Had to be assisted in everything like a child. Collapse, with swelling of gum, fetid breath, hiccough, agrypnia, retention of
urine. Faintness, once caused by starting at something falling to the floor; F., (<) lying, without unconsciousness, with gasping and with indolence in all limbs; with distress in r. hypochondrium; with tolerably good pulse. Falling asleep of head, arms and thighs when lying; of all parts on sitting down, less in abdomen, back and chest, everything seemed dead, and on motion crawling in the part moved, as of falling asleep of any part. Torpor. Numbness, (<) fingers, with fuzziness. Paralysis. Shaking palsy. Better when walking than when lying or sitting (Rhus-t., Conium). Aggravation in evening; A. on l. side. Young people more affected than the old.
Clinical Occasionally useful in hysteria, with restlessness. All the affections of Mercurius are (<) night and accompanied by profuse secretions, especially profuse perspiration. Inflammation of lymphatic glands. Valuable for subacute rheumatism, always (<) warmth of bed at night, it affects the joints with pale swellings, soreness and sometimes sharp pains. At times useful in true rheumatoid arthritis. Chorea (Mercurius vivus produces the most remarkable chorea of all drugs known to medicine; it is of the most violent character and extremely obstinate; but few cases of chorea have, however, been reported cured by this drug; it may be indicated by the general cachexia of the patient rather than by the character of the spasms). Diseases of the bones, especially periostitis of the long bones; rarely indicated for affections of the bones which syphilis attacks; it is almost completely complementary to syphilis, attacking only the bones which syphilis does not attack. General tremulous weakness. Paralysis agitans. Emaciation, with dropsical swellings, etc., etc.
Mind
Delirium; nightly; like delirium tremens; muttering (Hyosc.); speech disconnected, he would not answer questions, increasing to rage, so that he was confined in a strait-jacket, with rolling of eyeballs, clonic spasms, discharge of yellow, frothy liquid from mouth and nose and rattling in trachea, then trismus and tetanus; uncovers herself at night, pulls the straw about, scolds, during the day she jumps up high, talks and scolds to herself, does not recognize her relatives, spits and rubs the saliva on the floor with her feet, then partly licks it up, licks up cow-dung and mud, puts stones in her mouth without swallowing them, and complains that they cut her intestines, stools contain clots of blood, resists any attempt to touch her, obeys no one, eats and drinks irregularly, pale, haggard and weak. Mind wandering occasionally. Knows not where he is. Hallucinations; (<) night, with desire to escape. Believes that he is losing his reason in morning, thinks he is dying, and illusions, for example, sees water running where there is none. Believed that he was enduring infernal torments without being able to explain himself. Foolish, made a fire in the hot summer, laid swords across each other, placed lights in one corner of the room, boots in another, indifferent to cold and warmth, head confused and heavy. Foolish fancy, with inclination to weep, then exhaustion. Inclination to pinch the noses of strangers whom he meets when walking. Excitement. Easily agitated. Hurried talking (Hyosc.); senseless talk.
Anxiety; all day, with apprehension, as if he had committed a crime, did not know what to do, with feeling as if he had not control over his senses, without heat (Ignatia, Verat-a.); all day, though that he was going to hear bad news; at night, with orgasm of blood and sticking in bloodvessels; as soon as she eats, with sweat on head and forehead, which seem to her cold, sweat (>) open air, with want of breath and sticking in r. side below ribs; so that she does not know what to do, during menstruation; with apprehension, then sudden pain in pit of stomach, sweat of hands and heat of face; as if it would drive him away, as if he had committed a crime or as if a misfortune impended.
Sadness; with wretchedness and diarrhoea; with restlessness and anxiety, without particular thoughts. Constant weeping; almost involuntary W., then relief. No courage to live. Serious, offended if others laughed at a trifle, yet indifferent to everything that took place about him. Longing for home. Easily startled. Fear in evening, even to starting up; F. from slight cause, general trembling, she seemed paralyzed, heat mounted into r. cheek, which became swollen and bluish-red, bruised feeling in limbs, shaking chills; tottering of knees, so that she must lie down.
