Introduction
Preparation: Triturations of the metal.
Mind
Emotional. Immoderate laughter in the evening. Spasmodic laughter. Very cheerful; at night especially full of fun and laughter (curative action). Crying like the croaking of frogs.
Melancholy; she shuns the sight of people, seeks and loves to be alone, and becomes anxious about her death, which she supposes imminent and inevitable. Great depression of spirits. Slight attacks of deathly anxiety, without heat. Fearful; want of courage. A kind of fearfulness; it seems as though he must tread lightly, in order to avoid injuring himself or disturbing his companions in the room. Feeling of general irritability.
Fretful; he does not know what he wishes; he desires to be alone; after some time this changes to cheerfulness, but the fretfulness soon returns. Aversion to everything. Irresolute; satisfied with nothing; this only lasts as long as he is fretful.
Apathetic and inert. Intellectual. Disinclination to work, yet idling is burdensome to him. Loss of ideas, weakness of memory (after two hours). Confusion of mind; is fearful, and endeavors to escape. Senselessness; it seems as though he were in a half- waking dream.
Head-Vertigo
Vertigo. Vertigo immediately, accompanying all the symptoms, as though it were turning around in the head, and as though he would sink forward. Vertigo, with weakness, the head sinks forward; worse while moving, less while lying. Vertigo on reading; he was obliged to remove the eyes from the book for some time. Vertigo on looking up, with vanishing of vision, as though a veil were before the eyes. Attacks of vertigo. Giddiness. All complained of giddiness and lassitude, and a disinclination, when not at work, to take exercise, or “to go about,” as other workmen.
General Head. Inflammation of the brain (phrenitis). Dulness of head; a sweetish metallic taste, and saliva running together in mouth; the throat gets dry, with a sensation as if constricted when swallowing (while triturating the precipitated dust with sugar of mild, 2 grains to 98). Sensation of heaviness in the head. Heavy sensation in the head, with a fine stitching in the left shoulder, on moving it from side to side. Most of them complain of pain in head. Headache, with inclination to vomit.
Slight headache. Most violent headache. Drawing pain in many places in the head, with a whirling vertigo, only relieved by lying down, with general sick feeling; he does not himself know how he does feel. A stitch through whole head, from the forehead near the hair backwards (second day). Bruised pain in the brain, and also in the orbits, on turning the eye. Forehead.
Weight in right forehead. Pressing pain at forehead. Pain, as from pressure of the brain outward in the forehead, especially on stooping, with confusion of the head like a dulness. Sharp burning stitches in the left side of the forehead (after sixty hours). Temples. A hard pressure in the right temple, worse when touches. A hard pressure in the temples, frontal eminences, occiput, and also within the brain, with vertigo; aggravated by motion and touch. A tearing pressure in both temples, worse when touches. A pressive-drawing pain in the left temple, worse when touches. Sharp burning stitches in the left temple and on the vertex (after fifty-four hours). Vertex. Crawling sensation in the vertex. Parietals. Pressive pain, first on the right, and then on the left side of the head. Stinging, as with a needle, in right side of head ever since morning (second day). A cutting jerk in the left side of the head (second day). (Headache in the parietal bone, especially on taking hold of it even to crying out). Occiput. Burning tearing in the occiput, at the attachment of the cervical muscles, on moving the head forward.
External Head. Hair colored green. Hair changed from white to green.
Eye
Objective. Weary-looking eyes encircles with blue (after a few days). Dim eyes (inclined to close from weakness). Blue margin around eyes. Protruding, glistening eyes. Eyes sunken. Eyes hollow and glazed. Eyes wandering about. Subjective. A sore burning pain, now in one, now in the other eye. Pressive pain in both eyes, as from watching over night. Burning pressive pain in the eyes. Violent itching in the eyes towards evening. Orbit.
Headache restricted to the orbits. Pain in the orbits as if bruised, on turning the eyes. Lids. Pressure in the lids, on closing the eyes as well as on opening them, worse on touch.
Conjunctiva. Conjunctiva injected. Ball. Itching in the eyeballs. Pupil. Dilated pupils. Preternatural dilatation of the pupils, not perceptibly lessened by exposure to a strong light. The pupils are insensible; they contract very little in the light and dilate very little in the dark.
Ear.
