Pressure at the epigastrium, as from having eaten too much.
Pressive pain at epigastrium, like indigestion. Violent pressure, as from a stone, in the stomach (fifteenth day). Cold pain at epigastrium, as if a cold stone were in the stomach. Sometimes a cutting feel, again, a sensation as of a heavy weight, and a kind of tightness at the pit of the stomach. Burning in the pit of the stomach. Burning above the pit of the stomach, almost like heartburn. Woke after midnight with burning in the stomach and qualmishness, followed by empty eructations of the food taken the previous evening, without offensive taste (after fifteen days).
After eating, weakness, like that of ravenous hunger, which disappears after eating again (without relish), (first day).
Weakness of the stomach after eating. Although he had a good appetite, his stomach seemed inactive. The stomach feels much disordered.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Cramp like pain across the hypochondria, extending into the back, especially on motion (tenth day). A gradually drawing, dull pain in both hypochondria, extending to the spine, less at night. Stitches below the hypochondria (first day).
Stitches in the hypochondria. Aching pain in right hypochondrium.
Constant pressure in the right hypochondrium. A very violent dull stitch in the right hypochondrium, extending through the abdomen and out at the opposite side, sharp, together with a violent pain in the pit of the stomach, relieved by bending up, at 2.30 P.M. (fifth day). Some sharp, very fine (burning) stitches in the right hypochondrium, in the afternoon (fifth day). Umbilicus and Sides. Constrictive griping in the umbilical region (seventh day). Colic; constrictive pain about the navel, with at times stitches; the abdomen in distended; the pains continue until there occurs a thin stool, accompanied by flatus (twelfth day).
Constrictive pain about the navel after dinner, followed by a pasty stool thinner than usual (first day). Constrictive colic in the umbilical region (first day). Digging sensation about the navel, in the afternoon (first day). Pressure beneath the umbilical region just before and during a stool. Pressive sensation about the navel, followed by flatulence and emission of much flatus (fifth day). Pressure in the umbilical region.
Sticking pain about the navel on deep inspiration (fourth day).
Cutting and griping about the navel, at 9.30 A.M. (first day).
Cutting pain in the region of the navel, going right through to the back, and coming on at intervals. Cutting in the umbilical region from time to time (after two days). Pain, with cutting, about the navel and desire for stool, frequently coming and going, after midnight and in the forenoon (second day).
Momentary pinching pain at the navel. Pain, like a pinching, about the navel, and afterwards in the whole of the abdomen, with the emission of much watery leucorrhoea, as during menses (fourth day). Pain beneath the right ribs posteriorly (in the region of the kidneys), in the evening. Violent stitches in the right side of the abdomen, with flatulence (twelfth day). Stitches in the right side of the abdomen (fourth day). Stitches in the left side of the abdomen, below the hypochondrium (seventh day). Sharp stitches in the left flank (sixteenth day). Some stitches in the left side of the abdomen, in the evening (first day). Sticking pain in the left side of the abdomen, more externally only when walking (after six hours). General Abdomen. Abdomen constantly hard, greatly distended, making him very uncomfortable. Abdomen very much distended; no emission of flatus but eructations. The abdomen became very large; it increased as usual after eating, so that it seemed constantly very tense, Abdomen distended and tense (fifth night). Flatulent distension, so that he almost burst (thirty-eighth day). Abdomen hard, tense (sixth day). The abdomen as far up as the stomach is distended (after twenty-four days). Abdomen thick and heavy, like a weight. Abdomen hot and tense, with rumbling and grumbling in it, with constant diarrhoea. Colic, with distension of the abdomen; the pains gradually ceased after the emission of flatus (twentieth day).
