Shooting in the right kidney. Shooting pain in the kidneys late at night. Shooting in the right kidney, in the night while in bed. Shooting and gnawing pains in the kidneys (sixteenth day), renewed every twenty-four hours for fifty-six days; these pains lasted sometimes one or two hours, but generally a quarter or half an hour, particularly in the afternoon and night. Sticking pain in the kidneys; general debility without any apparent cause (the appetite and digestion normal); the strength gives way suddenly. Trouble in the kidneys without any appreciable cause.
Bladder. Cystitis. Swelling of the bladder, reacting on the uterus, as if this organ was violently displaced; general debility, particularly of the legs, when walking; yellow complexion. Inflammation of the bladder, violent fear, excruciating pains, together with gastric derangement. The bladder seems to acquire an enormous development; difficult passage of a dark-red urine, with a gravel-like sediment. Feels the bladder as if squeezed; spasmodic action of this organ, debilitating the patient, and pains in the thigh, relieved by rubbing. Pains in the bladder and impossibility to pass the urine; haematuria. Pain in the bladder, extending to the uterus, and causing derangement in the organ. Severe pains in the bladder, with distension; cannot walk, but does not suffer much.
Urethra. Burning in the urethra, during and after micturition; indifference, alternating with happy mood. Tearing pain in the urethra after urinating, but when the pain ceases, the desire to urinate returns. Diabetes. Micturition and Urine. Profuse micturition. Profuse micturition, sweating, weakness of the legs, and emaciation. Profuse micturition, fatigue of the body, and weakness. Involuntary emission of urine when coughing, laughing, and making any effort whatever; constipation.
Incontinence of urine when coughing, and during any movement requiring some effort, with bowels regular, for eight days.
Urine scanty, high-colored, and passed with such difficulty that on several occasions it seemed that I must resort to a catheter; the urine, after standing, showed a dense precipitate.
Sexual organs
Male. Painfulness of the genitals; testicles relaxed and painful to touch; pain in the groins and stricture of the urethra. Swelling of the penis, with pain in the groins, fatigue, weakness of the legs, and stricture of the urethra. Erections, with sexual appetite. Erection when awake, without erotism, only ceasing when violently exercising the whole body. Erection without erotism. Erections, disappearing easily when moving or fixing the attention on any other object. Incomplete erection, with dizziness and formication. After taking the medicine for eight days, an indolent tumor, the size of filbert, was developed in each testicle. Heaviness and pain in the testicles; considerable swelling of the right one; is obliged to stay in bed; sexual excitement; seminal emissions. After having felt, when taking the medicine, a slight pain and swelling of the spermatic cord and right testicle, the latter became as large as a lemon, with adhesion to the scrotum in some parts; uneasiness and restlessness, with aggravation in the night and when moving.
About the second day, increased pain in the spermatic cord, with heaviness of the left testicle, and great sleeplessness without cause (better by riding in a carriage). Drawing-pulling sensation in the left spermatic cord, with borborygmus and constant expulsion of gas, for six minutes. During the emission of semen, a sensation of heat is felt in its passage, and it is of a rose color, due to some blood mixed with it. Increased sexual appetite, though moderate. Sexual excitement, and continued seminal emissions on account of onanism, followed by imbecility, stupid laughter, and progressive wasting away.
Excitement of the sexual appetite. Constant sexual excitement, which nothing can control; sufferings of the prostate, debilitating sweats, unconquerable sadness, and stupidity; erotism. Constant sexual excitement in a virtuous man, followed by hypochondriasis and unhappy mood. Lasciviousness in a man thirty-five years old, reaching almost to insanity.
Lasciviousness in a man forty years old; constant sexual excitement at the sight of obscene objects; onanism, followed by prostatic sufferings. Difficult coition, with little pleasure.
Difficult coition, followed by fatigue and cough. Female.
