Introduction
Arsenite of copper; CuHAsO3 (Scheele’s Green). (Some of the cases of poisoning may be due to Schweinfurt Green, a double salt of arsenite and acetate of copper). Preparation: Triturations.
Mind
Emotional. Child began to cry. Uttered piercing screams, and ran about the room (after half an hour). Great anxiety.
Irritable and feverish (2). Intellectual. Confusion of ideas (12), (after thirty-five minutes). Nervousness.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo, confusion of ideas, and headache between the temples (after thirty-five minutes), (12). Dizziness (2). Sensation as of gentle rotary motion in the brain, after studying (3). Slight reeling sensation in the brain after studying (6).
General Head. Dulness and confusion of head. Dulness of the head, with pain, worse in the left temple (11), (after three- quarters of an hour). Dulness and soreness of the head in the morning, after waking. General feeling of dulness in the head (2). Dull heavy pain in head the entire evening (12). Headache, (30). Headache is very severe all the evening, and the bones of the face very sore (12). He could not sleep until 2 A.M., the headache continuing very severe (12), (after two hours and three- quarters). Dull headache all the forenoon (12). On awaking to had the same dull headache as on the previous night (11).
General Dull Headache (11). Fullness of the head (2).
Immediately after taking the fourth dose, experienced a fullness in the head; the brain seemed to expand and press against the frontal bone (10). After reading an hour, experienced a distinct and rolling sensation in the brain; felt as if I might fall forward; the sensation passed off while walking in the open air and talking (12). Headache, particularly in the forehead, but the entire head feels as if bruised. The headache, which had disappeared during rest (sitting), reappeared very severely while walking up and down the room, and again subsided during rest; several repetitions produced the same aggravation and amelioration (12). The aggravation of the headache by motion and the amelioration by rest were frequently verified. The headache, which had again subsided, reappeared in consequence of walking upstairs (12). The headache disappeared while sitting, but returned very severely while walking up and down the room.
Forehead. The headache finally settles in the right side of forehead. Very severe headache all over the forehead, but especially in both temples (12), (after twenty-eight hours). Headache very severe, with dull pain in the forehead, with soreness of the orbital bones, after retiring to rest (12), (after five Hours). Headache becomes very severe, becomes very severe, spreads over the entire forehead, and finally settles in right side of the forehead and over the temporal bone, and becomes dull and throbbing (after forty-five minutes), (12).
Dull pain in forehead (11) (after three hours and a half). Dull pain over the entire forehead, but most severe in the right temple (10). Headache between the temples. The pain seems to meet in the center of the forehead, and thence to pass down in nose (12). Temples. Severe, dull pain in both temples (12), (after twenty-seven hours and a half. Severe pain in the left temple. Sharp pain in the temples, but worse in the left (3). Slight, darting pains in the temples. Throbbing pain in the right temple (11), (after two hours). Soreness of the right temple, when pressed against the pillow (12) (after twenty-nine hours). Parietals. Soreness of the bones of the left side of the head and face (11), (after two hours and forty minutes).
Occiput. Dull, heavy aching in the back part of the head (2).
Dull soreness in the right occipital bone, aggravated by pressure (12). External Head. Itching in the head (8). Itching of scalp at night (2). Itching of the scalp in the evening and at night.
Eye
Eyes dim. Eyes comatose. Eyes swollen in the morning. Orbit.
Persistent boring pain in a small spot above the left superior orbital arch, with soreness of arch when touched (12), (after thirty-one hours). Soreness of the left orbital bones, and of the left side of the nose (12), (after fifty-five minutes).
Severe sharp pain in the superior arch of the right orbital bone (12). Soreness of the left superior orbital arch when touched.
Vision. Black specks before the eyes (2).
Ear
Frequently there is a dull, rather severe pain in the right internal meatus (12). Boring pain in the right ear; sharp pain in the temples, worse in the left; pain in the lumbar region, and in the anterior portion of the right thigh; chilly feeling over the entire body; skin is sensitive to contact with the clothing, which produces a chilly sensation (12). Dull soreness in the right internal ear (12), (after one hour).
