Stomach
Eructations. Eructations were a constant attendant on the proving; shortly after taking the drug these would taste like horseradish; later, would be tasteless; were only occasionally noisy, though the discharge of gas was considerable. Eructations and passage of flatus (after second dose, second day). Desire to eructate (third day). Occasional attacks of singultus, lasting but a few minutes each. Stomach disturbed, heartburn, and belching of wind, all the evening (first and second days). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea in the evening (first day), lasting till breakfast was eaten; severe in the evening (second day) till I had eaten breakfast, and lasting about one hour in the evening (third and following days). Qualmishness about the stomach, with the headache (fourth day). At 4 P.M. vomited copiously, without much straining; nausea somewhat relieved (fourth day). Stomach.
Load in stomach; heartburn (third day). Ulceration of stomach and intestines. Severe pain in the region of the stomach, with a sensation of faintness, causing me to bend forward and take a sitting position, which gave relief; this passed off in five or ten minutes (immediately after second dose); same pain in region of stomach (after third dose, second day); these stomach pains were shortly after taking the drug, burning, but later, sharp and intermittent (third day). Intense pain across the epigastric region. Severe pain in cardiac region all day (seventh day).
Burning sensation in my stomach, which lasted for fifteen minutes (first day). Burning in the stomach, which after about a minute, is felt in the umbilical region. About 10 A.M. while at lectures, and leaning a little forward on my seat, noticed a dull pain running directly across the epigastric region, which was immediately relieved by sitting up straight; tried the on several times, and found it always same; aggravated by leaning forward, and relieved by sitting straight (second day). Pressure in the epigastric region (third day).
Abdomen
Hypochondria. A very marked dull pain in left hypochondriac region; have noticed this pain more a short time after taking a dose (second day). Some pain in the left hypochondrium (third day). Umbilicus and Sides. Heavy dull pain below the umbilicus, as if a weight were there, in the afternoon (third day).
Heaviness in the umbilical region, as of weight, in the forenoon (fifth day). Dull pain in abdomen, in umbilical region, in the forenoon (third day). Sometimes twisting in the umbilical region (fourth and fifth days). Pain to the left of the umbilicus, extending down to the left iliac region; this was pretty constant through the proving; commencing here, it would pass to the left iliac region, and then pass off; it was of the same character as the pain in the iliac region, and seemed to pass steadily down from its commencing point to that region; on the fifth day the pain extended to the right side to the ascending colon. General Abdomen. Frequent passage of flatus, occasionally noisy, but generally noiseless and odorless. Accumulation of flatus in the intestines, with occasional twinges of pain about the umbilicus, extending down to the left iliac region; all pain ceased soon after retiring (third day). Some rumbling in the bowels (second day); before stool (third day). Rumbling in intestines, caused by accumulation of flatus (fourth day). Colic in the abdomen, in the lumber and umbilical regions (third day). Dull heavy ache in the abdomen (third day). Quite severe pain of a twisting character in the small intestines (seventh day). Inguinal Region. A gland in left inguinal region was swollen and considerably painful (may have come from the sore heel, caused by tight shoe), in the morning on getting up, and it remained so all day (third day). A little pain in the left iliac region; pains remitting; dull heavy pain, which at times became very severe and sticking in character (second day). Pain of a twisting character, extending down to the left iliac region from the umbilicus (fourth day). Sharp pain in right inguinal gland, continuing some moments, in the afternoon (third day). Pain in right inguinal region; continues dull, not very severe; relieved by pressure; in the afternoon (third day),.
Rectum and Anus
Smarting, cutting pain low down in rectum and in anus, after a stool (eight day). Sharp, smarting pains at the anus and lower rectum, after a stool (fifth day). Desire for stool, without passage (fourth day),.
Stool.