Swelling and induration of the uterus, which is the seat of contractions; constant desire to urinate; pain in the kidneys and legs, and impossibility to walk. Swelling of the uterus, with burning and smarting pains. Swelling and induration of the uterus, with difficulty of walking. The uterus is hardened and seems deranged by the bladder, which feels as if filled, with constant desire to urinate. The uterus is hard, distended, and seems to contain a foreign body. Discharge of blood from the uterus, alternating with leucorrhoea, which weakens considerably the patient. Discharge of a pale blood; weakness; gastric malaise; ecchymotic spots on the fleshy parts, varying in size from one to four inches in diameter. Loss of blood, followed by leucorrhoea; pain in the groins, kidneys, and thighs, and difficult digestion. Uterine discharges, with pain in the groins. Expulsion of gas through the vagina, proceeding from the uterus. Uterine symptoms, resulting in unconsciousness of existence, with stupid laughter, staring look, and immobility.
Uterine symptoms in a young lady of twenty-eighth years; excessive, immoderate laughter; nervous movements, followed by insanity (under the influence of an unfortunate love).
Repetition of hysteralgia, with pains like colic and borborygmus (relieved by Magn. Carb.). Hysteric pains, with much borborygmus and sensitiveness of the uterus, lasting three days, and ending with the expulsion of gases. Unbearable spasmodic pains in the uterus, particularly when trying to walk; gastric derangement, vomiting, and anguish. Unbearable contractions of the uterus, seeming to take such a development that there is not sufficient space for it, and pushes violently the intestines. Excruciating pains in the uterus; desire to vomit, and vomiting of food taken in small quantities; nervous trembling, changing into a nervous crisis, followed by complete prostration. Pains in the uterus and abdomen, which is very swollen; the pains are those that precede an abortion; great dejection and prostration. Pain in the uterus, and compressive pain in the head and chest, uneasiness, and agitation; relieved by the musical air called “Tarantella.” Pain in the uterus, as if scratching, followed by pain in the stomach, great thirst, great sadness, unhappy mood, and disposition to get angry. Pains of different kinds in the uterus for three days, with expulsion of gas, preceded by hysteric phenomena. Pain in the uterus, with a severe constrictive headache. Bruised pain in the uterus, extending to the vulva. Pains in the uterus, as if caused by an abortion.
Pressive and burning pains in the uterus, hips, and os sacrum, with tearing pain in the stomach and colic in the abdomen.
Cutting and burning pains in the uterus. Cutting pains in the uterus, or pain as if striking a heavy blow on it, with swelling, followed by a spasmodic erotism. Anguish, malaise, in the sexual organs; the kidneys and thighs are painful; impossibility to walk; it seems as if a living body were moving or tingling in the stomach, with tendency to ascend to the throat. Shooting in the genitals, followed by some leucorrhoea. Pain in the genital parts for a day, but by spells, the day before menstruation.
Shooting in the vagina. Shooting in the vagina and anus. Great pruritus at the vulva after menstruation. Return of leucorrhoea, which she had not had for a year, worse in the evening and night.
Profuse menstruation, with pain in the sacrum, hips, and uterus, as during labor. Profuse menstruation, accompanied by frequent erotic spasms, crossness, ennui, and deep dissatisfaction; a quiet sleep of half an hour is followed by crossness and ennui, with debility, painful giddiness, as when coming out from a warm room into an in-tense cold air (Lycopod. was the antidote).
Menstruation appears seven days before the usual time.
Menstruation more abundant than usual; when ceasing, the urinary symptoms also disappeared. Menstruation appears thirteen days in advance, and is preceded by derangements more or less marked.
Menstruation appeared after thirty-four days; it lasted six days, and was more abundant than usual. Appearance of catamenia, scanty and pale, about the third day of taking the medicine, in a young girl who had not menstruated before. The next day, when dressing, nausea and vomiting of acid substances, followed by burning in the abdomen, particularly in the epigastrium, fatigue on going upstairs, and, since the beginning of the proving, loss of memory, talkativeness, and happy mood. After thirty-two days, new menstruation for twenty-four hours, in the same girl, scanty and pale, preceded by coryza, and pains in the abdomen for three days. Sexual desire in a woman, who had a shining callosity on her left index finger, with heat and shooting pains in it, aggravated by pressure; dry cough, happy mood, and poor memory.
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.