Clinical Colic, (<) riding in the cars or carriage, (>) emission of flatus.
Rectum
Stitches during stool. Pinching when not at stool. Gnawing when not at stool. Crawling and complaints of ascarides. Tenesmus. Urging to stool after breakfast, which though not hard is difficult; U. (>) by loud emission of flatus; with burning in anus and emission of flatus; to stool which is scanty and difficult; sudden, as from fulness in rectum. Ineffectual urging; only wind passes, with pressure in rectum; from a sensation in abdomen and small of back; I. U., with crawling in anus, intermittent pressure in bladder towards small of back, like haemorrhoidal colic, labor-like pain in hypogastrium, in front and back, burning in anus, and sensation as in diarrhoea, pains (>) a scanty, soft, difficult stool.
Anus
Swollen, painful haemorrhoids; tickling itching in H. Passage of ascarides. Bleeding during stool (Sulphur); B., with tearing in rectum. Glutinous musty exudation at night. Acrid, corrosive moisture; moisture, with tenesmus when urinating. Passage of mucus; with urging; mucus precedes the stool, followed by hard, then soft faeces, with cutting colic. Stitches towards A.; S. in evening. Cutting during stool; during hard stool. Aching. Soreness. Rush of blood. Burning after stool; during stool, which consists of small, hard faecal masses; with sticking; with dryness; in r. side. Biting. Itching, (<) scratching then burning; morning, in bed; also on waking from a long sleep.
Perineum
Soreness, with painful itching when touched; S. at night, with itching and moisture. Stitches near anus.
Stool
Diarrhoea; with urging. Pasty, with burning in rectum. Hard; and rare; and delayed, difficult. Enveloped by filamentous yellowish mucus, this mucus is entirely bloody in last portions of faeces. The child cries aloud every six or seven minutes, while bloody mucus passes instead of stool. Much mucus, with S. Discharge of blood with every S. Acrid, with coated tongue. Tenacious, scanty, not cohering properly, with inactivity of rectum. Frequent. Delayed, with rumbling. Omitted one day, two stools next day. Constipation; but with soft stool.
Clinical Diarrhoea, brown, yellow or slimy, of a putrid odor, often involuntary. The diarrhoea is generally the accompaniment of low types of fever; associated with tendency to coldness in the extremities, cold tongue, lips, etc. tendency to collapse, desire to be fanned, pulse weak, voice lost.
Urinary Organs
Aching in bladder; during micturition. Urging to urinate waking in morning; nearly every hour; frequent, though urine passes slowly; with copious pale urine; with copious pale urine and with constipation. Frequent micturition at night.
Urethra – Tearing in morning after urinating, with drawing; T. when urinating, the last drops consist of mucus and are painful to pass. Pinching. Contraction every morning. Burning when urinating; with twinging. Urine copious; after drinking a little; scanty; U. diminished, with frequent urging. Red U., as if mixed with blood; dark red, with roughness of throat; reddish, turbid. Dark U. Offensive. Thick, milky, at close of micturition. Deposit of gravel. Red sediment (Lycopodium).
Clinical Suppression of urine in cholera. Haematuria (Terebintha).
Sexual Organs
Contraction. Vesicle on inner side of prepuce, with itching soreness. Itching of prepuce, with soreness. Constant erections at night, without voluptuous sensations or fancies; frequent E.; every hour on waking. Swelling of scrotum, with hardness. Crawling in testicles and on scrotum. Desire increased; lost in morning. Discharge of prostatic fluid when straining at stool. Emissions without dreams; too soon on coition, then roaring of blood in head; frequent, without much sensation; excessive, which painfully shake the nerves, then burning in forepart of urethra, with cutting and burning when urinating and renewed on pressure.
Pudenda – Aphthae. Red sore places, looking like ulcers, with itching and leucorrhoea. Sticking when urinating. Soreness during leucorrhoea, with rawness; S. towards forepart in evening. Smarting pain, with leucorrhoea for two days, then appearance of menses which had been suppressed for many months, menses black, then leucorrhoea. Burning; with redness. Itching, and in anus; on urinating.
