Rectum and Anus
Hemorrhoidal symptoms, especially itching of the anus (second day). Several fine stitches into the rectum (eleventh hour).Evenings itching and forcing in the rectum, violent, for some hours. Moisture in the anus (after eleven hours). Tickling burning by the anus. Itching of the anus and forcing-out sensation, as if premonitions of hemorrhoids, worse when walking (after one hour). Frequent urging and loose stools, for several days. Urgency to stool after usual breakfast (after a quarter of an hour). Urgency to stool, without evacuation, appears to be alternate action with the frequent evacuations. After dinner great urgency to stool, as if he could not retain stool. Urgency to stool at an entirely unusual time (after three hours and a half). As he was detained from going to stool, some flatus escaped. When he went to stool four hours after, feeling unable to wait longer, there was only passage of some flatus, and evacuation would not follow.
Stool
Three watery evacuation in rapid succession (five hours after 4 drops). Frequent loose stools the same days. Liquid and very fetid stools, for three or four days. Besides the usual morning stool, two more within a short time, soft, of the usual color and form, some pressure in the rectum with the last. Frequent sensation as if diarrhoea would set in, whereas a natural evacuation takes place. Delayed stool (after 2 drops).
Urinary Organs
A short time after urinating, burning pain in the forepart of the urethra (after three hours). A tickling-crawling sensation at the urinate, nearly every fifteen minutes, five times in succession; every time a little light-yellow urine.Drops pass some time after urinating making the shirt wet.
Frequent passages of a little light-yellow urine (after two hours).
Sexual Organs
Drawing pains in the penis. Sudden stitches in the forepart of the glans. Smarting about the scrotum. Seminal emission, without any lascivious dreams, after midnight.
Respiratory Organs
Dry and hacking cough, rarely and without any effort. Tight and deep breathing (after seven hours). Frequent involuntary sighting.
Chest
Oppression of the chest, immediately and continuing the whole day. Chest somewhat oppressed; is compelled to inhale deeply several times; it seems as if something lay on the sternum (after six hours). Sensation of great weakness in the chest for several days. Violent contracting-pinching pain in the chest, behind the right nipple, several evenings in succession. The whole chest feels weak and bruised, several evenings. His chest feels bruised, in the evening. Great sensitiveness of the integuments of the chest. Front and Sides. Violent continued gnawing behind the lowest portion of the sternum, arresting the breathing, in the evening (third day). External painfulness of the sternum; pressure upon the sternum causes painful stitches through the chest. Burning soreness behind the xiphoid cartilage. Long frequent stitches behind the xiphoid cartilage, in space of the size of the palm of the hand, in the morning (first day).Painful drawing in the pectoral muscles. Frequent stitches in the pectoral muscles. Continual pressure, as of a dull instrument, below the right false ribs, increased by a deep inspiration.
Frequent but subdued stitches in the right chest (after two hours). Painful sticking in the right chest, not increased by inspirations. Continued dull sticking in the left chest and below the false ribs. Very painful pinching around the left nipple.
Heart and Pulse
Pressure, as from a blunt piece of wood, in the region of the heart (after a quarter of an hour). Stitches in the region of the heart. Sticking-contracting pinching in the region of the heart, causing tightness of breath, at night. Somewhat accelerated, sometimes more rapid, sometimes slower breathing of the heart (after six hours). Pulse somewhat accelerated, while the radial artery feels somewhat thinner than usual.
Neck and Back
Pain in small of the back, as if bruised. Compressive drawing in the region of the scapulae. Aching pain between the scapulae.Sudden violent jerks in the lumbar region during a walk in the open air, arresting the breathing. Continual pressure in the right lumbar region. Paralytic pains in small of the back (after six hours).
Super Extremities
Shoulder an Arm. Extending downward under the right shoulder, a sensation as if the muscles for sitting erect had been overtaxed, and as if they were now relaxed. Drawing in the region of the right shoulder. Stitches in the left shoulder.Soreness under the right arm, in the armpit. Stinging itching in some parts of the upper arms. Elbow and Forearm. Gnawing in the right elbow-joint. Long stitch in the elbow. Long-continuing boring sticking along the whole of the left forearm to the tip of the index finger, where it is most violent. Paralytic drawing in the forearm, immediately. Stitches in the forearm. Stinging burning in one spot of the forearm. Hand and Fingers. Drawing, with pressure, in the metacarpal bones of the right hand.