Diarrhoea. Evacuations offensive. Two stools during the day; the first normal, the second quite loose; not quite as great a quantity as normal, and, although loose, expelled with difficulty; did not seem to be through even after an evacuation (third day); desire to go to stool all day,; stools expelled with difficulty, discharged in lumps, which were at first large and then tapered off; same sense of not being through after evacuation as before; some efforts to pass stool were fruitless (fourth day); my bowels, at commencement, were regular, are now constipated, passing in hard lumps, which are small in size and expelled with difficulty, with a desire to remain a long time at stool (fifth day); bowels moved off naturally (seventh day).
Passage of bowels (first since I commenced the proving), normal in quantity and consistence; before the passage, for two or three hours, an uneasy feeling in the rectum, not amounting to a desire for stool, but making me feel sure that I should have a passage soon; after stool a sensation as if all had not passed, with sharp, smarting pains at the anus and lower rectum (fifth day); passage of bowels normal as to quantity and consistence; after a stool a sensation as if there would be more discharged, and smarting, cutting pain low down in rectum and in anus (eighth day). No passage of bowels since 8 A.M. yesterday (second evening); large evacuation of bowels; stool rather large and hard, and no marked difficulty in passing it, about 11 P.M.
(third day); afterwards stool about every three days, large in amount, rather hard, but no difficulty in passage. My bowels, which were constipated at beginning, with some hemorrhoidal trouble, are regular, and no hemorrhoids (tenth day).
Constipated; stool hard, like balls (fifth day).
Urinary organs
Pain in the bladder, in the morning before urinating (first and second day). Desire to urinate more frequent (fourth day). Urine increased. Excessive flow of urine (fifth day). Increased flow of urine, which is pale in color, and passed in greater quantities, and more frequently than usual; have sometimes a continued desire to micturate after the passage (sixth and ninth days). Passed frequently a pale, straw-colored urine; quantity at each passage about normal (eighth day). Passed urine frequently, and large amount of clear, amber-colored urine; a large quantity passed during the night, always preceded by severe erections, which wakened me (second day); a large amount, and frequently passed, all through the day (third and following days).
Throughout the proving, urine was passed very frequently, about the normal quantity at each passage; urine pale, straw-colored, clear, and not depositing sediment on standing, of specific gravity of about 1025; after the passage it seems as if more would come, and a little time (say half a minute) after the passage dribbling away of a few drops; never great urging to pass and was able to hold the urine without much discomfort.
Sexual organs
Male. Violent erections several times during each day, and night.
Severe erections, which wakened me (second night); obstinate and continued (third and following nights), Woke thrice during the night with violent, even painfully so, erections (seventh day).
Sometimes erections without dreams, sometimes with dreams, sometimes with dreams of a lascivious nature. Wakened twice with erections (first night). Excitement of sexual desire; during day many lascivious thoughts, with erections; at night frequent erections, with lascivious dreams and emissions of semen. Female.
Menstruation appears in a few hours, long before the period, in several cases.
Respiratory organs
Voice. Hoarseness, commencing about 4 P.M., and lasting all the evening, with frequent attempts to clear the throat (third day).
Hoarseness in the evening (fourth and fifth days) Cough and Expectoration. Cough all the evening (fourth day). Slight cough, and symptoms resembling old catarrhal trouble; the cough in short, hacking, and does not shake the body much, caused by continual desire to clear the throat (sixth day). Seldom cough during the day; cough commences during the evening, generally about 7 or 8 o’clock; is short and hacking, sometimes with sense as if something were low in trachea which be dislodged, and sometimes without this sensation; in evening dislodged sometimes small chunks of tenacious white mucus, but was mostly dry; worse from cold air; relieved while lying down and temporarily by eating; excited by laughing; during the day, especially in forenoon, continual attempts to clear the throat, raising small lumps of white mucus with some difficulty; at night same sensation, with greater difficulty in raising mucus; much discharge of mucus from posterior nares, accumulating there, and requiring an effort to discharge it; felt cold; was tasteless and white in color, and discharged in tenacious masses. Respiration.
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.