Sensation of soreness in the bowels, when moving or upon pressure (second day). Hypochondria. Inflammation and swelling of the liver. Pains in the liver, as if there were abscesses in it, or as if it were ulcerated or full of cavities; he can lie only on the back and left side, but not at all on the right side.
Burning, spasmodic, and lancinating pains in the hepatic region. Inflammation and swelling of the spleen. Burning and lancinating pains in the region of the spleen, with cerebral congestion, vertigo, and hallucinations; he believed he was travelling, though he was lying. Umbilicus and Sides. Tumor like a hernia at the umbilicus and groin. Severe and incisive pains in the umbilical region; sensation as if the abdomen were cut in two. Swelling as if there were an ovarian cyst, especially in the left side of the abdomen. General Abdomen. The abdomen of the greenish color, contracted or distended, and very sensitive to the touch. Inflammation and swelling of the abdomen with constipation. Swelling of the abdomen as in ascites. Abdomen swollen and resonant, as in tympanitis. Frequent expulsion of gas, upward and downward. Much flatulency and painful borborygmi in the intestines. Horrible colic, extending towards the kidneys, with sensation of twisting in the bowels, and vomiting of various substances. Colic and spasmodic pains in the kidneys, spreading to the bowels, with screams, lamentations, trembling, weakness, nausea, and desire to urinate. Colic and tympanitis, with contractive pains in the abdomen and rheumatic pains in the extremities. Colic, piercing and burning in the abdomen, accompanied by great weakness, and aggravated by the least motion. Excessive colic, with contraction of the bowels and constipation. Colic generally at night or after eating and drinking, and accompanied by diarrhoea and vomiting. Colic and piercing in the abdomen, corresponding with pains in the head. Colic and contortions, as if knives were moved from time to time across the bowels. Severe colic with ineffectual desire to defecate. Constriction of the abdomen, with a sensation as if it were resting on a trapeze. Cramps, pinching, lacerating, stitching, and pulsating pains in the liver; generally with bilious vomiting, constipation, prostration, and trismus. Pains in abdomen, as if there were eruptions and ulcers in it. Spasms and pains in the abdomen, with sensation as if something were on it. Burning and Lancinations in the abdomen. Hypogastrium and Iliac region.
Swelling, induration, and suppuration of the inguinal glands. Tumors, like buboes, in the groins. Heaviness in the inferior region of the pelvis, with a sensation as if the womb descended, and was propped up between the bladder and the rectum, as in anteversion. Cramps, pinching, burning, and arthritic pains in the groins and thighs.
Rectum
Large and very painful hemorrhoidal tumors in the anus.
Hemorrhoids, either blind, or flowing and ulcerated. Heat, pain, and great itching in the anus. Heat and excruciating pains in rectum.
Stool
Diarrhoea stool, black and fetid, or watery, whitish, excessively frequent, and generally involuntary, and accompanied by vomiting, with sensation as if the whole body would pass away through the stool. Heat and pressure in the epigastrium; cramps in the extremities; weakness and extreme prostration; dread of persons dressed in black; putrid emanations from the body; suppression of urine, chilliness, and fear of death.
Diarrhoea stools, yellow, green, burning, with nervous agitation, weakness, cold sweat, and dyspnoea. Diarrhoeic stools, evacuated with flatulency. Mucus, bloody, dysenteric stools, with colic and severe tenesmus and fainting spells. Stools, with lumbrici. Hard, small, insufficient, difficult, and frequent stool. Obstinate constipation. Purging commenced about an hour after supper, and continued every few minutes for about an hour, when it changed to a more frequent inclination to evacuate the bowels, but with little success; in another hour the evacuation was of a very little dark liquid, with apparent tenesmus and great pain. Sudden attack of purging and vomiting.
Bowels daily evacuated, the motions having a slimy look and bilious tinge. Bowels generally constipated. Bowels costive, but a frequent ineffectual desire for stool (second day).
