Faeces pale. (Stool more easy, curative action, in one usually constipated), (first day). Action of bowels regular, but the excrements were varied in their character, sometimes thin, sometimes globular, sometimes triangular, but nearly always dark-colored. Afterwards he was constipated. After 6 drops of Croton oil, 1 drop being taken every two hours, the excrements were of a triangular shape, covered with thin flakes of mucus, and accompanied by a slight hemorrhage. Evacuations hard, white, like sheep dung, passed with some effort. Faeces in the form of balls; often hard, and of a black or green color. Faeces scybalous. Stool hard and difficult. Evacuations hard, ashy gray, like sheep dung. Evacuations hard and scanty. Evacuations scanty, hard, like sheep dung. Hard scratching stool (second forenoon). Stool somewhat harder and more difficult to pass than usual (first day). Evacuations at first hard, afterwards with increasing colic (curative action). Stool yellowish, rounded, and hard like sheep dung; as he disease progresses they become softer, and at last frequently watery. Evacuation hard with pressure, with a sensation as if something were pressing that caused sticking, in the morning; in the afternoon, three soft stools (fourth day). Stools indolent and constipated. Difficult stools before the colic. Difficult stools.
Irregular stools. Evacuations indolent, difficult. In three days there were only two scanty evacuations of hard faeces, like sheep dung. Stool only every two or three days; blackish. Constipation. Constipation, etc. Obstinate constipation, etc. Bowels obstinately constipated, except that a few times he has had slight diarrhoea, and once a mild attack of dysentery. Obstinate constipation, evacuation of neither flatus nor faeces. Such obstinate constipation, that he passed neither stool nor flatus thought he had a passage, when there was only tenesmus. Excessive constipation, with paroxysmal colic. Most obstinate constipation, with violent pain in the epigastric region and back. Obstinate constipation, aggravated by purges, that caused the evacuation of small hard balls of faeces, with great effort. Constipation and taormina. Constipation, and taormina. Constipation, with violent colic. Constipation increased to such an extent, notwithstanding the medicine, an careful dietetic management, that fissure of the anus took place, although the bowels acted nearly every day. Constipation, at first conquered by injections, now became more obstinate. The injections formerly retained in the bowels only in part were now retained entirely; the gases and liquids accumulated in the intestines produced under the pressure of the hand, a loud gargouillement, which could he heard at some distance; a sensation of fullness, and a pressing desire of going to stool, induced efforts without result; the sphincter ani remained contracted, and gave exit to neither gases or liquids, thus offering an invincible resistance to the strong contraction of the abdominal muscles. Bowels usually constipated, though in more than usually protracted cases diarrhoea existed. Constipation, with severe pains in the abdomen. Could never relieve her bowels except by taking enormously strong medicine. Constipation, neither stool nor flatus is evacuated. Constipation, with nausea and vomiting. Constipation, attended with a disagreeable sense of heat in bowels. Constipation in some, and in others tenesmus and small bloody stools. Difficult stool. Neither stool nor urine the whole first day. About two weeks ago bowels became sluggish, and now has but one discharge in two or three days.
Has suffered constantly from constipation, for the last seven years. Constipation and lead colic, two or three times.
Stool only once in eight or ten days, of scanty, blackish faeces whose expulsion caused suffering.
Urinary Organs
Kidneys and Bladder. Three years previously, the patient had been in the hospital with albuminuria and casts in the urine, but when discharged these symptoms had disappeared; at that time he had no brain symptoms except headache; on this occasion, the urine, which was retained in the bladder and had to be drawn with a catheter, contained albumen and a large number of casts; two days subsequently there was anuria, trismus, opisthotonos, convulsions followed by loss of mind; during the attack the tongue was badly bitten, the pupils contracted and indolent; on the following days the amount of urine, in spite of treatment (an infusion of squills), 600 and 700 c. cm.; the urine for twenty-four hours contained 17 grams of urea; the patient did not have another spasms, though he suffered from most violent pains in the upper and lower extremities; after this the amount of urine increased, the urea rose to 39 and 41 grams, the albumen diminished, the pus disappeared, and the mind became free, but after about two weeks he was seized with erysipelas, from which he died. Chronic nephritis is a frequent affection is cases if lead poisoning; its development never accompanied by acute symptoms.
