Pure Metallic Arsenic is triturated with sugar of milk for use. Action and Affinities. See Arsenicum alb.
Generalities
Emaciation. Pulsation over whole body; especially under sternum; especially in r. hip-joint, (<) morning, (>) evening. Weakness. Disinclination to rising in morning after sound sleep. Recurrence of symptoms after two weeks. Aggravation in morning; after brandy. Appearance of symptoms on r., then l. side.
Mind
Stupor in morning after sound sleep all night. Despondency. Depression of spirits. Indifference.
Head
Aching, (<) when laughing. Swollen feeling morning on waking. Sensation as from fumes of whisky. Heaviness like vertigo. Swollen feeling in forehead, with immovable skin. Heaviness in forehead, with dull feeling. Aching in I. side of head, extending to l. ear and eye, with nausea. Soreness of scalp when pulling even one hair.
Eyes
Pain so that he could not read much Heaviness. Lids swollen and inflamed.
Nose
Coryza; with hoarseness, then with angina faucium; fluent. Discharge of scalding water, which excoriates nostrils.
Face
Bloated; feeling as if. Ulcer on l. inner side of lower lip; on r. inner side of lower lip, with soreness on touch of tongue.
Mouth
Gums swollen and painful to touch; gums swollen and feeling as if scalded, with salivation. Tongue coated white and covered with mucus; coated white and showing imprint of teeth. Dryness.
Stomach
Aversion to wines and liquors. Eructations of hot lips. Nausea.
Abdomen
Bloated. Lancinating griping after waking at 6 A.M., (>) sharp, burning, watery stool, then debility, sleeping in his chair, loss of appetite and full pulse. Tension and sensation of swelling. Pulsation in umbilicus. Painful swelling in r. groin, where a bubo and suppurated twenty-four years before, (<) extending leg, the pain goes to hip, (<) sitting, when the leg goes to sleep, (>) walking.
Anus, etc
Sore feeling in A. Bleeding varices; V. on r. side, painful after stool (not bleeding). Constipation. Red, sandy sediment in urine. Pain in region of heart; P. in l. muscles of chest.
Pulse
Full and hard; at 9 A.M., and rapid. Rapid; in morning; in morning, but slow in evening. Slow after midnight, rapid in morning, after rising.
Back
Lumbago. Numbness in r. lumbar region from vertebrae to chest of ilium, and inside of r. thigh down to knee.
Limbs
Cracking of finger-joints. Swollen feeling in hands, fingers and feet, with feeling as if he could not close hand. In lower limb sensation as if he could not use it but he could walk well after using it. Hip-joint, lame feeling in r.; numbness in r., extending to pubes; paralyzed feeling in r. hip-joint extending to pubic symphysis and down inside of thigh of knee. Dry feeling in r. knee. Pulsation in r. anterior tibial artery at superior extremity of its inferior third.
Skin
Scales. Itching of forehead; on face, (>) pinching; on face, (>) pressure, but not by scratching; on lower part of face, with burning, as before eruption; on face, (<) night, (>) bathing with cold water, with burning, stinging and swelling, then desquamation in small scales; in r. groin, extending to knee.
Sleep
Very sound at night. Sleepiness in morning after rising; in daytime and evening; afternoon when walking in street; S., with little sleep. Restless sleep; with fulness in head, which has (<) on waking in night. Soreness in sleep as if he would have headache in morning on waking. Dreams of anger, especially by water, that he is in danger of drowning, etc.
Fever
Dry heat in palms of hands. Burning of hands and feet. Heat of feet, with a bloated feeling; dry heat of feet, also at night. Sweat of feet; offensive S. on genitals.
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.