Flatulence, with distended abdomen. Flatulence, causing stitches in the small of the back. Incarceration of flatus, causing contraction of the chest, at night (after twelve days). Frequent emission of flatus; (eighteenth day). Very offensive flatus (second day). Audible movements about the abdomen. Audible rumbling in the abdomen after the pain had ceased, in the afternoon (fifth day). Rumbling in the abdomen; (fourth and sixth days). Movements in the intestines. Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, especially in the vicinity of an inguinal hernia (after twelve hours). Violent rumbling in the abdomen. Movements in the intestines (fourth day). Violent movements in the intestines after eating, with colic, followed after a short time by four watery stools, with flatulence and relief of the pain (eighth day). Some colic (first day). Colic (eighth day). Colic pains after a stool (twenty-ninth day). Colic before the emission of flatus. Colic, with great inclination of stretch. Colic, as from incarcerated flatus, with pressure towards the rectum, as if wind would pass. Colic, consisting of rumbling and constrictive pain in the abdomen, with distension, followed by emission of flatus and relief of the pain and rumbling (sixth day). Acute colic after eating a little at noon and in the evening, relieved after many eructations. Violent colic (twelfth day). Violent colic even after some warm beer, disappearing after rumbling in the abdomen and eructations of gas (after two days). Violent colic, with a feeling as though she were stiffened; the hands became yellow, the nails blue, as if dead (after five days). Violent, transient, griping colic nearly every afternoon. Griping colic before every emission of flatus.
After a stool the colic was somewhat relieved; he was quite exhausted, fell into a light doze, from which he woke again with the most violent colic. Griping in the abdomen while walking in the open air (twentieth day). Griping, with flatulence (first day). Griping in the abdomen; (second day). Griping-cutting pains in the abdomen, extending over the whole abdomen. Griping colic two hours after eating, returning from time to time. Feeling of fulness in the abdomen, worse in the umbilical region, feeling as it the intestines were tossed about, at times with emission of offensive flatus, with some distension of the abdomen (fifteenth day). After eating, everything seems too full, a feeling as if the clothes pressed him, with retraction of the abdomen. Some pain in the abdomen (first day). Pain in the abdomen. Pains in the upper part of the abdomen (first and fourth days). Pains in the abdomen, somewhat relieved by the application of warm cloths.
Pains in the abdomen, as if the intestines were shaken up, with gurgling noises and watery stools, without tenesmus (second day).
After eating, pain in the abdomen, like a twisting in the intestines. The pains in the abdomen were relieved by the emission of flatus (fifth day). Constant pain in the abdomen, even with constipation. Violent pain in the abdomen; the child cries about his stomach day and night. Pressive pain in the abdomen. Pressure in the abdomen after eating. Pressure in the whole abdomen, in the morning, with rumbling and emission of flatus without relief. Cutting pain in the abdomen (tenth day).
Cutting colic by paroxysms, also at night (after thirteen days).
Cutting in the upper abdomen after dinner (after six hours).
Cutting in the abdomen, disappearing half an hour after olfaction of Hepar sulph.; Afterwards, the symptoms in the stomach and tearing in the limbs disappeared. Tearing in abdomen (after ten days). Gurgling in the intestines. Twisting pain in the abdomen.
Burning in the intestines. Sticking burning in the upper abdomen, in the morning after rising, lasting an hour, imperfectly relieved by stool, with pressure in the rectum. Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Oppression of the lower abdomen, at noon and in the evening, like a falling, partly towards the rectum, partly towards the genitals. Griping pains in lower abdomen, as from something that did not agree with him. Colicky pains in the lower bowels, with straining and increase of pain during an evacuation.
Violent pains, like contractions, in the lower abdomen, followed by profuse perspiration all over, at night. Violent cutting in the lower abdomen, with incarcerated flatus; every step is painfully felt (after lifting a light weight). Cutting in the lower abdomen, without diarrhoea. Inflamed inguinal glands as large as peas, painful to touch. Sticking pain in the right and left iliac regions (fourth day). Transient violent tearing in both groins, in the evening (fifth day). Pain in the inguinal hernia (after two days). Violent sticking and contractive pains in a hernia (which he had had for a long time). Pain in the place of a hernia, as if something would be torn out. Painfulness in the place of a hernia, with distension of the abdomen. Pain in the right groin. Tearing and drawing through the right inguinal canal. Sensation of swelling in the left groin, or as if a hernia were pressing out.
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.