Recurrence of pain in abdomen, in evening (this pain finally located itself in the splenic region), (fourth day). Pain in the left hypochondriac region, when walking. The diarrhoea appears to be kept up by the increased action of the liver and consequent redundancy of bile, with but little tormina and tenesmus.
Umbilical. Constant dull pain in the umbilical region, worse by motion. Great distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions.
Burning distress in the umbilical region. Burning-griping pains in the umbilicus. Violent cramping pain about the umbilicus, soon followed by a copious discharge from the bowels. Boring pain to the left and a little above the umbilicus, continuing but a few minutes. Severe colicky pains in the umbilical region. A pain which commenced at the scrobiculus became intolerable. Pain in the umbilical region, with desire for stool. General Abdomen.
Frequent passage of wind downwards. Wind passes the bowels constantly, of a very fetid nature. Flatus was abundant. Emission of flatus relieves the pain in the bowels. Rumbling in the bowels, sometimes with desire for stool. Great rumbling, in the bowels, with pain in the umbilical region. Bowels very tender on pressure, and pain severely when walking. Very weak, especially in the abdomen (second day). Considerable griping pains and cramp in the abdomen, with the purging, in the afternoon (first day).
Griping pain in abdomen, as before a diarrhoea. Griping in bowels (after one hour and a half). Griping pains, without diarrhoea.
Griping all day long, followed by the passage of offensive flatus; the griping disappears in the night. Griping pain, as before a diarrhoea. Sensation in the bowels as;if a diarrhoea would follow. Bowels felt like moving, but did not. Cutting in the abdomen. Some of the abdominal symptoms disappear in the night. Pain in the region of the transverse colon, at 7 A.M.
(second day). Deep-seated but not severe pain;in the left iliac region. Neuralgic pain in the left groin.
Rectum and Anus.
If continued it produces permanent hemorrhoids. Peculiar heat in the rectum, with the burning sensation in the stomach. In the middle of the night, neuralgic pain shooting from the anus and the lower part of the rectum along the perineum, to the;middle of the penis, followed in a few minutes by a neuralgic pain in the right great toe. Continual inclination to go to stool, with much straining. Continual inclination to go to stool.
Stool
Violent purging. Purging, severely and frequently (after half an hour). Severe purging after the vomiting; the stools were thin, dark-brown. Diarrhoea, with sickly feeling in the bowels; copious discharges of blood, mucus, and what looked like scrapings of the inner surface of the intestines; involuntary stools, from straining, which continued even in sleep. Purging all the afternoon, with considerable griping pains and cramps in the abdomen; in the night the passages were without pain; the diarrhoea continued several days. Diarrhoea, which lasted three mornings, after the other symptoms had passed off; the dejections were very abundant, and did not cease until they became almost watery; they came on at 1 or 2 A.M., and lasted until after breakfast. At the same time the vomiting began diarrhoea set in, with fearful tenesmus; could not leave stool for a moment; the pain did not cease for an instant; the stool was at first yellow, then of greenish matter, finally dark bloody matter, this continued all night, and in the morning was somewhat relieved, and at 2 P.M., had ceased. Diarrhoea, attended with a sickly feeling in the bowels, but no tormina or tenesmus. Purging (after one hour and a half); had ceased (fifth hour). Purging.
Purging continued for about six hours (after two hours). Copious discharge of bile from the bowels. Copious discharge form the bowels, soon after a violent cramping pain about the umbilicus.
If continued, it sometimes produces dysentery. Had usual full and satisfactory stool, at 9.30 A.M.; had another full stool, unusual, at 2.30 P.M.; another natural stool, very unusual, at 7 P.M. (second day). (The bowels, which have been more than usually loose for the past six weeks, have been more regular since I began taking the medicine (fourth day); more constipated), (fifth day). Three stools during the day, the first one is hard and preceded by griping, and the others with pains moving about in the abdomen. After the vomiting had ceased, there were a number of liquid, dark-brown stools, with much pain in the stomach upon pressure, which made him cry. Mushy stool. Stools during the first days light-yellow, loose, and very loud. Mucous and bloody discharges and tenesmus soon follow the heat in the rectum. Stool soft and mushy, with undigested food in it, sometimes with straining. Stool of mucus, with straining. Stool soft and mushy.
