Abdomen
Distention; (>) belching wind. Rumbling on lying down. Stitches above symphysis pubis; in r. hypochondrium when breathing.
Rectum and Stool
Tenesmus. Sensation in anus as if he were sitting on a ball, as if anus and part of urethra were filled with a hard ball. Liquid stools besides frequent ineffectual urging. Painless, yellow diarrhoea; frequently, and heat in abdomen. Constipation. Stool omitted.
Urinary Organs
Urging after micturition; U., with much straining; with copious discharge; with contracted sensation in genito-urinary organs and strangury; ineffectual; constant; no desire to urinate the first day, constant desire the next day. Dribbling after the stream ceases. He has to wait some time before the urine flows. He has to force out the last drops with his hands. Frequent micturition; in evening, with burning pain; at night, urine copious; at night, urine dark; but in small quantities; and urine copious; and urine copious; with difficulty at the beginning. The stream suddenly stops and then flows again. Could not voluntarily retain the urine.
Urethra. Excessive discharge of prostatic fluid at night, during a hard evacuation. Inflammation of orifice. Stitches; before, during and after micturition; in end; in end in evening and night; and in anus; sending a thrill to cheeks and hands. Burning before, during and after micturition; during micturition, with pain; at orifice during and after micturition; (<) evening. Feeling as if there were a gonorrhoeal discharge. Uneasiness; in U. and penis, with burning and frequent calls to urinate.
Urine. Copious, colorless; C. and clear, light-colored; and clear; at times, and again in small quantities, with burning and biting. Scanty and dark. Thick, red.
Genital Organs
Oozing of white glairy mucus on squeezing glans. Penis relaxed and shrunken. Sticking-burning soreness of glans. Itching of glans. Chordee. Erections when riding, walking and sitting still, not caused by amorous thoughts; painful E. after coition. Itching of scrotum, with burning. Satyriasis. Thrill prolonged, with more than a dozen ejaculations of semen; thrill consists of intense burning, with no ejaculation of semen. During coition scarcely any emission or sensation, but afterwards acutes pain in loins. Menstruation profuse, lasting five days. Nymphomania. it excites desire in women, but causes sterility.
Clinical Chordee during gonorrhoea. Uterine colic, with great nervous agitation.
Respiratory Organs
Voice high; low; unable to measure the compass and volume of the voice when speaking. Cough rough, scratching the sternum; C. dry, hard; dry, becoming almost like a bark. Breathing stertorous. Suffocation from least pressure on stomach. Dyspnoea. It required a great effort to inspire deeply. Respiration rapid; slow. Desire for open air.
Chest
Stitches extending from both nipples through chest. Cutting behind sternum, (<) swallowing. Pain. Anxiety, with rapid, irregular, small beats of heart. Constriction; on a line with heart, when ascending steps quickly. Oppression; (<) mounting stairs; with deep labored breathing, he feels suffocated and has to be fanned; with tightness in pit of stomach. Heaviness when walking. Burning.
Heart
Stitches, with oppression, the latter (>) deep breathing; S. in small spots; as with the prongs of a fork; intermittent, on surface. Pain; all night, with dyspnoea. Anguish. Weight in region. Oppression of praecordium; O. until he went to bed about 3 A.M., with sick feeling at heart, the beats embarrassed, sharp and quick, weak and small, its contractions jerky. Sick feeling. Feeling as if it rubbed against the ribs on breathing. Palpitation; walking him. Beats intense and rapid; small, uneven and anxious, when sitting or stooping. Impulse weak.
Pulse
Rapid; and full, bounding; and irregular, small; and irregular, afterwards small, contracted; but feeble. Slow; and small, with long intermissions; in carotids and temporal arteries, and weak. Strong. Full and bounding. Feeble; and intermittent, afterwards rapid. Tracings showed irregularities in tension and frequency, with increase in prominence of waves. Oscillations singularly marked in tracing, tension increased, amplitude and frequency diminished, later increased cardiac excitement at beginning of systole, with some obstruction, later diminished tension and oscillation of cerebro-spinal implication.
Neck
Surging like waves into head, seeming to try to press it forward. Beating in nape. Rigidity of nape.
Back
Feeling as if a stream of warm water gradually stole up it to the brain. Reflex movements of spine, a wavelike motion beginning at dorsal region and extending to pelvis, alternately raising and depressing first the dorsum, afterwards the pelvis. Stunning pain between scapulae. Stitches in kidneys. Pain in kidneys when laughing; in kidneys, keeping him awake at night. Burning in kidneys. Sensation in sacrum as if a red-hot iron rod passed up spine to the atlas, around occiput, over eyes from r. side stopping at l. ear, leaving a charred feeling taking six hours to perform the passage.
