Bruised pain; on pressure. Rhythmical chilling pressure in pit, as from ice. Tensive pain in pit. Contractive sensation in epigastric region. The tightness of clothes about stomach and hips is very oppressive. Heartburn after supper; H. in mouth; burning rising from stomach, as if he had eaten pepper. Sensation as if disordered, with distention of abdomen. It seems as if she would constantly eructate, which does not happen, but all manner of trouble is caused thereby. Sensation of fasting. Emptiness at 4 P.M. Crawling in epigastric region. Pleasant warmth, and in abdomen. Weakness.
Clinical Acid dyspepsia, sour vomiting and sour eructations. Gastralgia, colic and distention of abdomen.
Abdomen
Jerking at night, with uneasiness, preventing sleep until midnight. Twitching contraction at noon. Distention all afternoon, with frequent loud emissions of flatus, which relieved only for a short time; D. in evening, also with hardness; after eating; after eating and drinking, with uneasiness and drawing in it; (<) evening; with cramps; with internal pressure, (<) deep breathing. Rumbling after eating, with distention; then frequent emissions of flatus; and croaking, as of frogs; when sitting, as from emptiness. Moving about, (>) about, brown stool, with cutting. Accumulation of flatus, with hard stool; A. of much F. after a slight meal, on account of which the haemorrhoids protrude, are painful and moist. Emissions of flatus; after breakfast; upward and downward; loud, all the afternoon; offensive.
Sticking in whole A. at 4 P.M.; S. preventing sitting. Pain during menstruation, as if everything were torn apart, with bruised pain in sacrum and discharge of large clots. Cutting in morning, then three soft stools, and all day sensation in abdomen as of diarrhoea; C. on appearance of menses, (<) motion, with tearing in back and small of back; during menstruation, with diarrhoea; with emission of flatus on inspiration. Pinching, with paleness of face; P., with cutting and with yawning; with soft stool; cutting, even while eating, (>) emission of flatus. Pain in morning; in morning after rising, with shortness of breath; very afternoon; in evening extending into throat; twisting, before stool; drawing back and forth just before menstruation, and on first day of it; when breathing, as if constricted by a string.
Tension at 7 P.M., with distention, causing difficult breathing, with frequent passage of flatus; contractive T., and in stomach. Emptiness, (>) pressure. Electric shocks, extending to fingers and bending the fingers. Pulsations. Crawling, with moving about, as after a purgative. Coldness internally, with cracking and crackling; become cold easily, if air touches it he has pressure in stomach and diarrhoea.
Upper.- Cutting in a streak, (>) dinner, with soft stool at 11 A.M. Frequent griping. Burning pain about epigastric region, waking him. Contractive sensation. Tension, with pressure.
Hypochondria.- Distention of l. Stitches in l.; beneath last r. true ribs; below r. ribs in evening; in hepatic region in afternoon; in a spot in hepatic region when riding, and touch caused a stinging, with sleepiness and general weariness. Tearing in liver in evening. Tensive pain in liver when lying on back. Burning pain in l.
Umbilicus.- Swelling, with pain about it when touched. Griping, in morning, (>) rising. Crawling with sensation as before diarrhoea.
Sides.- Distention in l., extending into groin. Stitches in l.; in r. in evening; in r. when lying; in r., then bruised pain in l. lower ribs, also noticed upon pressure; in r., extending through and through bowels and out at small of back. Cutting in r.; with pinching, as in diarrhoea. Griping in r.; below navel, after eating. Bruised pain in r.; then sticking outward through pudenda. Sticking burning in r., with sensation as if something would be loosened. Tension in r.
Hypogastrium.- Twitchings in l. side sitting bent. Stitches below last false ribs, above ilium; above l. hip, extending to l. false ribs; in r. groin, extending downward, as if a hernia would appear, after breakfast; as with an awl in r. groin, (>) rubbing. Deep-seated pain, at last with fever, heat, anxiety and restlessness, so that he could not sleep at night nor lie, and pain on touch, as in inflammation of abdomen; P. above l. hip as if it would burst there on coughing; as from a weight. Bruised pain in l. groin at 2 P.M. when waking; in r. groin, at first (>) then (<) pressure, with stitches. Dragging in inguinal regions, extending forward, while siting, with ineffectual urging to urinate.
