Quantities of threadworms pass with the stool (first four weeks).
Discharge of a large tapeworm, of which, hitherto, there had been no symptom, with vomiting and diarrhoea (seventh month).
Ascarides are passed in large quantities, even without a stool, with accumulation of water in the mouth, griping in the abdomen, and diarrhoea (fifth month). The stool looks like baked plums.
Stool black. Stool indurated, in pieces like balls. Evacuation of large hard brown balls of faeces, covered with streaks of blood (after fourteen days). Constipation. Constipation for several days, after a profuse nocturnal emission. Constipation for a long time, as from paralysis, alternating with pressing pasty diarrhoea (tenth month). Constipation after several days, with most violent drawing colic pains, during which she cried out in despair and tossed about, passing off with an ordinary stool.
Constipation for eight days, followed by a copious hard evacuation. Constipation, with ineffectual desire for stool, swelling and soreness in the anus, and discharge of some blood.
Stool at times unusually difficult, during which the intestines seem paralyzed and unable to expel a normal stool (sixth month).
Stool infrequent. Stool very infrequent, without a clyster, then hard and dry. Stool very difficult, with violent pain in the small of the back and evacuation of blood. Hard stool (she usually had diarrhoea), (seventy-first day). Unsatisfactory hard stool, with subsequent itching and burning in the anus (second day). Stool difficult, hard, in the afternoon (after eight hours). (* This is the primary action; the opposite, secondary action, followed after twelve to fourteen days.-HAHNEMANN. *) An evacuation of the bowels only every two, three, or eight days, and difficult (first four weeks). Constipation (second day); a hard evacuation (thirteenth day); evacuation ceased (fourteenth and fifteenth days); hard stool (sixteenth day); a hard evacuation, with subsequent burning in the anus (twenty-fourth day); a violent evacuation, with bellyache and burning in the anus (after two hours, twenty-fifth day); another evacuation and rumbling in the abdomen, at night (twenty-fifth day); no evacuation, but strong urging towards it, with itching in the anus, extending into the urethra (thirtieth day); failure of an evacuation (nineteenth day); he was accustomed to have a regular passage every day, in the morning; hard stool, in the afternoon (thirty-first day).
Urinary Organs
Kidneys and Bladder. Slight burning in the region of the kidneys, ceasing after an hour, and followed by copious urine, accompanied by burning (fifth day); the burning in the renal region increased, and was accompanied by drawing along the ureter up to the vesica (after one hour, sixth day). Pressing in the renal region (eighth day). The urinary bladder feels paralyzed, and without power to expel the urine, the rectum is also similarly affected. Uncomfortable sensation of fullness in the region of the bladder forced me to frequent urination; the quantity of urine did not seem increased, and its quality was perfectly normal. It seemed as if the vesica were larger. Sensitiveness and feeling of inflation in the region of the vesica, with frequent urgency to urinate. Burrowing pain in the right kidney region at night, so severe on turning over that he woke (eighty-sixth day).
Frequent attack of boring pain in the region of the bladder, with painful drawing up of the testes (fourteenth day). Almost daily attacks, and sometimes several attacks a day of boring pain in the region of the bladder, with painful drawing up of the testes, accompanied with occasional urging to stool. Pressure downward in the left renal region while sitting (after two hours). Constrictive pressive pain in the urinary passages, as if the urine had been retained to the extreme point, with frequent desire and difficult micturition. Cutting pain in the region of the bladder, behind the pubis, just before and during micturition, also at other times, most violent while walking (after twelve days). Cutting pain in the vesica for some minutes, in the afternoon (thirty-third day). Shooting stitches from the neck of the bladder towards the urethra (twenty-second day).
Urethra. Burning in the urethra and gonorrhoeal discharge, and on the right side of the scrotum dark red itching pimples, which one by one changed to white superficial ulcers, a similar one in the middle of the navel, in young man who had suffered from chancre and gonorrhoea two years previous, permanently cured, to appearance, by bluestone, injections, and Mercury, since with time he had always been weak and tuberculous; this eruption occurred in the second month of the proving, was followed by increased health, while the eruption extended over the whole scrotum and glans penis, and changed to superficial white ulcerating spots, healing and breaking out again in spots.
