Distention, and of upper abdomen. Darting pain in epigastrium after a light supper. Pain and heat, the pain (>) eructations, with warmth and dryness in the whole alimentary canal; pain in epigastrium before breakfast, extending to l. hypochondrium, with emptiness. Faintness; in epigastrium before breakfast, then repletion after eating; in epigastrium in forenoon; in epigastrium, with repugnance to food. Feeling as if too much had been eaten; in forenoon. Uneasiness; in epigastrium, with oppression. Oppression. Tremor; after breakfast. Burning.
Clinical Nausea and efforts to vomit, in uterine affections or with spinal irritation. Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on the spine and cervical region, with palpitation, suppression of menses.
Abdomen
Flatulence. Nausea through A., then loose stool, with sharp pain in abdomen and downward pressure in rectum. Pain; in morning, with thin, light brown diarrhoea; wandering; heavy; periodic, (>) stool, with inclination to bend forward. Fulness; full sensation at 10 P.M., caused by flatulence. Soreness of muscles on full inspiration. Pain in hepatic region; in l. hypochondrium, (<) motion and deep inspiration; sickening P. in duodenum. Rumbling below umbilicus at 10 P.M. Cutting in umbilical region; in afternoon. Griping from U. down. Griping-twisting in U. region, (<) towards l. Pain below U., with weight and pain in lumbar and sacral regions.
Hypogastrium. – Rumbling; at 10 A.M. Fulness. Cutting, waking at 3 A.M., with uneasiness in it and urging to stool, stool thin, partly undigested, uneasiness in abdomen all the forenoon, with desire for stool, next morning waking at 3, with thin, undigested stool, pain low down in bowels, diarrhoea once in four or five hours. Pain in evening, with fulness in abdomen and sensation as before diarrhoea; P. in l. iliac region.
Rectum and Stool
Urging to stool, inclined to diarrhoea. Disposition to diarrhoea; after rising; in evening. l Scanty diarrhoea, with tenesmus. Copious papescent stool; with general indisposition; two, in morning. Constipation; alternating with disposition to diarrhoea. Hard and dry stool.
Urinary Organs
Sticking in urethra in morning. Frequent micturition; with increased urine; after retention of urine. Increased urine; and pale. Scanty and high-colored urine. Copious urea. Specific gravity decreased at first, afterwards it rose, after standing the urine was acid, cloudy, contained fibrinous casts of uniferous tubes (!), with minute lozenge shaped crystals of uric acid adhering to their sides. Sediment of uric acid like yellow sand, in the nucleated form of crystals, with the obtuse angles rounded so as to make an elliptical figure, while above this floated a cloud of mucus and urate of ammonia, and above this floated yellowish sand, which seemed to be gradually settling to the bottom, the urine appearing like a mixture of ginger and water.
Sexual Organs
Pain in testicles, with tenderness. Pain in r. spermatic cord, and retraction; drawing pain along r. spermatic cord. Bruised feeling in vagina. Bearing down pain during menstruation. Menorrhagia. Suppression of menses.
Clinical Neuralgia of the ovaries and uterus, with great tenderness and bearing down, the pains shooting up the sides and across the lower part of the abdomen. Menstruation painful, irregular or suppressed, with hysterical symptoms or epileptiform spasms at the period. Menorrhagia, menses too profuse and early, dark, clotted, with severe pain in back extending through hips and down thighs. Endocervicitis, with general nervous hysterical symptoms, uterus engorged, cervix hypertrophied, all the organs very sensitive, especially the ovaries. During parturition the pains do not force downward but extend across the abdomen and upward into the sides (false pains). Threatening miscarriage, the pains fly about, with fainting spells. After-pains, with great sensitiveness, the patient feels that she cannot tolerate the pain (Chamomilla). During parturition the os is rigid. Ovarian neuralgia, especially of l. ovary, pain extend up and down l. side, with great tenderness.
Respiratory Organs
Tickling in larynx causing dry cough; in evening, causing short dry cough; T. (<) speaking, causing inclination to cough. Hoarseness; after full inspiration, impending expiration. Hacking cough. Respiration quick on waking. R. difficult after slight exertion, with general ill feeling.
Clinical Nervous cough excited by every attempt to speak.
Chest
Lancinations along cartilages of false ribs, (<) inspiration; (<) long inspiration, occurring after waking at 3 A.M. and in bed between 10 and 11 P.M. Pain; in l.; in r. lung, from apex to base, to r. of sternum, (<) inspiration. Soreness. Prickling in mammae (female) during the day, with cold chills.
