Stomach
Appetite. Raging appetite. Hungry soon after eating. Canine hunger. The usual appetite remains, notwithstanding the nausea of the stomach. Diminished appetite. Little or no appetite for several days. Loss of appetite. Thirst. Intense thirst (after one hour and a half); (after five hours). Thirst, towards morning, with the feverishness. Considerable thirst (first night).
Eructations. Continued eructation of gases while vomiting.
Eructations of sour fluid. Eructation of flatus. Eructations, with spitting of water. Eructations of air. Eructations.
Regurgitation of food through the evening and until I went to sleep. Hiccough. Hiccough, with great inclination to vomit, but no nausea. Nausea and Vomiting. Effects first felt on awaking from an after-dinner nap; nausea, which passed off and recurred in ten minutes, again passed off and recurred, was first felt after two hours. Nausea, with the vertigo, immediately followed by violent retching and vomiting, ejecting the contents of the stomach, which consisted of the ingesta (after half an hour); vomiting now continued at intervals of from one to five minutes, ejecting a transparent mucus, slightly tinged with yellow.
Nausea, on being awoke out of sleep, in the night. Sickness of the stomach accompanying the headache. Feeling of sickness, as if he would vomit. Sickly feeling in the stomach. Nausea, with a very faint feeling. Nausea, with severe pain in the umbilical region. Nausea (after one hour). Nausea, with the heat in the head (after three hours, third day). Slight nausea, with the dull pressing pain in forehead (after one hour and a quarter); somewhat relieved by eating, but soon returning with increased severity; commenced to vomit ingesta; vomited violently at intervals of ten or fifteen minutes; nausea relieved, and pain in forehead increased by vomiting (after two hours and a quarter); vomited an acrid substance, which caused a feeling of scraping and excoriation in the throat (after three hours); continued acrid vomiting; took a glass of warm water to prevent the empty retching which was becoming very painful (after three hours and three-quarters); drank another glass of warm water, and vomited again in ten minutes (after four hours and a quarter); drank a cup of strong coffee, which the stomach rejected in fifteen minutes (after four hours and three-quarters). Slight nausea most of the time (second day). Slight nausea, with profuse vomiting, without much pain attending it, but a good deal of distress in the stomach. Nausea and violent vomiting, the ingesta of a dark- red color. Nausea and vomiting, the ingesta of a dark-red color.
Nausea, followed soon by vomiting and purging, continuing for about six hours (after two hours). Deathly sickness all the time; position made no difference about sickness. Violent vomiting.
Vomiting severely and frequently (after half an hour). Violent vomiting of clotted blood and slime, with retching, intense pain, and desire for death to relieve. Seized so suddenly with violent cramps and vomiting that they had no time to get to bed, but lay upon the floor, unable even to call for assistance (after half an hour). Free vomiting at intervals of twenty or thirty minutes (after one hour and a half); continued to vomit until 6 A.M.
(second day). In about two hours after the second dose he complained of feeling sick at his stomach, and in a few minutes more violent vomiting began, first of food, then of greenish matter, finally of a dark black;matter, mixed with clear blood; it required great effort to vomit; this symptom continued nearly all night, but was somewhat relieved in the morning, and at 2 P.M. had ceased. Soon after, all who had eaten of it began to vomit; the matter ejected was first the ailment and a dark bilious substance, which came away with as little effort as vomiting in Asiatic cholera; the vomiting and purging continued all the afternoon, but the vomiting ceased after taking black coffee; the emesis took place every fifteen or twenty minutes. In one case there was no vomiting, but most profound prostration.
Repeated vomiting in two cases (after one hour). Vomiting, with but little distress in the stomach. The vomiting was without effort and easy, no taste, but bitter. A scruple was administered by him in nearly thirty cases, in all of which, except in one case, it operated as an emetic, usually three or four times thoroughly, though not severely, generally commencing its operation on the stomach in an hour, and rarely continuing longer than four. He found it to excite little or no nausea previous to its operation, and though it made a powerful impression on the system, it never produced any disagreeable or unusual symptoms.
