Discharge from the groins like lamp oil. (An old indurated inguinal gland disappears). Constant soreness of the groins. Pain in the left groin, as if the suppressed menses would come on, but they do not, instead there is a slimy, brown liquid, mixed with a bloody discharge from the anus. Sensation of great fatigue in the groins (third day). A feeling over the crest of the right ilium, on touching, as if it had been bruised (second day). Increased trouble and sensitiveness of an old inguinal hernia, with a free evacuation from the bowels. Colicky pain in the right iliac region, for a few minutes, while walking in the room (after nine hours and a half, thirteenth day). Pressure inward in the right groin (after four hours). Drawing and distended tension in the right groin, as if a hernia would protrude (in one who suffers from hernia on the left side). Drawing pain from the inguinal glands through the thighs to the knees, worse when going to sleep, with subsequent heaviness of the limbs. Drawing pain in the groin on standing and walking, but not while sitting. Drawing pain in the region of the groins, extending into the glans penis (fifth day). Drawing in the right groin (eighth day). Drawing in the left groin at noon (seventy-sixth day). Drawing from the crest of the right iliac bone to the upper part of the thigh (third day). Cutting in the right iliac region. Boring from without inward, in the region of the right iliac bone. A sudden starting bounding sensation in the right iliac region, as from something alive (fourth day). Sticking in the left iliac region, lasting all day (second day). Sticking pain in the groin, with a tensive forcing outward, and a sensation as of swelling, especially while sitting (fourteenth day). Stitches from the groins down through the thighs, only when sitting down, not when standing and walking. Stitches in the region of the groin, often repeated during the day, with a feeling as if the inguinal glands were swollen (second day). Stitches in the inguinal glands (ninth day). Sticking pains in the glands of the groins (after seven hours). Single stitches were repeatedly felt in the right groin, and between the sacrum and anus (after two hours). Dull, sticking, pains in the right inguinal region when coughing. A few deep stitches in the right groin, while walking in the street, in the forenoon (fourth day). Throbbing sticking pain in the right groin (after one hour). Sensation of formication in the groins and over the whole abdomen, with increased leucorrhoea.
Rectum and Anus
Rectum. An old rectal fistula becomes aggravated during the first days, with an increased painful soreness and itching in the anus and a more profuse suppuration, till after four weeks a violent catarrh breaks out, with very great febrile coldness, dry heat, and delirium, perspiration in the morning, and sour taste in the mouth. With this fever the trouble in the rectum disappears. The fever continues five days, obliging him to lie down, with a fatiguing drawing pain, extending from the forehead on the right side down over the cheeks into the cervical muscles and around the shoulder, with constipation, and at last ending with diarrhoea for several days, followed by improved health, while the copious fluent catarrh frequently recurs, often for several hours, suddenly coming and going. In the tenth month there appears close to the anus a superficial, white, suppurating spot, as large as a penny, together with a similar one on the inner surface of the lower lip, which slowly healed, after which the health was more and more established. (A fistula in the rectum gradually became smaller in the second week and healed, but in the third week it swelled about the fistula, became painful, and broke out again). (The fistula is swollen, painful, and inflamed, with burning and sticking in it), (fifty-second day). Frequent prolapsus of the rectum, becoming larger or smaller and difficult to reduce. The rectum and urinary bladder seem paralyzed. During stool, violent pain in the rectum so that, she was obliged to desist. Boring from within outward, as from a worm, in the rectum after an evacuation. Internal irritation in the rectum after ineffectual straining at stool, with evacuation of only some dark-red blood, with a distressing jerking sensation like an ineffectual straining at stool. A peculiar sensation in the anus as if the blood were moving back and fourth in the vessels, with a sensation as of a cord extending from the anus through the lower extremity to the heel were made tense, associated with an asleep sensation, first in one foot, then in both. Painful constriction and tearing, jerk like, in the rectum and anus, as if in the intestines. Cutting jerking and twitching in the rectum before a stool. Cutting pains in the rectum. Burning sticking corroding pain in the rectum follows a bloody diarrhoea, and makes sitting difficult. Burning sticking in the rectum when not at stool. Dull stitches in the rectum upwards (fourth day).
