Constipation; with pain in abdomen. Hard stool, with vomiting; scanty; black; black at first afterwards stools covered with bilious mucus. (Knotty, unsatisfactory. At first thick stools, at last diarrhoeic, green.
Stools black, acrid, putrid. Black; containing black matter and worms. Discharge of a reddish-black matter through mouth and anus. Blackish-brown bilious, with griping. Brownish, mixed with mucus. Yellowish-brown. Dark, offensive, frequent, and at same time vomiting of a clear mucous odorless liquid. Green; streaked with green and offensive. Bloody; with tenesmus; contained bloody mucus. Watery blood with and surrounding S. Evacuation upward and downward of much blood mixed with bilious matter, with relief, covered with a mass which appeared combined of jelly and bile. Expulsion of pieces of mucus, with tenesmus and cutting in anus, as from blind haemorrhoids. Stools unhealthy, pale, with constant passing of mucus and rarely of blood; of white tenacious mucus, similar to rinsings of intestines, which masses formed lumps, to the size of a fist.
Stools excoriated skin about anus. Contained a ball, seemingly of undigested fat mixed with tendinous parts. Profuse S. Small S. after colic, with tenesmus, first of dark-green faeces, then of dark-green mucus. Frequent calls, with scanty discharges of brick-red fluid. Involuntary; and micturition; and copious, painless; copious at every act of vomiting; serous, corroding, as if where fire at anus. While fully conscious she as if there were fire at anus. While fully conscious she discharge stool and urine unawares; supposing it to be flatus. Frequent; in afternoon; but not effectual; mixed with slimy, fatty masses. Retarded. No stool.
Clinical Diarrhoeas generally dark, scanty, watery or mucous, sometimes bloody. Stools may be brown or black, burning, putrid, brought on by eating or drinking. or (<) after midnight, preceded by most violent burning and cutting pains and followed by extreme exhaustion; he general Arsenic symptoms are usually present. Constipation rare, abdomen painful.
Urinary Organs
Urethra. Burning; on urinating (Sulphur); in anterior part in morning at beginning of micturition. Urethritis. Deep-seated tearings. Biting pain. Urging to urinate; frequent, with copious urine; frequent, which at times is accomplished only with difficulty; constant urging, with burning in bladder; constant urging, with hot and dark urine; desire which he cannot satisfy, and with a catheter only a few spoonfuls of clear urine are discharged.
Micturition involuntary (Causticum); of scanty urine. Frequent at night, with a large quantity each time. Difficult; spasmodic difficulties. Strangury; with red urine. Ischuria; with pain in bladder. Urine retained; in spite of all internal exertions to pass it; as if bladder were paralyzed.
Urine copious; and dark brown (Benz. ac.); burning hot. Scanty; and burning (Cantharis, Mercurius c.); passed with difficulty; and dark yellow, and depositing lithate of ammonia; drawn by catheter, and giving the characteristic reaction of glycosuria. Almost colorless. Red. Dark, wine-yellow, with pressure. (Greenish, dark brown, turbid when emitted, looking like cow-dung stirred up with water, and forming no sediment.) Haematuria (Phosphorus, Terebintha). Turbid U. Red sand and pain in passing it. much sediment. Brickdust sediment.
Clinical Acute and chronic inflammation of the kidneys, either idiopathic or associated with various disease, the urine is scanty, hot, there are generally great oedema and dropsy, very irritable stomach and bowels, great thirst. Inflammation of the bladder, with extreme burning on urinating. The urine is usually very scanty with all diseases, suppressed (in Asiatic cholera or in dropsy), thick sometimes fetid. Diabetes has been cured.
Sexual Organs
Painful swelling. Sharp pain. Sphacelus of male. Penis swollen (Mercurius c., Rhus t.); blue-red and cracked; and burning; painful, with violent efforts to urinate. Pain in penis, bladder and kidneys. Itching on glans; corrosive, on posterior part. Stitching itching on tip of prepuce. Discharge of prostatic juice, with diarrhoeic stool. Erections in morning; with burning in anterior part of prepuce; rare and incomplete. Frequent priapism. Scrotum swollen; all the reddened part covered with small vesicles discharging slightly and reddening in desication; cuticle peeled off leaving cutis vera exposed, inflamed and bleeding, both testes were enlarged and could not be touched. Loss of power. Strong desire. Emission, with sexual dreams; without dreams, then continued erection.