Nose
Soreness of the left side of the nose (11), (after fifty-five minutes). Nose sore inside, and discharging freely. The bones of the nose are very sore, especially when pressure is made upon them (12), (after twenty-five hours and three quarters).
Irritability of, with discharge of fluid from, the mucous membrane of the nose, with abundant salivation.
Face
Objective. Paleness of the face, with hot forehead. Pale and anxious. Face pale, sunken. Countenance became pale and emaciated. Pale, disfigured countenance (after half an hour).
Face deathly pale. Face livid. Distorted features. Twitching and jerking of the facial muscles of the left side, between the eyes and the corner of the mouth, which was very violent (2).
Soreness of the bones of the face (12). Soreness of the bones of the right side of the face (12). Lips. Lips of a bluish tinge.
China Intermittent and throbbing pain in the right half of the inferior maxillary bone (12), (after one hour).
Mouth
Teeth. Pain in the right upper and left lower molars. Shooting pain in the upper molars of the left side, extending upward into the superior maxillary bone (12). Twitches of pain in the right upper posterior and left lower posterior molars, more protracted in the former, but more acute in the latter (3). Gums.
Tenderness of the gums. Tongue. Tongue white. Tongue much coated (2). The back part of the tongue is very thickly coated (2). White coating on the tongue (2). Tongue coated white (2). Tongue heavily coated brownish-white (2). Tongue tremulous, covered with mucus. Peculiar tremulousness and coolness of the tongue (2) Taste. Taste bitter. Metallic taste (2); (12). Speech. Difficulty of speech (after over an hour).
Throat
Burning, extending from the stomach along the oesophagus to the mouth. Rolling about the floor in intense pain, which she described as burning her throat and bowels (over an hour).
Soreness of the throat. Child refused to take anything, probably from the inability of deglutition.
Stomach
Appetite. Did not taste food with usual relish for a few days.
Loss of appetite. No appetite (2). No desire for warm food, cold is better relished (3). Thirst. Much thirst. Great thirst. Urgent and distressing thirst. Intense thirst. Violent thirst (after half an hour). Thirst, which is unusual for me; have a desire now for water cold several times a day; a wine glassful suffices each time (3). The thirst continued for several weeks after taking the last medicine. Eructation. Much eructation of wind (2). Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea in the evening, with lameness of the back (3). Nausea on awaking, with bitter taste (3). Nausea, with headache between the temples. Nausea and vomiting. Nausea, with burning pain in the stomach and bowels; palpitation of the heart, with trembling of the limbs; headache, particularly in the forehead, but the entire head feels bruised; jerking in the limbs (cured by 6th and 12th).
Slight nausea and a little unsteadiness of the head, particularly after studying (6). Constant nausea. Violent nausea. Suddenly seized with violent sickness, and vomiting of a light-green substance like bile diluted with water. They both continued vomiting the same green fluid every ten or fifteen minutes during the day, until what they brought up appeared to be clear bile, mixed with the water they had constantly been taking in copious drafts. Vomiting (soon). Vomited several times. Repeated attacks of vomiting. Suddenly vomiting supervened, and the mother could detect some small pieces of the ink in the rejected matters, which were of a whitish color and of a slightly viscid consistence; repeated every five minutes. Vomiting, returning at intervals with much severity. Violent vomiting; (after half an hour). Stomach. Empty, vacant feeling in the stomach (12), (after thirty-five minutes). Distress about the stomach, soon.
Severe pains in stomach and bowels. Burning in the stomach (12), (after one hour and a half). Burning sensation in the stomach. Cramps in the stomach and bowels, followed by tonsillitis. Cutting pain in the stomach while eating (12). The stomach is sore, as if it had been bruised (12). Great sensitiveness of the epigastric region to the slightest touch.
Epigastric region exceedingly sensitive.
Abdomen
Objective. Squeezed his abdomen with both hands (after half an hour). Distension of abdomen (after over an hour). The whole abdomen meteoric, very painful to touch, but especially over the region of the liver. Abdomen hard. Rumbling in the bowels; sharp quick pains in the lower bowels (2). Abdomen flatulent, without being painful. Subjective. Pain in bowels, followed by copious but natural stools, after which the pains abated.
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.