Dyspepsia; with constipation and irregularly occurring pain or cramp in abdomen; with loss of appetite, usually clean tongue, sweetish taste, salivation, frequent nausea, pressure and heaviness in pit of stomach, sometimes with pain and confusion in head, malaise and prostration.
Clinical Gastralgia, pains sudden, violent, compelling hard pressure on the abdomen, (>) eructations,. Periodic vomiting of brown or black liquid, with violent cramps. Periodic attacks of vomiting food (Ferrum, Veratrum).
Abdomen
Retraction; with hardness and pain at umbilicus radiating to lumbar region and iliac fossae so that he rolled on the ground and pressed the abdomen; with hard knots over its surface; (<) over median line, with tension of muscles; (<) along recti muscles, causing a sort of canal from ensiform cartilage to pubis; in spots, distention in other places, muscles distinctly seen through the skin; anterior wall on same plane with ensiform cartilage and pubis; tense; tense, (<) hypogastrium; feeling to hand on palpitation as if muscles were affected by cramps; with retention of stool and urine and cramps. Parietes seemed glued to spine, I could grasp the curvature of the spine and take hold of the descending aorta.
Distention; of A. and loins, with pain on touch; flatulent. Ascites, with at times violent diarrhoea. Muscles rigid. Hard; and flat; and uneven, sunken along the median line while the sides are elevated; and at times distended by flatulence, often spasmodically contracted. Hard lumps. Uneven swellings on various parts, (<) during height of paroxysms; movable flatulent S., in various parts. Doughy to feel. Rumbling; in morning after rising, with gurgling, later a stool at first formed, then violent purging; in evening, with movements. Gurgling; (<) pressure. Dull sound anteriorly on percussion.
Movement in afternoon, with desire for stool but only flatus was passed. Flatulence; and movements, then soft stools; everything that he takes seems to turn to wind. Emission of flatus; offensive; offensive, after eating fish; hot. Ineffectual efforts to pass flatus in afternoon, which afterwards is accomplished by pressure. Spasms of intestines. Spasmodic contractions, (<) during hiccough, with tearing, (>) lying on A., sometimes body and limbs are jerked about, with chattering of teeth; S. contractions, with pain and sensitiveness so that he could not bear the pressure of the bed-clothes. Ulceration. Inflammation, with pain on touch, anxiety and burning in intestines and general twitching, then death; I. of intestines, mesentery and peritoneum, with ulceration and gangrene; of viscera and mesentery, with creeping fever, turbid, red and thick urine.
Lancinations; in evening; worse in epigastrium and umbilicus, (<) pressure; in walls, worse by paroxysms, renewed by bending head on chest when stretched out in bed; extending into back and loins. Paroxysmal tearing, worse at umbilicus, (>) pressure. Cutting; in morning, then emission of flatus; during soft stool, with cutting in anus; transiently (>) stool; flatulent, in morning in bed. Pinching. Griping; in evening; in forepart rising paroxysmally towards stomach, which is sore, like a faintness, with rumbling after stool. Enteritis. Ileus. Leucophlegmasia. Typhus abdominalis, with nephritis, nosebleed, enlargement of spleen and liver, without marked eruption, often with hypostatic pleuro-pneumonia. Intermittent boring usually beginning in umbilical region, often extending to of ap-chest, threatening suffocation, to small of back, kidney, bladder, lower limbs, always with constipation, abdomen usually retracted, pulse slow. Acute pain, then profuse diarrhoea.
Colic; after eating, with flatulent distention; then stool, with febrile movement, debility and drowsiness, later attacks of C. with constipation: (<) morning and evening: (<) night; (<) eating; (<) cold; (<) touch; (<) pressure; (<) slight pressure, (>) firm pressure (Coloc.); in front wall, (<) light pressure, (>) strong pressure; (<) sudden pressure, (>) gradual pressure; (<) pressure of hand, (>) lying on abdomen; (>) warmth; (>) during pregnancy: (>) emission of flatus, with painful flatulent distention below navel; most acute in hypogastrium, then in umbilicus and epigastrium; with pain in kidneys and lower limbs; with inflammatory symptoms; with tension, then bilious vomiting; worse in umbilical region, with tension and with hectic fever; with closure of jaws, conclusive movements of eyes and limbs, uneasiness and impeded micturition; with anxiety, retching and retracted testicles; with restlessness, delirium and paralysis of upper limbs; with bruised pain in forepart of thigh, in knees, calves, soles and loins, with loss of animal contractility in upper limb; with nausea, vomiting and constipation; with tenesmus and diarrhoea; with diarrhoea; with diarrhoea, then constipation; with offensive stools; with paralysis; with paralysis of thighs; with paralysis of r. extensor communis digitorum; radiating to all parts of body; extending to testicles, (>) lying on abdomen; extending to lower limbs, (<) feet; so that she doubled up like a worm; alternating with pain in head and joints; causing uneasiness, confusion of mind and faintness; wandering; arthralgic; periodical. Paroxysmal colic; during micturition, micturition suddenly stops and the painful penis is retracted, when the fit is over the urine flows freely again, during and after micturition smarting along urethra; (>) pressure, but sensitiveness between the paroxysms; worse at umbilicus, (>) pressure; (>) stools, then uneasiness in A. causing him to press it, constipation and attacks of pain; worse at umbilicus, with burning which often changed to insensibility of abdominal wall; with restlessness; with watery stool containing much mucus; doubling him up.
