Introduction
Potassium nitrate. (Saltpetre), KNO3 (Nitrum, or Nitre). Preparation for use, Triturations.
Mind Emotional.
Excitement after a glass of wine, as though he had taken too much. (first day), Delirium. Depression of spirits. (8th day) Depressed; she thinks she must die. Ennui, Lachrymose mood, sad expression. Anxiety, frequently in the afternoon (after 20 days). Anxiety with perspiration over the whole body. Anxious, weak, with perspiration on the pit of the stomach, in the afternoon till evening (after 30 days). Unusual feeling of anxiety. Very great anxiety. Frightful anxiety, with internal coldness, followed by faintness and death. Uneasy, apprehensive, fearful, sensitive, peevish. Inclined to vexation. Fretfulness. Fretful, ill-humored. Extremely fretful mood (9th day). Fretful peevish mood in the evening (9th day). Irascible. Perverse, hypochondriac mood, discontented with himself and the world, Peevish, irritable, and completely disinclined to mental labor (5th day). intellectual. Meditative and solicitous. Disinclined to think and exhausted in the morning with a feeling of warmth in the face and hot forehead. Disinclination for work (1st day) Unless roused lay in a state of half stupor, but was quite rational, and capable of answering questions and giving an account of his case ( after 4 hours). Partly stupefied, as in intoxication. Loss of consciousness.
Head Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head, nearly the whole day (8th day), in the morning (2nd day); on waking (8th day). Confusion of the head, with the drawing in the side of the head and forehead, toward evening (4th day). Confusion of the head in the evening with some oppression of the chest (11th day). Confusion of the head, almost like intoxication after a glass of Madeira (10th day). Confusion in the forepart of the head, in the forehead (10th day). Confusion and throbbing in the forehead (9th day). Gloominess, confusion of the head, difficult thought; everything is immediately forgotten. Tendency to vertigo, on stooping, as if he would fall forward (1st day). Vertigo. Frequent attacks of vertigo, as if he would fall to the right side and backwards, while walking in the evening (previous to this he had taken a glass of strong beer). Dizziness of the head, in the morning, as after intoxication. Head dizzy and weak. General head. Dullness in the head and sleepiness (9th day). Stupefaction and heaviness of the head, in the morning, as after intoxication. Heaviness of the head, and pain extending over the whole head. Feeling of heaviness in the head (after 2 hours). Feeling of looseness and sticking in the brain. Pain in the head and in the neck, lasting from evening through the night and the next day especially affecting the left side. Headache (8th and 12th days); in afternoon, on entering the warm room; on turning the head. Headache, rather a confusion. Headache with heat increasing towards evening lasting till 10 o’clock (1st day). Headache in the morning, as after a night’s debauch. Headache on waking, fulness of the abdomen, diarrhoea, with chilliness. Headache that prevents sleep the whole night still continues in the morning (after 40 days). Headache after dinner (21st day). Headache so that she was unable to eat (27th day). The headache became almost intolerable on stooping. Tensive pain in the head, after dinner. Bursting pain in the head with stitches in the left ear and clavicles, whence the pain extends into the elbows (22nd day). Drawing in the middle of the head extending towards the right temple, lasting till evening, in the morning (15th day). Headache a pressure towards the middle of the head and towards the left temple in the morning (2nd day). Pressive headache especially in the frontal region (1st day). Pressive headache in the morning; it afterwards extended to the occiput; in the evening there was increase of the heat in the head (3rd day). Pressive headache especially in the afternoon (12th day). Pressive headache mingled with stitches in the forehead (14th day). Pressive headache more on the right side of the forehead, mingled with suddenly piercing stitches, towards evening (4th day). Violent pressive headache (6th day ). Violent pressive headache more on the right side in the noon and especially from 1 to 4 P. M. disappearing after a half hour’s nap (11th day). Pressive headache in the evening (14th day). Hacking and sticking in the head, with pressure about the eyes and sleepiness, together with the increase of the pains. Forehead. Feeling of heaviness and confusion in the forehead, lasting 2 hours. Feeling of heaviness and headache in the forehead (1st day). Pain in the right side of the forehead, suddenly while walking which soon extended towards the top of the head and thence into the occiput and both temples; the pain seemed to be seated in the scalp; first felt only on shaking the head, as when coughing, walking etc. and pain was indefinite in character; afterwards it gradually became more violent, and was felt on turning the head and even during the rest; when most violent the skin of the forehead was painful as if bruised; together with painful pulsation in the occiput and temples; on firm pressure the headache was relieved so that it was scarcely felt in the evening it had entirely disappeared. Pain in right frontal sinus, with stopped catarrh (4th day). Contractive pains in the forehead and eyes that unite at the tip of the nose, where there is a digging-pinching. Dull pain in the forehead and top of the head, rather to the left side, quite violent and continuous till 10 in the morning, when disappeared but returned after dinner and lasted till evening. Drawing through the forehead in the evening (5th day). Headache in the region of the superciliary arch, after