Introduction
Sulphate of quinine or chinin. Formula 2C20 H24 N2 O2, SH2 O4 plus 7H2 O (Regnault). Preparation: for use, Triturations.
Mind.– Emotional.
Excited. Sensation as though he were intoxicated though his mental powers were perfect. An intoxicated sensation, changing to a heaviness of the head (5th day). Uncommonly lively mood (9th day). An extremely lively mood and an activity returned about 9 P.M. only after a walk in the open air (8th day).
Buoyant feeling in the evening (12th day). Rather more vim and buoyancy than usual, during the evening especially (2nd day). Feeling of considerable mental resolution, with shrinking from taking much trouble about matters, evening (26th day). Found my will positive in insisting on professional orders, but self-restrained and deliberate, in the forenoon (17th day). Awoke at midnight with long continued cries; he knew that he was crying, but could not help it; he was obliged to get out of bed; he wrapped himself in the clothes, and remained sitting; after a few minutes he came to himself again, and soon felt asleep (6th day). Great depression of spirits (14th day). Great depression of spirits and fretfulness (11th day). Despondency. During much of the proving the morale has been one of will, with little courage, or hope, or contentment, which, however, I am not prepared to attribute to the drug with confidence (27th day). Anxiety (after 2 hours).
Great anxiety, amounting to an apprehension, as if some evil would happen (5th day). Attacks of anxiety (3rd day). Feeling of anxiety, which at times obliges him to leave the bed (3rd and 4th nights). Anxious and sleepless during the night. The day being clear and windy, and a holiday to many, few people being on the street produced a sort of street-quietness; felt a gloom come over me, Cas if some evil were impending; relieved by a specific trust in the Almighty; this from 3 to 4.15 P.M. (1st day). Recurrence of feeling of impending evil, in the afternoon (6th day). Ill-humored and fretful (9th day). After sleep, readily angered, even by a cold draft on my legs (40th day).
Intellectual. The morale, from the first, has resembled the physical symptoms, dull feelings in both coexisting; in both simultaneously sharpness, the former in the beginning, the latter at present (20th day). Thought difficult, while writing (5th day). Great disinclination to mental labor (8th day). Averse to difficult study or other work (12th day). At 12 P.M., some repugnance to the prospective burden of tomorrow’s business (having partaken of vegetable soup, an orange taken after that); then at 12.25 took another powder; then, leaning over my table, tasted the food (2nd day). 4.30 P.M., whilst writing, was interrupted; decided feeling to “cut it short” (1st day). Wrote “right” instead of “left” by mistake (28th day). Wrote the word “left” instead of “right” afternoon (26th day). Wrote the word “left” instead of “right;” have made a number of similar mistakes in talking during the past few days, in the evening (14th day).
Again I mistakenly wrote at first “left” instead of “right” (I remember a report I published some time ago of contusion of the spine cured by Hypericum, in which the same error occurs; I do not remember whether I had then taken any medicine; possibly I had taken China or some other), (15th day). Memory “all muddled”. Lost the power of naming substantives; was obliged for a long while to consider what different familiar things were called; and as to casting up a line of six or eight figures correctly, it was utterly impossible; he could never make the amount twice alike; his perceptions of quantity were greatly impaired, so that in prescriptions he wrote ounces instead of drachms, ordered drachms instead of grains, directed draughts to be put in gallipots, and prescribed fluids to be made into pills (14 to 16 grains daily).
Head.– Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head (5th and 20th days). Vertigo; (after one hour and a quarter). Vertigo, on stooping (21st day).
Vertigo and whirling in the head (29th day). Vertigo and palpitation (after 4 hours). Whirling in the head, like a “mill wheel” (31st day). General Head. In morning, whole head swollen, and the face so altered that she could with great difficulty open her mouth for food. Rush of blood to the head. Rush of blood to the head, towards evening.
