Full feeling; after breakfast; after eating a little (Lycopodium), declining on rumbling in abdomen; without enlargement; yet good appetite for dinner. Heaviness; in pit; in region; in pit in morning on waking; in evening; in region after eating. Distress from milk, it is vomited curdled. Anxiety from acids; A.., as in nausea. Oppression of pit. Throbbing in pit when sitting, with orgasm in chest, as if it would take away her breath, and faintness. Loss of digestive power. Emptiness; in region; in forenoon. Feeling of flabbiness in morning. Crawling, extending to throat.
Coldness; in epigastric region. Burning; in and about pit; in morning; in region in morning after waking, went from one side to the other when he turned over, (>) rising; after breakfast, and in oesophagus; in epigastric region when sitting quietly, with hacking in it; (<) walking and standing, and in abdomen with cutting and twisting; then rumbling in abdomen and diarrhoea. Heartburn; all day; in morning a crawling and burning in forepart of chest; in evening; in afternoon; after dinner; for half an hour after two soft-boiled eggs. Symptoms in pit (>) dinner.
Clinical Seasickness, vomiting of pregnancy, chronic catarrh of the stomach. Weakness and faintness at 11 A.M., with need to eat. Dyspepsia from carbonaceous food, especially from milk.
Abdomen
Distention (Lycopodium); in morning; in morning in bed, (>) emission of flatus; in forenoon,. (>) discharge of inodorous flatus, with qualmishness in abdomen; towards noon; in afternoon; in afternoon, with sore pain upon l. os ilii; about 6 P.M., with fulness about anus; in evening, with qualmishness; between 10 and 11 P.M., with emissions of flatus smelling like sulphuretted hydrogen, also at night; with cutting about navel and frequent waking; after eating a little; after eating, with heaviness; after a little food, with dyspnoea; after dinner; after a good stool; (<) evening, with hardness; with tympanitis; with tension and bearing down towards anus and tickling there; with bearing down towards colon, the latter (<) dinner; with rigor; with insufficient difficult stool; then semi-fluid stool; then soft stool in evening, with tenesmus and burning in anus, then hot offensive flatus, with griping in small of back; flatulent, in morning, during scanty menses, with pain in abdomen and small of back, in afternoon flow more profuse, with diminution of pains, which are generally (>) violent motion.
Rumbling; all day; at 5.15 A.M. after stool; in morning, with rattling; in afternoon, (>) emission of fetid flatus, with griping and feeling as if a loose stool would pass, at night; at night, with gurgling; at night, then copious, pappy, yellowish-green, fetid stool; after eating; after breakfast; after breakfast, with pinching; after breakfast, with burning in anus; after dinner; (>) breakfast, then warmth in stomach; with diarrhoea; with rattling; with movement, then thin scanty stool; then watery stool every half hour; as from foaming beer, morning and evening, then sudden urging to stool, with cutting, first part of stool hard, the rest liquid.
Gurgling. Bubbling. Grumbling after dinner, not (>) afternoon stool (an unusual thing for me). Wanderings. Movements of flatus, causing stickling, (<) l. hypochondrium; M. as of the fist of a child. Flatulence (Lycopodium). Emission of flatus; in morning on rising and in evening; after dinner; (<) evening and night; offensive; smelling of sulphuretted hydrogen, also at 2 P.M., then liquid stool of the same odor; smelling of sulphur; smelling of sulphur, then thin and pasty stool; inodorous. (Ulcers in intestines.)
Stitches; in morning, with griping; at night, then frequent emissions of flatus; with cutting, waking her about midnight; here and there in parietes, (<)groins, now r., now l., (>) warmth of bed; extending into anus; sudden, shooting through whole body. Cutting; in morning in bed; about 4 and 6 P.M.,(>) warm cloths, with tenesmus and diarrhoea; in A. and small of back, waking her after midnight, then diarrhoea and tenesmus, then also three times next morning; after dinner; before urinating; after a stool that was first hard, then soft; with frequent pasty stools; with diarrhoea and stitches in anus with sore feeling deep in A.; then soft stool, with bloody mucus; as if menses would come on, in evening, with weakness on ascending steps.