Extremities
Gesticulatory convulsions of arms and legs, and by degrees his symptoms assumed the appearance of hydrophobia. Contractions of arms and legs. Shuddering through all, with weight in occiput and tetanic intermittent contractions of muscles of nape. Pains in joints; in wrists and ankles. Feel very large. Leaden feeling, as if he could not move them. Heaviness of forearms and feet. Weariness in r.; W., with disposition to go to bed; almost amounting to paralysis, (<) l. Stiff sensation. Pleasant numbness to paralysis, (<) l. Stiff sensation. Pleasant numbness. Paralysis of lower and of r. arm.
Upper Extremities
Shoulder. Shooting pain from l. to tip of middle finger, producing in the finger soreness as in neuralgic pains, the pain at one time concentrated it self in the pulpy part of the ungual phalanx, at another in the upper part of the axillary border of the scapula, whence it radiated like the spokes of a wheel, for two inches. Pain across S. and spine, forcing him to stoop; P. in outer edge of trapezius, at 4 P.M. Lameness; as if beaten, (<)
l.
Arm. Trembling; and hands. Pain in front of arm and back of elbow. Agreeable thrilling, and in hands. Heaviness in l. arm and hand, with swollen feeling, at other times pain as if the parts were pressed apart by blood. Inability to raise r., with coldness of r. hand.
Sudden pain in r. upper arm, with constriction, numbness pain in r. upper arm, with constriction, numbness and tingling, as if electrifies, extending down arm and to axilla, gradually passing to feet and then to head, chiefly felt in arm and axilla, it came on and off like a wave, it stopped at the mesial line (the r. sides was next the fire.). Pain as from fatigue in bend of r. elbow at 7 A.M. Weight in forearms so that he cannot raise his hands. Pain in l. wrist. Constant rubbing of hands. Hands shake so that he cannot write. Hands feel monstrously large. Fingers suddenly red, with burning and pricking in joints; sticking in F.; aching in joints.
Lower Extremities
Gait stumbling; balancing; unsteady, as of one who-tried to keep down, for he felt as if there were springs in his knees. Incoordination of movements. Lameness of r., with drawings in calves. Unable to support him; r. suddenly gives out and he falls. Numbness of l. and of foot. Paralyzed feeling in r. when walking. Paralysis; preventing him from ascending stairs, with stiffness and tired aching in knees.
Pain in r. hip; l. femur; above l. knee, with itching; laming, in r. knee, with drawing and aching. Tearing in l. knee. Patellae feel as if dragged down. R. leg frequently shot to the left, missing the plank on which he was walking. Cramp in calves, preventing movement of legs, or causing them to be distended, or to take a sudden jump. Pain in l. leg near external malleolus when lying on back. Agreeable thrilling from knees down, with sensation as if a bird’s claws were clasping knees. Weakness of l. leg; painful W. of legs. Pain in r. ankle in evening.
Dragged the feet when walking. Contractions of tendons of feet. Sticking in soles. Pains in soles as if he trod on spikes, extending to hips, on attempting to walk (<) r., with drawing pains in calves, the pains forced him to limp and to cry out. Bone pains in metatarsophalangeal joints of r. foot. Numb feeling in l. sole, then in foot, extending to the whole limb; in joints of feet. Feet go to sleep. Sticking in joints of l. toes, (<) great toe; in ball of l. great toe, with aching; in joints of l. great toe, with aching. Pain in joints of r. great toe in forenoon and evening.
Skin
Formication. Itching of nose; sole; face, shoulder, abdomen and feet, (>) scratching. Insensibility.
Sleep
Sleepiness; in daytime; in afternoon; in evening; on going to bed, he imagined that his finger nails were of the size of plates, very curved, and on opening and shutting fingers they seemed to slide over one another like a fan, and tapping them on hard substance caused a delicious sensation; with feeling as of a cold wind on occiput and nape; with alternate sleeping and waking, but the waking was a pleasant dreamy state; but inability to sleep, the mind wandered rapidly from one subject to another, he seemed to be dreaming with open eyes, for he noticed everything around him, then headache till late at night. Alternations of dozing and waking; in afternoon; after dinner, (>) coffee. Sound sleep; with melancholy dreams. Prolonged sleep. Slept in his chair. When asleep he looked stiff, as if dead, with lower jaw down. Indisposition to rise in morning.
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.