Introduction
Magnesium sulphate MgSO4, 7H2O. (Epsom Salts.) Preparation: Triturations.
Mind
Emotional. Lively mood; contented with himself and others (second, third and fourth days). She was very lively and joyous, in a greater degree than for along time before, as if somewhat intoxicated. She was so depressed and lachrymose, that she was somewhat frightened. Anxious, as if conscious of some evil, in the morning on waking (thirteenth day). Apprehensive, tearful, very gloomy; she thought some misfortune would happen to her; especially in the morning (second and third days). Fretful; she did not at all wish to be obliged to talk, in the afternoon. Out of humor, fretful, easily aroused to anger (eleventh day). Very much excited, sensitive, contented with nothing. Intellectual. Disinclination for business, at 9 P.M. (fifth day). Disinclination for all business (tenth day). It seemed to her that she was not quite in her right senses; while knitting she constantly saw strange persons about her, though she knew it was an illusion (second to fourth days).
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo in the morning; the eyes would close, without sleepiness. Vertigo, even to falling forward, during and after dinner. Vertigo and dulness of the head, immediately after a new dose; relieved in the open air. Vertigo and heaviness of the head, immediately after dinner (ninth day). General Head. Dulness of the head (tenth day); at 9 P.M. (fifth day). Dulness in the head on rising in the morning, that disappears after an hour (fourth day). Dulness of the head in the afternoon; with some pressive pain in the forehead (seventh day). Dulness of the head, increasing to pressive headache, in the left frontal eminence, in the afternoon (third day). Dulness in the head, with a feeling of fullness in the abdomen, at 5 P.M. (ninth day). Dulness of the head so great that it seemed as though she would lose her senses (after second dose). Heaviness and a confused feeling, in the morning on waking, disappearing after rising. Great heaviness of the head during the menses (first and second days). (A feeling of heaviness in the head, that had previously existed for along time, disappeared, and she felt very light and active). On moving the head it seems, as though the brain were loose (twelfth day). Headache; a dulness as if bound up, with heat; frequently also with perspiration. The head is dull, as if bound up or screwed together, even in the morning; dull pressive headache in the afternoon, lasting till evening (third day). Compressive headache from both sides; with heat in the head and redness of the face. The head felt as if screwed together, on moving it in the morning in bed; she dared not move the eyes to either side on account of the pressive headache, as if screwed in (twelfth day). Pain in the head like a sticking with knives, even about 1 A.M., but more violent in the afternoon, so that she was obliged to lie down;the pain in the temples, forehead, nape of the neck, lasts with great violence till midnight, and then diminishes till morning (first day). Small, very sharp stitches here and there in the head, in the forenoon (eleventh day). Frequent throbbing or ticking like a clock, first in the forehead, then in the whole head, in the afternoon and evening. A painful rumbling in the head on every step, lasting half an hour, after dinner. The brain seems to move as he moves. Forehead. Dull pain in the forehead, and a feeling as if full and thick (first day). Feeling of heaviness in the forehead with heat in the head, and a sensation as if it would press out at the forehead, on rising after stooping. Painful boring inward above the left eye, in the evening in bed, lasting an hour, followed by dulness of the whole head. Pressure and tearing in the forehead, at 6 P.M. A sensation in the forehead as if something heavy pressed forwards, on rising after stooping; in the morning, a violent rush of blood. Tearing in the forehead, and then in the whole head, better in the open air. Tearing in the region of the frontal bone, that was also painful to touch externally, from 2 to 4 P.M. (third day). Bruised pain in the forehead all the forenoon. Temples. Violent sticking in both temples, lasting two hours (twenty- third day). Fine sticking in both temples, alternately and frequently, in the forenoon. Tearing in the left temple frequently renewed (first day). Tearing in the left temple, in the afternoon, frequently while knitting. Vertex. Heat in the vertex, and pain as though the hair were pulled. Boring in the right side of the vertex, followed by dulness, in the forenoon. Parietals. Boring pain in the left side of the head, with feeling of internal heat, the whole afternoon. Frequent painful tearing on the vertex, so that she grasped it with the hand. Pressive headache in both sides, extending backwards (eighth day). Dull stitches in the right side of the head (first day). A dull stitch in the right side of, the head, on turning the head to the right, in the morning after rising (eleventh day). Picking or throbbing in the right side of the head, on walking in the open air, disappearing in the house (eighth day). Occiput. Pressive pain in the occiput, in the morning, that disappeared in the open air. He was obliged to lie down on account of a pressive pain in the occiput, from both sides. Great sensitiveness of the occiput, and on stooping a sensation in the forehead as if something would fall forward; pain worse on lying down; also, he dared not cough on account of the shock. The headache in the occiput was renewed by carrying a heavy weight upon the shoulders (twenty-first day).