Griping (Pulsatilla, etc.); in morning before stool; at 9 A.M.; at noon, then liquid stool; in afternoon; in afternoon, with tension; at 4 P.M., then call to stool, which was pappy, yellowish-green; in evening, and frequent fluid stools; at night; at night, then two thin fetid stools; at night, with diarrhoea three times; before and during stool, which occurred four times a day; before a soft stool; before stool, with working and emission of flatus, at times with pain as if anus would be torn apart, with straining at stool or tenesmus after stool; then soft fetid stool, pain in umbilical region and tympanitic distention of abdomen, not (<) emission of flatus, smelling of sulphuretted hydrogen; after stool (Aloe); after stool, (<) r. side; (>) liquid stool; with diarrhoea; with ineffectual urging to stool.
Pinching; about noon, then discharge of flatus; in evening, (>) discharge of flatus; then at down copious stool; after breakfast, with grumbling; after dinner; after dinner, with coldness. Burrowing.
Pain; in evening; after 5 P.M., (<) hypochondria and umbilical region, with contractive pain, and in hypogastrium feeling of paralysis; at 9 P.M.; at night when lying on her back, with cutting insides of A. and drawing together about umbilicus, next night threatened with a similar attack when lying on back, (>) turning quickly on to side, then pinching about umbilicus, (>) emission of flatus; before every stool; after eating; on touch and on walking; from every draught of air; before going to sleep; then leucorrhoea; (<) night in bed, (>) emission of flatus; (>) diarrhoea; with evacuation of round worms and hard stool; with red slimy stool, fever, loss of appetite and lying down; waking him at 5 A.M., with desire for stool, desire (>) emission of flatus smelling like sulphuretted hydrogen, repeated at 7 and 8, when there were scanty but consistent stools; forcing one to bend up; occasionally, in forenoon, (<) hypochondria, with pinching.
Bruised pain in muscles on touch; in parietes in forenoon at every step; after stool; pain at night as if internally bruised and congested with blood. Clothes press upon A. Parietes sensitive; after dinner. Soreness after stool; as if raw, (<) a full breath, cough or violent exercise; as if everything in it were raw, as after child-birth, and something in it seemed to move, or a sudden sticking in it shooting into head. Flatulent nightly pain, with retching, anxiety and Dullness of head. Pain as if a hernia would form. Drawing pain during menses.
Pressure downward at night, waking her. Constriction during stool; C. (<) uterine region; sudden, at night; spasmodic, extending to chest, groins and genitals. Tension (Hep-s., Lycopodium); in morning; in evening, (>) two liquid stools; (>) diarrhoea; of muscles, so that he could not easily straighten up; as from incarcerated flatus; tense, pressed sensation after dinner, (<)hypochondrium, with anxious mood., Anxiety, then weakness in feet extending above malleoli, like an internal trembling. Uneasiness after a short sleep. Feeling as if something were forced up through the intestines. Qualmishness. Troubles from farinaceous food. Chilliness after eating. Burning, with anxiety;
Upper A.- Rumbling; as of great bubbles on waking before midnight. Sticking in small intestines. Cutting, as if in chest. Pain as if everything were loosened and congested with blood, on motion and breathing. Sensitiveness so that the clothes pressed disagreeably.
Hypochondria.- Pain extending over sacrum into coccyx and feeling as if everything would come out at anus; P. transversely across beneath ribs (diaphragm?) on coughing and blowing nose. Soreness on touch in morning; in evening. Painful drawing in forenoon. Discomfort in H. and praecordial region in afternoon, extending to throat, caused by tension, pinching and tearing, now in stomach and now in region of spleen and back, slightly (>) empty eructations.
Hepatic Region. Bile increased (Aloe, Podophyllum, etc.) Liver seemed swollen, which hindered breathing. Action of liver impaired, with bilious vomiting and diarrhoea. Sticking; (<) walking in open air; outward; backward through liver at noon; burning, when sitting bent over. Griping when walking. Boring after dinner. Pain; after dinner; on touch; with dry cough; with constriction; in liver, waking him at night, with yellowness of white of eye; sudden, and under r. clavicle; drawing, taking away her breath, with necessity to walk bent over all day; tensive and burning. Intermittent throbbing and twitching.
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.