External Throat. Severe dull pains in the muscles and glands of the neck, and at times shooting up into the head (thirteenth day). Dull shooting pains in the glands of the neck, and at the back of the ears (second day). Dull pains in the glands of the neck and behind the ears (third day). Sharp pains in the glands of the neck and in the back of the head (seventeenth day).
Stomach.
Appetite and Thirst. Usually good appetite, she enjoys her food amazingly (third day). Feverish thirst (sixteenth day). She asked for drink. Great thirst. Intense thirst, dry mouth and tongue.
Eructations. Eructations of bitter wind before vomiting.
Eructations of tasteless wind. Bitter greasy risings, with bad taste (fourteenth day). Nausea and vomiting. Nausea (sixteenth day). At times felt great nausea (ninth day). Nausea and bad taste (twenty-first night). Nausea and bad taste, in the forenoon (twenty-seventh day). Nausea, with a feeling of pressure in the back of the brain, at noon (thirty-fifth day). Tendency to nausea, actual vomiting being only kept off by constant spitting (forty-fifth day). Nausea and vomiting (after first powder).
Almost constant retching. Frequent effort to vomit. Vomiting.
Violent vomiting. Immediately became violently ill and cried and screamed in a most alarming manner. At times vomiting of thin colorless liquid. The chamber vessel contained about a pint of coffee-colored fluid, mixed with a more solid brown material, the whole supposed from its odor to have been vomited, and to contain most of the Strychnia (having drank coffee at supper). Vomited small quantities of some alcoholic fluid.
Stomach. The digestive functions were somewhat disordered. Heavy feeling in the stomach. There appeared to be much pain in the epigastrium. Intense pain in the stomach and bowels. Intense pain in the pit of stomach (after six hours). Complained of pain at the pit of the stomach. At intervals, deep pains at the pit of the stomach (tenth day). Spasmodic pain about the pit of the stomach, extending to the heart at intervals, in the afternoon (twelfth day). Sharp pains at the pit of the stomach, extending round to region of liver (fourteenth day). A kind of internal twitching and nervous feeling, radiating as it were from the pit of the stomach (sixteenth day). Sharp pains at the pit of the stomach (seventeenth and forty-eighth day). Jerking sensation in the stomach, when opening the mouth (thirty-seventh day).
Violent jerks at the pit of the stomach and in the chest, on attempting to open the mouth (forty-first day). Sudden jerks in the stomach (forty-third day). Violent attacks of spasm at the pit of the stomach, coming on suddenly while at dinner and lasting about an hour; it was at-tended with very severe pain and feeling of suffocation, so much so that she had to unloose her clothes, in the afternoon (thirty-third day). Spasms of diaphragm very marked (after twenty minutes). Heat in the stomach.
Burning along the oesophagus and in the stomach. Sense of burning about the stomach (after twenty-minutes). Burning pains at pit of stomach, at noon (forty-ninth day). Sensation of burning in stomach. Immediately felt a burning sensation in the stomach for about a minute, and then felt as if his blood grew cold. At times, hot pains at pit of stomach (fifty-second day).
Abdomen.
Hypochondria. Peculiar aching sensation in the right hypochondrium, at intervals, with sick, faint feeling (forty- third day). Tense pain in right hypochondrium (first-night).
Sharp cutting pains in left hypochondrium (twelfth day).
