Stomach
Appetite increased; morbid; diminished; lost; lost for breakfast; hunger, but can find nothing to satisfy it, disposed to try one thing after another, food has a flat taste. Disgust for food. Thirst; in afternoon; for cold water in evening, (<) drinking; lacking. Eructations; at 4 P.M.; tasteless; empty; empty at 7 P.M.; of warm air. Hiccough; from 9 till 11 P.M., (>) going to bed; violent, from 5 till 8 P.M.; violent at 8.30 P.M., (>) sleep, with distress for breath, violent H. on waking at 2 A.M.
Nausea; in morning and at noon, so that he could not each much dinner at 1 P.M., (>) lying down, then he could eat a little more, after resting again all symptoms passed off; in morning on waking; at 10 A.M.; 2 P.M., with chilly creeping up back; 3 P.M.; 4.30 P.M., with vertigo; 7 P.M.; 10 P.M.; on lying down; caused by breakfast; caused by sound of the organ; caused by pain in orbit; with the headache; with sinking feeling in stomach; in attacks; Vomiting; of acrid fluid; with great retching, then collapse and cold sweat in drops over whole body; in attacks, with diarrhoea; copious, with such weakness that he could not completely eject the vomited water; later I could not vomit, the abdominal muscles acted too feebly.
Trembling of nerves at pit, with nausea and faintness. Pricking in S. and abdomen, then rumbling and pain in region of transverse colon, next day P. in stomach and abdomen at 9.30.A.M. Sharp pain in epigastric region, except during sleep. Darting pain in epigastric region, except during sleep. Griping and oppression; G. in pit; in pit, with soreness on pressure. Crampy pain, with desire for stool. Pain; in epigastric region; on going out of doors after dinner, causing nausea, then crampy feeling in fundus of bladder; in epigastrium, just under ensiform cartilage, extending into chest and down arms, waking at 2 A.M., pain in epigastrium produced by hard pressure on lower end of sternum, extended along lower edge of ribs, at attachment of diaphragm, and through to about third dorsal vertebra, sensation as if the pain were squeezed out into arms, the pain alternated between an ache and an acute quick pain, but was occasionally pulsative.
Sensitiveness to pressure in region; in epigastric region; in pit at 10.30 P.M. Nervousness, (<) front of body. Oppression in epigastric region. Contraction in region, afterwards with dull pain in l. side and forepart of head. Feeling as if mucous coat (?) swelled. Burning, with hot eructations. Peculiar sensation in epigastrium, afterwards increased to an intermittent sensation as from suddenly swallowing large pieces of food, first near upper part of sternum, becoming more intense till it reaches the epigastrium, afterwards increased to an intermittent sensation, as from suddenly swallowing large pieces of food, first near upper part of sternum, becoming more intense till it reaches the epigastrium, when it is almost painful and eructations usually occur, escape of gas, then reversal of pain from lower sternum to throat. Sensation in pit as if undigested food oppressed it; at intervals, and intermittent breathless sensation and disposition to inspire deeply. Digestion slow. Unsettled. Weakness in pit, with the nervous symptoms. Food lay hard all day. Heaviness; as from undigested food. Emptiness at 3 P.M., with weakness of it, without hunger; E. in stomach and abdomen.
Abdomen
Bloated feeling; in morning, with soreness; B. by gas, with pain, compelling me to lie down, (<)standing erect. Rumbling at 10 P.M.; at 8.40 P.M., with gurgling, heat and colic, all but the colic lasting till 11 P.M.; with full feeling and heat. Emission of flatus; noisy; odorless; foul-smelling; smelling like carrion. Pinching crampy pain at 3 P.M. Clutching pain at 4.30 P.M.; at 7.30 A.M., before stool. Pain; during stool; with feeling of looseness; waking at 3 A.M., (>) 11 A.M. by stool. Heat with the headache. Uneasiness as if bowels would move soon.
Stitches in l. side. Sore spot in l. side, with pain on pressure and moving about, (<) riding. Pain in l. side; in transverse colon; in transverse and descending colon, with full sensation; in transverse and descending colon during diarrhoea, with tenesmus; in region of arch of colon, (<) r. side, (<) night, often waking me, with stitches through to back.
