Introduction
Magnesium carbonate, hydrated, MgCO33H2O. Magnesia alba precipitata. Preparation: Triturations.
Mind
Emotional. Unwilling to talk, gloomy, and apprehensive (after one hour and a quarter). She is gloomy and unwilling to talk (after two hours). Very talkative;everything prospers (first afternoon); not so good-humored (second day). Sad and apprehensive (after two hours and a half). Anxious and prostrated, with stitches in the whole body, after rising from bed, lasting several minutes. Anxious and too warm in bed for several nights; she could not fall asleep for a long time (after twenty-nine days). Very anxious, with perspiration, all day, especially on moving about. She was very anxious several nights in succession, and the bed felt as hard as though she were lying upon stones, so that she constantly tossed about (after twelve days). Anxiety and warmth over the whole body, especially in the head, while eating soup. For several nights was unable to fall asleep for a long time on account of anxiety; was frequently obliged to uncover herself, which she could not long endure on account of coldness. Anxiety and uneasiness at night in bed; she could not bear to have a limb covered and yet out of bed it immediately became too cold (after four days). Anxiety for several nights; she could not bear to have her hands under the covers, though if she put them out they immediately became too cold (after twenty-three days). Tremulous anxiety and fright, as if she apprehended some misfortune, disappearing in the evening in bed (sixth day). Ill-humoured, and yet singing, soon disappearing (after two hours). Very ill- humoured, everything frets her; worse while walking (second evening). Very ill-humoured at 7 P.M., everything is disagreeable. Very ill-humoured all day, everything that she looks at vexes her; better in the evening. Better humored in the afternoon than in the forenoon. Very fretful mood (ninth day). Peevish, fretful mood (fourth afternoon). Very fretful in the evening (after six days). So fretful that she does not know what she shall undertake, with constant perspiration (twenty-seventh and twenty-eight days). Completely out of sorts, increasing as time goes on. On the first day of the menses good humor; on the three following days fretfulness. Apathetic mood with apprehension in the afternoon, with compressive headache; in the evening very good-humoured. Intellectual. Confusion and stupefaction of mind from mental labor. Very forgetful and not very good-humoured (after eighteen days).
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. The head was confused and heavy, as after insufficient sleep, in the morning on rising, disappearing after washing and moving about (seventh day). Vertigo, so that everything turned around with her, and she felt like failing forward (after two hours). Vertigo in the morning after rising, as if everything turned around with her, with qualmishness and profuse accumulation of saliva in the mouth (twenty-six days). Vertigo, even to sinking down, in the evening while sitting (sewing), with nausea; afterwards, while lying down, she became unconscious (after four days). Vertigo while standing; objects seem to go round; therewith an intoxicated feeling and heaviness of the head, lasting two minutes, at 11 A.M. Dizziness when kneeling, as if she would fall into a heap (after two hours). Faint dizziness, with qualmishness; yellow and blue rings about the eyes, followed by two attacks of vomiting of food and bitter and sour mucus; after the vomiting, relief of the stomach, but violent headache and weakness at 7 P.M. (fifteenth day). Plus Footnote plus The prover had before the vomiting great nausea in the stomach and pressure as from a stone; she, however, drank some black coffee and her condition became worse, until it amounted to the preceding. – H. and T. Frequently reeling in the head, like a loss of consciousness (twenty-eight and twenty-ninth days). General Head. Heaviness and dizziness in the head in the morning on rising, disappearing after an hour while walking about (twelfth day). Heaviness of the head, yawning, and nausea in the stomach (third morning). Heaviness of the head while lying down, after walking from the midday nap, wherewith the saliva was colored with blood. Great heaviness of the head in the afternoon, with pain in it (second day). Feeling of heat in the head, without external heat, at 1 P.M. Rush of blood to the head, especially when smoking as usual (after five days). Great rush of blood to the head in the forenoon. Feeling as though the head were screwed together from both sides, afterwards also in the occiput, lasting a very long time, at 5 P.M. Headache in the afternoon, becoming worse towards evening, with sensitiveness of the head to pressure, as from an ulcer (nineteenth day). During the menses, headache, with heaviness and sensation of head. Headache, as from stiffness of the neck. Violent headache in the morning in bed, lasting till towards 10 A.M. (seventeenth day). Violently painful boring in the left side of the head (second evening). Drawing pain in the head (after sixteen days). During the menses, painful, drawings from the forehead to the occiput, with heaviness of the brain, all day. Pressure across the head during the mental work. Pressure over the whole head, in the house with many people (after fifteen days). Sticking pains in the whole head, making her very ill-humoured, lasting from 8 P.M., till falling asleep. Sticking headache in the morning after rising, with pressure over the eye (after eight days). Stitches in the head, followed by pain like a bruise, in the right and afterwards in the left side of the head, with a feeling as if it would become worse if she moved the head, which, however, was not the case; it occurred while standing at 10.30 A.M., and lasted five minutes. Stitches here and there in the head. A deep dull stitch through the brain, from the vertex to the right side of the occiput, at 10.30 A.M. Acute, needle-like stitches here and there in the head, from dinner till 3 P.M. (third day). During the