Clinical Cirrhosis of liver. Numerous cases of enlargement and congestion of the liver, particularly with symptoms of jaundice, yellow color of the face and eyes, gray stools, swelling of feet and legs, high-colored, scanty, albuminous urine, with the peculiar constipation of the drug, general aggravation from lying on r. side, etc. Enlargement of liver, with sour vomiting, offensive breath, yellow color of the face, constipation. Enlargement of the liver, with bloating of abdomen, tongue large, coated yellow, scalloped at the edges, feet swollen, stool dry and crumbling. Chronic hepatic disorder, with dark yellow faces, distended abdomen, hard, crumbling stools, scanty, infrequent menses, palpitation, small, weak pulse, swelling of feet, etc. In all the hepatic dis-orders there is tenderness over the region of the liver and pain extending to the spine and pit of the stomach, aggravation immediately after eating, flatulent colic, dyspnoea, weak, small pulse, constipation.
Rectum
Prolapsus during diarrhoea. Stitches; extending to abdomen; in perineum. Smarting after a soft stool. Burning deep in. Urging after stool; after diarrhoea, but emission of only mucus; U., and though there was great pressure only a little soft, then thin stool in small portions, with shivering and pain in abdomen; U., but emission of only burning flatus; all day, but only flatus was passed; constant, but nothing was passed, it seemed as if the stool constantly went back, with shivering; constant desire for stool, which was thin. Frequent urging, with pain in abdomen; F., with scanty discharge; F., but only a scanty thin and slimy stool.
Anus
Haemorrhoids pain during normal stool. Smarting after hard stool. Burning after usual stool; during and after stool, with smarting.
Clinical Haemorrhoids, with constipation.
Stool
Liquid, brown, frequent. Thin, spurting, then tenesmus and burning in anus, then small thin stool again. Frequent diarrhoea, with cutting in abdomen; F. and greenish; F., containing mucus and blood, with tenesmus in anus. Soft, then tenesmus and burning in anus; S. (after the usual one), with general shivering, then burning in anus and sensitiveness in rectum; S., containing a piece of tapeworm; and frequent, with feeling as if flatus would pass; and difficult though she had to hurry, then shivering.
Hard, like sheep-dung; and difficult; H. and covered with streaks of blood; and knotty, enveloped in thick mucus; and knotty, then a soft one enveloped in mucus; nodular, with pain in rectum; at first in hard masses and after some time soft or thin; H. in first part, then soft, then burning in anus and sticking externally in hypochondria and constriction in stomach extending to back; H., then three diarrhoea-like ones, with soreness of anus and cutting in abdomen that lasted till the next stool. Crumbly and as if burnt, hurrying her, with sticking in rectum, then burning in anus. At first scanty and large, then urging to stool, which was soft, then she felt unwell, with relaxation of abdomen, extending thence over whole body, and frequent necessity to lie down. Retained; then easy, but with sticking in rectum.
Clinical Constipation;, stools usually like sheep-dung; sometimes the stools are in large masses, but crumble as soon as evacuated.
Urinary Organs
Urging; during the day; at night, but he repressed it; yet she passed but little, with burning in urethra; frequent, with scanty emission. During micturition he did not feel the urine in urethra. Micturition only by exertion of abdominal muscles (Causticum). Micturition in drops, and some urine always seemed to remain behind (Mercurius, Cantharis, Causticum, etc.) Frequent micturition during the day, always in small quantities; F. at night, but scanty; F., with burning in urethra and frequent erections. Rare and scanty M. Involuntary M. when walking, yet on attempting to urinate when standing nothing passed. Urine pale, with burning in urethra after micturition. Urine almost opaque, as if mixed with yeast, depositing a cloud.
Clinical Dysuria, can urinate only by effort of the abdominal muscles, must even press the hands on the abdomen in order to empty the bladder.
Sexual Organs
Stitches in mons veneris towards evening. Erections in morning in bed, with burning pain in penis. Itching of glans in evening on going to bed; on scrotum and lower part of penis, (>) rubbing; on genitals and scrotum as far as anus, and in evening and night sweat of scrotum and an emission. Testicles hang down relaxed. After violent erections and neglecting to have coition, testicles, spermatic cord and small of back pained all day after rising and moving or touching testicles. Frequent emissions.
