Introduction
An element. Preparation: Trituration of the metal precipitated on a steel rod, from a solution in Aqua regia.
Mind
Illusions of fantasy on entering the house, after walking an hour, as if everything about her were very small, and all persons physically and mentally inferior, but she herself physically large and superior; the room seemed gloomy and unpleasant, with apprehensive, sad, fretful mood, whirling vertigo, and discontent with the surroundings of which she was usually fond; everything always disappears in the open air sunshine. It seems to her as if she does not belong in her own family; after a short absence everything seems entirely changed. She could not think what was the matter with her. She thinks she is left wholly to herself, and stands along in the world. At first very lively for two days, everything seems joyous, she could laugh at the saddest thing, then on the third day great sadness, in the morning and evening, with weeping even at joyous and laughable things, also if she is spoken to. Very lively mood, so that she could have danced, half an hour after weeping. Involuntary inclination to whistle and sing. Sensation of increased vigor, mental quiet, and inclination to think. Very earnest and taciturn the first day, on the next day she made jokes laughed at everything. Arrogant, proud feeling. Contemptuous, pitiful looking down upon people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off, in paroxysms, against her will. Reserved, cold, absent-minded in the company of friends, in the open air; she only answers, when spoken to, in a semi- conscious way; only after having answered does she reflect whether the answer was suitable; she is constantly absent-minded, without knowing where her thoughts are. Silence, with involuntary weeping, even after the most friendly conversation, so that she was very much vexed with herself. Weeping, sad mood, especially in the evening. Weeping mood and sadness, worse in the house, better in the open air. Repeated crying spells, with sticky tears. Weeping and laughing; yawning, again weeping, aversion to everything. Weeping mood, and crying after being mildly reproached. Very lachrymose and fretful; she often wept involuntarily, which relieved her. Very lachrymose, and much too easily disturbed by slight causes. Sad and fretful the first morning, on the next indescribably happy, especially in the open air, so that she would embrace anything, and laugh at the saddest things. Very restless disposition, so that she could not remain anywhere, with sadness, so that the most joyful things distressed her; she thought that she had no place in the world, life was wearisome, but she had great dread of death, which she believed near at hand. Feeling as if he would die soon, with shuddering at the thought. Feeling as if she would soon die, with very lachrymose mood and actual weeping. She sits alone, sad and morose, without talking; she cannot keep awake; followed by inconsolable weeping, especially when spoken to. Depressed, quiet, sad. Sudden great depression. Morose and discontented.
Deathly anxiety, as if her senses would vanish, with trembling of all the limbs, oppression of the breath, and violent palpitation.
Anxiety and apprehension about the heart, and fretful all day.
Frequent sudden feeling of anxiety through the whole body. Great anxiety, with violent palpitation, when attempting to talk in company, so that talking was difficult. Anxiety, with palpitation, especially on walking. Anxiety. Anxiety, with trembling of the hands and flushes of heat over the whole body.
Out of sorts with the whole world, everything seems too narrow, with weeping mood. Quarrelsome. Sensitive mood. Very peevish and easily excited, he could have beaten any one without provocation.
Very peevish and irritable about innocent things and words, so that she could have beaten herself and friends, at times. Ill- humored for a long time, from a slight vexation; spoke only when obliged to, extremely unfriendly, abrupt, quarrelsome. Very ill- humored and indolent, in the morning (after forty- eight hours).
Vacillating mood. Indifference, he does not seem to care whether his absent wife dies or not. Disgust for everything, no desire for anything. Disinclination for mental work. Absent-minded, she hears a conversation, but after it is finished knows nothing of it. Memory deficient. Very absent-minded and forgetful, she does not hear what is addressed to her when repeated several times.
Head.
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion in the head. Dull, tensive confusion, like a board in front of the head, frequently.
Vertigo, especially on sitting down or going downstairs.
Transient paroxysms of vertigo in quick succession, as if he would lose consciousness, in the evening, while standing. Great vertigo, so that she did not dare to move the eyes, more during the day than at night, mostly with palpitation. General Head.
Pressive headache, as if water were in the head, woke her about midnight, with great dryness and a sensitive scraping in the throat, great ill-humor and general perspiration, especially on the face, in throat, great ill-humor and general perspiration, especially on the face, in large drops. Headache, as if tense, painful, dull. Headache, as if torn and lacerated, after the vertigo. Dull headache. Painful drawing in various parts of the head. Head very much affected, especially in the afternoon and evening. Forehead. Dull, painful confusion in the forehead.
Dulness, especially in the forehead. Violent pressure in the forehead, as if everything would come out, with a feeling of a weight upon the head that presses the eyes together and forces tears out of them, aggravated by stooping and on the slightest motion of the head; before the attack great anxiety about the heart, followed by a stupid sensation, so that she could not talk; with increased anxiety, burning heat, great redness of the face and excessive thirst, headache increasing till 10 P.M.; it returns several days at the same hour. Pressive, dull burrowing in the left side of the forehead, after dinner, while walking in the open air, and afterwards continuing in the house. Pressure beneath the right frontal eminence, increasing and decreasing at intervals. Dull pressure inward suddenly in the left side of the forehead (after three hours). Compression in the forehead at intervals. A numb sensation in the forehead, as if constricted, in a warm room full of people, soon increasing to a violent dull burrowing compression, with fretful impatience, and heat in the upper part of the body, especially in the head, as if anxious sweat would break out; in the evening in the cool air, an unusual heat, and on beginning to walk a painful shattering in the brain, as if a ball were beating against the skull; afterwards, while lying in bed, there was an addition of whizzing in the ears, when, relieved of pain, he fell asleep. Tensive, numb sensation in the whole forehead, as after a blow, extending to the nasal bone. Cramp like drawing constriction in the head, from time to time, especially about the forehead; commencing slight, increasing till violent, and ending slight. Drawing from the left side of the forehead into the temple, where it is a pressure.
Violent boring in the middle of the forehead, gradually becoming weaker and disappearing. Transient headache above the left eyebrow. Cramp like pain in the forehead, as if screwed in.
Transient pain, as if bruised, in the right frontal eminence.
Some dull stitches in the forehead. Temples. Dull pressure, as from a bruise in the left mastoid process, on pressure. Pressive cramp like pain in the left temple, beginning gently, increasing and decreasing. Tense, numb sensation in the zygomata and mastoid processes, as if the head were screwed together. Cramp like tension in the temples, as if screwed in. Wavelike pressing inward in the left temple. Cramp like pressing inward in the temples. Sudden spasmodic, contractive shocks through the head, from the right temple to the left; followed by a numb sensation, as if too tightly bound, with tremulousness of both sides of the head. Cramp like pain in the right temple, in the afternoon.
Vertex and Parietals. Transient pressing inward on the middle of the vertex. A numb pain on the top of the vertex, as if the scalp would be contracted, and as if a heavy weight were lying upon it (after half an hour). Intolerable painfulness of the parietes of the head, at night, as if he were lying upon a hard stone; he was obliged to sit up. Dull pressure in the right parietal bone, as if a plug were sticking in it. Pain as from a blow on the right side of the head and in the forepart. Sudden bruise in a small spot on the left parietal bone. Jerk like drawing in the right and left sides of the head. Sharp stitches in the left side of the head, in the evening, in bed. Dull, corroding stitches in a small spot on the left parietal bone, at intervals. Cramp like drawing, extending from the left side of the occipital bone through the head to the lower jaw. Occiput and External Head.
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.