Introduction.
Chromium trioxide, CrO H O. Preparation: Solution of seven grains in 100 drops of water for the 0 (Duffield’s provings).
Mind.
Great confusion of mind. Memory affected to such a degree that he was at a loss, when writing, to make several of the letters of the alphabet.
Head.
Sensation of vertigo, which inclined him constantly to the right side, while walking, at 10 A.M. Sensation of lightness of the head, like vertigo, with heat in face, at 10 P.M. Pain from ball of right eye up into the interior of the brain, with soreness of the orb to the touch, at 12 M. (fourth day). Feeling of fullness in head (fourth day). Fullness of head, at night, with peculiar sensation of lightness at the heart, and vertigo when descending stairs (fourth day). Throbbing and sensation of fullness in forepart of head, and of emptiness in chest, with soreness on pressure, and cold feet (fifty day). Awoke at 5 A.M. with sensation of fullness in vertex and frontal region. Heavy pain along coronal suture, extending backward, occupying all the parietal portion of the head, at 10 A.M. lasting six hours; the same pain, lasting the same time, on two succeeding days.
Eye.
Dull pain over left eye, as if headache would set in. Eyes sore, and feel heavy as if inflamed (fifty day). Throbbing, pulsative sensation from region of heart to left eye and left side of head, with general feeling of fullness in frontal region, at 10 A.M. Diminished vision.
Ear.
Occasional sensation in right ear as if water was in it; it appears and disappears suddenly.
Nose.
Sensation during the eating of the food, which tastes well and natural, as if the exhaled air smelt putrid, almost causing nausea. He smells several times of the food, thinking that the stench might proceed from that.
Face.
Lips dry and disposed to chap.
Mouth.
Teeth. Sudden violent pain in the night, in several undecayed teeth on left side, especially in the lower jaw; while the pain lasts the corresponding arteries beat more violently. Toothache in the left lower jaw, for a short time, in the morning, after the usual rinsing of the mouth with cold water Repeated toothache of short duration, especially in the lower jaw, on the right side. During the attacks, the corresponding artery beats more violently than on the other side. Soon after going to bed (10 o’clock P.M)., two attacks of very violent toothache on right side; each attack lasted about ten or fifteen minutes, with a free interval of several minutes. During the second attack, the painful teeth seemed too long; the pain extended into the forehead; a pain between the head, left shoulder-blade, and shoulder, grew much better. During the pain, he was frequently obliged to change his position. After the second attack, such uneasiness in limbs that he was obliged to get up and walk about. The teeth of the right side felt too long, even the next morning, and cold water produced pain. Taste. A swallow of diluted Madeira tastes singularly disagreeable.
Throat.
Accumulation of tough mucus in throat, with constant inclination to swallow it, as it could not be easily hawked up. White phlegm in throat, causing hawking, especially in morning.
Stomach.
No appetite for breakfast. Qualmishness of the stomach, at 2 P.M. after dinner, lasting two hours. Nausea, transient, at different times, especially when the stomach is empty. Nausea, gradually increasing, with sensation as if a stool would follow, half an hour after a simple supper. Vomiting of food several times, and afterwards, three times, of bile, with much retching, at intervals of five or ten minutes, accompanied by warm perspiration and natural heat. Quick walking about relieves the nausea which precedes each vomiting. Between the attacks of vomiting, a kind of pressure and fullness in stomach, so that he is obliged to loosen his clothes. Soon after the last vomiting, sleep for half an hour, after which slight pressure or heaviness in stomach (after a few drops of 1St. dec. dil., shortly before supper).
Abdomen.
Slightly acute pains in left hypochondria. Uneasiness in bowels before rising in morning, similar to the premonitory symptoms of diarrhoea, which passed away on rising. Pain in colon on waking in the morning, accompanied with rumbling of wind, which passed off on rising second day ). Awakened at 4 A.M. by a feeling of uneasiness in the lower part of the abdomen, which was very sore to the touch, especially along the course of the colon, accompanied with nausea and frequent eructations and retchings, throwing off white mucus.
Severe sharp pain in the hypogastric region and along the ascending colon, at 6 A.M. was relieved by a profuse diarrhoea which lasted three hours; then the symptoms all ceased, and headache, the same as the day before, set in, followed by the same sickness of the stomach, both of which lasted until 4 P.M.
as before.
Rectum and Anus.
