Introduction
Mercuric sulphide, HgS.
Preparation: Triturations.
Mind.
Emotional.
Illusion of mind; he considers himself well. Peculiar agreeable sensation of exhilaration, and with fullness extending from all sides of chest, particularly the thorax, towards the stomach and heart, accompanied or followed by a similar sensation in all the joints, continuing with intermissions till 8 o’clock at 5 A.M.
(second day). Sense of elevation on walking in open air; never felt better in his life; like the effects of a cordial.
Depressed, melancholy, cynical state of mind. Feels desirous of improving spiritually, but is rather disconsolate (second day).
Every little noise about the house troubled him, as though it were something serious (after ten minutes). Irascibility. Unusual irritability, throughout the whole proving. His friends remarked that he was very cross and sullen, in afternoon. Mind in morbid state; disposed to fret at trifles, and not at all satisfied with himself (second day).
Intellectual.
General feeling, as not being fit for any mental labor.
Indisposition to mental exertion. Indisposition for mental labor (second day). Aversion to close study. Quite difficult to fix the mind long on any subject; cannot pay attention to lectures as well as before; this sensation is relieved by open air. Great difficulty in collecting ideas and studying usefully. Cannot think long, deeply, or clearly on any subject, and his mind seems to be altogether disturbed.
Head.
Vertigo.
Dizziness and lightness of head. A little giddiness and pain in forehead, with sensation of soreness in eyeballs, upon arising at 7 A.M.; these passed away soon after breakfast (second day).
General Head.
Dullness in whole head, especially in forehead just over eyes, in evening (second day). Heaviness in head. Head feels weary, as from long mental application (second day). Pain deep, as if in the center of the head. Fullness of head (sixth day).
Fullness and general pressure in whole head, as after taking cold, with dull aching pain in region of Benevolence, better in open air (after two hours). Head full in forenoon (second day).
Head full, heavy, with strong pulsations of temporal arteries (third day).
Congested sensation over whole head, particularly in the forehead.
Strange congestive sensation about head, principally in forehead (after five hours). Intense headache, so severe he could hardly endure it; relieved by external pressure. Excessive headache.
Attacks of excessive headache, which are relieved by external compression of the head. Pain in head increased to a heavy stupefying ache, aggravated by thinking, reading, and pressure (after eleven hours).
Drawing pain in head, extending from crown to occiput, inclining to the right, before going to bed. Occasional darting pains through the head from without inwardly (second day). Headache much worse after sleeping.
Forehead.
Pain in forehead. Pain in region of Causality. Pain in organ of Tune. Occasional pain in sinciput (second day). Slight pain in sinciput (after one hour). Severe pain in forehead, lasting all night (second day). Fullness and pressure in forehead, for two hours (after eight hours and a half). Dull pain in forehead, which is cold, and is relieved by warm hand (second day). A kind of dull pain (sometimes more intense and sharper) in forehead and top of head, worse when lying on left side and pressing forehead into pillow, almost every morning after waking; as soon as he turns to left side or the back the pains return; on turning to right side, or getting up and washing, the pains disappear. Some pain of a dull character in forehead over eyes, in afternoon, becoming severer in evening, and aggravated by motion (second day). Dull heavy ache in front of head (second day). Aching pain in the whole of the forehead and top of head, in morning on waking, aggravated by lying on left side and back, relieved by lying on right side and pressing forehead with pillow (second day). Pain of a dull aching character in the right frontal region, in afternoon; aggravated in evening (third day). Heavy pain in forepart of head, on waking in night. Sharp steady pain in forehead, mostly in right orbital region; soon after felt a sharp throbbing in left hypochondrium, in region of spleen (after four hours and a half). Shooting pains in forehead, with great heaviness. A kind of throbbing pain in forehead, on waking, going off on pressing head on pillow (third, fourth and fifth days).
Temples.
