Throat
Pains in the throat.
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. She is as hungry as usual; but immediately on beginning to eat everything disgusts and nauseates her. He is hungry, yet as soon as he eats anything he experiences a tense oppression in the upper abdomen and chest, as if he were satiated (after five hours). Little appetite for dinner. Little appetite (second day). Aversion to meat and vegetables.
Unquenchable thirst for cold water, in the afternoon; he drinks frequently and much, without being distressed thereby (after twenty-four hours). Thirst for cold water, in the afternoon (after thirty-three hours). Eructations and Hiccough.
After eating and drinking, eructations tasting of the food.
Eructations (immediately). Eructations of only gas. Frequent odorless eructations (second day). Frequent hiccough, with some nausea (during the customary smoke), (after thirty-four hours).
Frequent hiccough (during the customary smoke), (after thirty-four hours). Frequent hiccough (during the customary smoke), (after four hours). Nausea and Vomiting. A kind of nausea in the pit of the stomach, with desire for stool that is relieved for a moment by emission of flatus. Qualmishness on stooping. Violent vomiting, with some vomiting of blood. Constant violent painful vomiting, with spasmodic distortion of the head, trunk, and extremities. Stomach. Epigastric region sensitive.
Griping in the right side of the epigastric region, after eating some bread and butter. Frightful pains in the stomach.
Warmth at stomach (after first dose). Emptiness and gnawing in the stomach, as if he had not taken food for a long time (after ten hours). Tension at stomach in great measure appeased by drinking milk (after third dose. Burning gnawing in the stomach.
Gnawing pressure in the pit of the stomach, at night and in the morning (after twelve hours). Uneasiness in stomach (after second dose). Intermittent sticking tearing in the pit of the stomach (after twenty-four hours). (Stitches in the pit of the stomach).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. A pressive gnawing pain in the hepatic region.
Pressure in the hepatic region anteriorly near the pit of the stomach, causing restlessness. Umbilicus and Sides. Sticking jerks shoot from below the umbilicus to the mons veneris, on expiration, that takes away her breath; on hard pressure she feels nothing. Violent stitches in the abdominal muscles of the umbilical fossa, obliging him to retract the abdomen (after one hour). Scraping and gnawing in the umbilical region, intermingled with nausea (after six days). Coldness internally in the umbilical region, and a sensation as if something there was becoming loose. Corrosive burning in the left abdominal region.
Pushing cutting griping, as from flatus, in both sides of the abdomen (after two hours and three-quarters). General Abdomen.
Abdomen distended, in the evening (third day). Emission of very offensive flatus (after two hours and a quarter). Easy emission of flatus. Emission of flatus, with a sensation as if stool would follow (after thirty-nine hours). Rumbling in the lower abdomen (after one hour). Frequent rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. Heaviness in the abdomen. Griping in the abdomen, with eructations, in the morning or rising (fourth day). Pressure in the abdomen, followed by great emptiness. Burning in the abdomen.
Agreeable coolness in the abdomen and chest. A tensive pressure in the whole lower abdomen, extending from the umbilicus downward, at night, as if the menses would come on, aggravated by pressured. Pinching-cutting pains, with discomfort, in the lower abdomen, as after taking cold (after forty-eight hours).
Rectum
Tearing in the rectum and urethra, while urinating (after two days). Tearing stitches in the rectum, while sitting. Frequent pressure for stool, with prolapsus of the rectum, that after this frequently took place, with a sensation of pressure, also with emission of much flatus; the slightest stooping, and still more crouching down, caused the rectum to protrude (after seventy-two hours); for several days afterwards the rectum remained protruding all the time, and though it could be reduced easily and without pain, yet it immediately protrude again. Constant desire for stool, which, however, is softer than usual, and yet after the stool there is dragging and urging (after twenty-four hours).
Stool
The stool large and evacuated with difficulty, as from loss of peristaltic action of the rectum, during the first twenty-four hours. A second soft stool, evacuated with great difficulty on account of a relaxed and inactive second condition of the rectum, preceded by a sensation of nausea in the abdomen (after one hour and a half). Soft stool. Evacuation of blood during a stool. Stool consisting of a few hard faeces, almost like sheep dung (after forty hours). The stool on the second day was larger than usual.