Acute nephritis, with fever. Lacerating pain in the renal region, aggravated at the same time with the abdominal sufferings, and, like them, diminished by friction and pressure. Severe pain in the vesical region. Bladder distended. Paralysis of the sphincter of the bladder, which allowed the urine to pass guttatim. Tenesmus of the back of the bladder. When the paroxysm of pain has subsided, the sound is easily introduced (into the bladder), and without pain; attempting to introduce the sound during the accession, causes great increase of the pain. Bladder inactive; difficult urination. In one of the cases, the sphincter vesicae did not permit the urine to pass for more than thirty-six hours, so much so, that the bladder extended up to the umbilicus; in the same patient the whole of the genito-urinary apparatus was especially affected. At times the testes were retracted into the inguinal canal, occasioning most excruciating pains in the back, loins, scrotum, and perineum.
The patient had not passed water for thirty-six hours, and the bladder felt bloated. I examined the region of the bladder externally, but on account of the excessive tenderness, could not positively ascertain whether it was full or not; on passing the catheter I could it entirely empty, with the exception of a few drops of bloody mucus; there was in this case complete suppression of urine. Painful sense of constriction towards the neck of the bladder, difficulty of introducing a sound into the bladder. Induration of the prostate.
Urethra. Retraction of the urethra. Pain in the urethra where it leaves the bladder (fifth day). Great smarting along the urethra on commencing micturition. Burning, during, and still more after micturition (second day). Scalding on micturition.
Micturition and Urine. Very frequent urging to urinate, with burning along the urethra, but only a few drops are discharged at a time. Frequent ineffectual urging to urinate. Desire to urinate, fruitless efforts, or the urine passed drop by drop.
Frequent desire to pass urine, which was painful; urine often high-colored, and depositing a lateritious sediment. Quite frequent vesical tenesmus; ineffectual urging to urinate; sometimes after much effort, which increase the pains, urine passes guttatim. He urinated twice in twenty-four hours, during remissions, to the amount altogether of about a glassful. Bladder not distended. Catheter passed with difficulty; the operation caused great uneasiness, and almost threw him into convulsions. Sometimes urging to urinate, which either was ineffectual, or the discharge required great effort, and much increased the pains, Frequent vesical tenesmus, with much ineffectual urging to urinate; only half a wine glassful was passed in two days. Desire to urinate, with inability to pass urine immediately; it was retained; in the forenoon, disappearing in the afternoon (second day). Pain and difficulty in passing urine (after one years). Frequent tenesmus, and ineffectual urging to urinate.
Frequent desire to urinate; micturition always scanty.
Micturition painful. Unconscious discharge of urine and faeces.
Urine passed unconsciously. The patient passed urine involuntarily during the epileptic spasms. Frequent micturition, of the usual amount, in the afternoon (first day), Copious secretion from the kidneys. Great increased discharge of urine. Awoke at 4 A.M. to urinate; more than usual was passed; followed by pain in the abdomen as after taking cold; it disappears after the emission of flatus, which is followed by sticking in the abdomen (second day). Frequent difficult micturition of scanty urine. Some difficulty and pain in urinating, so that he thought he had contracted gonorrhoea.
Difficult and sometimes painful micturition. Micturition difficult, and only effected by a forcible contraction of the abdominal muscles, which aggravates the pains. Difficult, even somewhat painful, micturition. Difficult micturition, a little at a time. Difficult urination, with much effort. Difficult micturition, etc. Great difficulty in urinating; there was great difficulty in passing the catheter, but the subsequent history showed no permanent stricture. Evacuation of urine difficult and hindered, also complete suppression.
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.