Beating-burning in both temples, which he felt all day (after three hours). Sensation of fullness and weight across temples, with sometimes throbbing over right temple, worse on motion (after half an hour). Pressing pain in right temple. Occasional flashes of pain in right temple from in front backwards (organ of Mirthfulness).
Occasional shootings in upper part of left temple, along temporal ridge, in evening (second day). A dull pain, felt before in temple and side of forehead, disappeared (after ten minutes).
Vertex.
A kind of sore pain began at about 9 A.M. in the crown of the head, and extended as far front as the organ of Veneration (at times there is a slight sensation of throbbing); it is very sensitive to touch, he cannot even touch the hair without causing a sore pain; this pain continued all day (seventh day).
Parietals.
Pain in left side of head, temple, and supraorbital ridge, at 11.40 o’clock. Constant pain in right side of head; from the temples the pain goes to the occiput. Sensation of sticking over the secretive region, which increases and becomes a numb pain, extending to right temple ( Time and Locality), with a feeling of warmth on right side; pain extends from one temple to the other across the os frontis from right to left, is mild in the forehead, but violent in the organs of Time and Locality, both night and day, and on rising in morning. Pain darting through from sides of head and temples; the pain is near the outer edge of the orbit of right eye, and more frequent on right side of head than on left. Throbbing pain in organ of Conscientiousness, extending to forehead over eye, on waking in morning (second day).
Occiput.
Rush of blood to back part of head, attended with violent itching and heat, extending to each ear; and behind the left ear there came three hard lumps, one the size of a small shot, the other that of a buckshot, and the last a size larger (after one hour).
Pain sometimes in left side of occiput (organ of Amativeness), (sixth day).
A fullness and pressure and back of neck, after rising from bed, continuing with much severity until about noon, after which the symptom somewhat abated (fifth day).
External Head. A protrusion in the outer parts of the head, only during the day.
Head excessively sore on outside to every touch. Skull externally sensitive when touched, even the hairs pain.
Eye.
Objective. Livid circles around both eyes. (Inflammation of the right eye; itching pressure and sticking in the inner canthus and in the lower lid, with constant lachrymation, when looking at anything, with severe fluent coryza.
Subjective.
Eyes very sensitive to cold air, when walking out (second day).
Weak sensation in left eye (third day). Sensation as if there were something in the eyes, lasting three days. Numb pressing pain in eyes. Aching soreness of eyes, worse in evening (second day).
Brow and Orbit.
Pain from inner canthus of left eye across eyebrows (organs of Size, Color, Order, Calculation). Sharp aching pain in right supraorbital region, shooting backwards and downwards to ear and side of neck; worse in warm room, and on moving eyes and scalp (after half an hour).
Lids.
Weakness and sleepiness in the eyes about noon; could scarcely keep them open (seventh day). Feeling as if the eyelids were enlarged and puffed, as if the muscles were too short, when looking up to the wall. Drawing sensation from right inner canthus across the malar bone to the ear. Shooting pains in the inner canthus of right eye, with a burning and itching. Itching of the lids of both eyes. Itching and sticking in the internal and external canthi (third day). Severe and frequent itching in outer canthi, from 9 to 12 o’clock, with a sense of stiffness in upper eyelids (second day).
Excessive itching in inner canthi of eyes, for two days (after nine hours).
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Eyes watery and dull, with a sharp sticking pain in left inner canthus, as of a sharp stick being stuck in lower lid (second day). Flow of tears. Excessive lachrymation. Watery sensation in left eye, soon passed off (after eleven hours). Pain from right lachrymal duct around the eye to the temple. Sticking pain about punctum lachrymale of left upper eyelid.
Ear.
Sensation as if there were something in the ear. Sensation of water in left ear, which soon passes off (after ten hours and a quarter). A pain and sensation of fullness in meatus of left ear, for a short time (after one hour). Aching in both ears, lasting about fifteen minutes.
Hearing.
Noises in ears after eating. Roaring in the head, for half an hour after dinner, and in the evening before going to sleep, which made him dizzy.
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.