A tincture is made of the fresh bark of Cornus florida, L.
Headache. Face flushed. Nausea. Heat in stomach. Pulse accelerated and bounding; and tense; and full, strong; and full, afterwards soft, but full; and irregular, afterwards slower and smaller. Pulse full, afterwards slower and smaller.
Clinical Intermittent fever, with Dullness, drowsiness, dull headache, great exhaustion, during the intervals between the paroxysms very weak, with diarrhoea, general clammy sweat, etc. (compare with Cornus cir. and Alstonia). It seems to be adapted to chronic malaria; the paroxysms sometimes begin with heat, followed by oppression; with heat beginning in the back, the patient feels weak and miserable in the apyrexia, and especially had diarrhoea and jaundiced skin.
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.