Urinary Organs
Kidneys and Bladder. Nephritic colic, with anguish and fear of death. Cramps in the kidneys, with stiffness and impossibility to make the slightest movement. Pulsative and burning pains in the kidneys, as if caused by inflammation. Pains in the kidneys, with ischuria, as if the urine were interrupted by foreign bodies. Expulsion of gravel, and frequently small pieces of polypi from the bladder, with bloody urine. Burning, with sensation of fullness in the bladder. Urethra. Purulent, yellowish, greenish, and sometimes bloody discharge from the urethra, staining the linen. Blenorrhagia, with priapism, burning in the urethra, especially when urinating, tensive pains in the spermatic cords, radiating to the urethra and testicles. Burning in the urethra, as from herpes or ulceration.
Micturition and Urine. Frequent and intolerable desire to urinate. Ineffectual efforts to urinate, with pinching and burning in the bladder. The urine flows drop by drop, with burning and spasmodic pains in the kidneys and bladder and tenesmus. Complete suppression of urine, with fullness and heaviness in the bladder. Urine with much mucus, which adheres to the chamber. The urinary deposit creamy-white, like gypsum.
Copious, turbid, yellowish urine. Incontinency of urine, frequently during the night, in bed. Urine, with an iridescent film. Bloody urine.
Sexual Organs
Male. Sensation of strong traction in the genitals, followed by erysipelatous inflammation. Sensation as if the hairs on the genitals were irritated, with tendency to grow worse.
Inflammation and swelling of the prepuce and penis. The prepuce retracts from the glans and compresses it. Erysipelatous swelling of the scrotum, with collection of water in the tunica vaginalis. Inflammation and swelling of the testicles, with burning lancinating pains spreading to the abdomen. Prompt and easily repeated ejaculation. Frequent nocturnal pollutions.
Exalted venereal appetite, with itching and tickling of the genitals. Impotence, with paralytic weakness of the lower part of the body. Female. Swelling of the womb, as if produced by false pregnancy, or by an intrauterine polypus. Hard and scirrhous swelling of the neck of the womb. Before and during the courses, penetrating and lancinating pains in the womb and vulva; desire to vomit, constipation or diarrhoea, uterine colic, headache, neuralgia, and great nervous exaltation. Frequent cramps in the womb. Burning, distensive, boring, and penetrating pains in the womb. Sensation as if the womb were swollen and inflamed.
Stings in the uterus, as if caused by electrical discharges.
Burning and tearing pains in the ovarian region, as if they were torn away. Pinching in the ovarian region. Polypus-like tubercles in the vulva. Eruption and ulcers, like herpes, in vagina and vulva. Discharge of blood, like hemorrhage, between the menses, accompanied by purulent leucorrhoea, and frequently by tympanitis. Whitish, yellowish, greenish, thick, acrid, purulent leucorrhoea, with tumefaction and bruised feeling in the neck of the womb, and general prostration. The menstrual blood is black, viscous, yellow, and sometimes bright. Frequent sensation as if a foreign body turns itself in the vagina and uterus, or as if a ball rises up to the throat, generally with spasm and attacks of strangulation and suffocation. Menses too early and then too late. Menses especially too late.
Ulcerative pains in the vagina, with acrid leucorrhoea, yellowish and of most fetid smell. Heaviness, itching, and burning in the vulva. Nymphomania.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx. Tenacious mucus in the larynx and chest. Bronchial catarrh, with headache, fluent coryza, and contractive pains, as after taking cold. Spasmodic constriction in larynx. Pain and sensation as if he had granulations, tubercles, or false membranes in the larynx or trachea. Burning in the larynx, with a sensation as if ulcerated. Speaking greatly aggravates the suffering of the larynx and chest, and during the sufferings of the chest the body is bathes in perspiration, and the venereal appetite greatly exalted. Voice. Hoarseness, sometimes nearly aphonia. The voice obscure and husky. Cough and Expectoration.
Severe cough, occasioned by continual tickling in larynx. Violent and spasmodic cough, with sensation of tearing in the chest and fear of choking. Shaking and convulsive cough, with vomiting, as in whooping cough. Rough, dry, and hoarse cough, or heavy and deep. Cough, worse in the afternoon and night, during conversation in wet and windy weather. Barking and sibilant cough, with production of false membranes in the throat.
Cough, with pinching in the head and contusive pains in chest and back. Cough, with vomiting of bile and food, and sometimes of blood. Short and frequent cough, generally with dyspnoea, epistaxis, and bloody sputa. White, frothy, yellow, green, or blackish expectoration, generally of a bad odor.
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.