Eye
The eyes burn all day, without being inflamed. The eye burn by the light in the evening and morning (third day). Sensation as if a ball were lying upon the left eye (twenty second and twenty- third days). If she wishes to look to the right or left, without turning the head very much, she experiences violent pain, especially in the right eye, as if it would protrude from its orbit. Sticking as with fine needles in both eyes, all day. Frequent fine stitches in the right inner canthus, lasting half an hour (second day). Tearing in the eyes, with dim vision, in the morning (third day). Orbit. Pressive pain as if a hard ball were lying upon the upper margin of the orbit (twenty-second and twenty-third days). Frequent sticking, as with an awl, above the left orbital margin. Vision. Dimness of the eyes, with frequent transient sleepiness. Photophobia, with lachrymation, even during the day (twenty second day).
Ear
Painful sensation in the right concha, as if it were forcibly turned around, in the morning (fifth day). Painful boring in the left ear, scarcely tolerable. Frequent sticking beneath the left ear (twenty-second day). Dull sticking deep in the left ear, at 10 A.M. (first day). Stitches in the left ear while standing (after a new dose). Hearing. Noises in the left ear repeated from time to time, often very violent, so that the ear became very sensitive. Loud noises in the left ear, frequent but intermitting (first day). At one time ringing, at another roaring like water in the left ear (first day). Croaking in the left ear, as from frogs, while sitting; she thought that every one must hear it, lasting two minutes (first day).
Nose
Objective. Frequent sneezing with a feeling of catarrh, worse in the forenoon (ninth and tenth days). Several drops of clear water flow from the nose, without any symptoms of coryza (eighth day). Much waxy yellow mucus was blown from the nose (after twelve days). Discharge of tenacious mucus from the nose (sixth day). Stopped catarrh in the morning after rising, but loose in the afternoon. Coryza (tenth day). Coryza and cough (twelfth day). Some coryza, with some pain in the upper lip beneath the nose, in the forenoon; towards evening an increased secretion of mucus in the nose, with somewhat rough voice, irritation to a hacking cough, and at times with expectoration of tenacious mucus, that seems to come from the posterior nares (trachea and lungs completely free), (fifth day). Fluent coryza in the afternoon. Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, for two days (after eight days). Fluent coryza, with pain in the chest and cough, without expectoration (tenth day). As the cough disappears, the coryza becomes worse (after eleven days). Fluent coryza, so that water flows profusely from the nose, with a rough voice. Profuse coryza, with stoppage of the left nostril. Nosebleed, without relief of the headache. Nosebleed at times, even at 2 A.M., followed in the morning by relief of the head troubles. Subjective. Burning sensation in the left nostril (as often in the beginning of coryza). Pressure in the upper part of the root of the nose, on both sides, like a pressing downward (after eighteen days). Painful sensation in the right wing of the nose, only when touched. The nose becomes sensitive, as if sore internally from frequent blowing, during the fluent coryza (tenth day). Pain as from ulceration in the right side of the nose, on pressing upon it. Pain in the outer angle of the right nostril, as if ulcerated (eighth 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.