Introduction
Naja tripudians. Class, Reptilia; Order, Squamata; Suborder, Colubrina; Family, Elapidae. Preparation: Tincture and triturations.
Mind
Emotional. Temper good; very excitable and playful, oftener than common (fifth day). Is affected easily by a very little wine or alcoholic drink during the week (after three days). His mind wandered, but at last he got better, and was able to go out again; a short time after, having an axe in his hand, going, as he said, to cut wood, he suddenly split his own head in two; he had become insane. Very slight emotion, pleasing or otherwise, brings a strong inclination to tears (seventh day). She cried and seemed to suffer much pain. Dulness of spirits (after nine hours and a half, third day). Rather dull in spirits, without sufficient cause (second day); great depression of spirits (third day); very low in spirits (fourth day). Sense of depression (soon, first day). Considerable depression of spirits, and a feeling of inability to exertion of any kind, and a conviction that all is going wrong; head very painful, and spirits very much depressed (third day). Great depression of spirits this morning; everything for two or three hours appeared to go wrong with me, and to be without remedy; being called out of town in the afternoon somewhat suddenly, these feelings went of in a great measure, though they did not entirely subside (sixth day); considerable lowness of spirits; great inaptitude for exertion, with a sense of aching over the whole head; this continued more or less all day (seventh day); feel to-day very low-spirited; cannot to anything; got better towards evening (eighth day). Great depression of mind, with the distress about the generative organs (fourth day). Sadness or serious disposition (third, fourth, and fifth days); sadness and irresolution (sixth day). Intense depression of spirits usually accompanied the headache; this melancholy was of a peculiar kind; I felt that everything that was done was dine in a wrong way, and could not be rectified; if I felt that I had some duty to perform, I had at the same time a strong impulse not to do it, and was extremely restless in consequence; I seemed to have an increased perception of what I ought to do, but at the same time, an unaccountable inclination not to do it, to which I was irresistibly compelled to yield; “I couldn’t help it, didn’t know why, but couldn’t do it.” The moral symptoms were not present at all during October; they were very distressing while taking the November packet, and although present, were much less severe in December. Felt melancholy; began to form images of possible wrongs and misfortunes, over which the mind broods; very wretched at times; in the evening (first day); yesterday and to-day is very wretched; a slight cause sets him in a perfect agony of mental suffering on another’s behalf; mind brooding over imaginary troubles; in the evening he feels more himself, and loses much of his depression (eighth day); makes himself imaginary troubles and wrongs, and frets over them for two hours (tenth day); sad thoughts, with the pressure and gagging in the throat (eleventh day); spirits good; disposed for work; mind active (reaction), (seventeenth day). Increased evenness and cheerfulness of temper. Irritable, restless (fourth day). Temper quicker than usual (first day). Inclined to be disposed with everything (sixteenth day). Intellectual. Walked in open air; all dulness passed off, and was succeeded by an unusual state of excitement and energy, mental and physical, lasting the night, with a lively, waking state, giving the sensation in morning of having been awake all night. Query, reaction (first night); the state of excitement continued till evening, slowly subsiding (second day). Feel more fit for work to-day than I have at all (sixth day). Feeling so dull in the evening that I did not repeat the powder (first day). Feeling stupid and confused. Forgetfulness (sixth day). Very forgetful (fifteenth day). Forgot everything for several minutes. Memory confused (eighth day). Absence of mind (after second dose, third day). Consciousness all but, possibly quite, abolished (after thirty five minutes). Comatose.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion in the head (in less than an hour, and next morning). Slight confused feeling in head (very soon). Vertigo, lasting only a short time, and by an by astounding pain in right side of head (after second powder, third day). General Head. Considerable congestion to the head at midday (sixth day); increased with fluid discharge from the nose (seventh day). Head dull (after second dose, third day). Dulness in the head (after four hours, fourth day). Dulness about head (sixth day). Head feels heavy, with vertigo, or rather dull, confused mental state (after two hours). Heaviness of head (after one hour). Instead of headache, felt rather a dull heaviness (second day). A feeling of hollowness over the entire head, which continued for several days, and caused me to leave off further provings (seventh day). Sense of aching over the whole head (seventh day). Headache (eleventh, fifteenth, and sixteenth days); in morning (seventh day); in evening (first day). Passed a very uncomfortable night; slept much, but conscious of a headache (seventh night). Slight headache (after second powder); (after nine hours and a half, third day), etc. Very slight headache, all day, which was pretty severe and throbbing for a short time, about 3 P.M.; frontal headache (second day). Very bad headache, especially acute over the left eye, just like a scald, for at least an hour,” soon after breakfast (fourth day). Very bad headache, and stomachache all over (abdomen), at 9 P.M. but probably owing to a jargonel pear, eaten in the former part of evening, not usually so affected by so little fruit (third day). Thoughts of giving over taking powders, on account of the violence of the headaches caused by them (fourth day); very bad headache, on waking in the morning (fifth day). Dull headache (first day),; (first night). Dull headache, worse over right eye (seventh day). A most oppressive headache, at 8.30 A.M. (eighth day). Forehead. Slight pain in forehead, soon (first night). Slight pain in left frontal protuberance (after a few minutes, first day). Rather severe and steady pain in left frontal region (soon), (seventh day). During the fourth and fifth days, but much more upon the fifth, had considerable pain in the forehead, which woke me in the night, and I woke on the morning of the sixth with this pain; the pain was attended by fluttering of the heart, and was full of a dull character, with occasional stitches in the frontal protuberance. Frontal headache (fourth day). Frontal headache (second night); headache continued nearly all day (third day); dull frontal headache, with