External. Fine tearing in the cartilage of the left ear (after two hours). Pressure in the right concha, as from something hard. Internal. Boring pain in and behind the ear. Sticking pain in the right ear. Pain in the ears; a pressive tearing within the right ear (after seven hours). Frequent itching in the ear. Hearing. Distant drumming in the ear upon which he is lying, in the morning, in bed, always disappearing on rising. Fluttering in the left ear (after a quarter of an hour).
Nose
Objective. Very frequent sneezing. Coryza and stopped coryza, with sleepy yawning. Profuse fluent coryza. Sensation as of great rush of blood to the nose. Internal itching in the nose.
Smell. Loss of smell.
Face
Objective. Expression of suffering in face. Expression anxious.
Complexion haggard; look miserable. Countenance rather wild.
Appearance unhealthy; complexion dark and sallow. Aspect rather unhealthy and pale. Most unhealthy-looking countenance; complexion of a leaden hue. Appearance remarkably cachectic.
Peculiar cachectic appearance during convalescence from fever.
Paleness of the face. The color of the face becomes pale. Pale cachectic color of the face. (* The effect of continued small doses.-HUGHES. *) Pale, dirty, shining color of face (after a few days). Looked pallid (after three months). Face rather pallid and thin. Peculiar sallow, almost clay-colored complexion. Complexion leaden (third day). Pale-yellow coppery color of face. Greenish-yellow tinge of countenance. Icteric coloring of the face and surface generally. Became jaundiced (sixth day). Pale, puffy face. Greenish-yellow color of face.
Bluish face, with blue lips. Redness of face, with heat, and sometimes cold, running over body (second day). Face swollen and discolored. Face swelled and pasty. Face sunken, emaciated, greenish-yellow color. Subjective. Pressive pain in the face in front of the ear. Stitches in the right side of the face. Pain, as from a thrust in the left side of the face. Cheeks. Blue tint over cheek-bones (denoting deficient hematosis). Lips.
Pale lips (after a few days). Lips livid. Soreness within the upper lip. China Drawing beneath the chin from without inward, worse when touched. Hard pressure in the left ramus of the lower jaw, worse when touched. Drawing pressure on the right side of the lower jaw, worse when touched. Dull stitches in the left lower jaw extending inward, and at the same time in the left tonsil, when swallowing and when not, aggravated by external touch.
Mouth
Teeth. Teeth slate color, particularly on edges. Teeth colored more or less green, and almost bronzed. All of them had a green stain on their teeth, of different shades of color, varying from a light bright-green to a dark greenish-brown. A dark greenish- blue line on the teeth. Teeth coated with a crust of sulfuret of copper. One tooth after another fell out in a row, particularly in the upper jaw, without salivation. Gums. The tongue is tolerably clean, but round the gums there is the characteristic purple line of copper poisoning. An edging of rich purple on the margin of the gums of the incisor, canine, and bicuspid teeth of both jaws. This purple color corresponds in situation precisely with the coloring produced by lead, but the tint of color is so different as to decide at once whether it has proceeded from copper or from lead, for while the color produced by lead is of a pure blue, that from copper is a well-marked purple, and even sometimes a reddish-purple. The tint of color produced on the gums remains a very long time. Gums lax and spongy for about three-sixteenths of an inch from the teeth, through nearly their whole extent. Gums soft, with patches of purplish-red at their juncture with the cheeks. The black line on gums distinct in each case, and in one the gums were also swollen and ulcerated at their edges. Retraction of the gums. Edges of gums withdrawn from the teeth through nearly their whole extent. Tongue.
Tongue furred. Foul tongue (after three months). Foul, dry tongue (third day). Pale tongue, with a thin, whitish coating (after a few days). Tongue white in middle, red at edges.
Tongue coated with a light-brown or cream-colored fur, except the edges and tip, which were clean and of a pale-red color, the whole tongue being moist. Dry tongue. General Mouth. Mucous membrane of mouth pale; inside of lower lip and part of upper lip, mostly on places where the teeth had made an impression, dark-blue; teeth slate color, particularly on edges. Occasional spitting of blood from mouth, especially in morning on rising from bed. During recovery, acids of any sort, fruit, etc., gave the tingling sensation of a galvanic current to mouth and teeth.
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.