Introduction
Carbolic Acid. Acidum carbolicum, Phenol, Monoxybenzene, Phenyl-alcohol. C6H5OH. Preparation: Solution in alcohol.
Mind
Emotional. Delirium. Delirium like intoxication, often lasting half an hour. Deliria, irritability, and rage, with copious perspiration. During the evening felt unusually cheerful. Feeling of sadness, with disposition to sigh and yawn (soon after 20 drops). Not in humor to think or speak. Very irritable. Cross; lose control of temper readily (second day). Appeared morose, an much less brilliant in conversation than usual. Affection bestowed seemed distasteful (third day). A fear of impending sickness came over him as soon as he retired to bed. Intellectual. Mind clear and active (second day). Strange to say, although so affected by reading, my mind seemed unusually on the alert, and, although using it very much, nearly set me crazy with the confusion and pains in my head, yet I was through any proposition with unusual quickness, and was desirous of intellectual work. Disinclination to mental efforts, even to read. Disinclination to mental exertion (as studying cases, preparing copy, etc)., (third day). Entire disinclination to study; what he had accomplished seemed very trifling (evening). Mental and bodily laziness; do not wish to exert myself in any way. Could not concentrate the mind upon anything (soon after 20 drops). I would get into an absent-minded abstracted condition, from which I would start when anyone spoke to me, and would find myself at times in a nervous tremor when spoken to suddenly. When reading, cannot fix my attention on the subject so as to retain it in memory (fifth day). Want of acuteness in thinking (soon after 20 drops). Feels dull and stupid (after one hour and five- sixths). Loss of memory (soon after 20 drops). Unconscious. Unconscious for four hours; then first opened eyes, moved arm and leg. Unconsciousness, with stertorous breathing. Complete unconsciousness (after five minutes). Lost all knowledge of what passed around them. Insensibility. Nearly or quite insensible. Reclining in a chair, insensible (after five minutes). Lay insensible to all external objects, but in a short time recovered itself. Became insensible, falling down suddenly as if in a fit; on his recovery, said he remembered nothing whatever after tasting the liquid (immediately). Stupor. Slight stupefaction. Quite comatose.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Transient confusion of the head. Confusion and heaviness of the head. Confusion and pain in head, pain located over right eye. Confused feeling in head (third day). Brain felt confused and painful (soon after 20 drops). Head feels muddled, although no severe pain. Muddled and confused, and could collect thoughts only with an effort. Vertigo. Vertigo, with trembling. Easier in the afternoon, being much exposed to wind, which cools the heated brain, but vertigo returns as soon as he enters a room. Very dizzy from the slightest motion (after five minutes). Very dizzy; things look as if they were moving backwards and forwards (after five minutes). Giddiness. A giddiness and fulness, or peculiar feeling in the head (after two to eight minutes). My giddiness was better when walking fast in the open air, but as soon as I would sit down, would become so bad that I would have to hold on to something to prevent falling. Head swimming, and he felt as if staggering like a drunken man (soon after 20 drops). Staggering as if drunk. General Head. Rush of blood to head (second day). Felt like rubbing head and eyes constantly (soon after 20 drops). Feeling as though I had suffered from headache, for three days before (third day). Dulness in head (third day). Dull feeling in head (after a few moments). Head felt heavy (after half an hour). Head very heavy. Heaviness of head, when leaning forward (after two hours and one- third). Heavy pain in head, running from forehead to occiput (after half an hour). Headache. Complained of headache. Headache, worse on left side. Headache, worse when bending head forward (after one hour and five-sixths). Headache disappeared soon after breakfast (second day). Drinking a cup of green tea relieved somewhat the headache, but not the sense of smell. Slight headache. Severe headache, with nausea (after half an hour). In morning, awoke with a hard headache confined to the upper half of the head (second day). Had a hard headache most of night, and has it this morning; feels as if a band was around the forehead (second day). Pain and fulness in head, which seemed to locate itself especially over right eye. Head hot (after thirty-five minutes). Fulness of the brain. Fulness of head all over the brain, with dull pain. Expansive pain in head, with swimming before eyes; hardly able to write. My head felt as if inclosed in a band, which at times would seem to be compressed