dinner. Pressure in the whole of the forehead, at times only dull piercing-sticking, in the morning (4th day). Pressure in the forehead above the root of the nose, and a feeling of the tension in the skin of the forehead (3rd day). Pressure in the forehead the whole day, as if the eyes would spring out of the head and as if little stones were lying about them. Slight pressure in the forehead (9th day). Violent pressure in the forehead that extends to the eyes (13th day). Violent pressure in the forehead, with great congestion to the head, at noon (1st day). Tearing pressure in the right side of the forehead behind the eye, extending towards the occiput, worse after the coffee, and also when walking, a rhythmical sticking, relieved while riding in the wagon (in the open air). Pressive pain in the frontal sinuses (7th day). Violent pressive pain in the forehead (1st day). Pressive headache in the forehead (after 4 hours). Violent pressive pain deep in the head behind the left eye (after 10 hours). Pressive headache in the forehead (1st day). Pressive headache in the forehead, especially severe over the right eye in the morning immediately after rising; and a dull headache in the forehead and occiput, towards the noon, and especially towards the evening (10th day). Violent pressive headache in the forehead, lasting the whole day with the beating in the occiput and in the temples (5th day). Sticking and pressing asunder in the left side of the forehead, on stooping. Sticking pain with rhythmical intermissions in the forehead behind the eyes, worse while walking during rest only a few stitches at long intervals, the whole afternoon and evening. Temples. Headache in the left temple and frontal region, with reeling, a feeling of vertigo, staggering and anxiety, with perspiration. Drawing in the left temple and on the left eye (2nd day). Pressive pain in the right temple. Fine sticking in the left temple, immediately after dinner (15th day). Transient drawing stitches, more in the left than in the right temple (13th day). Tearing in the left temple from time to time (8th day). Tearing in the right temple from evening till morning, somewhat relieved by pressing upon it (after 30 days). Vertex. Pain in the upper part of the head, gradually becoming more violent until I went out, when it disappeared (3 quarters of an hour after a dose). Headache on the vertex only in the morning on rising, for five days. Constrictive pain in the vertex, lasting 2 hours. Constrictive pain in the vertex, with heaviness of the head in the afternoon and following night (after 6 days). Pressure on the vertex, aggravated by laying the hand upon it (3rd day). Pressure on the vertex, as if a stone were lying upon it (7th day). (The feeling of a weight on the vertex was so increased by taking the drug the proving was abandoned). Some stitches on the left side of the vertex. Tearing and sticking in the vertex and occiput, cutting in the intestines and at last evacuation of faeces at first soft afterwards mucus at 9 and 10 p. m. Parietals. Pain on the right side of the head near the crown, disappearing on laying the hand upon it; this painful spot, as large as the hand, felt hot to touch, even after the pain had disappeared. Transient pain in the right side of the head (soon after a new dose). Violent pain in the right side of the head from a slight draft of air. Violent pain in the region of the left parietal bone, towards midnight, which was somewhat relieved after taking off the nightcap (after 8 days). Tearing drawing in the parietal bones and in the forehead, frequently returning with confusion of the head (3rd day). Occiput. Violent compression in the occiput so that everything became stiff; afterwards pain in the nape of the neck like a pulling on the hairs, extending to the shoulders, and with tension and stitches over the face and neck, impairment of swallowing, anxiety, and arrest of breathing, from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. (third and fourth days). Headache in the occiput, relieved by binding up the hair. Drawing and tearing in the occiput, so that she could not move the head, with stiffness in the nape of the neck for an hour; followed after 2 hours by drawing and tearing in the scapula, with great weakness; she could scarcely lift her feet; together with the coldness without thirst, heat at night without thirst or subsequent sweat (6th day). Pressure and heaviness in the occiput, frequently ( 13th day). Pressive pain towards the occiput, which gradually changes into the stitches, which are aggravated by touch, even during rest, seeming like a rhythmical sticking. Violent pressive pain mingled with beating in the occiput, in the evening (9th day). Sharp almost tearing pain in the right side of the occiput. A violent stitch in the left side of the occiput, during menstruation (after 29 days). Burning-throbbing on the left side of the occiput in the evening in the bed. Jerking pain in the occiput as if in the bone, and after three quarters of an hour also in the hip-bone, where it only disappeared after a few hours, and at last alternated with tension behind the right ear; it continued the whole night. A certain coldness in the occiput was always associated with the pains in the head. External Head. Profuse falling out of the hair (after 30 days). Small scurfy spots on the scalp with itching (after 28 days). Pain in on spot in the right side a of the vertex like contraction in the scalp, in the morning after rising. Headache on the vertex like a pulling of the hairs. Great sensitiveness of the scalp, which painful to pressure (after 5 days). Great sensitiveness of the vertex to touch. Bruised pain and great sensitiveness of the vertex (2nd 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.