Rumbling below transverse colon. Hot feeling below transverse colon. Constriction in umbilical region at 11 A.M. Soreness in U. region, obliging him to turn. Pain in hypogastrium after eating boiled cabbage, with diarrhoea and flatulence.
Rectum, Anus and Stool
Weight in lower part of rectum after dinner, with aching. Bleeding piles. Itching in anus, (<) night in bed. Two stools daily; two in afternoon, the last with straining. Diarrhoea at night. Constipation. Stools hard and too large; hard and copious, or sudden diarrhoea, consisting of white or dark passages.
Urinary Organs
Soreness of urethra on urinating. Sensation of a raw spot in centre of urethra, waking at night. urging to urinate. Urine increased; and frequent micturition, with sediment at first whitish, later reddish. Turbid urine.
Sexual Organs
Red spots on penis; as if pimples would form; on each side of glans, secreting much lardaceous matter. Redness of prepuce, with swelling and itching pain. (Ware on prepuce, bleeding on touch.) Penis swollen. jerking in penis. Tearing stitches in glans. itching pain in fossa behind penis, and pus of a nauseous sweetish odor oozes. Itching of corona glandis, (>) by rubbing, then (<), with much pus; burning sticking-itching in evening, (>) by rubbing, then returning more violent. Violent erection in evening; in bed. Excitement on least provocation. Loss of desire. Leucorrhoea, the discharge of which caused pressure in vagina.
Clinical Indurated buboes, condylomata on prepuce, which bleed easily. Enlarged testicle resulting from gonorrhoea; chronic gonorrhoea.
Respiratory Organs
Oedema of epiglottis. irritation of larynx. Hoarseness; in morning; and loss of voice; (in evening, with crouplike cough). Cough; (<) night, expectoration at first clear, then opaque, afterwards gray, puslike, occasionally blood-streaked sputa, smelling very offensive in morning; (C. in single dry shocks on lying down. (>) sitting up). Suffocation on swallowing.
Chest
Sticking beneath sternum. Pain beneath sternum; on l. chest; in middle of l. breast, in front; in upper part of lungs; in a spot on seventh rib of each side, (<) l.; occasionally in l. side between cartilages of fifth and sixth ribs; from seventh rib on r. side running near ensiform cartilage diagonally thoroughly to chest; from cartilage of seventh rib at its junction with the sternum, to r. hypochondrium under inferior border of tenth rib, from 4 to 5 P.M.; under lower end of sternum, extending to l. side under short ribs; to r. kidney and l. hypochondrium; in upper part of r. lung and in cardiac region, extending into l. arm which often feels numb; wandering pain in forenoon.
Soreness under r. breast, near last true rib, (<) drawing breath; in a spot on r. on one rib, when touched, with occasionally sore pain in and around it; internally over heart, extending along I. arm on taking a long breath. Pulselike throbbing here and there beneath short ribs, (<) walking, (>) sitting and lying, with sticking. Warmth under sternum.
Heart and Pulse
Cutting at H., impeding breathing. Pain at H., (<) lying on l. side. Palpitation during frightful dreams. Pulse rapid; in evening; and intermittent, strong, then tremulously weak; slow, then rapid; lowered in forenoon and irregular.
Neck
Muscles of nape seem contracted. Pain on r. side below sterno- cleido-mastoid muscle on turning head; in nape when head is thrown back extending to occiput; in vertebrae as if dislocated.
Back
Tearing in side, (<) night on motion in bed, (>) warmth of stove, with sensation as if everything would separate. Pain down to loins, (<) drawing a long breath; P. in lower dorsal spine. Sticking in region of l. side of fifth and sixth dorsal vertebrae in evening, next day the same pain occasionally on r. side of same vertebrae.
Lumbar Region. Sticking in region of l. kidney, waking at 4 A.M., then tossing about and sleeplessness. Sharp pain in region of kidneys as if a nail had been driven in on each side of vertebrae. pain, and in legs; P. in morning, and in limbs; in kidneys; l. kidney. Aching and drawing pain from kidneys to sacrum and in thighs and legs, (>) drawing up legs. Bruised pain. Sore feeling, extending around both sides over ossa illia, (<) pressure.
Extremities
Aching; in bones of forearms and legs; in all joints, with lameness. Lame feeling in all, (<) mornings, with fatigue. Weakness in morning. paralytic sensation, with general heaviness and sleepiness. Numbness of arms, knees and legs at 8 P.M., with heavy aching.