and crushing in my head. This pressing feeling was especially noticeable in both temples. Dull constricting headache at 7.30 A.M., about half an hour after rising, continuing and increasing until noon, when I gave up to it. It did not locate anywhere particular, but was as bad in the forehead as anywhere else. Pressure relieved for about one minute, but if continued longer increased the pain. However, if the pressure was removed, if only for an instant, and then reapplied, it would bring relief for a moment. My head seemed to swell and feel hot, even as though it radiated heat as a hot stove. These sensations seemed confined to the cranium, not coming below the base of the skull proper; continued until I went to sleep at night (second day). Dull, hot, constricted feeling in the head, especially in the forehead, on waking at 6.30 A.M., severe enough to become an ache at times (relieved by pressing the head with the hands), lasted all day and until late in the night (second day). Dull headache (second day). Dull headache, running from forehead to occiput (after five minutes). Headache, as if somebody was jagging a sword in and out all around the head; she could hardly keep the eyes open; aggravation from the least noise, and from light; desires to have head tightly bandaged (after one hour). Sore feeling, as though I had suffered from headache (third day). Head feels sore when moving it (after one hour and a quarter). The head pains are the most severe, and are worse on right side (after thirty-five minutes). While smoking after tea, the head-pains are very much better (after two hours and a half). Forehead. Frontal headache, worse in a hot room. Headache in forehead and temples. Frontal headache and oppression of chest, beginning on left side and going over to right (after fifteen minutes). Headache in the forehead of a neuralgic character (second day). Forehead feels hot, and the pressure of a cold hand on it gives some transient relief. Burning headache, in forehead (after twenty minutes). Severe burning pain in brain over the eyebrows. Full feeling in frontal lobe of cerebrum, which increased to a severe headache. A pressing fulness in the forehead. Feeling of tightness across forehead directly above frontal sinuses. Aching pain in forehead (transient). Slight aching in forehead, left side (after one hour). Dull aching pain in left temple and back of head, when leaning forward (after one hour and a quarter). Dull pains through the forehead (after thirty-five minutes). Dull frontal headache in centre of forehead. Dull frontal headache, as in an india-rubber band was stretched tightly over the forehead. Woke in morning with a dull frontal headache and burning in throat (second day). Does not know whether he has taken cold or not; the same dull frontal headache, with general lassitude (fifth day). Dull frontal headache, with chilliness (very soon). Dull frontal headache, somewhat relieved in the fresh air (after three hours). Temples. Pain extends to temple (from over right eye), with sense of soreness of the eyeball. Burning pain in right temple and top of head (after thirty- five minutes). Feeling of tightness, as if an india-rubber band was stretched from temple to temple. Bandlike constrictions from one temple to the other, followed by a dull, heavy headache, greatly aggravated by a walk in the open air (after half an hour). Slight aching in left temple (soon after). Dull, heavy pain in left temple during the day (fourth day). Dull, heavy pain through the temples, with tight band across forehead, and tightness in the nose between the eyes. When I read for any length of time of pressing in my temples became fearful, and my whole head would feel somewhat in the condition knows as “asleep” in a limb. Vertex. I felt, on top of my head, as if my brain was swashing about. Burning pain in top of head. Constant aching pain in right side of head (after twenty minutes). Parietals. Neuralgic pain in left side of head (after one hour and a quarter). Beating pain in right side of head (after thirty-five minutes). Pain in head of a sharp, darting, neuralgic character, changing their situation from one side to the other, affecting the eye of the painful side so much that it was difficult to keep it open (soon after 10 drops). Occiput. Occipital pressure. Dull, pressing, occipital headache. Dull aching pain in back of head and right side and temple. the pains in head are constant, and similar so those felt when making the first proving (after one hour and a half). Back of head feels sore (after one hour and five-sixths). External Head. Small pustulous vesicle a little to left of vertex (third day). Itching of scalp (after one hour and a quarter). Itching of scalp (after fifteen minutes). Itching of scalp, first on right side, then on left.
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.