Introduction
Carbon bisulphide, CS2 (Alcohol sulphuris, Alcohol Lampadii) Preparation: Dilutions prepared with alcohol.
Mind
Emotional. Very much excited during the night. Inhalation of the vapor caused a condition resembling intoxication from alcoholic stimulants; this often reached such a degree that one could scarcely walk without reeling. Raging delirium; he fell on his father and tried to bite him (child). Depressing and disagreeable visions (in several cases). Particularly cheerful and free from care (fourth day). Inclination to sing (curative). Sadness. Mood depressed, rather obstinate. Mood depressed, easily irritated. Sudden ebullitions of a fretful mood (third day). Morose mood, inclined to get angry. Disposition very changeable; sometimes he had turns of extravagant gayety; sometimes he flew into a passion from the trivial causes, and in these fits of unreasonable anger smashed everything about him. Intellectual. Increased activity of mind. At first the intellectual faculties are excited; persons talk more than usual; there is a increased liveliness. Distraction of mind. Distraction of mind; it is difficult to fix the mind upon what one in reading. Distraction of mind; he is unable to fix his attention upon his reading. Could not find the right words while speaking. Frequently she did not know what she was to do with the things she was holding in her hands. Stupidity (secondary action). Peculiarly idiotic and childish. Loss of memory. Loss of memory, and mental alienation. Weakness of memory (secondary action). Memory so poor that he kept forgetting where he had placed his tools when he had occasion for them. Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head, etc. Confusion of the head (third day). Slight confusion of the head. Great confusion of the head. Long-continued confusion of the head, as from excessive use of spirituous drinks. Head confused, with stitches here and there in the forehead, and frequently a transient jerking pain in it. Confusion of the forehead, and vertigo. The whole head is confused and painful, as in catarrho- rheumatic headache; it lasted till noon, after he had produced perspiration by constant walking (third day). Confusion of the forehead, with sensation of constriction of the cerebral hemisphere. Inclination to vertigo. Vertigo. Vertigo (after two hours). Frequent attacks of vertigo, while sitting. Vertigo, in the afternoon, while sitting. Vertigo in the forehead, with tendency to fall forward. Momentary vertigo. Intense vertigo. Such violent vertigo that he was unable to stand. A feeling in the head. General Head. Great dulness of the head. Head heavy. Head heavy and confused, for several weeks. Heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the whole head. Whole head painful and confused after breakfast (second day). Headache (wife). Headache when reading. Headache and giddiness. Headache commences about 9 A.M.; the whole head is confused, and thought is difficult. Violent headache. Violent headache (third day). Violent headache towards 10 P.M. (second day). Violent headache, especially in the forehead and lower the eyes, the whole forenoon. Dull headache, becoming worse towards evening. Pressure in the head. Pressive headache, in the forenoon. Head very painful, especially on top, as if it were all sore there, on brushing the hair. Throbbing headache the whole day, aggravated by moving the head (third day). The headache, which had disappeared during the afternoon, returned towards evening. Forehead. Slight pains in the forehead. Slight pain in the forehead, which soon extended to the left parietal bone, where it lasted two hours. Slight pain in the forehead, on waking (second day). Slight flitting pain in the forehead, which gradually extended to the left temple (a few minutes after taking). Headache in forehead all day. Confused headache in the forehead. Dull, confused headache in the forehead, with nausea. 10 P.M., tensive headache in forehead. Tensive headache in the forehead, with eructations. Dull pain in the forehead and temples, especially a pressive pain in the right temple. Sensation of pressure in the forehead, extending to the orbits and temples. Pressure in the forehead, with slight dull pain in it, transient. Slight painful pressure in the forehead, and a little digging in it. Dull pressure in the forehead and temples, with inclination to sleep. Pressive pain in the frontal region, with sensation of heat, lasting two hours. Pressive pain in the forehead, extending from the frontal eminence to the left temple, with some tearings in that direction. Slight pressive pain in the forehead. From time to time dull pressive pain in the forehead, extending down towards the