Flatulent distension of the abdomen, Abdomen distended, with spasmodic pain (second day). Great flatulent distension coming on after food, accompanied by severe pain. Abdomen large, somewhat tympanitic. Pain in and distension of the abdomen. Inflated abdomen. Abdomen hard, and at times distended by flatulence, often spasmodically contracted.
Abdomen extremely tense, with deeply retracted navel. Tension of abdomen. The abdomen is very tense. Abdomen and loins somewhat swollen, and painful to touch. Abdomen swollen, an the seat of acute pain, which the slightest pressure augmented, but which firm pressure relieved (after one day). Uneven tense swellings on various parts of the abdomen, especially during the height of the paroxysms. Abdomen tense, exceedingly sensitive to the slightest pressure; pains relieved by hard pressure. Abdomen feels tense and hard; there is much tenderness near the umbilicus. Much rigidity of the abdominal muscles. Abdomen remarkably hard and contracted; it seemed glued to the spine; the umbilicus excavated. The abdomen is hard, but neither retracted nor swollen. Abdomen hard and tense. Abdomen hard an tense, not painful on pressure, but relieved by it. Abdomen hard, but of natural sharp. Abdomen hard and swollen, slightly sensitive to hard pressure on the umbilical region. Abdomen very hard. Abdomen very hard and uneven, being much sunken in along the median line, while the sides are elevated. Abdomen of natural shape; it felt rather hard here and there; its usual flexibility was diminished.
Abdomen lumpy, uneven, and rather hard. Hard lumps could be felt in the abdomen. Abdomen slightly hard. Abdomen hard and painful.
Abdomen hard and flat, but not retracted. Abdomen hard, not painful to pressure. Abdomen very hard and depressed. Abdomen tender on pressure in one paroxysm. Some had tumid abdomen.
Abdomen doughy to feel. Abdomen evinces a great degree of tumidity, and is unable to sustain pressure; an unremitting pain is likewise complained of, with paroxysms of intense pain, recurring at intervals. Abdomen flexible, sensitive to pressure, especially at the stomach and right side; the pain is even quite severe at these points, and ascends the length of the oesophagus as far as the throat (after four hours).
Abdomen retained its natural shape, but not its softness. Abdomen soft, but digestion is not as easily performed as in health. The anterior walls of the abdomen lay in the same plane with the ensiform cartilage and pubis.Abdomen quite soft, rather projecting than retracted. Tympanitic abdomen. Abdomen retracted, etc. Abdomen flattened, and very painful on pressure. The abdomen is exceedingly retracted; it communicates to the hand, on palpation, a feeling as if its muscular tissue were affected with cramps. Marked retraction of the abdomen. Intense retraction of the integuments of the abdomen towards the spine, and a hard knotty feeling of the muscles in various places over its surface. Abdomen retracted, hard. Great retraction of the abdominal walls, with painfulness to pressure, especially about the navel. Abdominal walls drawn in and perfectly rigid. Abdomen flattened. Abdomen retracted, tense, not sensitive to pressure; on the contrary, pressure on the abdomen or lying upon the side rather relieved the pains. Abdomen tense, painfully retracted. Abdomen retracted, hard, painful; the pain commenced at the umbilicus, and radiated to the lumbar region and to the iliac fossae; became so violent that he rolled upon the ground, and pressed the abdomen with great violence. Abdomen retracted and concave.