Female. Leucorrhoea; in morning after micturition; (<) motion; (>) stool; with cramp in abdomen; watery; thick, then discharge of blood fourteen days before the usual time and three days before the full moon. Discharge of blood five days before menstruation. Menses that had been absent seven months (in a woman fifty years old) reappeared, with pain in small of back. Menstruation delayed, at first water, with dragging in groins and frequent yawning; D., with pain in small of back and lasting a shorter time than usual. M. too early and profuse; and lasting two days longer than usual. M. more profuse and longer than usual, with pain in small of back (<) walking, and pain in thighs (<) sitting. M. scanty the first three days, but profuse and continuous fourth and fifth days. M. passed in black clots, more when sitting than when walking.
Clinical Uterine pains, with soreness of the liver, aggravation from lying on r. side, constipation, palpitation, etc. Fibroid indurations of the uterus; scirrhus, with the abdominal symptoms of the drug; scirrhus induration of the uterus, with pain extending into thighs, leucorrhoea, menstrual blood black, colic stools crumbling. It is frequently indicated in women who are subject to hysteria, with flatulence and the numerous hepatic symptoms of the drug, sometimes with a sensation of a ball rising into the throat (Ignatia); especially with thick, black menses, constipation, etc.
Respiratory Organs
Rawness in larynx, with dryness. Hoarseness every morning after rising; H., with soreness in throat and chest; sudden H. in bad weather, with dry cough and pressure on chest, on coughing sore pain in chest, but she felt easier after coughing, only after long coughing was some mucus loosened.
Cough in short paroxysms, then pain in chest. Dry C., with pain in pharynx; D., frequently only in evening and night; D. at night, waking her frequently and obliging her to rise. Cough, with expectoration; of mucus, caused by crawling in trachea; of tenacious, fatty-tasting mucus, from crawling in pit of throat; of gray salt mucus, from scratching in throat or itching in chest. Deep racking cough, also at night, amounting to retching, with rough voice, whistling in throat and easy expectoration of salt, sweetish mucus from chest. Expectoration of blood after sea-bathing.
Want of breath on ascending a hill, he is often obliged to stop and take breath. Tight breath, more after dinner than in forenoon.
Chest
Stitches between r. ribs; externally in l. upper part; in r. lower rib towards evening; deep in l., not affecting respiration; low down in r., not affecting respiration; beneath r. breast, not affecting respiration; internally in l., with sore pain on pressure. Ulcerative pain in evening and night on coughing. Pain; externally on ensiform cartilage; pressing upward, as from a thread, from clavicle into a lower molar, in tip of which it was a crawling.
Constriction, and of scapulae; C. after supper, with tightness of breath and stickling near r. nipple. Tensive pain, (<) deep breath, with tightness of breath. Heaviness suddenly during dinner, taking away the breath, with nausea, salivation, mounting of heat to face, necessity to go into open air, and it seemed as if eructations or vomiting would relieve her, cramplike pressing upward as with fingers beneath tongue, necessity to loosen her clothes, the attack ended with a shaking chill. Burning when coughing; B. here and there, with throbbing. Rush of blood from a sea-bath; feeling of R. on walking in open air. Feels worse in open air, and cough on every inspiration.
Heart
Sticking taking away the breath. Oppression. Palpitation; when sitting; in afternoon when sitting and on rising from a seat, (>) moving about; with pulsation in all arteries.
Neck
Glandular swellings in l. side, tense on motion and painful on pressure. Painful drawing in r. side, as if in tendons.
Back
Gnawing in spinal cord, extending up to neck, in evening after lying down, preventing sleep and causing constant tossing about. Pain in B. and small of B., disturbing morning sleep, always renewed on falling asleep. Bruised pain during menstruation; B. pain in spine at night. Burning pain and itching; B. pain in morning waking him, after evening coition, (<) rest, (>) motion. Burning in spinal cord and still more sticking, then boring sticking between shoulders, (>) motion.
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.