Straining, with scanty discharge of urine (second day).
Strangury, with pressure in the bladder, yet the urine will not come, and when it comes there is cutting pain. Severe strangury, as in case of stone, with discharge of white acrid turbid matter, with mucus. Urine becomes abundant again on the ninth day; he has to get up nights to urinate. Morning urine increases in quantity to a quite unusual amount. Pale urine, in the afternoon; he has to urinate frequently and passes much. Pale urine, voided in a thin powerless stream, with flakes in the urine. Urine turbid immediately after its passage, like clay-water, and scanty (sixth day). Urine passes without sensation in the passage. Urine frequently voided, does not get turbid, but deposits a cloud (seventh day). Urine and stool much delayed, not often and scanty (second day). Urine very scanty and frequently stopping, with frequent straining and burning (fourth day). The deep-yellow urine deposits a thin cloud (eighth day). Urine becomes turbid on standing, and deposits much clay-colored sediment, for several days (after forty-eight hours). Iridescent pellicle on the urine.
Very fiery urine, but without burning (second day). Red scanty urine, mornings (fourth day). High-colored, apparently increased urine, during menstruation (sixteenth day). Urine passes towards the end mingled with blood, then with the discharge of pus, also blood, and after this the pain when urinating abates. The scanty urine passed, amid frequent urging, is clear and red (first day).
Urine is turbid already while passing, with burning (third day).
Sexual Organs
Male. Intolerable odor about the genitals. Erections seem diminished. Glans red and inflamed. Tearing from glans to root of penis. After the passage of urine, burning and itching; tearing pain from the glans to the root of penis. During morning, testicles and spermatic cords ache and are tender to touch; the cords are much swollen, with a dragging-downwards feeling in them; afterwards, as this get better in the course of the morning, soreness in the left groin, worse on touch; in the course of the day it nearly all went off (eighth day). Seminal emissions at night and restless sleep. Pollution first night.
Painful pollution nearly every night, with lascivious dream.
Inclination for coition several days, with frequent emissions.
Inclination to coitus, with restless sleep. Female. Slimy leucorrhoea rather profuse, while walking. Menses three days too soon (after fourteen days). Menses very scanty, but very acrid, with burning in the inner side of the thighs, so that she cannot approximate them on account of pain; the menstrual discharge appears only now and then. Menses three days too late, and with every perfect discharge of menses the urging to urinate ceases.
Appearance of menses is retarded for five days.
Respiratory Organs
Pressing painful stitches in thyroid cartilage, without affecting deglutition. Hoarse all day (fourth day). Cough. Hard cough in the daytime, produced by a tickling ulcerative sensation in the fauces. Cough and headache (second day). Cough and coryza. Cough, with nausea, vomiting bile, and diarrhoea. Cough, without expectoration, forenoon (second day). Dry cough, with burning in the nose on blowing it (fifth day). Dry cough, excited by roughness in the throat, only in the forenoon (second and third days). Respiration. Frequent deep inspirations after dinner (second day). Catching of breath (stoppage of breath) and oppression of the chest, in the evening and the following morning (after forty-eight hours). Very asthmatic; he is often forced to breathe short (fifth day). Difficult breathing. In breathing, everything too tight. Severe catching of breath while working; he can get air enough only with difficulty (fourth day). Breathing heavy and short after dinner (third day). Stoppage of breath, as if by spasm, or as if by an impediment in the lungs, with constriction in the throat for a whole minute, accompanied with great anxiety (after three hours). The slightest exercise makes her short-breathed, abating in rest. Shortness of breath.
Chest
Oppression of the chest, impeding respiration, mornings (eighth day). Pressure in the chest, as if bruised, after attack.
Pressure in the chest. Pressure and tightness on the chest, at night and in the morning, without cough (eighth day). Pressure on the chest, with shortness of breath (sixth day). Pressure frequently on the chest, afternoons (second day). Painful constriction in the chest, alternating often with sudden expansion (eighth day). He feels so tight-chested, with dyspnoea and exhaustion, that he had to loosen his necktie, lasting for some time (seventh day). His chest feels mostly as if screwed together, and everything feels too tight, in breathing and walking, so that he had to loosen his clothes, necktie, and vest, in order to get air enough, frequently omitting and returning.
