Ineffectual desire for stool.
Stool.-Diarrhoea.
Most violent dysentery; the stools were at first loose, with much urging and taormina (after fourteen hours); afterwards the discharge became bloody and mucous, with the most intolerable tenesmus. Severe attack of something like dysentery. Soft stool, in the evening, preceded by colic, only felt a moment before the urging to stool (forty-fourth day). In the evening, as on the preceding days, soft stool preceded by colic, only felt, at the moment of the urging to stool; fetid flatulence (forty-fifth day). Several evenings in succession, a soft stool preceded by colic (forty-second day). In the forenoon a soft stool, in the afternoon a thin one. Stool greenish, scanty. Scanty stool. Dry large stool, with violent cutting pains. Stool dry, in lumps.
Hard stool, which seems slippery, but is not. Evacuation of some hard pieces of stool, with pressure. Difficult evacuation of consistent but not hard faeces, as if the intestines had not sufficient power to expel them (after twenty-four hours).
Evacuation of mucus in the form of worms. Evacuation of mucus after a stool. Constipation. Constipation, Constipation for some time, in a mother and her infant. Retention of stool for twenty-five hours. Stool six hours later than usual.
Urinary organs.-Kidneys and Bladder.
Dull stitches in the region of the kidneys, extending inward.
Sensitive pressure in the neck of the bladder and along the urethra, after urinating; it constantly seems as though more urine would pass and some drops follow, when the pressure is still worse. Urethra. A blister on the margin of the meatus urinarius. Soreness in the tip of the urethra. Burning in the forepart of the urethra, especially on urinating; he had a desire to urinate every minute and passed much. Micturition and Urine.
Frequent desire to urinate, even at night, obliging him to rise from bed, for three days; followed by more infrequent micturition and a smaller discharge of urine than during health. Desire to urinate, only like a feeling of fulness in the bladder; urine scanty, offensive, and infrequent, but without pain. Retention of urine.
Sexual organs.-Male.
Burning internally in the sexual organs, as in excessive irritation to discharge semen (after twenty-four hours). An intolerable voluptuous excitement in the genitals and in the whole body, even to emission of semen (after forty hours).
Erections immediately; on the following days want of erections.
Nocturnal erections, without lascivious dreams. Jerking in the penis, as far as the posterior portion, almost as when evacuating semen. Sticking sensation, as from needles, in the glans penis.
Burning pain in the glans penis, immediately followed by desire to urinate. Burning stitch in the glans penis. Nocturnal pollution during sleep, while lying on the back (fifteenth and seventeenth nights). Emissions without lascivious dreams. No sexual desire and no ability for coition, not even when excited thereto (secondary action? ). Female. Prolapsus of the vagina, aggravated during a hard stool. White transparent mucus in the vagina. Leucorrhoea ceases. Itching of the vulva. Menses more profuse than usual (twelfth day).
Respiratory organs.
Rawness in the larynx. Mucus in the trachea, in the forenoon, easily expelled by a forcible cough, with great weakness of the chest, as if eviscerated, and with weakness of the whole body and of all the limbs, in which the sensation of weakness extended upward and downward, several mornings in succession. Tingling in the trachea, which provokes several fits of dry coughing, in the evening (thirty-third day). Irritation to cough, in the trachea, as from mucus, on breathing, with neither a loose nor dry cough, felt more while sitting bent over than when walking.
Voice. Hoarseness, weakness, and emptiness in the chest, on beginning to sing, so that she was constantly obliged to stop and take a deep breath; at times a few expulsive coughs removed the hoarseness for a moment. The voice is husky, hollow (eighteenth day). Cough and Expectoration. Scraping cough, with greenish expectoration of an offensive sweetish taste, worse in the evening before lying down, with a hoarse voice; a sore sensation in the chest and trachea after every cough (the irritation which provokes it is low down in the trachea). Frightful cough, with expectoration and spitting of blood. Fatiguing paroxysms of cough, so that the epigastric region was painful, as if beaten.