Chronic disturbance of brain. Head stupefied, and especially painful in the left temple (26th day). Head empty, in the morning. Light, hollow feeling in head. Heaviness in the head (7th day). Heaviness and confusion of the head continue until going to sleep in the evening (7th day). Heavy feeling in head, especially the top, in the evening (27th day). Heavy felling in the head is notable; sitting after stool with protrusion; the room being somewhat warm, the day stormy. It is not unlike the inertia of the muscles of the legs in walking before mentioned; it is also attended by a sense of vascular tension and fullness and dry heat, fingers and feet cold; the head feels much better by application of my cold hand on the top, in the forenoon (28th day). Pain in the head (after one hour). Very violent pain in the head, on rising in the morning, especially noticed on stooping or moving (29th day). Such fullness in the head that he was unable to walk. Sudden fullness of head (head leaning to left), especially the left side and top, after writing, in the forenoon (28th day). Head feels full while sitting writing, in forenoon (28th day). A moderate excitement caused a marked feeling of dull tension (not a rare symptom) about the head, especially at the sides; settling on the top as a pressure, extending later to the “perceptive region” on the forehead, at last completing the circuit to occiput like a rim, in the morning (23rd day).
Headache. (10th day). Headache (boy, after 25 minutes, lasted 5 minutes); (girl, from 8 grains, began in 170 minutes; from 10 grains, in 175 minutes; from 12 grains, in 95 minutes; from 20 grains, in 30 minutes; from 20 grains, in 15 minutes). Headache, extending to the temples, in the afternoon, and was somewhat relieved towards evening (18th day). Headache after walking a long time in the sun, in the afternoon (7th day). Headache at 3 A.M., with violent pressive pains in the occiput, which only disappear on rising (2nd day). Headache at 7 P.M., commencing in the forehead, and at last extending to the occiput, lasting an hour (13th day). Headache, with vertigo and loss of consciousness. Very severe headache, worse towards evening, with violent palpitation of the arteries of the head, as if the head would be torn as under, with glowing heat of the face, vertigo, at times ringing and roaring in the ears. Violent headache, which disappeared after 8 to 12 days. Violent headache in the forenoon, more especially in the left side, with frequent pulsation of the temporal arteries, with excitement through the whole body (12th day). Dull headache (14th day). The headache and fever were relieved on walking in the open air, with appearance of slight sweat (31st day). I rose and bent over my table; then throbbing in the head and shoulders; forgot it on going out (1st day).
Forehead. About 4 P.M., the frontal arteries began to pulsate, the heat of the face increased to redness, and continued; especially was it the most intense about the eyes (7th day). Pain in the forehead, (22nd day). Pain in the forehead after dinner (7th day). Pain in the forehead between 5 and 6 P.M. (3rd and 4th days). Pain in the forehead and temples appeared towards evening, and gradually increased in intensity, with visible pulsation of the temporal arteries, heat of the head, and ringing in the ears (4th day). Some pain in the forehead in the afternoon (5th day). Some pain in the forehead about 4 P.M. (2nd day). Much pain in the forehead and temples (8th day). Violent pain in the forehead, lasting 24 hours (after 4 hours). Violent pain in the forehead two hours after 2 grains it disappeared in the course of the afternoon (5th day). Extremely violent pain in the left side of the forehead; with vertigo, ringing in the ear, and weakness as from long illness, at 9 A.M. (18th day). Frontal headache from 1 to 4 P.M. (31st day). Slight frontal headache, lasting a;; day, and becoming worse towards evening. Violent frontal headache on waking (23rd day). Violent frontal headache in the evening (5th day). Severe frontal headache, worse on the left side on rising in the morning, becoming somewhat less during the forenoon, but succeeded by confusion of the head the whole day; it was again worse at 5 P.M. without any general excitement (19th day). Dull frontal headache (24th day ). Headache in the forehead and left temple (13th day). Dull headache, extending from the temples to the middle of the forehead, in the afternoon (8th day). Drawing headache extending from the temples of the middle of the forehead (27th day). Pressive pain in the forehead and orbits, aggravated by moving the eyes or turning the head. Sudden boring sticking in the left center of the forehead; spot like the end of the little finger, in the evening (23rd day).
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.