menses, violent, persistent tearing pains, now in both sides of the head, now in the vertex, now in the nape of the neck, only relieved at night. Extremely violent tearing and sticking, as with knives, in the whole head, she thought it would take away her senses; in the evening before lying down, and lasting all night. Vibration in the head on slight motion (after fifteen days). Violent jerking headache, with a feeling of heaviness, at 1 P.M., after a vexation; it constantly increased till it disappeared in the evening in bed (fifteenth day). Forehead. Heaviness in the forehead while standing, for half an hour (after two hours). Heaviness of the forehead, with pain, as from suppuration in the left side of the occiput, at 5 P.M. Drawing pain in the forehead all the forenoon (tenth day). Drawing pain in the forehead daily. Great pressure in the forehead, with pain in the eyes. Pressive pain in the forehead from 8 A.M., till noon. Pressive pain in the forehead on waking, disappearing at 4 P.M. (twentieth day). Pressive pain in the forehead from 8 A.M., till noon. Pressive, stupefying pain in the left side of the forehead, and also at times in the eyes, lasting a minute, at 3 P.M. (fourteenth day). Violent sticking about the forehead, frequently repeated, at 6 P.M., lasting an hour. Pressive- sticking headache in the forehead, frequently intermitting (tenth day). Fine stitches from within outward in the right side of the forehead, more externally, preceded by some tickling in the same place, at 3.30 P.M. Tearing and heaviness in the forehead and top of the head after dinner. Headache; a tearing in the forehead, in the brain, as if benumbed and heavy; from 1 to 5 P.M. Tearing in the forehead, and drawing backwards in the nape of the neck, lasting from afternoon till evening, and disappearing in bed. Incessant tearing and beating in the center of the forehead in the afternoon. Very painful tearing deep in the brain, in the forepart of the forehead, then in the right and afterwards also in the left frontal region, at last also in front of the left ear, at 4 P.M. She felt the beat of an artery in the frontal region (after one days). Temples. Sticking in the left temple (after twelve days). Painful stitches in the right temple after dinner (tenth day). A dull stitch in the left temple, and soon after wards above the right temple, involving the eye. Painful, but only transient tearing in the left temple at 5 P.M. Tearing pain in the left temple, disappearing on pressure (fifth afternoon). Tearing pain in the left temple in the evening on lying down, always immediately disappearing on pressure, but renewed after some time (third day). Violent tearing in the left temple from below upward, with toothache in the last back teeth (seventeenth evening). Vertex. Some sharp stitches in the vertex about 2 P.M. During the menses, and for two days afterwards, bruised pain on the vertex, which was also sensitive to touch towards evening. After the jerking-tearing, the vertex was as sensitive to pressure as if beaten. Parietals. Pain in the left side of the head so violent that it woke her at night; she experienced the pain even while asleep; it was worse in the temples, and disappeared on raising the head (second day). Sticking in the right side of the head, together with throbbing internally, five minutes after dinner. A sticking inwards externally on both sides of the head, together with an internal painful tearing, at 5 P.M. Violent sticking in the right side of the head, upon which she lies at night, from within outward, disappearing if she turns upon the other side (second day). Stitches here and there in the left side of the head, lasting half an hour, at 7 P.M. A violent stitch extending from the upper part of the right side of the head through to the right side of the occiput, as if caused by a dull borer, at 8.30 A.M. Several dull stitches in succession in the right side of the head, extending forward, while standing (after one hour and three- quarters). Some dull, painful stitches in the anterior angle of the right parietal bone at 7 P.M. (fifth day). Some sharp stitches in the left side of the head, at 3 P.M., while standing. Some fine stitches in the right side of the head at the vertex; when it caused at that place, and she moved the head towards the left side, there was a tearing in the right side of the occiput. Two sharp and fine stitches in the left parietal bone, extending backward, and at the same time in the upper and forepart of the right parietal bone, so that they extended toward each other (after one hour and a half). Violent tearing and sticking inwards in the right side of the head, worse while sitting, an hour and a half after dinner. Occiput. Tension and drawing in the occiput, as if something would draw the head backward, during and after swallowing; worse while standing, so that she was obliged to sit down, when it disappeared (after two hours). Violent stitches in the occiput in the evening. External Head. The hair falls out more than usual (eighteenth day). Great falling of hair. The hair falls out profusely. Headache, as if the hair on the vertex were pulled upward, lasting from 5 to 9 P.M. (fifth day). A fine cutting, as if the skin would be cut through, extending from the middle of the forehead at the hair obliquely towards the left eye. Itching on the scalp every evening; she was obliged to scratch it bloody (after twenty-three days). Itching on the vertex during dinner. Itching on the left side of the head, disappearing after scratching. Itching on the right side of the head, disappearing on scratching, in the forenoon. Itching of a tetter on the scalp, that at last disappears after scratching a long time in the evening (tenth day). Great itching on the scalp, becoming worse after scratching and lasting eight days, in the morning after rising (after twenty-third day). The tetter on the scalp itches every morning so violently that she scratches till blood collects in the nails. A tetter on the scalp itches very violently in rainy weather.
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.