Common name: Musk deer.
Introduction
Moschus moschiferus, L. Class, Mammalia; Order, Ungulata; Family, Bovidae; Tribe, Moschina. Preparation: Trituration of the inspissated secretion continued in the preputial follicles.
Mind
Emotional. Excitement similar to that which is caused by wine; with increased frequency, fullness, and softness of the pulse, continuing two hours (after a few minutes). Sudden loss of his senses; in this condition he thought that his fingers and ties were cut off; against which he remonstrated with such rapid and confused speech that nothing could be gathered from it. He began to rave, spoke very low, as though afraid of disturbing some one; saying pst, pst, pst, then began to sigh deeply, and to play with the buttons of his waistcoat, as though taking them off and putting them on; this lasted ten or eleven minutes, and then consciousness returned (after half an hour). It made her feel quiet and self possessed; no fear of anything; is usually nervous and timid. Very good-humored, although annoyed he was unable to say anything, yet it seemed to him as though he should be angry (after two hours), Low spirits. Anxiety, as if something were about to happen. Great anxiety. Mood very anxious. Very anxious; she always started up in fright if anyone opened the door, and her body trembled visibly (after three hours). He was extremely anxious about death; after trituration three minutes, he began to say, “This is my death,” became deathly pale, and in ten minutes fell down in a faint (speedily resorted by Camphor). She spoke of nothing but that she must die (from triturating ten minutes). Fretful mood (first hour). She is very fretful, yet would weep every moment. Very peevish; he sprang up, with wild anger, and did not know what to do with himself from rage, until he struck a vessel that stood near him, when he became better (after five hours and a half). Very violent anger; she would not be quieted by anything, but continued to rave until the mouth was quiet dry, lips blue, eyes staring, and face deathly pale, when she fell to the ground (after ten minutes). While sitting unemployed, and then again restless and running about, he scolded at every one he saw, and seemed to be afraid of only me (after five hours). Intellectual. He sits in thought, talks aloud to himself, but indistinctly; strikes with his hands, then suddenly cries our “ah, ah!” (after thirteen minutes). She sits in thought, strikes her hands together, makes various gestures, so that others fear she will lose her reason, disappearing in half an hour (after twenty-four hours). Dulness of mind, with diminished memory. Stupid feeling in head (after ten minutes). A stupid feeling in forehead (after fifteen minutes). Distraction of mind that prevented work. No memory, though he answered every question; if a former question was repeated he gave a confused answer, as though thinking of something else. Memory suddenly vanished, with a pressive sensation upon the vertex. So forgetful that he did not know what had just happened; this was repeated daily, but disappeared after three days (after twelve hours). Stupor of the brain. Half stupefied; she was taken into the open air (after five minutes) where she recovered her senses (after ten minutes). A stupefaction with vertigo, so that he was obliged to sit down, and while sitting, felt as though he would fall, and therefore held on to a chair (after two hours). A kind of stupefaction, and all the objects in the room seemed large black figures, which would spring upon him. A kind of dizzy stupefaction, so that he thought he could not see or hear, yet he saw and heard everything. Loss of mind for whole hours; on coming to his senses, he complained of sticking in the joints of the fingers (after twelve hours). Coma.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Head confused, and almost dizzy. Confusion of the head, as in intoxication. Confusion of the head; the upper part seems tense, though without pain. Vertigo. Sensation of vertigo in the head. Vertigo amounting even to loss of consciousness (after ten minutes). Slight dulness in the head, amounting to vertigo. Vertigo on stooping, that disappears on rising (after five hours). Vertigo, with a sensation as though whirling violently, so that she was obliged to lie down; with desire for black coffee (after thirty hours). Vertigo, nausea, and vomiting, at the same moment. Vertigo, with a kind of nausea; associated with a pressive, somewhat throbbing headache, over the whole posterior portion of the head, with some drawings, as with a thread (extending into the spine, as far down as the first lumbar vertebra). Vertigo, with sudden faintness. Vertigo, with great rush of blood to the head, lasting two hours; better in the open air (during the first five minutes). A kind of vertigo on moving the lids relieved in the open air (after two hours). Vertigo, as though she were standing very high, and would fall. Vertigo, so that she thought that she fell from a height. Vertigo, as if intoxicated; he was unable to walk alone. Vertigo, so that he could not walk alone; he reeled from side to side in the room (after three hours). Vertigo, as if all objects were moving (after ten minutes). Vertigo, as if intoxicated; everything that she looked at seemed to move (after ten minutes). Vertigo, as if everything were turning in a circle, at first very slowly, then faster and faster; at last it seemed as though she were floating in the air, then she became stupefied, and in this stupefaction it seemed as though she fell from a great height, and she lost her consciousness (after ten minutes). Vertigo, like a whirling, that soon disappears (after five hours). Vertigo, as if intoxicated, so that he was obliged to steady himself to prevent falling. Sudden vertigo, with dimness before the eyes, so that he could make no movement whatever (after six hours). Vertigo, so that she thought that she fell from a height. Vertigo, as if intoxicated; he was unable to walk alone. Vertigo, so that he could not walk alone; he reeled from side to side in the room (after three hours). Vertigo, as if all objects were moving (after ten minutes). Vertigo, as if intoxicated; everything that she looked at seemed to move (after ten minutes). Vertigo, as if everything were turning in a circle, at first very slowly, then faster and faster; at last it seemed as though she were floating in the air, then she became stupefied, and in this stupefaction it seemed as though she fell from a great height, and she lost her consciousness (after ten minutes). Vertigo, like a whirling, that soon disappears (after five hours). Vertigo, as if intoxicated, so that he was obliged to steady himself to prevent falling. Sudden vertigo, with dimness before the eyes, so that he could make no movement whatever (after six hours). A kind of aching in the head, extending deep into the brain (after thirty-one hours). The whole head hurts; a drawing, here and there, as far as the nape of the neck, where it is a tension, better in the open air, much worse in the house (after one hour). Painful drawing in the head, from the occiput to the ears, and from the ears into the teeth, more on the right side (after three hours). A pressive pain deep in the brain. Pressive pain over the whole head (after two days). Pressive headache, internally in the brain. Pressive headache, with coldness as from cold applications to the head (after three days). Tensive pressive headache, with a sensation as if something in the brain were moving. A kind of complication of pressive and boring headache, at one time through the whole head, at another behind the ears, at another in the forehead, at another in the vertex, and then in the occiput. General pressure in the head and upper part of the forehead. Headache as though a weight were lying upon it, somewhat aggravated by motion. Headache as if a heavy weight were lying upon the whole upper part of the head, relieved by moving about in the air (after two hours). Headache, as if half of the skull were cut through, better in the open air. Tearing pain in the right half of the head. Pressive sticking pain in the forehead (after thirty-six hours). Forehead. Slight pain in the forehead, alternating with pain in the occiput. Compressive headache in a small spot just above the root of the nose, causing dulness (after an hour). Slight aching in forehead, with sleepiness, in the afternoon (second day). Pressure in the frontal region. Distressing pressure in the frontal region, aggravated by moving about. Pressive pain in the forehead, extending down between the eyebrows to the nose and into both cheeks. Pressive pain in the forehead, with a red spot upon it (after four days). Pressive headache in the frontal region, extending down into the eyes and nose. Slight pressive headache in the region of the forehead. Slight sticking in the forehead. Temples. Slight sudden drawing in the temples. Transient drawing pressure in the right temple. Pressive pain in the right temple (after five hours). Vertex. Creeping on top of brain. Occiput. Pressive painful sensation in the cerebellum (after forty- two hours). Throbbing and beating in the occiput, thence the pain spread and extended to the forehead (after one hour). External Head. The whole head was painful as a sore, aggravated by touch. Headache externally, as if the whole scalp were sore, aggravated by touch (after four days). Itching, here and there, in the scalp, disappearing after scratching.
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.