Considerable nausea (after twenty five minutes); nausea returning at intervals (after fifty minutes). Nausea, as if he would soon vomit, as after a large dose of unpleasant medicine (a purge), associated with a sensation in the abdomen as if he would soon go to stool. Qualmish nausea, without pain, obliging to vomit, followed by headache, with rheumatic pain and stiffness in the limbs and nape of the neck. Qualmish sickening feeling all over the body, with great lassitude and weakness, in the afternoon (after three hours, second day). Slight nausea (after forty minutes). Slight nausea, with a burning at his stomach (after fifteen minutes); the nausea at intervals, much more violent (after forty minutes); vomited twice; the motions were pretty strong (after sixty minutes). Slight nausea commenced (after thirty-five minutes); one gentle motion to vomit (after sixty- five minutes). Slight nausea (after twenty minutes); disposition to puke, which, however, continued but for a very short time (after forty minutes); the nausea had nearly disappeared (after fifty minutes). Slight sickness at his stomach, which continued for several hours (after sixty minutes). Violent vomiting.
Vomiturition (seventeenth day). Vomiting and diarrhoea. Vomiting of bitter water. Bitter vomiting, with the headache. It sometimes occasions vomiting, but more especially burning at the stomach.
Vomiting, with desire to eat, in order to quiet the nausea. Ten to twenty grains operated as an emetic. It operated violently as an emetic, producing great prostration of strength during its operation, which continued for sometimes. General Stomach. In the evening, before supper, distension of epigastrium (second Day).
Distension of the epigastrium, with difficult breathing and lassitude all day (third day). Swelling of the epigastrium, painful to the touch, from stooping or from the pressure of the clothes, with anxiousness (seventh day). An agreeable sensation at my stomach. Disagreeable sensation at my stomach, that continued the remainder of the day (after ninety-five minutes).
Heavy sensation, as of indigestion, in stomach (second day).
Heavy dull sensation in the stomach, with qualmishness, eructations, and the very disagreeable feeling of indigestion, in the afternoon (second day). After breakfast (ate but little, and that very little as i have no appetite) feel a dull heavy load in the stomach, like a stone, as something perfectly indigestible (third morning). Dull heavy feeling in the stomach, as if caused from some hard substance there, with the vertigo immediately (sixteenth day). Sensation of emptiness in the stomach, soon after eating. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach, with faint feverish feeling (third morning). Stomach much relieved by eating, although food lies like a load therein (fourth day).
Sudden attack of constriction in the pit of the stomach, as if she would suffocate; she tears open her clothes and throws herself on the bed, with vomiturition; she could breath better after lying on either side, but the difficulty of respiration returned at once when turning on the back; palpitation of the heart so violent that it is felt in the head, as if the blood was sent up by a steel spring; severe on the left side; this lasted until evening; she could not eat any dinner and nothing for supper, except a cup of tea (fourteenth day). Soreness in the epigastrium, aggravated by eating. Considerable soreness in the epigastric region, in the morning (fourth day). Pressure in the stomach. Pressing in the epigastrium on the right side, on the short ribs, and swelling (first day). Pain in the stomach (ninth and tenth days). Severe pain in the stomach, immediately (eleventh day). Pain in the stomach quite severe (fourteenth day). Pain in the stomach immediately after eating, lasting about an hour (sixteenth and seventeenth days). Considerable pain in the epigastric region (ninth day). Pain extending downward to the stomach and bowels, causing a rumbling sound, in the afternoon (second day). Epigastric uneasiness. Jumping in the epigastric region, as from something alive. Great weakness of digestion.
Burning sensation in the stomach (second day); slightly aggravated (third day). Constant burning in the stomach, and a feeling as if a weight was lodged there (seventh day). Burning in the stomach (after the dose, thirteenth day). Burning sensation in the stomach, lasting one hour, immediately (second and third days). Severe burning in stomach, lasting two hours (sixth day).
