Tensive stitch in the right groin only when walking. Boring stitch in the ilium. Dull intermittent stitches in the left side, just above the ilium. A burning stitch on the margin of the left ilium posteriorly, near rectum, sacrum, on every inspiration.
Itching biting, fine stitches in the muscles of the left os innominatum. Itching in the left groin.
Rectum
Pieces of thick mucus pass from the anus for two days; it seemed as though flatus passed; the eructation was composed of masses like sheep-dung, and enveloped in mucus. A cramp like pressure and straining in the rectum, as if it were impossible to retain the stool (after three hours). Dull pressure in the rectum when not at stool. Crawling in the anus and rectum, as from threadworms (after one hour). Itching in the anus and on the coccyx for many days, with difficulty relieved by scratching.
Itching in the anus, disappearing on scratching (after four hours and a half). Boring stitch in the perineum (after thirty-seven hours). Ineffectual urging in the abdomen for a long time after a complete evacuation. Frequent urging to stool, but he was unable to pass anything (after four days). Ineffectual desire for stool, after which the urging ceases.
Stool
Diarrhoea for two days, thin stools mixed with some tenacious yellow mucus, two or four times a day, at irregular intervals (after three days). Thin watery stools twice a day (after sixteen day). A loose evacuation (after two hours). Fecal evacuation, the first of which was hard, the last thin, the evacuation followed by two pressive thrusts from outward in the forehead (after twenty-six hours). White stools daily. Nodular stool, with violent pressure. No stool (first day); a hard stool (second day); evacuated only after great efforts (after a repeated dose).
Urinary organs
Prostatic fluid presses out of the orifice of the urethra (after twenty hours). Burning stitch in the urethra, with urging to urinate (after fifty-nine hours). Desire to urinate, as after taking diuretics. Frequent desire to urinate, with passage of much urine without any difficulty (after three hours and three- quarters). Obliged to urinate frequently and profusely (after three days). Urinates ten times, a large amount of urine, in one night, with pressive pain upon the bladder, which always disappears after the urine has passed (after twelve hours).
(Spurting of urine on external pressure on the bladder). Sudden and involuntary dribbling of five or six drops of urine four times in succession, in the afternoon on rising from a seat; the dribbling was at times followed by burning in the forepart of the urethra. During the night the urine passes with difficulty, and is followed by burning. Evacuation of much urine twice in succession, though he had urinated just before taking the drug (after one hour and a half). Frequent and profuse secretion of urine for three days and a half. Urine watery (after two hours and a half). Urine deposits a whitish sediment for several days.
Sexual organs
Frequent erections without internal physical sexual excitement, though with voluptuous thoughts (after seventeen hours). Swelling of half of the glans penis (after seven days). Crawling about the glans penis every day. Itching on the scrotum (after four days).
Burning stitch in the right testicle and penis. Itching stitch in the right testicle and penis from behind forward. Itching stitch in the left testicle (after fifty-one hours). Emission, with a lascivious dream (very unusual), in the morning shortly before waking, without subsequent exhaustion.
Respiratory organs
Cough and Expectoration. Cough in the morning after the coryza had mostly disappeared (after forty-eight hours). Cough and catarrh at night. Very sudden violent cough, caused by water getting from the mouth in the trachea. Short dry cough, causing soreness in the chest, in the open air. Cough dry, violent, hollow, caused by an irritation low down in the trachea, especially provoked by stooping; the cough takes away his breath.
A kind of suffocative cough, as from a large amount of water running down the air-passages. Respiration. Respiration 10 and deep (after five minutes); 8 and deep (after ten minutes); 6 and deep (after fifteen minutes); 8 and deep (after twenty minutes); 10 and deep (after twenty-five minutes); 14, no longer deep (after thirty minutes); 16, (after thirty-five minutes); 17, natural (after sixty minutes). Taken by surprise by the slow and deep breathing, which was in fact a process of slow and deep sighing.