Clinical Neuralgia of the diaphragm. Pleurodynia on either side; in women with uterine trouble, in the l. inframammary region.
Heart and Pulse
Stitches at heart; with slight twitching or pulsation of external muscles in that region. Catching pain on bending forward, and when sitting still at dinner and after dinner. Pain in region of H., then palpitation. Palpitation and faintness. PUlse quick; and weak; and small; and full, hard, irregular. Irregular. Feeble pulse; in morning, with weakness and trembling; with general lassitude, with heat and smarting of face. Slow pulse; and intermittent at every third or fourth beat.
Clinical Angina pectoris, numbness of l. arm, irregular trembling pulse, tremulous motions of the heart. In women catching pain about the heart preventing respiration, with palpitation and faintness.
Neck
Rheumatic pains in muscles of N. and back, with stiffness and contraction (China, Dulcamara, Clem.); heavy rheumatic pains in upper posterior part. Cramping in muscles of l. then r. side, on moving head. Stiffness; in evening.
Back
Trembling and weakness. Pain; (>) pressure; wandering, during menstruation, and around through hips, inside; as of boils and in small of back and in limbs. Stitches below r. scapula and spine. Drawing tensive pain at points of spinous processes of three upper dorsal vertebrae (China, Sulphur), in morning on bending neck forward. Drawing pain in a single muscle between r. scapula and spine. Pain below l. scapula; behind r.; in region of lower dorsal and upper lumbar vertebrae; occasionally in scapulae and shoulders.
Small of Back. – Aching both sides of spine in morning; heavy A. extending towards sacrum; heavy, in region of r. kidney, (<) motion; weak, trembling A. Weight; in lumbar and sacral region, and pain, sometimes extending all around the body, somewhat below crest of ilium. Lame, tired, feeling extending from region of kidneys to sacrum, (>) rest, (<) motion.
Clinical Spinal irritation, the cervical and upper dorsal vertebrae particularly sensitive to pressure.
Extremities
Twitching of fingers and toes (China.) Trembling, scarcely able to walk. Pain; in l. external malleolus and l. forearm; in r. arm, elbow, wrist, and in knee, extending to ankle; in shoulder passing down arm, with numbness as if a nerve had been compressed, then in forearm, sometimes causing a cramping sensation, similar pains in legs, (<) in upper part of thigh, about hip-joint and inguinal region. Rheumatic pains all day. Drawing rheumatic pains in muscles of arms and legs. Pains as of boils. Uneasiness, almost an ache; restless, drawing sensations. Tired. Feeling in joints in morning on motion as after hard labor, stiffness.
Upper Extremities
Pain deep in muscles of r. shoulder, extending to wrist; in muscles from shoulders to wrists. Laming pain in l. elbow anteriorly. Lameness of l. wrist. Weakness and trembling of hands and forearms, inability to grasp anything firmly. Trembling of fingers when writing. Second l. finger lame, and cannot be flexed.
Lower Extremities
Pain in muscles, (<) in anterior part of thighs, on walking out into open air, as from great fatigue. Weakness. Jerking in muscles of l. thigh, (<) in region of inferior third. Constriction of l. sartorius muscle. Rheumatic pain in r. knee; in l. leg. Lameness in r. leg, (<) bending forward, soreness and stiffness, moving forward to inside of ankle. Sharp wandering pains in l. ankle and scapula. Pain in l. tendo-achillis when walking in open air, and a shortening sensation. Soreness in region of tendo- achillis towards evening, (<) walking, with aching and stiffness. Feeling in foot as if it had been compressed. Stinging in l. great toe in afternoon, on lower surface, then on upper. Pain in r. great toe. Burning pain in second joint of r. great toe; extending up limb, from 8 to 9 P.M., same the next evening, but not extending up the limb.
Skin
Red papillae, becoming a diffused redness. Eruption like mosquito-bites; (<) hands and wrists. Pustules on back of hand; back of l. Inflamed and bleeding ulcer near centre of each cheek. Itching on back of hand and wrist; on back of hand, with redness, also in afternoon, (<) evening; I. on back of l. hand and wrist in evening, (<) back of thumb, then red papulae, becoming, after slight irritation, a diffused redness, the redness could be reproduced by slight irritation.
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.