Violent, shattering, deep cough. From time to time short cough, as from weakness in the chest, with a hoarse weak sound. Tickling cough, as from soreness, low down in the trachea; a scraping, extending upward into the throat. Hacking cough, in three paroxysms. Constant inclination to cough caused by constant constriction in the trachea. Constant inclination for hacking cough, as if caused by much mucus in the chest, with an internal sensation of scraping and rattling. Much inclination to cough, before midnight, with scanty expectoration, for several nights.
Yellow expectoration of a foul taste from the trachea.
Expectoration of viscid and thick mucus, which seems to come from the velum pendulum, where it may have been secreted (tenth day).
Expectoration of a globular, grayish lump of thick mucus, containing a clot of black blood, and appearing to come from the throat (eighteenth day). Salty expectoration from the chest.
Respiration. Short difficult respiration, caused by weakness of the respiratory organs, with great emptiness in the chest though without dyspnoea. Respiration was shorter, in evening, with anxiety; was obliged to breathe rapidly for a long time, until he could once take a deep breath, after which everything passed off.
Paroxysms of dyspnoea, short breath, and anxiety, in the evening. Dyspnoea and want of breath, on ascending steps, and on the slightest motion. Dyspnoea, as if the clothes were too tight; he was obliged to open them in order to breathe as usual.
Chest.
Oppression of the chest, as if it were internally constricted, with a sensation as if the inspired air were very dry. Oppression of the chest as if something rose up into the throat and took away his breath. Distressing oppression in the upper part of the chest, was frequently obliged to take a deep breath, with a sensation of great emptiness in the pit of the stomach. He was always very much oppressed when coughing. Constriction of the chest, with anxiety, in the evening. Constrictive pain in the chest beneath the right arm; a sticking on moving about. Drawing pressure on the conjoined cartilages of the last left ribs.
Pressure from within outward, in the chest, beneath the right nipple. Pressive cramp in the chest, while sitting, aggravated by inspiration. Pressure, low down in the chest, as from a weight. Tension and pressure across the upper part of the chest, in the morning on rising from bed. Aching in the whole of the chest especially above the pit of the stomach, worse on inspiration. Wandering pains in different parts of the chest, and drawings here and there (thirty-first day). Bruised pain in the chest, during rest and motion. Sore pain in the whole of the chest, starting from the throat. Sensation as if mucus were in the chest, with rattling when breathing, perceptible internally and audible externally. Burrowing pain in the chest, extending thence into the abdomen, with desire for stool. Drawing from the clavicle into the left axilla. At times, during rest, sensation as if the chest dilated, though with a feeling of anxiety, as in palpitation. Muscular twitches in the upper part of the chest by the left axilla. Twitching jerking in the muscles of the false ribs. Sharp piercing needle like stitches in the clavicle.
Stitches in the chest and shoulder-joint on breathing. Cutting stitches frequently through the chest, from below upward and outward, in the forepart of the uppermost ribs, not affected by respiration. Violent stitches in the chest and sides, preventing respiration, several forenoons; in the afternoons, distension of the abdomen. Front and Sides. Tearings at the inner surface of the sternum, in a line with the fifth and sixth ribs, extending a little way into the left side of the chest (twenty-ninth day).
Tensive stitch in the sternum, persistent during respiration. A long fine stitch by ensiform cartilage, soon after eating. Boring-gnawing pains in a point at the left side of the chest, sometimes before, sometimes behind the shoulder blade (twenty- second day). Sensation of internal gnawing at a spot in the anterior portion of the chest on the left side (thirty-third day). Sensation in the thoracic walls, in a line with the apex of the heart, as if an insect was biting the parts there (thirty- first and thirty-second day). During the night, dull wandering pains, in the anterior portion of the left chest behind the scapula, with sweat on the chest only (forty-fifth day). During the whole day, but not continually, sensation at a spot in the right side, as if a vessel were there into which a liquid was dropping rapidly (thirty-second day). Cutting pain in the right side of the chest. Cramplike cutting in the right ribs, while walking, only on inspiration. Tearing cutting in the left side of the chest, while walking and standing. Stitches as from a flea, in the last right true and in the left false ribs. Burning stitches in the left chest, worse on expiration, while walking in the open air. Sudden, sharp, knife like stitches in the left side of the chest. Suddenly a long stitch in the left side of the chest, a hand’s breadth beneath the axilla, causing fright.
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.