Female – Itching. Tenderness of labia. Sudden profuse discharge of dark blood from vagina. Discharge of bloody mucus after menses (Zincum met.). Leucorrhoea; while standing and emitting flatus; copious, yellowish, thick and corrosive (Sepia); yellow, offensive, watery after menses, with discharges from rectum of blood and purulent mucus, with burning pain. Uterine suffering. Uterine weakness, with abdominal pain and nervous prostration. Active foetal movements during the attack (she was seven months advanced in pregnancy). Premature delivery. Difficult and distressing delivery of a stillborn foetus, apparently between fifth and sixth month, and great weakness, though there was no flooding. Amenorrhoea (Pulsatilla). Constant exhausting menorrhagia (Phosphorus, Secale c.). Menses too early (Calcarea c.). Menses profuse (Calcarea c.); pale (Phosphorus); and scanty (Sulphur); suppressed; and, in their stead, stitches in gluteal region and in shoulders Furor, and if not satisfied spontaneous orgasm.
Clinical Hydrocele in a child. It has been found valuable in inflammations of the pelvic viscera, pelvic cellulitis, uterine enlargement and tumors, ulcerations and cancer of the uterus, uterine haemorrhage; in all these diseases the indications are lancinating burning pains, etc. Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, offensive, thin, or sometimes thick and yellow, with general anaemia, etc. Burning pain in r. ovary, amenorrhoea, instead of menses profuse, excoriating leucorrhoea. Granulations on inner surface of uterus, with pain as from red-hot wires.
Respiratory Organs
Air passages seem constricted. Larynx dry. Spasm or glottis (Chlorine.). Hoarseness; on waking, with pain in chest; toneless voice. Husky and guttural. Voice hollow, speech unintelligible. Voice trembling; and speech monosyllabic; uneven, now strong, now weak. Feeble, whispering, thick and rough. Aphonia. Bronchitis; obstinate.
Cough; evening directly after lying down (Drosera); evening after lying down, she has to sit up, then contractive pain in epigastric region and pit of stomach, this pain continued the cough, which made her weak; evenings before sleep, from a smoky sensation in larynx, as from sulphur, fumes; C. in evening, with nausea and retching; at night, he has to sit up as soon as it begins (Conium, Hyosc.); fits of C. wake him at night, s if we would suffocate, and he throat becomes swollen (Lachesis); when going into cold open air (Phosphorus, Kali. c., Dulcamara); when moving the body, frequently putting him out of breath suddenly; on drawing a deep breath or moving about; when he drinks without; thirst; from tickling in larynx. (Bromium); from a constrictive sensation in upper part of larynx, as from sulphur, fumes; from irritation in air passages; (<) after drinking (Phosphorus); (<) morning, with expectoration of slimy purulent masses; (<) night, from tickling in throat, (<) speaking, causing pain in abdomen, with green expectoration.
Cough, with yellowish expectoration, and bronchitic rales in chest; with muco-crepitant rales (without Dullness), in posterior part of lungs. Violent in morning. Spasmodic; lasted till heat of summer, with tendency to vomit; waking in middle of night, the coughing fits ending in bringing up a little clear phlegm; with spasmodic asthma, bronchitis and congestion of lungs. Asthmatic (Iodium, Ip.). Short cough; in morning after the (usual) tea- drinking. Dry C. in evening, with dyspnoea; deep, dry, short C., increasing, after midnight. Frequent, short, dry, from a suffocative sensation in larynx, as from sulphur fumes. Dry, choking C., with short, breathing and sore pain as if ulcerated, extending from pit of stomach to middle of chest. Irritation to cough, with sore sensation in larynx.
Spitting of blood; with such nervous irritability that a current of air causes convulsions. The mucus coughed up is streaked with blood (Phosphorus, Sulphur). Discharge of mucus streaked with blood, then nausea. Expectoration painful; thick yellow; green bitter, in morning; difficult to loosen.
Breath lost in evening on getting, into bed, with constriction of trachea and wheezing in it like the sound of a fine string. Threatened with suffocation, he puts out his tongue. Imagines she will suffocate, being so weak that she cannot take a deep breath. (Sudden catarrh at night, threatening suffocation.) Suffocative sensation when walking in open air, obliging him to cough; when ascending stairs (Calcarea c.). Asthma at midnight, making him spring up; in sleep; when fatigued, as from anguish; beginning with running from nose, then rapid exhaustion, then bronchitis and congestion, of lungs (Iodium, Aralia r.); spasmodic (Ip.); the breathing becoming weaker and shorter, until she can only breathe and talk very low by bending chest forward. Short anxious breathing. Short breathing; (<) walking; as if chest were contracted, after cough; and irregular; S., accelerated, moaning. Breathing difficult, with anguish; in sleep; when vexed; when reclining (Ac. ac.); with pain in r. chest and shoulder. Distressed, ending in asphyxia. Heavy breathing; as if chest were oppressed, during pain in abdomen. Painful breathing; from tender state of abdomen; inspiration painful. Hurried. Slow; and imperfect. Moaning; spends the night in moaning and groaning. Sighing.
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.