Contraction of the abdominal walls. The parietes of the abdomen seemed glued to the spine, with no elasticity; I could grasp the curvature of the spine in the hand, and take hold of the descending aorta with the thumb and finger. Abdomen painful, retracted. Sharp state of the abdomen. Abdomen muscles strongly contracted. The abdomen is sensibly retracted. Abdomen sunken. Abdomen retracted, and slightly painful on pressure. Abdomen muscles retracted and rigid. Retracted abdomen, with tense tympanitic muscles, like hard boards. Retraction of the whole abdomen, especially of the navel. The abdomen is sunken at certain spots and distended at other; the abdominal muscles are distinctly seen through the skin. The abdominal muscles are forcibly drawn inward, so that the navel often presses against the spine. The abdominal muscles, with all the intestines, were drawn back toward the spine; the sphincter ani was violently constricted, with persistent vomiting of tenacious greenish substances. Hard contraction of the abdomen, that could endure no touch. Contraction transversely about the middle of the abdomen, while sitting bent over (after five hours). Abdomen much contracted and hard; when asked where he feels pain, he says sometimes that he has no pain, sometimes that his whole body is painful, sometimes that he has pain in his abdomen only; strong pressure on the abdomen causes pain. Abdomen tense, contracted, and very much depressed. Abdomen contracted, especially during the paroxysms. The abdomen is contracted to that degree that it describes a curve with the concavity upwards; when pressed, it feels as hard as a stone. The abdomen preserved its natural shape, yet was hard and contracted, as was evident on compressing it. The pain was unaffected by pressure. Constipation; no stool since that pains set in; one copious evacuation the day previous. Abdomen retracted and hard (during the paroxysms); relaxed and little depressed (between the paroxysms). Swellings, as large as the fist, frequently appear in various parts of the abdomen; they are very movable; their appearance and disappearance are almost instantaneous; percussion, palpation, and the gurgling they cause, show them to result chiefly from gaseous accumulations in the intestines. Abdomen exceedingly depressed, as if glued to the spine; it seemed extremely hard when pressed upon during the paroxysms, less so between them. The muscles of the anterior wall of the abdomen are tense, and the abdomen is depressed, chiefly over the median line. The tension is not relaxed by flexing the lower limbs upon the pelvis and occupying the patient’s attention, and, together with the retraction, becomes worse at every return of the colicky paroxysms. Abdomen flat and depressed, not very painful on pressure. Abdomen depressed, hard, and contracted. Abdomen slightly depressed and markedly contracted, especially throughout the space occupied by the recti muscles; this muscular tension gave rise to a sort of canal from the ensiform cartilage to the pubis. Abdomen little depressed, but much contracted. Abdomen walls somewhat depressed. Ulceration of the intestines. The abdomen seems eviscerated and hard on account of the great retraction of the abdominal muscles; the navel seems to adhere to the spine, and the pain also involves the pectoral region. Inflammation of the intestines, mesentery, and peritoneum, with ulceration, gangrene, and death. Inflammation of the abdominal viscera, and even of the mesentery, with debilitating fever, turbid, red, and thick urine. Inflammation of the bowels, with excessive painfulness of the abdomen, great anxiety, and burning in the intestines, with general twitching, followed by death. Flatulence. Much flatulence. Frequent emission of flatus (first evening). Very offensive flatus, after eating fish. Short, partly loud emission of flatus, of a penetrating odor (first day).
Discharge of hot flatus, that burns like fire (second day).
Discharge of flatus upward and downward. Flatulent troubles.
Emission of flatus, preceded by slight cutting colic, in the morning (fifth day). Emission of offensive flatus (after three- quarters of an hour). Gas often moves about noisily in the bowels, and then the abdominal swellings disappear.
Fermentation in the intestines. Movements of flatus in the abdomen (second day). Everything that he takes seems to turn to wind. Borborygmi, etc. Borborygmi, especially in the right iliac fossa. Audible rumbling and gurgling in the whole abdomen, in the morning, after rising; a stool after a quarter of an hour, at first formed, followed by violent purging (second day). Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. Loud gurgling of liquid and gas in the bowels, especially from pressure on the abdomen. Gurgling in intestines. Movements in the abdomen, with rumbling, in the evening. Colic (fifteenth and twenty-first days), etc. Violent colic, etc. Most violent colic the patient pressed upon the abdomen and tossed about, with cries; the pain involved pressed upon the abdomen and tossed about, with cries; the pain involved the whole abdomen, and lasted more than two hours (after one hours). Most violent colic. Very violent colic, with nausea and vomiting; the patient tossed about the bed with most violent pain, abdomen retracted to the spine, not sensitive to pressure, with constipation. Violent periodical colic. Violent colic; she doubles up like a worm. Violent colic, most severe about the navel. Severe colic, attended with inflammatory symptoms. Severe colic, worse by paroxysms, especially at the umbilicus, forcing him to scream out, roll about in bed, bend double, etc. Very severe colic; during the paroxysms, which are frequent, great restlessness. (Very severe colic six years ago. with obstinate constipation; a few days ago very severe pain in abdomen; copious diarrhoea). (Quit work on account of a severe attack of dry colic, which lasted five weeks; when recovered he returned to his former trade, in which he had nothing to do with lead; but four or five days he began to feel pains in the joints, bad enough to make him break off work).
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.