Urinary Organs
Drawing pressure in the region of the kidneys, extending along the loins, while sitting. Pain over kidneys more marked, with urged desire to urinate (after third dose). Immediately after urinating it seems on every step as if the bladder were full and moved up and down, not while sitting (after forty-eight hours). Pressure in the region of the neck of the bladder, like a painful closure of it, soon after urinating (after twenty- four hours). Great pressure to urinate, as though the bladder were constantly full, yet but little urine is passed, and micturition is followed by dragging, as though much should be passed, which however dose not occur, for several days (after a few hours). It seems as though she could no longer hold her water, with an excessively urgent desire, even if there was only a single drop of urine; during and after micturition very painful burning in the vagina and long continued pressure; during the night, however, she could sleep quietly as usual, but in the morning she was obliged to urinate in the same manner as on the previous day. Frequent and copious micturition, without painful sensation. The urine, when passed, gave a strong odor of rue (after third dose). In the aggregate little urine is passed; after urinating, pressure and dragging in the bladder, without renewed micturition (second and third days).
Urine deep-yellow, in the evening (second days).
Sexual Organs
Male. Nightly emissions, without amorous dreams. Great, increased sexual desire. Female. In the evening she was seized with violent pains, that gradually increased, and were followed by the discharge of blood from the vagina and miscarriage after forty-eight hours. Miscarriage of dead children at about seven months; the uterus was found well contracted; this was followed after two days by violent fever and delirium, with spasms, succeeded by great exhaustion and vomiting of bile; for five days the patient lay in a condition resembling partial intoxication, with contracted pupils; swollen coated tongue; slight delirium and very slow pulse, only 30 to the minute, and at times convulsive spasms of the arms; vomiting and painful tension in the epigastric region; the abdomen was soft and painless; the uterus contracted, though the lochia soon ceased to flow; after a while the lochia returned; the patient gradually recovered, though she was very weak for a long time, and the great slowness of the pulse continued for many days.
Miscarriage occurred on the sixth day, followed by a long slow recovery.
Respiratory Organs
Pain, as from a blow or bruise, in the larynx. Forcible cough, in the evening, immediately after lying down, with much expectoration of stringy mucus; the cough returned several times at night, but only for a short time and less violently; when the cough was very violent, it seemed as if the stomach turned over and as if he would vomit. He was awakened about midnight by a choking cough, with scraping in the upper part of the chest, without pain, and with a slight infrequent expectoration.
Dyspnoea and shortness of breath.
Chest
A pressive fullness in the chest, that causes dyspnoea and shortness of breath. Stitches in the chest and arrest of breathing, that caused great anxiety on ascending steps. Hard pressure on the sixth true rib, aggravated on expiration and on touch (after two hours). Violent pressure in the lower part of the chest, by the last false ribs, at night; he dreamed that some one was encircling him tightly, on which account he woke (after twenty-four hours). An intermittent gnawing or pricking on one of the costal cartilages, above the ensiform cartilage, at night. Internal heat in the chest and abdomen.
Burning stitches in the chest, especially beneath the sternum, like pains in an ulcer (second morning). Agreeable coolness in the chest. Pressure on the sternum, seeming to be internal and external. Pressive oppressive stitches on the sternum during both inspiration and expiration, while sitting (after four hours). Stitches in the sternum on every motion (second day). Gnawing pain, associated with some biting and burning, in the right side of the chest. Tremulous bubbling in the last true ribs of the right side (after a quarter of an hour). Aching beneath the left short ribs, aggravated on pressure and taking away the breath, on waking at night. Gnawing in the left side of the chest. Corrosive biting drawing in the left side of the chest. Dull thrusts in the left side of the chest. A fine painful throbbing or picking beneath the left short ribs. Violent stitches between the left nipple and axilla, aggravated by inspiration (after thirty hours). Sticking pain externally in the left nipple, aggravated by inspiration (after four days).
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.
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