Urinary Organs
Sticking in bladder; alternating with sticking in rectum, (>) discharge of flatus. Sudden pressure upon bladder, which was full, suddenly (>) rapid expulsion of flatus, which drove before it some mucus, these flatulent attacks often alternated with other symptoms. Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty emission; with copious, clear, watery urine, in forenoon; urging, with pressure in pubic region; ineffectual U. Frequent micturition; and copious; of clear, watery urine. Urine retained, with painful retraction of testes and priapism.
Sticking along urethra. Sticklike tearing through urethra. Pain in tip, as if crushed, after urinating. Prickling in orifice in urethra after urinating. Burning in urethra after urinating; on passage of last drops. Urine like brown beer (Bryonia), becoming turbid as soon as cold, with copious sediment. Urine of faint flesh-color, depositing a light brown, flocky, unequal, translucent sediment, with hard, solid, reddish crystals, adherent to the vessel, the urine passed during the day lighter- colored than towards evening, night and morning. Copious; in evening and night, and yellow. Scanty; and clear, dark orange- colored, sp. gr. increased, reaction acid, “urophain” and uric acid increased, chlorides diminished, epithelium increased. Dark. Deep wine-colored, with transparent cloud.
Clinical Pains from kidney calculus (comp. Berberis).
Sexual Organs
Prepuce always drawn back and constricted behind glans at night. Impotence, the foreskin drawn behind glans, without aversion. Tearing in glans. Prickling sticking like an electric spark from tip of glans towards l. flank. Prickling in end of glans. Frequent erections. Painful twinges in r. testicle. Drawing pain in l. testicle. Desire increased; diminished. Pollution two nights in succession. Swelling of labiae during pregnancy, with dragging and warmth in vagina.
Clinical Suppressed menses with the characteristic colic. Dysmenorrhoea, with violent pain, (>) hard pressure. Ovarian tumor. Cysts in the broad ligament. Many cases of cystic tumors in the ovaries or broad ligament have been cured by Coloc., especially if the tumors are round and small, associated with pain or with general discomfort, (>) pressure; the patient always wants the abdomen supported by a bandage, or has periodical attacks of severe pain. Inflammation of ovaries, with great soreness, ovarian colic, etc. Chyluria, urine is white like milk, coagulates in cold.
Respiratory Organs
Scraping in a spot in larynx provoking cough. Constriction of larynx, (>) open air. Sensitiveness of larynx towards evening, with hoarseness. Tickling in larynx, with dry cough; T. in larynx, (<) night, waking him, with short, dry cough. Dryness of air- passages, then fatigue. Cough; less frequent during the day and as the articular pains increase; frequent teasing, day and night; hacking, in evening on smoking. Tickling cough at night; and during the day; in evening and night without expectoration; during the day, with choking and vomiturition; sudden dry, during the day, with nausea and retching. Dyspnoea at night, with slow breath, provoking cough. Breathing rapid.
Chest
Whistling in morning on inspiration. Twitching in region of l. fifth and sixth ribs; in r. intercostal muscles, (>) becoming erect. Sticking in l.; under l. pectoralis; here and there and under ribs; in r. in forenoon; in l. towards evening, cutting short the breath; S. on inspiration and pressure on expiration; backward in r. in afternoon. Griping in r. intercostal muscles. Pain in places towards evening, and in hepatic region and over heart, impeding respiration. Tensive and pressing pain in both sides where diaphragm is attached. Frequent pressure in after- noon, with oppression and with sticking in chest and sides. Pressure in middle of sternum as if something were lying upon lungs. Oppression; in evening; before midnight, preventing sleep; after eating; on inspiration, with sticking; of r. side on breathing, with sticking; of r. ribs, on arch of diaphragm, arresting breath. Constipation, (<) walking, with sticking; C., then sticking in l. upper part, (<) walking. Compression on sides, (<) stooping forward, when sitting and in evening. Tension in chest and forehead before a soft and smoothy-passed stool. Bruised pain in spots anteriorly. Burning in a spot on r. side towards 11 O’clock.
Heart and Pulse
Sticking in cardiac region on going to bed. Oppression towards 8 P.M. Palpitation; when sitting. Pulse rapid and small; slow and full.
