Common name: Spanish Fly.
Introduction
Cantharis vesicatoria, Geoff. (Meloe vesicator, Linn.; Lytta vesicator, Fabr)., Insecta, class, Coleoptera. Preparation: Tincture (or triturations, used for some of the provings) of the imported dried beetles.
Mind
Emotional. Apparently intoxicated (first day). Appears intoxicated and crazy. Excited mood. General excitement; they rose from bed and ran about the room, racked by vomiting and copious stools. Frenzy. Raging frenzy. Violent frenzy of three days continuance (during convalescence), (one case). Delirium (after two days). Delirium in evening. Delirious at night (second day). Delirium and convulsions. Furious delirium. Constant, complete, furious, almost frenzied delirium. He talked deliriously when lying, sitting, and walking, disconnectedly of his business and of people who had long since been dead. Senseless talking. Visions at night, when half awake; she heard soft steps in the room, then knocking under the bed, and the bed was raised up (midnight). Visions at midnight, while awake, lying with the right hand on the left shoulder; something took hold of her hand, and bent it several times up and down, then it seemed as if some one took her by the throat with ice-cold hands (fourteenth night). Everything affects him more profoundly than usual, so that he is obliged to cry very much (second day). Screaming, with legs drawn upon thighs. Piercing screams and frequent loss of consciousness. Incessant groaning (second day). Very active, happy; she feels as if newly born; the room and all the objects appear clearer to her and more pleasant (sixth day). Great depression, incessant moaning (third day). Extreme despondency and faintheartedness; she says she must die. Melancholy and anxious after dinner, soon disappearing. Distrust of himself, like a hypochondriac (in the afternoon). Anxiety. Anxiety, which increases from moment to moment. Anxiety in the morning, as if he expected something very important (after twenty hours). Great anxiety. Great anxiety. Extreme anxiety. Increasing anxiety, with trembling over the whole body; the trembling continues while walking in the open air (after two hours). Internal anxiety. She is anxious, without knowing why (after a quarter of an hour). He is as anxious as if he had committed a murder; it seems to arise from the stomach (after half an hour). Easily irritated by offenses. Ill-humor. Fretful only in the morning, when rising. Discontented, talkative (after three hours). Discontented, morose, peevish (after two hours). Discontented, absorbed in thought (after two hours). Very peevish, irritable during the pains, in the evening. Very peevish, brawling; nobody does anything to suit her (second day). Extremely passionate and angry. Churlish mood (second day). Morose disposition. Very morose, anxious, lachrymose (third day, forenoon). Very morose, lazy, sleepy, melancholy, peevish. An insolent and contradictory mood, in the afternoon. Alarmed and agitated (after three weeks). Fright and dreams of falling (ninth and tenth nights). Instability. Intellectual. In the morning, great depression of the mental powers (second day). Mental confusion. In the morning, some hours after rising, very distracted in mind, and many ideas of various kinds run through his mind, which he cannot keep away. When he wishes to think of anything, he immediately loses his thoughts; his gaze remains fixed in silence on one object (which, however, he scarcely notices), and he has trouble in recollecting himself in order to express a few words coherently (second day). Dulness of perception, followed by stupidity and a loss of the reflecting faculty. Very forgetful. Loss of consciousness (second day). Completely unconscious (fourth day). Coma (after fourteen days). After a sudden attack of severe pain in head, pain in right side, chilliness, trembling, and universal spasms, he again sunk into a comatose state; then, until death, alternately lethargic, comatose, rational, or convulsed.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confused head (second day). Confusion of the head, and especially a sort of heaviness in the vertex (after half an hour). In the morning, confusion of the head, with pulsation in the forehead, for several hours. Head very much confused and dull. Confusion of the forehead, as well as a slight pressing and drawing in it (after twelve hours). Vertigo. Vertigo and staggering. Vertigo and fainting. On walking in the open air, vertigo, with very transient attack of unconsciousness, during which there seemed to be a fog before his eyes, returning several times in half an hour (first day). Dizzy and weak in the head. Giddiness (after half an hour). Tottering about, as if dizzy (tenth, eleventh, and twelfth days). General Head. Brain congested. Heaviness of the head. Head heavy, with dull pressing, worse on motion. Head and hair feel stiff to him (after three weeks). Pain in the head, trembling, and universal spasms, followed by coma (seventh day). Dull pain in the head. His