A tincture is made of the fresh berries and leaves of the mistletoe. A kind of aura epileptica, feeling as if he must fall, a glow rising from the feet to the head, feeling as if he were on fire with pallor of face. Paralysis of every muscle, except of those of the eye. Inability to speak or swallow, and death from starvation. Frequent recurrence of the symptoms during two years. Inclined to be violent. Spectral illusions. Insensibility. Stupor, then insensibility, lying motionless with closed eyes, but easily aroused by a loud noise and then answered any question, but when she relapsed into her former condition there was a slight disposition to stertor. Giddiness. Conjunctiva injected. Pupils dilated and fixed; contracted and at first insensible. Face red. Lips livid. Alimentary canal paralyzed. Constipation. Breathing slow and stertorous. Pulse quick, small and irregular; slow, full and bounding. Sensation as if a spider were crawling over dorsum of l., then of r. hand. Sudden pain from within outward in r. foot, compelling him to take off his boot, as it felt too tight. Drowsiness. Skin warm and moist.
Clinical
Deafness in l. ear. Numerous cases of retained placenta. Metrorrhagia, partly bright, party clotted and dark, with dull headache, stitches in the temples, numbness of the extremities, blue rings around the eyes, sunken eyes. It causes uterine contraction and stops haemorrhages. Chronic endometritis (granular endometritis), characterized by enlargement, either subinvolution, alveolar hyperplasia or hypertrophy. A case of whooping cough was cured in two days. Several cases of sciatica. Chorea from fright.
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.