Though she relished her food tolerably she had no real desire for it and her stomach seemed constantly full. She ate without and desire, and yet the food was relished. Food will not go down, in the morning, on account of internal fullness. Little appetite, yet a hunger with a sensation as if the hunger affected the chest. Appetite almost wanting (next day). No appetite (second day); appetite returning (fourth day).
Loss of appetite with the constipation. Loss of appetite in the palate and throat, with emptiness in the stomach, and at the same time hunger, that disappeared after sitting awhile.
Complete loss of appetite for all food; nothing tastes good, neither food, drink, nor tobacco (after sixteen hours). At a time when a healthy appetite was to be expected, there was complete loss of appetite, together with much saliva in the mouth, having a flat slimy taste. Complete loss of appetite; if he eats a little he soon becomes satiated and yet is hungry. Complete want of appetite, for several days. Complete want of appetite. He had no appetite, yet food had a natural taste, though after swallowing a morsel there was a bad taste in the mouth. At noon anorexia (after sixteen hours). Beer is not relished. He is averse to bread and to eating generally. After a glass of wine he seems full; aversion to wine associated with heaviness of the head. Aversion to meat and broth, for several days. No appetite for tobacco, and yet no aversion to it. Aversion to coffee. Great thirst (after one hour). Thirst caused by a sensation of dryness in the mouth, that continued in spite of drinking, in the afternoon and after midnight. Thirst and dryness of the throat. Thirst, at night, without desire to drink, with a slimy mouth. Thirst, even in the morning.
Thirst, at night, from 2 to 5 A.M., followed by perspiration. Great thirst for water or beer. Desire for cold milk, he swallows it hastily. Eructations. Very violent eructations of gas, in the evening, immediately followed by hiccough, without sensation (after thirty-six hours). Eructations from the stomach that seem to become incarcerated and remain in the right side of the throat, that almost took away her breath for a moment, in the evening. Frequent eructations, always tasting of the food. Fullness and eructations, after a moderate meal. Burning eructations. Empty eructations, after eating and drinking. Eructations of wind, towards evening, with bloatedness of bowels. Eructations, attended with shooting in the right portion of the epigastric region and in the right axilla, at 1 P.M. (fifteenth day). Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea. Nausea and accumulation of saliva in the mouth, after eating and after coffee. Nausea seeming to be in the throat.
Nausea in the chest, with ravenous hunger, that only disappears after satisfying it. Nausea in the stomach and qualmishness in the chest, worse on stooping (after twenty-six hours). Becomes nauseated while sitting up. Nausea, that was somewhat better after eating, but returned with hunger, without appetite. Nausea, with a kind of anxiety in the morning after rising, that gradually disappeared in the open air (after twenty-seven hours). She became nauseated on lying down, in the evening; she had no rest in bed, and was constantly obliged to toss about. Nausea, in the chest and stomach, in the evening in bed, disappearing after falling asleep. Felt nausea and disgust for the tasteless watery solution, in three minutes after commencing it. Nausea, with pain at the left quadratus lumborum muscle (after fifteen minutes). Nausea, after eating and drinking. Qualmish nausea beneath the short ribs, that impeded respiration. He seemed qualmish and nauseated, as if in the chest, in the morning after rising. In the morning after rising her became so warm and qualmish, that it seemed as though he would vomit; the nausea disappeared after lying down again.
During sleep, in the night, she frequently rises up and heaves as if she would vomit, but nothing comes of it. In a short time vomiting commenced, first of the partially digested fruit, afterwards of a thick tenacious fluid of a wine color.
Stomach. Fullness in the stomach as if overloaded, after a moderate meal, with continued great appetite. Sensation as though a lump were lying in the stomach after a meal, especially while standing. An oppression of the stomach, towards evening, as if everything in the region of the pit of the stomach contracted (after six hours). Whenever she fell asleep she was attacked with a violent pressure in the stomach, that did not permit her to sleep for a long time. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, on moving about. A pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from swallowing too large a morsel. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if everything were swollen, that rendered breathing difficult (in the evening). (Pressure in the stomach occurring during dinner, delaying falling asleep; on waking it was gone). Pressure in the stomach after eating, as from undigested food, lasting several hours. Pressive sticking pain in the region of the stomach (impending deep breathing).
