Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Increased appetite (first day). Appetite inordinate. Ravenous appetite. Incessant hunger; if she eats nothing she is nauseated (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth days). Immediately after vomiting, he can again eat with appetite. Paroxysms of canine hunger. Appetite, but cannot eat.
The desire for food was not nearly so great as in the experiment without Tobacco, neither was there so great a degree of debility.
She had neither hunger nor appetite, and the food at noon disgusts her. Appetite failed several months before sight.
Smoking just before eating diminished the appetite. Appetite bad, in the morning. Loss of p73 appetite, etc. Appetite diminished somewhat and had lost much flesh. Appetite and digestion gone. Twenty-three had a strong appetite for alcoholics drinks. Anorexia. Thirst. Increased thirst.
Violent thirst; in the evening (fourth day). Great thirst, especially at night. Great thirst, but could not drink much at a time. Frequent drinking of only small quantities of water. A morbid craving for stimulants and narcotics. No thirst; water will not go down (twelfth day). Almost no thirst (usually she drinks a great deal), (first and second days). Aversion to drinking water (second and fourth days). No thirst.
Eructations. Eructations. Several eructations (after half an hour). Constant eructations. Frequent eructations, with pain in the epigastric region. Frequent empty eructations (first day).
Frequent eructations tasting of the food (first day). Frequent eructations, nausea, and qualmishness (first day).
Regurgitations of small quantities of food. Sour hot eructations, in the morning (third day). Acid eructations. Very loud eructations all day, especially after eating (third day).
Inclined to eructate. Hiccough. Hiccough (first and second days). Spasmodic hiccough (tenth day). Heartburn. Heartburn, rising from the stomach into the throat (fourth day). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, etc. Nausea, rising up from the pit of the stomach. Nausea and griping in the abdomen (first day). Nausea, with stitches in the left temple (second day). Became suddenly nauseated, and soon vomited freely. Constant nausea. Incessant nausea and frequent vomiting. Feels exactly as if seasick; has the same vertigo, with nausea, coming in paroxysms, during which the body is covered with a cold sweat. Great nausea, amounting almost to faintness, which disappears in the open air (second hour). When sitting quietly she feels rather well, but if she moves in the least she is excessively nauseated. The stomach feels unsettled (first day). Qualmish, with pressure in the stomach (first day). Complained of faintness and feeling sick (in half an hour). Nausea, with inclination to eructate, followed by relief of the oppression of the pit of the stomach.
Qualmish nausea (second day). Is nauseated, in the morning on rising (second day). Nausea, with accumulation of water, soon.
Nausea, and irrational talking for an hour. Qualmishness, in the morning, on hawking up mucus, with insipid taste in the mouth (eighth day). Sick and drowsy (after one hour). Nausea, and inclination to vomit. Retching and vomiting (man). Violent retching and vomiting. Nausea and violent vomiting; vomiting of a large quantity of blood, afterwards vomiting of mucus three times. Ineffectual inclination to vomit and eructate, soon. Violent efforts to vomit. Gulping efforts at emesis. Retching.
Nausea and vomiting. Nausea and violent vomiting. Vomiting, etc. Vomited often, at first. Constant vomiting. Violent vomiting.(560) Vomiting of whitish mucus. Spasmodic vomiting.
Nearly incessant vomiting all night. Vomiting and diarrhoea.
Violent vomiting, with anxiety and great weakness. Vomiting followed pain in the head. So long as he sits still he can always keep from vomiting, but as soon as he moves he begins to vomit again. Violent vomiting followed by retching. Violent vomiting from irritation in the larynx. Sometimes vomiting, in the morning, even before breakfast; vomiting of watery liquid, sometimes insipid, sometimes bitter. Vomiting, of only water, with which it becomes green and yellow before the eyes. Easy vomiting of sour liquid (after one hour). Vomiting of a sour liquid, with mucus, followed by great relief (third day). Sour and slimy vomiting, with considerable effort, in the morning (eighth day). Vomiting of blood. A good deal of bloody vomiting, two or three times repeated. Vomiting of a mass of liquid in one long stream. The stomach frequently refused to retain the food. Immediately after purging affected with sickness, and vomited a large quantity of brownish fluid, mixed with fragments of what was immediately recognized, by its color and appearance, to be cut cavendish Tobacco. Persistent efforts to vomit. Generally, relief from vomiting. Stomach. Distension of the epigastrium. Dyspepsia. Dyspeptic and hypochondriac.
