Introduction
Calcium sulphate, CaSO4. Preparation: Triturations.
Mind
Emotional. Good spirits, but inclined to solitude (twenty-first day). Special good nature, late in afternoon (first day). Excessive gayety of spirits, in the afternoon, (twenty- seventh day). Good spirits; best about 6 P.M. (ninth and thirteenth day). Hilarious good humor always after taking drug, with eructations and sore taste (second day). Great depression of spirits (forty- eighth day). Excessive, bitter melancholy, with distressing apprehensions of the evil to loved ones (forty-ninth day). Inclined to brooding, gloomy melancholy; easily aroused to take part in conversation, etc., but never cheerful (fourteenth day). General low spiritedness, especially in the afternoon and evening (twentieth day). Excessive grieved melancholy, in afternoon and evening (forty-seventh day). Rather gloomy and moody in evening, and very weary (fiftieth day). Excessive melancholy all day, but easily diverted (twelfth day). Very low-spirited in early evening, then more cheerful then “blue” again (fifty-sixth day). Very irritable late in afternoon, less so in evening (twenty- fourth day). Quarrelsome (fourth day). Intellectual. Good spirits, but a dazed state of mind in evening (twentieth day). Suddenly, after lunch, lose all memory and power of thought, can scarcely remember what I was going to do; old issues, which have been long decided, are presented to mind, and I can’t recall may decision (forty-seventh day).
Head
Spasmodic throbbing headache, mostly in right frontal region, in morning (twenty-third day). Headache and inflammation of eyes (thirty-fourth day). Forehead. Frontal headache (sixth day). Frontal headache, in morning and evening (thirty-second day). Frontal headache, in the afternoon, worse on right side (third day). Worse after afternoon nap, having frontal headache and some influenza (fourth day). Slight frontal headache (twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth day, etc.). Slight frontal headache, passing to temporal region in evening (thirty-first day). Slight frontal headache, with some fever but no sweat (thirtieth day). Severe frontal headache (ninth day). Severe frontal headache, worse in the forenoon (thirty-fifth day). Severe frontal headache in evening (twenty-fifth day). Severe frontal headache after dinner (thirteenth day). Severe frontal headache, worse after dinner and in evening (fifty-fifth day). Vertex. Darting pain in vertex in the afternoon, after dinner (forty-third day). Neuralgic pains in left side of head and forehead, an hour after tea; soon passed (tenth day). External Head. Hard, tender swellings on scalp, in edge of hair (thirty-second day). Pimples appear on scalp (seventh day). Pimples on scalp disappear and leave a yellow scab (eleventh day).
Eyes
Inflammation of eyes, most about 6, and less at 10 P.M. (second day). Inflammation of eyes at night (seventeenth and eighteenth day). Slight inflammation of the eyes (thirty-second and thirty- fourth day). Slight inflammation of the eyes, in the forenoon (fifth day). Considerable inflammation of the eyes (thirty fifth day). Severe inflammation of the eyes, worse in the corners of the eyes and in evening (forty-eighth day). Eyes smart in afternoon and in evening (thirty-eighth day). Eyelids smart, especially in inner corners, and in morning (forty-sixth day). Conjunctive of eyes yellow (eighteenth day). Pressing pain in left eyeball (second day). Cutting pain in left eyeball, with some soreness; in the evening (third day). Vision. Sees only half an object late in evening (forty-ninth day).
Ears
Takes dark-brown wax from right ear in morning (ninth and fourteenth day). Wipes blood from concha of left ear, in morning after usual bath (twenty-fourth and twenty-eighth day). Earache in the left ear in the morning, relieved by taking a lump of dark-brown wax from ear (forty-fourth day).
Nose
Pinched appearance about the nose in the morning (second day). Tendency to influenza and sneezing, disappearing in the open air (first day). Slight influenza, usually in the morning. Slight influenza in the evening (third day). Very little expectoration but considerable influenza, disappearing in open air, and worse in the right nostril (twenty- eighth day). Considerable coryza, especially in evening (forty-ninth and fiftieth day). Watery coryza from anterior nares; posterior nares closed tight (twenty- third day). Watery coryza in open air, slightly excoriating (forty- second day). Excoriating coryza in open air, soon disappearing in the house and after washing face in cold water (forty-sixth and forty-seventh day). Dry coryza, left nostril, in the forenoon; right nostril discharges white watery mucus in small quantities; at night this reversed, left nostril discharge, and right nostril is dry (twenty-eighth day). Always blow yellowish or greenish mucus from nose in morning after bath (forty-sixth day). Blow streaked mucus from nose in morning after bath (fifty- sixth and fifty-seventh days). Very little blood streaked mucus from left nostril after bath (thirty-ninth and fortieth day). Right nostril stopped (mostly posteriorly), day and evening (twenty-second day). Right and left nostrils alternately open and stopped with transparent watery sticky mucus (twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty- first, and thirty-second days). Edges of nostrils slightly sore, as if excoriated (fifty- seventh day).