Sticking pain in the right side towards the stomach. A sticking pain in the pit of the stomach (after one hour and a quarter), Simple sticking in the pit of the stomach by the right hypochondrium (after ten hours). Acute griping above the stomach, below the diaphragm, afterwards lower down in the stomach. Griping in the pit of the stomach, and thence suddenly in a small spot in the lower abdomen (after three hours). A kind of cramp like a fullness an tightness in the pit of the stomach. Slight stomachache. Pain in the stomach, followed by loose and dark-brown stool (eighteenth day). Pains in the stomach and abdomen, about 7.15 P.M. (twenty- third day). For four days dull pain and oppression at stomach, with inclination to take a deep breath. Severe pain in the diaphragm and pit of stomach, o distressing I could not lie in bed (fifth day). Almost constant pain in the epigastric region, for eight years. Pain in the pit of the stomach. Pain in the epigastrium (thirty-fifth day). Pain in the stomach, when coughing. Pains occasionally in the pit of the stomach. A contractive pain in the right side, extending towards the stomach. Distressing pain in the stomach as if closed, and being split open with a knife; could not remain in a horizontal position (seventeenth day). Rending pain in the diaphragm, more so in the horizontal position (fourth day).
Transient burning and pressive pain in the stomach, on swallowing moderately cold water. A crawling in the stomach and horrible eructations, that were only relieved by lying down, and always renewed on rising. On going from the cold air into a warm room, the symptoms, especially those in the pit of the stomach, commenced anew. Violent throbbing below the pit of the stomach. A violent throbbing in the epigastric region.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Crowding in the hypochondria with anxiety, as if death were imminent, while sitting bent over (after nine hours). Pressive drawing from below upwards in the left hypochondrium, with anxiety and nausea in the chest (after sixth- three hours). Umbilicus and Sides. Flatulent distension in the umbilical region with violent griping. Griping in the right side of the umbilical region, with creeping chilliness over the upper arms. A cramp like drawing in the umbilical region.
Drawing pain extending downward from the umbilical region to the mons veneris (after twenty-seven hours). Pain as from a bruise, below the umbilicus. Shooting at the umbilicus, about 3.30 P.M. (twenty-second day). A sticking pain extending from the nasal to the precordial region, as if a stitch extended upward, repeated with every pulse (after two hours and three-quarters). A sticking above the umbilicus. Digging pain in the right side of abdomen.
Griping in the right side below the ribs, that soon extended to the umbilical region, as if a worm in the abdomen, while sitting (after two hours and three-quarters). Cramp like pains in the right side of the abdomen with a weeping, despondent, disconsolate mood, in the morning, from taking slight cold (after twenty-four hours). A stitch in the right flank, as if a hernia would protrude. Engorgement in the left side below the ribs. A heaviness as if a boil were hanging on the left flank, while walking. A tension in the left flank with sticking pain. Cutting to the left of the navel during expiration, while sitting. Sensation as if a hernia protruded in the left flank. Drawing pain in the left side of the abdomen during inspiration. General Abdomen. Excessive distension of the abdomen, immediately after eating. Painful distension of the abdomen, with colic, as from much incarcerated flatus, soon after a meal. Distension of the abdomen all day; a sensation of fermentation in it. Bloatedness of bowels with the eructations of wind. Bloated state of the abdomen (after two doses). A visible contraction in the middle of the abdomen, transversely across above the navel, so that the abdomen above and below this contracted line was distended, hard and tense (after three hours). Easy emission of much flatus, that seems to appear only in the rectum (after one hour). Flatulence in the abdomen, no flatus is passed, in the evening. Flatulence causes a jerking in the abdomen. Very offensive flatus.
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.