Introduction
Calcium iodatum; Iodide of lime, CaI. Preparation: Triturations.
Mind
Indifferent to anything which may happen (after three-quarters of an hour).
Head
Light headed (after three-quarters of an hour. Slight giddy headache (after eight and three-quarters hours). Sensation as though my head wasn’t, yet was (after three-quarters of an hour). Slight pain in the head, with heaviness over the eyes and nose (after four hours and five minutes). Fulness of the head (after three and a half hours). Attack of the small dull headache as he experienced after the first dose (immediately). On waking in the morning, he had still the same dull aching as he had the previous night (after ten hours). Forehead. Very severe headache over the forehead and in the temples, while riding against cold wind (after one and a half hours). Fulness in the forehead, aggravated by stooping. Severe aching in the forehead, afterwards most severe in the left temple. Severe dull aching over the forehead and sides of the face, worse in the right temple. Severe dull headache in the forehead (after five minutes). Constant dull pain in the forehead, ever since first taking the drug (third day). Severe dull pain in the forehead and over the right side of the face, with dull pain in the first upper molar tooth on the same side, on waking in the morning (after ten hours). Dull heavy pain in the forehead (after ten minutes). Temples. Severe headache in both temples, while making the 2D cent. trit. Constant dull pain in the temples, ever since first taking the drug (third day). Severe dull headache in both temples, especially in the right (after five minutes). Dull pain in both temples, especially in the left, and over the root of the nose (after half an hour). Sharp piercing pain in the right temple (after ten minutes).
Eyes
Pain over the eyes (after eight and three-quarters hours).
Ears
Numbness and ringing in the ears (after one hour).
Mouth
Dry furred feeling on lips and tongue (after one and a quarter hours). Mouth and gums burn like fire (after five minutes). Bitter taste in the mouth, but not disagreeable, like myrrh (after one hour and forty minutes). Bitter taste, partially relieved by tobacco (after two hours). Taste at first sweetish, afterwards slightly astringent and metallic. Astringent taste, like alum (after five minutes).
Stomach
Inclined to belch wind (after one hour). Slight hiccough (after one hour). Slight nausea (after one and a quarter hours).
Abdomen
Rumbling in the bowels, with discharge of wind (after one hour and five minutes). Constant evacuation of large quantities of wind downward. Evacuation of large quantities of wind, after rising (after ten hours). Slight pain in the abdomen.
Heart and Pulse
Pulse regular and soft, 80.
Neck and Back
Stiffness of the back of the neck (after eight and three-quarters hours). Stiffness of the neck continues (after forty minutes).
Superior Extremities
Dull, heavy lameness in the posterior surface of the right arm. Severe laming pain in the external portion of the right arm, with numbness of the hands and fingers.
Inferior Extremities
Tired feeling in the lower limbs, especially in the calves of the legs. Pain across the anterior surface of the upper third of both thighs, as if he had been beaten.
Generalities
Easy, indolent feeling (after three-quarters of an hour). Weariness of the whole body.
Skin
Itching in various parts of the body, disappearing and reappearing in other parts, only relieved after much scratching (after one hour). Persistent itching on the right elbow, followed by the same on the left knee.
Aggravation
(Morning), On waking, pain in forehead, etc.; after rising, evacuation of wind. (While riding against a cold wind), Headache over forehead, etc. (Stooping), Fulness in the forehead.
Amelioration
(Tobacco), Bitter taste.
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.