Twisting pain. Paroxysmal twisting pain, worse at umbilicus, (>) pressure; worse at umbilicus, scarcely felt in hypogastrium, between the paroxysms compression, abdomen tense; worse at epigastrium, compressive pain between the paroxysms, the attacks (>) inflating abdomen and by pressure, he kept moving, screamed, rose from bed, struck his abdomen, face shrunken, eyes hollow and dim, between the paroxysms abdomen sunken and hard.
Sensitiveness to touch; (<) food; (<) below ensiform cartilage; (<) at stomach and r. side, with pain ascending oesophagus to throat; pain on pressure of two fingers, pressure with palm not much felt. Constrictive pain. Burning pain, (<) epigastrium, worse by paroxysms, with distended feeling. Tension. Sensation in afternoon as if full and stopped. Confused feeling. Uneasiness; with ineffectual urging to stool, but not excessive constipation, this U. or pain gradually crept around to lumbar region, where it became fixed, but by degrees spread over the system, (<) lower limbs, with general debility and indisposition to motion, later inactivity of bowels, gnawing, (<) lumbar region and abdomen, tired feeling in limbs, restlessness, relief from effectual, stirring of bowels, Heat; rising into head; internally, with twisting about umbilicus, sticking in back and sensation as if something were lying on it, and pain in pit of stomach. Paralysis of intestines and bladder; intestines gradually lose the ability to expel their contents.
Upper A. Griping. Pain; acute, between epigastrium and hypogastrium, a less severe P. extending around hypogastrium; counteractive, (>) eating, with increased appetite. Painless sensation as if something were torn off and fell, then movements in abdomen.
Hypochondria. Distended and tympanitic, with gurgling in various parts of abdomen on pressure, pain in umbilical region on pressure, retention of stool and suppression of urine. Lacerations as with arrows in different directions in H. and iliac region, Pain (<) touch; bruised, transversely across muscles below ribs and about naval on pressure, coughing and the like, (<) rising from lying.
Liver. Enlarged, Contracted. Cirrhosis. Sticking in region; in region, anteriorly, then posteriorly. Pain; in region of pressure. Heat, and in spine.
Spleen. Large. Diseased. Sticking in region, (>) rubbing; S. in region extending backward; inward in region, (>) rubbing, returning worse than ever. Tearing in region posteriorly towards back, where it becomes sticking in afternoon. Pain in region. Sensitiveness in region; and in kidneys.
Sides. Induration of muscles from l. false ribs to crista ilii and from dorsal vertebrae to l. rectus muscle. Sticking in l. Tearing in flanks down to bladder, with regular exacerbations. Pain drawing towards back as from distention. Sensation as if something had fallen down in l. Creeping as of mouse in l.
Umbilical Region. Seems to adhere to spine; with pain involving chest; approximates spine, also anus drawn towards abdomen. Swelling in U. and hypogastrium, evidently from aggregation of intestinal folds, during acute attacks. Movements; back and forth below umbilicus, like a rough substance. Intermittent bubbling. Tense. Shooting to other parts of A., (>) pressure, so violent at times that he was almost wild, tossed about, pressed his fists into his abdomen, said he must go to stool, abdominal wall retracted, vomiting of greenish bile, breath offensive; S. extending to r. and l.; S. deep internally below umbilicus; and in pubic region. Intermittent tearing, (>) pressure. Cramp. Cutting during stool. Griping in afternoon, (>) emission of flatus: G., then burning; then ineffectual desire for stool, (>) emission of flatus. Boring and constriction, and above it. Pain; above navel; and in back; on vomiting; (>) pressure; (>) gradual pressure, sometimes he can allow two or three persons to lie on his abdomen, at other times aggravation from slightest touch; then constipation; obliging him to draw up legs; extending to r. hypogastric region; extending towards hypogastrium; extending to hypogastrium, with nausea, vomiting and strangury; radiating over abdomen, (<) direction of recti muscles with general uneasiness, the pain became lacerating, caused restlessness and moaning, with attacks of bitter, bilious, green vomiting, metallic taste, anorexia, lack of thirst, chilliness, cramp in lower limbs, sleeplessness and anxiety; periodically. Paroxysmal pain; (>) pressure; and in a circle all around abdomen and corresponding part of trunk, (>) hard pressure, (<) gentle pressure; and if bowels were torn out, extending to hypogastrium and testicles. Twitching pains, and in hypogastrium, pressure made them rise up to breasts. Twisting pain, shooting through to back and down limbs. Paroxysmal twisting pain, (>) pressure, also in hypogastrium, epigastrium regions; (>) pressure, also in hypogastrium, epigastrium and base of chest between the pains constriction, (<) pressure, with hardness of abdomen; and in hypogastrium, with rolling about, etc., face shrunken and expressive of anguish, abdomen, (<) about umbilicus, retracted and hard, pains (<) pressure, between the paroxysms constriction; (<) below navel, less in hypogastrium, with restlessness and rubbing of abdomen. Tenderness. Contraction transversely about middle of abdomen when sitting bent over. Constriction as from a cord around body. Feeling of a bar across under umbilicus, then pain rising towards stomach, sometimes extending into back and loins, (>) pressure on abdomen, (<) night, generally with yellow Sclerotics, stool once in several days, or two or three stools sin one day. Internal burning.
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.