Introduction
Rock-oil; Stein-oel; Oleum petrae. The crude Rangoon oil, thin and light yellow, is to be used.
Mind
At first an extravagant and exaggerated condition of mind, with internal trembling, followed by sadness and despondency. He rose up and then got out of bed. General excitement. A little wine taken at dinner goes to his head and makes him stupid. The child becomes fierce and uncontrollable. Inclined to be very angry every morning. Angry rage and peevishness. Violent, irritable, offended at trifles. Excessive anxiety. Anxiety at the noise of a crowd of many people. Great fearfulness; violent shock from a fright at a trifle. Fear of death (after two hours). Dejected in the morning, quiet, with dimness of vision (after twenty-two, and twenty-three days). Dejected (after twelve days). Sad and discouraged, and a sick feeling of weakness of the heart. Very quarrelsome; he is easily aroused. Ill-humored, quarrelsome, in the morning, on waking. Vexed about everything, even at the smallest trifle; he will not answer. Quarrelsome, peevish, lachrymose (after a few hours). Quarrelsome and passionate.
Fretful and indolent (after sixteen days). Constant complaining (after two hours). Discontented with everything. Out of humor; very much inclined to hypochondria, with a feverish condition, lasting fourteen days. Very irritable; everything makes him very disagreeable and gloomy; he cannot be quiet about many things, which usually seem trifling, and with the greatest effort he cannot be cheerful. Hypochondriac while walking in the open air; inattentive in conversation, etc. Very irresolute. Very little ambition. No desire to work; no pleasure in objects of which he was usually fond, hence intolerable ennui. Impairment of the mental powers. He cannot easily free himself from the subject on which he is talking. Loss of will power. He lost all power of thought. Impaired memory. Very forgetful and disinclined to think. He was only partly conscious all day, as if only half alive. Loss of consciousness (after one hour). Comatose condition for twelve hours.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head, in the morning (fourth day). Confusion of the head and general discomfort (after twenty hours). After eating a little the head seems befogged, dizzy, and confused. The customary smoking befogs him (after three hours). Vertigo (after eight hours); (after two hours).
Violent vertigo, obliging him to stoop forward, with paleness of the face and nausea, more while standing than sitting, disappearing on lying down, together with a slow pulse, eructations and yawning, loss of appetite, and pressure in the abdomen. Constant vertigo, with roaring in the ears, in the evening (second day). Vertigo and nausea, in the evening, in bed, especially when lying with the head low. Vertigo frequently while walking. Vertigo and nausea on stooping. Vertigo on stooping and on rising from a seat. Vertigo on rising up from lying down; while lying down, heat in the face. Vertigo, seeming to be in the occiput, as if she would fall forward, especially on raising the eyes. Dizzy, as if intoxicated. Dizziness immediately after dinner (after nine days). General Head. Rush of blood to the head, after eating. A feeling of a rush of blood to the head, on every rapid motion, that causes a stitch through the brain.
Heaviness of the head, in the morning, with a sensation of fulness and heat in it, especially on stooping and sewing. Head heavy (third day). Dulness of the head, in the morning, thick, heavy, full of heat. Dulness of the head, with pain. Dulness of the head, as if enveloped in a fog. Violent pressure in the head, on stooping. Pressure in the head, teeth, and antrums of the upper jaw. Pressing in the head, with a kind of qualmishness (after two days). Pressure and pressing in the head (after twenty-four hours). Feeling of compression in the brain, Tension in the head. Feeling of tension in the dura mater daily, with dulness. A feeling of tension and pulling in the dura mater.
Headache. Dull headache, from morning till evening, with drawing towards the forehead, together with violent chill, lasting till noon. Attack of headache every morning. Headache, in the morning, on rising, for several days. Headache immediately in the morning, lasting until after breakfast. Headache, in the evening, after walking in the open air. Violent headache, especially above the eyes (first night). Pressive headache (after two weeks). Tearing headache, in the evening. Pinching headache (after two days).