Irritable; all day, and mistrustful, he treated his associates almost insultingly and looked upon every body as his worst enemy; all day, and taciturn and serious; all day, thought that all his efforts would miscarry; and vexatious, daring; and intolerant, suspicious. Anger, aggravating the trembling. Quarrelsome; and opinionative. Discontented with himself and his condition; with himself, and fretful, no desire to talk or joke. Averse to everything, even to music; to everything, indifference to even the dearest objects, and wish to die. Indifference; to everything, with no desire to eat, but ate as much as usual and relished it. Desire to take a distant journey.
Slow in answering questions (Lycopodium, Ph-ac., Opium). Idiocy. Intellect weak, shows every mark of imbecility, smiles foolishly, screams constantly, speaks only a few disconnected words, does not understand the simplest questions. Mental condition defective, cannot give a history of his illness, cries at least excitement, cannot remember his age to within ten years, speech thick, words are drawled out and often incomplete, after he has talked awhile articulation is less distinct, apparently from defective control over muscles. Talking was irksome, could not read, head confused, could work at nothing, and fell asleep when sitting. Acuteness of thoughts affected, vertigo, does not hear what is spoken, does not retain well what he reads, and makes mistakes in talking. Distraction. Thoughts wandering and impulses whimsical. Thoughts difficult to collect, makes wrong answers (that he himself notices). Cannot calculate, cannot put his mind on anything. Thoughts vanish; and he feels as if he had done wrong. No desire for earnest work.
Memory weak (Hyoscyamus, Lycopodium); and will power lost; M. lost; forgot the names of persons and places. Inclined to sopor, coma. Stupor. Unconsciousness; and loss of speech, she seems to sleep but is pulseless, with usual warmth, but the look of corpse, later she tries to speak, but cannot.
Clinical Suicidal tendency. Imbecility. Mental alienation, with hurried talking, restlessness and apprehension of impending evil; sometimes the sufferer is morose and mistrustful.
Head
Swelling. Constant rotary motion even when lying. Trembling almost preventing sleep. Jerking shocks in brain, (<) motion and stooping. Sticking through head; tearing slow S., with bruised sensation. Tearing externally; T. in skull, (<) frontal bones. Suppurative sensation beneath scalp on touch of palm.
Aching; every morning on rising; (<) a glass of beer, with vertigo; with nausea; with heat; with sensation as if he were pulled backward; preventing sleep, with pain in abdomen and back; throbbing, with vertigo; in brain just beneath scalp, as if heavy and tight; as if brain would be forced asunder; as if upper part would fall to pieces, and pressure as if everything would press down to nose; uneasy, in evening till sleep, (>) sitting up and resting head on something loud talking disturbed him.
Pressure outward. Constriction; in brain, as from a band in evening (Iodium). Pain like a tension encircling head above eyes and ears. Fulness of brain as if head would burst. Confusion; in morning on waking; in morning on rising; in morning after rising, (>) open air, with feeling as after night-watching; in the house, with heaviness. Weakness like a Dullness and as if there were a vibrating in forehead and turning about in a circle. Heaviness. Congestion of brain. Apoplexy, one side and tongue being paralyzed; fatal A. Intoxicated feeling after eating, with heat of face and redness and swelling of it.
Vertigo; during the day; at noon and in afternoon for three days, when sitting at the writing-desk, he stood up and reeled about the room, then anxious heat, nausea and headache; in evening; even when sitting; on ascending or descending steps; in the house; on entering the house, with staggering; on turning; suddenly, everything turned with him; on rising after sitting bent over; when standing, during which he bent the head forward; on walking in open air, with nausea and sensation as if a worm rose from chest into throat; when walking in open air, with staggering, but in the house only heaviness of head; when lying on back, (>) lying on side, with nausea; more when sitting than when standing, with blackness before eyes, (<) towards evening; with cold hands and shivering, then Dullness of head; with confusion of head, then colic spasms of all muscles, spasmodic pains and ravings, consciousness never lost and tongue never bitten; compelling him to lie down; even to falling; in attacks, (<) evening, with flickering vision, pallor, sudden falling down if he was not lying, sometimes with unconsciousness and sometimes with nausea and vomiting, and once in the morning he became unconscious and fell out of bed; as if waving lengthwise, when lying.
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.