Introduction
Potassium chlorate, KClO. Preparation for use, Solutions in water (triturations).
General symptoms
Appears nearly well, both locally and generally, within two days; but in the afternoon very suddenly vomiting, yawning, apathy, bluish-white complexion, accelerated compressible pulse, skin cool. In the evening some urine, black, with greenish hue, albuminous, contained hematin. On the following days the color became more normal, and albumen less. On the fifth day the danger was over, but the pulse remained frequent a long time. No dropsy. A slight return of albumen on the sixteenth day. The doctor found her dying at daybreak the following morning. Relatives said that vomiting and diarrhoea commenced in the evening, but that they all slept, and were awakened in the morning by the laborious breathing of the patient. The skin exhibited a peculiar dusky hue. Copious greenish discharges, obstinate vomiting, and collapse. A child, three or four years old, took 3iij within twenty- four hours. When he saw the child it was unable to pass any urine, except a few drops of bloody urine, its face was livid, and death occurred within the following day. An infant, under one year of age, took about 3i during a single night, with fatal result. There was suppression of the urine, and the face was livid 29. Some malaise all the time. Urine albuminous; the urine was peculiarly black on the third or fourth day. Urine albuminous a year and a half after. Urine black, a little greenish hue, moderately albuminous, the surface bluish white; the child dying. A good deal of vomiting. Heaviness and dragging in the lumbar region, and increased renal secretion. He died in convulsions, after having purged very freely. She died within three days of nephritis. Died within four days of nephritis.
Generalities
OBJECTIVE. Terrible convulsions, followed by death; next day the body had turned slate-color. Great weariness and desire to sleep, returning after every dose. Weakness. Great weakness, with the diarrhoea, transient. SUBJECTIVE. Feeling of discomfort. Rheumatic pains in different parts of the body.
Mind
Slight acceleration of spirits for two days (after 15 grains). Sad, without desire to live, apathetic mood, with chilliness, in the evening; recurring several evenings. Ill-humor without cause, following great liveliness. Ill-humored, anxious, hypochondriac condition of the ganglionic nerve, persisting until relieved by twice repeated bleeding of the nose. Almost complete loss of consciousness, suddenly after a glass of wine.
Head
CONFUSION AND VERTIGO. Confusion of the head, etc.; without headache,; on walking in the open air. Confusion in the occiput, with a peculiar sensation in the muscles of the nape of the neck. Vertigo, with congestion of blood to the head, after violent motion. A small drink of beer intoxicates very easily. GENERAL HEAD. Congestion of the brain to such an extent that one-half of the head, face, and nose felt paralyzed; for two days (after 15 grains). Sense of congestion of the head, accompanied by pain in the forehead (after 5 grains); continuing about two days (after 10 grains). Headache; with vertigo. Constant headache. Quite violent headache; in evening, relieved next day. Cutting pain in the head, extending into the malar bones. FOREHEAD. Tension in the forehead. Tension across the forehead, followed by sneezing and catarrh. Headache in the frontal region (“S”.?). Drawing in the forehead, recurring. Frequently-recurring jerking in the upper and lower portion of the frontal bone. TEMPLES. Pain in the temporal region. Headache in the left temple. Sticking pain in the right temporal region, now appearing and now disappearing; returning again very violently after six days. PARIETALS. Headache in the left side. OCCIPUT. Pain in the occiput in the evening, at times extending down into both jaws. Headache in the occiput.
Eyes
Redness of both eyes in the evening, with some pain. Tendency to rush of blood to both eyes. Feeling of strength in the eyes. Cramp in left eye. Twitching in the canthi. Violent pressure in the eyes. Some stitches in the eyes. Jerking in the inner canthi. Pain in the upper lid, in the evening. Detected in the tears. Appearance of light before both eyes, when coughing or sneezing.
Ears
Roaring in the ears, with a painful bloody stool.
Nose
OBJECTIVE. Sneezing; with violent catarrh; followed by catarrh. Frequent sneezing. Slight increase of secretion from pituitary membrane. Violent catarrh. Violent catarrh, with much sneezing and profuse secretion of mucus, quite unusual. Bleeding from the right nostril. Nosebleed twice. Violent nosebleed. Detected in the nasal mucus. Nosebleed at night. SUBJECTIVE. Drawing at the root of the nose. Irritation at the root of the nose. Irritation in the nose, frequent sneezing, with increased secretion of mucus; this occurred also next day, with jerking in the masseter muscles, which also recurred subsequently.
Face
Tension in the face, with pressure towards the eyes, especially on the right side. Drawing and tension in the right half of the face. At times sticking in various parts of the face. Increased sensitiveness of the whole face. CHEEKS. Tension in the right cheek beneath the eye, extending thence to the ear, afterwards on the left side. Drawing tension in the right cheek, followed by an inclination to sneeze. Drawing in the right cheek and in the gum, with a kind of cramp in the muscles of the right cheek. Drawing in the right cheek, with pain in the lobule of the right ear, at one time more beneath the orbits, at another more in the masseter muscles. Violent drawing in the right cheek. Tensive drawing in the left cheek near the orbital margin. Cramp like drawing in the cheeks, extending into the joint of the lower jaw, at times with slight tearing in the upper jaw. Drawing pain in the right cheek until he sneezes. Pressive pain in the right malar bone beneath the margin of the orbit, followed by tension in the whole cheek and temple. LIPS. Blue lips. Swelling of the upper lip; of the lower lip. CHIN. Cramp like pressure in the articulation of the lower jaw, with some stitches in both the jaw and teeth, especially of the right side. Jerking in the nerves of the lower jaw at the foramen maxillare posticum.
