Stool
Liquid, slimy, frequent. Diarrhoea and much flatus; D. after miscarriage; painless D., with rumbling. Soft at first, then hard. Hard and painful, then discharge of blood from anus, which is painful to pressure; (H., with tenesmus). Too early. Frequent and bloody, None during the day; next day slight urging several times, then towards evening a scanty, thick, pasty stool.
Urinary Organs
Burning pain in vesical region, Inflammation of urethra, with pain and purulent gonorrhoea. Smarting in urethra during micturition. Urging; but scanty urine, then feeling as if she would pass more. Frequent micturition; even at night he wakes to urinate, urine often turbid when passed; twice in an hour, slight increase in amount. Retention of urine, with burning and dribbling discharge. Urine increased, dark yellow; scanty, but often high-colored.
Sexual Organs
Glans, dark redness; hard swelling on dorsum of penis not far from glands, the skin over which is movable, the S. feels like cartilage, is flat towards the median line, with a swollen border, is harder and more manifest during erection, with dull, tensive sensation; burning sore pain in. G. and figwarts, (<) touch; pressure backward through whole penis, with sticking; stinging itching in morning. Violent and frequent erections day and night. Fraenum swollen and tense. Paroxysmal pain in fraenum. Pain in foreskin, he cannot draw it back. Intermittent drawing pain in r. spermatic cord. Contused pain in r. testicle. Intermittent tensive sensation in l. testicle, with pressure. Figwarts sensitive. Desire increased; and slight excitement causes violent and continuous erections, with aversion to coition.
Female. Os tincae is open, discharge red, profuse and paroxysmal, (<) motion. Sticking extending backward deep in vagina. Leucorrhoea, with itching of pudenda; milky L. causing itching. Haemorrhage from uterus; at the period of the menses. Counteractive pain in region of uterus. Menses profuse for nine days; P., she passes clots of blood after rising; violent M. returned three days after menses had ceased, with colic and labor pains, the blood partly clotted, there was less discharge of red urine, with strangury, and discharge of a slimy fluid from vagina; miscarriage, metrorrhagia; miscarriage at three months and a half, preceded by thin, black blood. Desire increased and consequent gratification.
Clinical Uterine pains, pressure towards the groins, extending into the thighs. Dysmenorrhoea, pains shooting down the thighs; pain in the small of the back, extending around the pelvis, drawing, aching pains extending through from sacrum to pubis. Uterine haemorrhage, bright red flow, (<) every motion, pain extending from sacrum through to pubis. Uterine Haemorrhage in plethoric women; the haemorrhage sometimes ceases on walking about, especially with the characteristic pains from the small of the back to genitals and down then thighs; adapted to gouty temperaments. Occasionally called for in dark haemorrhage, with the characteristic pain. Irregular menstruation, becoming almost incessant. Threatening miscarriage, with pains from back to pubis. Amenorrhoea, especially with pain in extremities, etc. After-pains, with tendency to haemorrhage. Acrid leucorrhoea, with much biting and itching, during pregnancy. Offensive leucorrhoea after profuse menstruation.
Respiratory Organs
Crawling and tickling in larynx, exciting cough and slimy expectoration; C. as if something were crawling out of larynx. Dry, hacking cough, with tickling in trachea, next day expectoration streaked with blood. Asthma increasing to arrest of breath. Breathing labored and stertorous. Breathing short.
Chest
Haemoptysis. Swelling of breasts. Trembling in substance of lung behind r, border of sternum, often during the day, sounding like rattling or snapping, as of electric sparks, somewhat like the creaking of new ice when walking over it. Sticking in l. nipple; in l. side; on l. side, below manubrium of sternum; posteriorly in l. side, in region of two last ribs; in region of r. last true ribs, towards sternum, on inspiration; below sternum, (<) inspiration, sensation as if breathing were difficult from tightness of chest; intermittent, in clavicle; inward in l. nipple; burning, in l.; sore, in xiphoid cartilage, (<) deep inspiration and touch, (>) rest. Tearing above l. nipple, (<) touch, and in l. axilla. Cutting above pit of stomach.