Bloody mucus from vagina. White mucus from vagina. Leucorrhoea after urinating; milky, excoriating L.; copious, thin, only in morning on rising; thick, yellowish-white; greenish. Menses too thick and of strong odor; M. too soon; too late, causing biting and soreness; M. delayed or very slight for three or four days, then unusual pain and profuse flow, next time they lasted a shorter time than usual.
Clinical Useful in the effects of sexual excesses (China). Varicose veins in female sexual organs, with haemorrhages. Menorrhagia, passive flow. Menstruation too early, profuse, thick, corrosive, offensive, preceded by violent itching. Corrosive leucorrhoea.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx – Roughness, with deep rough voice which failed if he exerted it, but without pain in throat (Phosphorus, Mangan). Rawness in evening from frequent clearing of throat, with soreness. Pain as if ulcerated when coughing, and in region of thyroid cartilage. Crawling, with itching and with whistling when breathing, and in evening after lying down tightness of chest and dry cough. Hoarseness in evening; H., with roughness, so that speaking aloud was difficult (Phosphorus); with distortion of eyes (as if something were sticking in them) when he wished to speak, and lachrymation, then redness of cheeks, pain on swallowing, loud breathing in sleep, cough, vomiting of milk, obstinacy and frequent screaming; sudden, in evening when walking in open air, with dyspnoea. Voice rough, as if constricted or fatigued by speaking. Voice almost lost in morning.
Trachea – Dryness, not (>) hawking. Pressure on inspiration. Crawling in upper part as if something were tightly seated there, provoking cough.
Cough after the slightest cold, in morning on rising, or if she goes from a warm room into a cold one; in evening in bed; in evening on going to sleep and in morning after rising, from itching in larynx, with tenacious salt expectoration; in evening, causing vomiting and retching; as soon as he has eaten sufficiently; from irritation in upper part of chest, with roughness and scraping in throat; with yellowish purulent expectoration and sticking in l. hypochondrium on breathing, then stitches in upper part of l. chest. Spasmodic cough; in evening (from walking too rapidly); at night; from irritation and crawling in throat, the C. causing pain in chest as if pressed in; repeated at the same hour on the third day. Cough partly voluntary, rough, from roughness and crawling in throat. Hacking C., causing expectoration of mucus from larynx. Short C. in evening. Fatiguing C., with dyspnoea and burning in chest. Tickling C. in morning after waking, with whitish expectoration. Rough, dry C. Dry C. in evening after every expiration, causing warmth and sweat. Irritation to C. frequently returning, in back of throat, with short C.; I. to cough in evening, with chilliness and drawing in cheeks; as from sulphur fumes, with retching. Expectoration of pieces of green mucus.
Breath stopped; immediately on falling asleep, with increased vertigo. Gets out of breath on turning over in bed. Dyspnoea, (<) towards evening, with fulness of chest, and palpitation on slightest motion; D. in evening when lying, with throbbing in head; from oppression of chest; (<) sitting; obliging her to walk slowly. Short breath, with anxiety on chest and necessity to walk about. Desire to breathe deeply; with moaning. He was obliged to fetch a deep breath, with exertion of chest, abdomen, back, neck and head, with lifting of the feet.
Clinical Aphonia from relaxation of vocal cords. Chronic laryngeal catarrh, with rawness and soreness in larynx, particularly in old people. Has been prescribed in the last stage of membranous croup. Chronic bronchial catarrh of old people, burning in the chest, choking when coughing, (>) heat. Cough, generally spasmodic, suffocative. Asthma, particularly in old people who are debilitated, with flatulence, etc., especially with blue color of the skin. Haemorrhage from the lungs, with burning pain in chest, oppression, desire to be fanned all the time, cold skin. Sometimes useful in a late stage of pneumonia, with excessive dyspnoea and tendency to collapse.
Chest
Stitches beneath l. breast; preventing sleep and walking, they continue while sitting; in l. side, extending into short ribs; in r. side of C. and abdomen, (<) inspiration; deep in r., during deep breathing; beneath l. ribs in morning in bed, extending into abdomen, pit of stomach and chest, with pressure upon larynx, (<) by breathing, renewed by pressure upon abdomen; on going to sleep, impeding respiration; outward like shocks deep in r. lower part; constrictive, below l. breast, impeding respiration.
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.