eyes. Slight pressive headache in the forehead, especially increased by reading or stooping. Pressive frontal headache the whole day, with little interruption. Pain in the forehead, tearing, appearing after half an hour, and lasting in a slight degree until afternoon, gradually disappearing, extending to the temples. Ulcerative headache in forehead (second day). Ulcerative headache in forehead the whole day, with burning in eyes. Temples. Pain in both temples, in the afternoon, especially caused or aggravated by shaking the head or by stepping hard. Drawing pain in the temples. Drawing pain in the left temporal region. Drawing and tearing pain, extending from the forehead to the temples, lasting the whole day, better in the open air than in the room, and during rest. Pressive pain in the temples. Pressure at the insertion of the temporal muscles. Pressing inward in the temples; the pressure afterwards extending to the vertex. Stitches in left temple, extending to the occiput. Tearing in the left temporal region. Transient tearing pains in the temples. Transient tearing in the right temple, when stooping. Violent pulsating pains in the temple (migraine), at 6 A.M., on waking, so that he could not lie quiet; continued until breakfast at 7.30 A.M. (second day). Vertex. Pressing pains in the vertex, often lasting all days. Parietals. Semilateral headache returned when walking, with great dulness and confusion in head (almost immediately). Pressure on the right parietal bone. Severe pain in right parietal bone, as though it were violently pressed upon with a hard body. External Head. Sore pimples, painful to touch, on the scalp (sixth day). Itching of the head.
Eyes
Eyes sunken, with strongly marked gray rings around them (noon). When applied to the eye, the vapors occasion intense prickling heat and flow of tears. Pressure upon the eyes. Pressure upon the eyes, with inclination to close them. Severe pressure upon the eyes. Itching pressure in the eyes, together with burning on the upper lids and the development of a small pustule, which itches a great deal, with secretion of much whitish-yellow mucus in the eye; this pustule lasted four days. Stitches in the right eye, when reading (fifth day). Some stitches in the right eye (second day). Jerking stitches in the right eye, in the region of the superior rectus muscle. Orbit. Sensation of pressure in the orbits. Sore pain in the orbicularis of the left eye towards the external canthus, especially on moving the lids (fourth day). Jerking-stitching pain, paroxysmal, apparently alternating in various muscles of the right eye (fifth day). Some dull stitches in the right eye, when reading (second day). Lids. Twitching of the eyelids. Heaviness of the eyelids. Burning in the margin of the lids, which are somewhat red. Biting in the right lower lid. Itching in the eyelids. Lachrymal Apparatus. Lachrymation while reading. Ball. Pressure on the left eyeball, with sensation of heat in it. Great itching of the eyeball. Insensibility of the cornea in a high degree, without disturbance of vision. Pupil. Pupils dilated. Pupils slightly dilated. Momentary dilatation of the pupil (soon after taking one drop). It generally contracts the pupil, and very seldom dilated it. Vision. Weak vision; objects seemed to fade away on account of a mist which spread out before them. Sight became so weak that he could work only a few hours at a time. Dimness of vision. Obscuration of vision. Lost the power of vision.
Ears
Left ear somewhat painful, and as if stopped. Boring in the right ear (after eight hours and a half). Pressive pain in the right ear, repeated at times, just as if one were thrusting a dull instrument into the tympanum. Sticking in the left ear (after two hours). Some stitches in the right ear, in the afternoon (second day). Stitches in the right ear. The stitches in the right ear became worse towards evening, when they lasted nearly a quarter of an hour. Some stitches in the right ear, after dinner, which were repeated at intervals of a quarter of an hour. Stitches in the left ear (fourth day). Stitches in the left ear, in evening. Fine jerking stitches in the left ear (after five hours). Some fine stitches in the ear (after four hours). Stitches in the left ear, as if an insect were in it, 9 P.M. Violent stitches and griping pain (transitory) in left ear, which awoke him in the night (second day). Hearing. Ringing before the ears, lasting several days. Buzzing and singing of the wind in the right ear, like an AEolian harp, when walking in the morning. Deafness, so that he had to be shouted to; it gradually lessened and disappeared spontaneously after some time.
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.