Gleet, especially violent during stool, mingled with emission of semen, with burning in the urethra, and drawing pain in the testicles. Constant discharge of a great quantity of a greenish- yellow mucus from the urethra without pain, and with some sore tension, only during erections; following an apparent cure of gonorrhoea (sixth month). The gonorrhoeal discharge returns at longer or shorter intervals, with a burning sticking pain in the urethra, and tearing rheumatic pains in all the swollen joints, especially in the nape of the neck, small of the back, knees and feet, with a slimy-coated tongue, sugary sweet taste in the mouth, loss of appetite and constipation, for fifteen months, but gradually becoming less, and followed by permanent good health; in a man who had suffered from gonorrhoeal rheumatism. The gonorrhoea that had ceased returned (second month). The gonorrhoea diminished from day to day. Discharge of prostatic fluid in tenacious threads, in the morning after waking.
The orifice of the urethra closed with a slimy fluid, consisting of serous liquid and a lump of mucus, which could be drawn into threads by the fingers. After moving this liquid, a slight burning on urinating, in the morning (tenth day). The orifice of the urethra is agglutinated by mucus, dark red and swollen.
after urinating, some urine still remains in the urethra, which subsequently comes out guttatim, not from the bladder, only from the urethra. Acute painful sensation of soreness in the forepart of the very red and swollen urethra, so that touch cannot be endured, lasting a long time, and constantly recurring (fourth month). A tensive aching in the prostate gland and testicles, which five years previously had been swollen during gonorrhoea, now returns with renewed swelling (third week). Constant biting pain in the whole urethra, while urinating. Dreadful tearing pains, which darted like lightning hither and thither through the urethra, with simultaneous violent stitches in the anus (in the afternoon when seated). Cutting in the perineal portion of the urethra. Cutting in the urethra, from the perinaeum forward (third day); severe cutting pains in the urethra (perineal region). Drawing cutting pain in the urethra, when walking (after ten hours). Cutting pains in the urethra, while urinating (sixty-seventh day). A jerking-cutting sticking in the urethra, when not urinating (after thirty hours). Cutting, while urinating Burning in the urethra, when not urinating. Burning in the urethra after rising (thirteenth day). The same evening I observed a very disagreeable scalding on making water, which continued all next day, and I was horrified to observe on undressing that my shirt was spotted all over in a manner extremely repugnant to one’s notions of respectability. I found a considerable gleety discharge from the urethra, which was evidently swollen and inflamed, as the stream of urine was small and split and the burning had increased. The following day the discharge had become yellow, while the other symptoms remained as before. The discharge still continued, though in a diminishing degree, until the sixth day, but the scalding and interrupted stream of urine were by that time gone, and on the seventh day I was quite well again. The symptoms while they lasted were precisely those of an ordinary attack of gonorrhoea, but their medicinal origin was evidenced by the short duration of the attack. Burning in the orifice of the urethra, in the evening (fourth day). Burning when urinating. Burning in the forepart of the urethra, without flowing. Burning and sticking in the forepart of the urethra. Burning in the urethra when urinating, and also for sometime afterwards. Smarting, burning pain in the urethra, when urinating (after forty-eight hours). Burning in the urethra during the whole of the micturition. Burning in the whole of the urethra, with urging to urinate, for a quarter of an hour.
Slight burning in the urethra, leaving behind a voluptuous feel- ing, especially after urinating (after three hours, third day); burning in the urethra (immediately, fourth day). Burning in the urethra towards the bulbus, for several minutes (nineteenth day); slight burning in the urethra during micturition, in the afternoon (twenty-fifth day); burning in the urethra on the evacuation of some very dark-colored urine (sixty-first day); slight burning in the urethra while urinating, after dinner (seventy-first day). In the morning after urinating, burning in the urethra; very painful stitches from the urethra to the anus; pressing in the region of the neck of the bladder, with urgency to urinate, these feelings lasted about twenty minutes (second day). Slight burning during urination, the urine being redder than usual (twenty-fourth day). Violent burning pain in the urethra and in the fundus of the bladder, followed every urination (forty-third day). Sticking beating in the fossa navicularis of the urethra (coming on daily for two weeks, at irregular intervals, and frequently repeated in an hour). A few stitches in the fossa navicularis of the urethra, at 4 P.M.
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.