Stool.
Diarrhoea. Copious watery diarrhoea. Purged copiously during the night. Sharp attack of diarrhoea (twenty-seventh day). Faeces discharged involuntarily during the spasms. The dejections lumpy and dry, the flatus having a smell as of fresh putty; dejections afterwards lumpy and accompanied by mucus. Constipation. Very obstinate constipation. Constipation and griping pains in the bowels (fourth day). Large doses of cathartics were at first necessary to procure a movement of the bowels, and the black draught seemed to do better than any other form of cathartic.
Urinary organs.
Bladder and Urethra. The bladder seemed to participate in the general contraction of the voluntary muscles, and expelled small quantities of urine as fast apparently as it flowed into the viscus. After about ten days, perfect paralysis of the coats of the urinary bladder came on, and the regular use of the catheter was necessary for about two weeks, when the normal function of the bladder was gradually restored. Painful pressure in the bladder and rectum. Uneasiness about the bladder and urethra, at first slight, but daily increasing, aggravated by walking or sitting on anything hard (twenty-first to fortieth day).
Occasional darting pains from the bladder down the thighs (thirty-first to fortieth day). Shooting pains about the neck of the bladder and down the rectum (forty-fourth day). Shooting pains down the front wall of the bladder, and thence along the urethra (forty-first day). Unable to leave the house on account of burning pain caused in the urethra by walking (forty-first day). On the forty-fourth day the pains left the bladder and settled in the glans, where they became constant and very severe. Renewal of scalding pain in the urethra (forty- seventh day). Occasional scalding pains in the urethra (fiftieth and fifty-first day). Micturition and Urine. Constant urging to make water, the urgency not being removed by the act (thirty- first to forty-first day). No rest at night, being continually obliged to rise and attempt to make water (thirty-first to fortieth day). Very copious secretion of urine. Passes some urine under her. Urine scanty, with constant urging (twenty-first day).
Urine very variable in character, sometimes natural in appearance, sometimes as dark as bad table-beer, sometimes with a thick red sediment, and sometimes with albuminous-looking masses floating in it (forty-fourth day).
Sexual organs.
Male. Left spermatic cord painful and the testicle swelled (forty-first day); testicle still swelled and painful (forty- sixth and forty-ninth days); testicle remains as before, swelled, but causing no pains, except in standing up or walking about (fifty-second day). The testicle continued in the same state, hard and swollen; eventually there came on burning pain in the left side of the scrotum, where the skin was tense over the testicle, and a large abscess formed in the dartos and cellular tissue. This was opened by a small incision, and yielded a very large quantity of semi transparent fluid, partly mixed with blood, after the discharge of which the size of the testicle became somewhat less; there was apparently no connection between the testicle and the abscess. Female. While falling asleep, quite suddenly several hysterical jerks as from the womb, with burning, irritating heat and violent pulsation in the passages; also a feeling of great pressure and bearing down (twenty-seventh night). Darting pain and thrilling sensation in the vagina, with momentary pulsation coming on at short intervals (thirty-first day). Violent tearing pains in the womb, coming on at intervals and lasting a few minutes (thirty-sixth day). The menstrual period came on the fifth day and lasted for the usual time, quite unaffected apparently by the proving. The menses came on again at the proper time, but lasted only two days, and were very scanty.
Respiratory organs
Spasm of the muscles about the larynx and those of one arm; she felt and looked as if strangled; the muscles on each side of the larynx became tense like chords. Spasm of the respiratory muscles, so that breathing was irregular, intermittent, and difficult. Voice. He spoke in a very low voice, which was somewhat indistinct, not only from his weakness, but from the frequent interruptions his utterance was subjected to from the violent jerks his whole frame suffered from tetanic spasms.
Hoarseness, with a feeling as of a cold on the chest, lasting about two hours, in the morning (thirty-eighth day). Complete aphonia (soon). Cough. Occasionally spasmodic explosive cough (seventh day). Dry spasmodic cough (forty-eighth day).
Respiration. Accelerated respiration. Respiration quick and difficult, and attended with great pain in the precordial region.