Mouth
TEETH. The teeth become blunted. Toothache in the upper jaw. Pain extending from the temporal bone to the eyeteeth. The gum becomes bright red. GUMS. Reddens the gums much faster than mercury. The gum bleeds easily when brushing the teeth as usual. TONGUE. Tongue white in the middle. Tongue coated, with diarrhoea. Back of the tongue coated. Two symmetrical ulcers on the sides of the tongue, each about the size of a 4-penny piece. Feeling of coldness on the tongue immediately. Coldness on the tongue and in the throat, lasting 5 minutes; immediately. Fine sticking burning on the tongue. GENERAL MOUTH. Mucus membrane of the mouth and throat appeared tanned, as if this had been affected by tannic acid (after 15 grains). (“Mr. Hutchinson has recently drawn our attention to some interesting cases illustrative of the power of the chlorate of potash to produce a form of stomatitis exactly resembling one over which it possesses specific curative powers”). Most acute ulcerative and follicular stomatitis. The whole mucus surface was red and tumid, and in the cheeks, lips, etc. were numerous gray-based ulcers. Stomatitis, not so severe as in the preceding. Muscles of the palate felt contracted (after 15 grains). SALIVA. Traces of it are detected in saliva (after 5 minutes). Increased secretion of saliva. Profuse secretion of acid saliva. Although less powerful than mercurial salivation, the results of over-stimulation apparent in a weakness of action of the salivary glands for 5 or 6 succeeding days; the intensity of the salivary excitation was proportioned to the dose administered. Increased secretion of mucus in the mouth. TASTE. Sourish taste, disagreeable, saltish, sour taste. An acid taste remains. Sticking-burning, acid taste very transient, bitter, sourish taste. Persistently bitter taste, with coldness on the tongue, immediately; returning after breakfast and again after dinner, immediately after the drug; expectoration of mucus removes the disagreeable taste. Burning, alkaline taste. Saline taste. Taste as of blue vitriol, immediately. (Taste like laurel-water with salt). Loss of taste, being scarcely able to distinguish different kinds of meat (after 15 grains).
Throat
Dryness of the throat. Dryness in the throat and chest with violent cough as after inhaling sulphur vapor (occurring after every dose of one-fourth or one-fifth grain, in a girl suffering from face ache). Scraping in the throat. Pressive pain in the throat and stomach, with inclination to eructate. Rawness in the throat. Difficult swallowing.
Stomach
APPETITE. Increase of appetite. Great hunger at an unusual time. Paroxysms of ravenous hunger, disappearing after a drink of fresh water. Afterwards loss of appetite. Deficiency of appetite (2nd day) continuing (4th day). Considerable diminution of appetite for several days. Appetite much diminished (2nd day), lasting 3 or 4 days. Loss of appetite. THIRST. Thirst after large doses (in several syphilitic patients). ERUCTATION. Eructations. Eructation and nausea. Violent eructation, with alternating pains in the thorax and abdomen. Eructation of air. Sourish eructations. Slight pyrosis (after dose of 2 concentrated solution). NAUSEA AND VOMITING. Nausea, with slight shivering immediately. Nausea and 3 or 4 attempts to vomit though nothing but air was ejected (about the time the opium was taken). Incessant vomiting (4th day), and finally death. STOMACH. Feeling of warmth in the stomach. Warmth in the stomach. (Gastralgia). Cardialgia (within an hour). Moderate degree of cardialgia. Pressure in the epigastric region. Pressure in the stomach with a feeling of emptiness. Pressure in the pit of the stomach with an apathetic mood and chilliness. Sensation of weight and oppression in the stomach almost amounting to pain, accompanied with slight but constant cardialgia, and considerable flatulence (within in an hour), increasing so much as to nearly prevent sleep at night, continuing in a diminished degree (2nd day). Sensation of weight and oppression in the stomach (within an hour), increasing to steady and uniform gravitative pain (after 3 hours), which at last was so urgent that a grain of opium was taken. Sensation of weight, fullness, and distension of the epigastric region, which regularly and gradually increased and was attended with a sensation of twisting, continuing about 6 hours, soon; repeated 2nd day but subsiding at night; recurring (3rd day). Strong sense of weight and distension in the region of the stomach, in the morning (2nd day), continuing (4th day). Severe heavy oppressive pain, and a sensation of sinking in the stomach, after a walk of one-eight of a mile (after 4 or 5 hours).. Cutting in the stomach. Pressure in the left hypochondrium. Pressure in the right hypochondrium extending to the umbilicus.
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.