A solution of pure Chromic Acid in distilled water (1 to 9) may be diluted for use.
Generalities
Pain, (<) draught of air; (<) l. side; (<) cold water. Amelioration from quick walking. Heaviness, Dullness, stupidity. Weakness.
Mind
Confusion. Memory affected so that when writing he was at a loss to make several letters.
Head
Pain over l. eye. Heavy pain along coronal suture from 10 A.M. till 4 P.M., extending backward over parietal region. Throbbing in forepart, with fulness, with emptiness in chest, soreness on pressure and cold feet. Fulness; at night, with lightness at heart and vertigo on descending stairs; in vertex and frontal region at 5 A.M., on waking. Lightness like vertigo at 10 P.M., with heat in face. Vertigo at 10 A.M. when walking, inclining him to the right.
Eyes
Sore and feeling heavy, as if inflamed. Pain at noon from r. ball into interior of brain, with soreness of orb to touch. Vision diminished.
Ears, Nose and Face
Sudden intermittent feeling of water in r. ear, disappearing suddenly. Sensation when eating as if expired air smelt putrid, almost causing nausea. Features contracted, face laden, eyes sunken. Lips dry and disposed to crack.
Mouth
Toothache in l. lower jaw in morning after the usual rinsing with cold water; repeated, (<) r. lower, with violent beating of corresponding artery; sudden, in l. sound teeth in night, (<) lower, with violent beating of corresponding arteries; intermittent, in r. at 10 P.M. in bed, extending into forehead, with uneasiness, teeth seemed too long, with relief of pain between head, l. scapula and shoulder, then uneasiness in limbs, next morning r. teeth felt too long and cold water caused pain.
Throat
Tough mucus, with inclination to swallow it, as it could not be easily hawked up; white mucus, (<) morning, causing hawking.
Stomach
No appetite for breakfast. Nausea from 2 till 4 P.M., after dinner; after a simple supper, with sensation as if stool would follow; (<) when stomach is empty. Vomiting profuse, first of contents of stomach, then of much bile, then of blood; frequent V. of food, then of bile, with sweat, much retching, the nausea which precedes each vomiting (>) quick walking, between the attacks of vomiting pressure and fulness in stomach so that he must loosen the clothes, after the last vomiting sleep, then pressure or heaviness in stomach. Burning pain.
Abdomen
Cutting in hypogastrium and ascending colon at 6 P.M., (>) profuse diarrhoea. Pain in l. hypochondrium; in colon in morning on waking, (>) rising, with rumbling. Uneasiness in morning in bed, as before diarrhoea, (>) rising; in lower, waking at 4 A.M., with soreness to touch, (<) along colon, with nausea, eructations and retching, throwing off white mucus.
Anus and Stool
Haemorrhoids internal and bleeding; painful, externally on l. side of anus. Haemorrhoidal discharge during stool; with weakness in small of back. Diarrhoea; watery, with nausea and vertigo. Frequent copious stools. Small stool of mucus and knotty faeces.
Urinary Organs
Strangury in morning on waking after a dream of it.
Chest, Heart and Pulse
Pain in l. lung, with throbbing. Rawness or soreness in chest, with hacking cough. Pulsation through chest at noon. Weakness of chest. Sudden stitch in region of heart. Stricture in region of heart at 10 A.M. Throbbing from region of heart to l. eye and l. side of head at 10 A.M., with fulness in frontal region. Pulse rapid; and full; slow; irregular in frequency.
Neck and Back
Stiffness of muscles on l. side of neck at 10 A.M. Pain deep- seated in l. shoulder, scapula and l. side of nape up to occiput, with stiffness, (<) rising from lying or turning head to l. or backward, and draught of air, (>) standing and walking, at times the pain extended into l. olecranon, to muscles on chest below l. shoulder and spine, all muscles connected with scapula painful to touch, use of l. arm impeded, on drawing a long breath a stitch in chest near l. shoulder, on coughing pain over whole l. upper chest, deep coughing was impossible, pressure on chest, the pain mover from l. scapula to pelvis, lumbar region sensitive. Shooting from small of back into l. hip-bone at 3 P.M.; from lumbar vertebrae to crest of r. ilium at 6 P.M. when sitting. Pain in lumbar region at 9 A.M.; at 4 P.M., and weakness.
Extremities
Pain on top of l. shoulder as from fatigue from 10 A.M. till noon. Growing pain anteriorly in middle of l. brachium, and lameness as from a blow. Arms easily fall asleep. Pain in elbows. Drawing pain anteriorly in upper half of l. femur, extending to hip-joint. Rheumatic feeling in r. knee in afternoon and evening. Hitching in l. knee on walking. Weakness of l. knee at 8 P.M. when walking, with knocking. Paralyzed sensation in r. let at 10 A.M.
Skin
Prickling and itching here and there, (>) evening, with uneasiness in limbs.
Sleep
Sleepiness in evening; in the daytime, but if he lies down inability to sleep. Late falling asleep, restlessness during the night and anxious dreams. WAking at 5 A.M., and restlessness; waking at early dawn and inability to sleep again though sleepy and not excited. Night restless, with swollen sensation in eye balls, which continued after waking. Dreams unpleasant, unremembered; distressing, that he is about to be put to death by poison and at the same time is innocent of crime; of crossing a stream on horseback, the stream and the water on him freeze.
Fever
Coldness; in nape at 10 A.M.; of feet; of feet at noon, even when walking.
Clinical Diphtheritic sore throat. Post-nasal tumors. Epithelioma of tongue. Watery diarrhoea, with vertigo. Foul smelling lochia, bloody.
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.