Sharp pains in right hypochondrium (twenty-seventh day). Keen, needle like pains in the right hypochondrium at the pit of the stomach, and also at intervals in the right-knee joint (thirtieth day). Sharp cutting pain in the right hypochondrium, at night (twenty-third night). Sharp pains in left hypochondrium, at times, shooting to the pit of stomach, in the morning (nineteenth day). Rapid pulsation in left hypochondrium and left temple, in the morning (fortieth day). General Abdomen. Abdominal muscles, and those of neck and back in a state of tetanic spasm. Bowels much distended. Distressing flatulence (twenty-ninth, thirty- sixth, and forty-eighth days). Distressing flatulence, with sick feeling, at night (thirty-fourth day). Rumbling in the bowels, with a feeling of diarrhoea; also deep pains in the abdomen generally at 7 P.M. (eleventh day). Rumbling in the bowels, with feeling of threatening diarrhoea, in the forenoon (eighteenth day). Sore, contracted feeling in the muscles of the abdomen generally (after one hours and three-quarters). Sore contracted feeling in the muscles of the abdomen, especially the upper half (twenty-seventh day). Sore, bruised sensation in the muscles of the abdomen (twenty-eighth day). Painful soreness of muscles of upper half of abdomen, with sick feeling (thirty- seventh day). Painful soreness of the muscles of the abdomen, upper half, at the pit of the stomach (forty-third day). Deep, sore pains in the muscles of upper half of abdomen (forty-first day). Severe, sharp pains in the muscles of the abdomen (fifth day). She seized her abdomen as if to tear it, such was the intense pain there. Griping pains in the bowels (second day).- Momentary griping pains n the bowels (third day). Griping pains in the bowels and constipation (fourth day). Griping pains in the bowels, with feeling of diarrhoea, in the morning (twenty- second day). Griping pain in the bowels, at day break (twenty- seventh day). Griping pains in the bowels, with feeling as of diarrhoea (thirty-ninth day). Griping pains in the bowels, with feeling of diarrhoea (forty-third day). Griping pains in the bowels, with feeling of diarrhoea, in the morning (fifty-fourth day). Intense aching around the waist, in the morning (fifty- first day). Pressing down in the bowels. Pains in abdomen (after two hours). Sore pains in the bowels, with a sensation of threatening diarrhoea (sixteenth day). Sore pain in the upper half of abdomen (thirty-eighth day). Deep, sore pain in abdomen, especially the lower half, at noon (fifty-fifth day). Deep pains in the abdomen, at intervals, generally beginning at the lower half and afterwards going upwards (thirteenth day). Deep, bruised sensation in the abdomen, from the groins over the hips and across the back, with external tenderness, in the morn-ing (thirty-second day). Dull gnawing pains in abdomen and pit of stomach, in the morning (fifty-fourth day). Sharp cutting kind of pains in the right lower half and upper left half of abdomen (third day). Violent cutting pains in the bowels, with feeling of diarrhoea, in the morning (twenty-ninth day). Sharp cutting pains in the bowels, with feeling of diarrhoea (forty-fourth night).
Severe cutting pains in the bowels, in the morning (forty-fifth day). Uneasiness in the bowels, with constipation (twenty- fifth and twenty-sixth days). Warmth in the bowels. Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Fixed deep seated pains in the lower half of the abdomen (first day). Deep pain in the left lower half of the abdomen, coming on at interval during the day; also occasionally the same kind of pains at the pit of the stomach (tenth day). At times spasmodic pain in the lower abdomen, in the afternoon (twelfth day). Violent cramplike pain in lower right half of abdomen (nineteenth night); in the morning the same kind of pain in the abdomen as during the night; in addition, severe cutting pains in the bowels, with a feeling of diarrhoea coming on (twentieth day ). Deep-boring pains in the right lower half of abdomen, changing suddenly from one part to another (fifteenth day). Deep, sore, contracted feeling in the left lower half of abdomen (twenty-fifth day). Deep aching pains in the lower half of abdomen, right and left sides, passing through to the back, with aching over the hips (thirty-first day). Dull sore pain in lower half of abdomen, followed by a peculiar momentary pressure in left iliac region (forty-fourth night). Deep sore pains in lower half of abdomen (fortieth day). Deep painful soreness in lower half of abdomen (forty-second day). Deep cramp- like pain in the lower left half of abdomen, at night (forty-sixth day).
Deep boring pain in lower half of abdomen (forty-ninth day).
Sharp cramplike pain in lower half of abdomen, in the morning (forty-eighth day). Deep sore pain in lower half of abdomen (fifty-fourth day). Burning pains in lower half of abdomen, at intervals (fifty-third day). Sharp needlelike pains in the left groin, lasting a few minutes (forty-seventh day).
Rectum And Anus.
Gurgling sounds in the rectum, with sudden darting pains of greater or less severity. Some few days afterwards the symptoms in the rectum became much more marked; there was a constant gurgling sound, as if a considerable amount of fluid was there, inclosed in a loose sac; the spasms of darting pain became more frequent, and were sometimes so unbearable as to force him down on the ground as if shot. (* Sulphur 30 in globules, taken dry on the tongue three times a day, brought about rapid and almost complete relief of all the rectal symptoms. *) During the night, two most agonizing darts of pain in the rectum (forty-fifth day). Before going to bed, two darts of pain in the rectum, resembling shocks from a strong galvanic battery (forty- seventh day); excruciating pains in the rectum, of the same character as before (forty-eighth day). Slight twinges of pain in the rectum (fiftieth and fifty-first days). Spasmodic jumping in the anus, at night (fifth day).
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.