Respiration rapid, with hard, rapid pulse. Breathing rapid and difficult, but larynx quite free (after twenty-minutes).
Breathing hurried, catching, and difficult. Respirations 35 per minute during the spasm. Inspiration deep. Short breathing with dry cough (fifth-fourth night). Respiration short and labored.- Short breathing with dry cough (thirty-fifth day). Deep respiration, without convulsions, with loss of consciousness followed by death. Respiration became irregular, intermittent and short. Respiration sobbing and difficult. Choking character of breathing (after fifteen minutes). Difficult and interrupted breathing, (soon). Respiration difficult. Breathing difficult, there being short spasmodic efforts at inspiration, and the expiration accomplished by a sort of moan or sound indication of anxiety or pain, or both. Difficulty in breathing during the spasms. Respiration difficult, rattling. Breathing becomes always more and more difficult, with increasing spasms, until at last it ceased entirely for a short time, associated with arrest of the beating of the heart. Respiration difficult, stifled, tight. Respiration very difficult (after six hours). Respiration very difficult, with much motion in the larynx. Oppressed breathing. Tightness of breath. Complained of want of air, and requested the window to be opened (after five minutes). Great want of breath after the spasms, with sighing. Respiration seemed entirely suspended; no respiratory murmur detected, but the heart’s sounds were quite audible. Great dyspnoea.
Excessive dyspnoea, with screaming, followed by convulsions, repeated every ten minutes; the extremities became rigid; the patient could not sit; the hands were clenched; the head drawn backward; the patient was perfectly conscious and sensitive; spoke a few words. Respiration suspended during the spasms; 19, in the intervals of rest, at the close of each fit. He died asphyxiated during a violent convulsive attack, which fixed all the respiratory muscles.
Chest.
Walls of chest fixed. Spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the chest, about four times in a minute, with a feeling of impending suffocation (after twelve hours). Considerable oppression of the chest; constriction when taking a long breath (after twelve hours). Oppression in chest after meals, with flatulence (fifty-fourth day). Tightness about the chest.
Soreness of the muscles of the chest and shoulder (twenty-second day). Sharp contractive pains in the muscles of the chest (first day). Severe, sharp pains in the muscles of the chest and in the shoulder-joints, at 7 P.M. (third day). Sharp pains in the upper part of the chest, right side, and in the top of the shoulders, coming on at short intervals (fourth day). Deep spasmodic pains in the chest and back, at 2 P.M. (eighth day).
Sharp, deep pain in upper part of chest (twelfth day). Sharp darting pain in the lower part of the chest, in the evening (twenty-second day). Sharp darting pains in upper chest (twenty- seventh day). Spasmodic pains in the muscles of the chest and back part of shoulder (thirty-third day). Violent pains in the muscles of chest and neck (forty-third day). Gnawing and darting pains in the muscles of the chest and abdomen, accompanied by a sick, faint feeling (fifty-third day). Shooting pains in the muscles of the chest, left side, and under the jaws (second day). Sharp needlelike pains in upper chest and muscles of neck (thirty-fourth day). Sides. Keen, sharp pains in the upper part of the chest, right side (eighteenth day). Keen, needlelike pains in right upper chest, in the forenoon (thirtieth day).
Sharp pains in the left side under the ribs (thirty-fourth day).
Severe, fixed pain in the upper part of the chest, left side (third day). Mammae. Severe stabbing pains in the right breast, passing through to the back, at intervals (thirty-fifth day).
Violent tearing pain in the left breast, at intervals (thirty- sixth day). Sharp pains in the left breast (twenty-eighth day).
Heart and Pulse.
Praecordia. Tightness about the praecordia. During the day, dull pain shifting along the line of the aortic arch (fourth day).- Fluttering sensation about the heart, with faintness, in the morning (fifth-fifth day). Heart’s Action. The heart’s action was distinctly felt by the hand applied to the precordia. Sudden palpitation of the heart, lasting a short time (forty-fourth night). Palpitation of the heart (twenty-seventh night).
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.