Triturations of pure Calomel (Mercurius Chloride) are used. Allies. The Mercurials in general.
Generalities and Mind
Convulsion. Prostration. Languor in evening. Uneasiness. Faintness. Agitation. Apprehension.
Head and Eyes
Headache; in morning. Pain or heaviness across forehead in evening. Conjunctiva red.
Clinical Scrofulous ophthalmia, ulceration of the cornea; chronic blepharitis.
Ears
Clinical A very valuable remedy in catarrh of the Eustachian tube and middle ear.
Face
As pallid as a corpse. Flushed. Swelling, and of throat; of cheeks. Exfoliation of lower jaw. Inflammation of lips and tongue.
Mouth
Teeth loose; and some came out. Uneasy sensation on gnashing teeth, in evening. Gums spongy. Tongue coated in morning; C. white, creamy; narrow coat in centre. Tongue so tumid that speech was gone. Filled with ulcers. Inside of M. and tongue black, and constant flow of dark putrid saliva of intolerable fetor, greater part of mouth and tongue mortified and part of tongue, under lip and part of one side of face sloughed off. Inside of cheeks inflamed and tender, and bloody puriform matter from r. cheek. Salivation; returned every October and February, often on the same days of the month as at first, sometimes a few days later. Fetor of breath. Unpleasant taste in morning on waking.
Throat
Ulceration. Swallowing difficult.
Stomach
Loss of appetite in morning. Thirst, Nausea, with faintness. Vomiting; profuse, also profuse diarrhoea; of milk and water that she had drunk, without appearance of calomel. Weight, and pain in epigastrium and r. side, (>) vomiting a thick, ropy stuff consisting of calomel entangled in mucus.
Abdomen
Griping; and fulness, with burning pain in epigastric and umbilical regions, then frequent copious serous stools, stools gradually becoming less and composed of bloody mucus, with tenesmus and constant desire. Pain. Tenderness; in evening on firm pressure.
Rectum
Burning pain. Soreness around fundament. Tenesmus.
Stool
Dysentery. Small, of mucus and blood, covered with bile, in evening, with constant desire and feeling as if it would be a relief to discharge whole contents of abdomen, he had had two large bilious stools about 10 A.M. Watery, green; and small. Dark green, with griping (Mag-c). Tinged with blood at night. Frequent, and black particles similar to those precipitated from the vomit adhered to the vessel.
Clinical Valuable in diarrhoea of infants, with scarcely any tenesmus, stools grass-green, excoriating, liver enlarged, mouth pale, ulcerated, with offensive odor, swollen glands, ptyalism, etc.
Asthma. Pulse rapid and hard; and full; and small; and small, in morning. Trembling of hands and feet.
Skin
Erythema beginning in public region and extending like scarlet redness over whole body, without pain or fever. Redness and swelling of face, extending over neck, shoulders and upper part of back, ending in serous exudation and desquamation. Round deep ulcers in mouth and fauces, on face, genitals and other parts, with white bases and inflamed painful margins, fever, night- sweats, weakness, tearing in limbs and trembling.
Fever
Temperature low.
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.