The burning pain in the epigastric region, with the soreness in the chest when taking a full inspiration, has not abated (ninth day). Warmth at his stomach, which he compared to that produced by Camphor (after fifteen minutes). Sensation of warmth at his stomach (after fifteen minutes). Warmth at his stomach (after twenty minutes). Considerable burning sensation about the stomach, not unlike gastritis, in the evening (third day).
Burning sensation in the stomach; (after ten minutes); (after fifteen minutes). Pleasant warmth at the stomach (after twenty- five minutes). Warmth at my stomach (after fifteen minutes).
Digestion is excited by small doses.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Pain in the hypochondria, violent, persistent; vertigo and weakness. Pain in the hypochondriac region and right side of the chest is severe (second day); almost as severe (third day). Dull burning pain in right hypochondriac region and chest (right side), in morning (seventh day). The pain in the hypochondria is quite severe (ninth day). Awoke in the morning with a severe pain in the region of the spleen (fifteenth day); this pain continues (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth days). Pain in the hypochondrium (left), very severe (eighth, ninth, and tenth days). The pain in the spleen was often distressing, but I did not notice any enlargement of that organ, but a constant soreness upon pressure. Umbilicus and Sides.
Griping in the umbilicus region, lasting two hours (after three hours and a half, third day). Griping pain in umbilical region, the remainder of the day (after two hours, sixth day). Severe griping pain in umbilical region, with considerable flatulency and fullness of the head, at 5.30 P.M. (seventh day). Griping in the umbilical region (eighth and ninth days). Painfulness of the abdominal walls as if ulcerated, with burning around the navel, as if it was chafed (eighteenth day). Twisting pain in the left side, not far from the pubis and crest of the ilium, worse while sitting, standing, and bending towards the right side; also on pressure; better on walking erect; the pain afterwards extending from this place around to the left hip and up behind the short ribs; especially noticed on bending to the right (eighth day).
General Abdomen. Discharge of flatus, then of excrementitious matter, with abatement of the nausea etc. Frequent emission of very offensive flatus, afterwards, in the evening, a hard stool follows. Flatulency (eighth and ninth days). All night, colic as before menses. Paroxysmal colic. Colic in the upper abdomen, followed by diarrhoea, in the morning. Digging colic, with pain in the small of the back, at night. Colic. Cramp, extending from place to place, in the abdomen. Severe colicky pain through the bowels, very persistent, extending down to the rectum, causing frequent sharp spasmodic pain, low down in the rectum, of most excruciating character (After nine hours, second day). Cutting bellyache, as if a stool would follow, but did not, at noon (seventh day). Pain in the abdomen, as if the menses would come on. Violent pains, like thrusts of a knife, in the abdomen, followed by diarrhoea-like stools, as thin as water (after one hour). Shooting pains through the bowels, extending to the lower extremities, in the afternoon (second day). Slight cutting drawings in the abdomen. Sharp cutting pain through the bowels, from right to left iliac fossa, thence down to the rectum, and then causing a very peculiar spasmodic pain of the most excruciating intensity, for fifteen minutes (after three hours, second day). Throbbing in the abdomen.
Rectum
There is still, at times, the return of that distressing, cutting, spasmodic sensation low in the rectum, in the evening (third day). Ineffectual desire for stool, followed by vomiting.
Ineffectual desire for stool, with sensation of thick mass in the anus; the sensation was repeated several times during the day without stool. Frequent desire for stool, with emission of only flatus, in the afternoon. Desire for stool, with emission of much flatus.
Stool
In the evening, diarrhoea, with disappearance of coryza.
Diarrhoeal stool after colicky pain. Diarrhoea-like stool mixed with much flatus. Stool at first of wind, afterwards of a very scanty discharge of faeces, relieving the desire for stool (after twenty-five minutes). Purged gently two or three times (after about three hours). Single watery stool after severe cutting pain in the bowels. Five natural evacuations in one day. Two scanty stools (first day). Undigested stool. Stools soft (first days); hard (latter days). The discharge from the intestine was noticed to contain a very unusual quantity of bright-yellow bile.
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.