Dyspepsia, more or less for ten years, attended with nervous palpitation and acidity, hypochondriasis, and epigastric sinking.
Severe indigestion. Food did not digest well. Sinking at the pit of the stomach. Sinking at the epigastrium for many years.
Sudden sinking at the pit of the stomach and faintness, which obliged him to lie down in the field. Disturbance of the gastric functions. Weakness of the stomach. Weakness of the stomach for a long time after vomiting. Faint feeling at the stomach from fasting a short time. Sensation of relaxation of the stomach, with some nausea (second day). Gastrodynia.
Gastralgia. Placed his hands to the pit of the stomach, frequently drawing up his legs, as if he suffered great pain in the abdomen (after three days). Pain in the stomach. Painful sensations at the pit of the stomach. Painfulness of the epigastric region. Violent pains in the stomach. Constant indefinite pain in the stomach, always worse at night. At times accompanied by pulsation and anxiety. Two or three hours after every meal, however light excessive pains in the stomach, followed by vomiting. Excessive pain in the stomach and intestines. Pit of the stomach sensitive to pressure. The next morning he had a pain in the stomach, as if he had swallowed something which was too large. He could hardly eat breakfast, deglutition gave him so much pain. He points to the epigastrium when locating the pain. He says it is as if at certain spot that bolus was forced through too small an opening, and when the food is once in the stomach, it occasions a “bursting” or distensive pain. Fluids occasion a similar pain, but not so intense. Warm drinks occasion less suffering than cold while swallowing, but their presence in the stomach somewhat alleviates the burning pain. He also observes, on taking a full inspiration, a stitch like sharp but not acute pain, which extends from the epigastrium directly backwards to the spine. This sensation feels as if it would be relieved p73 by an eructation, but it is not. Twenty-four hours afterwards, he was afraid to eat or drink because of the pain. He has never had anything like this before; all that he has every noticed from the use of Tobacco was a sense of sinking at the epigastrium. Epigastric region painful to pressure.
Pressure in the stomach. Sensation of a hard substance in the stomach, with nausea. Pressive sensation in the stomach.
Pressure in the region of the cardiac orifice of the stomach while eating. Slight pressure in the pit of the stomach during and after dinner. Spasmodic pressure in the region of the cardiac orifice of the stomach, soon. Constrictive pain in the stomach after eating (eighth day). Pinching at the stomach immediately after a meal, shortly followed by a diarrhoeic stool, which habitually occurred three or four times a day. Violent clawing in the stomach after eating (eighth day). Feeling as if the stomach would turn over (first day). Cramp in the stomach (second and sixth days). Twisting movement in the pit of the stomach, with inclination to vomit; lachrymation, and accumulation of water in the mouth, for a quarter of an hour.
Shocks at the epigastrium. Shocks at the epigastrium when going to sleep, but after awhile in the daytime, with profuse perspiration. Shocks at the epigastrium, coming on at the first hour of slumber, which were repeated several times in the course of the night, and often in the morning before breakfast. Shocks at the epigastrium at night, on first going to sleep, which started him up in great agitation and alarm. Shocks at the epigastrium to such a degree that his sleep was a succession of starts, which nearly wore him out; at the end of two years they came upon him during the day; he described them as like shocks of electricity. Shocks at the epigastrium, with a sinking sensation at the pit of the stomach. A shock in the epigastrium which started him in great alarm from his sleep, repeated several times in night, and as often he fell into a slumber. Cardialgia.
Burning in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour). Burning in the epigastric region and frequent eructations. Great burning in the stomach. Heat in the epigastrium or abdomen. Sensation of warmth in the stomach. Feeling of coldness in the stomach and inclination to vomit. Feeling of coldness in the stomach and along the spine. Stitches in the pit of the stomach (fourth and twelfth days). Stitches in the pit of the stomach extending through the back (seventh day). Violent stitches above the pit of the stomach, less during rest (second day). Discomfort in the stomach.
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.