Introduction
Sulphate of Copper, CuSO4 5H2O; Blue vitriol; Cuprum vitriolatum.
Preparation: Solution in water.
Mind
Emotional. Anxiety, A. Greatest apathy (seventh day).
Intellectual. Remarkable disturbance of mind; all the utterances of the patient were distorted. He lost his senses and thoughts for a short time, immediately. All his senses vanish, A.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, A. Vertigo, with prostration of strength, and dim sight. General Head. Headache. Complained in the morning of severe headache. Throbbing and roaring in the head. Vertex.
Crawling, dull sensation in vertex, as if going to sleep, together with a pressing-down sensation, and some stupefaction (after one hour), A. Pressing-down sensation in the vertex, A.
Eyes
Eyes stiff and dim. Lids. Twitching of the closed lids (immediately), A. The ability to open the eyes and to speak returns later than the consciousness, A. Conjunctiva.
Conjunctiva of icteric color (second day). Ball. Eyes moving to and fro, A. Pupil. Pupils equal (after two days).
Face
Became pale. Face puffy, red, covered with great drops of sweat.
Lips. Lips pale, bluish, at the corners and internal edges (after half an hour).
Mouth
Tongue. Tongue white and furred (after six days). Tongue coated, bluish, cold (after half an hour). Tongue swollen, stiff, and as if paralyzed. The nervous papillae of tongue became tumefied and horribly annoying; at first thought he had scalded tongue with hot broth, but the symptoms increased, tongue became ulcerated in centre, and considerably swollen on each side, and was furred as if a thin layer of spermaceti ointment had been nicely spread over it. Mouth. Burning in the mouth, and oesophagus in the morning. Taste. Sweetish taste in the mouth, A. Bitterness in the mouth. Coppery taste in mouth. Unpleasant coppery taste in mouth (after six days). Often felt a copperish cold sub acid taste, particularly in opening mouth to inhale fresh air.
Throat
Pains in throat, stomach, and nose (immediately). Throat became very painful and felt burnt. Uvula. Soft palate coated with petechiae, resembling measles, with tumefied gums, and slight ptyalism. Fauces and Pharynx. Fauces tumefied and inflamed. A choking and contracting sensation in pharynx.
Stomach
Appetite. Loss of appetite for two days. Thirst. Complained of being thirsty. Hiccough. Hiccough, A. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea without vomiting (after six days). Nausea and qualmishness, lasting a quarter of an hour (immediately), Occasional nausea. Excessive nausea. Qualmish nausea, A. Sickness at stomach (soon); followed by incessant vomiting.
Vomiting. Vomiting (after five minutes); vomited everything, solid and liquid (second day). Vomiting forcible, returning from time to time, A. Vomiting of mucus. Vomiting of greenish- brown mucus. Frequent and painful vomiting of a bluish matter.
Copious vomiting. The vomited matter was of a bluish color, afterwards copiously mixed with mucus and magnesia. Stomach.
Pain in the epigastrium, in the morning. Pain in epigastrium, which is sensitive to pressure. Occasional pain in epigastric region. Constant pain in region of stomach (second day).
Violent pain in the stomach followed by faintness. Sense of burning in the stomach. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, A.
Abdomen
Hypochondria. Liver evidently enlarged (after two days). Tearing pain in the hypochondria, on inspiration, which are painful on touch as if bruised, A. General Abdomen. Abdomen swollen, tender, and painful. Abdomen drawn in (after two days).
Constant burning and cutting in the abdomen. Violent cutting in the abdomen. Constant burning, cutting pain in the bowels.
Colic. Violent colic.
Rectum & Anus
(Bleeding of the hemorrhoids for four days.) (* Repudiated by the reporter as caused by Cuprum.-HUGHES. *).
Stool
Diarrhoea. Four pultaceous, greenish-yellow stools, without the least trace of blood (after half an hour). Copious abdominal evacuations (after fifteen minutes). Stool pultaceous, brown- red, with streaks of blood, and tenesmus during stool (after two days). Constipation. Constipation for several days.
Urinary organs
Micturition. Urine scanty and containing much blood (after two days). Diuresis scanty, containing blood, albumen, and some bilious pigment. No urine secreted for twelve hours. Urine.
The scanty urine, passed per catheter, contained neither albumen nor blood.
Respiratory organs
Cough and Expectoration. Cough, A. Cough interrupting, and almost suppressing the respiration, A. Cough uninterrupted for half or a whole hour, or even lasting two hours, very early in the morning, A. Hacking cough that impedes respiration (on returning through consciousness), A. Hemoptysis, A. Respiration.
Rapid, sobbing respiration, A. Breathing short and labored.
Chest
Anxiety in the chest. Painful contraction of the chest, especially after drinking, A. (* “Especially after drinking” is not found in the Fragmenta, but in the Chronic Diseases.-T.F.A. *) A pressive pain in the chest, A. Complains of oppression in the chest (after two days).
Heart and Pulse
Heart’s Action. Sounds of heart weak and limited; on the base of the heart a slight friction-sound (after two days). Violent palpitation, A. Pulse. Pulse frequent (after two days); small, filiform (seventh day). Pulse quick and small. Pulse small, accelerated (after half an hour). Pulse, 150 (after six days).
Pulse full and hard.
Neck and Back
Uneasiness between shoulders.
Superior Extremities
Inflammation of lymphatics from the hand to the shoulder, with great swelling of the hand. Pain in the axillary glands.
Inferior Extremities
Lower extremities flexed over abdomen (after two days).
General Symptoms
Objective. Visible mucous membranes remarkably pale (after two days). After having washed hands three or four times, water became blue from sulphate tendinum. Lassitude, A. Debility increases (fifth and sixth days). Patient feels very weak (after two days). Was unable to hold the head erect, or stand upon the feet, for several days. Exhaustion (after six days). Patient dies, with all the symptoms of total collapse (seventh day).
Restlessly throws himself about in bed (after two days). During the night the patient was very restless, groaned, moaned.
Jactitation, A. Subjective. Sudden feeling as if going to faint.
Skin
Objective. Skin pale (after half an hour). General exsanguined state of the surface (after six days). Skin of icteric color (after two days). Eruptions. A kind of dry itch. (* Occurred in the course of treatment, but no reason to suppose it caused by Cuprum.-HUGHES. *) Subjective. Considerable itchiness.
Fever
Chilliness. Temperature of skin diminished (after two days).
Skin cold. (Chilliness, with gnashing of the teeth.) (* In association with slight manifestations of the malady. *) Shivering.
Extremities cold, with cyanotic nails (after half an hour). Cold hands. Coldness of the feet. Sweat. Cold sweat on forehead and extremities (seventh 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.