Vomiting. Vomiting and purging. Repeated vomiting (second day).
Violent vomiting. Violent vomiting, for two or three minutes.
Vomiting and acid eructations (second week). Violent vomiting, with pains in the epigastrium etc. Violent vomiting, causing the greatest distress; vomiting of blood. Vomiting always recurred after eating (after three weeks). A greater part of the mixture was rejected by vomiting almost immediately; the vomiting continued. Water being offered, with a quantity of carbonate of magnesia, it was evident he had the greatest difficulty in swallowing, though he took it eagerly; and no sooner were a few mouthfuls taken than they were immediately rejected by vomiting.
Vomiting of all food, and at times of some blood, long after the poisoning. Very obstinate vomiting, usually a few hours after eating; the patient could retain no food, and rapidly became emaciated. Constant vomiting, with burning along the throat and stomach; at last vomiting of blood. Vomited many times, the vomited matter effervescing on coming in contact with the dust.
Vomiting preceding shivering fit, and followed by ineffective retching. Every fluid ejected as soon as taken; frequently vomited a fluid of the consistence of treacle, and color of the carbonate of iron (after ten hours). Vomited; the vomited matter was about the color of porter, and of strongly acid reaction (after half an hour). Expelled an elongated false membrane, which was evidently made up of fragments of the mucous membrane of the oesophagus (sixteenth day); after a fit of suffocation, he expelled a blackish mass, formed from a large portion of the mucous membrane of the stomach (seventeenth day); afterwards he was able to swallow carefully masticated food. Vomiting of casts of the oesophagus. Vomiting of all liquid, at last bloody vomiting (second day). Vomiting of serous liquid, with white flakes, at night. Convulsive vomiting of blood. Vomiting of blood. The second day the vomiting continued, mixed with blood and mucus. Vomiting streaked with blood, with pieces of membrane (third day). About 3 P.M., great pain and anxiety came on, and she vomited matter mixed with blood; shortly afterwards a wide membranous tube, from four to five inches long, was ejected; a portion of it seemed as if charred, in other parts it was tinged with bile; on close examination, the branching of vessels is seen in it; and it possesses considerable tenacity, there can be no doubt but it is a portion of the stomach; and not any adventitious formation. The anxiety and vomiting continued, and at 8 P.M. a long tube was cast up, evidently consisting of the mucous and nervous coats of the oesophagus; a part of it is quite charred, and transverse muscular fibres may be traced round one of its extremities. After the ejection of these substances she felt comparatively easy, and swallowed with more facility; but the pain remained in th course of the oesophagus (seventh day).
Large quantities of carbonate of magnesia were mixed with milk and drank freely, the first draught of which induced vomiting, for the first time, of a dark grumous bloody, and viscid matter, with the magnesia in a state of effervescence (after three- quarters of an hour); the matters vomited became gradually brighter and mixed with patches of tough mucus. Vomiting of sour smelling liquid, mixed with blood, pieces of membrane, and curdled milk. Vomiting at first of clear water, then of the food taken the previous evening, followed by continued nausea. Vomiting of clear water preceded by sudden nausea, in the stomach (third day). Vomiting of watery brownish-red liquid, with pieces of membrane and clots of blood. Constant vomiting of brown substances. The matter vomited was slimy, like coffee grounds.
Vomited copiously a black, glairy matter; the vomiting continued at intervals. Vomiting of black flocculent masses. Frequent black vomiting. Very violent vomiting of inky-black fluid, mixed with flakes. During the fourth week, the pain in the stomach returned with great violence; the neuralgia also returned, with vomiting, mixed with black clots of blood, lasting two days, was followed by discharge of thin black stools; after this the patient had a persistent sensation of nausea, and was very much tormented by acid eructations, with frequent attacks of cardialgia. Stomach.- Stomach distended and very sensitive (second day).
Epigastric region distended, painful to touch. Epigastric region distended, excessively painful. Epigastric region tense, and very painful. Epigastrium tight, as if it would burst, after eating.
Epigastrium region very much contracted. Epigastrium very sensitive. Great tenderness over stomach (second day).
Epigastrium painful to touch. Epigastric region painful.