Rectum
Frequent, sudden pressing-piecing pain. Sticking during stool. Cramp, obliging her to sit still. Sensation of something her in it, like a kernel of fruit. Pressure all day; (<) after stool, and in anus. Dragging, as if faeces should be expelled. Urging to stool, with rumbling in abdomen; U. after dinner, stool hard and difficult; but spasmodic contraction of anus, so that no stool passes; frequent, with emission of only flatus; frequent, ineffectual, with pain, anxiety and redness of face. Crawling. Itching, and in genitals; I., with sticking.
Anus
Haemorrhoids, with sore pain, unendurable on walking or reflecting; swollen H., with itching-sticking and much moisture; hard H., stinging-burning, painful touched (AEsc. h.), when walking, standing or sitting, (>) stool; impeding stool; painful. Stitching before a meal. Spasmodic drawing pain after coition. Sore pain, with moisture. Biting pain after stool. Burning during stool; after stool, with depressed pulse and palpitation; after stool, making him powerless. Itching (AEsc. h., Sulphur). after dinner; crawling. Pain in perineum, with pulsation.
Clinical Haemorrhoids, intolerably painful, (<) walking. Partial paralytic of rectum, stool passed better when standing. Pruritis of anus and fistula.
Stool
Watery; with stomachache. Semi-fluid; at 5 A.M. Diarrhoea in evening; at night; from taking cold in abdomen; with tenesmus and burning in anus; with passage of blood; with passage of flatus. Constipation. Solid S.; with passage of a round worm. Nodular, with mucus and clear blood, without trace of haemorrhoids; N., then contraction of rectum, then soft stool, then in form like a goose-quill. First hard, then soft, then dyspnoea, then distention of hypochondria, (<) r., with pinching on every step. Black, after the sweat. Bloody, with burning and soreness in rectum; painless passage of blood, with a soft stool. With white mucus. Passes better when standing. Passes with sensation as if only flatus passed.
Urinary Organs
Pain in bladder, with inability to pass urine, but if a few drops pass he has pain in urinary passages, with constipation and cramp in rectum. Micturition so easy that he is not sensible of the stream, and can scarcely believe in the dark that he is urinating until he makes sure with the hand. Involuntary M. while coughing or blowing nose (Zn.); I. at night in sleep. Intermittent M. in evening. Delay of last drops of urine. Enuresis, with violent erections without desire. Frequent micturition; at night; at night, and copious, with diarrhoea, which was repeated in morning; and copious; and copious (K-c.), soon depositing a sediment like yeast; F. and scanty.
Urethra.- Discharge of blood, with the ejaculation of semen during coition. Cutting. Pain in evening after urinating, with aching in vertex. Burning; when urinating; after an emission; when urinating, or at root of urethra; in region of fraenum when urinating; sudden, at night. Itching in orifice.
Urging to urinate after a walk; U., with necessity to wait long, then scanty urine, then renewed urging. Frequent urging; at night, waking her; with involuntary dribbling of urine; then shivering in open air. Frequent, ineffectual U., then while sitting involuntary micturition. Ineffectual attempts at micturition, after passing a few drops pain in bladder and (after much walking in order to relieve it) cramps in rectum.
Urine.- Copious; then scanty; and slightly acid. Scanty, with great thirst. Often dark brown. Turbid on standing. Reddish. Clear, like water. Containing much tenacious mucus.
Clinical Weakness of bladder. Paralysis of bladder, the urine is expelled very slowly and sometimes is even retained. Weakness of the sphincter of bladder, especially in children, the urine passes involuntarily, especially during the first sleep at night, also involuntarily from the slightest excitement during the day. Paralysis of bladder after labor, the urine is retained.
Sexual Organs
Cutting in mons veneris, (<) walking. Increased smegma, and corona glandis. Red spots on penis. Herpetic redness of penis, with oozing on fraenum of glans. Vesicles under prepuce, becoming suppurating ulcers. Burning pain in penis. Itching scurf on inside of prepuce. Itching of fraenum; on inner surface of of prepuce, at one time tickling, at another biting; voluptuous, of penis, with incomplete erection. Erection in morning, with desire; E. all the forenoon; frequent, incomplete, in morning after coition. Impotence. Itching cutting in septum of scrotum. Itching of scrotum and on skin of penis; of scrotum and sweating. Stitches in r. testicle. Tearing in testicles. Pain in testicles at noon; in r. T. as if crushed. Desire; with disinclination to work; very little. Discharge of prostate fluid after stool. Irritation to emission. Frequent emissions at night and next forenoon, with constant excessive erections; frequent E. in an old man; E. every night and during afternoon nap in one who was impotent.
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.