A tincture is made of the fresh plant of peppermint. Eager for work and dispatches it quickly. Insensible. Motionless, limbs relaxed, pulse slow and full breathing stertorous, skin cold, lips livid, pupils immovable, eyes fixed. Headache beginning in morning, tension towards ears, (<) r. Sharp pain in l. temple when writing. Pain from one temple to other at night on waking; from one ear to other on rising, (>) returning to bed, but returning on rising again at 7 A.M. Lancinations from one ear to other on stooping or turning head; all day when walking, as if abscesses were forming in them, (<) l. Confusion of head. Flashes before eyes when writing. Lancinations in l. ear when writing, extending to all of l. teeth. Tip of nose swollen. Tip of nose sore to touch. Aching in lower molars when chewing sugar. Lancinations in parotids, (>) during breakfast and dinner. Pharynx dry and painful when swallowing, as if a pin were sticking crosswise. Weight in stomach two hours after dinner, extending to ears. Trachea painful to touch. Voice husky from reading aloud. Cough; excited by reading aloud, exposure to cold tobacco-smoke, or any smoke. Dry cough caused by passage of air into larynx (Hepar, Rumex); D., caused by speaking, and expectoration every morning of mucus like the core of a boil. Neck sensitive to touch. Feeling in r. sole, at end of metatarsus, as if the shoe-sole were too thick and made walking painful. Skin liable to inflammation, every scratch becomes a sore. Itching pimple near l. ear, with heat of part. Formication of arm and hand when writing. Itching behind lobe of r. ear. Early waking.
Clinical
Bilious colic, with great accumulation of gas. Valuable as a topical application for pruritis of the vagina. Irritable cough from supersternal fossa, (<) cold air (Rumex). It seems to have removed extreme sensitiveness to cold. It has relieved the severe pain of herpes zoster.
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.