Violent burning and pressure in the stomach, from small doses.
Burning in the stomach, at last retching and vomiting.
Considerable burning in the stomach and bowels. Considerable burning in the stomach, changing into a fatiguing retching and vomiting of much mucus (first day). Disturbs the digestion.
Deranged digestion and vomiting, in powders of from 10 to 15 grains. Much heat in stomach (in twenty minutes). Warm feeling in the stomach (first hours).
Abdomen
Boring pains in the left hypochondrium, in the evening (first day). The aching pains in the umbilical region appear in the afternoon, increasing in the evening, especially during rest (first days). Shifting boring pain in the umbilical region (after ten hours). Loud rumbling and pinching in the left side of the abdomen. Sudden pressure in the right side of the abdomen and chest, in the evening when sitting (after two hours). Drawing sensation as of a foreign body, between and abdominal integuments on the right side, when walking (second day). Very profuse emission of flatus. Motion and rumbling in the abdomen, at times, the first hours. Rumbling in the intestines (after two hours and a half). Colic from large doses. Colic during dinner (first day).
Colic, after some hours, disappearing after a diarrhoeic stool.
Griping in the abdomen, with inclination to stool (after two hours). Violent cutting from the abdomen to the pit of the stomach, the first hours. Severe pinching in the abdomen, ceasing after some liquid stools. Pressing in the hypogastrium, soon after emission of flatus (after half an hour).
Rectum
Beating pressure in the anus after stool (third day).
Stool
Diarrhoea, etc. Purging with the vomiting. Nine or ten stools.
Increased, even watery stools. Increased stool (ninth and tenth days). Copious thin stool, painless; it spurted from the anus almost without sensation. Two or three eyes papescent stools (first day); (seemed to be a secondary effect of a large dose).
Increasing papescent and loose stools at irregular periods (after four days). Papescent stool, with rumbling in the abdomen and emission of flatus (first day). Papescent stool (sixth and seventh days). Cathartic in large doses. Operated slightly as a purgative. Slight indication of diarrhoea, which, however, did not take place. Rare, scanty, hard stools (first days). Hard scanty stools, followed by pressing in the rectum (second days).
The stool delays eight to twelve hours (first days). Difficult stool, the faeces being too dry and of too large a size (third day). Costiveness. Costive until the ninth day.
Urinary Organs
Burning, early in the morning, on urinating, with sensation as if urine had first to open a passage through the urethra (fifth day). Burning pain along the whole of the urethra, after micturition (after five hours). Pressure and burning on urinating, in the evening (fourth and sixth days). Transient stitches along the urethra after the emission of a dark-yellow urine, early in the morning (second day). Involuntary emission of urine during sleep (first night); (twenty-fifth and thirtieth nights). Involuntary emission of urine, while dreaming (he did not pass any urine before retiring), (eighteenth night). Copious secretion of urine. Copious diuresis. Promotes the secretion of urine. Increases the secretion of urine and sweat. Increased secretion of urine and slight burning when urinating (first day).
Increased and more frequent secretion of urine. Every time he drinks he passes an increased quantity of urine, for several weeks. Urine increased acrid (first day). Increased, secretion of urine. Increased secretion of urine, accompanied with a sensation of pressure in the urethra (second day). Frequent emission of urine, with a greenish tinge, depositing a cloudy sediment, the patient drank but little (after fifteen hours). The urine is passed more frequently, but less at time, and it is of a lighter, color (second, third, and fourth days). Diminished secretion of urine (first days). The urine which is emitted, frequently retains for a long a foamy appearance (as of soap bubbles), (from a large doses, in the case of a patient whose chest was affected). (No authority; from Seidel). At first the urine is mixed with threads of mucus; after it cooled, it became quite thick and cloudy (fifth day. Urine dark-colored and frothy for a long time after passing. The orange-colored clear urine becomes turbid when standing, and deposits on all the sides of the vessel a white sediment (second day). The urine becomes turned when standing, and deposits a reddish sediment mixed with mucous flocks (after eight days); (after six day). The urine becomes turbid and cloudy, immediately after cooling, early in the morning (second day). As soon as the urine which had been emitted in the morning cooled, it deposited a thick sediment, the lower layer yellowish red, the upper yellow, flocculent (sixth to eighth day).
Sexual Organs
Erections (first night). Painful erections, with increase of sexual desire, the first two days; diminution, afterwards. Slight burning in the glans when urinating (first days). Paroxysmal cramp-pain in the region of the glans (after two and three hours). Tickling of the prepuce and glans (after two or three hours).