a feeling of weariness (fourth day); frontal headache all day, with yawning and lassitude (sixth day). Headache above eyes (twelfth day); till past midday (first day). Slight frontal headache (sixth day). Slight frontal headache, with the dragging and weariness in the limbs (after the first dose); went off (after the second dose). Slight headache (frontal), which, however, is on the increase (after second powder, fourth day). Slight frontal headache was a constant symptom. This evening, being in a very crowded hall at a public lecture, a slight frontal headache came on, with nausea and sour taste in the mouth; nostrils also more clogged up this evening; slight cough with wheezing; these symptoms, however, are more attributable, I imagine, to the heated atmosphere of the lecture hall than to the cobra poison (fifth day). Slight headache above the eyes (thirteenth day). Slight headache, confined to the lower part of the brow (fourth day). Slight fullness and pain in upper part of forehead (after half an hour, third day); in the morning (fifth day). Excessive fullness, towards evening, over the forehead and root of nose (sixth day). Slight headache across forehead, and tight feeling, with dryness of throat (tenth day). Constricted feeling across forehead, with slight anterior headache; never accustomed to this in the afternoon (after two hours, fifth day). Headache across eyes; peculiar oppression in forepart of head, constricted feeling, went off after breakfast (second day); constricted sensation across eyes, going off after breakfast (third day). Found on going to bed peculiar headache; dull constricted feeling across forehead, with heaviness of eyes (second night); again the same slight headache, with dryness of mouth and cold feet; no pain or inability to think or study, but slight, dull, and constricted sensation about forehead, from one temple to the other (after one hour and a half); slight dulness again across forehead, with dry mouth (after eleven hours and a half, third day). Occasional aching pains in forehead throughout the day (second day). Severe headache, aching and frontal (two hours and a half after second dose, fourth day). Very severe aching pain across the forehead, but more particularly over each temple, and an excessive weight over the eyelids; there is a feeling of tightness across the vertex; this pain is very severe, but felt a little relieved on going out, in the morning; head very painful; the head continued painful in the same manner and same localities as early in the morning, but more modified in degree as the day advanced; the eyes are certainly the most painful, the pain is very much aggravated by motion or exertion of any kind; the scalp feels sore to touch; the headache was very much relieved by smoking a small pipeful of very mild tobacco (third day); to-day the pain in the head has been less, it continued in the same localities, and tolerably severe until 2 o’clock, when I took half a wineglass of pale brandy, with entirely dissipated it; on taking a powder the headache immediately returned, though very slightly (fourth day); headache, similar in every respect to that mentioned on the third day, came on this morning on taking the powder, and remained for two or three hours, when it passed off (fifth day); very slight headache, chiefly over the right eyelid and in the right temple (sixth day); slight headache, frontal, pain aching for an hour or two this morning, but got quite well towards night (seventh day). Dull headache over eyes, worse over right, with the coryza (first night). Severe dull aching frontal headaches, with dull shootings (stoundings, I can’t get a satisfactory term to describe them), (fourth day). Headache, occupying the frontal region, immediately came on; it was a kind of heavy oppressive aching (fifth day). Very severe shooting frontal headache, worse on moving the head, from 4 to 6.30 P.M., probably, however, owing to a glass of wine before dinner, and hasty eating of the latter, at an earlier hour than usual (fifth day). Frontal headache, dull, shooting (after second powder, sixth day). Darting pains running across the forehead (second day). Went to bed with severe, dull, stitchy pain in forehead, preventing sleep (third night). Since breakfast, sharp shooting pains from one temple to the other, relieved in open air (twelfth day). Slight throbbing headache above the eyes (after first powder); not so severe (after second powder, first day). Severe throbbing frontal headache, in the afternoon (first day). Sensation as if the brain of the forehead was loose (third day). Temples. Awoke this morning with slight aching in both temples, and heaviness in the eyes; this lasted for some two or three hours and went off (second day); slight temporal aching, several times, in the evening (second day); felt a similar pain in the head, on waking this morning; this pain has continued in a very slight degree all day (third day). Slight aching in the temples and across the forehead (fourth and seventh days). The most persistent and best marked symptom was severe headache, usually accompanied by intense depression of spirits; the headache was very severe, at times almost unendurable, and the melancholy equally distressing; the headache was not marked, and usually began in the right temporal region (also occupying the left, though in a less degree), and involved the eye of the same side; the pain was a deep-seated severe aching, occasionally shooting; it gradually extended to a sense of dull aching over the forehead and vertex, but always remaining most severe in each temple; the least motion aggravated in intensely; it was relieved by going into the open air, though but slightly; smoking procured more marked relief, and alcoholic liquors immediately dissipated it; this pain in the head was present whenever the powders were taken, though most severe on the third and fourth days of the November proving. A dull aching commenced about noon over the right temple, and gradually extended to the forehead; it gradually wore away during the afternoon (third day). A few stitches in the left temporal region (soon). Throbbing of temples, and disagreeable fullness of the head when lying (fourth day). Vertex. Aching at the vertex, with coldness of the feet (eighth day). Parietals. While driving in the gig, I felt a sudden pang of pain through the left side of the head; it appeared to begin about the back of the head; it lasted only a minute or two, and was not followed by anything, nor had it any definite character (fourth day). Occiput. Dull shoots up occiput (third day). External Head. A great deal of scurf on the head. Hair falls off very much, especially from the crown (seventh and eighth days). Scalp painful sensitive (third 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.