Neck
Tearing in l. side of nape. Drawing pain in l. muscles, (<) motion; D. pain in nape even during rest, then painful stiffness of neck, (<) on moving head; in l. large muscles, on motion it extends backward and disappears; as if nerves were torn and stretched, or as if bruised, extending from r. side across scapulae. Drawing in nape; D. and boring in all muscles of neck, on different parts of occiput and of r. side of head, (<) evening. Pressure in l. side of nape as in rheumatism, (<) turning. Weight, extending towards occipital protuberance. Stiffness of nape on moving head (Bryonia); S. on l. side, painful on motion.
Back
Sticking. Drawing in dorsal muscles. Sticking beneath r. scapula on inspiration; tensive, between scapulae, (<) walking, so that he must walk bent over. Drawing pain in region of r. scapula as if nerves and vessels were tense. Drawings in scapulae. Sore pain in l. scapula during rest. Stitches in sacrum; tensive, in r. loin on inspiration, (<) lying on back. Periodic cutting from region of l. kidney to abdomen, spasmodically drawing thigh up to abdomen so that he must bend over. Pain in small of back; as after a forced march, and in lower limbs; in region of l. sacro-iliac articulation, with crawling in whole l. side as if asleep; in sacrum, (>) movement; above hips, with nausea and chilliness. Pressing inward in r. loin when sitting, with throbbing. Bruised pain in small of B. and in lower limbs in evening; B. pain in sacrum; in lower part of back, with pressure in pit of stomach. Weariness in small of B. Heaviness in small of B.
Extremities
Contraction of all so that he resembled a hedgehog. Twitching of different parts of muscles. Drawing sticking in joints of feet all day, (<) wine and coffee, with boring in lower limbs, in after- noon upper limbs similarly affected. Tearing in joints of arms and legs, (<) rest, (>) night. Boring in joints of toes, then in shoulders; in joints of toes and fingers at 9 P.M., with pressing; in muscles of limbs and buttocks, with burning pain; in finger-joints, shoulders, knees, shin-bones and ankles, with drawing; drawing B. in wrist, fingers, knees and muscles of thighs, in morning after rising and in evening. Pain in joints; P. in l. little finger about 6 P.M., (<) towards middle, then in all r. toe-joints except those of great toe; when sitting, in knees, wrists and thighs; in joints of hands and feet after rising; in joints of fingers and toes, (<) during rest; migrating, in joints of fingers and feet.
Rheumatic pains, and in joints; sometimes in joints, sometimes in bones of limbs. Drawing towards evening; D. in external condyle of r. femur, in elbow fingers and toes, on motion, (<) knees; in different parts when walking; in joints, (>) motion, (<) fingers and toes; in all joints (<) sitting, with pressing; tearing, in thighs, and in l. arm down to finger-joints; tearing drawing-pressing in different joints. Pressing drawing pain, a tired sensation, (<) towards evening when sitting, (<) knees, feet and shoulder-joints. Bruised feeling; in knees, arms and shoulder-joints when sitting. Some of the joints feel as if compressed by rings. Constriction in dorsum and ankle of l. foot and in r. upper arm. Disagreeable feeling in all on mental exertion. Weakness of joints; W. in limbs on walking in open air, with heaviness and trembling of legs, (<) r., so that sweat broke out over the whole body; from diffusion of a genital warmth.
Upper Extremities
Drawing and pressing pain in joints of hands, fingers and shoulders. Axillary glands swollen and painful. Drawing in l. axillary muscles extending down arm, with burning, then in r. shoulder. Tearing in shoulders. Boring in shoulder; in r. Pressing in shoulders when sitting. Drawing pain in shoulders in afternoon. Drawing in r. shoulder; at night in bed; in r. joint, with tearing all day; in shoulders and joints of hands, with boring. Tension in r. shoulder on waking, (<) using arms.
Arm – Intermittent sticking now here, now there. Pain in l. Sprained pain behind r. scapula. Drawing pain in long bones during rest, (<) below head of humerus and across wrist, where it seems as if in periosteum on raising arm. Intermittent paralytic bruised pain. Paralytic pressing in l. Swollen sensation. Pulsation in l. Weakness.
Upper Arm – Sticking in humeri in evening. Tearing in l. Pressing in joints. Throbbing, finally twitching pain in periosteum, in region of insertion of r. deltoid, extending through shoulder to upper teeth and to temples and vertex, then sore pain in muscular parts of arm on pressure. Prickling burning pain in r. on motion. Drawing in r.; (<) dinner, (>) walking in open air.
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.