Abdomen distended, sensitive in the epigastric region. Abdomen sunken and empty on percussion (fourth week). Abdomen retracted, excessively sensitive to touch. Whole abdomen contracted as in lead-colic. Abdominal muscles contracted. Extremely painful spasmodic contraction of the abdominal walls. Short, abrupt, difficult emission of flatus. Milk causes flatulence. Rumbling about the umbilicus, and a feeling as if a stool would occur.- Violent rumbling in the abdomen after emission of flatus.
Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, with ravenous hunger, which disappears after eating. Gurgling, as of water, in the abdomen on moving the body, by breathing, while lying. Considerable pain in bowels (third day). Pains in the abdomen and “bilious” symptoms, followed by great emaciation and death, after two months. Abdomen together tender, painful on pressure, especially in the epigastric region. Griping about the sides of the upper abdomen during a stool. Griping and cutting in the abdomen, with violent urging to stool, at night (first day). Violent griping cutting and twisting in the abdomen with labor-like pain, as if everything would press out, with faint like nausea (after thirty days). Griping pain in the abdomen, even in the evening.
Griping in the abdomen, at night. Labor like pain through the whole abdomen, extending into the hips, and then a bruised sensation in the small of the back. Violent pain in belly, the abdominal parietes dragged down, and but little tender to pressure (after one hour and a half). Violent pains in the abdomen; a few hours before death seeming to be relieved rather than aggravated by pressure. Screamed in dreadful agony, referring the greatest tortures to the stomach and abdomen.
Terrible pains in the abdomen, most in the epigastric region and back. Severe colic. Violent colicky pains. Colic in the abdomen.
Colic, immediately followed by digging and uneasiness in the abdomen, without diarrhoea, after eating. Abdominal neuralgia (after four weeks). Very frequent spasms of the abdominal muscles. Anxious feeling in the abdomen, in the morning in bed. Burning and pressing in the abdomen, as if in the uterus.
Relaxed feeling in the intestines after a stool. Weak feeling in the abdomen, as if the menses would come on. Stitches in the abdomen and vagina during the menses. Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Griping in the lower abdomen, extending towards the lumbar region, so that he broke into a cold perspiration.
Griping in the lower abdomen before, during, and after urinating.
Sharp jerking, almost like an intermittent jerking colic, extending over the lower abdomen, rather superficial.
Stitches, like spleens, in the left side of the lower abdomen on movement, disappearing while sitting. A forcing outward in the right inguinal region, in the morning on waking, as if a hernia would occur, disappearing on rising, frequently recurring. A forcing outward suddenly in the right groin, as if a hernia would occur, on rising from stool, not affected by cough or respiration. Incessant forcing out in a hernia at the abdominal ring, with hard pain in the ring even after reducing the hernia (after two hours). Violent pain in the right inguinal region which walking and standing, as if a hernia just protruded, so that he dared neither cough nor breathe; afterward a hernia protruded from time to time, especially when talking, and also without cause, with great pain; it returned on holding quietly, especially on sitting, and then he could breathe and cough without trouble. Pinching pain in the right groin. Tearing in the left inguinal region while sitting. Stitches in the region on an inguinal hernia. Throbbing in the place of the hernia for several days.
Rectum and Anus.
Moisture on the hemorrhoids and pain when touched.
Hemorrhoids with burning and sticking. Violent itching of the hemorrhoids. Rush of blood to the rectum. Pain as if the rectum would be torn asunder, during a stool. Ineffectual desire for stool, for two hours (first day).
Stool.
Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea. Dysenteric diarrhoea. In few days the bowels became much disordered, the motions very frequent and green in appearance, and, if we can judge by the restlessness of the little sufferer, passed with pain. If the acid be persevered in, the health of the child becomes most sensibly affected, and death at last closes the scene. My attention was fist directed to this subject by a man who asked me, “What I had given to his wife, as the child’s napkins, upon being washed, went into holes.” Diarrhoea till evening; the evacuation only fermented mucus, with burning in the rectum, flatulence, and rumbling.