Soft papescent stool, followed by a very faint feeling. Dark, papescent stools, with undigested food in them. Dark lumpy stool.
Hard stools.
Urinary organs
Weakness, pain, and soreness;in the region of the kidneys.
Weakness, dull pain, and soreness in the region of the kidneys, most on the right side, and connected with heat. Uneasiness down the ureters. Straining to pass water. Copious nocturnal urination. Neither emesis nor catharsis took place until the latter was prompted by the use of castor oil. Retention of urine, for ten hours. Slight suppression of urine with the pain in the loins (after three hours, third day). The urinary secretion was at first diminished, afterwards increased; the urine remained acid and became decidedly albuminous; the specific gravity became greatly increased; the bottle used to measure the urine became completely covered with a white deposit about one-sixteenth of an inch thick. Urine double in quantity and clear as water, the last two days (fourth day). A chalk like sediment in the urine.
Sexual organs
Sharp pain running up each spermatic cord (one hour after second dose, third day). Hard grinding pain shooting up both spermatic cords, in the morning (fourth and fifth days). Continual soreness of the spermatic cords, instead of the paroxysmal pains experienced on the preceding days (sixth day). A gurgling sensation in the prostate gland, repeatedly in the afternoon. The woman was in her seventh month of pregnancy, and came near having a miscarriage; bearing-down pains; involuntary straining, and haemorrhage per vagina; pains like labor-pains; could feel the uterus contract under my hand, the uterine pains continued at intervals, the second day. Towards morning a leucorrhoea commenced, which was profuse, ropy, and not irritating. Sensation as though the courses would appear, all the time.
Respiratory organs
Larynx and Trachea. Sensation of roughness in the bronchia.
Tackling in the left side of the larynx, with hacking cough, and aching in the right side of the breast, and great dryness of the throat. Dryness of the larynx (one hour after fourth dose).
Dryness in the trachea, in the morning (second and third days).
Feeling of dryness in lower part of the trachea and large bronchus (after third dose, second day). Sensation as if the trachea were strongly grasped; evening, grew worse (after fourth dose). Voice. Hoarseness (after one hour and a half). At times there is hoarseness, but this is not continual (fourth day).
Cough and Expectoration. Dry cough (second and third days); with but little expectoration (fourth and fifth days). Dry bronchial cough, with the sensation of roughness and slight increase of heat in the trachea and bronchi. Cough, towards morning, from dryness in the pharynx. Hacking cough. With the increase of the secretion of bile, there is a dry irritative cough, and almost constantly recurring transitory pains in different parts of the head. Cough, with expectoration of a tough mucus (after two hours). Almost constant expectoration of a tough mucus (after four hours). Respiration. Shortness of breath. Inspiration short and sighing. Difficult breathing; inability to breathe through the nostril. Feeling as though I were breathing through an open sponge (after four hours). Continual moaning and gasping for breath. Sighing, slow respiration. Breathing shallow (after one hour and a half).
Chest
Pain and suffocation in the lungs, throat, and fauces (after three hours, third day). Pain in the lungs, at 7 A.M. (second day). Severe pain in the right lung (after four hours). Pain in the left lung (after three hours, third day). Pain in the chest with the restlessness (first night). Tenderness of the muscles of the chest, as if they were bruised. Pain in the right side of the chest, so bad after midnight as to prevent sleep; aggravated by lying on the right side; disappears after getting up, in the; morning. Pain in the right side of the chest, about the region of the nipple, passing through to the back, felt on taking a long breath, and on bending the shoulder backwards; better in the afternoon. Aching pain in the left side of the breast. In the night I awoke with a lameness in the left side, near the cardiac region, with much nervous restlessness; could not get to sleep again for a long while; the lameness was felt whenever I moved, but more particularly during expiration (fourth night). (These pains through the chest appeared occasionally for some months after I took the last dose). Some lameness in the left side of the chest and shoulder (fifth day). (Swelling of breast began to leave at once, and almost entirely disappeared, leaving only a small bunch in site of old cicatrix). The symptoms of the chest are worse after midnight, better in the afternoon, and most of them on the right side.
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.