Tension across the chest after attack. On the outside of the chest tensive pain, as if it were too short, on straightening up and walking erect (after twenty-four hours). Front and Sides.
Pressure on the sternum, worse on palpation. Violent stinging in the middle of sternum, mornings (third day). Aching pain in center of chest; inclined to keep still in order to relieve it (after one hour). Stitches in the middle of the chest, beside the sternum, without affecting respiration. Pressing tension about the clavicle, next to sternum. Pressing stitches under the last true rib. Stitches in right chest, without affecting respiration.
Stinging in right side of chest, on motion, while standing, afternoon. Stinging in the right side of breast, 1 P.M. (third day). Stinging in the left side of chest, on walking outdoors, and in the forehead at the same time, mornings, continuing a good while (second day). Stinging pain in left side of chest, while walking. Violent stitches in the left costal region, so that the pain doubled him up, in the evening, while sitting (twelfth day).
The nipples are soft, insensible, and not irritable.
Heart and Pulse
Palpitation almost constant, with some anxiety and fearfulness.
Palpitation of the heart during the day. Palpitation often in daytime. Slight palpitation. Pulse, somewhat slower. Pulse somewhat retarded. Scarcely any alteration of pulse, unless it were a little retarded. Pulse fell 8 beats, but after some minutes returned to the normal. Pulse very febrile.
Back and Neck
Neck. Swelling of the right side of the neck (and throat), with pain when touched. Wrenching pain in left side of neck, as if in the tendon, on moving the head (second day). Tension in right side of neck, particularly on moving the head, with heaviness of the head. On moving the head, tension in side of neck, pain in nape of neck, stitches. Tension in the nape of neck and stitches, on moving the head, in the morning, abating during the day (third day). Chuckling or pulling in left side of neck (second day).
Tearing in the nape of the neck, passing thence across the vertex towards the right side of the forehead, where it disappears, afternoon (sixth day). Violent persistent drawing stitches in the right cervical muscles, from the clavicle into the hyoid bone. In the muscles of the neck pressing stitches, increased by touch and motion. Back. On deep inspiration, pain, as if something were sticking fast to the back. At 8 A.M., pain in muscles at inner edge of right scapula (infraspinous portion); worse on moving either arm straight up, from putting right arm to back or from raising it above level of shoulder, and from rising from stooping; pain still felt, at 8 P.M. (sixth day). Pain in middle of back on deep inspiration (sixth day). Two quickly repeated shoots about inner edge of right scapula (fifth day). In the back, between the shoulder blades, severe stitches. Stinging, also tearing, beside the spine, from the right shoulder blades to the last false rib, increased much by inspiration, and on deep inspiration entirely arresting the breath. Pain in right lumbar region on deep inspiration, in afternoon (fifteenth day).
Backache in small of back, increased after protracted stooping, pressing violently so that walking is impeded; improved by rest, when sitting or lying, but reappearing in the form of stitches with every, even the slightest, turn of the body, abating during the afternoon (fourth day). Violent pain in lower part of back on stooping, and afterwards; does not disappear during motion; forenoon (second and third days). Pain in lower part of back, passing around both sides of pelvis forward toward the genitals; worse nights and during motion. Pain in lower part of back and both sides. Stinging under the left ribs, in the lumbar region, for two hours, regardless of respiration. Tensive pain on the least motion, from the sacrum across the left hip, interfering with walking. Bruised pain of sacral region, evenings (second day). Crawling in sacral region externally, like formication, in the forenoon.
Extremities
Blue nails, with coldness. Trembling of hands and feet, with tearing in the forehead, and pinching in abdomen, forenoon (fourth day). Mobility of all the limbs. Lassitude of limbs, dulness, stoppage of nose. In all the joints of the body, tearing, now here and then there, for several days, but only of short duration. Tearing in nearly every limb, at night, with subsequent headache (sixth day). Hands and feet very light, mobility. Drawing pains in shoulder blades and legs.
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.