Face
Faceache all night on right side (forty-seventh day). Vague pains in right side of face and right upper back decayed molar, which is somewhat tender (thirty-fifth day). Neuralgic pains in right upper jaw, proceeding from a decayed molar tooth; inside of gum swollen and sore; great aggravation by gently stroking the gum (eleventh day). Darting, neuralgic pains in right side of face (sixteenth day). Tooth seems to cause neuralgic faceache in both jaws of right side, mostly in evening (forty-ninth day).
Mouth
Teeth and Gums. Toothache just after dark (fifty-fifth day). Toothaches at night in sleep (fifty-third day). Toothache immediately aggravated by cold water, but at last relieved by it (fifty-second day). Right upper back teeth decayed. Molar very sensitive to cold air, water, etc., and tender (seventeenth and twenty-fourth day). Gums bleed easily while brushing them (fifty- fifth day). Tongue. Tongue yellow-coated at base (twenty-second day). Tongue seamed with a deep red line in its center, antero- posteriorly (twenty-seventh day). Slightly puckered sensation at base of tongue (third day). General Mouth. Soreness of left side of roof of mouth at dinner, as if burned; better at tea (sixth day). Taste. Slightly soapy taste in mouth (second day). Sour, bitter taste (third day). Sour, acid taste always after taking drug (third day).
Throat
Throat red and sore internally (twenty-second day). Throat longitudinally inflamed in strips, like ulceration (twenty- seventh day). Profuse expectoration of yellowish mucus from throat and right posterior nares (twenty-seventh day); scanty (twenty-eighth day). Expectoration from posterior nares (fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth day). Pharynx very red and sore (twentieth day).
Stomach
Appetite and Thirst. Ravenous appetite (twenty-ninth, thirtieth, and thirty-first days). Ravenous appetite (second day). Excessive appetite and thirst, and soreness of mouth externally (second day). Hunger decreases; marked desire for green, acid fruits and vegetables (fifth day). Hunger less, but marked desire for fruit as before (sixth day). No appetite for meat (twenty-third day). Marked thirst in the forenoon (twentieth day). Great desire for tea and claret, the latter unusual at night (first day). Eructations. Bitter eructations in the morning after bath (fiftieth day). Sour, bitter eructations at night (twelfth day). Nausea. Slight nausea (second and third days). Slight nausea in the evening after taking the drug (second day). Increased nausea and slight colic about noon (second day). Increased nausea, as from tobacco, and painful consciousness of oesophagus from mouth to stomach (second day). Stomach. Indigestion during breakfast relieved by hot cocoa (thirty- third day). Indigestion after breakfast (seventeenth and thirty-first day). Indigestion twenty minutes after breakfast (tenth day). Indigestion in morning after breakfast, followed by pressure on bowels, as if to diarrhoeic stool (thirty-fifth day). Indigestion after breakfast and forty minutes ride in city cars, followed by diarrhoeic stool, with great tenesmus and pain in abdomen, leaving a hot feeling of anus and bowels (twenty- first day). Indigestion after dinner and breakfast (thirty-fourth day). Indigestion an hour after tea (tenth day). Slight indigestion after dinner, at 2.30 P.M. (sixteenth day). Severe indigestion after breakfast (thirty- second and thirty-eighth days). Severe indigestion after breakfast (ninth and twelfth days). Severe indigestion soon after breakfast (fourteenth day). Sensation of weight in stomach and chest in the morning, relieved by dinner (forty-seventh day). Pain and soreness at stomach (third day). Dull vague pains and external soreness in stomach at night, about 10 P.M. (twenty- ninth day). Wandering pains in stomach and abdomen (second day). Vague cramps in the stomach in the afternoon (second day). Colic in epigastrium in afternoon (twenty-fourth day). Severe colic in stomach in evening, relieved (protem.) by drinking cold water, with a sensation of constriction in stomach, followed by stool, with some colic; after stool much flatulence and eructations (forty-ninth day). Colic in stomach after breakfast (second day). Stomach externally sore (thirty-second day).
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.