Pain near l. nipple; in sternum on touch; tensive, in middle of sternum, with pressure; in sternum, as if it encroached upon chest and curved inward, (<) inspiration; spasmodic, in front above pit of stomach, extending across chest like a band, after a quick walk, (<) inspiration. Pressure rushing into it like a wind, chest feels dilated and yet oppressed. Oppression, with desire to inspire deeply, which relieves to O., later inspiration are difficult, they cause sticking on l. side behind union of cartilages of short ribs. Fulness, with cough. Burning in r. lower ribs. Fulness, with cough. Burning in r. lower false ribs, with pressure. Crawling in nipples, with pleasurable sensation.
Heart
Beasts stronger, sometimes more rapid, fuller and felt over a larger space, afterwards weaker after the siesta. Beating increased and more violent in afternoon, alternating with pulsations through abdomen, accompanied by drowsiness, but inability to sleep.
Pulse
Strong; and full. Tense, at times rapid, at times slow. Feeble.
Neck
Tearing in muscles; T. between l. mastoid process and angle of jaw, with pressure. Pain in l. muscles; intermittent, in a sport in r. side when walking in open air, (<) pressure; bruised, in muscles and vertebrae. Frequent rheumatic drawing in l. muscles.
Back
Labor-like pain, extending along Poupart’s ligaments down thighs, then bloody, slimy discharge from vagina. Sticking in dorsal vertebrae; in region of dorsal vertebrae. (<) inspiration. Pain in a spot below l. scapula, (>) moving arm; in soft parts above border of l. scapula during rest, (>) evening during motion; paralytic, in muscles of l. S., with burning, gradually extending over l. side of thorax.
Lumbar Region. Sticking darting into it when stooping, then tension as if parts were torn, obliging him to remain for some time, later in bed chill without thirst. Tearing in lumbar muscles, lowest dorsal vertebrae and in adjacent parts of ribs, (<) bending body, with pressure. Drawing pain extending into pubic region. Uneasiness and dragging forward like weak labor-pains. Pain obliging him to bend inward, when there is voluptuous pain in the same; intermittent pain in r. renal region; paralytic pain, (>) bending backward, with desire to stretch; paralytic, (<) l. side. Painful drawing, (<) bending backward, such as she is accustomed to feel before menses.
Extremities
Convulsions. Cracking of joints. Tearing sticking in joints, with swollen sensation and with drawing sticking through long bones. Arthritic pain in r. great toe, which was red, shining, swollen, with boring sticking, inability to move foot or toe of bear least pressure upon it, later this pain appeared in r. wrist and hand, had was stiff, unable to grasp anything, afterwards it changed to l. hand. Drawing pain in bones, (<) walking, (<) tibiae, extending to feet; in bones, beginning in middle and spreading to joints, where the pain was worse, (>) open air, Paralytic pain in joints, (<) exertion; Intermittent, internally above l. knee, drawing upward, once also above r. wrist. Weakness, with despondency.
Clinical Chronic arthritis and gout, (>) open air, (<) warmth, with general depression; the pains involve the shoulders, elbows, hips and knees; often accompanied by pulsation in different bloodvessels. Arthritic nodes.
Upper Extremities
Shoulder sticking like electricity, extending to tip of elbow, and at the same time from wrist to elbow; sprained pain in r. joint; pain in l. with drawing; rheumatic pain in l. joint; pressure in joints. Tearing in r. arm when lying, so that he stretched it out. Weakness of l. arm. Upper arm, paralytic tearing along r. to hand; stinging extending inwards near elbows; pain extending inward near elbows, (<) motion and touch; pain extending inward in muscles, (<) touch. Drawing paralytic pain from head of l. humerus to elbow. Paralytic drawing in head of l. humerus during motion, with weakness.
Sticking in outer condyles of elbows; in outer side of l. E., (>) motion. Paralytic pain in and around l. elbow, (<) leaning arm on anything. Pain in r. radius, (<) motion or touch. Forearm, sudden pickings when sitting; tingling weakness in l.; heaviness on flexion after coition, with bruised feeling and anxiety, obliging him to move arms often.
Wrist. Sprained pain in l., increasing till he could not move hand. Paralytic drawings in l. Stiffness of l., with luxation pain, later the pain weeping and being beside herself, she had to to move the painful hand from side to side with the sound one or keep it straight, hand could not hang down, the pain (>) Aconitum.
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.