Ten grains of the powder will rarely remain on the stomach, and twenty or thirty produce a powerful operation by emesis, and generally by catharsis. In its mode of operation this medicine has some peculiarities, a part of which are favorable, others disadvantageous. Its advantages are, that it operates with ease and seldom occasions pain or cramp. Its disadvantages are: 1.
That it is slow in its effects, frequently not beginning to operate until an hour, and sometimes two hours, after it is taken. 2. That is continues to operate for a greater length of time than is usual for emetics, although, as far as I have been able to observe, it is readily checked by an opiate. These disadvantages, however, are not constant; I have repeatedly known it commence operating in fifteen minutes, and cease after four or five ejections. The representations of patients as to any unpleasant feelings under its effects are not greater than we should naturally expect, when it is recollected that no emetic is altogether comfortable in its operation. The substances vomited appeared dark-brownish in color at first, afterwards light- yellow. Soon commenced vomiting, first the contents of stomach, and afterwards a bitter watery mess, which continued almost incessantly from 9.30 P.M. until 5 A.M. During the third attack of nausea, colic and purging began; the pain was not severe, and had no special characteristic; he vomited and purged ten or twelve times with so little discomfort, that he calls it the best evacuant that he ever took. Stomach. Tenderness to the touch of the pit of the stomach. Epigastric tenderness (second day). Feeling of weakness at the stomach, which caused frequent yawning, that was attended by a stitching pain through the part.
Great oppression of the epigastric region, with a sensation of weight (after one hour and a half). Burning pain in epigastric region (after one hour and a half). Great distress in the stomach and bowels. In great agony; complained of his stomach, where he felt constrictive gripings. In great agony; he complained of his stomach, saying that it was pinched together. General disturbed feeling in the stomach, with dulness in the head, increasing for an hour (after half an hour); felt better immediately on going into the open air; sat down to tea; unpleasant feeling in the head and stomach returned; could eat nothing; head and stomach symptoms have nearly all disappeared (after three hours and a quarter). When completely aroused from their narcotism, they complained of intense epigastric pain, great thirst, and chilliness (after five hours). Severe pain in the stomach, on pressure, causing him to cry out. Pain in the stomach (after five hours). While riding, I had a simple aching pain in the region of the pylorus, which gradually worked up into the chest on the same side (after one hour and a half, third day). With the stools much pain in the stomach, upon pressure, which made him cry. Pain in the region of the pylorus. Pains in the cardiac portion of the stomach, aggravated by a full inspiration and by walking. The pain at the pit of the stomach felt like a pain resulting from traumatic injury. Bruised and sore feeling at the pit of stomach, with pain in the same place (second day). Intense burning pain in the stomach and bowels, which seemed swollen, and became very sore (after two hours, and again at 9.30 P.M., third day). A burning sensation in the stomach, with tenderness of the bowels, and a peculiar heat in the rectum, which is soon followed by tenesmus and mucous and bloody discharges. Violent pressure in the stomach, on waking, in the morning, with accumulation of water in the mouth; disappears after rising. Cutting in the pit of the stomach and in the abdomen. Cutting-tearing straining pains in the stomach, followed by soreness to pressure. Heat in the stomach, after taking the drug (third day). The symptoms of the stomach, throat, and mouth are worse in the morning.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Heavy aching pain in hypochondrium, which left as soon as leucorrhoea commenced. Digging pain in the right hypochondrium, in the upper and outer portion of the liver, preventing motion; first felt at 2 P.M., then every morning before daylight, some soreness remaining through the afternoon and evening. Cannot lie on the right side, after midnight, on account of penetrating pain in the right hypochondrium. Violent dull pressing pain in the left hypochondrium, in the evening, so that he cannot remain in the sitting posture; he lies on the painful side all night, and the pain is gone the next morning.
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.