head is heavy and confused. Headache. Headache. Headache, the whole day. Headache, disappearing after breakfast (one hour). Headache, sometimes with delirium. Headache and shivering (after fourteen days). Headache, boring, drawing, tearing, throbbing, and pressing, all together. Headache, with heat in the forehead, which is also perceptible externally (after three-quarters of an hour). Headache, with dizziness (after three weeks). Headache, dragging and tearing only on motion; on stooping and turning the head, immediately, a sensation starting from the neck and pressing the head forward with a feeling as if everything would press out at the forehead. Headache, very severe, like a pressure in the vertex, alternating with sensitive throbbing, aggravated by every motion, at 8 P.M. (third day). Increased headache, with, at intervals, slight delirium. Violent headache (eleventh day, forenoon). Pressing-sticking headache in the forenoon and evening, which disappears on walking. Head oppressed. Sticking- pressing and pain as if sore in the whole head, with sensation as if the pains would extend through the eyes. Cutting stitches in the head, which wake him from sleep. Violent pain, as if sore, internally in the head. Forehead. Heaviness and dulness in the forehead, deep in the brain, with a sensation as if her head were being pressed forward (after two hours). Headache, like a heaviness, in the forehead (fourth morning). Dull pain in forehead (second day). Headache in the forehead, extending to both temples. Slight aching in the forehead, like a tearing (after one hour). Slight headache in the frontal and suborbital regions. He was wakened at night by headache, a pressing-out in the forehead, which disappeared on sitting up in bed. Stitching in the right frontal region (after two hours and a half). Tearing in the forehead. Tearing in the forehead and in the nape of the neck. Tearing, first in the forehead, next in the region of the right ear, then in the lower jaw, and finally on the ear again, where it disappeared (seventeenth day). A stitch in the left frontal eminence, on standing. Pressive headache in the region above the nose. Temple. Compression of both temples towards each other. A pain in the right temple, as if it would be forced out, whence the sensation passed down toward the teeth. Gnawing in the periosteum of the right temporal bone (after one hour). Stitching in the left temple (after two hours and a half). Fine stitching in the right temple, which becomes a painful throbbing, disappearing on rubbing. Several small stitches in the right temple, in the afternoon. Tearing in both temples (second day). Tearing in the right temple (after a meal). A tearing in the right temple (after four hours). A couple of tearings in the right temple (after three hours). Throbbing externally in the right temple, and a painful drawing in the bone at the same place (after two hours and a quarter). Vertex. Pressing on the vertex and in the temples, with stitching in the temples, especially the right. Painful tearings on the vertex, with sensation as if a lock of hair were bring drawn upward (fourth forenoon). Parietals. Drawing pain in the left side of the head and in the forehead. Stitching in the left side of the head (second morning). Stitching in the right side of the head, in the afternoon. Tearing and stitching in the right side of the head. Dull headache in the left half of the head. Stitching in the left parietal bone, and at the same time tearing in the same jaw, while speaking (one hour after dinner). Stitching in the upper part of the right parietal bone (after seven hours and a half ). Very violent, painful stitching in the left parietal bone, then boring in the left ear (after seven hours). Very acute stitches in the right side of the head, with throbbing, in the evening, when sitting and when standing. Tearing in the right parietal bone, disappearing of its own accord (after two hours). Painful throbbing in the right side of the head, deep internally (after two hours and a half). Occiput. Painful twitching in the right occipital bone, externally (after two hours and a half). In the evening, on lying down, a sticking-pressing pain in the occiput. Stitching in the left occiput, after dinner. In the upper part of the occiput, intolerable stitching and tearing from both sides inward (after three hours and a half). Stitches deep into brain on the right occipital bone, more in the upper part, in the afternoon. Many dull violent stitches in succession in the occiput, so that the pain extended into the forehead, deep internally, in the afternoon. Tearing from the left side of the occiput into the forehead on the left side, with vertigo, which lasted longer than the pain (after half an hour). External Head. The hair falls out very much on combing. On the right occipital bone, several fine stitches in the skin (after two hours and three-quarters), then several tearings as if in the left parietal bone.
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.