Transient drawing sticking in the ball of the right hand.
Continual gnawing in the palm of the left hand, in the evening (fourth and sixth day). Frequent stitches in the dorsum of the hand. Swelling of the fingers (second morning). Aching pain in the right middle finger. Sticking boring in the last phalanges of the index fingers (fourth day). Boring in the metacarpal bones of the thumbs. Gnawing in the last phalanx of the left ring finger. Gnawing and boring in the phalangeal bones of the right fingers (after seven hours). Darting in the bones of the left index finger. Violent long stitch between the left middle and index fingers, in the evening fifth day).
Fleeting stitches in the tips of the ring and index fingers, with gnawing in the bones of the same.
Inferior Extremities
Drawing-gnawing pressure in the right lower limb. Knee. Gnawing and boring pains in the right knee. Biting in the bends of the knees. Leg. Painful drawing, with pressure, along the leg.Jactitation of the muscles of the right calf. Stinging burning in a small spot in the right calf. Gnawing in the region of the outer malleolus of the right foot. Foot and Toes. Weak in the feet, as after a journey on foot (after seven hours).
Gnawing pains in the left heel (fifth day). Gnawing in the region of the ball of the left foot. Painfulness and stitches in the corn on the ball of the right foot; intolerable burning in this corn (after six days). Sticking-boring pains along the whole of the sole of the right foot. Stinging boring in the ball of the right foot. Gnawing in the ball of the right great toe. Boring and gnawing in the right great toe. Tingling and jerking in the left great toe (after seven hours). Sudden stitches in the forepart of the right great toe, as if a needle were thrust in deep, that made him cry out, recurring at short intervals (after one hour). Sudden stitches in the right great toe, passing into a burning (after ten hours). Itching stitches in the toes of the left foot.
Generalities
Prostration with the perspiration. Laziness, want of disposition to perform any mental labor, in the morning. Slight fainting turns. Finally gangrene.
Skin
Dry skin and dry mouth, without thirst, at night (after sixteen hours). Vesicles upon the skin, emitting a thin acrid yellowish ichor. Obstinate ulcers. On the red spot by the nostril a vesicle had formed, with sore pain (second day). They soon drew a blister, which spread over the whole arm. Hard blotch below the left eyebrow, which does not suppurate.Burning of the skin of the fingers from being touched by the juice. Prickling and furious smarting of the dorsum of the right foot. Stitches in the skin of the pit of the stomach.
Prickling and formication on the chest and back. Tickling sensation in the skin between the fingers, immediately and after 7 P.M. Itching boring, biting, tingling, gnawing in various parts of the body, now here, how there, especially towards evening. Itching, pain, burning, redness of the skin. Itching stinging below the right nipple. Itching under the right lower lid, relieved by cold (after ten hours). Fine itching in the skin between the fingers of the right hand (third evening).
Itching of the lower half of the legs, not relieved by scratching, in the evening. Intolerable itching and prickling in the feet. Itching stinging of the dorsum of the left foot.
Itching and furious smarting of the soles of the feet. Itching prickling in the right heel.
Sleep
Afternoons, yawning several times. Sleepiness, the eyelids want to close, must make and effort to keep them open (after three hours). Sleepy in the evening, discouraged and disinclined to any occupation (after six hours). Half slumber after midnight, frightful, anxious dreams about corpses, dead bodies, serpents, battles, etc.;constant tossing about in bed. He passed the whole night in a state of half sleep and waking, with imperfect consciousness; he was not sleepy in the morning. He wakes after midnight, is wide awake, and remains so for a long time (third, fourth, and fifth nights). He awoke suddenly half an hour after going to sleep without cause, and was wide awake, but soon fell asleep again, then, for the whole night, slept well, without dreams. Restless sleep after midnight, many nights in succession. Sleeplessness, after 3 A.M., the first nights, accompanied; with anxiety, uncommon debility, gloomy, thoughtless brooding of the mind; his limbs felt bruised; in the morning the mind feels worn out; he is not able to fix his thoughts upon one object.
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.