Epigastric region very sensitive to pressure. The epigastric region is very sensitive externally. Feeling of fullness and distension of the stomach. Heaviness and nausea in the stomach, always after taking the drug, lasting a long time. Great sensitiveness of the stomach. Painful heaviness in the pit of the stomach. Distress in the mouth, lasting a long time, especially after eating hastily, or taking any indigestible food. Pain in the pit of the stomach. Severe epigastric pain (after half an hour). Pains in the epigastric region where there was a circumscribed round, hard swelling, as large as a child’s head.- Pains in the affected parts and in the stomach, especially about the cardiac region. The epigastrium was always very painful. Pains at the epigastrium (second day). Great pain over the region of stomach. Violent pains in the epigastric region.
Terrible pains in the stomach and intestines. Most frightful pains from the stomach to the mouth, immediately. Excessive pains in the cardiac region, with vomiting of all foods and liquids.
Violent pains in the epigastric region, which is extremely sensitive to touch. Excruciating pain at the stomach, is so much that he was compelled to keep his body in a bent position, supported by two individuals. When the difficulty in swallowing was the greatest, the pain extended from the pit of the stomach to the shoulders. Violent pains in the epigastric region always after eating, especially hard food, with sensitiveness of the stomach. Terrible pains in the stomach.
Burning in the stomach. An agreeable sensation of warmth in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour). Burning in the stomach with dulness of the head, immediately. Sudden burning in the stomach, so that he started up in fright. Coldness of the stomach (soon after a new dose). The stomach feels cold and relaxed, with loss of appetite. Griping just beneath the pit of the stomach, and upon pressure upon the stomach, it is painfully sensitive, as after a blow. Every drink chills the stomach, unless one spirit is mixed with it. Constrictive sensation in the stomach, with nausea, as if it would cause vomiting. Sudden anxious constrictive pain in the pit of the stomach, preventing respiration. Painful constriction in the pit of the stomach, lasting a long time. Violent constrictive pain in the stomach and abdomen. Pressure and pains in the epigastric region always relieved by vomiting. Pressure in the stomach, with constant nausea and vomiting. Pressure in the stomach constant, with ineffectual inclination to eructate (first day). Pressure in the stomach, as though a stone rose up, with accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth, after which the pressure disappears.
Pressure in the stomach, with a feeling as if hard, very bitter substance rose up into the chest, with frequent uprisings of mucus, which afterward are felt only in the throat. Epigastric region sensitive to pressure. Epigastrium painful to strong pressure. Clawing in the stomach every evening, as after taking cold. Terrible cutting pains in the epigastric region.
Cutting near the left side of the stomach extending to the back.
Cutting above the stomach and painful moving about in it, while sitting and walking, several times in short paroxysms. Stitches in the stomach. Stitch in the stomach, lasting five minutes (after one hour). Experienced some relief by pressure constantly maintained over the epigastrium.
Abdomen.
Hypochondria. Left hypochondria distended. Burning in both hypochondria while sitting all day. Stitch in the hepatic region, near the stomach. Stitch in the left hypochondriac region on leaning to the right side. Stitches in the left hypochondriac region disappearing on pressure. Stitches in the left hypochondriac region, associated with stitches in the chest.
Umbilicus and Sides. Loud rumbling about the umbilicus, in the evening before lying down and the next morning after rising.
Sensation of a sickly warmth, or as of heartburn, in the umbilical region. Pressure upon the navel, superficial but violent. Cutting and moving about in the umbilical region.
Cutting in the umbilical region, worse when walking in the open air than in the house. Long dull stitches in the left side of the umbilicus, extending into the abdomen. Griping in the left flank. Bubbling pain in the right side of the abdomen, extending almost to the back. Burning in the right flank, with a hacking cough. Jerking in the left flank and a pressing outward as if with the finger, at first appearing and disappearing while sitting, then recurring while standing and disappearing while walking; occurring while walking. A stitch in the left flank on inspiration, followed by fine stitches in the upper part of the left side of the chest, in the evening after lying down. Stitches in the left flank. General Abdomen. Muscles of the abdomen hard and rigid, and when the abdomen was pressed he gave distinct indications of pain; he was observed, also, to place his hand on the pit of the stomach, with an expression of suffering and anguish (in two hours). Distension of the abdomen, with rumbling and still emission of flatus. Distension of the abdomen. Abdomen moderately full, resonant; some tenderness over the whole abdomen, but very considerable tenderness between the umbilicus and ensiform cartilage (second day); umbilicus protruded, and the surface of the abdomen, for about one and a half inches above umbilicus, is redder than the surrounding part; on pressing the umbilicus or reddened surface, the woman expressed great pain (eleventh day). Abdomen tense and greatly distended.
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.