Introduction
Potassium arsenite, As2o3k2o. Preparation: Solution in water.
Mind
Dementia.
Eyes
Inflammation of tarsi. The eyes are suffused with tears. Conjunctiva injected; or glassy. The conjunctiva is slightly inflamed. Conjunctivitis. Slight dim.
Throat
Constriction of the throat. Submaxillary glands swollen and tender.
Stomach
Nausea, vomiting and purging; the vomiting was repeated more than two hundred times (after a quarter of an hour). Vomiting, severe colic, and general prostration of the strength. Gastritis. Slight pain at epigastrium. Mucous irritation of the stomach.
Abdomen
Severe colic, vomiting and general prostration of the strength.
Stool
Violent diarrhoea.
Urine
Urine not very plentiful, and covered with a pellicle.
Heart
Palpitation.
Extremities in General
Limbs swollen. Trembling of the limbs. Great weakness and partial paralysis of upper and lower extremities, with burning pains in the feet.
Superior Extremities
The hands become quite stiff, insensible; the right hand was flexed, with a sticking sensation in the palms.
Inferior Extremities
The knees were bent up so that he could not move the feet.
General symptoms
Lassitude with febrile heat. Weariness. Agitation and alarm. Neuralgic pains. Aggravation from a slight cold.
Skin
Desquamation of cuticle. Nettle rash (ninth day). Faint pityriasis all over covered parts, which are dirty- brown, or dingy, and have an unwashed appearance. Pustular eruption. Ecthyma. Pruritus, and with papulae on scrotum.
Sleep
Want of sleep at night. Restless night.
Fever
Hands and feet icy cold, insensible. Flushes of heat. Febrile heat with lassitude.
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.