Constrictive, contractive headache. Constrictive drawing headache. Drawing headache, preceded by drawing pain in the right arm. Extremely painful drawing, as from a sprain, in the muscles, extending from the mastoid process to the clavicle on both sides; a tearing every five minutes (after eleven days). Trembling, waving, and roaring in the head and in the ears, as of rush of blood to the head, though without sensation of heat. Sticking and much heat in the head. Excessive sticking jerking in the head, on stooping and walking; after every few steps she was obliged to stand still. Sticking, together with pressure, in the head, and nausea. Boring in the head. Sensation of screwing together in the head. Beating in the head. Distressing sensation in the head, as if everything in it were alive and turning and twisting about, with dread of work. A sensation on the head as if a draft of cold wind were blowing across it. Forehead. Pain about an inch above right eyebrow, and painfulness of the bone, then a pressure, only when stooping (after fifteen minutes). Ditto, but also very slight pain there when not stooping; this also occurred afterwards now and then, but there was no pain or pressure when not stooping; when stooping and repeatedly pressing the bone, the pain in bone in worse at the first pressing (after fifty minutes). Nearly all gone (after three hours and one-third). The same symptoms on stooping as before (after fifteen hours, and five minutes. Pains in head as before (9.30 A.M., second day).
Pain and tenderness of bone to pressure returned, just above right supraorbital ridge, when stooping (forty-eighth day). After rising from bed, the same slightly; after breakfast, just as before (forty-ninth day). Pressure in the forehead, with some stitches over the eyes (after twenty-six days). After part of day and night, dull frontal headache. Headache, frontal, dull, and disagreeable; worse while the nausea remained; the dull headache continued till about 11 o’clock the third day, when there was a slight haemorrhage from the nose, after which the headache was relieved. Drawing headache in the forehead, with stitches above the eyes. Sticking pain in the forehead, in the morning, on waking, soon extending over the posterior portion of the head.
Violent pulsating waving, especially in the forehead, as though the head would burst; better on motion. Temples. Cramp like headache in the left temple. Cramp like transient drawing in the temples. Cramp like very acute drawing and pressure in the left temple (after four days). A pinching drawing extending up to the left temple (after eleven days). Pressive drawing in the right temple, even noticed during a nap (after a few hours). Vertex and Parietals. Violent pressure on the vertex, with dizziness. Pain in right side of vertex, in evening (eight day). Bruised pain on the vertex, as if it were soft. Dull jerking stitches on the vertex, extending into the head, in the evening, soon followed by persistent pressure in it. Transient rising of heat into the left side of the head, with persistent redness of the cheeks, after eating. Headache on the right side; she could not open the eyes, could not hold the head upright; she was obliged to lie down.
Both sides of the head are painful to touch, as if suppurating.
Pain in the left side of the head, as if suppurating. Throbbing stitches in one side of the head, above the eyes. Occiput and External Head. Heaviness, like lead, in the occiput (second and third days). Pressure and sticking pressure in the occiput, in the morning. Pressure in the occiput. Pinching in the occiput.
Sticking in the left side of the occiput, in the afternoon.
Pulsation in the occiput when lying upon it. Throbbing in the occiput all day. Profuse falling of the hair. Falling of the hair for three days, especially after twelve days. Some soft swellings on the scalp, with excessive pain when touched. Papular eruption on the head. Bruised pain in the scalp. The head seems numb externally, like wood (after three days). Much itching on the scalp (after ten hours). Itching on the scalp; after scratching, a pain as if sore.
Eye.
Eyes sunken (after half an hour). Eyes glistening (after two hours). Eyes staring, glassy. Eyes staring wildly about (after six hours). Eyes very dim (after twenty-two days). Twitching of the eyes. Blinking and winking with the eyes. Weakness of the eyes. Eyes easily fatigued. In the morning he cannot open his eyes; vision is dim and misty. Burning in the eyes and pressure, with dimness on exerting them. Burning in the eyes (after five days). Much pressure in the eyes, especially in the evening by the light. Violent pressure in the eyes, as from sand. Pressure in the eyes in the evening. Stitches in the eyes and lachrymation. Stitches extending from the outer canthus towards the inner. Stitches in the eyes when pressed upon and when not.
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.