Respiratory Organs
Larynx and Trachea. Tenacious mucus in the larynx, inducing a frequent hawking, which results in the discharge of small lumps of mucus (third and fourth days). Increased secretion of mucus in the trachea, which he is constantly obliged to hawk up (third day). An irritation in the larynx inducing a short hacking cough (after twenty minutes); (first days). Sudden tickling in the larynx excites cough (first and second days). Voice. Sudden hoarseness when reading aloud (first day). Cough and Expectoration. Dry cough, with concussion of the whole chest (soon). Dry cough, with oppression of the chest and roughness in the throat, evening (first day). Frequent dry cough (after nine days). Dry cough when pounding the root. Cough at breakfast (second day). Frequent short and hacking cough, occasioned by an increased secretion of mucus in the larynx, especially in the open air and when walking rather fast (in the forenoon).
Increased short and hacking cough in the open air, continuing for about three weeks. Excites cough. Painless cough, without expectoration (sixth day). Disagreeable long-continuing cough.
Cough, with expectoration of tenacious mucus (second day). Desire to expectorate, brought on by smaller doses. Expectoration of white mucus, which is easily loosened by a little hawking (third day). Expectorant, in small doses. Respiration. Short breathing and oppression of the chest, when going upstairs (second, third, fourth days). Frequent and deep inspirations (after half an hour).
Chest
Violent rush of blood to the chest, perceptible by strong pulsations (third day). Great orgasm of blood in the chest, almost causing fainting, when sitting (fourth day). Orgasm of blood and creeping in the chest, when at rest, towards evening (first day). Orgasm of blood in the chest, with dull stitches (first day). Orgasm of blood and oppression in the chest, with flushes of heat in the face, and a frequent pulse, in the afternoon (fifth day). Sensation of stagnation in the upper part of the lungs, especially during a rapid walk (third day).
Oppression of the chest, especially during rest (first days).
Oppression of the chest, with slight shooting pains through the chest towards the scapulae, returning in the first ten days at infinite periods, especially in the open air and during a walk.
Oppression of the chest from large doses. Oppression of the chest at different times (the first days). The chest feels too tight (fourth day). Tightness and oppression of the chest (soon).
Tightness and dull pressure in the chest (after one hour and a half). Tightness and crawling in the upper part of the chest (first day). Violent compression of the upper part of the chest, especially during rest. Compression of the chest, from both sides towards the front, towards evening (fifth and sixth days).
Tensive sensation in the lower half of the chest, during deep inspiration (sixth day). Pressing pain in the chest (third day).
Violent pressing in the chest (fourteenth day). Violent pressing pain in the chest, from within outward (eighth and ninth days).
Pressure on the chest increases the pain. Beating pressure at a small place below the short ribs; generally on the right side, during inspiration. Violent aching pain across the whole chest, especially in the left half of the chest, whence the pain seems to proceed (fourth day). Violent aching pain in the chest, at night, when waking (the first day) Violent aching pain in the chest, early in the morning, when waking, the first eight days.
Aching pain in the chest, at indefinite periods; continuing several weeks (after two or three days). Aching pain in the chest, especially during rest; continues some weeks. Boring- aching pain in the whole of the lower half of the chest, especially above the region of the heart, continued (after two hours and a half). Pinching and hard pressing aching in the chest (after four hours). Violent hard pressing aching in the chest (fourth day). Hard pressing aching in both sides of the lower part of the chest, when sitting (fifteenth day). General sensitiveness, or simple pain of the walls of the thorax, especially when touching them; it is felt less during a deep inspiration (second day). Pain in the chest for about a quarter of an hour, in the afternoon, after smoking the usual pipe of tobacco. Certain movements, especially stooping, cause a pain in the chest, as if it were too tight; there is a disposition to expand the chest by frequent stretching; this leaves considerable soreness in the chest. Pain in the chest, as if it were forcibly compressed (first day). Sore pain between the third and fourth left ribs, increased by pressure, or increased to a sticking pain (third day). Shifting dull-sticking pains in the chest, with tightness of the chest, difficult breathing, frequent shuddering over the back, and occasional pains about the head here and there (third day). During the pain in the chest the breathing is not very much affected; the pains are generally more violent during rest, and appear to be more superficial in the pleura. When stepping hard, or when walking fast, or when running, a violent pulling sore pain through the chest, from before backwards (as if in the mediastinum), making every movement difficult, continuing several weeks (ninth day). When stepping hard or when running, the chest is racked violently, as if everything in it were sore (sixth day and several following days). Violent pain on concussion of the chest, though the middle of the chest, especially along the dorsal vertebrae, continuing some days (ninth day). On sneezing and extremely violent sore pain in the chest, as if it would burst, although the sneezing does him good and relieves the chest. Violent pulsations and sore pain in the chest, when bending the chest forward, with vertigo when bending it backward (third day). Considerable clawing pain in the chest, especially in the left half, with restlessness and anxiety during rest (fourth day). Clawing pain in different parts of the chest (third and fourth days). Shifting pains in the chest. Shifting, sometimes burning, pain in the chest (after ten hours). Shooting in the intercostal muscles between the lower ribs, right side (after one hour). Drawing, extending from the chest to the axilla (third day). Crawling in the chest (second the third 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.