Chest
Violent pressure upon the chest beneath the left clavicle.
Excessive hard pressure upon the whole chest towards evening.
Pressure, and at the same time drawing, in the chest while standing. (Pressive pain in the whole chest after hawking and clearing the throat). Tearing constriction in the pectoral muscles while standing. Drawing together in the chest, with sticking, so that he could not get his breath. Sensation of excessive hunger in the chest, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth posteriorly (after four hours). Alternations of pain in the chest. Tearing constriction in the lower portion of the chest, above the pit of the stomach, with oppression; afterwards, also the same pain in the upper part of the chest, beneath the pit of the throat, with palpitation. Cutting constriction in the chest, with anxiety. A jerking-sticking pain in the upper part of the chest below the axilla (after fifty-five hours). Sticking from within outward in the chest when not breathing; he cannot breathe easily. An itching stitch beneath the clavicle. A stitch from within outward transversely through the chest, mostly in the sternum, in all positions. Boring stitch in the region of the diaphragm, in the right side, persistent during inspiration and expiration. A pinching stitch in the left side of the diaphragm so violent that it took away his breath, so that he was obliged to remain standing (after two hours and three-quarters). Front and Sides. Pressure above the ensiform cartilage while standing.
Violent painful, distressing pressure upon the middle of the chest. Sudden drawing, fine-sticking pain near the sternum, extending downward. A sudden fine-jerking pain, as from electric sparks, in the forepart of the chest. Violent pain, as from a sprain, in the upper and left side of the chest only on turning the body to the right side on making a false step, or on turning the left arm, lasting a day (after seven days). A painful bruised sensation in the first four ribs of the left side during the stool and when straining at stool, that always disappears after the evacuation. Dull stitches in the right side of the chest, lasting only during inspiration (after two hours). Stitches, as with fine needles, in the right side of the chest (after five hours). Tensive stitch in the right false ribs, always persistent during expiration. Tense persistent stitch in the right chest, worse on inspiration and expiration. Tensive drawing stitch in the right true ribs, continuing during inspiration and expiration, aggravated by external pressure. A momentary violent sticking pain in the left side of the chest, towards the clavicle, preventing respiration, in the evening (after twelve hours). Constant tensive stitch in the right side of the chest and abdomen, continuing during inspiration and expiration, worse while walking, lasting two hours ( after eighty-two hours). Violent stitch in the left side, just beneath the heart, that in a short time changes to a kind of crawling; afterwards the stitch returns just as violently (after three-quarters of an hour).
Several stitches beneath the left ribs, in the evening, bending him over. Dull sticking at the point where the beat of the heart is felt (after fifty-six hours). Recurrent dull stitches rhythmical with the pulse at the point where the impulse of the heart is felt, or rather more externally (after three hours).
Tensive boring stitches in the left chest, continuing during expiration (after fifty-seven hours). Tensive stitch in the left chest, more violent on expiration (after twenty-seven hours). A dull stitch in the left side of the chest, lasting during inspiration and expiration. An itching stitch in the left pectoral muscles (after ten hours). Tearing-boring pain, extending from within outward, beneath the right nipple; the pain always extends to the sternum, and becomes a sharp pressive- tearing pain (after two hours). Cutting-tearing pain that begins beneath the left nipple and extends to the region of the scapula and upper arm, violent only on inspiration and deep breathing (after eleven hours). Dull sticking-pinching pain beneath the right nipple, in the thorax, extending from within outward, violent only on inspiration (after eight days). Sharp stitches from without inward above the left nipple, recurring at various intervals, while writing, when he sat bent over; on becoming erect they suddenly disappeared (after thirty-one hours).
Heart and Pulse
Heart. Dull oppressive stitches at the heart, between the place where the beat of the heart is felt and the pit of the stomach; also more sticking in the pit of the stomach and above it, and oppression of the chest. The palpitation was constantly aggravated by sitting down and bending the chest forward.
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.