Occasional flying stitches in the rectum (twenty-first day). A frightful stitch extending from the rectum into the urethra beneath the frenum. Itching in the rectum after stool. A sensation in the rectum as if a bubble had formed in it. Anus. Anus swollen in nodes, with sticking during stool, which is followed by burning, worse while sitting, obliging to stand. Creeping of many threadworms from the anus when not at stool (third month).
Many threadworms crawl from the anus without a stool, with burning-sticking pain in the stomach, with constant spitting of saliva (fourth month). A growth, like a condyloma, a quarter of an inch in height and as thick as a large pea, painless, itching, opening at the top, and suppurating on the ridge, close to the anus, lasted four weeks and gradually healed. Several moist swellings, as large as beans, in the anus, with soreness. (Red painless pimples in the anus, like fig warts). A smeary-like brown moisture runs from the anus for a long time. (The offensive moisture from the anus, causing soreness, gradually disappears).
Dampness at the anus (twenty-fourth day). Discharge of bloody slime from the anus, as well as by day as at night (thirty-fifth day). A stool at 6 P.M., with subsequent burning in the anus, and shortly after a reiterated discharge of mucus, attended with very violent stitches in the rectum, in the direction of a line from the anus to the sacrum; as the stitches ceased, the itching and burning returned, and lasted until 10 o’clock (fifth day).
Protrusion of the hemorrhoidal vessels, with sticking in them, while walking in the afternoon (second day). Swelling of the hemorrhoidal veins (fifteenth day). Swelling of the hemorrhoidal veins, with urging to stool; itching and burning in the anus (second day). (The hemorrhoidal troubles seem to be aggravated, protrude after a stool, and cannot be reduced except by great pressure). Very painful hemorrhoids, which open and discharge blood; during the menses the bleeding stopped, but returned afterwards (after ten months). The anus became as sensitive after a slimy discharges though the skin were cracked and chopped there (seventh day). Feeling of soreness at the anus, in the morning (twenty-second day). Soreness of the anus, so that walking was difficult. The hemorrhoids are painful to the slightest touch. Pressing sensation in the turgid hemorrhoidal veins (sixteenth day). Pressing and burning in the hemorrhoidal vessels, in the evening (seventh day); pressing in the hemorrhoidal vein when seated (thirty-fifth day); slight pressure in the hemorrhoidal vein (fifty-second day). Pressure in the hemorrhoidal vessels when sitting, in the evening (twenty-second day); pressure (fortieth day); violent pressure, at 11 A.M.
(forty-third day); transitory pressure (forty-sixth day).
Pressing in the hemorrhoidal vessels (second day). Thuja operated in a striking manner upon the hemorrhoidal vessels, for I felt in them, at times, congestion, and then, again, such a smallness, I might say emptiness, that it attracted my observation even when I was not paying attention to that quarter; this alternation of sensations frequently took place twice or three times a day (sixtieth day). Squeezing in the hemorrhoids (after one hour, thirty-third day); in the hemorrhoids (after one hour, thirty- third day); in the hemorrhoidal vessels, in the forenoon (fifty- ninth day). Squeezing in the hemorrhoids (after one hour, thirty- third day); in the hemorrhoidal vessels, in the forenoon (fifty-ninth day). Squeezing and pressing at the anus, in the forenoon (forty-fifth day). Slight squeezing about the anus, at 10 A.M. (fifty-eighth day). Painful constriction of the anus with almost every stool. Constriction in the anus after two papescent stools (seventy-second day). Pressing and burning at the anus, in the morning, after a hard stool (seventy-fourth day). Burning in the anus. A slight burning in the hemorrhoidal vessels (nineteenth day). Violent burning at the anus (fortieth day). Transitory burning in the anus, in the morning (thirty- ninth day); burning and drawing inward in the anus after a normal evacuation (forty-seventh day); burning and feeling of soreness in the anus, at noon (fifty-eighth day); burning in the anus after a loose stool (sixty-seventh day). Slight burning in the anus after a papescent stool (fifty-ninth day); in the forenoon (sixty-third day); towards noon (seventy-first day). Burning and itching in the anus (fifth day). Intolerable biting in the anus (first day). Distinct violent stitches from the anus into the region of the left iliac bone, in the morning (forty-third day).
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.