delayed, flowed profusely and longer that usual. *) Menses fourteen days too late. (* This irregularity could be ascribed only to the drug, since the menses had always been regular, and after the proving returned to their former condition. *) Menses delayed for nine weeks; the next time occurred after twenty-seven days, and the third time after twenty-nine days. Constant sensation as though the menses would occur (three days before they were due). Menstruation regular, but very scanty, accompanied with spasmodic pains in the uterus and ovaries.
Menstruation appeared at an unusual time, with violent uterine colic, the discharge copious, black, viscous, coagulated; menstruation painful (second day). The menses came on with less pain, were less profuse, and lasted only five days (the next period, previous to which she had taken no medicine, occurred sooner than expected, and was less painful than usual); in a subsequent proving the menses came on almost entirely without pain, indeed almost unnoticed, but lasted only two days.
Menstruation came one, with colic and pain in the small of the back, drawing in the lower extremities, and bruised feeling in all the limbs, making her very sick, and taking away at desire to eat or work (had never suffered from similar symptoms before).
Menses pale, with very violent colic, nausea, and diarrhoea. The catamenia, which ought not to have appeared for eight days, came away in great abundance (sixth day). In a woman, fifty-one years of age, who had not menstruated for a year and a half, the menses came on violently, and lasted five days; the blood had a bad odor. The menses, that had been suppressed for several weeks, now appeared (third day). The menses, that had been suppressed for three months, reappeared. Menses, that had ceased a few days previously, returned (third day). Recurrence of the menstrual flow at an unusual time. The menses, that had not occurred for seven weeks, appeared (second day). Aversion to coition, in a female (secondary action?), (after twenty-five days).
Respiratory organs
Larynx and Trachea. Choking. Rawness in the larynx and trachea, with frequent hacking cough and hawking. For two years and a half, farther than the laryngeal irritation produced by the acrid fumes, he suffered but little. Very considerable produced by the acrid fumes, he suffered by little. Very considerable mucous accumulation in the trachea, with some hoarseness (fourth day).
After waking at night, a feeling of contraction in the larynx and trachea, as though he must suffocate. Irritability in the lower portion of the trachea, with suffocative pressure in the upper part of the chest. Tickling on the trachea woke her two nights in succession, about midnight, and caused a dry cough. Voice.
Roughness of the voice (third week). Voice somewhat husky. Broken voice, when attempting to sing high. Hoarseness. Hoarseness; the larynx seems coated; is unable to speak a loud word. So hoarse that he could hardly speak above a whisper (after a few hours).
Hoarseness, in the morning. Hoarseness, with a rough voice, for several days. Voice nearly lost, with great prostration; it was exceedingly difficult to answer question, though the intellect was not at all impaired (second day). Cough and Expectoration.
Violent cough, with expectoration of mucus, woke her about 2 A.M.
Frequent cough, with much expectoration, even at night. Constant cough, with much expectoration of mucus, with tensive pain in the chest. (* See S. 2518.-HUGHES. *) Spasmodic cough, with oppression of chest, and some expectoration of mucus (after eight days). Cough hollow, mostly dry, with pressure in the pit of the stomach, so that he could not sleep all night. Tickling cough (after eight days). Hollow cough, mostly, in the morning, in bed, and also at night; it prevents her falling asleep. Frequent irritable cough, from scratching in the throat. Loose rattling cough, as in old people, when eating. Loose cough, without expectoration, with pain and a feeling of soreness in the chest, so that she dreaded to cough. Waked with some hacking cough (third morning). Some hacking, tickling cough (after second dose, second day). Frequent short hacking cough (after half an hour).
Frequent dry hacking cough, even in bed, preventing sleep, in the evening. Frequent, dry, short hacking cough, caused by tickling in the throat, all day, mostly in the evening. Violent dry cough, only when sitting and lying, not at all on moving about. Violent dry cough on reading aloud, in the evening. Violent dry cough, with pressive headache, all day (immediately). Frequent dry cough (third day). Dry, irritating cough (second day); more troublesome, especially when the patient was lying upon the right side, or upon the back, and was attended with slight mucous expectoration (third day); racking and deep (eighth day); though severe, less racking (after eleven days); there remained for two months a deep harassing but dry chest-cough, the patient insisting that when the spells came on he could feel something loose and fluttering in the lungs, which occasioned persistent tickling sensations; the cough was frequently accompanied by nausea and vomiting, especially soon after eating. Frequent dry cough, with scanty expectoration, with catarrhal symptoms in the posterior and lower portions of both lungs, especially of the right side; on the thirteenth day (first chill), percussion showed slight dulness on the right lower portion posteriorly, with diminished respiratory murmurs and fine vesicular rales; change of posture caused a change in the area of dulness; vocal fremitus diminished beneath the line of dulness on the right posterior portion of the ninth dorsal vertebra; on the fourteenth day (second chill), the dulness extended upward half an inch, and bronchial breathing was distinct over the area of dulness; on the seventeenth day the dulness had somewhat diminished, and the expansion of the lung on the posterior right side was more noticed on deep inspiration; the rales had diminished, but not in the place of the cough; the cough was now paroxysmal, accompanied by expectoration of tenacious purulent mucus; the paroxysms of cough were always aggravated after a chill, on the fiftieth day there were no physical signs of anything abnormal, though the cough was frequent and violent. Dry cough, with pain in the head, as if it would burst, with coryza (after thirty-five days). Dry troublesome cough, causing soreness in the forepart of the chest, that woke her from sleep, fourteen nights in succession. Dry cough, though slight in degree (after fifteen days); frequent tormenting cough, with muco-purulent expectoration (later). Dry cough; frequent excitement to cough, with flying shootings under the sternum and towards the right side of the chest; copious muco-purulent expectoration, with constant tickling and scratching sensation at the bifurcation of the trachea. Dry intolerable cough, with violent bronchial catarrh; afterwards the cough was associated with a slimy, purulent expectoration, with rapid respiration, violent oppression of the chest; so that when coughing was obliged to sit up, with violent pain beneath the stomach and sensation of constriction; in the upper third of the right thorax there was remarkable sonority, in the lower portion moist sibilant rales; ribs almost completely immovable; thorax decidedly arched. Dry cough. Cough, with great exertion, until expectoration of tenacious mucus. Cough, with faintness. Cough, day and night, with much mucous expectoration, accompanied after some days by very violent stitches in the chest, with violent cough. Cough, in the morning, after rising, with expectoration of transparent mucus, and a sensation in the middle of the sternum as if something were torn loose. Cough, with white expectoration, difficult to loosen. Cough, causing pain in the abdomen, so that she was obliged to hold the abdomen on account of the pain.
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.