Watery green diarrhoea. (* Bracket.-HUGHES. *) Soft stool, followed by a feeling of emptiness in the abdomen (fourth day).
Stool soft, pasty, accompanied and followed by pressing in the anus (after six hours). Stool soft, preceded by sticking in the anus (second day). Stool of soft and very thin faeces (third day). Stools black, mixed with blood. Stools black, liquid, very fetid, relieving for the moment the great pain. Stool bloody, hard, only every two or three days (after twenty-five days).
Stool colored with blood. The child frequently has a stool, as if chopped, saffron yellow, stringy, and slimy. Stool yellowish white. Stool of a very offensive odor, partly solid, partly liquid, with mucus and streaks of blood. Stool very large, formed. Stool, in the morning, at first hard, then soft. Stool hard, in small connected black lumps, mixed with blood, and with such needle like stitches in the anus that she obliged to stand up on account of the pain, during the menses. Hard, difficult, nodular stool. as if burnt or like sheep dung (fourth, sixth, and seventh days). Stool very hard, bloody (nineteenth day). Stool hard, at times delayed (occurring first in the evening), and the evacuation also accompanied by pain. Stool bloody, at first, then soft, with burning in the anus. The stool consists of very hard faeces, afterwards in mixed with blood. Stool very seldom and hard. Stool indolent. Both the stool and urine seem to be retained in the primary action of the drug. Constipation. Stool omits (first, third, and nineteenth days). Constipation.
Obstinate constipation. Persistent constipation, with pain in the abdomen.
Urinary Organs.
Kidneys and Bladder. Acute nephritis; during life the urine contained blood and albumen; in one case there were fibrinous casts and epithelia, and in the other cellular elements only. The microscopical examination of the kidneys after death afforded evidence of a recent inflammatory process (granular opacity and fatty degeneration of the epithelial elements, recently cleaving of the nuclei of the interstitial tissue, particularly along the course of the vessels). Both cases were of long duration, and it was observed that the quantity of albumen in the urine diminished from day to day. After the beginning of the third week the urinary symptoms commenced; the patient suffered from pain behind the symphysis, frequent desire to urinate, and cutting pains when urinating; the catheter met with an obstruction in the region of the neck of the bladder, which, on examination through the rectum, was found to be a swollen and extremely sensitive prostate. Violent pressure upon the neck of the bladder, as if everything would force out, especially violent while walking, standing, and sitting, obliging him to press the thighs together; relieved by coition (first ten days). Pain in the bladder if the desire to urinate is not immediately satisfied. Urethra.- Burning in the urethra after coition. Micturition and Urine. Constant desire to urinate; always before the last drops violent cutting in the urethra, for seven days; afterwards, there is every time a dragging in the groins and loins. She is obliged to rise at night to urinate (after two days). Frequent micturition of only a few drops. Increased evacuation of urine (after four to twelve days). Secretion of urine, in the morning, at first increased, then diminished, with burning (third day).
Urine diminished, with burning during micturition (second day).
Urinates only in the morning and evening, associated with burning (fifth day). No urine is passed (second morning). Suppression of urine. Diuresis. Passed about an ounce of pale straw- colored urine, which had a very powerful effect on litmus-paper (after twenty hours). Urine thick, diminished. Urine becomes turbid, like muddy water, when standing, and afterwards deposits an earthy sediment. Urine like water, soon depositing a thin mucous sediment (first day). Urine like water. Urine with bloody sediment and a fine pellicle on its surface. Urine brownish red.
White sediment in the urine. Voided 4 ounces of clear amber- colored urine (after twelve hours and a half); it possessed very strong acid reaction; its density was 1030, and 100 grains of it yielded 54 grains of solid residue; half of this residue was soluble in alcohol; the alcoholic solution showed signs of the presence of free Sulphuric acid; the insoluble residue furnished 16.9 grains of sulphate of baryta. At the end of the ten days the density of the urine had sunk to 1026, and 1000 grains of it yielded only 2.6 grains of alkaline sulphate. Urine red, acid; specific gravity 1020, containing albumen and sulphur; on standing, a large number of pale or yellowish granular cylinders.
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.