Piles, internal and bleeding (third day). Very painful external piles on left side of anus (second day). Hemorrhoidal discharge from the anus during stool, at 8 A.M. Copious hemorrhoidal discharge during stool, at 8 A.M. Pretty copious hemorrhoidal discharge from the anus during stool, with weakness in the small of the back, at 8 A.M.
Stool.
Watery diarrhoea, with nausea and dizziness (in a girl of 14 years). Diarrhoeic discharge from bowels at 8 A.M. after which pulse rose to 75. Small stool of mucus and knotty faeces at 8.30 P.M.
Urinary Organs.
Attack of strangury in waking on morning, after dreaming of it at night, and from which he did not get relief for nearly two hours (fifth day).
Chest.
Weakness in chest. Stricture in chest in region of the heart at 10 A.M. (fourth day). Sensation of rawness or soreness in chest, with slight, dry, hacking cough (fourth day). Throbbing pulsation through chest at 12 M. (fourth day). Slight pain and throbbing pulsation in left lung (fifth day).
Heart and Pulse.
Sudden violent stitch in region of heart; the pain disappeared only gradually, after several minutes. Pulse full and a little accelerated. Pulse 84 at 4 P.M. (fifth day). Pulse 82 at 10 A.M.
(fourth day). Pulse 80 at 7.30 A.M.; 76 at 3 P.M. (second day).
Pulse 75 at 4 P.M., Pulse 72 at 8 A.M. (fifth day). Pulse 70 at 8 A.M. Pulse 70 all day. Pulse 68 at 3 P.M. (fourth day). Pulse 64 at 7 A.M. Pulse 64 at 9 P.M. Pulse 62 at 10 A.M. (normal pulse 55). Pulse 58 at 12 M. (fourth day). Pulse slower. Pulse below standard. Pulse 58 (normal pulse 64). Pulse 56 at 10 A.M. Pulse 56 at 12 M. Pulse 52 at 4 A.M. Pulse 48 at 7 A.M. Very remarkable irregularity of pulse; on some days, in a single hour, the variation would be from 60 to 84, the pulsations scarcely ever being the same in two successive hours. Pulse 48 at 7 A.M.; 64 at 3 P.M. (second day).
Neck and Back.
Stiffness of the muscles on left side of back of neck at 10 A.M. (fourth day). An apparently deep-seated pain for almost three weeks, with stiffness, at times more severe, at times less, in left shoulder-blade and left part of back of neck, up to occiput; for several days it was so violent that the slightest motion of the affected part was very painful; at night even sleep was impaired, as only certain positions were endurable; the rising from a lying position caused much pain, and turning the head to the left or backward was impossible; the pains were least felt when standing and walking; at times the pain extended into the left olecranon, to the muscles on the chest below left shoulder and spina; all muscles connected with the shoulder-blade were more or less affected and painful to touch; the least draft of air increased the pain; the use of the left arm was impeded; in drawing a long breath, a stitch in the upper left part of chest, near the shoulder; coughing caused very violent pain over the whole upper left part of chest, and deep coughing was impossible; pressure on the chest; the pain moved from the left shoulder-blade down to the pelvis, and the lumbar region was sensitive. Pain in the lumbar region at 9 P.M. A sharp shooting pain from the lumbar vertebrae to the crest of the ilium of right side, while sitting, at 6 P.M. Weakness and pain in small of back at 4 P.M. Shooting pain from small of back into left hip-bone at 3 P.M. (fourth day).
Superior Extremities.
The arms fall asleep easily. Dull aching pain on top of left shoulder, as if from great fatigue, which lasted two hours, at 10 A.M. Several times, a short-lasting growing pain, with lameness, in the middle of the left brachium, in front, as if from a severe blow. Short-lasting slight pain in right elbow. Transient pain in left elbow.
Inferior Extremities.
A kind of hitching in left knee-joint when walking. Weakness and knocking of left knee-joint when walking, at 8 P.M. Rheumatic feeling in right knee-joint, afternoon and evening (third day).
Sensation of paralysis in right leg, from knee down (at 10 A.M)..
General Symptoms.
Tiredness and weakness. Heavy, dull, stupid. The pains are worse and last longer on the left side than on the right.
Skin.
Disagreeable prickling and itching here and there mostly in evening, with uneasiness in the limbs, so that he was obliged to get up from sitting or lying and walk about.
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.