Darting pain in r. hypochondrium. Griping in r. hypochondrium. Pain in hepatic region at 10.20 A.M.; stiff pain posteriorly in hepatic region in morning on waking, with tenderness on pressure and first moving, (>) moving. Sore pain in spleen; descending to groin, (<) motion, so severe in evening as to cause me to extend my legs. Pain in umbilical region; drawing; sharp. Soreness of umbilicus, with sensation as if corset had pinched it, with blood red color.
Hypogastrium. Shooting in l. iliac region; occasionally in groin, extending into r. testicle. Cutting, more in muscles than in organs. Pain in groin; in groin at 7 P.M.; in groin at 8 P.M., with swelling; alternately in r. and l. groin at 6 P.M.; low down in abdomen, then copious, loose stool; return of a pain in r. that had been absent two years; drawing, in r. iliac region, (>) lying on r. side, pressure, walking in open air and eating, (<) lying on back and l. side. Soreness, hurting me to stand, and in l. side.
Rectum and Anus
Return of piles which had not troubles him for years. Anus sore, inclined to protrude (as from relaxed sphincter). Tenesmus before and after stool; after stool; with diarrhoea; as if he had been to stool, then a thin stool. Feeling for half an hour before stool as if I had been to stool. Frequent ineffectual desire. Desire, stool hard, scanty, three hours later watery stool, with flatus, on following days loose stools.
Stool
Diarrhoea; and vomiting; weakening; copious, with burning at anus. Loose and irregular. Soft and light-colored, next morning thin and light-colored, then tenesmus, thin stool at noon, soft at 9 P.M. with tenesmus. Soft, brownish, fetid, frequent, with tenesmus and pain in transverse and descending colon, and tenesmus on bladder, next day two mushy stools after breakfast with same kind of pain, same kind of stool and pain after dinner and supper, with tenesmus, afterwards constipation on the days when I did not take the drug, and when I recommended had four stools in one day, but not loose. Soft, large, brown, at 7 A.M., small, thin, yellow, sour-smelling at 2 P.M., small, watery, mixed with undigested food, sour-smelling at 7 P.M., small, watery at 10 P.M., next day (third day) watery, then tenesmus, fourth day no stool, fifth day a large stool, a part black like tar, sixth day natural-looking stool mixed with black lumps, then slight discharge of mucus, seventh day thin, small, lumpy, tenesmus before and after it, ninth day small, hard stools covered with jelly-like slime at 7 and 7.30 A.M.
Constipation. Hard and in balls, but easy. Lumpy, mingled with a watery discharge, at night, next day constipated. Yellow, at 5.10 A.M., with pain below umbilical region. Twice in one day, once with much straining to pass a small amount. Natural looking at 3.45 A.M., a small, sour-smelling one at 8 A.M., then none for sixty-nine hours. Copious at 11 A.M., a soft, yellowish one at 3.30 P.M., an offensive one at 6.30, another stool at 10.30 P.M. and at 6.30 A.M., next day, afterwards two or three stools a day, at irregular times, not large, yellowish. Omitted second day, third day ineffectual desire several times, fourth day small, hard stool, fifty day copious, light-colored, twice, with crampy pain in hypogastrium, seventh day stool almost impossible on account of contraction of sphincter, eighth day desire in morning in bed, with cramp in stomach, but the desire left me after rising, ninth day constipation, tenth day hard, dark at 9 A.M., with urging nd pain in abdomen, urging at 9.05 A.M., with light stool, copious, yellow diarrhoea at 9.15 A.M., with burning smarting, eleventh day constipation.
Urinary Organs
Full feeling in bladder as from retention of urine. Frequent ineffectual desire. Frequent micturition. Pain in urethra after micturition. Urine muddy. Urine high colored and smelling strong. Urine scanty. Urine copious; in morning; in morning on rising, and clear, slightly yellow; in forenoon, with difficult retention of it; at night, and frequent micturition; and colorless; during the pain, and pale, odorless, and frequent micturition, containing mucus; and clear, urates diminished, phosphates increased.
Sexual Organs
Strong-smelling sweat, prepuce tender and swollen, with eruption on glans, which was easily excited, with burning itching. Frequent erections in forenoon, with slight desire. Emissions without dreams or excitement. Pain in womb as if menses were coming on. Leucorrhoea; at 4 P.M., with weakness. Condition like that induced by profuse flooding after delivery.
Clinical Irregular menstruation, with palpitation, congestion of the eyes, with occasional tonic spasms, rigidity of every muscle, but without loss of consciousness, sighing respiration.
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.