Upper Extremities
Lame sensation in r. shoulder joint in evening. Oedema of r. arm. Stitches in arm. tearing in arm when writing, (>) warmth of the stove, with sensation as if everything would separate. Pain along l. arm (<) in little finger, third finger and thumb, on supinating forearm the pain is worse at elbow, on supinating forearm the pain is worse at elbow, it feels as if the crazy bone were struck. Heavy deep-seated pain in r. humerus, beginning at centre, extending to elbow and along radius to its lower end, causing lameness and difficulty in moving arm.
Cracking in elbow and shoulder at the least twitch. Pain in l. arm-joint on turning and straightening arm and when writing. Numb feeling in elbows as if ulnar nerve were compressed. Numbness of l. forearm from elbow to end of little finger; (>) using arm. Occasional shooting and pricking pain in two l. middle fingers, (>) firm pressure upon thumb. Darting pain from first phalanx of r. ring finger to middle of forearm and from lower end of l. radius to elbow. Pain in r. little finger.
Lower Extremities
Lameness and stitches on walking, (<) inner side of knee. Drawing in all muscles, on under surface. Third feeling in joints, (>) rising and walking. Shooting on posterior side of r. thigh, from hip-joint to middle of femur, on straining at stool. Pain in thighs; in r. hip, then l., with tired feeling. Drawing pain in thighs from hip-joints nearly down to condyles, (<) motion, with walking a short distance.
Sticking in back part of l. knee forenoon; in r. knee in afternoon, with creeping in bone above and below it. Pain in knees; (<) at noon on waking; in l. knee, near inner side of tibia. Numbness of knees. Painful jerking in leg, waking in evening. Sore feeling in ankle, with heat and itching over whole leg. Pain in tendo-achillis and os calcis after walking. Pressive sensation in foot as if it would go to sleep. (Rheumatic pain in great toe.)
Skin
Redness like chronic eruption. Eruption on nape; on inner and lower part of thigh, with itching. Scurvy tetter exedens on r. middle finger and palm. (The margins of ulcers become painful and tense.) Itching during the day; at night, (<) on inside of thighs; l. side of face; r. palm; on inside of thighs and legs, (<) knees, (<) at night; inner side of knee, (<) night and morning before getting up, with pricking; in various parts when walking in open air; sticking l. on forepart of throat, forepart of chest, with swollen cervical glands, then round red spots with hard pimples, with itching and burning, scratching, at last the spots are painful.
Sleep
Sleepiness; during the day, but restlessness at night; at 11 A.M. when listening to a lecture; in warm room, with weakness; on going to bed, but inability to sleep on account of nervous sensation, which caused tossing about; with nightly sleeplessness, hears the clock strike every hour; with heaviness over eyes.
Sleeplessness; during the day; till 2 A.M.; for over an hour after retiring, tossing about, nervous and vexed; forepart of the night, then tossing about, with anxious, unremembered dreams; and restlessness from constant flow of ideas, changing from one subject to another; S., but in the morning he feels strengthened. restless; and dreamy sleep, seemed to dream before getting to sleep; R. sleep, with continual dreaming and waking; with vivid unremembered dreams. Waking suddenly as from a dream; after midnight, and he has no breath, like a nightmare. Waking and starting up several times without a purpose. Unrefreshed on waking at 8 A.M.
Dreams, with restlessness and talking in sleep. Many, with frequent waking. Vivid but unremembered; V., sensual; V. of the lectures., (<) the anatomical; V. of studies and business. Anxious. Troublesome. That there is a lump in his throat and r. ear.
Fever
Coldness; in a spot above and between supraorbital regions, sensation as if pressed by a cold metallic body, with heat within the cranium beneath the spot; in joints, with shivering and drawing in arms and legs; cold hands; C. hands and feet mornings, but heat of them nights, with heat of skin in evening, and heat at night in bed, fetid sweat between thighs at night.
Heat; at night occasionally, with fulness in forehead; in head, from front to back, (<) over r. eye and temple; front of head hot; glow through legs, then aching above l. elbow and occasional darting pain in lower limbs; then copious, sticky, stinking sweat, as thick as mucus. Sweat at noon; between thighs, (<) about noon; offensive, between thighs when walking. Cool sweat.
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.